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Well, you got that wrong, Jordan Peterson is the guy who DESTROYS leftists by telling them crustaceans have a strict hierarchy and then proceeding to unironically talk about post-modern neo-marxism, which most likely sounds highly intellectual to his fanbase, but is completely meaningless. Postmodernism's defining feature is the rejection of metanarratives like Marxism as fundamentally flawed. His fabled debating skills, by far and large, boil down to raising strawmen arguments combined with a factually true statement in an attempt to goad the other party into looking stupid or giving him an opening where he can claim that they are misrepresenting what he said without ever really specifying what it is exactly he said. Which is pretty much what he did in his BBC interview, for instance, where he's argued that "the" Left has this idea that all our societal hierarchies are the result of Western patriarchy, but lobsters also have hierarchies and they predate Western civilization. The strawman here being that "the left" of course never argued against all hierarchies arising from the oppressive patriachy. It is, however, fairly problematic to respond to, you can either argue against a fundamentally correct statement ("lobsters have hierarchies"), which will make you look silly, or you can follow his implication and debate that, to which he can just reply that this is a misinterpretation of what he said. Which is pretty much what happened, as the interviewer's response was asking him whether he believes we should organize our society along the lines of lobsters. No, of course not. Silly interviewer. The reactionary core of his implication still stands, of course, and his fanbase gobbles it up like candy. Like him or not, he certainly knows what he is doing, which is pandering to his audience, not engaging in meaningful, intellectual debates.

One of our colleagues died of a coronary. People used to call him 'roidsmurf (or alternatively cokesmurf) because he was a little on the short side and constantly zipping about, stressed out and fidgety. High levels of stress and substance abuse is an unhealthy combination. Guy was just a bit over 50.

That is probably the weakest point of the game. I kept all the companions around to the very end of the game on my Dogmatic run, but only because this is a video game and keeping companions around makes sense if you want to experience most of the game's content, not because it makes sense for a dogmatic character. Actually, well... (spoiler about Yrliet):

Apparently, there's a Russian meme involving frogs.

Probably buggy. The pirate encounter zones also stuck around on my map forever even though I hunted them down.

That fight is much more fun when you do it in Chapter 2, although I am uncertain if I was supposed to be able to reach it in chapter two. I think it took spending Navigator's Insight to create a warp route to the system. Should have been a hint, I suppose...

No, you have to spend 100 hours in the ship builder, because next to it even vi seems easy to use. And, just so you know in case you have never used vi, well... that takes some doing. Does that answer your question?

Like I said, if you play Factorio, going with the better CPU is a good idea...

Finished the game, checked every possible ending - unless there is another, supar secrat hidden one. Did not get the achievement for visiting all optional locations. It was either bugged or I have missed something. The final battle was a joke. Sure, the boss has 14000 hit points on Daring difficulty, but even that much is just leaves in the wind for Argenta and her insane attack rate at this point. The Calibrated Heavy Stubber combined with the Compensator Gloves on an Arch-Militant is insane. Make sure you sell only the stuff giving the most reputation to each faction. It is <expletive> annoying to do, but the reputation items are something else. Worst part of the game goes to the enchanted forest part of the main quest and, as per usual, the mini-game Owlcat can't help but put in. Void ship combat is at least more fun than Bad HoMM was, but it still was not very entertaining. Halfway through the game I abused the fact that the game is basically just saving json fiiles in a compressed archive and gave myself 999 Navigator's Insight. I am not sure if that made me miss any random battles worth of note, or any random events of note, but damn, travel between systems is hyper-annoying, and it is slooooooooooooooow.

Took a chapter out of @Azdeus' Food Heresy (tm). Pizza with kebab. I guess any Italian boardies (not sure, don't think there are any that frequent this thread) will run to mommy to cry at the sight of this, but it is pretty tasty.

This is one of those "well, duh!" tests. No, really, are you telling me that unless you're hitting the CPU limit in games, it is better value to go with a less powerful CPU and a more powerful GPU than vice versa? Nice to see with the lower settings in Fortnite, where the better gaming CPU results in much higher frame rates due to both GPUs being far away from being GPU-bound*. So, basically, for any non e-sports scenarios, or unless you're playing Factorio exclusively and can notice the difference between 400 and 700fps, a 13600k/7600 will easily be enough. Go with the higher powered GPU if you're on a budget. Guess it's nice to have proof to link to. *Minor caveat, in some cases turning on ray tracing in games can lead to the 7800X3D outperforming the 7600 with the 4070 Ti. But even then it is really minor.

Great, I got the "Marazhai's last quest does not work properly" bug in combination with "game crashes on same map when making an athletics check" bug. Both of which are only resolvable by tinkering with the state and teleporting away. Le sigh. Up until that, there were a lot of quirks, but nothing broke completely. Guess I'll just finish the game without finishing the quest first. Savegame Size also seems to have exploded (such is typical for all the Owlcate games as they really just dump the entire game's state as json files onto the disk, which is fun for editing the save games, but pretty wasteful), and it broke GOG's cloud sync size limit. Good thing I don't need really cloud sync for this game. The game is also really inefficient. I can play Cyberpunk 2077 without my fans spinning up to the point of being audible, but Rogue Trader? Constant audible fan spinning. Not even BG3 does that, and BG3 also is pretty heavy on the CPU. Edit: Complain, and an hour later a patch comes out that seems to have fixed all three issues. Well, good on Owlcat.

