About to finish my first playthrough. Yeah there's bugs, no it's nowhere close to perfect, but one of the best games I've ever played.
10-03-2023 02:39 PM
#31201
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About to finish my first playthrough. Yeah there's bugs, no it's nowhere close to perfect, but one of the best games I've ever played. | |
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10-03-2023 05:27 PM
#31202
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How come when someone famous is sent to the ICU they never tell you what the condition is "out of respect for the family", and it always ends up being one of the three most common things people get sent to the ICU for and never something you'd actually want to keep secret out of "respect for the family" like spontaneously inverted penis or R2D2 action figure stuck in butt. | |
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10-03-2023 05:47 PM
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I'm playing the Cyberpunk expansion right now. Probably Alan Wake 2 after that. I've put more hours in Cyberpunk than maybe any other single player game ever. They improved the mechanics a lot, but still suffers from uneven fights and a depressingly stupid AI. But I just love the world. Sometimes I just walk from mission to mission because it's so pretty. | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-03-2023 at 05:49 PM.
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10-03-2023 09:59 PM
#31204
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It's not all that respectful to keep secret the medical condition of unwell celebrities. Michael Schumacher is an excellent example. Instead of knowing how bad he is, we can all speculate instead. He might wipe his own arse, but we assume not because of "respecting his privacy" and all that. | |
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10-04-2023 01:28 AM
#31205
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I've only had 1 CTD in like 80+ hours of playing, which is amazing. Mostly the bugs I find are mismatched dialogues indicating someone was "there" when they weren't. Or I skipped some parts of the companion's quest, but then get to the next part, and they're all, "since we did [a thing we never did]..." and just keep going. | |
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10-04-2023 11:08 AM
#31206
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About halfway sounds right. I'm a dark urge bard/warlock with Shadowheart, Lae'zel and Astarion, all of their questlines are very good. Wouldn't recommend dark urge for anyone's first playthrough but definitely give it a go later. | |
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10-04-2023 12:24 PM
#31207
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Yeah. I think that's the intended party comp for Dark Urge. Wyll, Gale, and Karlach are too friendly for those shenanigans. | |
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10-04-2023 05:42 PM
#31208
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10-04-2023 06:46 PM
#31209
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Playing more Cyberpunk, I recall a quote from the late, great Totalbiscuit who, battling late stage cancer once praised some pay-to-win mobile game he was playing, saying: "finally someone made a game where middle aged dudes with disposable income can just pay their way to victory..." | |
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10-04-2023 07:36 PM
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Here's a fun thing about the youtube algorithm: I always followed outsider accounts. Autists, quadriplegics, terminally ill... but usually I was watching some autist doing a washing machine review and the suggestions would be all detergent and washing machine reviews, but now they got it down to a science where you watch one 14yo girl with stage 4 cancer talking about how she's going to spend her last days, and the YT algorithm is like: here's 5000 more of those! Wow, thank you... | |
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10-05-2023 06:34 AM
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10-05-2023 06:36 AM
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10-05-2023 11:33 AM
#31213
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10-05-2023 11:36 AM
#31214
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$1000 on the graphics card alone? | |
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10-05-2023 11:43 AM
#31215
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Last edited by oskar; 10-05-2023 at 12:14 PM.
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10-05-2023 12:00 PM
#31216
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I had a 4690k/gtx970 until this year and I already couldn't play Cyberpunk at all and TLOU was coming out for PC so I just got a 4070ti at launch and a 13600k. | |
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10-05-2023 12:03 PM
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Yeah I'm not much into cancer porn, I prefer tsunami porn for my morbid curiosity. Although, having said that, I can't watch the Indian Ocean tsunami. They didn't know that was coming, you see many, many more people, mothers with children, getting swept up. In Japan they knew it was coming, just not how bad it was going to be, so the slow and stupid got caught but the majority took to high enough ground fast enough. | |
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10-05-2023 01:16 PM
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10-06-2023 01:27 AM
#31219
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From the footage I've seen I can never figure out how so many people could die from that. You'd expect a Roland Emmerich tidal wave, and in reality it's just water slowly rising. Maybe a lot less people can swim than I would expect... idk. | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-06-2023 at 01:34 AM.
