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Adam Bryzak
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Staunch
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Since February 25, 2020

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September 29, 2005
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Re: OotB: Anyone else?
Feb 7, 2024, 17:03
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Re: OotB: Anyone else? Feb 7, 2024, 17:03
Feb 7, 2024, 17:03
 
Frans wrote on Feb 7, 2024, 15:16:
Aware of that, but given that cookie chatbear-session-1 for a frequent visitor of the news forum is maxed out around 3800 bytes, that leaves less space for all the others combined. I guess I'll lower that limit to 3600 and then we'll have to see how it goes. It just means fewer remembered threads for everyone.

Is this to mark which messages in the thread are new? If you're okay to rely on JavaScript a little more for this, it could also be put into local storage of the browser which has much larger limits and isn't sent to the server on every request.
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Re: Saturday Tech Bits
Jan 20, 2024, 17:06
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Re: Saturday Tech Bits Jan 20, 2024, 17:06
Jan 20, 2024, 17:06
 
RogueSix wrote on Jan 20, 2024, 13:46:
I wish there would finally be a 100% DirectX compatible alternative to Windows. I would switch in a heartbeat. Gaming is the only thing keeping me on Microsoft's shit OS.

Data point of one here but I switched to Linux early last year and have only had to boot into Windows for one game throughout the whole year. However, I don't really play competitive multiplayer games so I don't need to deal with anti-cheats that don't work which I've heard might be a problem. Valve has done some pretty incredible work with Proton.
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Re: Get Human Resource Machine for Free
Dec 26, 2023, 17:11
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Re: Get Human Resource Machine for Free Dec 26, 2023, 17:11
Dec 26, 2023, 17:11
 
They did a tech demo of their engine a while ago which is pretty interesting.
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Re: OotB: Another spin
Nov 21, 2023, 16:59
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Re: OotB: Another spin Nov 21, 2023, 16:59
Nov 21, 2023, 16:59
 
Happy Birthday!
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Re: Against the Storm Leaves Early Access Next Month
Nov 21, 2023, 00:18
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Re: Against the Storm Leaves Early Access Next Month Nov 21, 2023, 00:18
Nov 21, 2023, 00:18
 
Yakubs wrote on Nov 20, 2023, 23:29:
Staunch wrote on Nov 20, 2023, 19:28:
I've had a lot of fun with this one. It's a really interesting mix of city builder and rogue-lite. The early game starts out a little slow but has a lot of interesting decision making later on.

It's a neat, unique game. However, I found it lost its charm for me as I raised the difficulty. It feels annoying that you can't actually explore the map because it scales the difficulty too quickly. But on easier modes, the game is too slow and there's a lot of waiting.

Yeah that's a fair assessment. I played it as a pretty chill game early on without raising the difficulty much, the music and visuals are nice and it's not particularly challenging at the easier difficulties. Later on I bumped up the difficulty and have been enjoying some of the interesting decision making it has when you're trying to balance priorities and goals. It's nice that it can work both ways.
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Re: Against the Storm Leaves Early Access Next Month
Nov 20, 2023, 19:28
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Re: Against the Storm Leaves Early Access Next Month Nov 20, 2023, 19:28
Nov 20, 2023, 19:28
 
I've had a lot of fun with this one. It's a really interesting mix of city builder and rogue-lite. The early game starts out a little slow but has a lot of interesting decision making later on.
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Re: Braid Anniversary Edition in April
Nov 9, 2023, 22:30
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Re: Braid Anniversary Edition in April Nov 9, 2023, 22:30
Nov 9, 2023, 22:30
 
BicycleRepairMan wrote on Nov 9, 2023, 19:53:
I kinda got stuck in braid and never got back into it. But it was awesome.. and The Witness may be my favourite game of all time. I hope one day to see a third game from this guy , he is a genius.

He occasionally streams development of his next game on Twitch (but doesn't always leave vods up): https://twitch.tv/j_blow
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Re: Braid Anniversary Edition in April
Nov 9, 2023, 22:28
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Re: Braid Anniversary Edition in April Nov 9, 2023, 22:28
Nov 9, 2023, 22:28
 
There's also an updated trailer here: https://youtu.be/E1repvdGU9I
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Re: Sunday Patches
Oct 29, 2023, 16:00
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Re: Sunday Patches Oct 29, 2023, 16:00
Oct 29, 2023, 16:00
 
Jim wrote on Oct 29, 2023, 14:40:
which I guess means you find it and download it from some website, because otherwise how would you get it into your PC?

If you own the cartridge it's not usually that hard to rip your own ROMs. You can get a RetroBlaster which lets you do it over USB. I tend to play all my Switch games on PC these days after ripping the cartridge.
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Re: OotB: Doomed
Oct 10, 2023, 17:14
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Re: OotB: Doomed Oct 10, 2023, 17:14
Oct 10, 2023, 17:14
 
jdreyer wrote on Oct 10, 2023, 17:00:
I heard they are thinking of remaking The Princess Bride. Insanity.

