The first Pillars of Eternity had a middle aged woman who just wandered around with you and provided advice and didn't really interact with the rest of the party, she was great
The first Pillars of Eternity had a middle aged woman who just wandered around with you and provided advice and didn't really interact with the rest of the party, she was great
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Grieving Mother?
Yeah. If you ever ask your other party members what they think of her they'll have essentially not noticed her or not realize that she's been traveling with you.
The first Pillars of Eternity had a middle aged woman who just wandered around with you and provided advice and didn't really interact with the rest of the party, she was great
Wait... who was that? I played PoE years ago, but I totally do not remember that character.
The first Pillars of Eternity had a middle aged woman who just wandered around with you and provided advice and didn't really interact with the rest of the party, she was great
Wait... who was that? I played PoE years ago, but I totally do not remember that character.
StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
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I think she might be my favorite character from that game. Everyone else felt like something I'd seen before, even if they were exceptionally well executed (I really like the Sagani and Pallegina narratives, for instance). But she was more or less completely new, even when she was retreading familiar territory.
I had her in the party when I, um, told a kid to go somewhere they shouldn't and she up and vanishes and eder goes "hey did anyone feel something?"
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Buying an new SSD could be about to become as difficult as buying a new, next-gen graphics card in the coming months thanks to the rise of a new cryptocurrency known as Chia. According to a new report from HKEPC (thanks Hexus), storage prices in Hong Kong have soared in recent days as miners snap up high capacity drives in anticipation of Chia being the next big thing, causing several models to go out of stock. Now, manufacturers in China have confirmed they're starting to produce dedicated cryptocurrency mining SSDs to help handle the growing demand.
Developed by the founder of BitTorrent Bram Cohen, Chia sets itself apart from other cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin by relying much more heavily on having a fast SSD than a high-powered graphics card. From what we understand over on Chia's website, it's built around having lots of free space on your PC, and the high number of read and write operations it's expected to perform also favours SSDs with high endurance ratings.
You can't actually trade Chia just yet, but the HKEPC report states that SSDs and hard disk drives are already in short supply in Hong Kong, and many 4-18TB models have already gone out of stock. Prices have increased by an average of HK$200-HK$600 in just a few days, too, which for context works out to be around ÂŁ20-60 in the UK.
As SSD supplies continue to dry up, Chinese manufacturer Jiahe Jinwei have now announced they're starting to make a new suite of dedicated cryptocurrency mining SSDs to cope with the current demand. It looks like they'll be mainly targeted at Chia miners, so may miss the consumer retail market altogether, but the company have already warned that it could prompt a new rush on SSDs more generally as Chia becomes more popular. As such, we could be in for another great graphics card-sized shortage of our beloved SSDs soon, and prices for the best SSDs for gaming could start to rise all over the world as a result.
Sooooooooo is there a reason governments can't just ban mining and trading crypto on their soil? Sure, people will still do it, but at least you're doing more than Nothing as rich speculators with too much money spend it on speeding up the heat death of our planet, and maybe if enough of them do it and actually prosecute some rich fucks people will start taking a hint.
They could if they cared to
Even just something like the us feds banning businesses from accepting payment in crypto would probably make the whole pyramid scheme collapse and kill the value and motivation for mining and pushing it
Jesus, they're basically building a crypto currency on the tests they do to see how many read/ write cycles you can do on a SSD before the cells fail and become read only. What a fantastic idea to make crypto even more destructive.
Crypto is just part of the finance capitalism we're hyper spiraling in and governments seem happier to just let things keep escalating rather than risk rocking the boat and causing the first domino to fall
They could if they cared to
Even just something like the us feds banning businesses from accepting payment in crypto would probably make the whole pyramid scheme collapse and kill the value and motivation for mining and pushing it
Too bad every wealthy trader (see most of our congress and senate) are now holding crypto as a speculative investment.
They could if they cared to
Even just something like the us feds banning businesses from accepting payment in crypto would probably make the whole pyramid scheme collapse and kill the value and motivation for mining and pushing it
Too bad every wealthy trader (see most of our congress and senate) are now holding crypto as a speculative investment.
