QubaXR

QubaXR, 1 day ago

I totally expect this will be the last title before it gets closed.

QubaXR, 4 days ago

I don’t get it. Is it a new graphics update for the original game or for 1/3 of the original trilogy? Is it a new timesheet for current trackmania? Is it a new title?

I loved the original dessert, it was easily my favorite of the first environments.

QubaXR, 4 days ago

Thanks! …and bummer. I’m not a fan of this iteration. Liked the crazy, almost photoreal style of earlier ones. The minimalist to-the-point aesthetic of 2020 one feels too utilitarian to me.

QubaXR, 1 month ago

Lovely, but I’d like to note this happened 7 years ago in 2017 :)

QubaXR, 1 month ago

Probably some kind of exoskeleton. This thing is heavy.

QubaXR, 1 month ago

“controversial”. Jeez. Can’t wait to shift away from leaky methane.

QubaXR, 1 month ago

This is a very non scientific answer, but when I was a kid (good 40 years ago) I remember having a science book that called TV static “an echo of the big bang”. I guess that would mean just randomly scattered energy bouncing around on all bands?..

I could probably Google it and give you an answer, but I’ll just wait for someone with a more convincingly and authoritatively written reply.

QubaXR, 1 month ago

Ha I remember that. I also recall someone in the 80s there was a pop song popular in Poland, entitled “Glass Weather”. It was about these rainy autumn evenings when there’s nothing better to do than sit in front of your (black and white) TV. The lyrics were mentioning “apartment window blue from the TV glow”.

QubaXR, 2 months ago

Feels to me like some folks just want to give due warning to help others from throwing money away. I don’t think most are being negative for negativity’s sake - but I may just be too optimistic about the state of the discourse.

QubaXR, 2 months ago

Other people said a lot about the CPU and I concur. No reason to buy Intel. If you are planning to use GPU rendering (redshift, octane, etc), you want a card with lots of memory for textures. Not sure if 4070ti fits the bill, I always stick with xx80 or xx90 lines - even if it means starting on older gen.

For video you will want a lot of fast SSD space to edit and HDD to store.

Not gonna comment on the amounts of RAM - I assume you did the math and know that you need this much.

Personally I recommend browsing through Puget Systems. If not to buy from them - then to clone!

Good luck.

QubaXR, 3 months ago

How is Cities: Skylines 2 these days? I remember it had a pretty iffy launch. Curious whether it’s mostly fixed yet, or still something to wait on.

QubaXR, 3 months ago

There’s more to making movies than generating moving images.

QubaXR, 3 months ago

SSKTJL (just rolls of the tongue, doesn’t it) is actually a prime game for Denuvo - I bet it has a very high percentage of people kinda-curious about it but knowing they won’t ever pay a penny for the hot garbage it is. I’d imagine very high piracy on it.

(just to be clear, I don’t applaud or approve of adding Denuvo to anything, especially sneaking it in, just thinking out loud)

QubaXR, 3 months ago

**3D Grand Theft Auto games (GTA 3, 4, 5)**Some video essay (I can’t recall which one) compared GTA’s attitude to that of the protagonist of “Catcher in the Rye”. Its comedy is very cynical, just pointing fingers at everything and saying “they are phony”, “they suck, don’t they” and “we are too cool to even admit we’re cool”. The tone always rubbed me the wrong way and felt like these white gangsta rappers - Vanilla Ice and the kind. Rampant fanboyism does not help, either. I dared critisize GTA6 trailer somewhere (by saying “this is not for me, I will pass”) to be downvoted to oblivion and I shit you not, receive threats in DMs.

No Man’s SkyWhen it came out, NMS was a broken, buggy mess of a game with inventory management as a central mechanic. Punch trees got replaced with laser plants, but it’s basically the same loop of gather, combine, refine, build better tools. After a decade, NMS is a game chock-full of various content, with inventory management as a central mechanic. Not for me.

Souls-likes and MetroidvaniasI have plenty of rewarding challenges in my real live and consider myself lucky enough to have work that’s fulfilling and gratifying. I don’t seek validation in games - I seek relaxation and escapism. I play most games on easy and don’t feel like proving my skills in the game is the right use of my time. I can appreciate skilled players - often watching speedruns, 100% attempts or professional tournaments, but when it comes to playing - I rather pick fun, easy, light entertainment. (Death Stranding is one of my all-time favorites)

on a flip note, a game that everyone seems to hate and I quite enjoy is ForspokenSure, the dialog is cringe and there’s way too much of the same barks repeating (I need to look through menus, I think they added some slider to adjust the rate if I recall), but the traversal is fun, I love the UI design (gold and purple), I think costumes are freaking fantastic and combat is easy enough (on easy) to happily zone out to and play an hour here or there.

QubaXR, 3 months ago

Three is a hard quality jump after Kiwami 2, but I still enjoy the story. Moved from main PC to Steam Deck for this one and it feels right at home.

Perhaps I need to get in control of my FOMO and enjoy older games first instead of… Chasing the dragon (badum-tsss)

QubaXR, 3 months ago

Oh is it time already? I’m not ready!!! After playing Like A Dragon as my first Yakuza game, I decided to play originals first, before Infinite. Finished 0, 1 and 2 and currently just started Yakuza 3…

I’ve seen somewhere that due to some storylines, it’s preferable to have played original Kiryu saga first, so as much as I want to jump in, it will have to wait

QubaXR, 3 months ago

Sounds like we are in precisely the same boat. I found 3 is a great match for Steam Deck, and feels right at home on that small screen (and runs great).

QubaXR, 3 months ago

Consider installing Chiaki or Chiaki4Deck on your SD. It allows you to stream PS4/5 games on your own network!

QubaXR, 4 months ago

Turkish flag is an interesting case, as it’s nearly a 100 years older than Turkey.

The design has been used by the late Ottoman Empire, and then adopted when the Republic of Turkey (now regretting to itself as Turkiye) was established.

QubaXR, 4 months ago

I’m fed up with it, as in: I can recognize AI generated images with ease, and they all look kinda same-y. I have nothing against people using ai or posting the content, but at the same time I think it’s simply bad art

QubaXR, 4 months ago

It’s not even that Diablo 4 is necessarily a bad game, but perhaps this game style is simply past its prime. Certain genres work at certain times and then the cultural zeitgeist changes and they begin feeling like relics.

I certainly feel like that about Diablo 4. Can’t name one thing it does particularly poorly, but I don’t get the same enjoyment out of it as I did with the other three.

QubaXR, 4 months ago

A walk also. Often mid-day. I just take an hour to get some exercise, air and sky above.

QubaXR, 4 months ago

Very pretty, but feels like the build is going to be super repetitive.