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He's just about efficiency, IIRC. I may be conflating it with a Spielberg quote here, but if has what he needs, he doesn't feel the need to get the last 10%; I know he doesn't put a lot of stock in Kubrickian takes. Easy mistake to make; Burt was hoping audiences made that same mistake in 1981.

There is a faction that wants to keep doing what they are doing, and a faction that wants to get out of the games business (as much as they can, they just bought a 70B publisher; they haven't even written off the bribes yet) altogether because its too capital intensive and not providing ROI...

I mean, you can see the way they filmed; lots of movies looked much like TV because of the need to be sure they got it right; the lighting, mics, etc in tthe 40s and 50s were limiting. You can watch the tech advance and gloves come off in the late 50s and 60s, the craft [Edit: the comment about...

All of the Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry Movies are great, although they swung back towards Lefty politics a bit with the sequels: Magnum Force was about a Cop Vigilante Murder Squad; The Enforcer tried to split the difference with the villains being hippy communists but Harry training a new woman...

This had such great potential, I don't know if its tech or time or ideological but looking at this map I can imagine a game where the narrative, skills, factions, world and economy comes together to make this a BRILLANT experience. Sadly we don't live in that timeline.

We have built-in handles, not built in slots.

I am still fairly new to POE/POE2, didn't enjoy .1 but came back for .3 and enjoyed LA/LR Deadeye as a starter, went all the way to through campaign and started maps with it. Saw some videos and went through again with a Empowered Leap Slam/AfterShock Titan and OMG has been the best experience...

Never played but I always heard about this from my British buddy (I mean, he talked about it on the regular; it was a formative part of his life growing up seemingly). Pic unrelated.

MS desperate to kill/get out of the (other than PC) game business, the billions they make from the space not enough for the investment. Watching internal corp fights play out on the screens of millions.

It's amazing that from 5 years ago at the pinnacle of console hardware, with three diverse approaches to the market (MS PC/Gamepass; Sony 1st/3rd party Exclusives, Nintendo Walled Garden/Distinct IP) Only Nintendo remains standing. MS has completely cratered as a business operation; they are...

Need Mass Effect in 2008 but otherwise I don't a single issue with this list. Every one of these (I didn't play a few, like GOWs, Metro 2033, or a few of the others) were amazing gaming experiences. Edit: I didn't get the context of the post, I thought we were talking about how Deus Ex BELONGED...

Well, until the Blockbuster Era started with Jaws, almost every sequel was a cash-grab remake of the original. Sequels weren't bigger and better, they were diminishing returns on the originals. You didn't get many Godfather 1&2s or Star Wars OT, you mostly got Friday the 13th 1-9, Herby Goes...

Their cuisine never got over WWII. It's a joke but its also serious. Those Youtube Brit's (Fake Edit: JOLLY who have 5m subs now, sweet mother) who came to America trying American Food™, mostly in the South, then brought that back to the UK for other Brits to try never get old. Also, they have...

Gay ass threads? Or Gay-ass threads? You decide, dear readers! Bethesda Blue Hairs thinking about the Message™ and looking at your hard drive right now.

That would be great! This time make it with a modern engine, also so that its not Woke and lame, and the MSQ/World Lore isn't completely, utterly broken. Hopefully Zombies and multiverses are tropes left to the 2000-20's.

I can't wait to hear your review at the next Ut Discord Drunken gaming night after you help the 5th gay couple.

Mathilda May is French; I celebrate her whole body of work or at least her body. She still looks good at 60, or at least French good. Mancini Soundtrack is amazing. You can see what they are going for, alien invasion/gothic vampire/zombie/horror/suspense-thriller/love story and it just is too...

There is nothing wrong with enjoying bad things as long we acknowledge they aren't good; I have this conversation with people about music and movies all the time. I like any number of bad things. When I was 15 I loved the movie "Lifeforce": A lot of that had to do with Mathilda May walking...

