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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Seth Alberworth is a smart dude. He’s also strong.

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    You can always come back to it later. It may make more sense then. It certainly goes off into some weird places in its second half.

    Signals and Grace Under Pressure are probably the epitomes of Geddy's synth fixation for better or worse but both have strong songs under the gloss; Power Windows is underrated and with a really lush production; but yeah, if you dig Hold Your Fire (I do too) you should be on pretty safe ground with those.

    Then Presto strips the gloss back a bit to see out the '80s with some very strong songs, leading into a harder-edged '90s. Counterparts from that era is one I go back to quite a bit, Roll the Bones and Test for Echo are maybe less consistent but when they hit, they hit.

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Caress of Steel is definitely underrated, or rather famously was at the time. I think the years have been kind to it, it's one of my faves of their early records.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    Monster Hunter Rise in action looks like one of those Photoshopped screenshots with a million meters and exclamation points everywhere. You know, like that Suicide Squad game.

    Also it keeps swearing to me that there's a lockon button, which makes a red mark appear on an enemy like I'm locking on to them, but it sure doesn't actually lock the camera onto them. It appears to do nothing besides make that mark briefly appear.

    I spent 20 minutes trying to kill one monster because I can't get the camera to focus on it, and this starter weapon only has two attacks that hit directly, narrowly in front of you. Most of the 'fight' was spent hitting the ground, trying to run and putting my weapon away, or riding a dog across the map because the monster ran away yet again. When it finally died, I got some monster pieces that let me create...one piece of armor. That is worse than the starting armor I got for free.

    I still do not understand Monster Hunter.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    I thought they added a real camera lock on to MH at some point recently, but that sounds like the old half-lock on where you could mark a monster and then tapping a button would swing the camera around to the marked monster, halfway between the old school MH camera where you only got a "recenter behind your current facing" button and that's it, and the sticky camera lock to target you see in most games.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    I also can't seem to find any options to change the subtitle size or anything else about them. Same for text speed.

    What I can find are constant reminders to go buy the new expansion. I can very easily find them, everywhere, at all times.
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    This is the easiest monster in the game? And it was 30 minutes of mostly chasing it on a dog? Otherwise missing attacks and being knocked over?

    This is already incredibly frustrating. I'm not sure I even want to know how long it takes to fight something at high level. Is it just MMO raid length per monster or what?

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    i'm saying this as gently as possible, but you don't know what you're doing yet. once you're familiar with movement and movesets those early village quests take about five to ten minutes to clear.

    you won't be needing a souls-type hard lock-on once you're comfortable with it. there's no reason to have one.

    your best bet is to hit the training room, try out each type of weapon to see what you gel with most and to familiarize yourself with your buttons and mechanics, then you can focus fully on the monsters.

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  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    What a pleasingly cuboid meal

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  • WrizzikWrizzik DelawareRegistered User regular
    edited April 15
    SteevL wrote: »
    My wife was showering when the bathroom exhaust fan suddenly turned off. I checked the circuit breaker and nothing was triggered there. Guess that's another fun project to figure out!

    Most bathroom exhaust fans are literally just a metal box plugged into a two pronged outlet, no fancy wiring or nothing. The cover might be tricky to take off, it's usually held by some springy wires in tension. But generally speaking if it is the fan that needs replacing, you just unscrew the metal box, stick a new one in there, and plug it in like... like a desktop fan.

    If you want to go down the road, you can get fans that have integrated humidistats and turn on/off of their own accord. They're the same price as traditional fans.

    But, yes, bathroom fans are super easy.

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  • scorozscoroz Registered User regular
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    Wordle 989 4/6*

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I'm going to throw in a vote for backblaze, especially if this is only data you would need to access in a "the house has burned down" type of scenario.

    You install a client on the computer, and it'll just back up everything to the cloud, or only specific drives/files if that's what you want.

    The intial backup will take a long time, obviously, and will be a problem if you have a data cap with your ISP, but honestly I consider the price for backblaze extremely reasonable for the fact that I can backup unlimited data from a computer to an offsite location.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    I remember the 3DS game being just as slow and plodding as this one...which is weird, as I thought Rise was supposed to be the wacky fast one. But I don't remember it being this difficult to control. And it had the nub stick and worse shoulder buttons. The mount is good at least, if they're stubbornly committed to making you chase monsters still, like 20 years on.

    There are damage numbers...but they're meaningless, because I can't see how much HP the monsters have. I can see I do 10 damage with one move and 20 with another...but, like, does the monster have 500 HP? 50,000? No idea how long I need to hit it at 20 per hit. No clue of my relative power level, if I need to upgrade a weapon, nothing.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    But I can already compare two weapons in the menu. I don't need to hit something to know the one with a higher number will do more damage.

    I need to know what percentage of the total hp it does. It's a waste of time working to double the damage number if I need to go elsewhere and return when I'm doing 500 times more damage.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    Why doesn't it show these zones in game? Why am I reading about it in text here? Why does the game stop to give me a tutorial every 5 seconds for tons of meaningless nonsense, but won't tell me how much health a monster has, or where to hit it? Why are there a million icons and text boxes on screen, and three characters are talking to me, but none of it is useful information like that?

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    I read every tutorial. There's just a million at once, and none are immediately useful.

    What is the button? labelled Normal supposed to be communicating to me here? It takes a normal amount of damage?

