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Mind posting a link to the instructions? Curious to see how complicated they are, and googling "hogwarts legacy ansel camera hex edit" didn't turn anything up besides a random 4chan page I'm not going to look through. I've done some hex editing in my time, so if there are instructions already laid out, it shouldn't be too difficult...in theory.

I know somebody who was using an ancient Core 2 Duo with a GTX 970 up until just a couple of years ago... The system, I understand, had some performance inconsistencies.

I actually watched all of this year's half-time show - it's the first time I've sat through an entire one. Normally, I bow out after maybe 30 seconds, but this year's was such a hilariously awful clown show right off the bat that I started cackling immediately before the soul-crushing cringe could even set in. I don't think anything or anyone that might appear in the Super Bowl half-time show could ever interest me musically, so I guess the best chance to make me stay is to try to induce scornful laughter. A real bang-up job this year, I'd say.

This Psych episode is as close as I'll ever get to watching Twin Peaks. Well...actually, I've seen a couple of episodes of Twin Peaks, so I guess I should say it's as close as I'll ever get to enjoying it.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Milly. Gerty...it is admittedly not great, but else are you gonna do?

I've never known an Amy that I've liked even going back to childhood, so I can't help but instinctively prefer Meal, . Home girl just didn't want to be an Amy, can't blame her!

Milly and Gerty aren't bad nicknames...

Very apropos, considering I just talked to someone else about Top Gun: Maverick today and how I think the only thing I can ever see Tom Cruise is as a murdering psychopath thanks to his role in Collateral. Whenever he plays the "hero", I always can't help but think how much better the movie would be if someone just randomly blew his (character's) brains out during the first act before we're introduced to the real main character. I'm pretty sure I have actually seen that Robin Hood, because like you just mentioned, I remember Alan Rickman being...well, you know, Alan Rickman for it, but I literally...Kevin Costner was in it? Are you sure? ... Oh my gosh, he's literally Robin Hood. See, this is what I'm talking about...

Ooh, rough way to end the Super Bowl, ticky-tacky holding call deciding the game, but not terribly surprising for the NFL.

We share the same favorite Indiana Jones film. #destroyedbyfactsandlogic

Helluva recommendation, hard to disagree. Except that while there are 5 films in my top 50 that start with "The", there are actually exactly double that in my bottom 50 films. So I guess it's actually pretty risky...

Yes. I'll just have to always watch David Lynch films by myself - ignore that I didn't for the two I've already seen, . If I were to try another, it'd probably be The Elephant Man or Mulholland Drive.

if I ever enjoy a David Lynch film even a tiny bit, I will make sure that you're the first to know, KP

Man, I wish we'd gotten to see Makoto beat up Mamoru in the original show. Feel like I've been robbed a little. @InsaneCommander Jesus Miri? Are you sure she isn't just shroomed out of her mind?

Yeah, I'd keep the fog, this looks like a game that needs it.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021). Growing up, I watched quite a bit of Anthony Bourdain because my mom followed most of his shows, though I was more familiar with No Reservations than Parts Unknown. Anyways, it was a nice documentary covering some of his humble beginnings as a chef, the way he and his perspective on life and people changed as he travelled the world and saw how the lowest rungs of society had to live and yet would still find ways to make it work and be happy - in a fairly direct comparison to Anthony being able to be anywhere he'd like whenever he wanted, not to mention all the wealth and privilege...and yet his perplexing inability to ever be content and happy. It's frustrating to see someone who just can't...ever let themselves appreciate what they have, but I suppose that's part of the human condition. The documentary provides a little bit of closure on his life, and I appreciated that it ended not with people just being sad and weepy about the whole thing, but also showed at least a little measure of anger as well: the final moment of the film is one of his best and lifelong friends destroying a beautiful public mural of the man, and why not? Those of us who live with the fallout, both public and personal, of a suicide have feelings about the whole thing, too. Being angry, being sad, feeling guilt, maybe even being relieved about it are all equally valid.

@Amentep Did you ever get around to watching Giant Robo at all? Have a friend that recently bought the BDs from Discotek, and gotta say, some of the screen caps they sent me make it look like something I might be interested in.

Her (2013). If you've seen Blade Runner 2049... In other news, I didn't see Joaquin Phoenix as being a creepy psychopath in a film for the first time since...well, ever. Admittedly, I've only seen about 4 Joaquin Pheonix films, so it's not the biggest sample size. I saw this one some years ago and thought it was fine-ish, and I can truly honestly say that I have zero memory of Kevin Costner even being in that film. I guess he's the main character. Well, I guess that's just proof on how utterly unremarkable he is to me, .

From what I'm reading, Hersh used to be a well-respected reporter, but years of Osama bin Laden, 9/11, and JFK-truthing have kinda done his reputation in, and the story seems to hinge on a single anonymous source. Not that I'm saying he's necessarily lying or wrong here (objectively speaking, it sure seems like the U.S. had the most to gain from doing it!), just that...you know, skepticism is pretty warranted.

It should be noted that the game is afflicted with Denuvo, possibly a poor implementation of it...though such claims have obviously not yet been confirmed (and how could they be, given nobody has access to a non-Denuvo version?). There aren't many Denuvo crackers left, either - between the usually pretty serious investment of time and work it takes to get around it and the dwindling DRM cracking scene, most Denuvo games have stayed unbroken even years later.

Even when it's just me being a complete bastard? Hey, thanks! Stereotypes...and boxes, and generalizations...are objectively the wrong way to approach people. Every person is an individual informed (or not) by the circumstances of their life. The thing is, for simple conversation, they can be pretty useful for getting an idea across quickly. You know, probably don't use them when you're engaged in a serious discussion (or if you're talking to Gromnir), but for trying to inform some people who likely aren't terribly knowledgeable about a particular subject (such as the current political climate of Austria?) in a fast and easy manner, it makes a lot of sense. Getting mad about somebody quickly noting down an alarming trend of a few particular groups actually being composed of the same people...seems like one of those situations that says a bit about the person getting offended more than anything else.

See, the beauty of wording a right proper "this should be totally against the rules" insult is in theoretically allowing the person you're talking about an opportunity to back away and not immediately prove it as being true while obviously knowing that they never will. You can call someone all sorts of nasty things straight to their face as much as you like if you make it just ever so slightly vague. I never specifically said this person is a moron...just that anybody saying the things they happen to be saying would have to be one in order to be saying those things, and that's totally different! All I did was lay out the conditions for someone to qualify as a moron, and if they decide to post right after I do while matching the exact qualifying criteria, well, that's on them and not me. I didn't make them do that, it's not my fault! Of course, it breaks down a bit when the conditions you lay out are very specific, like say...oh, I suppose I shouldn't.

Coincidentally, a (real) blu-ray of the show very recently released for the first time. I say "real" because another blu-ray had already existed for a number of years before, but it was just an awful fake upscale.

Steam's 2 hour refund window: A few times, I've used a pretty wacky trick where I renamed the directory and .exe of a game I was playing to that of another game I had installed, then used Steam to boot up the renamed-to game and it thought I was playing it, so no playtime accumulated on the real game. But...that's not necessarily always possible depending on the folder structure of the game you're playing, and maybe Steam has tightened the process up since I last did it a few years ago. I don't think I've ever actually refunded a game on Steam before, though there have been a few close calls (and there is one game that I really regret not doing so...Nioh, that awful garbage).