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I've gotten back into Fallout 4. Modded the hell out of it, and I'm a god amongst the Commonwealth. It's actually a lot of fun this way.

Unfortunately, I have the game on Steam, which for some reason really limits the mods I'm able to find. I know I can mod it even further by changing the paths and all that, but just don't feel like going through the work to do that.

It's kind of like the Oscars, where the majority of America isn't invited unless they want to watch it on television.

I honestly don't care. I wouldn't go to it in the first place, and I'm not watching it on television either. I'd rather fall asleep to attractive ASMR women on Twitch instead, for free.

I've gotten to a point where I'm so over this administration that I don't even care any more what he and his hench people are doing these days. They're going to corrupt no matter what happens, and our country was not designed to stop it. If anything comes out of this administration, I hope at least we realize how fundamentally broken our system is that a grifter can bring his whole entourage with him into Washington and run free without anyone being able to do anything about it.

But we won't learn from this. Instead, we'll vote him out and be convinced that "the system works" as a result.

They should have seen this coming a mile away. Now, while I can't say anything will actually come of this, something eventually will because the industry had so many chances to clean up this garbage but kept responding with libertarian promises of "the market will fix itself" and the market didn't. Where the industry used to have a lot of gamers standing behind it, microtransactions basically started to reveal that the game industry is more focused on finding new ways to monetize than it is in innovating new, fun ways to play their games. There was only so much before they'd start to lose the core players as a good defense mechanism.

And while there's no guarantee that this measure will start to clean up the problem (it probably won't even pass), if it doesn't, each new approach is only going to get more draconian so that it does more harm than good (the whole "the government is the last entity we need to clean up anything").

I drink WAY too much diet Dr Pepper, and I know it. At times, I cut it out, and others, I think I'm keeping the whole Dr Pepper industry in business.

But I have an employee who works for me who eats a regular canister of Pringles and an extremely large Monster energy drink every morning. But it is helping my diet because every time I see him consuming that at 8:00 am, I throw up.

20 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Ah, well shitty. Though supposedly they have better customer support than steam.

 

I had trouble adding a friend on Origin. I wrote them, it wasn't fixed, then one day it was fixed. So maybe it was randomly fixed for you.

Tried a bunch of times. Finally just gave up. It's something broken on their end with billing, and each time they say it should be no problem, and then I get a generic response of "Can we help you with anything else" with the problem not addressed.

18 hours ago, SFLUFAN said:

You will get VERY immersed in Divinity: Original Sin 2.

Finished and loved it.

2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Origin account and a TOR account are separate things though. I know because my TOR account is CreamyChicken or something like that.

They combined them a while back when it comes to charging for them. On the surface, it doesn't look that way, but when I was trying to get my TOR account fixed, the only way to do it was to go through EA's Origin, which is where the whole thing was forked. The customer service people keep apologizing but say there's nothing they can do because Origin actually controls the financial side of TOR. The TOR people were really as helpful as they could be, but the Origin side of the house just couldn't fix anything but it was literally the only place where anything was authorized to be fixed.

15 hours ago, Hurdyb1 said:

I don't know if it's on PC but I'm assuming it is but I've been playing Mass Effect Andromeda non stop for some weeks now. I've been loving just getting lost in that world of that game.

I can't buy anything on EA because they screwed up my account back when I was playing Star Wars The Old Republic. When I stopped playing, someone broke into the EA servers, compromised a bunch of accounts, and no matter what I do, i can't get them to fix my account. I've been trying for years, and while I can access my account to play what I already own, unless I buy something through a game card, I can't add anything to my account. I've pretty much vowed to never buy anything from EA again.

8 minutes ago, TheGreatGamble said:

No, it goes down, and can cause a diabetic coma. 

I didn't say it was correct. I was just saying what someone told me, with that person thinking it held any logic whatsoever.

Well, if diabetics don't eat anything at all, their blood sugar doesn't go up.

Yeah, someone actually told me that not too long ago.

7 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

What the hell 

Yeah, that was my thought. Both for the original post AND for the whole car battery thing.

27 minutes ago, Hurricane Game said:

Monster Hunter World 

I bought it when it first came out and didn't really like the combat. Reinstalling it on Steam and may try it again. I really need something to play.

Been trying to play the Division 2, but man that game is horribly keyboard mapped. "Jump over the barrier!" Um, my fingers aren't even closely designed to stretch that far or anywhere near naturally like that. Yeah, I can remap, but wow, it's like every keyboard option is horribly AND randomly designed.

17 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

Have you played the Witcher 3?