Inconceivable!
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Re: Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition Announced
Sep 29, 2023, 17:09
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Re: Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition Announced Sep 29, 2023, 17:09
Sep 29, 2023, 17:09
 
Solemn-Philosopher wrote on Sep 29, 2023, 13:35:
I enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn when I played it earlier this year, though it did wear thin by the end. Is the sequel fresh enough to warrant a play through or is it just more of the same?

You can definitely hold off and pick this one up later if you just played Zero Dawn recently, unless you're heavily invested in the story and world, which Forbidden West does a good job expanding on.

In terms of gameplay it does have some improvements, but not enough to keep it fresh if Zero Dawn was wearing thin by the end. Also some parts were a regression as you have to do some machine farming to unlock overriding for the more powerful machines when you complete their cauldron which felt a bit tedious.

I finished it recently and at some point in my playthrough just decided to push the main story to complete it. I haven't played the DLC so I might pick this up on PC at some point in the future to play that.
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Re: etc.
Sep 11, 2023, 16:16
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Re: etc. Sep 11, 2023, 16:16
Sep 11, 2023, 16:16
 
Bodolza wrote on Sep 11, 2023, 12:38:
"Incredibly, some of Steam’s early adopter accounts are still actively in use today, a full two decades after their creation."

Nice bit of casual ageism there. I didn't quite make the mark. I created mine in January 2004, so still have a few months until 20 years. I bet I'm not the only one on this board, either.

October 10th here, so a little under a month for mine.
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Re: Islands of Insight Playtest
Sep 11, 2023, 16:15
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Re: Islands of Insight Playtest Sep 11, 2023, 16:15
Sep 11, 2023, 16:15
 
I tried this for a few hours yesterday, and might give it a bit longer today. The art style is pretty nice and moving around the world was pretty fluid.

The puzzles themselves were a bit on the easy and not super interesting side after you've done the same type of puzzle a few times. There is a fair amount of variety in the types of puzzles and a lot of them so it could be a pretty fun game to jump into to wind down to.
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Re: Buffs, Nerfs, and Bugs
Aug 30, 2023, 17:10
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Re: Buffs, Nerfs, and Bugs Aug 30, 2023, 17:10
Aug 30, 2023, 17:10
 
Simon Says wrote on Aug 30, 2023, 08:14:
What are you running it on besides "Linux"? CPU? GPU?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7950X
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Running on NVMe drives.
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Re: Buffs, Nerfs, and Bugs
Aug 30, 2023, 03:26
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Re: Buffs, Nerfs, and Bugs Aug 30, 2023, 03:26
Aug 30, 2023, 03:26
 
Anecdotally, the game ran fine for me in Act 3 on Linux and I didn't seem to run into many of the issues others have been complaining about. I definitely ran into some, and the game did crash I think 3 times during my 150ish hour playthrough but I was saving often so it was mostly a minor inconvenience. I guess I did things in a more expected/tested order on my first playthrough and thoroughly enjoyed the game. Started a second run as well, taking it a little slower to give them time to patch more things as I continue playing.
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Re: OotB: Tied in knots
Jul 31, 2023, 19:19
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Re: OotB: Tied in knots Jul 31, 2023, 19:19
Jul 31, 2023, 19:19
 
I've been wearing boots for about the last decade so haven't had to deal with tying shoes for a long time.
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Re: OotB: Madam I'm Adam
Mar 23, 2023, 18:17
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Re: OotB: Madam I'm Adam Mar 23, 2023, 18:17
Mar 23, 2023, 18:17
 
The European Y/M/D notation for today is 23/3/23, which is also a palindrome.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it isn't a palindrome. Forwards it's 23/3/23, backwards it's 32/3/32 which are different from each other.
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Re: OotB: Home sweet home
Feb 15, 2023, 16:42
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Re: OotB: Home sweet home Feb 15, 2023, 16:42
Feb 15, 2023, 16:42
 
The only problem I've ran into with the server move is I no longer seem to be able to purchase the Blue's News T-Shirt. Other than that it seems to be working smoothly. Grin
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Re: OotB: Never forget
Jan 27, 2023, 20:36
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Re: OotB: Never forget Jan 27, 2023, 20:36
Jan 27, 2023, 20:36
 
jdreyer wrote on Jan 27, 2023, 13:26:
Anyone playing Against the Storm? Wondering if it is too "gamey" for our usual sim-base crowd (BoP, Tact, etc.) Overwhelmingly Positive and 20% off.

I've had a bunch of fun with it. It's an interesting mix of the rogue-lite and city builder genres that I find works pretty well with clear goals and objectives with a good amount of challenge.
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Re: OotB: Testy
Jul 7, 2022, 17:19
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Re: OotB: Testy Jul 7, 2022, 17:19
Jul 7, 2022, 17:19
 
I mostly go top down, finishing at OotB. Though if I'm short on time I'll usually skip down.
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