Is the buzz gone? Can I complain about the 10 hours I wasted on Starfield yet?

Is the buzz gone? Can I complain about the 10 hours I wasted on Starfield yet?

Look on the bright side, at least none of us come from Wittenoom.

I think I figured out why Argenta hyperscales so much in my game. I gave her Extermination, a talent that is supposed to increase her damage by +1 for every attack she makes. The game seems to count shots, not attacks. Argenta goes BRRRRRRRRRRRR. Might be time to see if that Calibrated Heavy Stubber isn't actually the king of weapons. Sure, the Blessed Bolter Casing is not going to work with it, but still, base rate of fire of 12 is insane. So, probably going with the regular heavy bolter and the stubber as my weapons. Nothing wrong with switching guns for the heroic action single sniper shots.

That heavy bolter with +1 rate of fire for each kill does not work as advertised. You kill something with it, it does not update the rate of fire. At least not immediately, and really, who wants to wait for the next turn? The only saving grace is that it has a lot more initial damage per shot. Which is undermined by Argenta not being able to wear the extra rate of fire gloves, or the damage increasing gloves, since for no real reason it needs 70 STR to equip instead of 60 STR. Eh, probably going to switch back to the regular heavy bolter. Makes no appreciable difference and more dakka = more fun.

We'll end up at a lonesome house at a road in the middle of nowhere yet.

Oh, right, for a moment I thought that was because I posted a picture of a t-bone steak with sauce tartare and ketchup a while back, but you're talking about that little incident in the reading thread where Hurlshot and xzar_monty had the same conversation ten posts apart. I am not dogmatically opposed to ketchup either (and I certainly ate the ketchup that my steak came with ), just as long as we draw the line at slathering pizza and pasta with it. As far as food heresy goes, I like eating fries with lingonberry jam. I also don't hate pizza with pineapple and ham, but I do not particularily like it either, but that is me not liking ham on pizza, not being opposed to pinapple. Speaking of pineapple, injecting pineapple juice into meat is one of the easiest ways to tenderize it. It works wonders for duck and goose. Heinz - and I do not know if what we can buy as Heinz ketchup is anything close to the ketchup sold in the US - is easily my least favorite of the store bought ketchups. Now would be the time for @Azdeus to come in here and tell us that he does not like Felix, which is my personal preference, and then we would be done with the third time talking about ketchup in the food threads that I can recall. Ideally that does not come to pass, lest he shows up and posts images of his food again. I mean, that is basically the only thing the we ever agreed upon that was vile.

I fail to see how that is a massive bonus. Sister Argenta is pure of faith and fair in judgment. Your words sound dangerously close to heresy here. Anyway, I just checked all my plasma weapons and found none that would deal 2xINT bonus damage, is that gun for sale? Edit: The game is super schizophrenic when you are playing Dogmatic while still having all possible companions. I was standing next to Incendia Chorda, and she was praising me something fierce for being such an ardent follower of doctrine while I had an unsanctioned psyker, an Eldar, a Dark Eldar and a Cold Trader in my entourage, standing in front of her.

With all buffs and Firearm Mastery I'm currently at 23 shots per burst. Good thing the heavy bolter's magazine is 96 shots. Yeah so that thing has 250% armor and 3000 hit points on Daring, and it still died in one turn. Mostly because the Fanatic level of Dogmatic gives your main character an ability that allows a character to completely ignore any sort of damage reduction for one round. Naturally, that's... Argenta. I mean, who else would it be. Shooting a Plasma gun with 2x INT bonus damage is nice and all, but it sort of pales compared to a 23 burst from a heavy bolter dealing 150 damage per shot because somewhere in its damage calculations, the game totally breaks down. Well, breaks down. Camaraderie stacks off Ballistic Skill, and that is increased by 5 for every stack of Versatility Argenta has, and she starts with 2, gets one for every extra turn and basically one per attack. It also has a slightly bugged interaction (at least for me) with Firearm Mastery where the large heavy bolter base rate of fire allows for an impressive amount of single shots that all stack Versatility even though they really should not. Bonus points if Cassia's overpowered abilities herded groups of enemies together to die in a burst.

@BruceVC, You should really play Rogue Trader. You can live your dream to the fullest as fascist aristocrat.

There is a leaked Geekbench result. The score is pretty much the same as that of any 155H geekbench results, well, the single thread score is better than most, but Geekbench has notorious variances between runs. Now there's of course the issue that Keyrock mentioned, the results would indicate a laptop level TDP, which in a handheld device is going to be a bit of a challenge. Most comments about The Claw I read online are silly debates about the placement of the analogue sticks - mostly started by Playstation Layout Theists, a group of humans who should be burned as heretics they are (eh, I might have played a little too much Rogue Trader recently ). Well, CES is around the corner anyway. If this is really powered by a regular 155H, it'll probably be able to run most games in 720p at 30 fps (if they run, that is), and it'll probably be pretty expensive and really hot (in both the figurative and literal sense), but the rumor mill has it that Intel's been selling CPUs at cost recently while they play node catchup, so who knows. Intel might just be looking for entry into the market to put some pressure on AMD.

Huh, that was unexpected.

If you're dogmatic just hand him over to Heinrix. Good source of dogmatic points and you get an achievement if you turn in all the heretics and xenos in your retinue.