Community MetaSteam | June 2020 - Month Of The Seal, With Many A Deal, Throw Money With Zeal, The Wallet Will Kneel

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Kyougar

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There is or was a 10% voucher discount (STEAMGIFTS10) on Fanatical for orders above 1$/€/£. Not all purchases were eligible so you might want to try and see if it works on those DLCs.
voucher expired 19h ago :(
 

Swenhir

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I love autumn storms, they are my favorite, just after spring storms.
Summer rains are cool, especially when you are camping.

Am I weird? I just love to sit in the wilderness (or the backyard of the village where I grew up in) and experience the raw power of the elements. Autumn storms were especially cool, because we could get out our gliders and race through the vast meadow behind our house.
My father came into possession of an old constructor's wagon when I must have been 9 or 10. It was maybe 8 meters long and 3 meters wide with two compartments, we kids restored it and made one side of it completely out of glass panes (old greenhouse wood-enclosed panels that were nearly 90% of the height of the interior of the wagon, so we just had to enclose the rest of the 10% with wood) A LOT of construction foam was used into getting the whole wagon weatherproof, and it was the only real expense we had on that project.

It was a beauty (well, inner beauty) when it was finished. And our clubhouse year-long and camping ground in the summer. (We had surrounded the wagon with fences, the wagon was still in visual range of my parents house, but we could pretend we were in the wilderness because we were located in a meadow near a lake.)
We either slept in the wagon or in additional tents if we were too many kids.

And the storms? They were awesome when you sat in the wagon with one wall completely out of glass windows and outside raged a storm.
I really would have liked that. Your childhood seems like it was pretty nice, at least on the "living close to nature" front!

I dont really have any windows. Ive got a balcony door that i can open and so AC or window mounted fans just aren't an option. This building is just a complete oven at this time of year. Its a converted office building. It will be sticky hot for the next 3 months.

My cooling strategy is...

Big fan on high
3 little fans pointing at me
Freezer blocks to cuddle
Magic cooling towel thing that i wrap around my head
Lots of cold beer
Actually I am in a similar situation : shoebox with not much airflow at all. Bought a mobile AC unit and got a window joint for the large pipe. It's a life-changer. Can't sleep with it on but it makes it so much more bearable.

Cost an arm and a leg to buy (about 350 bucks) but I can't say that I regret it.
 

fantomena

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Personally I find the game very ugly to look at.
Yeah me too. I love the cast of the MCU so not seeing the voice and face of Evans, RDJ, Ruffalo, Johansson, Hemsworth etc. is way harder than I thought.

Like Im a big fan of Cap and every time I think about Cap I see Evans.

Avengers game Cap looks like just another generic white soldier.
 

yuraya

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Avengers will probably be a decent game a year after launch with content updates.

Unless ofc it flops and the game is dead then I don't think they will support it. You can be a boring and mediocre game but you can't be one with a dead community. So Avengers needs to be more Destiny and less Anthem. Not having ip rights to something like that makes everything even more complicated for Square/CD. They will probably move on from it if the game isn't making $$$ for them.

Speaking of Anthem...why didn't they tease their reboot efforts at the EA thing? And why didn't they release it on Steam? Maybe BioWare should just shut that thing down all together and work on a new Mass Effect instead.
 

Knurek

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You need to activate GPU hardware scheduling in the windows graphics settings (which needs the new driver and 2004).
Note that I think that particular result is towards the top of the end of the scale of what to expect.
I don't have that option, despite 2004 and new driver.
I guess that's another thing not working on 9xx series?
 

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My problem with The Avengers, besides looking kinka boring, is the VO, would be better if they were voiced by unknows, its pretty weird to hear all this known voices in characters that I'm accustomed to hear in the movies with their own voices.

it just sounds like Nathan Drake is an Avenger now.
 

Kyougar

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I really would have liked that. Your childhood seems like it was pretty nice, at least on the "living close to nature" front!
:)

I am just sad that I/we didn't make more of those memories. I am an introvert at heart so I wasn't as active and social that I would have liked, looking back. It was a butt-load more than a kid growing up in the city, but, you know.
There was a time when we had our cousins from the city over basically every weekend (I had 10 pairs of Uncles/Aunts with 2 to 3 kids each, who were scattered over basically the whole of Germany, and only my Family and my mothers oldest sisters family lived in a (the same) Village, so we were a convenient vacation location for our extended family :D

My father was a Farmer, so we always had pigs, cows, chickens, etc. End of Summer was grass cutting time and a few weeks later hay storing. It was always an event for us kids, driving the tractors (which we were trained on since, like 6 or so), loading they hay first to the wagons and then up into the compartment under the roof of the barn. Helping other Farmer and the big Farmer with their harvest (waking up at 3 to 4 and harvest turnips ;D ) The big Farmer either paid us kids cash or in turnips for our own animals)
standing hours behind this fucking asshole and cut the turnips up


We explored the woods, swam in the dozen of lakes that were in bicycle range in the summer. played on the ice on them in the winter, built treehouses, dug holes in the ground and slapped boards above it and called it a secret base...


