russjr08

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thoughts on arpgs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No problem! I’ve really enjoyed Runemaster so far since I’ve always been someone who favored magic based classes. With Runic Invocation there are so many different spell combinations that you can pull off (I can’t possibly memorize them all, I think there’s around 50 of them?) which is really fun!

  I need to try out Spellblade at some point, that’ll probably be my next class that I try out. Their new season (“Cycles”) launches at the beginning of next month (July 9th IIRC), so I haven’t decided if I’ll try to wait till then or if I’ll try to give it a go before then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thoughts on arpgs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve really enjoyed the ARPGs that I’ve played (D3, a bit of Grim Dawn, Last Epoch, and hell as of the recent update even D4) but I find that I am terrible at build crafting - and the really bad brain fog that I’ve had for over a year now doesn’t help that at all.

  I find that I just constantly hit a wall that I can’t push past, and then run into the “Now what?” - every now and then I’ll play with some build guides online and tinker with them, but for me that isn’t as fun as coming up with something completely on my own.

  That all being said, LE has been my favorite as of recently - it’s definitely still a light on content (1.0 just released this year), but over time I think it’ll be very high up there on everyone’s list.

  I feel like I had a much easier time understanding the systems in LE than the other games (except for maybe D4 which was a bit too simple, though they’re starting to change it up a bit with the recent patches) but LE’s item and skill systems also clearly have a very high ceiling of what you can do with them.

  I guess for me, what I really liked about it is that even with all the brain fog I could still get into the systems and pick it up quickly, yet also still see where it can certainly get more and more complex as you push your builds higher and higher, even if I’m not completely at that point yet.

  I hope some of my ramblings made at least a little bit of sense 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly where I’ve been for the last week, it’s insane just the sheer difference the changes they made have had on the overall gameplay.

  It feels as if I went from playing the technical demo (season 3) of the game to the actual launch version (season 4) - which sounds dramatic but it’s the second time I’ve made it to WT4 (I usually can’t slog through this much) and never this early!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favourite controllers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As strange as it may sound, my favorite controller so far has been my Google Stadia controller. It feels very sturdy and has a nice finish - and I can hold it for hours without my hands cramping up.

  Also a big fan of the fact that it charges over USB-C, and that it works perfectly for me over both Bluetooth and wired.

  However, I haven’t had too many controllers in the past (Nintendo’s controllers - GameCube, Wii, Switch Joycon/Pro, the Xbox 360/One, and the DualShock 3), so that could be part of it. I don’t know, I just haven’t had any complaints with it as of yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A very timely "Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 7th"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SnowRunner just went on sale, so I’ve just picked that up and am waiting on it to install :)

  I also picked up No Man’s Sky, Turbo Golf Racing, and Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and am having a great time with all of them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t had much sleep today so maybe its just me, but I’m a bit confused here:

  Valve isn’t obligated to continue supporting all its games and software features on Mac, especially when Apple’s reluctance to natively support Vulkan and other cross-platform technologies makes game development more complex.

  Then the next sentence:

  There’s no excuse for Steam on Mac to be a far worse experience than on other platforms, though.

  As others have mentioned, Apple was the one who chose to abandon x86 and go with ARM - and anyways are there any games that are on Steam that actually are ARM native? You would still end up having to launch a game that is x86 as far as I understand correctly (I haven’t used a Mac since the Apple Silicon transition)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder, did they change the defaults at some point? Mine was already bound to the arrow keys, I never had to explicitly set that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does your BIOS have “Enable Resizable Bar” and “Above 4G Decoding” options? Both of those were off on mine, and I had the same problem until I flipped those on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Player Gets Banned for 1 Year After Recording Baldur's Gate 3 Scenes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit of a difference here. From what I recall, a VAC Ban only affects games that actually use Valve’s Anti Cheat, hence the name, which is not so popular anymore as far as I know. And they’re supposed to only affect that game individually (but since they’re public, other game/server owners can decide to ban you too).

  Getting an Xbox Live or PSN ban will prevent you from playing any game that relies on the respective service’s network (which they enforce for any game that has online multiplayer in it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have an internal monologue?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit difficult to say, but perhaps we did in say, maybe through the repetition of flashing images from our memory, or sounds, etc.

  Even without language, that internal “making sense” of things / interpreting the world around us still exists - I’d imagine if you were to ask someone who was deaf (starting at a very early age) they’d probably say there is a monologue of some sorts, even if not by “sound”, whether that be the flashing images of various hand signs, or written words, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have an internal monologue?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m by no means a medical expert, so just a stab in the dark here - our brains constantly process all sorts of information. Whether that’s memories, input from your various senses, or a million other things. During that process, your brain is also trying to make sense of it all (“Why?”, “What does it mean”, “How?”, etc).

  Our ability to communicate and express language is intertwined in this process, which of course is what gives you the perception of dialog. So in essence, I think its just our brains trying to make sense of… its process of making sense, if that makes sense?

  On a side note, I’m practically dosing myself with semantic satiation with how many times I’ve used “sense” here (that last one being more tongue-in-cheek)…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, a lot of people have a tendency to do “stupid” things, and maybe even say stupid things - but I wouldn’t classify 90% of the population as stupid. First problem is that “stupid” isn’t a very quantifiable quality - and “smarter” really depends on the perspective of the way you’re looking at it. I’ll use what someone else mentioned here as an example: I would like to say that I’m at least a decent software developer (or so I hope), but I know absolutely nothing about cars (I don’t even have one). While I’m pretty well rounded on the software side of computers, I’m terrible at the hardware side. I am also terrible at math aside from the very basics (and even then… eh) - hence, I’d never have a good shot at even getting into game development if that were something I wanted to pursue.

  So not only can I not comment on whether other people are “stupid”, I can’t even account for myself, because there’s no metric for it. Are we going off of IQ (I have zero clue what my IQ is, nor do I really have an interest in finding out what it might be)? Are we going off of being able to answer Jeopardy questions?