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Zwift means you can remove the quotation marks here. Needs a smart trainer though so the price of entry is pretty steep. Still, not much more than some other gaming accessories...

I only bought BG2 because I had a $20 Electronics Boutique voucher from a PC gaming magazine that I needed to use that month. I wonder if I'd even be posting here right now if that never happened, because I registered for the BIS forums to follow IWD2 which came afterwards. That of course only because I ended up liking BG2 way more than I expected to. Not a game I could play today though, my tastes have changed far too much in the intervening years. God, it's been almost 20 years since BG2. Hold me.

Ultima 7

I tried BG1 sometime after BG2 - probably after IWD2 too, and only got maybe a couple of screens out of Candlekeep. And that was back when I still liked party-based RPGs, something decidedly not the case today.

There's a reason I have several hundred hours in XCOM1 but just the one campaign worth 40 hours or whatever in XCOM 2. Didn't even bother buying the expansion. Granted that's probably not a fair comparison because realistically about 3/4 of the time in XCOM1 was with the Long War mod. Vanilla XCOM I did one normal campaign, one classic campaign, and one classic campaign with the expansion.

Just bomb disposal, which was horrible. Plus some DLC maps. And the escape timer for that one map, you know the one.

I liked playing with the "Perfect Information" setting in Long War because it kinda demonstrated that sometimes seemingly fluky things weren't actually that improbable. And it also puts things into context when I have multiple shots of my own (overwatch mostly, granted) hit at single digit chances. Remember, high cover is a linear -40% to hit chances and low cover is a piddly -20%. It's easy to overestimate the value of cover.

Can't be crit if you hunker down. Can't be hit if you're out of sight. Point blank shots won't miss, neither will grenades. XCOM has a lot of RNG but you also have a lot of tools to avoid leaving things to RNG.

There's also legendary Aussie actor Vernon Wells.

Never played either Zelda nor Dark Souls. I do like how the guy on the cover of Dark Souls 3 is giving a cheery thumbs-up though.

The Australian lifestyle is fine and I have no real complaints. The only real dampener is the relative isolation, making travel rather expensive and time consuming. To that end, I'd love to settle in Western Europe, which has a similar standard of living but with the bonus of having everything nice and close together.

It all seems a bit grim, grey and depressing to me. Nintendo and Ubisoft should make a Mario+Rabbids version of Dark Souls just like they did XCOM.

I still remember a childhood nightmare where I was in an undulating cartoon landscape being chased by axe-wielding McDonald's Fry Guys. Don't ask me how they managed to wield axes while lacking arms.

Maybe they should do a temporary job swap. Have some cameras follow them around in their new jobs too and sell it as a reality TV show.

The best parts of Deus Ex were just toodling around in the cities doing sidequests though. Screw the main quest "dungeons".

The full-fat Football Manager games are way too complicated for me these days, I'm not interested in fluff like team talks and micromanaging training. The stripped-down FM Touch version is pretty reasonable though, level of detail is about right for me.

It's a can of air, there's not much to be dissatisfied about so don't put too much stock in customer reviews for air. It can be misused of course so be careful to immobilise the fans so they don't move (just stick a pen to hold the blades in place) and let the can sit for a bit when it starts to freeze up.

Nighthawk over Raptor any day. It's like Thief sneaking vs Skyrim sneaking.

We're talking about a man who released a game for the 486 back when the most anyone had was a 386.

Heresy, first aid is a very handy skill, both in PvE and PvP, hard to use but is one of those things that it's always worth a try - especially when bubbling as a pally, why waste mana in that instance. Just odd to move it to tailors, but I guess that'll be something I can sell. Storywise, they say this is to resolve the Horde-Alliance conflict, not sure what that means, maybe they will do Cataclysm 2.0 I don't think I've bandaged myself since Vanilla. Gotta have those bandages, Whipper Root Tuber and Night Dragon's Breath since obviously priest mana is far too valuable to waste on rogues. Been hard to justify filling up my always-too-full bag space since then. Granted, I haven't PvPed since, like, 2008. WoW's faction model is viable because of the sheer size of the playerbase, but it often feels like they have to go out of their way to continue justifying that design in spite of the story direction. Bit of cart-pulling-the-horse about it these days. The worst thing about the split is arguably how many other MMOs blindly copied the same model, resulting in both factions of their much-smaller games being complete graveyards of people who can't play alongside each other. The games might have failed anyway, but it certainly would accelerate the death spiral. Just desserts perhaps, but it boggles the mind that developers of a new game in a saturated niche could think that splitting their players and not letting them meaningfully interact with each other is a good idea.

PS4 arrived but the bundle code is missing. It's just some stuff for Fortnite - a game I have no intention of playing - but my principles dictate that I should chase this up. I'm anticipating both Amazon and Sony trying to palm me off to each other though, bleh.

Already cleared that. The front mounted port is the SATA compatible port and it worked with a different M.2 drive. Wish I had another SATA compatible port to check the non-functional drive with. Could try an adapter to convert the M.2 SATA drive into a conventional SATA drive. Should run about $10.

Long enough that I missed updating this when I picked up a 4460, I think, to replace the Pentium. Was a pain when Windows 10 came out and killed my overclock, then games started not booting if I didn't have a quad core at least. Ah well, just popped in to say that I am no long Deraldin of the Damned System. I actually have something not pulled out of the bargain bin these days! ASUS x470-I AMD Ryzen 2600X Noctua U9S 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3000 EVGA 1070 TI SC Corsair SF600 PSU 480GB ADATA PCI-E NVMe m.2 SSD 1TB Crucial MX500 Sata m.2 SSD NCASE M1 ASUS VA32AQ 32" LCD LG IPS231 23" LCD It's only just been set up, so it's all running stock at the moment, so we'll have to see how far I can/want to push it. Right now it is dead silent at idle. GPU and PSU both run passive at idle so the only moving parts are the CPU fans and you can only hear them when you put your head right next to the case. Still need to do some troubleshooting though. The Crucial SSD isn't being registered for some reason and I need to get some thermal tape for the ramsinks before I put the aftermarket cooler on the GPU. Otherwise it's been pretty great so far. It's really nice not having to worry about whether or not you can maintain 20FPS without dropping everything to low when I'm now staying at 60 on high. Only one of the M.2 ports supports SATA mode so make sure you have the SSDs the right way around.

I haven't kept up with BfA development at all since I have no plans to get back into WoW in the near future. First Aid removal is about 5 expansions overdue though. To be honest, the constantly manufactured conflict just isn't a theme that appeals to me anyway. Had a quick look at what major changes are in 8.0 and I'm not really seeing anything particularly impactful. I'll keep an eye out for what my old guild's doing I suppose.

I wish PoE only had three abilities per character.