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  1. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Its a checkbox from 2015; the whole MSQ is a holdover back when Multiverses were cool and this "ring the bell" quest to get powers checked the box and providing no challenge was considered OK. The whole MSQ just felt like the NG+ and the big M. Night reveal were expected to cover up for the...
  2. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I enjoyed my time with it, too. The game, however, didn't come together well. I would buy the story of a ton of stuff being cut; MS pushing them back a 10 months to polish but sclerosis at the top keeps them from pulling things together well enough to close the gaps they had, ala the elevator...
  3. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Immersive sims? What kind of world are you living in where you think Skyrim is a SIM? Other than being loaded with tons of junk items and some basic NPC schedules, this is mind blowing for you to say. You can literally run forever as long as you don't sprint. Starfield is not missing a core...
  4. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Who said its a space exploration game? Was Mass Effect a space exploration game? I won't disagree that the procedural planets aren't great, in that there is always the same kind of things to find but that is a matter of variety and quantity. They need more hand-crafted content in the...
  5. rhinohelix

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Way too much Chani seemingly speaking out against Paul/Bene Gesserit "Way" in the 3rd trailer; I guess they have her trying to save Paul from becoming the Mahdi? Way too much Zendaya in the trailers altogether. Super excited for the movie, though, and the inevitable supercut extended version.
  6. rhinohelix

    Grand Theft Auto VI

    It would have been a lot easier to say "Let's wait and see if the company that have previously let us kill and run over hookers has gone Woke" than the kill-the-Messenger, FOH-WOKE=RACISM-New-boss-same-as-the-old-boss screed you posted above.
  7. rhinohelix

    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    This MF'er was the BOMB; I basically aced 2 stat classes because no one understood that I was writing programs rather than doing my homework. It may have been the highest grades I made in college. I do not for a moment to this day feel guilty about it.
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    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    Ugh, I sold cars for a while and got a car phone to enable me to call customers on the way home to "follow up". I thought it would impress them and probably did sell a car or two in 1994. Any money it made me was wiped out when my first wife treated it like a mobile phone and talked for like...
  9. rhinohelix

    Grand Theft Auto VI

    Yeah, in 2023, with ESG money seemingly flowing like KY on SF street corner, its nothing like BS accusations of Racism. We live in the pop culture ruins of Wokism over the last decade, with numerous previously amazing IPs now smoldering husks of their previous glory due to the Message™ and...
  10. rhinohelix

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    They didn't used to for that very reason; samples have to be representative of the populations you are trying to study. If you mostly poll college students, you are only going to know things about a middle/upper SES with no income of its own ages 18-22 that skews radically Left in 2023.
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    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    Its easier to talk about which ones of these I didn't own than ones I did; I never owned a Palm/organizer of any sort; I never had an MP3 player until I got an iRiver-chewing gum pack style ram player in 2002? I thought the post-Jobs return Apple stuff was culty and didn't buy in until iPhone...
  12. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I can't get over the main story. The game is fun and I enjoyed it but I haven't changed a whit from the way I felt in my previous post. Let's see what they have planned for the Expansion and see if my disdain for the story dies down any over time. Maybe with some modding I can come back next...
  13. rhinohelix

    AssHat 2023 WINNER!!!!

    NGL this is one of my favorite songs of all time since I saw it on MTV in the early 80's. You never see/hear it anywhere though. Edit: It's used in Miami Vice the TV Show in 1984 but I remember the video on MTV, which was vaguely I guess similar, a girl and guy running from something. Edit 2...
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    AssHat 2023 WINNER!!!!

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    AssHat 2023 WINNER!!!!

  16. rhinohelix

    AssHat 2023 Final Round!! Do it!

    Judge LurkingDirk has decided that mail-in ballots from West Philadelphia will now be counted. Fresh Prince Araysar to make massive comeback.
  17. rhinohelix

    AssHat 2023 Final Round!! Do it!

    Next year is your year, Fokker. It's always next year.
  18. rhinohelix

    AssHat 2023 Final Round!! Do it!

    I wish we could give you a special award, The Fokker Black Log™, so you think about fucking yourself every time you saw your avatar. Didn't we do this one year? It would be like a Christmas Miracle.
  19. rhinohelix

    AssHat 2023 Final Round!! Do it!

    Stop campaigning in the finals, Aryanbro.
  20. rhinohelix

    AssHat 2023 Final Round!! Do it!

    Araysar vs. wormie-
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    AssHat 2023 Final Four! Vote Now!

