Elden Ring. Been on a souls like kick, so decided to do another playthrough. Haven’t played in over a year I don’t think so it’s time!

Thanks, I’m downloading it now!

Newsblur right now. I don’t want ads, and I like the f-droid disabled the intrusive options from the playstore.

Any other reader recs? Not married to it by any means, I like it well enough. I don’t like that I can’t browse by folder or by everything without a premium subscription though. $99/year is extreme for my uses, wish there was a more palatable option for intermediate users. Still, it’s easy enough to jump between topics.

That’s the “you gotta take these before I wake up covered in bbq sauce and shame” friend. They’re rare but always a delight

Its kind of fucked either way. They’re too short but a lot happens because each book is broken into thirds that are separated by huge time gaps, and inside those thirds there are also time gaps. A movie, even a long one, would be incredibly disjointed and the pacing would feel bizarre.

I imagine it’s probably why nobody has made it a series or movie before even though it’s such a beloved sci Fi series. You’d have to take a lot of creative liberties with it, which is for better or worse, what they’re doing.

I’ve just started the show, and I feel like from the outset they made it clear that a LOT of the show is creative fiction to fill in the gaps. I feel like a lot of people forget just how short the original trilogy is. F, F&E and SF, collectively, are like an 8 hour read! I don’t love everything the show has done (and some of the acting is atrocious) but I love how they chose what boils down to allusions in the books and focused whole episodes on what that would’ve looked like in real time.

I also really like how they are not afraid to completely abandon cliff hangers for several episodes at a time, while still keeping you invested in what’s happening. Asimov dwas notorious for that and did it SEVERAL times on the trilogy. Oh you wanna know what happens? Well I’ll tell you eventually, but first, here’s forty pages introducing brand new characters on a completely different planet…300 years in the future. Bitch.

Well good thing for me I surrounded her with fire barrels and blasted her across the room before her corpse burned to a crisp!

Stop talking to people about it? Nobody has ever offered me car advice unsolicited, whether you are doing it consciously or not, you are introducing the topic into conversation and they are providing their 2 cents. At that point it isn’t unsolicited, you have broached a topic where everybody has personal experiences and opinions. Expecting people not to provide their input is unrealistic. So if you want to avoid that, keep the car topic to yourself and don’t mention it.

Also, idk where you live, but you do not need to haggle at the dealership or with anybody these days. All manufacturers have their trim prices and options available on their website, can ping inventory, and quote delivery timelines to your local dealership if not available in your area. You can buy your car start to finish online, and in many cases have it delivered straight to your house. Most dealers have a completely online sales division now. There are also tons of apps and services that can check inventory, options, and prices without ever speaking to a sales person.

I like how the game caters to all play styles. Like I’ve always been drawn to the thief/rogue play style as my main. So in the group setting I’ve had a blast using her as a scout role too. See where enemies are, find the perfect ambush spot, then send my tank in to either trigger shit and surprise everyone or lure them into my ambush. As I play I feel like that’s what the game was designed for.

But then you see all these other players and play styles and realize they catered to everything. They designed encounters to make tons of playstyles viable. That’s just outstanding world design.

To a lesser degree this is exactly how I dealt with one of the fights in the Goblin Temple - there’s a bridge over the spider pit, and I essentially triggered the fight, retreated across the bridge where my other three characters were waiting with bows in an elevated position, then used my melee characters to prevent him from getting off the bridge.

Then I blew up the bridge. His flaming carcass fell to the spiders below, but alas…he was already dead.

12/10, would do it again.

Not sure how to tag spoilers so I’ll keep it very vague but don’t read more of you’re not at least level four and have explored most of the accessible map to that point. Anyway there’s a fight in the first act where a VERY BOSS-LIKE creature is supposed to allow you to take control of him, help in the fight and middle his health down and THEN be killed.

First time he doesn’t say anything til halfway through beating me to a pulp and then after I successfully take control of him he STILL KEEPS AGGRO on me and does absolutely nothing. Still almost managed to beat him, died after getting him down to one health and getting critically hit on his last attack - thems the breaks.

I re-load, reposition and strategize for the fight, do much better and this time…he never says anything or prompts any dialogue* even though I specifically avoided aggroing or doing any damage to him whatsoever. Managed to beat his ass anyway, but still…the game (while great fun) is glitchy and so far many encounters don’t go the way they’re supposed to.

No clue. So far Ive had the best luck by just searching the question I’m looking to have answered, and I quciksave a lot. Try that instead of the normal wiki dive you’d do with something like dark souls or witcher. If it’s quest or character related, neoseeker usually has really good, zero fluff, walk throughs.

Larian making an almost perfect game crippled by a tedious, immersion breaking minigame. Name a more iconic duo (looking at you DOS Rock Paper Scissors).

As someone that needed their first deck RMA’d that fuckin rules. I was PISSED mine died, still have no clue what happened never had a device catastrophically fail like that, but they were awesome about it. Tech support tried to diagnose and fix and when it was obvious it was toast they just took it back and sent me a new one.

The advice every financer/realtor will give you is:

If you’re asked to waive the inspection, walk away and don’t look back. There’s always a reason they want you to skip it.

Even flippers in my area won’t waive an inspection without lowering their offer significantly.

Especially if it comes with the same warranty as a new one.

7 pro is my favorite phone ove ever owned, finally unseating the v30 which was criminally underrated at the time. I wish there was something better that wasn’t made by Google, but I have always been disappointed with my Samsung devices (Galaxy Note OG, Galaxy s7edge, S9). I felt trapped by them and they always had SO MUCH BLOAT. The s7 was the best of the bunch. I’ve had about as many pixels (2pro, 3pro, 6, 7 pro). They’ve all gotten better with each iteration, but I saw no reason to even consider a pixel 4 or 5. 6 was a huge step up but had some build quality issues. Overall I liked the design choices. I would still have my six but I was having a battery issue that couldn’t be fixed so they let me trade it in and shaved $100 off the 7pro for me in lieu of doing an RMA that late into the life cycle. 7 pro is excellent. I won’t be getting a new phone until this one is dead.

I meant specifically voyager and infinity, I’m way too turned off by Syncs tracking and ad filled cash grab antica. Hard pass.

In retrospect I think I’m an idiot and 52 gigs was what I had available before I made more space by deleting shit.

Ignore me, I’m fairly stupid today.

I didn’t have early access, I bought it straight from steam today. It was 54gb and change 🤷🏻‍♂️