Looked at PoE back around when Diablo 4 came out. Bought Grim Dawn instead. Spent $25 on sale for the game and all the expansions. It won't ask or gatekeep anything behind any additional money until the next expansion comes out, so I'm happy.
You haven't eaten beef until you've had good beef from a ranch like that. I was just talking to a friend yesterday about us splitting a cow 2 or 3 ways and paying his uncle who has a small ranch to raise it for us. At the moment I drive about 25 miles out every so often to a smaller town to a butcher shop that is still a ton better than the plastic packed crap at the store.
I remember going to the farmer's market before it got ruined. You could get tons of good vegetables from what was very obviously like the farm family selling the stuff they'd grown. As I got older, more and more Mexicans were getting in buying cases of foreign stuff from food distributors and undercutting the farmers by something like a nickel, and instead of making them go broke of course they buy the 20 cent tomato instead of the 25 cent one. Last time I went to such a thing in a city, that's about all that was left and all the actual farmers were replaced by women selling their etsy shit.
I almost put in my first comment, instead of the "If your concern is an EMP," that I'm really not concerned with EMPs at all. The chance of something like that happening combined with the mass chaos that would ensue, if you really wanted to prepare you'd be better off with a rifle and a horse than relying on some sort of mechanical devices that require fuel.
They ask tall white kids that too, just no one makes a big deal out of it.
Has he ever engineered anything? I mean I never got my PE and I don't design bridges, but the menial work I do that I call engineering is certainly a lot more complicated and engineer-like than this guy's job. An education in political science would have been more on point for that. I suppose I do have far less prestigious titles, along with far less respect for prestigious titles.
They also sold the internet early on as like this crazy dangerous place. "Keep kids safe on the internet" and the like. I don't remember ever being unsafe. Seems like my age-peers being teens at the time had too much natural skepticism or whatever to fall for everything they scare with now. Some tranny groomer would have been met with, "That sounds gay. Shut up you retarded faggot!"
Follow some people that age now, they are all way too trusting as if everything was so safe in the Apple app store they grew up in they don't know how to adapt. I've seen it with my nephew and cousin both. Their friends all share account info all the time like it's normal. When they start getting on cesspools like Discord and the like it's basically free scam targets. They are way old enough to have learned discretion, but when your entire interaction with this stuff prior was the safe harbor of the Apple App Store, how are you supposed to?
If your concern is an EMP, then you're going to want a carburetor. Fuel gauges have been electronic for ages, I can't think of a mechanical fuel gauge system that displays on the dash.
Ironically since you mention planes, if you're concerned about that level of resilience, you want an old plane. Carburetor, magneto, steam gauges, and you can typically easily dip the tanks for fuel level. They rely on electronics for almost nothing. Also still available in operable condition.
Oh I was looking on a smaller screen earlier, so the heads was awkward.
I don't know beady, big, wide, whatever. They remind me of Cortana on Halo Infinite and I'm not a fan.
That one little clip tells me to not bother with the show.
- Woman with the beady eyes of crazy
- Joke for adult infants
- Fred Armisen
- Is that guy getting blown by a ghoul head? whatever it is it’s not improving the scene.
There are tons of FAA policies on mental health and even more on medication for such that are pretty strict and can go as far as to disqualify (or make extreme bureaucracy for) kids who took ADHD medicine when they were in elementary school and haven't in years. If they follow their own rules, this woman will never see the cockpit of a plane again.
I know better though, it's a three-letter agency, and I'm just going to guess her political views expressed aligned with the party, so she is a good comrade and will be good to go after a slap on the hand.
town council’s head of youth, children and families
It's always something like this with these freaks too. Far beyond the boundary of coincidence to assume they are all pedos.
I think for me the media coverage surrounding him just makes me hate him. They just can't get his cock out of their mouth. I've never been a worship the superstar guy. It sucks for Ohtani, because I get the idea he's probably an okay guy. I'd much rather them just go back to blowing Bryce Harper instead, he's a total asswipe anyway so no loss hating him.
Great news! The amount of sleep I've lost wondering when the Capcom Localization Team would finally get their own Twitter profile is indiscernable.
I was really hoping it would/will come out it was all some sort of cover-up and Ohtani was going to get Pete Rose'd or something. I don't really even have a good reason why, just to laugh at chaos I guess.
I almost got curious enough to get "new" WoW whatever it was at the time about a year ago just to see. I imagine it's a shell of it's former self. I quit right around the Crusader Arena Trial or whatever in Lich King, came back to kill the then nerfed LK, played into Cata a bit and quit for good. That 2006-2009 run though was the only time in my life I ever played just one game.
All their reasons for begging for all those features was just asshats wanting to be asshats freely with no recourse. It was never that hard for me to build rapport with people in top guilds and get to join in on things occasionally even though I was never going to be able to invest enough time to be anything more than a second-tier raider.
I'm pretty sure you can build an entire game in Unreal Engine's blueprint system now. Wouldn't have to ever type anything if you didn't want to.
