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OK I fired up the game to test this real quick and ummm the turning is fine? Mind you i played Croc 1 and Spyro 1 via emulator recently out of boredom and the movement in those requires time to get used to, but Kao moves just fine with a controller. Sorry mang I just ain't seeing it, there's hardly many hazards or platforming that'd require strict turning in this game, it's light for the most part and its controls work well.
Actually, it's for combat that it's a problem. Kao just can't hit far from his position, because just moving your target sideways is incredibly slow.
And compared to other games, it's complete crap. I took Ty as an example, but you can go recent stuff like Yooka Laylee or A Hat in Time. Much, mcuh faster.
And that's only talking about Kao which is not the worst! Take other forms like the bird carrying you around and it's nothing short of a misery to just walk around.

Yeah, it is faster than Croc, but moving to the side in Croc was an outright abomination. That was Resident Evil level of tank controls, and those are the biggest sin that a platformer can commit. It's the closest 3D paltformer that I've played though, and "close to the biggest shitstain of a game in the genre" is not a good point.

Simple: if Mario 64 could make it work, and a million others after that, there's no justification.

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FFXIV is an awful, awful MMO.
Cause it's not one.
It's a shitty solo "RPG" with terrible story and characters, worse pacing, gaping holes of quests for levelling your first job, and suffers from the non-existant design of modern corridor dungeon MMOs, and flat, empty "open world" (not in the base game as it was just microscopic instances stuck together) It may as well be a hub grinder.
Which it is if you don't do erotic roleplay, like WoW it only exists to grind dungeons and raids by upgrading stat sticks that do absolutely nothing, but with even less tier sets and abilities. They could not have worse itemization and weaker social interactions.
Cool music though.

I've played MMO since Everquest, and I say don't play them, they're dead.
There's no social elements anymore, they're just mobile games levels of grind with a 3D chat tacked on.
 
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I still don’t even have an SSD.
One day! They're getting cheaper and cheaper now.

I was thinking: despite the forums allowing for developers to self-promote their games (unlike many forums), we still don't have many developers around.
I know some of you know a developer or two. Consider inviting them over.
For example, InquisitorAles, you know the developer from FobTi interactive, right? See if he would like to post here. ;)

It's always great to hear more about smaller developers and titles, that usually aren't featured in most websites, so hopefully these forums could be a channel for them. (y)
That would be awesome. We may not have the numbers, but we have a lot to offer.
 

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It's an amazing MMO and worth it.
I would play it more if i had more time for it, but since i don't, i only play through the story content and finish each of the endgame raids once.
It's got pretty good stories (apart from the basegame), great OST, incredible environment design and pretty fun raids.
It's pretty pretty good. It has a decent story, especially in the first expansion Heavensward with awesome characters all around. Music is fucking phenomenal as mentioned above and most primal fights/raids are also pretty good. It also has a decent housing system with a ton of customisation all around. Honestly, I think the game as a whole is even better than mainline FF games past VI.

I played a lot of MMOs dating back to Ultima Online, and FFXIV is my favourite MMO by far, only beaten by Everquest, but that game is special to me, nothing is going to beat that.

You should definitely give FFXIV a try via a free trial if you never played it before.
Ahh the peer pressure!



Do yoy think it will be on sale next week?
 

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That’s a great idea, FunktionJCB.
That would be awesome. We may not have the numbers, but we have a lot to offer.
We already have a couple, like developer Tony Wilson (Grindwheel Games), whose game is out in a few days. :cat-heart-blob:



If he (and his friend Nyarlathotep before) didn't post about the game here, I would be totally unaware of it.

That's why it would be great to hear more here on Meta about smaller teams and developers, who frequently release quality games, but don't have the marketing budget to heavily promote their games, and whose games you rarely see websites like PCGamer and similar websites covering.
 

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Sell me on all your indie games. I'm always down to check something out. There's a huge gap now that everyone's taking the big payday.

And devs, if you need people to beta test or run through the basics we expect in a pc game, let us help you.
 

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Ahh the peer pressure!



Do yoy think it will be on sale next week?
To give you a different opinion, I started with the free trial last month and it bored me to tears.
I played for around 10 hours/to level 10 I think and the combat made me almost fall asleep and there wasn't much story to talk about, just boring fetch quests or kill x quests.
Great music though.
I know that people keep saying that it only gets good with the first expansion, but that starts at level 50(!) and if the rest of the base content is like those first 10 levels than that's a lot of boring to wade through.
Consider trying the free trial though. It's not on Steam, but there's no limitation except max level 30.
 
