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Yours, not Shiro's?!Well, after three more full campaign restarts (I'd say, "This one goes to 11," but I think our grand total was more like 6), we finally figured out how to actually play Redfall: You have to host it on the most powerful machine available, because otherwise if the client gets ahead of the host it bugs out.
So, I built my desktop last year but I don't like to host because I'm around the least. But after trying everyone else's machine, we hosted on mine and it ran just fine with almost no bugs.
It's still a fairly meh FPS set on super-easy mode, but at least the crashes have stopped... for now...
That surprised me too, but apparently he hasn't rebuilt his machine in a few years and mine was very high-end as of last year. I suspect it's also the 32 GB of DDR5 RAM and 12 GB of VRAM -- hosting everyone else's game doesn't make my machine bat an eye.
EDIT:
Here we go, from March of last year:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Pro Z690
CPU: Intel Core i9-12900 Processor 16 (8P+8E), 5.2 GHz
RAM: 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5600
Video Card: Gigabyte RTX 3060 gaming with 12 GB of VRAM
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Yours, not Shiro's?!Well, after three more full campaign restarts (I'd say, "This one goes to 11," but I think our grand total was more like 6), we finally figured out how to actually play Redfall: You have to host it on the most powerful machine available, because otherwise if the client gets ahead of the host it bugs out.
So, I built my desktop last year but I don't like to host because I'm around the least. But after trying everyone else's machine, we hosted on mine and it ran just fine with almost no bugs.
It's still a fairly meh FPS set on super-easy mode, but at least the crashes have stopped... for now...
That surprised me too, but apparently he hasn't rebuilt his machine in a few years and mine was very high-end as of last year. I suspect it's also the 32 GB of DDR5 RAM and 12 GB of VRAM -- hosting everyone else's game doesn't make my machine bat an eye.
EDIT:
Here we go, from March of last year:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Pro Z690
CPU: Intel Core i9-12900 Processor 16 (8P+8E), 5.2 GHz
RAM: 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5600
Video Card: Gigabyte RTX 3060 gaming with 12 GB of VRAM
While I understand your desire to demonstrate your prowess, you should stop using that as a shovel...
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Speak of the timing...
I have watched the new Dune part 2 trailer about half an hour ago.
There is that big-big earthsandworm scene...
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Impus Major: Ah, nothing like mango lhassi, dolmas, and chicken quesadillas for breakfast! Food from 3 different continents!
NobodysHome: Does that make it a continental breakfast?
Dolmas?
Sounds like gołąbki.
While I understand your desire to demonstrate your prowess, you should stop using that as a shovel...Yours, not Shiro's?!Well, after three more full campaign restarts (I'd say, "This one goes to 11," but I think our grand total was more like 6), we finally figured out how to actually play Redfall: You have to host it on the most powerful machine available, because otherwise if the client gets ahead of the host it bugs out.
So, I built my desktop last year but I don't like to host because I'm around the least. But after trying everyone else's machine, we hosted on mine and it ran just fine with almost no bugs.
It's still a fairly meh FPS set on super-easy mode, but at least the crashes have stopped... for now...
That surprised me too, but apparently he hasn't rebuilt his machine in a few years and mine was very high-end as of last year. I suspect it's also the 32 GB of DDR5 RAM and 12 GB of VRAM -- hosting everyone else's game doesn't make my machine bat an eye.
EDIT:
Here we go, from March of last year:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Pro Z690
CPU: Intel Core i9-12900 Processor 16 (8P+8E), 5.2 GHz
RAM: 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5600
Video Card: Gigabyte RTX 3060 gaming with 12 GB of VRAM
While I understand your desire to demonstrate your prowess, you should stop using that as a shovel...Yours, not Shiro's?!Well, after three more full campaign restarts (I'd say, "This one goes to 11," but I think our grand total was more like 6), we finally figured out how to actually play Redfall: You have to host it on the most powerful machine available, because otherwise if the client gets ahead of the host it bugs out.
