Is it really a monthly recap when you only played one game? May was Fallout 76 month for sure. Didn't even watch much TV! But Dead Boy Detectives was really good.
@scopique Yes that's a Collectron. He wanders around and scrounges up ammo. He is a raider though so constantly mutters all kinds of psychotic things like "I love the smell of corpses in the morning."
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Apparently the Day 3 login rewards for The Elder Scrolls Online this month is a free house, so if you think you'll ever come back to the game, might be worth logging in 3 times to collect it.
Believe it is on GeForce Now these days, to save you the huge download.
I just watched the iPad ad where they crush a bunch of creative tools down into an iPad. Apparently people are highly offended by this?
People are getting WAY too thin skinned. Clearly the message is "you can do all these kinds of creation using this iPad" and not "WE WANT TO SMUSH YOU IF YOU ARE A CREATOR"
But I guess people are interpreting as an attack on creatives or something.
Here's how to get started in the Fallout 76 Spring Cleaning Event. This post is meant for my fellow new players and is not comprehensive! Just a quick tips post!
Posted this in a comment on @Tipa's amazing blog ( https://chasingdings.com/ ) but wanted to throw it out to the world in general
"Between you & @scopique I’m kind of feeling that love of coding starting to maybe return.
I really miss back when I just LOVED to code. Not sure when/how I lost it, but I suspect a lot of it has to do with my job now being 100% fixing things and never building anything new. But I can build new stuff on my own time, for me!"
I'm thinking like, grab an old laptop and install VS Code on it and literally take it to another spot other than my desk that I sit at all day, and play around there.
Kind of try to trick my brain into treating it as a separate activity, if that makes sense.
@Nimgimli@Tipa Absolutely. My desk is near my work desk, but sometimes I wish I had a "good" laptop I could take elsewhere in the house to work on my own stuff.
Sad to hear this news about Microsoft closing down 4 studios, in particular Tango Gameworks. I really enjoyed Ghostwire Tokyo and thought that Hi-Fi Rush was pretty well received.
I get that companies exist to fatten up their coffers and those of their shareholders but this is Microsoft... I can't imagine the cost of these studios was moving the needle all that much.
@Nimgimli Nah, not just you. I feel like this is more of a "throw it at the wall and see what sticks" and then cut it when it doesn't make AAA money (or even AA money, maybe A money).
Meanwhile, players get invested in a lot of cases, and now they get shafted. Like how Paradox crapped all over Star Trek: Infinite for no good reason. Perfectly good implementation; lost support in under a year after release. Why? They don't seem to care much.
I've spent all morning trying to explain to someone that when they want a grid of several dozen logos, and some of the logos are 300x80px, and some are 1000x1000px, that either they have to give up on the idea of nice neat rows, or they have to accept that the logos aren't all going to be a consistent size, or they have to accept that some of the logos are going to be squished.
So I've finally been playing Diablo IV, still in the campaign.
Does anyone else who played this feel like the absolutely constant red palette of everything is blood and gore everywhere just gets so monotonous you just walk away?
Like I think the 'horrific' aspects would land better if there was some contrast. It is so monotone and boring & I quickly get desensitized to it all.
@Nimgimli Yes. This is me. I appreciate what Blizz has done for Diablo in setting the despondent tone, but it affected me TOO well and I just stopped playing one day.
The SIM card in my (Verizon, Android) phone died today. I wound up heading to the store. Dude switched it from the physical SIM card to the 'eSim' which now makes me wonder why they didn't use the 'eSim' to start with.
I blamed the eclipse and the dude took me seriously and I was like "Um... OK."