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10-06-2023 01:28 AM
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10-06-2023 09:34 AM
#31221
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The Japan death toll, as large as it was, it was mercifully low for an event of that scale. It was a bigger tsunami than the Indian Ocean one, but fraction of the death toll. Not only does Japan have excellent warning systems in place, they all felt the earthquake and are well educated, they know even a small quake means go to higher ground until you know it's safe to return. It's a stark contrast to the Indian Ocean one, where they're marvelling at the tide rushing out without a care in the world, or just blissfully going about their business when suddenly the city floods. And for many the quake was thousands of miles away, the vast majority didn't feel it. | |
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10-06-2023 09:22 PM
#31222
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2023 was FTR's 20th birthday. It will be able to drink next year. | |
10-06-2023 11:53 PM
#31223
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lol 21 drinking age | |
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10-16-2023 03:10 PM
#31224
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So are you guys rooting for Hamas, or are you team IDF? | |
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10-16-2023 03:18 PM
#31225
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Buoyant houses, huh? That's never good. | |
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10-16-2023 05:45 PM
#31226
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Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 10-16-2023 at 05:48 PM.
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10-17-2023 02:28 AM
#31227
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Many of the people in Japan "strolling" towards safety were likely exhausted. They probably just ran half a mile flat out, and if you're unfit, that's brutal. Sensible thing to do is to jog at a pace you can maintain for some distance, but when you're in a state of panic and there's a serious danger right behind you, well I'd probably run flat out until I couldn't breathe, at which point I'd walk and pant like a fucking dog while hoping for the best. | |
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10-17-2023 02:41 AM
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This Israel conflict, it's not so simple to argue this is terrorism vs terrorism. | |
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10-17-2023 04:20 AM
#31229
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It feels like we're drifting towards WWIII. More so than in the past. Previously, when USA attacked Iraq and when other major flashpoints made it seem like WWIII was coming, there was no serious threat to USA's dominance and so it never really felt like it was inevitable. Now we have Russia, China and Iran (by proxy) all becoming more aggressive. | |
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10-17-2023 09:29 AM
#31230
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Wow, antisemitic. | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-17-2023 at 09:58 AM.
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10-17-2023 09:35 AM
#31231
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I don't think without the element of surprise that Hamas can gain any ground in Israel, or hold their ground in Gaza. They are a group of illiterate jihadist morons who played right into the hands of Israel. | |
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10-17-2023 09:44 AM
#31232
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10-17-2023 10:01 AM
#31233
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I think it is disgraceful and repugnant for you to call on Israel to stop doing terrorism. Everyone knows all jews want to do all day is terrorism. | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-17-2023 at 10:04 AM.
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10-17-2023 10:03 AM
#31234
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I think it's at least a little bit funny that especially leftists are acting like calling out Israel is antisemitic, as if all jews stood behind Israel, or specifically what Israel is doing in Gaza right now. | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-17-2023 at 10:28 AM.
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10-17-2023 02:03 PM
#31235
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10-17-2023 06:15 PM
#31236
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This is a tough one. OTOH, it's clear what Hamas did was seriously atrocious. But, I don't see how that gives Israel the right to behave the way they are now, basically walking the line between being super heavy-handed and genocide. | |
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10-17-2023 06:22 PM
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10-17-2023 07:06 PM
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10-17-2023 07:16 PM
#31239
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Ok looks like Israel is going mask-off much faster and much more open than I would have expected. Will be fun to watch how long it takes for people to realize they were backing a genocide. | |
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10-17-2023 09:29 PM
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It's post-WWII stuff, right? | |
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10-18-2023 05:10 AM
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I mean I get how it started out that way (cf. the reference to Hologuilt I made earlier). What I don't get is why it's become such an unbending dogma that Israel is always in the right. | |
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10-18-2023 09:39 AM
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This would be fair enough if then when those terrorist started firing rockets at Israel, the people went "woah this isn't what we voted for". What they did was take to the streets like they had just won the World Cup, before scurrying back into hiding when the retaliation began. | |
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10-18-2023 09:47 AM
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10-18-2023 12:06 PM
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10-18-2023 02:43 PM
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10-19-2023 11:55 AM
#31246
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Who better to judge an ear biting contest than Mike Tyson? Good thinking. | |
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10-19-2023 12:05 PM
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Last edited by oskar; 10-19-2023 at 12:18 PM.