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Downunder.
My garbage Samsung 840 ssd finally bit the dust. I honestly forgot how trash it was. I thankfully didn't have many important things stored on it. I knew this day would come.
Time to RMA. (hopefully, it's still under warranty)

I still don’t even have an SSD.
You should, it's a good investment. Better yet, if you have the budget, buy two and RAID0 it.




I spent some time this weekend jailbreaking my PS3 and ripping some of my old games. Demon's Souls looks pretty spiffy in RPCS3. With the 60fps patch animation is doubled, it's practically like playing with a turbo mode. Feels gud.

Ripped the Atelier Dusk trilogy as well and they play decently too.
 
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I spent some time this weekend jailbreaking my PS3 and ripping some of my old games. Demon's Souls looks pretty spiffy in RPCS3. With the 60fps patch animation is doubled, it's practically like playing with a turbo mode.
oh, does it still have the weird sound distortion? I should try it again.
 

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Ever since the Xbox beta app launched I haven't been able to start FH4. I click on the game, the game pop up window with the FH4 banner/cover shows up, 30 seconds, gone.
 

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That’s a great idea, FunktionJCB.
I tore the screen off and melted the wifi adapter from my fiances busted Surface just to get one, and it was only 64GB. There are ways man, you just gotta look for them in weird places.

I was thinking: despite the forums allowing for developers to self-promote their games (unlike many forums), we still don't have many developers around.
I know some of you know a developer or two. Consider inviting them over.
For example, InquisitorAles, you know the developer from FobTi interactive, right? See if he would like to post here. ;)

It's always great to hear more about smaller developers and titles, that usually aren't featured in most websites, so hopefully these forums could be a channel for them. (y)
I think having more indie/smaller devs around would be great. Council would either squander such a opportunity by trying to influence games or learn about new games early on (should they be willing to share). Either way I'm good
 

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Ever since the Xbox beta app launched I haven't been able to start FH4. I click on the game, the game pop up window with the FH4 banner/cover shows up, 30 seconds, gone.
Try waiting five minutes after the banner shows up. I'm not joking, wait an actual five minutes. It's stupid, I know.
I've seen too many people say they can't tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps to trust those impressions just yet.
I've been trying all these garbage ass streaming platforms since OnLive. Yeah, I'm a masochist, but every single damned one of them have always had delay. The only games you don't notice it much on are the ones that already have terrible delay offline. None of them have yet to impress. I have 1Gb fiber up/down, wired, bla bla bla. You know the whole spiel that people try to use to blame others who can easily tell.
 
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Elaborating further on Nintendo

This shit is seeping into PC gaming as well. We've seen countless people say about the EGS exclusives that 'thats the way consoles are, whats the problem?'

Well, fuck your consoles, buddy. Just because you accept a lesser service at a expensive price tag means that that's the way things should be. And when PC gaming becomes more popular, companies will feel free too implement these boneheaded solutions, since the fanbase are used to it.
 

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Elaborating further on Nintendo

This shit is seeping into PC gaming as well. We've seen countless people say about the EGS exclusives that 'thats the way consoles are, whats the problem?'

Well, fuck your consoles, buddy. Just because you accept a lesser service at a expensive price tag means that that's the way things should be. And when PC gaming becomes more popular, companies will feel free too implement these boneheaded solutions, since the fanbase are used to it.
I couldn’t even imagine some of Nintendo’s ways gracing the Motherland of Master Races. Nintendo: “You’ll lose everything if you upgrade or get a new PC. Please, this time again, understand.”
 

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Don't play FFXIV if you're easily drawn into... I dunno how to phrase it, addictions via peer pressure?

I started with a free 30-day trial, a couple patches before Leviathan dropped. (So years ago...) Still, it started out harmless enough. I kept to myself, really enjoyed the gameplay, world, story, and music though. It felt very immersive too. I was really happy while playing it, despite being socially awkward, in-game it was easy to talk with people and make friends.

... And therein lies the problem. I was on one of the smaller server, and fell in with top-players there. Our FC (It's like a guild in FFXIV world) ran that server. We controlled the market boards, we carried others through raids, when a new feature came we were there, when houses came we had one first. It was fun! Really fun. ... but after a while it was just pressure. Pressure to perform, DPS-checks (Dragoon main), pressure to stay logged in for a certain amount of time so we could all communicate and plan. Pressure to know and master all the new content as soon as it came.