Weird, I play other games with controller much more often than KB/mouse. Yet I can't stand Fortnite with a controller. Aim is never my issue anyway. Except maybe the snipers, something seems off about them. I've probably fired a total of 20 shots through them so it's likely a case of just haven't figured them out.
Battlebit supports a server browser, but have you seen their terms of service: https://agreements.battlebit.cloud/GameServerTos.pdf
Everything must be whitelisted and you are required to moderate it for speech, cheating, etc. It's even more ridiculous if you want to run an "official" server. If they had a Linux server I might still make a server with the game set up to my liking and throw it up and see how long before they ban it--because I've barely played that game at all and I certainly wouldn't be moderating much of anything.
That game might survive if it allowed wide open anyone run a server at all with nothing more than just pinging an API to list it on the browser. I wouldn't care if there was a "cheating is allowed" server even.
Community servers would save PVP gaming for me. The community part was fun too. You start to recognize people. I remember a MoH:Allied Assault server I played on, there was a guy that would chill in a certain tower and snipe. Once you played there a lot you just knew he was there. He was quiet but would banter a bit if you managed to get up into his tower and kill him. All in fun. Players that whined too much or were just generally annoying were removed and banned. It didn't take anything more than "you aren't any fun to have around." After a while you'd recognize the different players, because everyone came back to the same servers.
I'd run a server or multiple servers today if there was a game that supported it I liked. I don't think it will come back unless the right indie game comes around to do it, with people that are really worried about gameplay stats along with the devs needing more money grabs, it's just not going to happen.
I haven't played CS:2 since it was CS:GO. I think games have always been like that to a point, especially CS type games, but I really don't remember that well. I never really invested the amount of time to games in the early days of online FPS to hold my own in the "good" servers, but I used to enjoy games with server browsers that allowed different rules. There was lots of fun to be had in a night server, shotguns only, no snipers, whatever. Go in there and have fun and the people that needed to tweak everything to perfection weren't able to.
It does seem like a lot of people can't just screw around and have fun though. The height of my COD days, we would sometimes just go in with weird setups and laugh at our success or failure. I was mediocre skill at best, but one of my friends had some success at national tournaments (the in-person kind). He was good. We never cared to always be perfectly maxed out. I had a build just to shoot down helicopters fast so they couldn't get kills with them, or I'd go knife-only, or put that stupid riot shield on and just charge people. It was sometimes fun.
I actually blame the streamer culture for a lot of what I hate. That may very well be an "old man yells at clouds." Everyone that tries plays the same, it's a max build, certain strategy they saw some internet stream. As an example, I've been dragged into Fortnite by my cousin a handful of times. I'm bad at that game and I really don't do the building part at all. It's funny though, the good players all immediately start building these giant convoluted towers in every single fight. I've gotten a handful of kills just quietly going and finding good "natural" cover and angles and waiting for them to actually quit all their building shit and actually fight. You can almost see the deer in headlights look when after all that some guy pops out flanking them from behind a rock and puts them down. Why was I there? I was supposed to be sperging out building things.
I've got a pretty recent example. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It came out last summer and is a PVP horror. I played it the first few weekends we got addicted for a short while. I probably built up 30 hours in the first three weeks. When it's played slower it's actually a fun cat-and-mouse game. It was ruined pretty quick by speedrunning and just general assholery among other things though.
One thing though, it was released as a full cross-play game. Consoles and PC. It's not a game that a particular input, etc. would really benefit. At one point the developers decided to disable PC from the cross-play pool because of online screaming and moaning about all the PC cheaters. I'd seen maybe one in my entire time playing, and it wasn't even that egregious. There were plenty of "that guy must be cheating" type thoughts when I was hiding and found, but most of that explained away as I got better and realized there are more tracking mechanics and that's how I was found.
That move was the first big bullet that killed the game. You could see who was partied up in the pregame lobby. Many if not the majority of parties were cross-platform with PC players too. It was the player base. Steam data showed them losing half of their Steam player base overnight. They put it back, but the game was a corpse by then.
That it is, canon itself, my take is "who cares." Probably makes a dumb simpleton or whatever I'm being implied to be in another Fallout thread that I was going to respond to and decided it's a waste of time defending myself to the internet.
When they throw out everything and "update for modern audiences" though, that's about the largest red flag you can wave that what is upcoming is going to be awful.
I have always wondered why some people care so much. Like when Disney did their whole "the books aren't canon" thing. Really the only thing that bothered me from that was the symbolism of the new owner giving the finger to the past. I read tons of those books when I was younger, and at no point did someone sounding a trumpet and announcing they were canon make any difference to whether or not the book was well written and a good story.
It grabs me for a couple weeks here and there, but that's every game for me. I just don't have the autist in me to go crazy in just one game forever. I know it will keep me interested for a long time as there's so many different builds and I never look up "perfect builds" or whatever I just play around and see what works.
I liked D3 too, but totally skipped it until they'd moved well on from all the things at launch. I won't touch D4 for principle sake and I could download it for nothing on Game Pass at the moment.