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Re: Out of the Blue |
Oct 17, 2018, 15:17 |
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Cutter wrote on Oct 17, 2018, 13:59:
Hah! Screw all you guys! I just bought a La-z-boy - today! Really should have done that 20 years ago. Get it in 6 weeks. So just in time to hunker in by the fireplace and watch football and Xmas movies!
Gibson Recliner - Canyon color.
Didn't go for power but I did upgrade to memory foam and a swivel base on it - so I can spin around like Dr. Evil. Got 5% off on a sctach and save and the guy actually bumped it up to 10 points. So everything said it done I got it for $1169. I'm gonna' sit and power nap the shit out this thing!
My parents bought us matching la-z-boy recliners as a wedding gift. They’re fantastic! |
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| News Comments > NVIDIA 20XX Reviews |
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Re: NVIDIA 20XX Reviews |
Oct 16, 2018, 16:00 |
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| As much as people are saying these things aren’t a big step up, The 2080TI benches at double the 1080 on almost everything. That’s a huge performance leap. I’m not gonna get one, but it makes me excited about the leap from my 1080 to a 3080ti or whatever they launch in a couple years. By then, maybe raytracing will be in enough games to make it worth the upgrade. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Oct 9, 2018, 11:58 |
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Lol @ that Fortnite bundle. Doesn’t include Save The World. I guess it’s going F2P sometime soon, so maybe that’s why.
They’ll have to redo how v-bucks are earned, then, since STW hands them out at a pretty high rate, and since all the kiddos are v-buck crazy for BR, STW has kids who are JUST in it for the v-bucks. They’re god fucking awful at the actual game.
It may be why STW has marginalized v-bucks. You can totally have a great variety of weapons and characters, without using any v-bucks. It now has two OTHER forms of currency, earned just by playing the game. Also, at a surprisingly generous rate. If they remove v-bucks from STW, it’ll MURDER player count. But if STW becomes f2p, their income is going to take a nosedive. Maybe they’ll still have a way to pay to get into a “premium” tier that works as the game currently does?
Edit: So yeah, I play a lot of STW. It’s pretty fun, although it takes a while to ramp up into a challenge. You can always bump up a mission’s difficulty for a tougher fight and higher rewards. It feels like an RPG-lite shooter, where you only need 20-30 minutes to play thru a mission.
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| News Comments > Evening Legal Briefs |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Oct 4, 2018, 09:54 |
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Simon Says wrote on Oct 4, 2018, 09:12:
Drath71 wrote on Oct 4, 2018, 07:12:
Government simply sucks at this sort of thing.
Municipal broadband projects for FTTH are still standing strong, offering the best services at the lowest prices wherever they're implemented, and they're not running in the red even in rural areas with houses very far apart.
Some beliefs are just stupid, this is one of them.
To be fair, that’s because this is something new. Wait a while, and some politician will come along with a project he wants to fund, and he uses the muni BB to fund it. So the prices go up and never come back down, because once ONE project is funded, there will always be another.
But yes, Muni BB, when not run by greedy shitbags, is good stuff. Fiber is a fairly simple technology, it either works or it doesn’t, and the only reason it doesn’t is because it’s broken. And finding that break is also pretty easy. It’s SO much less of a hassle than copper.
I doubt Cali will win, the government will use the “if it doesn’t get killed here, it’ll turn the nation into a patchwork of varying laws” (as if it isn’t already) excuse. And since there’s STILL a ton of people who think Trump is sane...it’ll roll in Pai’s favor. |
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| News Comments > Xenon Racer Announced |
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Re: Xenon Racer Announced |
Oct 3, 2018, 14:59 |
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jdreyer wrote on Oct 3, 2018, 12:28:
It does look cool.
BTW, what's a good hovercraft racing game?
Redout is actually pretty good. Drops to super cheap pretty often. It’s pretty much “we made a clone of WipEout for PC, and it does VR”. Multiplayer is, unsurprisingly, dead. |
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| News Comments > Forza Horizon 4 Races Out |
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Re: Forza Horizon 4 Races Out |
Oct 2, 2018, 14:09 |
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I got the Expensive Edition, so I’ve been playing this all weekend. Visually, it’s about on par with FH3, although it’s clearly more optimized, as it’ll run at 72 FPS locked, at all times, where FH3 would still struggle to do so.
Small changes to the way the world works are QUITE welcome. Like cars phasing out when you’re in a drift or speed zone...holy shit I can’t tell you how many really good drift chains were ruined by coming around a corner and hitting a Honda Civic. The Adventure mode, which was front and center in FH2 and 3, now isn’t nearly the focus. It’s still great, and they’ve added several Playground Game modes like CTF and a weird tag game called Infection.
