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  1. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    JWST alignment continues.
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    Total War: Warhammer

    This looks and feels like a 10+ year old game, not sure what the deal is (it also crashed as I took this screenshot). Maybe I'll try it on a standard monitor after raids tonight, maybe these crappy images in the UI are stretched or something because of the wide resolution. I've never really...
  3. meStevo

    Lost Ark Online

    The thing that does come across as feeling revolutionary for some reason are things like 'please go collect 12 of a thing'... you kill 4 guys and get the 12. Instead of quest after quest of '10 this, 20 this, 11 this' requiring 20, 30, 40 kills. Just the way it keeps you moving instead of...
  4. meStevo

    Lost Ark Online

    Hadn't happened to me... but now has. Game ended up just closing, and after a couple more attempts (one met by a general 'an error has occured') says I'm online and account is restricted for trying to login while already online too many times. Edit: my server (Mari) now under maintenance. Yay?
  5. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    First JWST image, as they continue to calibrate.
  6. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    Eh, represent a state in the senate for 4-5 decades and I'm sure you get a lot of stuff named after you, especially for a relatively small population. But yeah, TMT is mentioned with the ELT segment. https://www.yahoo.com/now/construction-thirty-meter-telescope-delayed-160700381.html A lot...
  7. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    Dr. Becky talks about the telescope now and in the future that will drive astronomy forward for this coming generation. Here are the projects she covers: Extremely Large Telescope (ELT + TMT, GMT) (2022) Euclid Space Telescope (launches 2/2023) Square Kilometre Array (SKA) (2027) Daniel...
  8. meStevo

    The Book of Boba Fett

    Oh man, this scene really bugged me when I saw it. Everyone pantomiming to the ceiling... and then we never actually see the ceiling aside from the small bit at the top of the shot in the back of the room, just a shadow past a window.
  9. meStevo

    The Book of Boba Fett

    Was also a bit of a callback moment for Fett, he was bested, and turned the tables leveraging the Tusken stuff. My first exposure to the character, I really liked him and hope we do get more somehow in the future. Will get around to watching some animated stuff at some point maybe.
  10. meStevo

    The Book of Boba Fett

    I'm not sure I've thought 'wow, this fight scene is like 20 minutes too long' before but here we are. Also thought the post credits scene was going to be Cad Bane, but still happy with what we got there. Really felt like 5 different shows wedged into a 7 episode season, what a schizophrenic...
  11. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah, you can only mitigate so much w/ space weather, wouldn't be surprised if the data / experience this provided will be more valuable in the long run to future launches and operations than these lost sats.
  12. meStevo

    Xbox Megathread

    Not current gen games, no, as they're designed to take advantage of the faster storage speeds. BC games will play off of other external storage.
  13. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    SpaceX lost 40 of the 49 Starlink satellites launched 5 days ago due to a geomagnetic storm increasing atmospheric drag by as much as 50%. https://www.spacex.com/updates/ On Thursday, February 3 at 1:13 p.m. EST, Falcon 9 launched 49 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Launch Complex...
  14. meStevo

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    Range of motion is a little less than 2 feet. https://www.ergotron.com/en-us/products/product-details/45-475#?color=white
  15. meStevo

    Windows 11

    I've never had much of a problem with it.
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    Playstation 5

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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Humble Choice isn't too bad... https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/home https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/home
  18. meStevo

    Utnayan backlog challenge: part 2 ends Jan 31

    Sounds good, start a thread and make a template for completion for people to follow IMO then amod it for sticky shenanigans.
  19. meStevo

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    This is a big part of it. Sony doesn't have a lot of franchises generating recurring revenue like this, GaaS. Destiny brings them this and the experienced team to help enable it to other franchises.
  20. meStevo

    Icarus (Survival, Rocketwerkz)

    They update weekly. New missions, and have started expanding the roguelike tree of workshop items you can buy. IMO this is still lacking and/or im not sweaty enough to speedrun for resources to buy the 'best' stuff - which IMO is not super over the top great anyways). Apparently there's a...
  21. meStevo

    Icarus (Survival, Rocketwerkz)

    Still enjoying this w/ friends, a couple screens. This one reminds me a lot of Conan: This base near the edge of the arctic and jungle biome had some wild lighting at different parts of the day, was great.
  22. meStevo

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    I'm enjoying Icarus. The big thing with it unlike a game like Valheim is it's session based. You drop down onto the planet, you got x time (everything from 6 real time hours to 30 days) to complete some objectives and then you blast off. No persistent base, you do your job and then get...
  23. meStevo

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Not enough, next big update is probably worth giving it another go. Mistlands and caves in mountains or something coming soon (tm). I'm guessing by the fall this year will be when I dive back in.
  24. meStevo

    Game Pass for Xbox and PC

    Man, that game is getting panned pretty hard, the product page apparently doesn't even mention franchise mode and fans have been screaming for updates for years. Seems like if the devs could outright remove it they probably would at this point (and it's not clear if that's happened in 22 yet).
  25. meStevo

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Natural extension to their ridiculous exclusive agreements with Destiny in the past. Is Bungie doing anything more than Destiny right now or have announced anything beyond that? Destiny 2 is getting long in the tooth and thought it'd been on the decline for some time. Still one of the best...
  26. meStevo

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Yeah, looking forward to getting back to this one day, Icarus scratching that itch for now.
  27. meStevo

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/updates/chapter/highisle
  28. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    A student may have found our first magnetar. https://phys.org/news/2022-01-mysterious-energy-source-astronomers.html
  29. meStevo

    Playstation 5

    Yeah, it's standalone preview of the new game, it was offered for free on Epic when it launched. As someone not familiar w/ Tiny Tina from the earlier games It's pretty funny and the price is right.
  30. meStevo

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Yeah, so much ink on common sense stuff. Just like the survival game being announced for 'PC and consoles' - they can't begin coordinating on releases and whatnot until ink's dry or they get in trouble w/ regulators. Looks like existing deals are for a major update to Warzone that is planned...
  31. meStevo

    Twitch.tv

    Looks like Ninja was only roped into it towards the end of this whole episode.
  32. meStevo

    Expeditions: Rome

    I've been just ignoring all the noise about this stuff (including NFTs), make a good game and if it does something innovative with that shit then I'll care. Until then it just seems like buzzwords for funding.
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    Playstation 5

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    Expeditions: Rome

    Unlucky, I was going to pull the trigger on this this morning (regardless of future DLC, etc, I enjoyed the game enough to pick it up) and it's since jumped up to full price. Oh well, will wait for sales or a moment of weakness myself. Like 5 new games on Game Pass today to distract me from...
  35. meStevo

    Expeditions: Rome

    The article is from a month ago. I agree that it's an issue that needs to be specifically addressed though, I shouldn't have to dig through the Steam forums to find that.
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    Xbox Megathread

    Spencer looking forward to digging into abandoned IPs. I'm looking forward to some of these studios relegated to 'support COD' status getting to work on games again. Like Raven Software - they were responsible for the first new Wolfenstein and the X-Men legends / Ultimate Alliance series of...
  37. meStevo

    Expeditions: Rome

    A dev responded about that on the steam forums: Logic Artists close down... :: Expeditions: Rome General Discussions First off, not everyone who worked on Expeditions: Rome will join Dynasty. Secondly, as others have pointed out here, the Expeditions series has been owned by THQ Nordic since...