Yes.

I mostly play pc games, although I do have an Xbox One S (which I never play anything because I've just never got used to the controller...yeah, I know lots of people like it. Just never got used to it).

I've been playing Star Trek Online, Eve Online, and I tried Elite: Dangerous, but just never got that far into it.

Basically, I have a brand new computer with everything top of the line and really want to start exploring some top of the line graphics games that people really enjoy and recommend.

To be honest, I'm more interested in her overly privileged daughter who sees this whole affair as an affront to her "career" as an influencer. Before this, I knew nothing about any of them, but some horrible part of me just wants to watch that girl crash and burn so freaking badly.

1 hour ago, elbobo said:

Probably the best episode of the season at least the first half. Glad to see exploding consoles still contain rocks because it is the Trek-way damnit. 

 

Georgiou had the best lines this episode but I still don't like how everyone is cool with space-Hitler, she has been in this universe for what a few months at most.

 

Little confused on why everyone is staying on Discovery, are they signing up for a one way ticket so Michael won't be alone? Spock has to get off at some point.

 

I know ships always travel at the speed of plot in Trek but Sarek and Amanda showing up is too much, it is GoT season 7 level bad. Are they still on Discovery too? 

 

I could have sworn I saw their ship take off right after their big good bye scene.

Georgiou's final words to Pike were probably straight out awesome because up until this point, I kind of assumed everyone knew she was from the Mirror Universe, and his "what mirror universe" kind of brought it home to me.

The last half of this seasons has been, in my opinion, the type of Trek that makes me a Trekkie in so many ways. For most of this show, I've been ambivalent about most of the crew (or so I thought I was), but when they were all kind of saying their good byes one by one, I realized how much I actually appreciated quite a few members of this crew.

Part of me wonders if this is going to be a Voyager type of show going forward next season, where instead of the Delta Quadrant they'd be trapped hundreds/thousands of years  in the future. It wouldn't surprise me because the show has always felt like it was slightly out of time/dimension no matter where it was. They've done a good job of resetting Discovery back into the regular universe so much that I'm hoping for one more type of time travel episode where they return to a period of time before CBS decided to put the show behind  its stupid pay app.

Knowing the way this show has been going so far (with pitfalls that seem opposite of what you expect), part of me suspects that they'll time travel backwards instead of forwards as planned, somehow removing Discovery from the time line completely.

1 hour ago, Brick said:

Not going to watch this, or any other trailers. I'm going on full media blackout for this movie so I can see it in theatres fresh, and so I don't get caught up in JJ's mystery box bullshit with the marketing. See you guys December 20th! 

I'm on such media blackout about this movie that I may not even watch the movie when it comes out. That will completely save the plot for me.

On 4/12/2019 at 12:55 PM, elbobo said:

Kylo is a Skywalker from his mother's side so it could theoretically refer to him

You're all missing the obvious: R2D2 was owned by Luke, so HE is the Skywalker who has been holding the whole franchise together.

On 4/12/2019 at 12:47 PM, CitizenVectron said:

Definitely sunken Death Star. So that's the forest moon of Endor?

 

 

It was such a big explosion that the ruins ended up in Azeroth.

I still don't understand why they're making a sequel to Infinity War. Didn't Thanos already save the universe in the first one?

I drink WAY too much diet Dr Pepper.

I have the Oculus Go, and I like it, but to be honest, it's somewhat uncomfortable for someone who wears glasses. They do have an insert to make it usable with glasses, but for the most part, that insert falls out a lot and gets loose. Now, they have an addition that you can buy separately to get a more comfortable feel, but I have yet to see where to find it, other than to order it online, and I remember it being a bit expensive.

I'm still waiting for a comfortable VR experience. And the other problem is software. They still don't make a lot of great software that makes having a VR unit worth it. Right now, it honestly feels like porn is about the only thing that is made for these things, other than an occasional title. My one favorite thing for it is an ASMR artist who actually makes ASMR VR content, which is pretty awesome. But she's a rarity, and she has very few titles.

Wal Mart out in Corpus Christi, Texas, seems more like a grocery store than what we tend to equate with the negative aspects of Wal Mart. I kind of see Wal Mart out here as more of a Meier's type of store than what I'm used to seeing as Wal Mart.

11 hours ago, Jason said:

I can't believe we coddle cops with letting them be the biggest fucking snowflakes in existence. 

Same thought I've had for a long time. Basically, I got the impression that cops actually felt they were privileged and were the law rather than the people who enforced the law, which is a bad precedent if you're trying to gain public buy-in for what you do.