Pressure. Pressure. Pressure.

I think for a while there I was logging 12-14 hour days in that game. Calling out of work all the time. Not eating. Barely functioning as a real human lol. I was just so immersed in the world of FFXIV, I was having so much fun with friends I met though the game... everything outside of it just kinda fell by the wayside. In just 3 months, I had platinumed the PS4-version and slapped another 700+ hours into the Steam version.

I consider myself lucky to have gotten out of it. My life was headed for disaster if that kept up. Ended up having to ditch the authentication app without issuing a transfer code, which essentially locked me out of my account... And even then for a while I really struggled and wanted to go back.

Well even so. I don't trash talk FFXIV despite all this. It's a beautiful world with a great fantasy story and godly OST. Really nice community as well. However I do advice caution...
 

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Don't play FFXIV if you're easily drawn into... I dunno how to phrase it, addictions via peer pressure?

I started with a free 30-day trial, a couple patches before Leviathan dropped. (So years ago...) Still, it started out harmless enough. I kept to myself, really enjoyed the gameplay, world, story, and music though. It felt very immersive too. I was really happy while playing it, despite being socially awkward, in-game it was easy to talk with people and make friends.

... And therein lies the problem. I was on one of the smaller server, and fell in with top-players there. Our FC (It's like a guild in FFXIV world) ran that server. We controlled the market boards, we carried others through raids, when a new feature came we were there, when houses came we had one first. It was fun! Really fun. ... but after a while it was just pressure. Pressure to perform, DPS-checks (Dragoon main), pressure to stay logged in for a certain amount of time so we could all communicate and plan. Pressure to know and master all the new content as soon as it came.

Pressure. Pressure. Pressure.

I think for a while there I was logging 12-14 hour days in that game. Calling out of work all the time. Not eating. Barely functioning as a real human lol. I was just so immersed in the world of FFXIV, I was having so much fun with friends I met though the game... everything outside of it just kinda fell by the wayside. In just 3 months, I had platinumed the PS4-version and slapped another 700+ hours into the Steam version.

I consider myself lucky to have gotten out of it. My life was headed for disaster if that kept up. Ended up having to ditch the authentication app without issuing a transfer code, which essentially locked me out of my account... And even then for a while I really struggled and wanted to go back.

Well even so. I don't trash talk FFXIV despite all this. It's a beautiful world with a great fantasy story and godly OST. Really nice community as well. However I do advice caution...
Personally, I've never faced such thing. I think it would be my game to play when I dont want to play anything.

And I would play it alone so :p No pressure! haha
 
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Elaborating further on Nintendo

This shit is seeping into PC gaming as well. We've seen countless people say about the EGS exclusives that 'thats the way consoles are, whats the problem?'

Well, fuck your consoles, buddy. Just because you accept a lesser service at a expensive price tag means that that's the way things should be. And when PC gaming becomes more popular, companies will feel free too implement these boneheaded solutions, since the fanbase are used to it.
To be fair, a lot of people have talked against that, and most of the time the people who do support that stuff mostly play on consoles and are just devil advocating for the dumbest reasons.
 

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Personally, I've never faced such thing. I think it would be my game to play when I dont want to play anything.
I wish I was strong like this. Instead I'm so pessimistic and always thinking about how much everything sucks... the moment I find something I like I hopelessly cling to it and always go overboard. I hate this aspect of myself, and it leads to all kinds of troubles. Like whaling on gacha, shopping for the rush(happy chemicals in my brain whenever I spend money lol), or getting addicted to MMO's.

 

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I wish I was strong like this. Instead I'm so pessimistic and always thinking about how much everything sucks... the moment I find something I like I hopelessly cling to it and always go overboard. I hate this aspect of myself, and it leads to all kinds of troubles. Like whaling on gacha, shopping for the rush(happy chemicals in my brain whenever I spend money lol), or getting addicted to MMO's.

I guess we all have something like that, def can relate to buy shit just to feel happy.

I've never become addicted to MMO's but I'm afraid that will change with PSO2 lol
 

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I wish I was strong like this. Instead I'm so pessimistic and always thinking about how much everything sucks... the moment I find something I like I hopelessly cling to it and always go overboard. I hate this aspect of myself, and it leads to all kinds of troubles. Like whaling on gacha, shopping for the rush(happy chemicals in my brain whenever I spend money lol), or getting addicted to MMO's.

