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US is more "places you'd want to visit, but never actually live there".
Just finished Alan Wake 2. After 13 years.
Lmao, Retro-bit finally made amends after 4 years for my faulty Saturn USB gamepad's d-pad and have apparently sent me 2 whole new (presumably without the flaw) gamepads rather than bother with replacement parts (I think). I thought I'd check where they may be with the USPS tracking number they gave me and they're being held at customs in Athens since October 31st. Googling about it shows they may stay there for months or ask me to pay to get it. Greeaat.
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How many hours did it take you to 100% it?
game is pretty good.
I mean, you're not wrong. If you removed all the major cities and only looked at just the nature aspect of the US. You have big forest (I think I remember hearing that Canada has better, more pretty forest), the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean (sunset/sunrise at the beach). Beautiful coast, you also have deserts. And a lot of other stuff in-between.
All y'all do not know what you're missing here in the US. There is some gosh darned amazing natural beauty here. It doesn't make the whole lack of health care thing any better but you can sure forget it when you look at Yosemite Forest or out over the Pacific Ocean from Highway 1. The Grand Canyon is awe inspiring (when you can get away from the crowds). The deserts have their own kind of beauty even. And depending where you go you can do many of those different biomes in one trip or in some places several in one day. Surfing waves the beach in the morning and skiing before the sun sets on the mountains is totally possible in California for example---with a car.
People rightly give the US crap about the many, many failings it has. But saying you never want to visit even to see the sights seems foolish to me. Now if to want to say you can't afford to visit that's natural and normal, but also a far cry from saying it isn't worth going. Money is barrier to everything for everyone, but don't let it ruin your dreams and aspirations.
In general I think people should visit other countries more often. Expand your horizons and see how other places are. If anyone wants to claim their place is best but they haven't been to many other places I'm immediately distrustful. I'd visit any country that anyone here is from in a heartbeat, if I could get the money and time off work lol. (There's a joke here about Americans not having any time to do anything because of late stage capitalism but I'm tired so consider this parenthetical good enough)
People rightly give the US crap about the many, many failings it has. But saying you never want to visit even to see the sights seems foolish to me. Now if to want to say you can't afford to visit that's natural and normal, but also a far cry from saying it isn't worth going. Money is barrier to everything for everyone, but don't let it ruin your dreams and aspirations.
In general I think people should visit other countries more often. Expand your horizons and see how other places are. If anyone wants to claim their place is best but they haven't been to many other places I'm immediately distrustful. I'd visit any country that anyone here is from in a heartbeat, if I could get the money and time off work lol. (There's a joke here about Americans not having any time to do anything because of late stage capitalism but I'm tired so consider this parenthetical good enough)
Has anyone else found the steam hardware survey not entirely accurate?
It said that I have no SSD in my PC (I have two and a HDD) and it also said I don't have VR (I own 3 devices and one is never unplugged).
Makes me wonder if the stats for certain items are lower than what they should be, obviously taking out the fact that some people choose not to submit their results.
It said that I have no SSD in my PC (I have two and a HDD) and it also said I don't have VR (I own 3 devices and one is never unplugged).
Makes me wonder if the stats for certain items are lower than what they should be, obviously taking out the fact that some people choose not to submit their results.
Super short exclusivity period. 4 months, and 1 month since the final episode was released.
for those interested in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, cdkeys key is already delivered with the purchase (you don't have to wait to release date), already comes with pre-order bonus, so if you want to save few bucks.
It never detected my Oculus Rift all the years I had it always connected.
Yeah, the US has great natural landscapes, and I think even the large city scapes are great to experience at least once, as you don't have much quite like it here in Europe. I'd just never want to actually work or live there, but going as a tourist is great ( if you can afford to)
Phil Spencer: Japanese PC games market has doubled, Game Pass PC users have quadrupled
Xbox gaming CEO Phil Spencer discusses how the Japanese video games market has grown since 2020, with PC gaming and Game Pass PC subs expanding rapidly.
www.tweaktown.com
Phil Spencer echoing what Valve has said about PC gaming growth in Japan.
I'm surprised it escaped the marketing black hole so quickly. AFAIK it was a massive flop on every platform and had a 40% discount about two months after release.
I hope folks aren't sleeping on Talos Principle II. That game is absolutely one of the year's best!
I'll probably play it and other modern games in 1 year and half or so, whenever the RTX 5070/whatever AMD equivalent arrive, whichever ends up having the best performance per watt.
I want to play games confortably at 1440p, but my 3060 Ti just doesn't cut it, and the current gen of gpus is a big pass for me, so until the next gen it's only older games or less demanding games for me.
