LadyCrimson

An endless jetpack/flying cheat is fun.

No Man's Sky - "last played - two years ago" - "Playtime - 16 minutes." Don't even recall if I had any reason for such a short trial phase. ---an hour of install and feature fiddling later--- Oh yeah, I remember now. It uses Vulkan I guess, which seemingly means many 3rd party screenshot programs don't work. At least mine doesn't. Steam Overlay ss feature supposedly does, but I don't use/refuse to use that. Although weirdly, I can record video of the game w/my program and grab pic frames that way but more PITA. I have no idea why video recording works but a screenshot does not. Different hooks? And now I also remember that the start/tutorial stuff kinda bored/annoyed me with all the radiation and other survival hazards, starting menus/info navigation that felt a bit over-load-y. eg, I was too lazy to learn to play. So that plus no screenshots, plus I'm never sure if I really like outer-space settings - and I probably just never turned it back on. I'll give it a fair shake this time.

During a slight fit of irritation re: Steam's search results (I already use the ignore-10-user-tags ability), I clicked ignore-title on over 1600 games and DLC's. I suppose it's slightly better. Losing battle tho. Sadly, ignored titles seem to still appear sometimes in the "Category" (RPG, Action etc) browsing pages vs. an actual typed-in search or the "Top Upcoming"/Top Sellers links. Call of Duty sure has a lot of DLC's.

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator - the exciting life of a floating pool duck!

GoG is great for many things but they don't have all the games I'm periodically interested in. You can, with SP, often (not 100%) avoid it on Steam by putting everything on "don't update until I launch", copy the entire install folder and anything in the appdata folders elsewhere, update, delete the install folder and copy the previous install folder back. But yeah, it's more of a PITA. Especially if you have to resort to that Steam depot stuff.

So it's been a little bit, has anyone's opinion on this game altered significantly, either way? Such as, better or worse after a fair more hours spent, re: engagement etc.

I have zero knowledge of Apple phones, but you can open up the "dev mode" on Android phones and tablets for a ton more settings. Most of which are too techy for me to bother with. I mostly use it to make the devices/screen not shut down/off from lack of touch-input while plugged in. I might've turned off some of the more battery-hungry graphic features and the like too, I forget tho. That said, it's not like PC-level control or anything remotely like that. Edit: this was tablets/phones up to 2-3 years ago. I have no idea if you can still do it or if they blocked it on super recent devices. EditEdit: looking at the phone, I also turned off auto apply updates when phone restarts, forced it to always use mobile service even if detecting wi-fi, some other UI stuff.

^ In terms of online, I'd guess all my PoE characters have lost their names so if I logged in I'd have to pick new names. And be forced to respec their passive trees. Not that that is a big deal. I keep telling myself I'm going to open that game one day and clear house/start completely over maybe, but then I think about the billions of stuffed storage tabs and I go "nah. Is there a "delete all" for storage tabs?

I think the cpu bottleneck may be worse for many. It's tougher to upgrade the cpu (mobo compatibility being what it is these days) vs. slapping a new gpu in hoping you can brute force some performance benefit. What these games seem to be doing at the moment is increasing cpu demand by a lot as well as gpu. But yeah...it's been 4.5 years for me and not looking forward to building a new rig. It's one of those periods where even if you have a lot of spare cash, it's hard to say what will be the most future-resistant. Trying hard to wait at least another couple years.

These days, it bothers me with offline games too. Half the time feels like one has to wait 5 years after release before a game is truly "done" and you can play without some big skill, items, area/design, enemy, etc. suddenly occurring.

TLDW - "Rate the game 8 or above to trigger confirmation bias admiration." Best quoted user comment: "Your critizizing the game, this is not a proper review"

Yeah, him. Both of them are sort of weird in the show, where I kind of like them, but kind of find them annoying at the same time. Yet when together I rather like them as a pair. So it goes back to countdown in the book? I hope it's not too extended next round if they do that in the series. The concept of it is fine, but after a while in the series it feels like over indulgent wallowing.

PS5 exclusive (no PS4 version) probably didn't help either. Also, tons of good games this year apparently that (at least to me) gave off better marketing vibes. Pair that with economic/inflation consumer doom and gloom and it probably became an "I"ll get it later when it's on sale" title for many. Maybe.

I got to about the middle of episode 7 of Three Body, where they are gearing up to play some VR video game or something. But I was sleepy so I stopped it before they got into any exposition on that. ....I still find it interesting to watch, and the two main leads (I think they are) are starting to form a nice working pair, but I'm hoping they'll get to more actual ... er ... story? ... points now. I think they spent enough time on Wang Miao freaking out about his countdown and whether physics actually exists.

