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  1. 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...
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    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...
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    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!!!!

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    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.
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    AssHat 2023 Final Round!! Do it!

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

    AssHat 2023 Final Round!! Do it!

    Stop campaigning in the finals, Aryanbro.
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    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?
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    eh, I liked everything but the story. There were plenty of issues, though. Was Skyrim nominated?
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    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...
  16. 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.
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    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.
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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.
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    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...
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    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...
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    Marvel Heroes 20xx

    I am going to take a look at the Discord and maybe install from Steam this weekend.
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    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:
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    You're thinking about the game. Think instead about what it does to the world. Forget about creating bases or relationships or building status with factions for anything for future content, it kills your character in THAT UNIVERSE FOREVER. YOU'RE DEAD. In fact, from your perspective, IT KILLS...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I haven't finished the main quest but I have thoughts, having finally spoiled it for myself after 200+ hours of playing the game: So NG+ mechanic effectively kills the Starfield Universe narratively. It should have been an option, something tucked off to the side in a hidden quest that you...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I have had a thing where I with the new AMD drivers and the new Starfield update patch I not only have to delete the Pipeline.cache but also have to clear the DX cache or I start getting random crashes to desktop, without any kind of driver timeout/ windows event viewer/Game log recording the...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    The only time I have died outside space combat at level 4 when level 14 bounty hunters showed up as part of the Wanted trait (hence my wanting to redo traits, I wasn't ready to do space combat and was getting those missions every 5-10 jumps) was recently on a quest on a level 55 planet "Project...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    That's a good point. I haven't done any console commands except to try to redo the character creation to reset the Traits after playing for 7-8 levels; I didn't want to start over. I didn't get any of the traits I wanted, it just killed the one I had already picked /shrug. One of the main...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    It's Skyrim but different, with different worlds rather than one continuous world and a bunch of different environments and conditions and low gravity and creatures and if a team in Sweden could make it two years, they would have done so already. The game is fun but has tons of issues and is...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Just to be clear, because the headline of the article isn't , the Sarah Voice actress is on the right looking like exactly Andreja and the Andreja Voice actress is on the Left, looking so much like Sarah. Also, the Andreja voice actress is American. Now I wish to reverse my choices. Sarah...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    This was something I thought as well early on: Mass Effect did a much better job of presenting a large space-faring but we are seeing the tension between Skyrim-in-space "Open World" and Mass Effect very clear closed zones. The conceit, however, is just to accept that there is more there; The...