I’m the exact same way, friend. I have to be very careful with my hobbies. I get wrapped up and it just turns out financially bad. Relationships begin to suffer as well. I’ve become better over the past year, but it’s still tough.

Keep that chip up, yo!
 
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Don't play FFXIV if you're easily drawn into... I dunno how to phrase it, addictions via peer pressure?
I feel you on MMO peer pressure, Echo.

I don't know how I stayed married during my WoW addiction. I picked up WoW during Vanilla and played it hardcore until about the tail end of Wrath (2011?). From late '04 until then, I played daily. My brother played, my co-workers played, even our roommate played. I ran a successful guild for that entire time. Not only was I the guild leader, I also was the raid leader. I HAD to be there. The guild actually ballooned in size that at one point in vanilla, we had 2 40 man raids clearing all available content weekly. We raided 5 nights a week from 6pm to 12am, with weekends off. However, my addicted ass would then raid lead "optional" 20 man runs on Saturdays and Sundays. I'd go to work (and play WoW there, myself and my friend owned a computer repair shop), come home, eat and jump right on and play until bed time. Somehow my angel of a wife put up with this shitshow. While I've played all WoW expansions, my time since Wrath dropped and dropped until I bought BfA (the latest expansion) and played for a week before quitting. Never again.

I wish I was strong like this. Instead I'm so pessimistic and always thinking about how much everything sucks... the moment I find something I like I hopelessly cling to it and always go overboard. I hate this aspect of myself, and it leads to all kinds of troubles. Like whaling on gacha, shopping for the rush(happy chemicals in my brain whenever I spend money lol), or getting addicted to MMO's.
Me too. I have a very addictive personality. It runs in the family. All the males on my father's side (including my father) are alcoholics, degenerate gamblers, or both. I'm not either of those, thankfully.
 

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To give you a different opinion, I started with the free trial last month and it bored me to tears.
I played for around 10 hours/to level 10 I think and the combat made me almost fall asleep and there wasn't much story to talk about, just boring fetch quests or kill x quests.
Great music though.
I know that people keep saying that it only gets good with the first expansion, but that starts at level 50(!) and if the rest of the base content is like those first 10 levels than that's a lot of boring to wade through.
Consider trying the free trial though. It's not on Steam, but there's no limitation except max level 30.
ARR is a slog compared to Heavensward which is chefs kiss. Also you dont reach the first dungeon until Level 15 so dropping it before then is way too early. Even though the first few dungeons suck compared to the more original ones later on.

You can always just pay and skip to Heavensward tho lmao (I skipped the 2.1-2.55 quests by paying and it was worth every cent, fuck those quests)

Don't play FFXIV if you're easily drawn into... I dunno how to phrase it, addictions via peer pressure?

I started with a free 30-day trial, a couple patches before Leviathan dropped. (So years ago...) Still, it started out harmless enough. I kept to myself, really enjoyed the gameplay, world, story, and music though. It felt very immersive too. I was really happy while playing it, despite being socially awkward, in-game it was easy to talk with people and make friends.

... And therein lies the problem. I was on one of the smaller server, and fell in with top-players there. Our FC (It's like a guild in FFXIV world) ran that server. We controlled the market boards, we carried others through raids, when a new feature came we were there, when houses came we had one first. It was fun! Really fun. ... but after a while it was just pressure. Pressure to perform, DPS-checks (Dragoon main), pressure to stay logged in for a certain amount of time so we could all communicate and plan. Pressure to know and master all the new content as soon as it came.

Pressure. Pressure. Pressure.

I think for a while there I was logging 12-14 hour days in that game. Calling out of work all the time. Not eating. Barely functioning as a real human lol. I was just so immersed in the world of FFXIV, I was having so much fun with friends I met though the game... everything outside of it just kinda fell by the wayside. In just 3 months, I had platinumed the PS4-version and slapped another 700+ hours into the Steam version.

I consider myself lucky to have gotten out of it. My life was headed for disaster if that kept up. Ended up having to ditch the authentication app without issuing a transfer code, which essentially locked me out of my account... And even then for a while I really struggled and wanted to go back.

Well even so. I don't trash talk FFXIV despite all this. It's a beautiful world with a great fantasy story and godly OST. Really nice community as well. However I do advice caution...
Being poor (and alone) has its benefits. I usually only play for 1 or 2 months at a time then come back 4-6 months later and repeat, This way theres usually 2-3 major updates of new content I can sink my teeth into. 900 hours in and im still enjoying it as much as I did when I first started so I guess its working? I feel like I mostly sub to it when im heavily depressed which my sister discovered and called me out for it :p

Also the free trial is on steam. Its marked as the demo.

