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  1. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I watched this movie at least 200 times on Showtime/The Movie Channel/HBO/Cinemax in 1983/84. THINK IN RUSSIAN. I didn't know until today that it was loosely based on the 1976 defection of Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko and the "mysterious, advanced MiG-25 Foxbat" which while not better than...
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    Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic

    Is it Mass Effect One Casey Hudson or is it Mass Effect 3 Color Endings/Anthem Casey Hudson? Female Jedi in Trailer makes me press X for doubt right out of the gate. Otherwise, we will see in 2030.
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    They update at least once a month, optimize for various games, etc. For most games without an issue, you probably wouldn't notice at all. I was super looking forward to it prior to launch; it was only after it launched did we realize Todd and Bethesda shit the bed on numerous levels. And to...
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    The 7900XTX Raster/compute is beast and equals or surpasses the 9070XT but that's kinda how its supposed to be; the 9070XT is a tier below it on the product stack. AMD was focused on delivering a great product and so didn't do a XTX card for RDNA4, after 7900XTX underpeformed against...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    This is super true. Its also the Funny, Strange, Random *Picture* thread, so you need a pic to go along with your very true fact, which is why your post is getting rated the way it is. Them's the rules: Break a deal, spin the wheel.
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    It's a known issue with the Latest driver 25.12.1: Known Issues Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while loading a saved game in Cyberpunk 2077 with Path Tracing enabled. AMD is actively working on a resolution with the developer to be released as soon as...
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    Between this and FemShep its almost like there's a GirlBoss movement afoot. <sad trombone>
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Wow, this is a real thing.
  9. rhinohelix

    The Outer Worlds

    I am in the middle of my 2nd playthrough and still enjoying it. On my previous playthrough, though, hitting Max Level sucks and removes a lot of the incentive from the game. There's no need to stop the player from leveling, IMO, other than continuing the ramifications of player choice and...
  10. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    "Frontage"/Access roads aren't for getting anywhere other than places that line the Freeways as well as on and off of them. In the picture below, you shouldn't be driving on the frontage road except to access those businesses. People are pretty bad at merging in rush hour traffic or lane...
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    Desktop Computers

    I sincerely appreciate the sentiment but I really like the Scimitar. When I realized that the Razr Naga was discontinued, I tried a bunch of mice, including a bunch of two button ones, and miss that thumb button functionality, I have a ton of spares: ultra light two button mice, etc. I like...
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    Desktop Computers

    I've used Razr Naga's for a 12+ years but just this year they stopped making them. Why? Because they got tired of money? Like most companies, it was probably not enough profit margin. I switched to a Corsair Scimitar RGB Elite, which doesn't fit my hand as well and had to be programmed to...
  13. rhinohelix

    2025 Asshat Contest Ride, Roast, and Last Minute Campaigning Thread

    This is why I didn't realize the full scope of the finalists. I will need Ut to explain it to me on the next Drunken gaming Weekend.
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    2025 AssHat FINAL ROUND VOTING!!!!11!!1!

    nirgon vs. Araysar- What a weird year; Araysar's long term plan of antagonizing large blocs of the forum finally comes to fruition. Sanrith providing Maximus entertainment for this year's competition.
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    2025 AssHat Voting FINAL FOUR!!!

    Araysar vs. wellijustdontknow- The one who wants vs. the "reluctant" Winner, who goes hard in the paint and insults Americans. Sorry, WIJDK; end of the pun line. If you really wanted it, you would campaign in this thread itself like Big A. He's back to wear the Hat. nirgon vs. Tasty the Treat...
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    Last Epoch

    It would be interesting to see either way. It's a shame because the game was fun and one of the best before the wheel stopped, seemingly nothing progressed, and they are getting pilloried for charging for things they said they wouldn't.
  17. rhinohelix

    2025 AssHat Voting Round 4!!

    I won't vote for any of the three of you. Booze, Band, and Hoss may be someone's Asshats but you guys will always be OG's to me.
  18. rhinohelix

    2025 AssHat Voting Round 4!!

    He already fell out of the Asshat Long March in Round 2 but being "fucking retarded" is pretty much a requirement for FOH.
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 4!!

    In fairness to LD, this year isn't exactly a bumper crop for Asshats. I don't think anyone really cares, you would still get the blame like you were an astrophysicist and this was star math. Appreciate you do the best you can in a tough role, though. I don't think anyone ever says thanks and...
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 4!!

    Araysar vs. Lanx- Our Asshat-to-be in Avalon wellijustdontknow vs. Bandwagon- It's the Pun™ part trois Cayennechap vs. nirgon- Laissez les bontemps roule or however he got his name, I would just assume cajun but maybe not. Tasty the Treat vs. Ambiturer- Final and potential winner if folks people...
  21. rhinohelix

    Ashes of Creation

    The whole point of my posts is that the entire economy (crafting/gathering/loot/currency) needed to be completely revamped from the ground up to work, otherwise you end up with what you had in New World: A dead, end-stage, bottomed out economy where only a very few things (BIS drops, some crafts...
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    Ashes of Creation

    This is a First Mover issue caused by a lack of obsolesce; Imagine if every car ever made was still running and there was no way to make improvements past a certain point. The first company to make the best would dominate and there would be almost no incentive to for others level up past a...
  23. rhinohelix

    2025 AssHat Voting Round 3!!

    Cayennechap vs. Luc1fer- If someone is going to demand to be included, well, I just don't know how I'd feel about not giving them for what they'd asked. Is that a bowling ball you got there, son?
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    Ashes of Creation

    Why there haven't been more people who want PVP-centric games copying Eve systems I will never understand. New World's primary failure is implementing their emphasis on crafting and gathering and not copying major facets of their economy. It's not a 1:1 translation re: control but from a PvP...
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 3!!

