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I finished chapter 5 in Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 and I still haven't hit a paywall. I will buy something, not out of necessity, but rather to support the devs, I just haven't decided what to buy yet. There is at least 1 more chapter in the main story and plenty of other stuff to do. Before I dive into chapter 6 I'm going back into the Aura Gate dungeon and doing some other side content. I want to make at least 2 super strong teams of demons. Right now my main team is fairly strong with my strongest demon being Asherah. She's the only demon I'm definitely keeping (Asherah is in the top 10 strongest demons in the game and has super strong heals), most of the rest are probably getting fused at some point. Hopefully I can get my hands on a Metatron eventually, if that's a demon that's usable in this game. Metatron tends to be the strongest demon in MegaTen games, he's served as a ultimate final boss before in the series.

My initial thought was that "Hershel Walkered" meant getting traded at the tail end of your prime for a bounty so ridiculous that your former team wins multiple championships.

It's funny how concepts such as morning and weekend lose their traditional meanings when you become a long haul trucker. For me morning means whenever I wake up, that could be 5 pm. Weekend means whenever I have off time, that might be Wednesday thru Friday.

This SCUM game seems to be the new hotness of Twitch: Seems a bit late to the party, the survival game craze kind of petered out about a year and a half ago and everyone has moved on to making battle royale games destined to be popular for a week then disappear when everyone just goes back to Fortnite.

Looks kinda like Lemmings.

Yeah, the Neverwinter MMO has been out for years. I played it when it first came out. It's your bog standard f2p MMO with bog standard MMO combat.

It will probably be fine at 1080p as long as you don't enable Nvidia RTX and Nvidia HairWorks and Nvidia TXAA and Nvidia DongFX and Nvidia HyperSampling and Nvidia Super Duper Extra Ultimate Sampling and Nvidia SmellOvisioN and...

Speaking of rigid, the characters in this next video are practically statues... No no, no need to get up, I'll show myself out.

I finished my KGB playthrough on normal difficulty of Phantom Doctrine. I like the game quite a bit, but it's definitely too easy on normal difficulty. Still, this was a significant step up in both scope and polish from the studio as compared to Hard West, so I'm excited to see what they bring to the table next time. Finishing the game unlocked the expanded story option as well as the Mossad starting agency. I wonder how the Mossad playthrough will differ from the KGB playthrough, and how both of those differ from the CIA playthrough, for that matter. The ending of the game is sort of a "I feel like there's something more to this" kind of ending, which either hints at more endings and a potential true ending, or they're setting up for a sequel or DLC. Either way, I'm going to do an extended story, hard difficulty, Mossad playthrough sometime in the future.

^ Thanks, I missed the first half of the stream. I can definitely still see visual noise in the better quality video, it seems to happen mostly when the character is moving rapidly. Maybe it's the replacement for motion blur and is there for the immershun, but, like with motion blur, I'll definitely be turning that effect off if I can.

I don't know if it was just the stream or a purposeful film grain effect put in the game because of the eye implant or something, but I could definitely do without all the visual noise. Hopefully it's not in the final product or an option I can turn off. With that little complaint out of the way, I was definitely impressed. That was badass. Also, I'm totally cool with 1st person view for Cyberpunk 2077, in fact I'm all for it. I look forward to playing this in 2020 or 2021.

For once I can agree with HoonDing (I know, I'm as surprised as anyone else). I definitely appreciate the female character, Blaze Fielding (quality cheeseball name BTW), having those meaty Chun Li legs.

Same here. The difficulty does ramp up eventually, mainly with more security measures, such as laser sensor gates, and agents with higher HP, meaning you may not be able to KO them if your own agents HP is not high enough. Of course, I give my agents ALL THE STEROIDS, so that's not an issue all that often, and when it is I just kill every other enemy first, all silent like, call for evac, get everybody near the evac point and wait for the high HP enemy agent to get somewhat close to the evac point, then just gun him or her down. By the time enemy reinforcements show up I've already peaced out. You will occasionally be ambushed or combat will trigger for other reasons that I shall not go into for spoiler reasons, but I complete 90% - 95% of missions full stealth. So, yeah, I agree with the sentiment that I really should be playing the game on hard difficulty, but at this point I'm almost at the end (I'm fairly certain I'm on the last chapter) and I'm pretty sure beating the game unlocks some starting options, so I might as well finish this normal playthrough and do a hard run with the new options in the future. But, yeah, the game is too easy if you're at all good at stealth. Still fun though. I particularly like that you can do all sorts of fun stuff to enemy agents that you capture.

