Totally slipped my mind to post this yesterday. In any case, I hope everyone has been doing well. Ive been playing more New Vegas and Stronghold Crusader remastered. Hope everyone’s week has started off okay
I spilled a drink onto my PC. I turned it off as quick as possible. I let it dry out and I cleaned the components with 99% alcohol and compressed air. It won’t turn on. I don’t know if it’s the motherboard or CPU, and I don’t know if my GPU is fried or not. I know at least the PSU and RAM works, but I can’t afford to replace any of the parts anyways.
So I’ve mostly been playing “try to keep it together after losing the only real source of joy in your miserable life” simulator. It is very realistic, but I cannot recommend it.
If you have integrated graphics on the CPU have you tried booting that way without the GPU? Do you have an LED on your motherboard, and if so is it on? Do the CPU fans speed then stop, or does it not do anything at all?
I don’t have integrated graphics on the CPU. The most that happens is the PSU makes a thunk sound but nothing powers on. Nothing will spin up.
Yeesh. And no lights on the mobo, even when off but everything set up?
The only lights on mine are debug lights which all light up when you first turn it on, then show specific lights if something is wrong. I can’t get to the “first turn it on” stage so there are no lights. No power is running through it, the PSU trips short protection pretty much instantly.
I’m afraid I’ve run out of ideas comrade. Without other hardware to test with I’m not sure I can think of other suggestions. Sorry, I’ve been there before and know it sucks
Thank you.
I’m playing Yooka-Replaylee
People have been telling me to play a Yakuza game for ages “Play Yakuza. It’s so you coded. Trust me you’ll love it.”
I’m like yeah okay it looks good but it looks like it’s one of those games that tries way to hard to be serious and gritty.
So I finally caved and played Yakuza 0 and my god was I wrong. I was so wrong. This game is goofy as fuck and I love it
The mood whiplash is so funny too. One moment you’re watching a disgraced Yakuza higher up being forced to cut his pinky off, the next scene Kiryu is practicing disco or clapping awkwardly along to an idol song on karaoke. I’m in love with this big dumb idiot. Add him to my blorbo pile.
0 is widely considered the best in the series, it does have one of the best selections of arcade games (although getting 100,000 points in Fantasy Zone is terrible) and the best playable version of Majima.
Trudging my way through Oblivion Remaster because I got it for semi-cheap and it does a good job of keeping my office warm. I never played much of the OG version, so this is my first real playthrough. I’m doing pretty much every sidequest in the game before I deliver the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre and start spawning Oblivion Gates everywhere, because fuck it, why not.
I’m not sure what I have lined up next; probably a BG3 Dark Urge + Honor Mode achievement-hunting run. Maybe finishing Sea of Stars. I’m not really sure; too much general burnout to think that far ahead.
Having played the old one a lot, I felt like the remake was kind of a flimsy skin on top, I recommend the original over it if you want to really appreciate the atmosphere and art style
Coming from Skyrim as my first Elder Scrolls game (yeah, I know, fight me), I couldn’t get past the clunky UI and didn’t want to go down a modding rabbit hole just to get the 2006 game playable at a decent resolution. The remaster fixes enough of the quirks and adds some quality-of-life elements (read: fast travel) that I love solely on the basis that they piss off purists. Having real support for ultrawide monitors is also a huge plus for the remaster. (Lack of 21:9 support outside of some half-abandoned mods is still a nuisance with Skyrim, and even then, the engine is still locked to the video refresh rate.)
I just wish the remaster didn’t crash so damned much.
FWIW the original release of Oblivion also had fast travel, including markers for every major city immediately after leaving the tutorial.
I finally completed the entire hunter’s journal in Silksong. I should hurry up and get TE before i burn out
Stronghold Crusader because I like to RETVRN sometimes but as a bit
Finally cracked open the Metal Gear Master Collection and played Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Kenshi. So much Kenshi.
Running the 250 mod and am up to 60-ish recruits. Living in Squin, just shift-f12ed in some wells because what kind of desert city doesn’t have wells when it has water underground? Very efficient rattan/iron hat based economy going, lots of hydro Gohan keeping everyone fed. Raid team & hunting squad are out slaughtering their way through the cannibal fields, but I am running low on arrows and should be getting home. Only major world state changes so far are beheading the various Shek bandit squads, as well as dust and a few ninja clans. And Stoat, just fed Inaba to the cannibals.
Oh, and I finally got a paladin’s cross blueprint so it’s time to burn down the HN. Turned Narko’s trap into Narko’s revenge to fry the alliance I was dangerously close to, then ran off to ally with Flotsam. Probably gonna purge Rebirth next. Death to slaveowners.
Final Fantasy Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles. The original was one of my favorites as a kid, and it’s as good as I remember. Plus, the translation isn’t borderline incomprehensible in places this time! I never played War of the Lions, so I don’t have to regret that none of that content is here.
