My wife goes a bit overboard for her brews for the exact same reason. I started drinking coffee way too young so I liked it any which way even before I worked a night shift at Denny's. A very loosely-run place that was, many interesting nights and characters.

And we of course put beans in our chili. Even when it isn't vegetarian chili, I am struggling to imagine what it'd be without them. Are people eating boring manwich (was that it?) sauced meat and calling it chili?

*contented sigh*

Thanks BoP, thanks DS!

I love this place.

Damn, it's been months since I've played. really need to finish my drive swap so I can plug in my eGPU again!

Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 5, 2024, 10:32:

Snapp wrote on Dec 5, 2024, 10:24:
...4070 Super installed on an M.2 drive.

There's a 4070 Super that slots in to a 2280 slot instead of a regular PCIe slot? Who knew?!

It only supports M.2 SATA though

Yeah seriously! My wife played this last year and I don't recall it looking old. The snakes must have gotten a taste of their own tails and are eating faster now.

Maybe one of the extra options I enabled recently then? I wouldn't expect Cookie Notices or Social Widgets to cause it though, so maybe Firefox? This is a mostly fresh install so it's gotta be a setting or bug on my end.

This is a new machine and probably won't notice any performance and power loss from ads so it's time to whitelist Blue's again. Thanks for checking!

Is that "Native Instruments" link legit? The tab closes instantly for me, although I'm not sure how/why (uBlock Origin maybe) and the URL looks odd although not immediately sketchy...

I'm not interested in the offer, so I don't need a fix, just curious.

Amen to that. I started skimming pages for the 1-2 coherent statements before realizing what I'd been doing to myself.

Pretty sure everyone can pass on this one. I reluctantly broke my rules regarding hype and day-1 purchasing due to the Warren Specter of it all. Bought it for the wife and I to play together on Wii and we never finished it. Very basic platforming and area painting...yay.

Wow, you all fully expressed opinions that I agree with on the article, the meta of why write/post this here, and the game itself. Even the ones I didn't fully agree with still provided concession or reasoning that allows of the decent discussion.

I think I'm saying thanks, as a lurker, for making this a great homepage.

Regarding the game, I've kept playing regularly and most of the issues are solved or adjusted in good ways. The spawn rates are back or largely adjusted/improved in that you won't get barraged by patrols and alarms right at mission start and you can once again smartly manage most alarms. And level 6 now offers super samples to at least aid solo players getting upgrades. I'm pretty sure I could solo lots of level 6 missions since the patch. The new armor makes some unweildy weapons much more friendly and opens more builds.

And my heart agrees with Prez but this is barely a live service. Other than the requirement to connect to their servers to be able to play at all, I basically forgive the implementation. I'm biased becaused it's grandfathered for me. The first game and now this are basically phone time with my Dad. Anyway, there is monetation but it's low-key and doesn't leave people behind like other seasons and packs, I'm fairly sure a sequel won't drop in 2-3 years to try for my wallet again, etc. The service does provice a nice roleplay backdrop but it could of course be built in a way that allows offline play.

I only played the first one, but that's a great idea! I played entirely duo coop and the difference in stress vs fun caused by the difference in our twitch skills was large. Large groups and known battles were doable but my playing partner did not enjoy the sudden swarming.

It did make for a more realistic roleplay though, as we sure as shit got to safety each and every night so we could wait for morning.

I don't even know what CH is, I was just thinking out a hypothetical inpisred by what you said.

That...is a really good business idea for the unscrupulous. Design your own trainers in step with your games and then after launch, create accounts (this is a "live service" game of course) for your bots thereby boosting player counts, have them train up, then sell the accounts while the game is popular.

I guess since it's all a lie you could just create the trained/fake accounts directly but then the paper trail is a little too direct.

Ha, I hadn't RTFA yet. Karl Urban sounds like a great fit!

Ditto, kind of glad they're doing another one. As long as it doesn't have James Remar.

Oh no! I'm still on Sandy or maybe Ivy...I have the same chip that Blue just upgraded from, either a 3750k or a 3550k.

Yeah, agree all around.

The recent reviews don't sound good. Like they reduced the rogue elements and then slapped 1.0 on last year's version.

Yeah, seems like Arkham-style combat? Flowing improv battle timing like that is a perfect match for swashbuckling, what a great idea!

I'm sure the deal will eventually go through, but I thought this appeal/rejection was simply about the requested injunction the FTC made. Basically they said "they're still moving forward with the acquisition while we are doing our thing which causes problems if we (the FTC) reject the acquisition, so please make them stop" and the court has now said no (again).