Search results

There is nothing wrong with that, comradrierie of video game playing brothers, etc. also:

This ad about why Socialism sucks is brought to you by Reality™. Now imagine the whole economy is run this way, and they shoot people who don't meet those quotas. It's how millions of people starve in every Marxist system and why they all have to be backed up with totalitarian force of arms...

I swear PVP based MMOs are almost like Communism, in that they keep failing and people keep trying them regardless of the outcome. Other than Shadowbane? or maybe Archeage or possibly original UO (debatable), has anyone done open world PVP successfully? I know lots of games had it has a tiny...

See, some of those IDEAS are amazing! in concept but someone has to make them work well. And make them work well on a small level. Make a single city work like this. All MMOs are graphical front ends for databases and database interactions/transformations. Per Daidraco, I think they were...

The originals were delivering a base level of functionality in a static, theme park world. What Steven and Intrepid were trying to create is massively, massively more complex, involving destructibility, weather, seasons, day/night cycles, player building, PVP, and evolving world, etc et al AND...

Took my daughter to see this. It was OK; she was a fan of the game/experience whatever it was. It was showing at River Oaks Theater, which is an old-school cinema, non-stadium seating, for instance, 4:3 screen, but she was hyped, so we went. Sound mix was what most people said about Tenet...

I paid for a key but have had serious concerns since Intrepid and Steven had their falling out with Narc. I guess it was too much burn and not fast enough to get to release. Edit: You just can't launch with WoW/More than WoW functionality straight out of the gate. I mean, Elon could fund it as...

I sold cars for a couple of years as my day job during the week after I changed direction from Law Enforcement, and it was a great learning experience. I was pretty good at it and worked at a couple of dealerships, selling Fords, BMWs, Pontiac/GMC, and used. There were good sales and bad sales...

Update: I switched over to running Abyss and got a few of good Omen drops that let me put together a build for less than 100 Div, which while maybe not having some of the ultra rare items, did allow me to put together a build for my plant druid that worked pretty well; asset inflation also...

We've had that over the years with the various floods and hurricanes. It's like carnies that follow storms, doing roofs and cleaning up trees/limbs etc. Some are OK and the others grifters following the money and looking for elderly and others to make them marks. We've got three or four tree...

I just bought a bunch of unnecessary junk I need to return but I had one of these and some other toys in my cart. Soon my dear, soon...

The panic here in Houston is ridiculous. People are still completely shell shocked from the Great Freeze of 2021. Stores, even HEB, are out of everything. The really bad news is supposedly there is another one coming next weekend, although how bad yet to be seen.

I saw that. There is going to be a not a bust but a transition, and corps are going to probably be getting a national security bailout on this one. AI isn't going away but hopefully this sagging of the whole bitcoin style will give way.

I love technology and the Internet but there is something to be said for Agent Smith's speech as he interrogates Morpheus in The Matrix:

I have seen DM live more than any other band. Staring in 1988, we would regularly go to most shows in Texas: later when I could afford it we'd get seats in the first 5 rows. I last went to a show in 2014. After 2014 ticket prices just outstripped what I thought it was worth to sit up front: In...

Supremely underrated Carpenter film. Super thought provoking for me, not in the way the storyline of the movie unfolds but rather potentially what we experienced as interaction with Divinity and Evil, spirituality could actually be spirits interacting with us in the material plane at the...

No idea on the sound issue but would imagine its game/code related if you don't experience it anywhere else. Those Abyss top end bosses with the big beams are MFers; I started adding them to my maps with Precursors but reconsider on super juiced maps or Deadly Bosses, etc. I get the same...

Your image is from the actual wiki page from the "jesus nut". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut#:~:text=Jesus%20nut%20is%20a%20slang,the%20mast%20of%20some%20helicopters Story is not real but the laughs are: If you think people aren't stupid: Plane crashed after 3D-printed part...

This is not even the $1000 question.

And its not the people at the top, or even the middle crushed; its the casual people who relied on the market, or dabbled. I know people with high end temples still making 40+ Div/11+ Perfect Div? (is that even a thing? I have no idea) a run, with 1000+ Div of gear and 800+ Div in their stash...

Currency inflation because of the Temple is CRAZY. Trying to buy a +2 spell skills staff for my level 15-20 plant druid? Mine you, this is to upgrade one I already have, I crafted myself Starts out at 55-200Ex, quickly scales to a 1Div plus. I played my 85 Titan to T15 and 16 maps last league...

I didn't believe until the rotated pics.

I would definitely get a 9070XT rather than nVidia. My 9070XT was same price as my 3080 and that was two cards ago, You can still get them at Best Buy or Amazon for pretty cheap. Fuck nVidia.

Try switching to a different US DC. One of my US gaming buddies has an issue with Texas DC, switched to Washington DC, no more issues (he is in Baton Rogue LA) I see them occasionally but switching, even to a different zone in the game clears it up for me ( I am in TX). Surely they have some...

So my much more experienced buddy showed me that when you have affinities set up (I did) you can just CTRL-left click on things from your inventory to have it moved to your stash, If you have a "dump tab" established, you can ctrl-click and it will fill up without the need to manually drag...

Its delusional to think the vendors in a few campaign areas will be equal to what hundreds of thousands of players will be offering at their own merchants. The difference is overwhelmingly, hilariously, amazingly worth doing, from someone who was new to POE in POE2 launch. Not only do the...

NGL, I would rather spend an Exalt or two on the market for an item that has everything that I want than randomly try to craft something with a single affix that may or may be worth a damn. In .1 I would spend 5 or 6 Ex "crafting" and end up with nothing, meanwhile when I started trading you...

The guys I am playing with all made it to Maps in less than a day but I am super slow boating because A) work/life B) Maps are super boring as shit to me and once the campaign ends, I still enjoy playing but my interest dies off. I found this time, and I don't know if its because I have been...

This is the worst feeling. <Brofist>

That's not what Capitalism is at all. That's what Communists want you to think Capitalism is so that you will give up your rights and willingly agree to allow the State to own everything. Capitalism is the belief that everyone, working in their *own* best interests, will benefit everyone.

I am not saying he didn't, nor I am I saying Dune was intended as a standalone, etc. You can go back and read how shocked/disappointed he was people didn't get how people didn't see the "warning signs" with Paul in the first book, and it changed/prompted how he wrote Dune Messiah. From...

Part of what kills the Dune mythos for me is that in Herbert's eyes, Paul was almost exactly a JFK analogue. His glorious rise to power in the first book is supposed to be unvarnished and complete Campbell's Hero's Journey, except with the dash that charisma and messiahs turns friends into...

That is the first thing I thought of as well. We just got finished watching Totoro again Sat. night. My kids love it.

Star Wars came out when I was six; I got to see all of these as they were released. ROTJ was a great half of a movie, with Luke/Vader/the Emperor. The other half, with the Ewoks, was Lucas trying to sell toys. Originally IIRC correctly it was going to be Wookies but now I can't recall if that...

Your statement about DC movies and tards reminds me about a quote I heard in a documentary about indy/"shlock" films in the section about Russ Meyer, who made such fare as "Faster Pussycat!! Kill Kill!!" and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", who was famous for his use of busty actresses. One...