So, I built my desktop last year but I don't like to host because I'm around the least. But after trying everyone else's machine, we hosted on mine and it ran just fine with almost no bugs.
It's still a fairly meh FPS set on super-easy mode, but at least the crashes have stopped... for now...
That surprised me too, but apparently he hasn't rebuilt his machine in a few years and mine was very high-end as of last year. I suspect it's also the 32 GB of DDR5 RAM and 12 GB of VRAM -- hosting everyone else's game doesn't make my machine bat an eye.
EDIT:
Here we go, from March of last year:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Pro Z690
CPU: Intel Core i9-12900 Processor 16 (8P+8E), 5.2 GHz
RAM: 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5600
Video Card: Gigabyte RTX 3060 gaming with 12 GB of VRAM
Hi Ho, hi ho, etc.
I don't think that Hi has to steal NobodysHome computer.
I started playing Biomutant.
It's not exactly what I expected, but it is cute.
Some good news for NH
I'm honestly perplexed by this one...
So, we finally got in a couple of full evenings of Redfall Thursday and Friday, so here's a brief synopsis:
The TL;DR version: The gameplay, graphics, and story are all so vanilla and unimaginative that the staggering number of bugs or poorly-implemented features make the game not worth playing, even if you get it for free. There are many, many better games out there.
(2) Unfortunately, even without the bugs, the saved game system is still hosed. I expect any modern game to allow me to have multiple saved characters and to save wherever I happen to be. In Redfall, if you quit in the middle of a mission you lose all your progress on that mission. That's unforgivably bad programming. And I've already mentioned that even though you're supposed to be able to play multiple characters, it seems to store all the progress in a single file so no, you can't unless you have a different host machine for each game.
Which, combined with the, "This only works if the person with the fastest machine is the host," puts you in a situation where you simply can't have multiple campaigns going at once. Inexcusable.
(3) Once you overcome all the bugs, you get to the actual gameplay, which is pretty meh. You have a handful of gun types to choose from, a Borderlands-style gun selection menu, and otherwise extremely basic movement, abilities, and skill-ups. Nothing surprising nor exciting. (Though I am eternally amused by Shiro's character's special ability: He has a bird that's supposed to tag enemies so we can see them, but it doesn't seem to work unless Shiro can see the enemies already. So, er, point?)
The fights are easy, the missions are routine, and it's a fairly boring paint-by-numbers first person shooter horror game. Even Back 4 Blood has a more interesting plot and more interesting NPCs.
In short, the game has nothing I haven't seen before, even in single games, it does its stuff poorly, and it's WAAAAAAAY too easy for its target audience.
Some good news for NHI'm honestly perplexed by this one...
It's a new ultraman series.
It's a new ultraman series.Some good news for NHI'm honestly perplexed by this one...
I know that, but it's Hi who's an Ultraman fiend, not me...
Single save game file does happen for some open world games - it might be that some of them use the save file to save detailed state of its world so it can be big.
With everything that I saw about Redfall, I seriously doubt that it is warranted there. Anyway, with a game that has multiple distinct differently skilled characters to play, even without venturing into the co-op matters, it's a bad design preventing your from going with multiple playstyles at the same time.
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Shiro's bird might be a bug. I saw people using it in reviews and it tagged enemies through walls. Maybe it needs an upgrade to do that, though? No idea.
Tagging enemies even if you currently see them is a useful ability (see countless Far Cryies, Assassin's Creeds, Metal Gear Solid V[/], [i]Sniper Elite, Ghost Recon, Sniper Ghost Warrior, and dozens of other games) if it lets you track enemy movement after they get out of your field of vision. Well, useful as long as the enemies show presence of at least two simulated neurons and are not as dumb as they seem to be in all those Redfall reviews.
That bird skill apparently has an another issue, though: tagging enemies is supposed to be part of that characters stealthy playstyle. Upgrading that skill makes the bird attack enemies, spoiling any attempts of stealth, making it work against its original purpose...
