When I did play, which was not much because I could not focus... I am still playing Spiritfarer. But in some kind of feverdream, I played Serious Sam 6 or whatever the lateest one is and I really enjoyed it. Looks great on the Steamdeck. Also, I've never played Civ before. I don;t think. I have a boxed copy of Civ 2 for PC, not sure if I ever played it... anyway I went into Civ 6 and felt like I'd walked into a gay bar. Let me explain that... I mean I went in expecting a sports bar and then realised I was in the wrong place. Now when this has happened in the past, I swallow my pride and siddle up to the bar, have a drink, then leave. But in this case, I just went "oh god I've seen too much, I need to ask Ravenprose what to do", and hastily left.
Beyond bars, I've also, when new to a neighbourhood walked into a black barbershop, not realizing it was, and stuck it out (that is, gone ahead with the haircut even though absolutely everyone in the shop wanted me to turn around and leave). But I was like -- I have no issue with black people, I'm not leaving. Though the polite thing would have been, given I look like a NARC would have been to leave. Not sure what was the right move there. Another time, I went into a mexican restaurant for breakfast with my girlfriend and then after a while realized that everyone was staring at us, because this was a MEXICAN restaurant. FOR MEXICANS, and WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU WHITES HERE RUINING OUR BREAKFAST?
Okay, I'm on a roll now. I went to a Japanese restaurant, and they turned us away at the door. "NOT FOR YOU, JAPANESE ONLY". I said something to the effect of "Nah it's cool man, we're alright". In response he rolled up the paper and started toward me, and basically said "OUT NOW, NOT FOR YOU".
For the record, the vietnamese community was always welcoming. Because I had jet black hair and was thin etc... I think most of them assumed I was half marine, half vietnamese -- and this was verbalised many times. Cambodians were also, very accepting. And I have to say, other than that one restaurant thing, I had many mexican friends, that I had a great time with at their houses, and was invited for Christmas for family gatherings etc... That restaurant issue was the only time I felt like I was not welcome.
Tales of the melting pot of southern california....
I've been having a little back pain myself. I think I overdid it in the gym and just need to ease up on certain exercises. Hell, I now have leg and shoulder pain as well. I hate this part of aging.
Go to a physiotherapist. Mine has changed my life. Just a few simepl stretches and some accupressure. I guess it depends on the quality of the one you find. I was fixed (almost completely) in two days following his advice.
Go to a physiotherapist. Mine has changed my life. Just a few simepl stretches and some accupressure. I guess it depends on the quality of the one you find. I was fixed (almost completely) in two days following his advice.
When I did play, which was not much because I could not focus... I am still playing Spiritfarer. But in some kind of feverdream, I played Serious Sam 6 or whatever the lateest one is and I really enjoyed it. Looks great on the Steamdeck. Also, I've never played Civ before. I don;t think. I have a boxed copy of Civ 2 for PC, not sure if I ever played it... anyway I went into Civ 6 and felt like I'd walked into a gay bar. Let me explain that... I mean I went in expecting a sports bar and then realised I was in the wrong place. Now when this has happened in the past, I swallow my pride and siddle up to the bar, have a drink, then leave. But in this case, I just went "oh god I've seen too much, I need to ask Ravenprose what to do", and hastily left.
Settle your first city near fresh water and good resources (settling in place works fine most of the time). Use your warrior unit to start scouting the area around your city. Train a Scout unit (scouts can travel up to three tiles depending on terrain, vs up to two tiles with the warrior. Also scouts give a better first impression when finding a new civ or city state than a military unit). Have your scout go the opposite way from your warrior unit in a circular pattern around your city; you may also follow rivers to find other civilizations and city states. Train a second scout or a slinger unit. If you see any barbarian scouts in the area, kill them immediately or they will run back to their camp to send their warriors. Killing any barbarian unit with a slinger will boost Archery, allowing you to train archers units quicker. There's lots of Civ 6 tutorials on Youtube.
Speaking of Civilization, Civ 7 is a mess. I figured it would be buggy and unfinished, so I held off buying it until after release. Some people paid $100-130USD to play five days early, and it's borderline unplayable. Great business model.