Me: "Did they post your MRI results yet." Hubby: "Yes." Me: "Well, what does it say." Hubby: "It's full of medical speak, I'll just wait for the docs to..." Me: "Print it, gimmie." --T12 and L1, nothing. --L2-S1, all variations of: Broad-based disc bulge/left lateral osteophyte and facet hypertrophy. Mild to moderate central stenosis, minimal right foraminal stenosis and severe left foraminal stenosis with impingement of the exiting left nerve root. *GoogleFu* Me: "All that just to say "your lower spine/discs and nerve pathings are rather ****** up." Anyway. Maybe the 10% better hubby felt was from the round of oral steroids. Now we have to wait for the specialist back doc to have appointment space.

Hadn't played Stranded Deep since early early-access days, years ago. Why not. Plane crash intro, sitting in the raft. "paddle to the island." Ok, I start paddling. The boat paddles in the opposite direction of the shore. I press all kinds of keys trying to steer the raft in another direction - I recall I used to be able do that (edit - I also googled, no help). Nope. I could seemingly only paddle in one direction. The wrong direction. I finally leapt out of the raft into the water to "grab" it and swim-drag it to shore, which did slowly work. But since I'd paddled so far from shore, the shark that was apparently tailing the raft decided to eat me for lunch. 10/10, best money I ever spent on an (ea) game.

Re: Unity - on the one hand, pretty sucky move by them. On the other hand, maybe this will mean 7 Day to Dies dev's will suddenly be in a rush to actually freaking finish their game and move on. Either that or they'll spend 4 years moving to a new engine and Beta will happen in 2030. Also - there's going to be a Titan Quest 2? The teaser trailer was useless, the few screenshots are ok. But I am a bit dubious.

For the past few years, the main reason I buy any game now is "I'm bored, I'm willing to give (insert title/genre here) a chance." I really wish I could feel a sense of magic with more games like in the old days. Game has to have some aspect to it that's in some way very different from what I've already seen/heard/done 1000 times. It's almost to the point where only the artistic aspect appeals to me occasionally (art/world/atmosphere design, sound design) vs. any actual gameplay loops. Like I keep checking to see if Ghostwire Tokyo is on major sale because I'd like to wander around in it, even if I don't' care about the quality of mechanics/gameplay, per se. Although, it does have the 1st person sorta-magic caster feeling I think.

Yeah, stuff like that is why - well, let's say that in my experience, generally speaking - plus including "female" things and my parent's experience with father's multiple sclerosis - doctors have this tendency to assume/brush many things off (initially) without even really checking anything, and you typically have to be pretty aggressive even re: insisting on diagnosis and elimination from the get go. I'm not all that concerned, he has a history of his back "going out" so it's not completely out of the blue/new or anything. But I'd still insist on the elimination processes available, because you don't want to waste your time if the assumption- even if it's a good assumption based on history - is wrong.

^ Ever since the diabetes stuff and I got into their "now all computerized systems" Kaiser has been sending me these packets in the mail every 4-6 months as part of their general preventive program for colon cancer screening I think. I have no desire to send them regular fecal matter thru the mail, so I have so far ignored them.

My solution was to stop riding a bicycle/anything that needs a helmet. Hope your friend continues to recover well, @Bartimaeus --------- Hubby had an MRI yesterday, which means they're finally taking him more "seriously" - eg, he couldn't see one of their specialists or something without the MRI. They also mentioned something about finding trace amounts of blood in his urine from a while back so they want him to come back and do that again, after a couple weeks. Nothing alarming, probably nothing, just to make sure/see if it resolved itself. On the bright side, he's been saying that the past week he's been feeling "maybe 10%-15% better, most of the time" - so I guess that's something?

I think not directly the same, but related to your point, I saw a video where the reason planet exploration didn't feel contiguous was because the map markers actually covers the adjacent pixels of the planet view (where those pixels = a map tile). So if you're trying to go to the very next tile in the pixel sequence, the "you are here" map marker covers it or something. So you'd have to use a console command to disable/remove all map markers and pixel hunt. eg, Beth. didn't design for people to be allowed to do it, but it does prove design-wise they are contiguous and it's technically possible. Edit: using console commands disables Achievements, just to say - unless one installs a bypass mod maybe. Starts around 3:00, if interested.

^ Yeah I think it's the length mostly, for me. It feels too extended. I love that film to pieces, but it's largely because of the music/soundtrack vs. plot/chrs - still have a cassette tape of that - and the humor bits. Levi Stubbs as AudreyII was so awesome (Mean Green is great but Suppertime is probably my fave). I've also listened to some of the broadway/stage versions - they have their very good moments performance wise, but Levi Stubbs is AudreyII, for me. Also:

I remember in MW, before they did some patches, when you could abuse potions of speed or flying or levitation or something (I don't recall) by stacking them to silly levels. I tried it once and made my chr. take a "step" - he flew up to the sky in a flash and the game crashed. I think you can still stack stat potions like that, but my memory says they patched out high stacking non-stat ones. Maybe I'm wrong tho. Anyway, it was funny. Edit: *google* ... dang that was 21 years ago.

Well, I don't have Starfield, but I felt like being a cat again. Didn't last too long, just galloped around a bit, but yeah ... it's still cute.