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When you get the following text from your yard man, after dark, in the middle of a thunderstorm:
Tomorrow we'll going to cut your house have great night
I'm going to choose to read this as Christopher Walken doing a bad Bela Lugosi impression.
Cat. MEOW
Wake up. Sit up . Take blanket off. Fold blanket. place blanket down for cat
Cat walks to vacated spot and flops over. So i can't lie back down.
I have learned to sleep sitting up from this.....
It's a new ultraman series.Some good news for NHI'm honestly perplexed by this one...I know that, but it's Hi who's an Ultraman fiend, not me...
Whoops! My mistake.
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So, Wario and Waluigi are supposed to be Mario and Luigi's opposites, right? Since Mario and Luigi are plumbers, and plumbers unclog toilets, does this mean that Wario and Waluigi are professional toilet cloggers?Actually, I'd say that they charge double and fix nothing.
... so they're plumbers.
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... so they're plumbers.So, Wario and Waluigi are supposed to be Mario and Luigi's opposites, right? Since Mario and Luigi are plumbers, and plumbers unclog toilets, does this mean that Wario and Waluigi are professional toilet cloggers?Actually, I'd say that they charge double and fix nothing.
More like unemployed trouble making swindlers.
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More like unemployed trouble making swindlers.... so they're plumbers.So, Wario and Waluigi are supposed to be Mario and Luigi's opposites, right? Since Mario and Luigi are plumbers, and plumbers unclog toilets, does this mean that Wario and Waluigi are professional toilet cloggers?Actually, I'd say that they charge double and fix nothing.
I hear they are in the mercenary business nowadays.
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So, Wario and Waluigi are supposed to be Mario and Luigi's opposites, right? Since Mario and Luigi are plumbers, and plumbers unclog toilets, does this mean that Wario and Waluigi are professional toilet cloggers?Actually, I'd say that they charge double and fix nothing.
So... electricians?
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Yesterday afternoon and evening said about everything you need to know about Redfall. Our game got canceled, so we had lunch with the group and then started online gaming at around 3. I had to work with Impus Major from 5-6, so I said, "OK, we can play Deep Rock Galactic from 3-5, then switch over to Redfall after dinner."
Never happened. We played Deep Rock Galactic all afternoon and evening.
And had fun.
And not a single crash.
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Another glorious day for Orion engineering thought in the service of Federation.
I devised a cunning plan of rescuing another Federation ship, completely incapable of fight, running away from Klingon invaders—we took a number of probes, programmed them with false signatures of Federation warships, warped in, spread the probes, and acted like if there was a whole fleet waiting for the three Klingon Birds Of Prey. Between the excellent roll we managed on making the probes seem to be cruisers to attackers' long range sensors, and the fine roll made by our captain to look like an actual ambush set by Federation Fleet, we managed to win that one without firing a shot.
Which is good because the first breach we would suffer to our engineering section would turns us completely and irreparably dead in space. More than one and we would have a significant chance of exploding.
Another glorious day for Orion engineering thought in the service of Federation.
I devised a cunning plan of rescuing another Federation ship, completely incapable of fight, running away from Klingon invaders—we took a number of probes, programmed them with false signatures of Federation warships, warped in, spread the probes, and acted like if there was a whole fleet waiting for the three Klingon Birds Of Prey. Between the excellent roll we managed on making the probes seem to be cruisers to attackers' long range sensors, and the fine roll made by our captain to look like an actual ambush set by Federation Fleet, we managed to win that one without firing a shot.
Which is good because the first breach we would suffer to our engineering section would turns us completely and irreparably dead in space. More than one and we would have a significant chance of exploding.
I have to admit, Impus Major's physics instructor's grading system surprised me at first, but I've come to think it really is a great balance between exams and homework. Within a bit of rounding, it's 60% exams and 40% take-home work, and he provides full solutions to all the take-home work before it's due.
