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    Hades (Supergiant Games)

    We had our baby last Saturday so haven’t been able to play at all. Hoping to get a break during one of his naps today and get back in it. Have been wanting to make progress. Been a while with a game and feeling that pull. Silksong didn’t have it the same way Hollow Knight 1 did, but this...
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    Home Improvement

    I do that to my neighbor all the time just so that he sees it every morning at 7am when his dumb retired ass leaves to go play golf and socialize with his stupid friends. Jokes on you buddy! I’m over here raising three kids, working 60 hours a week, and still find time to cut my own yard!
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    Dragon's Lair

    We used to have our b'days at Diamond Jims or Aladdin's Castle each year and they'd put everything on free play. That was the only way we ever made any progress in Dragon's Lair, it may have even been a sequel at that point, would have been 1992 - 1996 or so. There were a bunch of games (99.9%)...
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    Dragon's Lair

    I remember this one so much from our local putt putt, go-kart, arcade place.
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    Hades (Supergiant Games)

    I definitely liked the VA in the first game more. This isn’t bad but a step down to me.
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    Hades (Supergiant Games)

    For axe I really liked dash attack into special and was having good luck with it, just requires being a little too close. Probably my 2nd fav too.
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    Hades (Supergiant Games)

    I've only had a little bit but so far have done Cerberus a few times. Seems to be a decent step up in DPS / skill check as a ton of shit is going on simultaneously. Unlocked most of the weapons except the umm... damn, now I can't remember the name, after the 3x flying skull weapon, Revaal...
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    What did you just read?

    I can see that with the immersion. No on Cold as Ice. Will add it to my reader and work it in.
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    What did you just read?

    Have you read Tiger! Tiger! aka The Stars My Destination? I remember liking it and being surprised it was 1956. I need to revisit some of those older SciFi books. Was going through all the Masterworks at one time but think I stopped bc I couldn’t buy them all in matching editions.
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    What did you just read?

    I really want to do Hyperion after Farseer trilogy. Top of my list for sure.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I've only put about an hour into it so far, but it is good. More Hades and Hades was great. In light with the 1st game the 2nd area is a complete pain in the ass with projectiles flying all over the place and stuff chasing you down. Seem to remember area 2 being the skill check, maybe it was 3...
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    Keyboards & Mice

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    Home buying thread

    For what it is worth, I've spent the last week shopping around a LOT of Construction-to-perm and mortgage offerings from banks. We haven't taken it far enough to get contracts because we're still ironing out our total build price and amount we need, but the rates we're being quoted are dropping...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    It'll probably still be an immediate pick up for me. Didn't play the early access but read some of the feedback. Hoping they listened to some of them. Hades 1 was great.
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    I mean the guy writes like 19 books a year. I lose very little sleep not being interested in his magnum opus when there’s an endless supply of interesting and engaging short stories / novellas he seemingly cranks out while taking a dump. Or whatever it is Mormons do. Eventually I’ll get back...
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    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    We have one of the older Q-series sound bars (can't find it at the moment in my Amazon history, bought it open box for a good discount) and it is totally passable for our living room TV. There are even times where the surround is suddenly amazing and makes me glance to the side like a cat is...
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    Hollow Knight: Silksong

    Stick, which I need to figure out replacement pads for them on my PowerA Fusion controller. The rubber on bottom of the left stick finally gave out after pressing down so much. These KontrolFreek Omni seem to be highly rated on Amazon. May need to pick a pair of those up.
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    Home buying thread

    My uneducated view on some of this just from talking around to different people locally (that are in similar positions to us) as well as reading what I can since we have a vested interest today is: There seems to be a big speculation game going on between parties holding capital and waiting to...
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    Yeah sorry, guess I was on another site called Thunder IPTV and the one in the other post is not the same. I’ll look into that other one and Burnem’s instructions above. Back when I was looking into this with Roku almost all of the offerings used IPTV Streamers or another app that was available...
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    Going to see if I can get this set up on my Roku and give it a demo. Didn’t get far bc the instructions on the thunder Iptv site are kind of jank, but I also had a 2 year old sleeping on me and writhing around. Got the IPTV Smarters app installed but haven’t figured out the configuration or...
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    Hollow Knight: Silksong

    Wish I had more time for Silksong. It isn’t as engaged Hollow Knight was, but now with a few abilities traversal is better. Stage layout is still not great, or at least the use of arena rooms. Also, whoever designs enemies that fly away from you when you approach and move out of range so you...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Blast Corps! That’s it.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    So was that game where you drove around on the moon or whatever in your dump truck and bulldozed stuff. Can't even remember what it was called but remember hours and hours of fun playing that.
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    What did you just read?

