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You tell me, enjoy working a second job? Heh.

Terrible advice, don't. It will suck out your soul until you're nothing but an empty husk full of hate and rage, and if you go beyond that you'll end up getting sick to the stomach when thinking about playing with other people. Or you might win the lottery and actually end up in the one raiding group on the planet where everything is happy-go-lucky, fun and joy and the people have the skill to raid. You just see a unicorn, the sasquatch, a yeti or perhaps discover the cure to old age and every disease. 's all equally likely I guess.

WL3's setting is great, the quests are rather entertaining, the overall storyline is somewhat, uhm, yeah, forgettable, and the only "unexpected" thing that happens in the end feels contrived and afterwards the game doesn't even pretend to acknowledge it. Did Bioware release any new operations or is it just the same they had for years now?

I thought items decayed after a certain amount of time has passed unless they are in a container related to quests. Anyway, lower the difficulty and don't worry. If you ever play the game again you'll steamroll over her anyway. In the EE it's bringing a sorcerer along, playing on Insane and reducing party size a bit. I mean... it's the EE's solution to everything. Nuke it, DoT it, help the whelp groups. Game just wasn't designed for her catching fireballs with her face. The best you could do in the original I think were Skull Traps, and that was a random scroll and you needed a caster high enough in level. 's not something you know on your first rodeo. Always thought that "Insane" difficulty on IWD was hilarious, making the game easier after the first cave with the Orcs instead of harder. Even without adding classes the game was never designed for.

For once and just because it's Christmas I didn't immediately watch Discovery and I missed the most stupid on the season? Man... well got something to look forward to tomorrow then.

For what it's worth, I won. I mean, survived until the very end. Not a single Last Christmas this year. But that's fairly easy when you're stuck at home and only going outside when you can't help it.

Minor thing that I just thought about regarding the timeline of The Mandalorian. Or rather, the age differences of the actors. Assuming she was a teenager during Clone Wars, and that's really a stretch (she clearly not much younger than her sister, and her sister was the accepted Duchess of Mandalore at the time) she should still be roughly five to ten years older than Boba Fett. Boba was born what, ~32 BBY? Well, "born" - cloned as it were. So that makes him ~41 during The Mandalorian. Bo-Katan has no real canon birthday (yet?) but if she was 18 during Clone Wars she's in her late 40ies, maybe early 50ies during the show. And that's a big if. So... in-universe Bo-Katan who looks barely any older than 30 (Kattee Sackhoff is 40) is 10+ years older than Din, who is 5 or 6 years older than Katee Sackhoff in real life, and roughly the same age as Boba Fett who essentially looks the 60 years Temuerra Morrison has right now. Uhm... yeah.

The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie? The same procedure as every year, James! Well, not quite. Since we're going into another lockdown on December, 26th we will skip our traditional final family meal. Well, not skip. We'll deliver the food to everyone and then enjoy it at home, no visiting. New Year's party will fall flat probably, but not sure yet. You're allowed to have a single guest, but said guest is technically not allowed to violate the curfew for a mere visit.

Fixed that for you. It's so sad that HBO ran out of money and could never finish the series. Who knows, maybe Martin will actually finish the books at some point. Maybe in 20 years or so, assuming he lives that long.

Played the hell out of Enter the Gungeon and Dead Cells, a combined 600 hours of entertainment for less than 2 bucks. Not sure I did much else. Nothing worth mentioning at least. I did get off my arse and finished the last Sekiro achievement during the first lockdown or so. Completed the game last year but getting all skills remained open. Had no real desire to grind out the last three points I needed. Humm. Anything else? Oh, yes, Wasteland 3. Which was pretty good, except it was an inXile release and would have been better if I played a month or two later, but sometimes I can't help meself. Bunch of games I began but didn't complete yet: Star Renegades, Cyberpunk 2077, Outer Worlds, The Witcher 3. Played a bit of the Everspace 2 backer build. Performance was crappy at the time so I stopped. 's about it, I guess. I'm not sure what I played this year because my memory is really fuzzy. Between the major release at work, the heavy crunch before and afterwards, customers going mad, amount of work exploding, the lockdowns and home office everything is a single blurry timeframe with no clear beginning or end. Could be I played Dead Cells last year. Wouldn't know about it. *shrug*