 

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Ahh the peer pressure!



Do yoy think it will be on sale next week?
I think the base game is free on Twitch Prime and Heavensward is currently free from SE Store. CMIIW though.

To give you a different opinion, I started with the free trial last month and it bored me to tears.
I played for around 10 hours/to level 10 I think and the combat made me almost fall asleep and there wasn't much story to talk about, just boring fetch quests or kill x quests.
Great music though.
I know that people keep saying that it only gets good with the first expansion, but that starts at level 50(!) and if the rest of the base content is like those first 10 levels than that's a lot of boring to wade through.
Consider trying the free trial though. It's not on Steam, but there's no limitation except max level 30.
Yeah this is the problem with FFXIV. The beginning of the game is really really boring that I won't surprised if it make people give up on the game. If you can survive the whole ARR it will reward you greatly though. Heavensward is better than most of the current JRPG. Stormblood is good, but not Heavensward's good.
 
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ARR is a slog compared to Heavensward which is chefs kiss. Also you dont reach the first dungeon until Level 15 so dropping it before then is way too early. Even though the first few dungeons suck compared to the more original ones later on.

You can always just pay and skip to Heavensward tho lmao (I skipped the 2.1-2.55 quests by paying and it was worth every cent, fuck those quests)



Being poor (and alone) has its benefits. I usually only play for 1 or 2 months at a time then come back 4-6 months later and repeat, This way theres usually 2-3 major updates of new content I can sink my teeth into. 900 hours in and im still enjoying it as much as I did when I first started so I guess its working? I feel like I mostly sub to it when im heavily depressed which my sister discovered and called me out for it :p

Also the free trial is on steam. Its marked as the demo.

If I download the free trial I will have to download everything again if I purchase the game?
 
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I feel you on MMO peer pressure, Echo.

I don't know how I stayed married during my WoW addiction. I picked up WoW during Vanilla and played it hardcore until about the tail end of Wrath (2011?). From late '04 until then, I played daily. My brother played, my co-workers played, even our roommate played. I ran a successful guild for that entire time. Not only was I the guild leader, I also was the raid leader. I HAD to be there. The guild actually ballooned in size that at one point in vanilla, we had 2 40 man raids clearing all available content weekly. We raided 5 nights a week from 6pm to 12am, with weekends off. However, my addicted ass would then raid lead "optional" 20 man runs on Saturdays and Sundays. I'd go to work (and play WoW there, myself and my friend owned a computer repair shop), come home, eat and jump right on and play until bed time. Somehow my angel of a wife put up with this shitshow. While I've played all WoW expansions, my time since Wrath dropped and dropped until I bought BfA (the latest expansion) and played for a week before quitting. Never again.



Me too. I have a very addictive personality. It runs in the family. All the males on my father's side (including my father) are alcoholics, degenerate gamblers, or both. I'm not either of those, thankfully.
Holy crap. 6-7 years! I can't imagine. I thought my 3-4 months was bad. o_O Happy to hear you made it out though, and importantly with your family intact!

I probably teeter on Alcoholism tbh. Always buying Beer and Whiskey, but my body seems to have built-in defenses lol. Like it'll cut me off by instigating heart burn before I have too much and that always makes me stop cuz I hate that feeling. Alternatively it puts me to sleep before things get bad.

Not sure if blessing or curse. Can't complain though... that my body forces me to drink only in moderation is probably a good thing!
 

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Don't play FFXIV if you're easily drawn into... I dunno how to phrase it, addictions via peer pressure?

I started with a free 30-day trial, a couple patches before Leviathan dropped. (So years ago...) Still, it started out harmless enough. I kept to myself, really enjoyed the gameplay, world, story, and music though. It felt very immersive too. I was really happy while playing it, despite being socially awkward, in-game it was easy to talk with people and make friends.

... And therein lies the problem. I was on one of the smaller server, and fell in with top-players there. Our FC (It's like a guild in FFXIV world) ran that server. We controlled the market boards, we carried others through raids, when a new feature came we were there, when houses came we had one first. It was fun! Really fun. ... but after a while it was just pressure. Pressure to perform, DPS-checks (Dragoon main), pressure to stay logged in for a certain amount of time so we could all communicate and plan. Pressure to know and master all the new content as soon as it came.

Pressure. Pressure. Pressure.