    This is the kind of bullshit I was talking about. LD, YOU BROKE MY HEART.
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    AssHat 2023 Final Four! Vote Now!

    Araysar vs. Foler- Not giving Fokker a vote ever. Kirun vs. wormie- Is it a Schoedingers Asshat?
  23. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    eh, I liked everything but the story. There were plenty of issues, though. Was Skyrim nominated?
  24. rhinohelix

    2023 AssHat Voting round 4!

    It's going to be difficult to thread the needle here, and I am going to have to break some of my own rules to get to an acceptable (I hope) outcome. In the Game of Asshats, you win or someone you don't want to win wins...or something. Needs some work. Araysar vs. Ambiturner- May keep Foler...
  25. rhinohelix

    Reacher

    I think they know what made this show good and IIRC they have a good relationship with Lee Childs as well. I mean, nothing lasts forever and maybe this season or the next sucks but we aren't looking at a Netflix Witcher situation here at least.
  26. rhinohelix

    2023 AssHat Voting round 3

    Alterations can and have been made in the spirit of competition. But both want it and thus neither should get it.
  27. rhinohelix

    2023 AssHat Voting round 3

    Araysar vs. Lightning Lord Rule- Giving Araysar what he wants; maybe he's playing 5-D chess but this is checkers. Ambiturner vs. Lanx-Lanx won't win, +Lanx Pharmakos vs Boozecube-By our powers combined, Pharmacube! I already voted for Pharma once. BC gets some bad boy clout. Tuco vs. Foler- Not...
  28. rhinohelix

    AssHat 2023 Voting round 2!!

    Araysar vs. Dicktrickle- If Big A wants a vote, he gets it. Lightning Lord Rue vs. frenzied wombat- + FW, not voting against LLR. Bandwagon vs. Ambiturner- + BW and Ambi, neither/nor vote. Lanx vs. Blazin- Sacrifice vote for someone who won't make it out of next round, not voting against Blazin...
  29. rhinohelix

    AssHat 2023 Voting Round 1

    Block Element is better than Ze Goggles. It does indeed do something.
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    AssHat 2023 Voting Round 1

    If I had a reason to vote for you, I voted for you; If I had a reason to vote against you (i.e. not an asshat) I didn't vote for you. If I didn't have a reason, I voted for the person in the left hand column. Sometimes I remember disagreeing with you, sometimes I remember you disagreeing with...
  31. rhinohelix

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    I thought I was the only one; Destiny 2 did a bunch of great things but I loved launch Destiny so much. Then the GAAS weighed them down and they Soap Operaed the shit out of the lore. Lightfall is some embarrassing non-Bungie shit from the company that did Halo, Myth, Oni, Marathon, etc.
  32. rhinohelix

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Taking a break from Starfield after hitting max narrative stupidity and came back to this for because some RL friends are still playing. Its improved in a number of areas, seasonal story isn't bad, XP is better, S2 powers aren't bad, horse, et al. They aren't nerfing builds flat everywhere...
  33. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I watched the YouTube for all the Unique Universes. It's like they read my comment about Marvel What If's (stop) and said, "Hell nah! We can do a WAY shittier version of that." And then they did. They had 10 months/7 Years to polish design the game, No one thought to do this for initial...
  34. rhinohelix

    Marvel Heroes 20xx

    I am going to take a look at the Discord and maybe install from Steam this weekend.
  35. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Naomi is ok until Season 3 and then OMG WTF GET OUT AND DIE WHY DON'T YOU. Posting a picture of two of my favorite girl bosses who aren't really girl bosses but are girls who are bosses from the Expanse. Drummer is also amazing:
  36. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Note: I haven't done this quest myself. I have been told by a RL friend who chose CF that now the UC Sysdef are hostile in random encounters and that's it. Nothing else he noticed in the rest of the game; UC Vanguard is an entirely different faction, No one on Jameson cares, although it would...
  37. rhinohelix

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    " I have looked through a thousand turds and this one smells the best! It's the least shitty turd of the bunch! Now let me equip it! <A thousand turds rain down from the sky> Bloody hell!" Agree with everyone saying until they get rid of 50-60% of the affixes, improve loot overall but...
  38. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    This might have been a good final DLC "Temple of the Creators" or something but to have it be the MSQ of the first game of a new IP is the dumbest thing of which I can think. It's far more stupid than becoming the head of every guild or whatever the narrative belief stretchers were in the Elder...