Speaking of Civilization, Civ 7 is a mess. I figured it would be buggy and unfinished, so I held off buying it until after release. Some people paid $100-130USD to play five days early, and it's borderline unplayable. Great business model.
EG gave it a mere 2/5. Crazy how easily it is to mess up such a well esteemed franchise.
I bought a brand new Atari 2600 joystick. Works on Atari 2600/7800 consoles and PC. It feels amazing to hold a brand new one for the first time in 3.5 decades. Oh, the nostalgia...
Go to a physiotherapist. Mine has changed my life. Just a few simepl stretches and some accupressure. I guess it depends on the quality of the one you find. I was fixed (almost completely) in two days following his advice.
I've been dutifully working my way through M&L Brothership. I was at the final boss, or so I thought. Well, I knew it wasn't the final boss, but assumed the actual final boss would follow him as a kind of 'stage 2' fight.
Nope.
Before you can battle him, you need to revisit a bunch of islands to gather 'bond energy' from NPC duo's. It's one long, tedious fetch quest with no other reason than to artificially draw out a game which isn't much fun to begin with. Jezus, Acquire, if Nintendo themselves couldn't even pull it off in Windwaker, who are you to think you'd fare any better? It just involves trudging along from island to island, travelling short distances, running away from every fight I get in to because I've already maxed out my player level, watching an obnoxious cutscene in which characters I don't care for blab on for a bit and on to the next one. You need to gather 'bond energy' from 6 different locations, and one involves yet another mandatory simon-says dance act in which missing one beat means you fail and have to try again.
Anyhow, I'm past that now and hope that the end is very near so I can move on to anything else, but most likely Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.
GAF is definitely not a happy place these days. It always had a bit of a "stfu" edge to it, which I enjoyed and appreciated as opposed to the toxic positivity you got at ERA. But over the last 6 months it's gotten noticeably bad at GAF, I drop in at most once a week for just a few minutes to see if there's any good updates. And these days there usually aren't.
Finished Baldur's Gate 3 this weekend. First time in years I've made it through a game, let alone one with 100 hour completion time. It's a flawed game, but it does so many things right with such an absurd volume of content that it's hard to complain much, even with the convoluted ending. It really took the available disk space in modern games to less be wildly wasteful, but rather, have endless recorded dialogue, characters, and quests (close to 2 million words of dialogue and 174 hours of dialogue scenes, close to 2000 characters).
I'm expecting to go back through for another run, but first I've started on Dragon Age: Veilguard. I haven't played the previous games. For a long time Dragon Age and Dragon's Dogma were the same thing in my head. It's an adjustment from BG3. It definitely has a bit of EA feel that I was happy did not exist in BG3 and was probably some of its charm. But it's got style and personality. Combat feels really clunky at times, but occasionally is very satisfying. Still early, so I'll have to see where it goes.
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Almost finished with Ninja Gaiden II Black. Its pretty good but not amazing like the first game. I may finish in a day or two.
This weekend was SMB2 and Atari 7800 Joust for me.
This played more Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake and started playing some Nioh Complete Remastered. Also finally finished Better Call Saul. Great show.
When I did play, which was not much because I could not focus... I am still playing Spiritfarer. But in some kind of feverdream, I played Serious Sam 6 or whatever the lateest one is and I really enjoyed it. Looks great on the Steamdeck. Also, I've never played Civ before. I don;t think. I have a boxed copy of Civ 2 for PC, not sure if I ever played it... anyway I went into Civ 6 and felt like I'd walked into a gay bar. Let me explain that... I mean I went in expecting a sports bar and then realised I was in the wrong place. Now when this has happened in the past, I swallow my pride and siddle up to the bar, have a drink, then leave. But in this case, I just went "oh god I've seen too much, I need to ask Ravenprose what to do", and hastily left.
Not sure what was the right move there. Another time, I went into a mexican restaurant for breakfast with my girlfriend and then after a while realized that everyone was staring at us, because this was a MEXICAN restaurant. FOR MEXICANS, and WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU WHITES HERE RUINING OUR BREAKFAST?
