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Four year update: System is still has basically the same foundation (Fanatec DD2, Inverted Clubsport pedals), but I've picked up a bunch of wheels (A body can't drive a truck with an F1 wheel, and a body shouldn't even want to try.), including the Bentley wheel with the gyroscopic self-levelling center display. The rig no longer runs on a laptop, but a dedicated Alienware i9 with an Nvidia 4080. I think I'm going to move over to 3 TVs instead of the Samsung G9 49" flanked by 2 1440 27s. Three like TVs sets up much easier across more games than this current setup with its odd dimensions. Also, American Truck Simulator is the tits. Brother-in-law came over to check it out:
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Some recent plays: Senjutsu: Battle for Japan is a quick little PVP game set in medival Japan, a theme right up my alley. (I can't recall if I've posted this one.) More Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Seconc Era. This one is weird - I can't tell if it's really good or if it's great. Some clunk, as you get with every Chp Theory Games production, but the high points are so damn high... SETI is a game fo the year candidate, imo. I added a little LED light to the sun because of course. Another game we keep going back to: Retun to Dark Tower. I STILL haven't played it with the latest expansion. I wonder what that means... Dark Quarter is a Chronicles of Crime-type whodunit with excellent app integration. The player characters here are more developed than CoC, which isn't saying much, and has more mysticism and voodoo in the stories. Not much replayability, but that's fine. I have officially run out of room. Next step is to do like Tokyo and build up.
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All good points. I think another aspect is that a bunch of these companies got too big too fast, and/or helmed by artists with no real business acumen. Add to the perfect storm a rough economy over the past 5 years and we're seeing a thinning of the herd. It's not like board games are the only entertainment segment feeling this retraction. Hollywood, with a lot of board game parallels, and a whole host of other entertainment markets are shrinking at historical rates. Entertainment is going to look almost unidentifiable in 5 years. And Tanuki Games must be protected. Chris has hooked me up too many times. Tanuki till I die.
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9/10 for the first season. Thoroughly enjoyed, even if Brosnan and Mirren acted like comic book villains. Paddy never misses.
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"It's dead, Jim."
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My vinyls collecting might have jumped the shark. I haven't listened to Load since its release day in 1996. It didn't click with me. But I have all the other Metallica super deluxes so this seemed like a good time to give it another shot. Honestly, it's not as impressive technically as real Metallica, but it's also more musical. James's lyric writing is more in the Of Wolf and Man vein, but it's just lyrics and who gives a shit about lyrics if the music is good, and the songs here take a lot of chances and might even stick the landing on several of them. Don't really care, though, since I was more into the retrospective book with letters from all the major players, including Jason. The music here never raises my pulse, even if I did enjoy the listen more than I thought I would, but hearing stories of the making of the album I found very interesting.
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I wonder what this says for the future of the hobby. After a pre-order shitshow, Nintendo drops a portable console with a screen downgrade from the last model and a sole first-party title that's also scaled back and won't be realized until a few rounds of paid DLC drop, all with a hefty price increase, and goes on to sell more than any console has in this time frame. Hold onto your butts, the lessons they've learned from this pobably won't benefit the consumer.
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This has to be the new bar for most disappointing console launch. Gamecube is looking like roses now. The only title I was excited about is Mario Kart World and now that I've played it, 8 is superior in every way that makes Kart games fun. Sales are great, but big whoop. This lineup would get Nintendo murdered a few decades ago.
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I ended up with a Kitchenaid KF8 - everything else in the kitchen is Kitchenaid and I'm a systems person. Love it so far, however I use distilled water and add potassium bicarbonate but it looks like I can't defeat the filter warnings. Zzzzz /endthreadderail
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Are we at the tail end of the golden age of board games? Kickstarter and Gamefound haven't been hopping like they used to be a few ago, and it's been like this for months. In other news, I FINALLY finished the 3D Showdown Board for Kingdom Death: Monster. All magnetized, framed, and mounted. I could hang it on the wall if I thought the wall wouldn't fall down! This thing is heavy. Now we just need the upcoming terrain pieces, but I'm in no rush to do this again. Good lord, this took a long time...
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When I started this little endeavor, I thought it would be cool to get all the BIS gear for my Haswell-era machine. Like, I was going to make the king dingaling of computers from a time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, but looking at these prices for parts from a few years before the start of the paleolithic got me like: Turns out my MSI X99a Godlike Gaming Carbon is something of a collectible. Maybe I can flip an old Fatal1ty case I have in storage for one of those fancy chromed up espesso machines. brb
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I haven't used my "main" desktop in about 5 years or so. I got back into photography and the monitor array that's hooked up to that machine makes editing pics a joy, so I decided to dust the machine off (and man was there dust) and fire it up. It fired up on the second pull and made sounds like the car from the Ghostbusters cartoon, but eventually came to life. I couldn't even remember the specs! So I poked around the hard drives (it has some mechanicals because it's from a time when multi-terrabyte SSDs were sold almost exclusively to sultans) and updated everything (which took an eon) and found and reacquainted myself with all the incriminating stuff. It was like a pre-covid timecapsule! lol It has a 6950X (remember that badass? I bought it with the trepidation that it would consume so much more electricity. What a sweet summer child I was.), 64GB of DDR4 across 8 slots (X99 holla!) and a 1080Ti (making it the lowest grade GPU, by a considerable margin, in the entire house, which contains 5 laptops and 2 other desktops! Poor, venerable titanium.). I've only replaced the image library drive, swapping in a 4TB Samsung 870 Evo. (Note: do not mount a drive on the USB bus, set it up, and then expect it to work on AHCI. Zzzzz) Now I'm at a crossroad. Do I replace the GPU (for a 2080ti) and the rest of the mechanicals or take it down to the studs (I guess I can keep the 1000W Seasonic PS? Power headers can be adapted if needed, no?) and go with something from this era? I don't need a burner (besides, so much of editing images is gated like PDFs, you can only go so fast regardless of how much horsepower you throw at it), this will only be for image editing, gaming is done elsewhere. I'm not necessarily looking for an answer, just thinking out loud. I'll mess around on it and see if the slowness bothers me. It probably will and I will find a reason to upgrade to whole damn thing without much effort, you watch. In other news, the new main laptop is here: Alienware 16 Area 51 with all the sliders pushed to the right (except for the CherryMX keyboard - where I use the machine isn't conducive to loud clicky-clack mechanical keys and real talk, membrane keyboard are nice nice anyway.) I need to get Port Royal like all the cool kids, but alas. (Time Spy Extreme dropped an 11786) Now, off to see what people are getting for lightly used, never OC'd EVGA 2080Ti's. Only recently found out EVGA isn't even in the GPU business anymore, that's how out of it I am. EDIT: Holy shit, still like $300+?! I thought it was going to be one of those "I'll pay you to take it off my hands kind of thing!"
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Yeah, I feel like I've done everything the game will ever offer. Haven't even created a toon the past two seasons, but I got my money's worth with the more than 500 hours I put in.
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