The game runs great, although during the hourly Live events, if I flip my car, the game crashes. Reliably. I can flip my car during any other event or just tooling around and it’s fine.
Adventure mode is a riot, although you’re kinda trapped in it. If you finish a series and want to quit, it’s currently faster to alt-f4 and reload the game. |
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| News Comments > GOG.Com 10th Anniversary Giveaway Selection |
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Re: GOG.Com 10th Anniversary Giveaway Selection |
Oct 2, 2018, 09:15 |
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jdreyer is correct, superhot VR is a different game with the same aesthetic.
I found it neat, it I was underwhelmed by the bugginess. In one level, if you don’t shoot all the guys quickly enough, they run down to a spot where they can’t shoot you, and you can’t shoot them. The VR version also has NO MENU, so if this happens (it did to me, twice), you have to alt-f4 and start it up again.
That said, I can’t imagine how...muted the game would feel on a monitor after the VR version. |
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| News Comments > GOG.Com 10th Anniversary Giveaway Selection |
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Re: GOG.Com 10th Anniversary Giveaway Selection |
Oct 1, 2018, 22:03 |
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Acleacius wrote on Oct 1, 2018, 22:02:
Bill Borre wrote on Oct 1, 2018, 19:47:
I voted for Shadow Warrior 2 cuz I wanta some Wang!  It's Coop you get two Wangs at once! 
I’m pretty sure the max number of wangs is actually four! |
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| News Comments > EverQuest Expansion Announced |
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Re: EverQuest Expansion Announced |
Sep 29, 2018, 14:18 |
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NKD wrote on Sep 29, 2018, 14:02:
My favorite snails will always be those ones in WoW's Throne of Thunder raid that focused a player, moved slow as fuck, and one-shotted anyone they hit. Despite the fact you could pretty much just WALK away from them and be fine, I saw people get eaten so many times.
They STILL get people, especially when they think they can steamroll a dungeon because they’re over-level. Fucking hilarious, never been on a ToT run where someone *didn’t* get eaten. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Sep 28, 2018, 13:41 |
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A tiny “card” like this can’t be more than a few connections with the real grunt being done by the CPU. How does it differ from USB headsets?
I’m using my motherboard’s onboard audio. It’s ok. I do wonder if I’d really notice a difference if I got an add-in card. My onboard is supposedly a higher end Realtek chip, damned if i can tell tho. I do have quite nice speakers, maybe I’m being stupid by not pairing them with a discrete card.
Anyone still use a discrete? Noticeable difference? I just game and listen to music. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Sep 28, 2018, 13:21 |
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| That wasn’t a “freak accident” at jack in the box. It was someone being stupid. I’m betting his family wasn’t excited about a headline reading “idiot driver gets killed by his poor choices”. |
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| News Comments > New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers |
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Re: New NVIDIA GeForce Drivers |
Sep 27, 2018, 21:57 |
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RaZ0r! wrote on Sep 27, 2018, 20:36:
I'm not installing any 4xx.xx drivers for my 1080 Ti any time soon. All their focus is on the new gen of cards now so there will be regressions impacting older cards I'm sure.
Ehhh I’m pretty sure there’d be a lot of howling if that were the case. They probably just won’t be doing many performance improvements for older cards. I grabbed them because FH4 becomes available tomorrow, and in the demo there was some minor, but distracting, visual artifacts around some of the character models (nothing during actual driving). I’m hoping these drivers fix the issue. |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Sep 27, 2018, 06:49 |
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Bumpy wrote on Sep 26, 2018, 00:52:
Whatever happened to driving games having an optional sim mode?
The handling is just too arcade for my PC gamer taste.
I'll stick with BeamNG and hope they eventually flesh out a Test Drive Unlimited type game.
Turn off assists and Forza Horizon gets a lot less forgiving, but it won’t be a sim. The cars are still a bit floaty, because big jumps are fun, and the Horizon series isn’t a serious racing game. It says “Forza”, but its real pedigree is Project Gotham + Burnout Paradise + GRID. THOSE are the games the devs made before.
Good luck with BeamNG. Its devs seem to do about a week’s worth of work each year, making it feel more abandoned than Wreckfest did. Who knows, maybe they’ll suddenly release a ton of content like Bugbear did, and it’ll become a game, not a tech demo. I imagine we’ll be talking about Forza Horizon 7 by then. |
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