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  1. rhinohelix

    Xbox Megathread

    When they say what killed the Xbox hardware platform, of which I have owned every generation, there can be be only one answer: Stupidity. It seems like every institution in our society is rife with it. Forget trying to build back market share, or earn back goodwill, or even just not be seen as...
  2. rhinohelix

    Marathon (Bungie)

    Right, I get that. My Name is Byf is a lore guy after all and went on at some length about some of the backstory for this game that I had no idea existed; that any such complex story existed, that they were going to try to imbue it with any kind of complicated/deep/intense lore is...
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    Marathon (Bungie)

    Listening to My Name is Byf talk about the lore of the game in that livestream, I'm not more likely to play it because PVPVE Extraction shooters aren't my thing but there is a ton more to Marathon than I had suspected. THAT's the Bungie I know and love, so maybe there is some non-gay hope for...
  4. rhinohelix

    Sinners (2025)

    Do we really need catharsis for smaller scale things that happened 100ish years ago? Hitler was one of the largest historical figures in WW2, which was one of the largest events in human history; did anyone really think of "Inglorious Bastards" as needed cartharsis? It's really just revenge...
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    Marathon (Bungie)

    550 106th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004 to be precise, in between downtown Seattle and Redmond, but you aren't wrong. I imagine it's probably worse ideologically than SoCal with PNW vibe going on. Fake Edit: 550 106th Ave NE · 550 106th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
  6. rhinohelix

    Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

    I had this issue for a while as well. I thought it was related to getting my new PC set up but I just kept restarting as I installed things and eventually GamePass Ultimate synced up.
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    Marathon (Bungie)

    What the fuck does this have to do with where Bungie is? Trying to read this frothy BS, Is this a drunk post? The rest of your posts seem reasonably put together. You had the one seemingly negative reaction to Bald Brah's post. It has nothing to do with where Bungie is, moron; it had...
  8. rhinohelix

    Marathon (Bungie)

    Really? An odd reaction for one agreeing with the sentiment but if you say so.
  9. rhinohelix

    Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

    This was kind of a let down for me back in the day after Morrowind; it just didn't hit the same way. I wouldn't buy it with all the Bethesda BS going on but I will download it from GamePass, so well done MS spending billions there. Edit: After 15 min I am already annoyed enough that Patrick...
  10. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Myth: The Fallen Lords was the some of the best world building and gameplay. Peak Bungie was soooo good. Homeworld was literally jawdropping at the time; I called my grandparents (who lived right next door at the time) over to look at it when I was in the beta. The box reminded me that the...
  11. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Will always remind of the segment from "Heavy Metal" called "B-17" where the Orb invades a B-17 on the way back from a particularly hairy bombing run.
  12. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I was just thinking of this "brain in a tank" quote the other day when we were talking about the Matrix, how Sid's game had come up with years before The Matrix put it out there. What a great game. I need to download this from GOG and play it.
  13. rhinohelix

    Last Epoch

    It might not be a better game but I enjoy playing it a lot more than POE2. The engine/combat sync and responsiveness feels way better 1.2 than it did at launch. Going to start out doing a hammer/javalin Pally again without doing too much research and see where that takes me. Way easier to...
  14. rhinohelix

    Sinners (2025)

    So I have been mixed on Ryan Coogler as a director; sometimes he seems to have an agenda, other times he seems to be more down the line. Regardless of where he stands ideologically or you might stand on him, here he is talking about various film aspect ratios and the decision and factors that...
  15. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    My 7900XTX is almost always quiet-ish. If this PowerColor 9070 XT isn't as quiet, then into my kids PC it will go. I dropped a fair amount on the RX Max fans because they were supposed to be 10 Db more quiet than the LX/QX/RX fans.
  16. rhinohelix

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    A-Salright, anywhere right off the Beltway isn't a Sundown location for whites. B- isn't bad, I used to live near here 30ish years ago; It was nice and new suburbs then, perhaps it has changed but not get out town whitey. It was mostly latino, though, even back in the day. C- Magnolia Gardens...
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    Marathon (Bungie)

    How could it be anything but thus? When I see the aesthetic, I can't help but see this:
  18. rhinohelix

    Marathon (Bungie)

    Holy Shit are the comments all center-mass kill shots. Watching that video rather than the cinematic garbage I hate it less but rather than wanting to play the game (I don't and never will, PVP extraction shooters are not my bag, I never went into the Dark Zones or whatever in The Division or...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    a 5080 for $999 is not terrible. A 5080 for the same price as a 4090 is a damn monopolist ripoff, and I look forward to their glorious downfall.
  20. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    You can change scaling, etc in Windows to accomodate; I think I run 125% now (It's System|Display|Scaling), with a large mouse pointer now as my eyes have aged as well. I have been using TVs as monitors since 2007-8? I got a South Korean 38" 4K TV to use as a monitor; technically the only...
  21. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/qn90d-qn90dd-qled Its a little pricey for the 43" version but I work and game on mine; not like art work but sit on Teams calls for hours and do PPT/XLS/DOC files and outlook. I wouldn't want to subject an OLED to that. Otherwise, whatever 43/48" LG...
  22. rhinohelix

