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1000xRESIST: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/ It looks like a game, you move around in it like it's a game, there's a little gameplay here and there...but it's really actually a book - just one where you get to decide how much of the world-building and side-character text you get to indulge in (or not). And as it is a book, you the player have no agency - you are simply along for the ride of story of this world and the characters in it. When I first took a look at it, I did not have a good impression...but I ended up falling in love with it. I think it's one of those things where either you're gonna get into it and it'll be incredibly engrossing...or it'll be too odd and it won't click, and you'll just bounce off of it without understanding the love for it one bit. And that's okay. Something that this game helped me realize? I really hate mouth movements in 3D games. This game does not bother trying to animate characters' mouths, and instead is much more concerned about just expressions and characters being postured correctly for the moment with no regard for that sort of thing, and while it took just a little bit to get used to it in a highly detailed graphical style like this, HOO BOY, I like that so much than all those ugly-ass uncanny mouth and face expressions in other games that are trying to do their best (and failing miserably) to stay synced to voice-acting. I've never gotten used to how bad face-syncing is even decades into full voice-acting being a thing - face animations just aren't there yet to passably mimic actual human faces, and I'm really not sure if I'll ever be able to do anything except for looking away from the screen when I see it in action.

With the way the forums have been behaving for a number of months - sluggish, logging people out frequently, random temporary IP bans, eating posts - I imagine it has gotten to be a bit much for some people...

I think Gamers Nexus did a similar build for the base model and it was only like a $70 premium, though with some caveats re: the custom thermal and power design of the Steam Machine vs. a less power-limited DIY build. It's pretty reflective of the terrible state of PC gaming and computing as a whole, really.

Supposedly, it was meant to start at either $750 or 800...you know, before the current dark times made everything impossible.

@PK htiw klaw eriF A blu-ray of a completely restored version of Ken Russell's The Devils will be releasing...at some point following a theatrical run in October. Warner Bros. finally decided to release it from the vaults before physical media dies altogether.

A friend linked this lady recently and...I've listened to like four albums and liked all of them. I don't quite know how, but her music feels like healing. She's got a kind of grating and obnoxious singing voice, but somehow this is one of those weird cases where I really like that.

I'm sorry, melkathi.

Dear lord. 💀

I have not had any more of the posting issues I mentioned before, and the intermittent logins/logouts seem to have ceased for the time being as well. Thank you!

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-tough-decisions-ahead-what-could-this-mean-for-xbox-helix-xbox-games-studios-or-xbox-exclusives Buy smaller companies, wring 'em, layoffs, close companies... Buy smaller companies, wring 'em, layoffs, close companies... Truly, capitalism at its finest.

I received a 403 error for just a one paragraph post. Would not let me post it no matter what. I resolved it by editing out all the content, writing one word, posting it, then editing the real text into the post. Not ideal.

I never liked the feeling of paper: sensory issue. I put up with it when I was young, but I haven't read a physical book in...um, okay, like 6 months because someone gave one to me to read, but besides that, a really long time, . Generally, I only try to have physical items of things I already love and where the item itself visually presents as art that is meaningful to me, otherwise I really don't feel the need to clutter up my life with so much junk.

The local film club selected Aftersun as its movie for the week. Do you want to know why? Because I'm the one that picked it, because it's one of my favorite movies of all time. Now you should watch it too. It's a movie that somehow encapsulates both the hazy insanity of my childhood and the darkest terrors of my adulthood, and maybe it will yours too.

My impression has always been such things are an issue of "whose space is this?". Who's the one deciding where stuff goes at a moment's notice, who's the one most familiar with all the different objects inside, who's making instant decisions on where stuff needs to go or how stuff gets re-organized when space gets tight? I know where all the tools inside my toolbox are, but just because you also have a toolbox that you know the ins and outs of wouldn't suddenly make you an expert at finding whatever it is you're looking for inside mine, especially if a lot of its contents are different and unfamiliar compared to what's in yours. Faster compared to someone who's never seen the inside of one and familiar with any of it though, sure. ...But it wouldn't surprise me if some other factors also figure in, like men's mental visualization and pattern-finding skills being better suited for certain things and women's being better for others.

Minnesota and Denver sure have played each other a lot in the playoffs the past few years While Minnesota has won 2 of the 3 series, the one series Denver won they went on to win it all, so...