    Araysar vs. Lightning Lord Rule- There can be only one! Sanrith Descartes vs. Lanx- Joshua, what are you doing? Gavinmad vs. wellijustdontknow- The "I do" pun, part deux Bandwagon vs. Hoss - Strange Game Cayennechap vs. Indyocracy - Voted Indy last time, voting Not-Indy this time. nirgon vs...
  26. rhinohelix

    The Outer Worlds

    One of the tips that helped me out a bunch was to switch to DPS vs damage; its a much better evaluator of guns vs. straight dmg. All of those guns on Eden are meant to be dropped almost as soon as you get to Praetor, leveling gun included. Nothing is even close to mid-game Plasma Pistol...
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    Guild Wars 2

    I say this Constantly and everywhere: Launch GW2 is my favorite MMO of all time: The Graphics, the characters, the starting cities and backstories, the public quests, every tier of leveling, every area of the world, it was chefs kiss amazing and great. I had three played all the way through...
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    Arc Raiders

    This conversation threatens to exceed forum parameters but it seems like a standard PVP-centric game post-launch trajectory, which as much fun as this seemed and as much as I wanted to play with Ut, I refrained in this particular case. Extraction PvP(vE) shooters seem to have a predestined...
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    Arc Raiders

    You can watch the pattern of every game like this happen in real time. It's Shiny! Game is new, people are finding new things, working together toward the top. It's great! Some people have finished progression but majority are still working up, most are cooperating; few wolves appear It's a...
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    Ashes of Creation

    It's super interesting from a sociological/psychological perspective, the way PvP changes people's behavior a full matrix of active and passive positive and negative behaviors. One can see how societies and areas of lawlessness developed and "how the West was won" so to speak, in that order was...
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    Ashes of Creation

    I have watched a small segment of people demand PvP over and over again in games year after year and unless the game is designed around it and focused on, like Arc Raiders/The Division or Shadowbane/Arch Age, or as stated, Eve Online, and it ruins games and attracts predators, looking "good...
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    Ashes of Creation

    I don't know, it seemed like they had a plan and better yet, project management to get this out the door. In retrospect, they should have shrank down to a single continent, cut tons of systems, soft launched etc but I bounced off this a long time ago since they more or less nuked Narc and have...
  33. rhinohelix

    The Running Man

    The original SK/RB story is a Sci-Fi/near-future dystopian 1984 game show where the runner has to hide for a month? Ending is a bit of a shocker, not a twist Arnold did his 80 muscle magic on it and made it 100x more fun and interesting than it would have been otherwise. John Carpenter's The...
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    The Outer Worlds

    So I finished the game, last act was not as good as Avowed but overall game was a little better, I really enjoyed it but a little too long to replay when all I want to do is tweet my built a little. I waited too late to trigger Easily Distracted flaw; some checks on the final mission were 18...
  35. rhinohelix

    2025 AssHat Voting Round 2!!

    Araysar vs. Goatface- In abstensia as it were, I can't recall an issue with him personally, really. I know he has his fans. Lighting Lord Rule vs. Siliconemelons- The first of many terrible pairings. How is this a bracket? . Sanrith Descartes vs. RQB-Shallowest well, sorry RQB. Vuuxo vs. Lanx-...
  36. rhinohelix

    Fires of Heaven 2024 AssHat Winner!

    I try not put people on ignore but Dog fucker dude had to go. I don't remember Banana asshole guy but every year the number of concussions I received get more obvious.
  37. rhinohelix

    Playstation 5

    I thought we would get more out of Mario Kart World. Open World Mario Kart sounds like such a great idea, and they started down the road but just let the premise die on the vine. My son got his money's worth out of his but it didn't keep my daughter's attention, she went right back to Roblox...
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    AssHat 2025 Voting: Round 1. Cast your votes!!!

    No super strong must have candidates this year, no one's won out of the gate like in some years, even the folks campaigning in the other thread didn't seem AssHat bad. Used a randomizer to pick when I couldn't choose or didn't know either person; if I knew one person better I just chose the...
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    Playstation 5

    My next console is going to be a nothing, because after owning every console since getting back into consoles in 2006/7, multiple PS5s/Series Xs/Switch 2s, with the exception of the Switches, there is no "console experience" any more; its just PC Lite, and why would I want a lesser PC...
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    Arc Raiders

    I kinda wished I had jumped on at the very beginning. The path of this game, though, just like all games similar to it, seems... inevitable. Hopefully these developers are smarter and defy the odds.