YuccaMan

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[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

On my last replay of the Machine!Wolfenstein series, it dawned on me that I don't really like TNC that much, at least not compared to TNO and TOB, which are both utterly fantastic. And I think you just summed up why, apart from (and I know this is probably a git gud moment that I'm setting myself up for) the borderline-unbalanced, controller-throwing difficulty.

Also, minor gripe, but having studied them recently for a course I'm taking, I dislike in hindsight the way the KKK is portrayed in the game. I know the devs are just playing to the popular perception of the Klan as a bunch of ignorant hicks, but in actuality the Klan tended to be populated by small business assholes and middle class joiner-types, people who would've been seen as pillars of the community. I know this wasn't the intention, but portraying them as baying rubes seems like an attempt to downplay how pervasive white supremacist beliefs were even among "respectable" cirlces.

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

Titan Invictus, Simone, Industry Americus, Malcolm, Torsten Savage and Octavian George

I feel so bad for these children. I know there's a good chance they'll grow up to be freaks themselves, but still, talk about being dealt a bad hand

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Mine means 'willful guardian', it's rad

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It does a better job capturing the whole 'lonely wanderer in a hostile post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland' vibe in my opinion, but yeah, there are some core gameplay similarities to Fallout 4

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I've been playing it a fair bit the last two days. Prior to learning in this thread that there were Nazis among the voice cast (which truthfully I'd suspected would be the case before the game came out) my only issues were that the controls could be smoother and the frame rate is pretty choppy. I haven't run into any serious bugs yet, but I'm still pretty early in the game.

As for it being boring, I think that's going to be subjective. It plays like I expected it to so far: a somewhat polished version of OG STALKER (or, like the better Fallout 4 that never was, minus the retrofuturism aesthetic.) I like them both for the same reasons. If you liked the original, I can't see why you wouldn't like this one as well (though of course, I'm a masochist who played it vanilla, a modded experience could be far superior for all I know.) But I'm far from the most avid player of the original games, so my word is only worth so much.

Edit: I should note that I've been playing the game on Xbox gamepass via my girlfriend's Xbox account; I might have a less favorable opinion if I'd actually payed for it lol

Further edit: Spoke too soon. I did encounter a bug when switching weapons that locked the camera and trapped me in the weapon select menu, and I had to restart. Also, the combat is very unbalanced. Bloodsuckers in particular have been a major problem, even in the early stages of the game. They're everywhere, and they're incredibly bullet spongey. Scripted encounters with them also tend to be incredibly unfair. In one early story quest, you encounter one in a very tight cave, at a time in the game when you likely haven't progressed very far and don't have very powerful weapons. It wrecked my shit like 10 times before I decided to just juke it and hope it didn't follow me further into the cave.

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Sorry I didn't see this earlier, but that is so rad. If I had the time to actually learn how to play tabletop DnD, I would totally do something like that lol

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you for doing that, and for the information. I'm a complete dipshit when it comes to web security.

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Was McCarthy a creep?

Edit: Never mind, I just learned what you're talking about. 42 and 16, Jesus Christ. That's nearly as bad as my own father.

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Tracking links?

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What'd I do wrong cri

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

The Manaan Ahto City ambient music and the track from the Kashyyyk upper canopy especially

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by YuccaMan@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net
 

Hey all. I don't know if it's a faux pas to put help requests here, but I've got an issue with a basically brand new AIO cooler in the PC I just put together, and since I'd rather die than ask this on reddit, I figured I'd take a shot and ask my favorite people before throwing up my hands and sending it in for warranty service (again).

So long story short, it was briefly functional when I got it, then crapped out, so I sent it in to be "fixed". I got it back the other day, and reinstalled it and booted up the system today. Pump came on after a minute or so, CPU was running at a good temp, and I was all ready to install my OS. But, I dicked up the BIOS settings and had to reset CMOS to fix it. After that, the pump and the radiator fans wouldn't come on and weren't detected by the motherboard (I should note that this is exactly what happened the first time). Tried it on every fan header on the board, nothing. No amount of fiddling with the fan settings in BIOS could get it working.

Would anybody who's inclined to help my silly ass have any advice, or should I just insist that the clowns who sold it to me just replace it this time?

Edit: Forgot to note, the pump appears to be functioning, but none of the three fans are spinning

 

So I'm taking the last of my undergrad history courses right now, and one of the books that my professor assigned us is Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains. We're six chapters in, and so far, Hochschild has centered British abolitionists (primarily Thomas Clarkson) in his accounting of the outlawing of the slave trade in England (I phrase it that way because we all, I assume, know that slavery itself didn't go anywhere after 1833).

Now, I might not be the best read Marxist, but I know enough to be skeptical of any claims of significant historical events being driven by the energy and moral force of "great" individuals rather than the ebb and flow of material reality, a claim Hochschild is definitely making here. He even quotes Emerson in saying "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."

Well! I couldn't let that nonsense go unargued, and since lambasting my professor would do no good, I'm here to ask if anybody happens to know the actual reasons the slave trade was outlawed, beyond vagaries about the industrial revolution and wage slavery. Gimme the real nuts and bolts.

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