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10-19-2023 12:34 PM
#31248
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Another anti-semite arguing against Israel's right to commit mass war crimes. | |
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10-19-2023 12:44 PM
#31249
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Say what you want about Piers Morgan, but the man has an absolutely unparalleled commitment to embarrass himself for the honorable cause of making his interviewees look good. | |
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10-19-2023 12:53 PM
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10-19-2023 01:40 PM
#31251
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Ok, but what if the Tories had just come back from a beheading spree that killed over a thousand people, parading hostages around. Would you publicly go: Guys, I know we all voted for you in *checks notes* fall of 2006, but in light of recent events, I think it's time we hold a re-election! Or would you rather keep your head for now? | |
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10-19-2023 02:05 PM
#31252
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I guess my level of shock might also amount to a high degree of fear, so you have a valid point. | |
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10-19-2023 04:50 PM
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10-19-2023 08:51 PM
#31254
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Except it's not the English, it's some fringe group of Buddhist Druids that the Russians just showed up and pushed 1/3 of Scotland and a bit of England out of the way for and drew a new circle on a map and said, "Comrades. These people have been shat upon. They need somewhere and they want here. So we give them here." Then armed them to the teeth. | |
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10-20-2023 02:32 AM
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What I hate most about all of this is the apparent inability of humans to judge any of this in more nuanced terms than they would a football game. You need to pick sides, one side is right about everything and the other side wrong. Depressing af. | |
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10-20-2023 03:02 AM
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10-20-2023 03:07 AM
#31257
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I'm not picking sides. I might give the impression I'm pro-Israel in this matter but I'm not. | |
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10-20-2023 03:22 AM
#31258
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Yeah that wasn't directed at you, just a general observation. Nothing either side has done justifies what they're doing now. In fact, nothing either side could have done would justify it. | |
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10-20-2023 04:24 AM
#31259
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It doesn't help when you've got idiots like Biden using language like "team" like it's a fucking sport. | |
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10-20-2023 05:06 AM
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10-20-2023 05:28 AM
#31261
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Uhh, ok. So those two million people Israel has cut off food and water to are 100% Hamas combatants, including women and children and old people. That's one hell of a coup they've pulled off there, trapping two million terrorists in one place. | |
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10-20-2023 05:37 AM
#31262
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10-20-2023 06:05 AM
#31263
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I think Palestinians are in an impossible situation. If they do nothing, settlers will take their land. If they try to fight the IDF, they will lose. If they fight the settlers, they are terrorists. Of course, Hamas being jihadist morons, they chose the absolute worst option: going into recognized Israeli territory and killing civilians, but again: they lose. | |
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10-20-2023 06:11 AM
#31264
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10-20-2023 09:10 AM
#31265
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In other random news, my university has just set the record for the biggest reply-all clusterfuck in history. | |
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10-20-2023 09:19 AM
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10-20-2023 10:23 AM
#31267
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50 years after the invention of email people still struggle with the concept of BCC. Honestly, this is why we need gulags. You don't use BCC on a list with more than 12 recipients: Straight to reeducation camp. There is no excuse. | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-20-2023 at 10:29 AM.
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10-20-2023 10:25 AM
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10-20-2023 11:02 AM
#31269
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I'm quick to think conspiracy when it comes to matters of geopolitics but in this case it just doesn't make any sense. Possibly Israel "Pearl Harboured" it and basically allowed it to happen, but there's no way Hamas are working with Israel. | |
Last edited by OngBonga; 10-20-2023 at 11:04 AM. | |
10-20-2023 11:24 AM
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I didn't and don't wanna bring this point up since it's likely stupid, but can't help but think howtf Shin Bet, Mossad and the US intelligence completely dropped the ball on this, and in fact I've seen unconfirmed reports about Israeli int actually warning the administration a week beforehand but having their report dismissed. | |
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10-20-2023 11:29 AM
#31271
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What you're leaving out is the part where Israel has been outside of those wars been chipping away from the Palestinian territories with their settlements the whole time. Most of that land captured between '48 and '67 wasn't in the wars. | |
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10-20-2023 12:09 PM
#31272
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That article refers to Israeli policy after the conclusion of the Six Day War, ie '67+, not '48-'67. | |
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10-20-2023 12:56 PM
#31273
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Ironically, Israel played a huge part in getting Hamas elected, and they did this by evacuating settlements in Gaza. Israel did this without consulting Fatah (Hamas' political rivals), and this allowed Hamas to give the impression to Palestinian voters that it was their resistance that caused Israel to withdraw. | |
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10-20-2023 01:10 PM
#31274
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Well sure yes, I meant all the wars since the UN partition plan till today, most of the land gain is from settlements. Maybe returning back to '67 borders could in some sense be called fair, but I doubt Israel is gonna agree to that. And I think it shows some serious restrain from the Palestinians to agree to those, or even the '48 ones, since it was all theirs before that. | |
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10-20-2023 02:17 PM
#31275
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