    Kamar wrote: »
    You never seem to enjoy any game I've ever seen you talk about, Reynolds, it's kind of wild.

    Nobody wants to talk about the games I like, or play them when I recommend them. So I don't bother, and wind up with a lot more to talk about with the games I don't like.

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  • Alistair HuttonAlistair Hutton Dr EdinburghRegistered User regular
    edited April 15
    I tried MonHun

    I didn't like it. I found it all inscrutable nonsense and whenever anyone told me how to have fun playing MonHun it sounded either like studying for an exam in a subject I didn't like or an actual honest to goodness job.

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    I have a thoughtful and infrequently updated blog about games http://whatithinkaboutwhenithinkaboutgames.wordpress.com/

    I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.

    Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    Man if there's a mod to make it more like an MMO, maybe I should get that mod. Because i actually like MMOs.

    I was originally sold this series on it being like PSO, and it isn't close to that either.

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  • WrizzikWrizzik DelawareRegistered User regular
    edited April 15
    When I had my roof fixed from a hailstorm, I paid the roofing company to add 2 vents for me; then I connected the fan to the vent with dryer vent ducting.

    You can also exhaust the fan just into your attic, or right at an eave vent.

    Anything penetrating the roof should be done by a roofer so that it's properly sealed and warrantied.

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  • OneAngryPossumOneAngryPossum Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    It took me three games to get into Monster Hunter, and the fourth (Rise) I just fell off completely. I think something about processing the arcane systems is what drove me, so once it started to make sense all I felt any more was the grind.

    Dark Souls took me trying four games before it landed (admittedly, Dark Souls and Remastered counting twice there), but the series seems to be sticking since I’ve completed Remastered and Elden Ring. I’ve been poking away at DS3 for about a month now, a handful of hours every weekend, and after some initial disappointment I’m pretty engrossed. I appreciate the difficulty curve being a little more welcoming for newcomers (minus that first fight, christ), but I was starting to worry that the lack of arcane bullshit meant I’d just grasped the language of the design too well finally, and I wouldn’t get the same panic/anxiety/achievement cycle from these games any more. Asking myself ‘what is the most annoying thing that could happen right now’ for every room was almost feeling like a cheat code.

    That generally stopped being sufficient around the time I hit the Abyss Watchers, thankfully. Now it’s the much more fun game of figuring out what bullshit has been included to balance the bullshit I keep running into (seriously, spent an hour slowly grinding out a path, died, thought about it a bit overnight, and then successfully just ran through the whole stretch in five minutes… then died again, repeating a handful of times). Followed by the occasional stretch with no easy answer, just a long difficult stretch of bullshit.

    Think I’m in the back 3rd at this point (back in Anor Lando, already cleared that other route). I probably should take a break after this, but the faster pace really makes me want to give Bloodborne another shot.

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  • KorrorKorror Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Alright it's pretty obvious that we are sort of trailing off on this game. It's been great and I've enjoyed playing this system. I wish I could convince my group to play it in person but I think this kind of tactical combat might be too complex for them as much as I love it. How about we all go to the interlude section, each do an RP post where we describe our character coming back to town and call it a game?

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  • discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    Wordle 990 4/6*

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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited April 19

    Asthariel wrote: »
    Food / game / movie, man.

    You have to eat it / play it / watch it to know if they're any good.

    Which is kind of a big investment to make on something that might not be very good.



    ... oh, Im sorry, I actually finished reading my first book in 6 weeks today.

    It was The Blacktongue Thief my Christopher Buehlman.

    It's a story told from first person perspective about a rogue with a well hidden secret heart of gold, that is in serious debt and gets pushed into accompanying a badass woman with a magical shield and magical murder bird onto her quest to do spoilery things.

    I liked humour, worldbuilding down to earth characters and overall feel that it is a story based on someones RPG campaign, as it is mostly made out of random problems that main heroes encounter and need to deal with.

    I did not like some decisions by the author that are just... weird, like that there are serious lore reasons for why are there so many badass women in positions of power, and yet the narrator and main character is still a man, or the fact that
    author considered it very important for him to get raped in last 20% of the book, even though it does not influence anything in the story

    It is not deep, or complicated plot, but it was interesting enough for me to keep reading, so I think its something like 7+/10 book for me. I will read the next book from this series, but I did not enjoy myself enough to ever want to reread this one, I guess.

    I love this thread in part because the “I didn’t like this because…” statements rarely makes sense to me but “I liked this because” almost always makes sense even if I don’t agree with it

    People’s thought processes are very interesting and different to my own

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  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited April 15
    Going from DS3 and Elden Ring back to Bloodborne is really rough because DS3 runs like butter while Bloodborne runs like shit.

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  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    How Master of Molecular Gastronomy Wylie Dufresne Brings Science to Pizza — ICONS: Pizza (14 mins)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1tF9Cjwu48

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  • GilgaronGilgaron Registered User regular
    edited April 15
    You've got a lot of good advice so far so not much more to chip in but I'll say if you tell a realtor you're handy and could consider a fixer upper, what you'll be shown is more in the "I own a contracting renovation business and/or have retiree level time to put into someplace I'm trying to live in" and change your mind, BUT keep an eye out for stuff that's easy to DIY in houses you see but aren't blown away by. An ugly coat of paint with dinged up walls and trim can make a place look run down but be easy to fix during hobby time over a few weeks. Likewise fixtures, faucets, anything else that just bolts in.

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