So basically if you're willing to at least copy the solutions and turn in the homework, you only need a 50% average on in-class quizzes and tests to pass the class. That seems like a nice compromise for people who don't test well. Work hard at getting partial credit on the tests, and you'll be OK.
I'm happy because it takes SO much pressure off Impus Major going into finals. Next week should be our first relaxing finals week in ages.
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I completely forgot to mention that I submitted my application for the now vacant supervisory position yesterday. Last Monday was truly awful(although it could have been far, far worse), let's hope yesterday is the key to bigger and better things, and happier times.
I hope so!
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I also discovered I am listed under the Theurges as a backer of the Apocalyptic Record for Werewolf The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition. That buoys my spirits a bit!
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New guy jokingly suggested putting an exclamation mark in my random pattern patio I'm building.
So now it has an exclamation mark.
So I'm working on this job, laying pavers in a corner, and this guy comes around the corner of the house and says "well, if it isn't the legend himself!" I looked around and behind me, confused, and said "I just work here" and kept on laying pavers. And then he starts pestering me with questions on technique and whatnot for ten minutes, which I didn't really answer besides "I just work here" A bit later he asks me "So, when do you think you'll be done?" I said "I don't know, I have a lot to do here" "Yeah, but do you have a time frame?" I just said "I don't know, when I'm ready to wrap up I'll let the boss know and if it's any of your business HE can tell you".
After that he stopped trying to ask me questions. Still have no idea who he was but I assume he's one of the new office people they hired this spring (something about trying to keep up with all the bids submitted from the garden show).
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44 today. Any age when you could also be a revolver calibre is worthwhile, I think.
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44 today. Any age when you could also be a revolver calibre is worthwhile, I think.
Happy Twilight Zone Day!
It's also Hostess Cupcake Day but I'm pretty sure that was made up by Hostess.
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44 today. Any age when you could also be a revolver calibre is worthwhile, I think.
Happy revolution day!
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44 today. Any age when you could also be a revolver calibre is worthwhile, I think.
Keep on revolving...
I continue to be stunned at the absolute lack of driver's licenses among my kids' friends: Yesterday Impus Minor wanted to go to the mall with his friends, yet none of them other than Impus Minor has a driver's license. They're all between 19 and 21, and public transportation in the Bay Area is legendarily bad, so how can they possibly not be licensed?
In their greater friends group of perhaps 20 friends total, I think 4 of them have licenses.
For such a large number of kids in a dense urban area, I'm honestly stunned.
If they were to get licenses, would they have regular access to a car?
If they were to get licenses, would they have regular access to a car?
Emergencies happen. Just a couple of weeks ago the kids had to race to a friend's house in the middle of the night to drive his cat to the emergency vet while his family car was sitting right there in the driveway because his family members didn't want to have to deal with HIS cat. Similarly, the kids have frequent gatherings at a friend's house, his family is always there, but they refuse to drive the kids around so it ends up falling on the Impii to get everyone to and from the house.
So yeah, there are many issues there: Why are so many families unwilling to drive their kids around AND unwilling to teach their kids to drive? It's endemic around here.
But the idea of having to take Uber or a taxi to the hospital is terrifying. On at least one occasion pre-COVID Gothbard was at work and Impus Major had to drive me to the ER. The alternative would have been a, "You didn't get admitted, so you're paying for the ambulance out of pocket," nightmare.
EDIT: I talked to Impus Major about it, and he says that most of his friends don't drive because they're terrified of it, rather than because they don't have access to a car.
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I continue to be stunned at the absolute lack of driver's licenses among my kids' friends: Yesterday Impus Minor wanted to go to the mall with his friends, yet none of them other than Impus Minor has a driver's license. They're all between 19 and 21, and public transportation in the Bay Area is legendarily bad, so how can they possibly not be licensed?
In their greater friends group of perhaps 20 friends total, I think 4 of them have licenses.
For such a large number of kids in a dense urban area, I'm honestly stunned.
I live in Wisconsin (in rural areas until I was 20) and I didn't get my driver's license until I was 24.