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After starting Warriors Orochi 4 on normal difficulty, I changed up to hard difficulty and went back through all the chapter 1 and 2 missions again, using this as a way to level up some characters I don't normally use and fill up their bonds meters. I still have a lot of characters I haven't really touched, but the game has such a ludicrous number that it's nigh impossible to keep up. I have 88 currently and I think that's about half. It's worth filling up bonds since characters with high bonds will sometimes pop in and help you out during combat. Anyway, I'm a good ways into chapter 3 and I just got ot my first 3 star weapon drop, so weapon farming is about to begin. Weapons come in 1 star to 5 star varieties, but 4 and 5 stars aren't necessarily better than 3 stars, they just have more sockets for upgrades. You can add sockets to weapons, so when weapon farming you don't really care if it's 3, 4, or 5 stars, you just look for the highest damage stat you can find. Playing on hard difficulty rewards you with generally better drops, but the biggest factor is an appraise upgrade you can put in weapon sockets. I already have several characters with appraise weapons I fused just for this occassion.

Frictional Games being enigmatic as ever.

I just had the realization that it's been 10 years since DICE and EA released a Battlefield game I gave a **** about. How has it been a whole decade since Bad Company 2 and why in the world haven't they made another one? To the best of my knowledge, BC2 sold really really well.

Platinum Games Kaiju Big Battel? Yes, please.

I believe the game being disliked is C&C4, not RA3. RA3 is the pinnacle of over the top comedic lunacy, plus it has Dasha Fedorovich. C&C4 gets a lot of hate because it's the game that officially killed the once proud franchise. An argument could be made that C&C was going to die regardless, as RTS was dead as a doornail as a genre at that time (and still mostly is)

I never saw that movie with Keanu Reeves about cold fusion, so I don't know what to think.

I finished The Hex. It's... dark. If you played Pony Island, that will give you some idea the type of things are not what they seem meta narrative wackiness that go on in this game.

Alas, I was born too early to become a space trucker. Instead, I am a lowly terrestrial trucker.

^ Wait a minute. How do I know this is a genuine melkathi post? I don't see any Majesty screenshots... *suspicion level rising*

Yes, and who knows what other mischief Daniel Mullins has in store for me?

The Hex Damn, melkathi, I think you were a little harsh in your review of Super Weasel Kid 9. I mean, sure, it's nowhere near as good as SWK2: Radical Road, let alone the original classic, and it's kind of buggy, but there's no season pass, nor any microtransactions, that has to count for something?

Having finally reached chapter 3 in WO4, I decided to take a break from murdering thousands of mooks at a time to play The Hex (courtesy of Tale). I expected ****ed up **** and ****ed up **** I got. Daniel Mullins does not disappoint.

I've been enjoying the Jayson Tatum coming out party over the last few weeks. I knew the dude was special, but I didn't expect him to start putting it all together so soon. Dude is still only 21 and he's making the leap great players usually make around 23 or 24 already.

Pizza for breakfast. Azdeus, are you sure you aren't an American?

Glad to hear you have no major health issues, Hurlshot. If it makes you feel better, I haven't had bread in 5 weeks.

Bao Sanniang getting busy with her giant yoyo: Now they're getting western gods and demigods involved:

Found these at a truck stop today (overpriced, naturally, as are all things at truck stops): Quite tasty and with zero scientific looking words in the ingredients list. Perfect for the carnivore on the go. I'll try to find them in a supermarket or online and stock up.

Chapter 2 in Warriors Orochi 4 is really long. I've done about a dozen battles and it's still not finished. I've got 63 characters unlocked and I think I just found my new favorite (until I get Lu Bu), Bao Sanniang. She is effectively female Rygar. Also, for her musou super attack she gets down on all fours and pretends to be a cat, pawing at the air, before slicing and dicing everyone in front of her with her giant bladed yoyo. It's equal parts hilarious, adorable, and awesome.

4k 100+ Hz monitors have been around for a short while, albeit with some caveats. The biggest hurdle is that the current existing HDMI and Display Port technologies don't have the bandwith to handle that much information at once. Several solutions already exist to address this problem until the day connections that can handle that type of bandwith hit the market: 1) Using multiple simultaneous connections. It's the simplest solution, albeit it initially came with all sorts of issues. Those have been mostly ironed out, but this solution does make certain technologies, like HDR, impossible currently. 2) Chroma Subsampling. Single connection and allows HDR and such, however it comes at the price of slight degradation of image quality. 3) Display Stream Compression. This is the newest and best solution. There is no loss in image quality and it operates on a single connection and doesn't prohibit HDR and such. The one drawback is minuscule input lag, but we're talking about something along the lines of 1/10th of a millisecond, which is imperceptible to even the most pro of pro gamers, let alone a schlub like me. As with any brand new technology, it's quite expensive right now. This 43" monitor is pretty much exactly what I would want (maybe a tad smaller, 38-40" ish would suit my needs perfectly, but I can live with 43"), but it's $1500. Hopefully by fall they have 4k DSC monitors that are a bit cheaper.

A dogfighting game where you can play as Blood Axes, Goffs, Bad Moons, Death Skullz, and Evil Sunz. I'm an Evil Sunz man, myself. Obviously, you have to paint your dakkajet red so that it goes proppa fast.

$20 for 3 ounces? Does a bag come with a hanj? At least you didn't have to pay for it. I did all my prove my masculinity by eating ludicrously hot food stuff a couple decades ago. I like a bit of spice, but I generally don't go past jalapeno these days. You won't see me anywhere near a 1 chip challenge, or anything like that

I'm about halfway through chapter 2 in Warriors Orochi 4. I have about 25 characters unlocked and I'm constantly trying out different teams. Guan Yinping is my 1 constant right now, but everyone is subject to change in my A Team for now. I went ahead and looked up a guide to see when/how you unlock Lu Bu. It's fairly deep into chapter 5. No surprise there, Dynasty Warriors always made you work to get Lu Bu, I didn't expect Warriors Orochi to be any different. I mean, he's arguably the most iconic character in Dynasty Warriors so you gotta earn the Peerless Warrior, they're not just gonna give him to you early on.

I'll pass on the beta, but I am eager for the full release (2022?)

I've been playing Warriors Orochi 4. It's your standard musou fare: You run around the battle field as one of 3 characters you can freely switch between on the fly and murder thousands of mooks and some enemy officers and heroes using ludicrously overpowered attacks. The story is kind of all over the place to start (at least partially purposely so). It seems a bunch of famous characters from different time periods and regions of China and Japan are getting Ravenloft-ed into some new world where they're doing battle because reasons. Nobunaga seems to be the main villain so far (because of course he is), but who knows. It's not like this follows a set, well known story (extremely loosely) based on historical events, like in the Dynasty Warriors games, so I can't really predict any upcoming twists and turns (which is good). Edit: Okay, so after getting a little further in the game I unlocked plot synopses of the previous Warriors Orochi games. So, basically, something something something evil serpent god summons great warriors because reasons something something something evil serpent god defeated, but not killed because they need to make sequels. Lather, rinse, repeat. Fair enough.