Diablo IV is on sale on Steam for a price I’m willing to pay, but I’m not sure if I want to try it. Skyrim and Fallout 4 have ruined me for linear quest games - I went back and tried to play Titan Quest: Immortal Throne recently and I just wasn’t having fun. Now, the description on Steam says it’s open world, but I’m not sure. Anyone else played it?
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Titan Quest II is coming!
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When you’re looking at new games, look closely at the specs. Games are starting to include TPM 2.0 and SecureBoot in the requirements. So not only is Microsoft trying to force everyone to get a new motherboard, if not an entirely new computer, in order to run Windows 11, game companies are following suit. I think their reason is to help cut down on cheaters in their game, however that’s supposed to work.
Whether you have Windows 10 or 11, if your computer has SSDs or M.2 NVMe drives in it (primarily as the boot drive?), beware of updates KB5063875 and KB5063709. When continuously writing ~50GB of data on an SSD that is >60% full, it can make the drive non-functional, including in recovery modes. If you’ve got either of those updates, uninstall them and get out-of-band update KB5066189.
Pokemon Go is coming up on its 10th anniversary next year (I can’t believe that I’ve been playing it that long or that I haven’t missed a day), and in October max level is going up to 80.
I totally forgot about Pokemon Go. Just downloaded it on my current phone and managed to get into my account! Apparently there’s a lot more stuff around my house than there used to be…
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Are we friends in PoGo? If not, I’ll have to find all of my accounts’ friend codes.
Oh, if you haven’t already, use code 7TJH2CF8Q to get a bunch of free stuff and continue to get things as you finish some tasks. It’s a join code but works if you’ve been away for a while.
5755 6322 8482 is my main account’s friend code.
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We’re not, but when I put your friend code in it tells me your friends’ list is full. 
My code is 8632 7453 5300.
I tried the promo code but it says I’m not eligible. 
Probably because I’ve been playing too much today.
Dang it. Pikmin Bloom keeps filling my friend list up. I really wish I could delete friends in one game and not delete them in all of them. There are probably some taking up space from the short time I played the Harry Potter one. Let me see what I can do.
Okay, try again. I’ve removed a few. It can be hard when people don’t have the same username in the different games.
Yay, it worked! BTW, the picture in gift I sent you is actually in the store I work for. 
I was thinking that was a really fun one.
I have four accounts.
Anderain - 6556 8754 1016
KunoTachi - 9900 9346 4127
KunoNabiki - 1622 5483 8810
And so it begins. JayzTwoCents released a video today where they ran into the problem under different conditions.
Watch the video. It takes doing a full power down to get the controller to get back to a point where it can detect the drive again. It’s affecting more than just the Phison E12S, E16 and E21T controllers. It hits their E25 controller and controllers from four other manufacturers. Go to the 13:32 mark to see the list.
After the video was finished and uploaded, but not released, his team realized there’s another update involved in this. It adds features, so you can’t uninstall it.
It looks like right now the only solution is to do what he did: clone your boot SSD/NVMe onto another one that has a different controller on it.
This looks like it could be one of those really simple games that turns out to be incredibly complex. In Factory 95, you use flowchart-like symbols to construct a manufacturing process. Technically, it’s about making a “slide show factory… in a slide show! Manage your space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this minimalistic factory builder.”
Some blocks have only outputs and others have inputs and outputs, which will affect which direction you go in. There’s also something about managing or distributing emails? I can kind of see traces of 2048 in this, where things combine to make something new. Maybe some of the routing/branching you see in Dominoes.
The “worry about Y2K” part makes me think there’s a time factor in constructing the paths. I’d like it if they included a sandbox mode so you can set something up and just watch it run.
Lol, watch it randomly add inputs that no longer fit halfway through…
Needs more Comic Sans.
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And more cowbell.
We probably should move the Mechwarrior posts to their own thread, cause I’ve got more.
Rock climbing does work really well, even if you have to stutter step getting up them. Put it in low gear, turn a little left or right and you might be able to climb even higher than you planned. I’ve been able to climb close to a kilometer above the lancemates in a few cases.
Adding to that, fall with style to get down hills and cliffs. Just aim for a new ledge so you don’t drop far enough to damage the legs on your mech.
In any kind of battlezone, warzone or defense mission, get your back against the wall as high up as you can to force the enemies that spawn to do so in a direction you want them to, then send your lancemates to meet them while you whittle away at them from a distance.
Remember where you parked as your dropship let you out for your mission. That’s often where you go back to to be picked up. Zip over to the nav point just long enough to show you were there, then zip back to your LZ.
Be careful when camping. The anti-camping measure has been beefed up. Tanks will now teleport to where you are if you move, and two or three mechs will do the same thing as a group.
When looking at the star map to see what types of missions are available, it now gives you a preview of who your employer and who your opponent will be and what the mission difficulty is. It won’t tell you the weather conditions or the terrain, but it is an improvement.
And when you’re in a mercenary-patrolled area, listen to Rhianna as she gives the intel at the start of the mission. If she says “Something’s wrong”, immediately look to the skies to see where the mercenary’s drop ship will land. The faster you take out their mechs, the sooner you can get back to your mission.
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I’ve been playing The Lift demo for a while now and it’s good fun. Single player, puzzle solving. You’re a supernatural mechanic or something, tasked with repairing objects in this structure which give positive waves which help the system … or something. You have to fix circuits and other things and I’m sure it’ll get way more complicated than that, but it’s very well done.
Not playing, but I do occasionally jones a bit for the original Runescape. Ye gods, it’s been ages since I killed a giant spider. Now there’s global villians. I’d be dead in a nanosecond.
Oh, and the vintage version of the Sims. I can’t imagine why. 
Voyagers of Neru… likely messed up the name. It’s Valheim for Polynesians. And I just got my self propelled surfboard last night….