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q3dm17, when picked by utter b00ns. Ah, whole nights of joy.

Regarding controllers I'm the odd one out. I hated every PS controller so far, no matter which one, and I also didn't like the Duke - even though I have really big hands (I also use a small mouse for all my gaming needs, currently a Logitech LS1). The Switch Joy Cons are okay as long as I don't use the clip-on controller pad. The Nintendo Pro controller is pretty good, the XBox S-controllers are also nice except for the terrible D-pad. What I really liked so far is the nVidia Shield controller, except for the start button placement. If I could freely choose I'd play everything on my GameCube controller. *sigh*

Seconded...

Grabbed Steamworld Heist as per recommendation here. Enjoying it so far.

Seconded... Black & White, Diablo 3 prior to Reaper of Souls, WoW: Cataclysm, all of the StarCraft 2 campaigns and Hellgate: London aaaaand... Halo. Or make that Bungie shooters in general, I've tried the free Destiny 2 trial recently, reached level 2 and quit. For good. There's something about their games that just isn't for me.

The comments on Breitbart are hilarious. Like what comments? He didn't just fly too close to the sun here, he dove straight into it, total self immolation. https://www.axios.com/behind-the-scenes-of-bannons-exit-1515533804-334c36b1-5af4-4ba8-a7ae-e63786a552b4.html Just tried finding the more hilarious ones at the article, but many of them have gone. A large bunch of comments is apparently sympathetic to Bannon while earlier today everyone was screaming to lynch him for being the second coming of Judas, Betrayer of Trump, Great Prophet of MAGA.

The comments on Breitbart are hilarious.

Oh, yes... a couple of games managed to make me all teary, e.g.: Planescape: Torment made me misty eyed - Sending your companions back to Sigil, particularily Fall-From-Grace. There's only one though that made me bawl my eyes out (repeatedly, even after knowing the almost inevitable outcome of the story) and that was Kana – Imōto (Little Sister). Googling too much might be NSFW considering it is, in the end, an eroge visual novel, albeit one that uses the sex scenes for storytelling purposes instead of being gratuitous and masturbatory or the end-game goal itself. Oh and there is a censored, sexless PSP version for everyone grossed out by the, uhm, theme of the game. For those who like visual novels but not eroge...

Also, Metal meets 8-bit:

GTA, together with Worms and Mario Kart, gave me the most fun I ever had in multiplayer. In the literal laughing out loud sense of the word.

That depends solely on his /played. I have played WoW and SWTOR with alternating subscriptions (roughly the same price) for a combined playing time of well over 10.000 hours - at a rate that's around 0.1 to 0.2€ per hour played. Out of all the games I paid for myself only Path of Exile has a better ratio - and that's one of the few F2P game with a fair business model.

Started playing Steamworld Dig 2 and Super Mario Odyssey on the Switch. Shelved Cuphead for the time being after finishing it - I'll be back to finish it on expert and S-Rank the remaining bosses but I'm a bit burnt out right now. edit: Can't type any more. Meh.

Hm, when you put it that way... *starts watching*

Oh boy. I'm sure it's unintentionally hilarious but I'm not going to sit through a 22 minute Info Wars video with a guy talking like the love child of Bonnie Tyler and Kermit.

Both games suffer from pacing issues in my opinion but I think IWD's are worse. Usually if I start up Icewind Dale the party eventually stops when Kresselack gives me the quest to deal with Lysan. Having to go back up, deal with her, go back down and then back up only to go to the 5 level madness that is Dragon's Eye usually makes me quit. In IWD2 on the other hand the biggest roadblock is the Ice Temple. The map is also way tpp large there are teleporters and some riddles for entertainment and the battle squares for the masochists among us (finished them once, then immediately installed the skip battle squares mod) but it doesn't work someow. It's just terribly boring. However for me it is easier to power through one boring area than two of them after the other and the Ice Temple still wins by not being as much combat oriented as KT or DE.

That was Icewind Dale 2, which I liked better than the first one. Which was, back then, a relatively uncommon position. It still is, I guess.

Well that can't be it, their shields were active, otherwise The Collector wouldn't have had to slice a hole into them to land on Snoke's flagship.

Yeah, that bothered me too. I mean, I get that Star Wars isn't science fiction, but the whole idea that you could just carve through heavily fortified ships in such a way seems pretty lame. It's the new "rule" behind Star Wars FTL travel: Do whatever you want as long as it makes for a dramatic moment. In ANH Han had to leave Corellia the conventional way and was almost intercepted by two Star Destroyers until he reached a place where he could make his hyperspace jump. In Rogue One Whatsherface, Whatshisface and the chinese box office tokens leave Jedha by jumping to hyperspace directly from underneath a collapsing wave of debris. In The Force Awakens Han hyperspace jumps directly behind the Starkiller Base's shields. In The Last Jedi on the other hand a hyperspace jump turns your ship into a relativistic kinetic weapon.

That was enlightening, you're a Thermian. Now I get it.

Yeah, it's basically in the 3-5% reduction range for games (well, the four games tested, and not in GPU limited scenarios like 4k) which isn't great but also isn't a catastrophe except PR wise. Indeed. Guess I was wrong, although technically not even Battlefront dropped by a full 5%, but it's close enough. They should probably test SWTOR. That game has a nightmarish amount of disk usage - enough to make people claim that it killed their SSDs.

I'd totally watch HUCK. Twice maybe. Once with N-word Jim and once with C-word Jim. In other words, just "binged" Jean-Claude Van Johnson. Not much to binge, it's about as long as a movie anyway. Felt a little silly giving standing ovations after the final credits rolled being all alone in front of my computer but hey, credit given where it is due.

Barti's reddit link has game benchmarks for Linux showing no decrease in frame rate after the fix. Since system calls are mostly IO operations that makes sense. It also won't measurably affect latency times in online games because the bottleneck is the lag on the line, not the actual packet processing. We're not going to see a 5% measurable performance decrease in actual gaming in my opinion - but I might be wrong and extrapolating from Linux gaming isn't exactly a safe bet for a Microsoft patch. What I'm really looking forward to is our databases at work dropping a 10+% in performance over night. Yay. Blargh. It's only good news for AMD if they can deliver. I doubt they can cover a spike in demand considering that their production capacity is rather limited right now. But here's to hoping they can pick up some of Intel's slack - a bit of competition would be good for us.

The 30% figure is not a "ballpark" as it is stated in the news articles but comes from a benchmark doing nothing but the sort of calls that will experience a slowdown after the fixes. It is a worst case scenario that doesn't apply to real life application/consumers and much less gamers - games are already designed in a way that avoid the sort of instructions that will experience a performance hit. Do not forgo the update. There will still be a performance drop and it is both a security and PR disaster for Intel and just the sort of boost AMD could use to (finally, I guess) get more than a toe into the server market because that is the area that's most affected - both security and performance wise. It's an absolute nightmare for public cloud services (Amazon EC2/AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc.).

I've read so much Star Wars EU that I have a hard time arguing the films on their merits (or lack thereof) alone, so I understand. Completely.