I think for a while there I was logging 12-14 hour days in that game. Calling out of work all the time. Not eating. Barely functioning as a real human lol. I was just so immersed in the world of FFXIV, I was having so much fun with friends I met though the game... everything outside of it just kinda fell by the wayside. In just 3 months, I had platinumed the PS4-version and slapped another 700+ hours into the Steam version.

I consider myself lucky to have gotten out of it. My life was headed for disaster if that kept up. Ended up having to ditch the authentication app without issuing a transfer code, which essentially locked me out of my account... And even then for a while I really struggled and wanted to go back.

Well even so. I don't trash talk FFXIV despite all this. It's a beautiful world with a great fantasy story and godly OST. Really nice community as well. However I do advice caution...
I'm out of Time rather than money. I can't afford more than 3 hours nowadays for gaming, I really want to try because I've played almost all single player FFs and heard glowing praise about FFXIV. Having a sub doesn't help it either.
 

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Holy crap. 6-7 years! I can't imagine. I thought my 3-4 months was bad. o_O Happy to hear you made it out though, and importantly with your family intact!

I probably teeter on Alcoholism tbh. Always buying Beer and Whiskey, but my body seems to have built-in defenses lol. Like it'll cut me off by instigating heart burn before I have too much and that always makes me stop cuz I hate that feeling. Alternatively it puts me to sleep before things get bad.

Not sure if blessing or curse. Can't complain though... that my body forces me to drink only in moderation is probably a good thing!
I control the drinking problem by being one of those awful beer snobs. A 6-pack of microbrew is expensive, comparative to the swill my dad drinks (Bud Light, aka, piss water). So I really only buy one 6-pack a week or so.
 

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I control the drinking problem by being one of those awful beer snobs. A 6-pack of microbrew is expensive, comparative to the swill my dad drinks (Bud Light, aka, piss water). So I really only buy one 6-pack a week or so.
true. I like Asahi and Kirin, but in America these are imports. They're hard to find and expensive as a result.

Usually have to raid the Asian supermarkets near me when they go on discount. :p

I drink a lot of beer. It helps with frustration.

It does. I like a drink in the evenings just to wind down and chill.
 

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After thinking about how Griftlands took an EGS deal for a exclusive “open beta” It reminded me I have another Klei game in open (i guess its closed now) beta right now, Hot Lava. So I went back and played it for the first time since last June and its honestly my favorite Klei game so far. So much fun.

They made a deal with Apple to bring it to IOS as part of Apple Arcade and used the money to increase the dev team size and it shows. EGS can take Griftlands, Ill happily take Hot Lava over it any day of the week. Klei’s first 3D outing is a success in my book and its not even finished.


also when Hot Lava's public beta started it was SUPER bare bones, and if its any indication of what griftlands will be like when its beta starts, You're not really missing much lol
 
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Li Kao

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I control the drinking problem by being one of those awful beer snobs. A 6-pack of microbrew is expensive, comparative to the swill my dad drinks (Bud Light, aka, piss water). So I really only buy one 6-pack a week or so.
I got real close to alcoholism some years ago. Addictive personality, pleasure of the rush, loneliness. These days, I couldn’t even drink casually... I can’t afford it.
This was a message from the unemployed life can go fuck itself board.
 

texhnolyze

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This has been bugging me since forever. Can I launch uplay games without the overlay while not having to deal with with warning every single time?



Thanks but no thanks. I don't need your overlay on top of Steam and Windows one.
 
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FunnyJay

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Talking about UPlay, anyone else get a 2FA mail from UPlay everytime you launch a UPlay game from Steam?
I recently enabled 2FA on UPlay and I get a mail every time I launch Watch_Dogs from Steam (where I bought it) even though my computer is already logged I into UPlay and I am not prompted to enter the code anywhere.

Tried googling but nothing showed up.
 

Ascheroth

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Alright, so after playing through Abzu, Guacamelee 2 and ReCore via Game Pass, and trying a bunch of others, I think I'll end my time with it now.
I think I fundamentally prefer to have games in my library to play them at my own pace. The subscription is just always at the back of my mind and it affects my enjoyment negatively.
I also never got the Steam Controller working for any of the games, though apparently Microsoft is going to get rid of their locked down WindowsApps folder in favor of something more open, so I guess that will change in due time.
I appreciate it existing though, since it's definitely great value and it makes Timmy-boy cry because no one in their right mind will buy their egscloosies if they can play them via Game Pass instead.
 
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