    Last Epoch

    Divine Bolt Paladin was my favorite class I have played in any ARPG. Hammer Paladin is pretty spiffy as well and I won't mind going back to that. I didn't even mind the Forge Guard dropping Anvils on people like a Looney Tunes cartoon. I haven't played many other classes, obviously but I am...
  23. rhinohelix

    Marathon (Bungie)

    "Return to form" as a tiny company that only made art games for a niche platform? Magic 8-ball says "Probably!"
  24. rhinohelix

    Marathon (Bungie)

    What in Post-Apocalyptic early 90s French avant garde fuck was that? It's like Aeon Flux by Luc Besson, starring Jean Reno and Milla Jovovich. I mean, they had two World Wars, millions of deaths in the trenches and being occupied by the actual Nazis to come up that level of existential...
  25. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    I got a PowerColor Red Devil 9070 XT from MicroCenter, and having them put it into a Corsair 3500x with a 9800X3D, 64GB DDR CL30 6000, 2TB PCIe 5.0 NVME Samsung 9100 for an OS drive and a second 4TB 990 Pro for games, et al, Asus X870E, and RGB ICue Extraordinaire, with RX Max fans because I...
  26. rhinohelix

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    Fall Guy made $175m globally on a budget of $125m-$150m before advertising, which generally roughly equals at least 50% of marketing, so its pretty easy to say The Fall Guy flopped hard. Was it a bad movie? I heard it was pretty good but still.
  27. rhinohelix

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I am not on the frontlines but the CyberDefense war is real, yo. Nobody wants to be Maersk, Colonial Pipeline or fall victim to a Solar Winds™ style extended attack.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    You're not wrong; in a perfect world, everyone should follow textbook ITIL design. I used to be a Datacenter Mgr at a mid-sized company, and we had perfect ITIL test/dev/stage environments for every app or suite; Change Management was rigorously followed, and things were done by the book unless...
  29. rhinohelix

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I work for a Fortune 10 company that is constantly the target of radical ideologues, state actors and cyber criminals. Normally you would have a test/dev/stage level of deployment for most things, and even for most anti-malware stuff, there is some level of testing. CrowdStrike is different...
  30. rhinohelix

    Longlegs (2024)

    Holy Fuck. I just read the summary for this film. What the absolute fuck. I was not expecting that. I mean, it's not world breaking but I am unsettled.
  31. rhinohelix

    Weather

    We just got power back after Beryl. All I can say is FUCK CENTERPOINT Energy. As soon as we got a crew to show up, they had us back on in a few hours. Sad it took a fucking week to get a crew here. And I don't live in the sticks, I live in the city. I am the last person on my corp team to...
  32. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    There was no bigger supporter of Starfield than me. I was so excited to play it, and even with all it's...eccentricities, I liked but not loved it. When I hit the narrative wall and realized that in order to make NG+ easy for them, they basically killed their own story and universe, it broke...
  33. rhinohelix

    The First Descendant

    Its so close to being good but also so close to being fuck you bad. The gestalt that exists between Asian companies and their customers is so weird; they seem to really hate their players but the gatcha/grind expectations are such that they barely even try. It doesn't seem like it would take...
  34. rhinohelix

    The First Descendant

    I got Normal Lepic up to 12 or 14 and then decided to switch over to Valby and while the character level was one, she used all of the higher 12-14 level guns, with the mods and even the fire reactor I had for Lepic; I swapped that immediately, though, to a water reactor for the character. All...
  35. rhinohelix

    The First Descendant

    Lots of people complaining that there isn't any match-making in Hard mode at the moment. Apparently the thought was it requires so much coordination they don't want PUGs in the game at Hard Mode but also no guilds, etc, so unless you do a pre-made outside of the game, you are never going to...
  36. rhinohelix

    The First Descendant

    I just had an old friend who played Destiny/Destiny 2 reach out and swear up and down this is The Bomb™. So now I am going eat my previous post/words and download this game and give it a shot. Let's see how much money I spend.
  37. rhinohelix

    The First Descendant

    F2P/Gatcha/P2W are all predatory mechanics of companies looking to take advantage of the worst aspects of their players human nature to make maximal money. It's a damn shame because so many of these games look so appealing. It's the same reason that Las Vegas looks so glitzy and poisonous...
  38. rhinohelix

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I didn't see anyone answer this so my apologies if I missed it, he answers this at 8:20 in the video: -Golden Vow -Jellyfish Shield -Terra Magica -Howl of Shabriri Followed up by Flask of Wondrous Physik. This video was done in NG+7.
  39. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    If there is anything they are working on fixing with the expansion, it's this. Microtransactions, horse armor, and community patches?
  40. rhinohelix

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Do they want to spend the money now or spend the money later trying to repair a shitty game? Let's hire more DEI consultants to give in game characters pronouns. Who needs good textures, or to avoid loading screens, or a coherent narrative, or fun gameplay systems? We already paid for the engine!