...
over 20 years later, most of them in a tiny apartment in a city, doing shitty jobs...




...
Sorry, I didn't want to dive so deep...
 

inky

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Is Biomutant eggsclusive? I put it on ignore a while back (probably THQ, never coming out related).
 

C-Dub

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Is Biomutant eggsclusive? I put it on ignore a while back (probably THQ, never coming out related).
I don't think anyone knows.

It was definitely one people were mooting as an EGS exclusive back in the day, but the game has gone underground over the last 12-18 months so we'll probably have to wait for it to re-emerge before we find out whether THQ Nordic signed a deal.

Edit: Looks like it's re-emerged today! 🤣 I don't think anyone's announced anything. At the very least, people aren't upset in the Steam forums.
 
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prudis

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The Kingdom of Beer and Porn
twitter.com
speaking of which :p
 

ISee

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RDR 2: 71 vs 70 fps average with new drivers and GPU hardware scheduling enabled.

AC:Odyssey is the only game I'm noticing a consistent, small improvement of 3-4fps (three runs each). It's in the ~78 to ~82fps average which is an increase of ~5%. That's at least interesting.

Far Cry New Dawn, does not want to start at all though...




No idea when I'll be able to update
Forcing the update with the microsoft media creation tool should work.

 
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ISee

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Indeed. It seems like it’s only for 10XX and later.
That's terrible. Aren't 900 and 1000 series mostly the same, but 1000 is on a smaller process and able to clock higher?
At least I remember reading something like that once.
 

BoosterDuck

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sad to see SomethingAwful go down because Lowtax was outted as a domestic abuser

site is currently undergoing Neogaf's meltdown sequence
 
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low-G

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I just did the Nvidia driver update and then switched on hardware scheduling in Graphics Settings on 2004, and I RDR2 is definitely running a good clip faster in Vulcan than previously on my 2080.

Depending on the area it looks from 20-30% faster! Wish I had taken some screenshots before / after...
 

Li Kao

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French here - I may have to look into AC or AC-lite this year. But as people already mentioned, you don't do whatever you want if you live in an apartment around here.
I lost a piece of my heart the day I learned that it is forbidden to use electric BBQ on your balcony or windows. Summer = BBQ and Rosé, period.
On the plus side my neighbor just said to me he doesn't give a shit and do it anyways, so... (yeah, we are French after all, rules can be tricky to apply :face-with-stuck-out-tongue: )


You should use twitter instead
It didn't even cross my mind, I guess I'm old. But I'm not sure it would help in the way I use it, as in either let the million art pieces take me somewhere, or specify a tag and hope for, well the same but more targeted.
Wouldn't Twitter be more suited for following specific artists ?
 

Cacher

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Finally started playing Cold Steel 1. Finished every entry since Sky FC (including Zero and Azure). Am I crazy or this game feels super long? I am obsessive towards NPC dialogue as well so I check on everyone in-between every main story segment. I remember spending over 70 hours on Azure, and I can see myself easily spending more than that in Cold Steel 1. :sweaty-blob:
 

Kvik

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Downunder.
bsky.app
It's nude wonderland. Difficult to creativate
If you can't beat them, join them (1)

[UWSL][UWSL][UWSL](1) Not a signal to "send me your nudes", but rather "draw your own nudes"[/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL]
Am I crazy or this game feels super long?
It is somewhat long.



These were with 3x turbo, full sidequests completion and all NPC visited after every story beats. Subtract 10-20 hours for NG+.
 
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Li Kao

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I just did the cool kids thing. Had 1.40e on account, bought some cards, crafted some badges. Didn't even level up, still 52.
I'm must be doing it wrong.

Gotta love the fact that I can't sell this shit until july 1st too :loudly-crying-face:

That was a good use of money :so-good-blob:
 
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Li Kao

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Updating to 2000 something. 2004 ? 2009 ?
Well anyways the blue update screen on reboot got to 30+ then went black screen on me. The processor led blinks but no sign of life.
Please don't be that kind of days.

What should I do if nothing comes back ?

Edit - I take everything back, it was just win10 being win10. The display went to the hdmi connected to the 4k tv.
I really should look into how to setup the monitor as main.
 

Tomasety

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I just did the cool kids thing. Had 1.40e on account, bought some cards, crafted some badges. Didn't even level up, still 52.
I'm must be doing it wrong.

Gotta love the fact that I can't sell this shit until july 1st too :loudly-crying-face:

That was a good use of money :so-good-blob:
If you buy cards off the market whatever you get from crafting a badge gets a 7 day hold on period, I mean you cant sell them immediately.
 
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inky

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Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes is now on Steam. Is this the final one or are there more KUF still not on Steam?
There is the 360 game KuF Circle of Doom, although that is not an RTS game, but a pure Hack & Slash along the lines of Dynasty Warriors.

I guess you can add the old school Kingdom Under Fire: A War of Heroes RTS/Isometric RPG to the list if you want. It's similar to Warcraft, but young 'uns might not know about it.
 

Li Kao

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6am, watching windows update on the 4 k set. This is living.

And about windows being windows, we were at 60% but went suddenly back to 57%
Insert meme about installation bars.
 
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