Congrats on coming out, btw. Starfield released on Sept 6, though. I was super-hyped for it, bought all the swag and even got a 7900XTX to upgrade my 3080 so I could play it at a great framerate. You can read that thread and slowly watch my enthusiasm die until you get to a certain point in...

I just canceled my GamePass Ultimate over this:

Ut and I are in Group 1 on the FOH Discord server now in the Lost Ark channel now. Saturday night UT DRUNK Gaming! Its going down! Edit: Now with Music For Fish!

Ut's Carry Service available on Discord starting about 11 min ago, 21:00 GMT. Come join in!!!

Isn't there a setting where you have to lock/force the game process onto the cores with the vcache? Edit: Here is a reddit thread talking about Project Lasso, core affinity, PBO, etc.:

One might think I bought Borderlands 4 to play the game; I actually purchased the Super Deluxe Edition to improve Ut's self-image. Game once you get through the tutorial is great; I wish there was a way to progress the entire party's world state, rather than just the hosts. Ut and I had a...

I was having weird network sync issues, getting kicked back to Character select, etc; in my case I was also having random BSODs, though, (driven by and blamed in the .dmp file analysis to a cldflt.sys file, which is related to OneDrive) just cropped up in my new-ish 9070XT/9800X3d; turns out I...

My apologies, I guess I am idiosyncratic in my writing (and many other things) in middle/old age. I didn't feel right to have people potentially quoting/responding to something that wasn't there but then was immediately added effectively extending the writing process beyond the initial posting...

Nah, you're the one that's butt over a word that used to denote when something was added close to the time of original posting yet not part of the original post, and frankly I don't give a fuck what you think. Feel free to continue policing the forum as you will. It makes no difference to me.

Thanks, Dick; it's not a "fake affectation", I do it when I make a substantial alteration after initially posting to note that its not an "edit" per se, for grammar/spelling/wording of the same content but an addition of new content. I could just say "Edit" but that doesn't capture the spirit...

Drybear has been doing a youtube show on this every week since POE2 launched and I know this isn't to what you were referring but he mentioned that Stormweaver approached these levels at original launch. I went Gemmling Legionaire at launch, didn't play in .2, so of course based on hype I went...

I was excited to see this game until this paragraph. Please tell me this is just paeon to Progressive infestation and this won't be a substantial part of the actual game.

I should have invested that initial $250 in crypto. Even if I lost everything, I would still have the same amount of nothing.

I don't use AI/Chat GPT much for writing; I don't have much use for it but I gave it the prompt to "write a Babylon Bee Style announcement for the 7th anniversary of development where 50% of developers had switched genders" and that was it produced. Holy crap, it fairly well slaps. All hail...

Courtesy of our Chat GPT overlords:

It's wasn't a bad idea, per se, but like so many people in the streaming space found out, its hard to duplicate that First Mover advantage without a significant value add/upgrade. Microsoft has divided loyalties that keep crippling its efforts: Between PC and Console with PC and Xbox, and even...

"Are you man or women? M'aiq believes gender is on a spectrum." "Do you have a husband or wife? M'aiq can't choose. This one will never judge and always respect your choices." "M'aiq thinks the Orange one should die." Bar could not be set any lower and Bethesda will still underperform.

As Az indicated in his well-memorialized rant, It was FULL of woke shit, in a sci-fi setting in places where it didn't matter (gay partners are fine but how many do you need to see before it becomes overwhelming?) and in places where it didn't make any sense (I'm trans because I am female clone...

There are not insignificant odds now by the time its ready, MS cancels this. The MS axe is falling on so many things, the next Xbox may be the last, and MS is moving away from gaming due to the failure of GamePass to grow as expected. Woke has ruined Western Game Devs. (and Hollywood, and most...

From what I have read, it seems like folks aren't judging it on it merit but rather on it's intricacy or rather its complexity rather than its quality or applicability. Luther creates a pocket universe, which effectively makes travel to anywhere instantaneous through two gateways and also...