I have tons of great games in my backlog anyway. ^^
Embracer COO confirms departure following ‘rough’ year for the games giant | VGC
The holding company has been cutting jobs across its companies…
www.videogameschronicle.com
Hopefully the galaxy brains running Telltale have learned their lesson to not go EGS exclusive.
I feel like PC players are more inclined to “take a risk” on narrative adventure games. The hype for these kind of trickles down to consoles, so making your PC version unsellable seems like it has a larger impact on the console versions than some other kinds of exclusive.
The strong PC focus also probably made them attractive to Epic in the first place.
But I think the issues plaguing that game go beyond EGS. 2023 is just one of those years
I feel like PC players are more inclined to “take a risk” on narrative adventure games. The hype for these kind of trickles down to consoles, so making your PC version unsellable seems like it has a larger impact on the console versions than some other kinds of exclusive.
The strong PC focus also probably made them attractive to Epic in the first place.
But I think the issues plaguing that game go beyond EGS. 2023 is just one of those years
Anyone know if you can get monitor arm extensions?
Atm it's two connectors but I'd like it to be longer, so I can have it higher and further to the left of my TV if possible
Atm it's two connectors but I'd like it to be longer, so I can have it higher and further to the left of my TV if possible
Hardly, but too busy to get to it before I am done with Alan Wake 2, and I still need to finish Act 3 in BG3 as well.
speaking of BG3:
Gaming News (@GamingNews@meta.masto.host)
Attached: 1 image VG247 just posted: Brace yourself, Baldur's Gate 3 might be getting a new difficulty mode even tougher than tactician It looks like Baldur's Gate 3 could be getting a fearsome new difficulty setting dubbed “Honour Mode”, which, if it mimics its namesake from another Larian...
Why not post the VG247 article link?speaking of BG3:
Gaming News (@GamingNews@meta.masto.host)
Attached: 1 image VG247 just posted: Brace yourself, Baldur's Gate 3 might be getting a new difficulty mode even tougher than tactician It looks like Baldur's Gate 3 could be getting a fearsome new difficulty setting dubbed “Honour Mode”, which, if it mimics its namesake from another Larian...mastodon.social
This is as annoying as when someone posts their on Twitter/Threads post in a forum thread. Like, why?
I don't mind Mastodon links, but having Embeds would be very convenient.
I don't have a problem with Twitter/Mastodon/Threads as long as the content is "only" in that embed, but if the Twitter/Mastodon/Threads post is just a post referring to article on another site, that's annoying because it's an extra click that wasn't needed.
But it's not an extra click if it's an embed. You asked for the direct link, so you'd still have to click that too, or am I missing something
I clicked Lashmans Mastodon embed/link which opened up Mastodon in a new tab and the Mastodon post was just a link to a VG247 article.
So he could just have posted the VG247 article link here, that was my point.
No, no, I mean proper Embeds that show the complete contents of the post before you have to click. Like how Xeets can be embedded here
I just started the MW2 campaign (only took me a year to find time lol) and it's really dissapointing reading about the MW3 campaign impressions.
I've always enjoyed the CoD campaign as I view them as cozy-short-popcorn-spectacle campaigns.
I've always enjoyed the CoD campaign as I view them as cozy-short-popcorn-spectacle campaigns.
I've been to America a couple of times on vacation (its a ten plus hour flight from Manila to LA, so not too often). I agree that there are a lot of great sights to see, but I have two major sticking points that push me away from coming back:
1) Everything is so spaced out due to the large land mass, so you spend an crazy amount of time in transit compared to other countries you could potentially visit.
2) The peace and order situation at present seems appalling. Not even talking about the random mass shootings that seem to crop up every other month, but stuff like that old lady in NYC getting punched in the face by a crazed rando because theyre Asian. And that's without Trump in office stirring shit up.
Considering that a trip to the US sucks up a huge amount of vacation leave for folks in Asia (most people take three weeks or so, to maximize the long flight), theres just not a lot of incentive to visit nowadays sadly.
How much are you paying for these and do you want anything I have? UT2004, Icewind Dale, Doom 3, Planescape Torment, Wasteland 2, Battlefield 2, smaller DVD boxes like Dragon Age Origins shrink wrapped and Oblivion?More ebay stuff came today.
According to Era moderators People Make Games is now random YouTuber XD
Don’t want to do Era drama here too much, but that flippant, dismissive locking comment is… ill-judged, shall we say.
PMG are super-respected journalists, and they’re telling the story of the people who make games, as they always do. These people just happen to be Palestinian.
I’m sure the reaction to Ukrainian developers on a PMG video would be just as flippant and dismissive. /s
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