I would also recommend Tyranny, provided you are into story and choice and consequence and don't mind a lot of reading. It's a lot shorter than Pillars (the first one, I haven't played the sequel yet), but I personally enjoyed it quite a bit more.

For various reasons your agents can get compromised in Phantom Doctrine. To remedy the situation you can forge them a new identity. Here is my main character's new identity. You only have to change their name when you forge a new identity, but I went the whole nine yards and also changed her nationality to Polish and her portrait. I figured I'd make her look like a badass while I'm at it: Some other random images from the game: Shady, since you have the game now, let's see some of your crew please.

I actually installed The Last Remnant a few days ago, since I'd owned the game for many years and it was one of the games whitelisted by Valve for Steam's new Steam Play for Linux that uses Proton and I figured I'd try it out just to see how Proton worked. It worked seamlessly and the game installed and ran great with all features working, just as if it was native to Linux, by the way, thanks for asking. Anyway, I wonder why they are removing the game from the storefront? Do people have compatibility issues on Windows 10? Maybe they are preparing to launch a remake or remaster? To be honest, I think it holds up quite well graphically for a 10 year old game. If they do remaster/remake/reboot it, I would like for them to remake the character progression systems and have someone other than Tzeentch make it, so that us mere mortals might have at least a chance at deciphering it.

My outrage... outrage is probably too strong a word, distaste is a better word... My distaste for Nvidia RTX has little to do with RTX itself. I mean I do a bit of an eyeroll when people, Nvidia and others alike, try to pass RTX off as actually just ray tracing. Just to be clear, RTX is not actually ray tracing, in the purest sense, it's a hybrid of ray tracing and rasterization. So there is that bit of stretching the truth, but that doesn't really put me off that much because the technology, hybrid as it may be, is still quite impressive in that it is able to produce results very similar to pure ray tracing at a fraction of the computing power. What puts me off are the prices, they are just ridiculous, new technology or not. Realistically, you can expect very few games in the next couple of years that take advantage of RTX and fewer still that are playable at even just 1080p at max settings and RTX on with any single card, so for most people the whole RTX thing is kind of a non-issue, what matters to most people are performance gains over Pascal and we just don't know yet. Nvidia themselves will tell you things like 6X the performance and 35% to 125% gains over Pascal, but I never trust the manufacturer themselves (whether it's Nvidia, AMD, or Intel) to give me realistic numbers because they usually cite fringe results and benchmarks things in extremely specific environments that will yield the most favorable results possible, and these often do not mirror typical real world situations. The bottom line is that we just don't know yet how these cards perform. We can speculate from core counts, clock speeds, and memory bandwith, but until we get reliable independent benchmarks, we just don't know. It's going to take a pretty huge leap in performance over Pascal to justify the price tags in my eyes.

This is a man with good taste in anime.

The tables have turned as LGD has looked unstoppable for 2 straight games and they're just 1 game away from fulfilling the Chinese Even Year Prophecy. Hopefully OG can turn things around and push this to a game 5.

That's my feeling on it too. Blizzard has a long way to with its spectator mode for Overwatch.

^ I'd recommend dividing that number by at least 4. I went down the fake martial arts rabbit hole. I have no words for this next video:

I don't follow League, but I was under the impression that, much like Starcraft, it was dominated by Korea. Is that correct? DotA is the only eSport I follow all the time. I watch Starcraft and CSGO from time to time. I've watched a bit of League but just couldn't get into it the same way I got into DotA for whatever reason. I imagine if DotA didn't exist I would probably watch League more often, it would probably replace DotA in my watching schedule. Since DotA does exist I don't see the point in following 2 eSports that are so similar. I could never get into watching fighting games, nor Overwatch (fun game to play, not fun to watch), nor Rocket League, nor any sports games like Madden, FIFA, etc. Edit: Damn, LGD just steamrolled EG. Maybe it's a Chinese year after all (Chinese teams have won all even number TIs so far: TI2 - IG, TI4 - Newbee, TI6 - Wings)? I guess OG will have something to say about that.

Meanwhile in Russia...

Chilloutman's OG is already in the grand final. I'm crossing my fingers that EG beats LGD tomorrow in the lower bracket finals and we get the OG vs EG rematch in the grand final. NoTail vs Fly The Deathmatch: Part 2 in a bo5 grand final would be super hype.

The Left 4 Dead-esque genre isn't usually my jam, but this does look pretty rad.