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Well shit.

I just became aware of this little device and I'm pretty intrigued by it. It's a bit too much to spend on a whim atm, though appears to be fantastic value for money. I can only imagine how much better these smart telescopes are going to get. Have you had a chance to play with it some more?

Reminds me a bit of Riftbreaker, which was awesome. If this is half as good it'll be worth a buy

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I finally decide to do a rewatch and it turns out the fan made 4k remaster has been blocked. How shitty :(

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-27/chinese-chess-rocked-by-cheating-rumours-bad-behaviour-scandal/103266594

So much this. I haven't found a compelling reason to be VRing anything yet. couple of minutes of Beat Sabre and thought it was ok, but not really a killer app. Alyx I haven't touched properly yet, had trouble setting up the controls for it. I'm still happy I got it since a major reason was to...

anyone else bothering with this?

RIP Captain Holt 😢

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-day-before-studio-is-closing-down-just-four-day-after-launch-we-did-everything-within-our-power-but-unfortunately-we-miscalculated-our-capabilities/

What a great morning!

Got my first VR recently, the meta quest 2. It's ok, but seems to have far higher learning curve than I'd like. Also, cheap stuff: https://store.steampowered.com/vr/

shawshank redemption. the original Stand. obviously plenty of room for improvement, but the new one showed just had bad it can be.

Spartacus is one of the great shows ever made. Season 1 was so good in particular.

For me, nothing has come close to City Life: Probably too dated now, and not as good a simulation, but a much better game. Has structure and actual sub classes of people that you need to balance. ie blue collars vs yuppies I think, 6 in total. Really wish it had been developed more in terms...

After playing around for a bit, I'm not sure I like their development tree system. Seems like just a finicking and annoying way to upgrade things. seems like you're just going to end up with everything eventually as you play long enough. I would have much preferred it if it was a true tree...

Playing around for a bit and seem mostly fine with settings turned down, then hits 4k ish size, and it ground to a halt. Given how shit this is, it really begs the question of what reason there is to play this over the first one?

https://videogames.si.com/guides/cities-skylines-2-settings-to-increase-performance according to this guy, there's a bug with the Level of Detail setting having too big an impact. So setting it to very low should have a big improvement to performance.

it's coming to gamepass isn't it? Just do a trial of that to see how well it runs

played a few games so far but none to completion. Probably wouldn't recommend at this stage. I think you need to be a fan of stellaris and star trek to really enjoy it. Even though it's an old branch, it's still fundamentally stellaris. If you've never played Stellaris, you'd be better of trying...

Nice! I remember dipping my toe into it in its early days, so glad to hear it's been fleshed out. Will probably give it another try once I grow bored of ST: Infinite. As I said, simplicity is a bit of a higher priority for me atm, but glad there's a rich and complex option out there also

Bought this but haven't had a chance to deep dive into it. This seems to be a reasonable review / overview of the game: The gist I'm getting is that is probably better to pick it up on sale, unless you've a big trekkie fan. I must admit that the dumbing down of mechanics compared to...

I started the first one, and didn't quite grab me in the first couple of chapters, so I moved on. I'll give it another try when I have time but it's not much preferred genre. I think I can see how it's a good example of a murder mystery type story, but it's not quite resonating with me yet.

absolutely! I'm a big proponent of a write specifying what they want / expect from alpha / beta readers. I used to drive my professors nuts since they were all like 'the writing has to stand on it's own'. Bullshit, I say. sure, the final writing yes, but not when you're learning or developing a...

binged the first time and watched this one. Enjoyed it. As said, better than the second, probably on par with the first. I don't get the too long comments, since it's the shortest of the 3 movies, and gets to the action far quicker than them. It's pretty much part of the tone / style of the...

Started up a new game and all but Solo and Engineer are already maxed. Kinda glad I don't need to jump through hopes leveling everything up, but the ones I do have to aren't the sort of gameplay I was wanted. Playing on Hard so far and there's very little challenge. Just starting the heist...

I was already planning to see this since I'm a big fan of the first ones, but also I was in Positano on the Amalfi coast a week or so ago, where it turns out Denzel was holidaying on a 3 story high yatch. Friends got to meet with and stuff and said he was pretty cool in person. Given it's also...

Our flight landed in Paris and we decided to stay here two nights for jet lag adjustment rather than sprinting to Birmingham or London. Turns out I coped food poisoning somewhere along the way so been throwing up and pissing out my arses for the last 12 hours. Settled long enough to watch...

Ended up giving up on trying to go to the game. Too expensive for the tickets and too much logistical changes. So spending extra time in Paris. Will watch the game at an Irish here. Hopefully it has a good enough atmosphere

I pretty much empty every vendor of ammo but it never seems to be of the type I use more of. Not really an issue since I have enough weapons I rotate through so I never actually run out, just seems strange to have a whole outpost / manufacturing system in the game that can't make more of the...

It's mind boggling that you can't manufacture ammo, probably the main thing you would want to have a steady and reliable supply of in this game. And weapons / suits too for that matter, rather than just mods. It shits me that I want to try out a certain play style, whether it's melee or sniper...

Not sure if it's true but I find it funny that I actually beleive it could be.

Theme alone in a grand strategy game makes it a buy for me. Looks like it's more or less just a reskin of Stellaris, which is a tad disappointing but it doesn't appear to be overly expensive either, while being more developed than a mod would be. One thing I like is starting in an existing...

I remember crafting providing significantly better gear that it was hard not to incorporate it into my build.

I can't work out my play time on gamepass, but I'm getting close to the end I think, rushing the msq now, so I can't say I haven't gotten my money's worth. I do think I was more engages and hooked by BG3. I probably could have waited for the full release of this but I'm going to have less free...

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/3824173464656720921/ fix for the pausing when alt tabbed out of focus. Should significantly improve my experience of the game!

https://techraptor.net/gaming/guides/starfield-skill-magazine-guide-locations-perks this one seems like a decent start

I was looking forward to being a range/ shooter type RPG instead of the predominately melee based one, like in skyrim, etc. So naturally I find a legendary melee weapon early on...

I'd forgotten how shit Bethesda can be at QOL stuff. So many things are just so much more annoying and obtuse to be than they should be. Does anyone know if there's any way to disable pause on loss of window focus? That ones really starting to shit me