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I'm not usually into fruit flavored beers, I generally like my beer to taste like, well, beer, but I decided to give this a try. It's pretty decent, really easy drinking. If you poured me this into a glass and I never saw the bottle I might not know it was beer at all (until the alcohol headrush). It tastes like less sweet, lightly carbonated raspberry juice with a tiny hint of maltiness. I can't see this being a regular drink of mine, but it is pretty refreshing on a summer day, so I might sneak it into the rotation once in a while.

Sucks they had to change the name, but that's better than going through a lengthy lawsuit, I guess. As long as the gameplay is good, they can call it Grapefruit Waterslide Rainbow Extravaganza, for all I care.

I'm on Chapter 12 of Judgment. This feels like I'm near the end of the game, since then identity of killer has already been revealed. I'm proud to say I had the killer figured out since that character was introduced the first time... well, I wasn't sure whether they were the killer or the person that hired the killer, but I was confident they were one of the two.

^ Solid advice

That's a pretty badass fortress you built , marelooke, great job. I like the design on the floor/ceiling tiles of the Aquilonian set. With the set being heavily white colored, you could potentially build Minas Tirith out of it.

I think the game was a victim of timing. It came out just as the survival game craze had ended and I think people were just really burned out on survival games because about a billion of them were "released" in the span of a couple years, and by "released" I mean put out in perpetual early access. It doesn't help that 99% of these survival games were, quite frankly, not very good. They'd come out in early access and people would say "well, it's missing a lot, but there's potential" then 2 years later the games would be barely closer to reaching said potential. I think that left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. Then Conan Exiles came out and it got overlooked by a lot of people who just assumed it was "yet another survival game" (I include myself in that group) and they were just done with those games. Turns out Conan Exiles is more than yet another survival game and it's also quite good.

Saori best girl.

Life of Brian is just as funny and somehow more topical 40 years after its release.

I fell victim to the dreaded Steam Summer Sale impulse buy and scooped up Doggo Dragons: Dark Arisen, despite the fact that my backlog is overflowing and I probably won't play it for 18 years. Damn you GabeN, damn youuuuuu!

Yeah, I'm targeting April 2020 for my next desktop build (read: Cyberpunk 2077 release). In theory, Intel's Ice Lake will be out by then, though given the string of delays Intel has suffered to their 10nm chips, who knows? Hopefully we have the Zen 2+ refresh Ryzen 4xxx chips by then. We might have Nvidia 30x0 GPUs and some kind of Navi refresh from AMD by then too. Edit: Also, the fabled Intel GPU is rumored to release sometime in 2020, but I highly doubt that will release in the first half of 2020, if in 2020 at all.

From the independent benchmarks I've seen, the 2070 SUPER is on average 5-15% faster than the 5700XT, but it's also $100 more expensive. Price wise, the 5700XT is the same price (give or take a couple of pennies) as the 2060 SUPER, and it's on average 5-15% faster than that card. 2070 SUPER is the faster card, 5700XT is the better value. You could make the RTX argument in favor of Nvidia, but RTX has been mostly a non-factor so far, and I've made the argument before that if you really want to be playing with RTX ON and getting anything remotely resembling good frame rates, you're going to need to mortgage your house for a 2080 Ti. What resolution are you targeting? If it's 1080p or 1440p then I would go for the cheaper card for sure (5700XT). If you are targeting 4K then the extra oomph of the 2070 SUPER might be worth it... might be worth it... maybe.

I've been going hard on La-Mulana 2 and have made a ton of progress. I like to play hardcore 2D platformers with the D-Pad, as opposed to an analog stick, and the D-Pad beats the **** out of my thumb after prolonged play, so I'm going to give the game a rest for a couple days and hop back into Judgement.

Happy Birthday Murica!

EA isn't even on the same order of magnitude of evil of Monsanto. That corporation is on some James Bond villain ****.

I started up La-Mulana 2. As a big fan of the first game, I came into this with very high expectations and it's living up to them so far. For those unfamiliar, La-Mulana is a cult classic 2D side-scrolling metroidvania. It made its name by being ruthlessly hard. The difficulty doesn't just come from difficult battles or platforming, though there is some of that too (not I Wanna Be the Boshy difficult, mind you). Much of the difficulty and fun or frustration, depending on your patience and puzzle solving skills, comes from the fact that, unlike a lot of other metroidvanaias, the way to proceed is often unclear. In many other metroidvanias it's pretty standard to come to a ledge that's too high to jump to and quickly deduce that you need an item that will make you jump higher, or come to a blue locked door and deduce that you need a blue key or a weapon that shoots a blue beam. In La-Mulana, there are hints on how and where to progress, but they often take the form of cryptic riddles and it's up to you to 1) find said riddles 2) figure out what said riddles mean and which part of the giant labyrinth they pertain to 3) figure out how to obtain whatever item you may need to satisfy the solution to said riddles. All the while you fight monsters, dodge dastardly traps, and piece together a story of ancient civilizations and... La-Mulana 2 is more of that, except this time you play as the daughter of the main character in the first game, who was, for all intents and purposes, Indiana Jones. Anyway, I'm a couple hours into the game. I've beaten several smaller bosses and one guardian so far. The guardian fight was surprisingly easy, I beat it first try, while I died several times before defeating the other bosses. This new area I just reached, a sort of fire and ice area (maybe Nigoro is a George RR Martin fan?) introduces the wonderful insta-kill goodness of lava and, just in case lava didn't suck enough on its own, poison lava.

Made a comfort food classic, beef stroganoff:

Keeping with the tradition of ****ting in AMD's cereal just as they are about to release new GPUs, Nvidia announced new RTX 2060, 2070, and 2080 SUPER (ALL CAPS) GPUs These performance figures come from Team Green themselves, so, as always, a generous quantity of grains of salt is recommended. It's cool that they are putting out supposedly significantly faster refreshes of their cards, but that NAMING...

At the entrance of the ruins they have one of those standees with the face cut out you can stand behind : First boss fight: Capitalism rears its ugly head :