Second Extinction (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC) ID@Xbox – April 28
Destroy All Humans! (Cloud, Console, and PC) – April 29
Fable III (Cloud) – April 30
Fable Anniversary (Cloud) – April 30
Leaving April 30th:
Endless Legend (PC)
For the King (Cloud, Console and PC)
Fractured Minds (Cloud and Console)
Levelhead (Cloud, Console and PC)
Moving Out (Cloud, Console and PC)
Thumper (PC)
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
Kaplan leaving Blizzard right now makes no effing sense. Overwatch 2 is still in development, as are other major projects (well, financially major income-wise) like Diablo 2's remaster.
It is happening after Kotick gave himself more bonuses while also firing more staff after another year of growth for the company. This is 100% projection on my part but maybe Kaplan was like "hey what the fuck man" in his -10 charisma way.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I have been hearing rumblings about Overwatch 2 being kind of a shitshow
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Everything that's leaked points to Overwatch 2 being completely on fire.
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
Who is lighting these rumored fires within its development though? The business folks flexing or the dev team not being into it or Kaplan not being a good leader?
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Unclear!
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I liked Jeff Kaplan a lot while I was still playing Overwatch
I thought he was genuine and earnest in a way that you rarely see in the industry
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
I guess one day we'll start getting those post-mortem talks about the game and find out then.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I can’t forget that Kaplan’s original handle was Tigole Bitties and he kept the name Tigole when he moved to WoW development
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Given how many high profile departures from Blizzard there have been, one would imagine the common point of friction would be whatever's left, so that's either the staff (unlikely) or the management (who are notorious assholes).
It really just sounds like already shaky barrier between Activision and Blizzard collapsed and everyone is bailing before Diablo and Overwatch get the Call of Duty treatment.
I liked Jeff Kaplan a lot while I was still playing Overwatch
I thought he was genuine and earnest in a way that you rarely see in the industry
I agree on the genuine and earnest thing. But his excitement threshold was very, very low. Which is probably a good thing in a way because we at least didn't have to put up with overhyped enthusiasm from him.
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
I can’t forget that Kaplan’s original handle was Tigole Bitties and he kept the name Tigole when he moved to WoW development
... That was him?
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I can’t forget that Kaplan’s original handle was Tigole Bitties and he kept the name Tigole when he moved to WoW development
... That was him?
Kaplan is/was Tigole, yes
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
edited April 2021
jeff kaplan was a horrible goblin-man for many years, yes
you can dig up all kinds of his angry posts about Everquest on the uh...old Verant boards, I think?
Shorty on
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
It’s not something I would harangue him for, except for the fact he kept the handle Tigole when he moved into professional game development
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You really slept on Eiyuden Chronicle huh. You're gonna want to look that up.
Is this a bit about
Wait... who was that? I played PoE years ago, but I totally do not remember that character.
yeah she's good at what she does
Slept on? How could I be excited for a game which does not yet e
OoooOooooh
edit: Man I hope at least one thing I am excited for come out this year, so far it feels like almost everything is like so far away
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/watch-out-crypto-mining-ssds-are-on-the-way-now-too
god i hate crypto
Even just something like the us feds banning businesses from accepting payment in crypto would probably make the whole pyramid scheme collapse and kill the value and motivation for mining and pushing it
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EDIT: It was Turkey, I guess.
Too bad every wealthy trader (see most of our congress and senate) are now holding crypto as a speculative investment.
Source: overwatch twitter
yeah they're not saying no to this
"number go up!"
surely there's nothing that could go wrong here
A couple more games before the end of the month
- MLB The Show 21 (Cloud and Console) - Today
- Phogs! (PC) ID@Xbox – April 22
- Second Extinction (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC) ID@Xbox – April 28
- Destroy All Humans! (Cloud, Console, and PC) – April 29
- Fable III (Cloud) – April 30
- Fable Anniversary (Cloud) – April 30
Leaving April 30th:It is happening after Kotick gave himself more bonuses while also firing more staff after another year of growth for the company. This is 100% projection on my part but maybe Kaplan was like "hey what the fuck man" in his -10 charisma way.
I thought he was genuine and earnest in a way that you rarely see in the industry
I guess one day we'll start getting those post-mortem talks about the game and find out then.
It really just sounds like already shaky barrier between Activision and Blizzard collapsed and everyone is bailing before Diablo and Overwatch get the Call of Duty treatment.
Probably sucks being an honest person working under Bobby K.
Kaplan is/was Tigole, yes
you can dig up all kinds of his angry posts about Everquest on the uh...old Verant boards, I think?