Have fun, these days you don't have to wait half the game time for the game to load. Fun to see that inXile learned nothing from their Bard's Tale IV debacle. Even Obs here managed to cut down on loading times in Pillars 2, and the ones of Pillars weren't so bad when compared to WL3 or BT4... or Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

Yes, off-handed and without checking I agree. Season 2 seems to have a smaller average runtime, and it was for the better. This season was pretty good, the first one was really uneven with the occasional dip into dreck territory. The only episode I didn't like was the one Robert Rodriguez directed. That was almost painful to watch. Please don't let Tarantino do an episode next season. 😮

Sadly I lack the intelligence to properly appreciate Rick and Morty.

Doesn't run that bad. Loading times are all right, framerate could be better but that is with the default settings which are all at high or ultra. Well no, I reduced crowd sizes. Might have to drop things once I get the world opened up, but one thing after the other. So far so fine. Spent half an hour hacking the same fan over and over again to gain some skill levels. How is this better than putting points somewhere at level up again? Oh, right. It isn't.

This isn't as funny in a laugh out loud way as Valhalleluja or And Then I Noticed That She Was A Gargoyle but it's the most spot on (power/true) metal parody of them so far. Fire in the sky!

Cthulu runs a telecom business:

Okay, you convinced me. Downloading the game at the moment.

No it doesn't, I'm hoping someone will convince me to not do that. 60€ I could also invest into a decent steak or two.

I've tried everything, including caching a copy of each used record in memory instead of using pointers just to make sure I'm not running into some weird compiler bug like the one I mentioned a while back where arrays on the client application and on the server behave radically different (same code, different results, I hope someone rots in hell for this one). Nothing seemed to help. Today I finally found out what is going on. The error message I introduced showed up in the log (actually I added three checks, and it was the last one that was triggered). I re-tried the import and noticed that it failed again. And again. And again. It also failed on the client. Meaning no code issue, no weird compiler error like last time, and all of a sudden it was reproducible. I mean, except for the fact that retrying the steps in our test enrivonment worked perfectly. So I did what every sensible developer in this situation does, screw best practices, time to debug in production. Turns out it was a Layer 8 issue. The automated update messages we're getting take up to 10 minutes to arrive (they're batched to go out every 10 minutes on our customer's end). That's plenty of time for someone to see that there's an order that's been picked and packed by the warehouse, sit down and update manually... in a way that doesn't add the necessary reference numbers. Oh boy. So glad this year is over soon.

So guys, if I set my details to low, can this run somewhat smoothely on my setup? I really feel like buying the game just to spite the peasants and whiny investors right now. Never thought I'd see that in my old age. I'm going contrarian again. xD

I sat there, thinking for a while what cameo you meant, but then it hit me. You mean Carl, right?

I find myself agreeing, but that doesn't mean much. It's easy to pass a bar when someone put the bar six feet under.

Sad little console peasants. Cry your tears, I feast on them. Almost makes me want to buy the game right away even though I probably can't run it properly with my second generation i5 and the GTX 970, never mind having enough free space on the hard disk (and no SSD to reduce loading times).

That would be something. I mean, I'm generally not one for conspiracy theories (I love them and enjoy reading and hearing about them though), but our dear chancellor, the Glorious Messiah, Sebastian I, went to Switzerland, met with some people from Roche and then suddenly decides that we should do mass Corona testing where, curiously enough, Roche test kits are being used, even though mass testing turned out to be completely ineffective right next door in Slovakia. Then the people had the bad sense to reject his idea - mass testing had a really bad turnout and found barely any new infections. The obvious solution? Third lockdown starting from after Christmas until January 18th, with a week's quarantine afterwards for people who do not attend the mass testing on January 16th and 17th. The reaction of a petulant man-child who can't deal with rejection and criticism.

You guys, as if having thousands of saves isn't normal. On an average Half-Life playthrough I save roughly three thousand times. Serious Sam had 5000+ saves. I overwrite most, but compulsive saving is the way to go for me.