Have you played Tactics Ogre? Always liked that series more than FFT for both gameplay and story.
Yasumi Matsuno directed em both, and his games are dope (same with Vagrant Story)
Yep, all three of them slap.
How does IC and the original compare to Tactics Advance? I played the shit out of it back when it came out, but I never played the original.
I never played TA (not a big mobile/handheld guy), but my understanding is that “regular” FFT is a much more mature story. Ivalice Chronicles is a basically 100% faithful recreation of the original, just with graphical updates, some quality of life improvements (letting you restart a battle, difficulty settings, autosaving on the world map, and autosaving during battles are the big ones–you may have heard about folks getting softlocked at a particular notorious difficulty spike in the original, but that’s no longer possible), and a retranslation. The original always had a fantastically operatic political story with strong themes of class conflict, but the translation left a lot to be desired (and was borderline incoherent in some places). That’s been fixed, and fixed well. War of the Lions, which was the first attempt to do something like this, added a bunch of new content. Ivalice Chronicles does not include that content: it’s really just the original game, but rebuilt from the ground up for modern hardware and with a few modernizing touches. If you like this style of game, I’d say it’s a must-play.
Ok, perfect. Thank you.
I’ve been waiting to buy it because money is a little tight rn but I have the party selection theme stuck in my head the last few days. All the music is so good.
Yeah, the whole thing is a masterpiece. They really knocked it out of the park with this updated version too. Everything I would have wanted, and nothing I didn’t. It kept the visual style but made everything look better, kept the music, and added a fully voiced retranslated script. If you liked the 90s version, you’ll love it.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Played Lethal Company with my friends.
It was nice and made me feel some happiness after a long time.
Started playing Diablo 1 to try and find out what Kissinger drops
Turns out as a sorceror you go from being barely able to do anything to unstoppable murder machine as soon as you get mana shield + any good attack spell
Sleeping Dogs has been in my backlog for a while and I watched Hard Boiled last week, so I decided I’d finally get 'round to it.
spoiler
It’s not anywhere near an original end to this kinda thing, but the fact that Wei goes on to become a beat cop after feeding Big Smile Lee through the ice chipper was a good touch. Like, they took a look at this recent mass shooter (who has been murdering suspects constantly since day 1 of being assigned to this case) and thought, “yes, this is the man we need out there working for us.”
The DLC making it so that his punishment for going rogue and killing all those people is working as a traffic cop.
There’s, like, a five minute pause between Wei ticketing an illegally parked car, beating to death/arresting its driver, finding the car has a bomb in it, and killing a completely unrelated person with a payphone on the walk back to his squad car.
Honestly, he shoulda gone back to America, they’d’ve promoted him.
I finally started Clair Obscur a week and a half ago after letting it sit on the backlog all year. Just finished my first playthrough and post-game content, working through NG+ while breaking the sound barrier with damage numbers lmao
Absolutely phenomenal game. Act 3 and post-game scaling is wonky (playing act 3 without the new picto they give you made it 10x better), but aside from that gripe, the game’s nearly flawless. Incredible stuff.
Amazing Cultivation Simulator because Northernlion was Chinesemaxxing and I am never to be outdone.
I started a new save so I’m pretty early in there. I decided my strategy is to make a poor Golden Core guy, tier 9, to then bring up my other dudes since Golden Core is enough for Spectre Refinement. Sadly I haven’t been very lucky and most of my inners have bad stats, most of them have like 2 or 3 charisma so their law match % is not great. Still, I’m progressing decently. I neglected that spectre refinement is available before PS so I made the mistake of ingesting 1 default tier earth flux on all my inners instead of waiting for refinement. I’ll have to rebirth them later.
Always wanted to learn how to play this but man there is a lot going on it seems lol
If you’re willing to lose, it’s good to try it blind and just try to intuit your way as far as you can get. The ingame chat/comment stuff helps too, most of the tips people leave there are good. The only bad advice I’ve seen there are slight inaccuracies.
Once you feel like you got stuck (probably around first golden core, about 3 hours of playtime unless you pause a lot) just start another game and follow the foundation guide. I can’t link it directly because it’s in google docs, but it’s the first link here.
- Super Meat Boy (360), to satisfy a craving. Good fun. Will probably put it aside when it gets tough.
- Diablo 4 (Xbox)
- Ori and the Blind Forest (Xbox), got it on sale. Delightful presentation but a little been-there-done-that mechanics wise.
- Colin McRae Rally 2005 Plus (PSP), why is the career mode so crazy hard? Going flat out and still +30 sec!
Just finished:
- Circuit Superstars (PS4) on Amateur. Maybe I’ll attempt a harder difficulty later but had enough for now
- Sound Shapes (PS4), finished the short but lovely campaign. Played some of the the ‘extreme’ challenges but will probably save the rest for later
