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  1. Phelps McManus

    Ghost of Tsushima

    Ghosts of Tsushima had the most powerful ending of any game I ever played, it hit me harder than the end of Red Dead Redemption, which is saying a lot .
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    No Man's Sky

    Jesus, when am I going to be old enough that I stop finding stuff like this funny?
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    Ryan Coogler's The X-Files

    Can we get some spoiler tags in here? Show isn’t even out yet and all the plots are now ruined!
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    Ghost of Tsushima

    You guys called it lol
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    Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles

    Welcome to the Squeenix party! Like their turned-based RPGs? Fuck you!
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    Silo

    The writing for the show is horrendous. The major plot points from the book carry the show, but every - single - minor character interaction was hard to watch - particularly the filler scenes with Mechanical in season 2. Tim Robbins deserves an Oscar for pretending he was attracted to the judge...
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    Elder Scrolls VI

    Brilliant analogy. Bravo!
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    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    That spoilered scene was really well done and I still think about it often. I also liked the Growler Gary plotline for some reason. That probably means I am a psychopath, but it was just my type of humor.
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    The Witcher

    I loved season 1. It was even better on the second watch when the convoluted plot was easier to follow. After eagerly anticipating season 2, I was ready to bail by the time it was done. Cavill announcing he was out and this thread led me to not watch any of season 3. My wife, who is not attuned...
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    Kingshot and other Base Building + Strategy Games

    Ours did, yeah, along with 80% of the alliance leadership. Ironically the top whale, the diva, from the other top alliance remained - which just made it worse. I lost all motivation to continue playing. Those that remained talked about merging with other alliances. I wish them luck. Hopefully...
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    Kingshot and other Base Building + Strategy Games

    Well I am out, too, now. The server transfer event was a total kick in the nuts.
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    Kingshot and other Base Building + Strategy Games

    I am still playing, but certainly our server is dying. There are only two active alliances now. Sure there are others in the “top 10” but they maybe have 10 active players and mostly dead accounts in their roster. They join us for the kvk events. Tuco accurately described our own whales. The...
  13. Phelps McManus

    Murderbot

    Show is faithful to the books including being too short. Skarsgard is not as snarky as Free but he really nails the social awkwardness. The way they weave in the Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon is great!
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    Kingshot and other Base Building + Strategy Games

    That is good to hear. You are a few weeks ahead of me, but I am in a similar situation. I was top 20 power in the #4 alliance, but we just recently merged into the top alliance (displacing a lot of riffraff). Now I am #65. Our State just opened up the Fertile Lands today to give you a sense of...
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    Kingshot and other Base Building + Strategy Games

    Are you still playing this over a month later or did the P2W finally get you? The All Out events that encourage whales to grind on everyone else really kills the community. After each one is a huge reshuffle as alliances die and merge.
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    Satisfactory

    I am excited for priority mergers and hypertube junctions. They also added belt throughout counters similar to Dyson Sphere Program.
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    Stellar Blade (April 26th, PS5)

    Stay on topic, please.
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    Ghost of Tsushima

    This was an amazing game that I would never have considered playing if I hadn’t read this thread. Thanks, forum bros. That ending… I haven’t been hit that hard since RDR1. I enjoyed the DLC. Seemed like a solid backstory and they took some of the main island mechanics to a higher level.
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    Barbie (2023)

    That guy sounds like he knows exactly what gay terminology he should use.
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    Final Fantasy 16

    Lol wow! That escalated quickly.
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    Skyrim

    Could you link to that post?
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    A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)

    Watched this with the family, and we also liked it. Same vein of humor as the original and zero modern wokeness.
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    Best phone games?

    Thanks for this recommendation. I have been playing this quite a bit. Very easy to pick up and put down after just a few rounds as you progress through a random "roguelike" board or through the somewhat tedious stories.
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    Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds - summer 22, preregistration open - iOS & android

    This game should have been called Ni No Queue-ni! Please clap.
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    Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds - summer 22, preregistration open - iOS & android

    That reviewer has some odd aversion to the AI, which I actually enjoy. My toon farms things while I go through the 100 menu options and upgrade stuff. When I am done, I can kick in 4 hours of “AI mode” offline farming each day, which I use to grind collectibles or gold. I have never manually...
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    Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds - summer 22, preregistration open - iOS & android

    I like it so far. Day 6 and Level 40 is when it started getting a little grindy. The main quest mobs are 47 and the game warns me I need 20% more CP (rating) to advance. I am fine running repeatable side quests and collections for stat increases though. They do a good job of notifying you when...
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    Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

    Goodreads I listened to the audiobook. The story and narrator were both fantastic. I highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys science (real science, not the Following kind). I went in expecting a variation of The Martian, but there are large twists early on that make this story unique.
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    Foundation

    Isn’t the chick on Terminus Salvor Hardin? I get confused by all the male characters they recast as females. I swear I thought I heard them mention that name at the very end of the opening scene in episode 1.
  29. Phelps McManus

    Weather

    By the numbers, they had 105 hours of scarcity pricing near the $9,000/MWh offer cap and roughly 50 GW of load. That equates to $50 billion being paid for power over 5 days. You are right that some, likely more than half, was hedged with power swaps and heat rate call options (HRCOs). This...
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    The Last of Us

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    The Outer Worlds

    I was disappointed with this game and glad to finally be done with it. The companion storylines were shallow. Their perks were carbon copies of mundane improvements, and the main character's were not much better. The loot and mod systems were equally uninspired. I give it a generous 6/10 -...
  32. Phelps McManus

    E-Sim: World Sim Browser MMOG - Always Looking For New Players

    What a shame. This game was good times back when South Korea was in its prime.
  33. Phelps McManus

    Westworld

    You mean the guy who she shot dead 30 years ago? It kinda makes sense to me that she now knows he is a host. You think she holds a grudge for him playing his Chief of Behavior loop all those years? Wow.
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    Utnayan Ban Resolution

    Read the retarded Ubisoft thread and this thread. I have followed Utnayan’s antics since before games were too brown. I don’t particularly care for his opinions, but this ban was bullshit. Voted yes to overturn.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    What do they have wrong exactly, other than Closing being more of a done deal than Securing, perhaps?
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    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    I am trying to come up with a scenario where someone could be a) up with their my kids at 7 AM on a Saturday and b) have time to play video games. The only one I could come up with was that you stayed up all night, smoking, drinking, and playing ME:A. Then, as soon as the kids woke up, you quit...
  37. Phelps McManus

    Lasik Eye Surgery

    I wouldn't put it off because of that. Find some homeless guy and graciously bestow the daily wears unto him for positive Karma - enjoy your augmented eyeballs one year sooner. Queue Elton John "Circle of Life".
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    Lasik Eye Surgery

    Man, I thought my -5.25 was bad. Glad to hear it went OK. Almost 10 years later, my wife and I both still talk about how awesome it is to not worry about contacts or glasses.
  39. Phelps McManus

    Lasik Eye Surgery

    I had ICL almost 9 years ago with touch-up Lasik. They gave me a happy pill that dissolves under the tongue (Valium?) just before I went in. I was awake, but really didn't give a shit during the procedure - despite being super anxious going into it. As mentioned above, dry eyes and halos at...
  40. Phelps McManus

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    How tragic.