Beyond bars, I've also, when new to a neighbourhood walked into a black barbershop, not realizing it was, and stuck it out (that is, gone ahead with the haircut even though absolutely everyone in the shop wanted me to turn around and leave). But I was like -- I have no issue with black people, I'm not leaving. Though the polite thing would have been, given I look like a NARC would have been to leave.
Okay, I'm on a roll now. I went to a Japanese restaurant, and they turned us away at the door. "NOT FOR YOU, JAPANESE ONLY". I said something to the effect of "Nah it's cool man, we're alright". In response he rolled up the paper and started toward me, and basically said "OUT NOW, NOT FOR YOU".
For the record, the vietnamese community was always welcoming. Because I had jet black hair and was thin etc... I think most of them assumed I was half marine, half vietnamese -- and this was verbalised many times. Cambodians were also, very accepting. And I have to say, other than that one restaurant thing, I had many mexican friends, that I had a great time with at their houses, and was invited for Christmas for family gatherings etc... That restaurant issue was the only time I felt like I was not welcome.
Tales of the melting pot of southern california....
Jesus WHY?
Go to a physiotherapist. Mine has changed my life. Just a few simepl stretches and some accupressure. I guess it depends on the quality of the one you find. I was fixed (almost completely) in two days following his advice.
Good news!
Settle your first city near fresh water and good resources (settling in place works fine most of the time). Use your warrior unit to start scouting the area around your city. Train a Scout unit (scouts can travel up to three tiles depending on terrain, vs up to two tiles with the warrior. Also scouts give a better first impression when finding a new civ or city state than a military unit). Have your scout go the opposite way from your warrior unit in a circular pattern around your city; you may also follow rivers to find other civilizations and city states. Train a second scout or a slinger unit. If you see any barbarian scouts in the area, kill them immediately or they will run back to their camp to send their warriors. Killing any barbarian unit with a slinger will boost Archery, allowing you to train archers units quicker. There's lots of Civ 6 tutorials on Youtube.
Speaking of Civilization, Civ 7 is a mess. I figured it would be buggy and unfinished, so I held off buying it until after release. Some people paid $100-130USD to play five days early, and it's borderline unplayable. Great business model.
EG gave it a mere 2/5. Crazy how easily it is to mess up such a well esteemed franchise.
It is a delightful and whimsical game.
I couldn't survive without an acupressure mat.I've been dutifully working my way through M&L Brothership. I was at the final boss, or so I thought. Well, I knew it wasn't the final boss, but assumed the actual final boss would follow him as a kind of 'stage 2' fight.
Nope.
Before you can battle him, you need to revisit a bunch of islands to gather 'bond energy' from NPC duo's. It's one long, tedious fetch quest with no other reason than to artificially draw out a game which isn't much fun to begin with. Jezus, Acquire, if Nintendo themselves couldn't even pull it off in Windwaker, who are you to think you'd fare any better? It just involves trudging along from island to island, travelling short distances, running away from every fight I get in to because I've already maxed out my player level, watching an obnoxious cutscene in which characters I don't care for blab on for a bit and on to the next one. You need to gather 'bond energy' from 6 different locations, and one involves yet another mandatory simon-says dance act in which missing one beat means you fail and have to try again.
Anyhow, I'm past that now and hope that the end is very near so I can move on to anything else, but most likely Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.
Some games with best ever savings. I'm going to get Doom Eternal deluxe edition. And something else I can't decide on yet.
It's like they've given up at any pretense of civility and just trash themselves, other posters and really anything.
Homophobic, racist, misogynistic.
Still repeating old droll system wars crap.
Doom Eternal deluxe which comes with the Ancient God's DLC is 32gb.
I've had to archive so many more games then I planned to despite having over a terabyte of sd cards.
How do you manage games on your PS5 or Xbox Series consoles?
Do games have to be installed?
Do you have to delete digital games for new ones?
I'm expecting to go back through for another run, but first I've started on Dragon Age: Veilguard. I haven't played the previous games. For a long time Dragon Age and Dragon's Dogma were the same thing in my head. It's an adjustment from BG3. It definitely has a bit of EA feel that I was happy did not exist in BG3 and was probably some of its charm. But it's got style and personality. Combat feels really clunky at times, but occasionally is very satisfying. Still early, so I'll have to see where it goes.
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