    When I did my 2nd or 3rd re-read of Gardens of the Moon, I had trouble remembering why it is so disliked. It has problems, sure, but compared to some 80s or 90s Fantasy it is light years ahead. But, I also had the knowledge of everything that comes after and the ride I was gearing up for. New...
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    Home buying thread

    I’m supportive. We have our differences but she’s fine as far as MIL’s go, and she really likes me so that helps. We also have no other family here and the idea of her wanting to help watch the 3 boys (even if it only works out 10% of the time), sounds great. She’s also putting the house and...
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    Home buying thread

    Should be closing on our land Monday 9/22. In a wrinkle to the whole effort that I've been holding off posting about, my Mother-in-Law is now purchasing a lot behind our lot and relocating here from Dallas. So, we'll be doing two home builds with lots separated by some green space. She was...
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    Keyboards & Mice

    Compared to the time it takes to get used to an Ergo keyboard, it took about 10 minutes to get used to the vertical mouse and my wrist feels a ton better.
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    Small Press / Fine Press Editions

    Looks like it is official that Suntup will be doing "No Country for Old Men." They released a teaser on their site today, going on sale Sept 18th. Not full reveal yet. I may actually go in for this one. Be nice to have a real high quality version on the shelf...
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    What did you just read?

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    Home buying thread

    Man, there's a ton. I just asked ChatGTP for a whole list a couple months back when we started this. Architectural Designs. (architecturaldesigns.com) Houseplans.com. (Houseplans.com) The House Designers. (thehousedesigners.com) America’s Best House Plans. (House Plans) ePlans. (Eplans.com)...
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    Home buying thread

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    Home buying thread

    Continue to follow my blog as we go through the process! It'll be very entertaining and provide countless opportunities to say "I told you so!" and "That was a dumb decision!" Do you have a lot yet? Not all floorplans or tentative plans will fit all lots. Even though we have a more traditional...
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    Woodworking

    I saw that pop up in my Instagram feed but forgot to go back and watch it. I have one of his fence stops and something else I can’t remember and have liked them.
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    Home buying thread

    The most important lesson my first boss ever taught me when I started working professionally was “trust but verify” 😂 Think he was a big Reagan fan. I asked again and got the same $1397641. Short actual update to our endeavor now that I’m done with yard work and we’re about to head back out...
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    Home buying thread

    Yeah I’m the same way until I start trying to migrate to excel then I try to manually do the formulas to double check myself and the GPT. It gets tricky with the way you ask and how it interprets that and I usually ask it to give me a table of monthly amounts and totals broken out by categories...
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    Home buying thread

    I’ve been doing a ton of scenarios lately for our home build project and done too many of these lately. Glancing at your table something feels off. It may be a misunderstanding on my part. My spreadsheets are getting a little out of hand with all the research and planning I’m doing for this...
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    Hollow Knight: Silksong

    The fact that there is almost zero map enhancement is really kind of laughable. Yeah maybe we’re all spoiled gamers being handheld and spoon fed blah blah. But I mean even the original Metroid had a serviceable map. And your “metroidvania” map is so bad not even Lewis and Clark could make use of it.
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    What did you just read?

    I do think Void is right, pushing ePub to your Kindle shouldn't be an issue. You may have to do it via USB though.
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    Hollow Knight: Silksong

    I can confirm on the first. Just beat the bell beast and ran into getting damaged on my down attack quite a few times. Was frustrating me b/c it didn't seem to have the attack frames or something b/c I'd get clipped by the edge of the enemy or something and get hit before hitting the ground /...
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    Just finished it. What a crap movie. Nothing about it felt right or cohesive. Fat country bumpkin Jonathon and Martha? Some random scrambled message from Jor El and the world goes crazy? Actually it isn’t even worth all the complaining. How disappointing.