Posts made by Testament

The newest DLC for Elder Scrolls Online has dropped and I'm having a good time with it. It's really been scratching that Elder Scrolls itch while waiting for Elder Scrolls 6.

You know, it'll come out maybe by the time I'm 50 if I'm lucky. And I'd still play it. That said, shame I got into ESO only about 11 years too late, because while I know I have a lot of content to play through yet, it's still a good game I think. Feels like it really caters to the solo player crowd while still having plenty of group stuff to do.

@too-old-for-this said in Oh, Humanity:

@roz said in Oh, Humanity:

@aria said in Oh, Humanity:

@roz said in Oh, Humanity:

@aria i've put ranch on cheesesteak in the past and i have no regrets

I mean, you also eat at Sheetz, so.

gtf out of here with your wawa bullshit

Hey now, don't be bangin' on my Wawa!

Bubba has been trying so hard to be best friends with Old Man Fuzz.

Finally, after a few months, Fuzz tolerates Bubba's presence.

@greenflashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

because you're one of the good ones

@arkandel

@aria

@derp said in Oh, Humanity:

@ominous said in Oh, Humanity:

Who the fuck puts ketchup or lettuce on a cheesesteak?

WHO THE FUCK PUTS KETCHUP OR LETTUCE ON A CHEESESTEAK?!

Paging @Aria to give her opinion on this as someone from Philly.

@ganymede

@wizz The spiciest of beans

A stupid thing I'd like to note.

I have 8 million Shuba Inu coins. I've had them since May.

It was around .000000015 of cent on crypto.com. But since last night it's jumped in value by 50%.

It's not smart to invest your future in crypto. But, if this coin takes off to even half a cent value, a have a very large profit to gain.

But it won't, and I know better. Still, it's nice to imagine cashing out and telling the rest of the world to go get kick ricks and go hide with an obscene amount of money(obscene amount for me, anyway).

@too-old-for-this I had heard about that. It's sad to hear since EVGA is probably my favorite secondary manufacturer for components(behind Steel Series and Corsair).

I may not be playing the game, mostly because I'm not too heavy into MMOs, but I would be very careful to anyone that happens to be using something along the lines of a RTX 3090 or 3080ti. There were reports back in August during the live beta that it bricking GPUs, and yes, before anyone asks, software is more than capable of doing irreparable damage to hardware.

Amazon hasn't really taken any kind responsibility with this, saying that it's the various GPU manufacturers(Gigabyte being one of the larger produces of APIs where this issue has been cropping up). I don't know the whole specifics, as I'm not a driver or API engineer to be able to explain it more accurately, but the issue seems to be stemming from power draw spikes. And considering that a lot of these newer GPUs are running on a 350 wattage draw as opposed to the traditional 280(270? 260? I forget off the top of my head), that random power spikes during play can take that power draw far beyond the maximum load capacity of the physical board, causing literal burning which could lead to potential bricking.

So, if you do have one of these higher end cards(though, I don't know if this happening for the 6900 XT or 6800 XT, as I have a feeling this might be more Nvidia than AMD on this one), I would strongly advise you to manually set your wattage to 90% at the very least and turn off any and all overclocking on the card while playing this game in particular.

I only know of one person who frequents these forums that has a GPU of that high level(and they know who they are and they are fucking lucky they even got their hands on one, at retail no less with the way the electronics market is currently), but this is something you should maybe keep in mind until Amazon figures out just what exactly is going on. As far as I know, this issue hasn't stopped happening since the game has gone public, though I can't say if it's happening more or less.

@derp Same. I just couldn't get into it. Mostly because I don't really like MMOs. But, I've had a longing to play an Elder Scrolls game and, after being told I could totally play this more or less solo and in first person view, I was pretty much sold.

And all the extra content just means I'll have plenty to do.

Gotten lost in Elder Scrolls Online.

Please send help. Or play with me.

@jennkryst said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:

... semi-related to economies, anyone else remember when 1 gold was a month's wage for a peasant? How many adventurers were killed because they limped back to town with 3hp left and a farmer gets them with a pitchfork and doesn't have to work again for years, because this player had 100 gold on them?

This was actually a large plot point to a campaign I was apart of. One of the bigger NPCs was faking his way through the nobility of the local kingdom. He was actually a fur trapper from a backwoods village that found a very successful but also very dead adventurer on one of his morning trips to check his traps. Took the adventurers coin, sold the majority of his magical items that were too unique to keep for himself and then moved to the neighboring kingdom, claiming ancestry from a long dead line of nobility.

The NPC wasn't even evil, he just wanted to make a better life for himself. The party, when they found out, decided to keep the lie and not expose the dude. Which did end up benefitting later on.

I forgot how much fun that campaign was, but that note did remind me of it.

Also,yes. in game economies are dumb. Both in tabletop and in mushes.

@wizz said in Games:

before the Great Ares War starts again can we just not, everybody?

The entire argument in a nutshell.

And every time Orichalcum gets brought up, Mia be all

@crawfish

I don't mind DnD 5e, it was finally the version of the game that got me back into playing tabletop again. Up until that point, I had written DnD off unless is 2nd ed(because I like THAC0 and you can't tell me otherwise).

Playing 3.5 just felt like a White Wolf system without saying it was White Wolf and I never actually played 4th ed, but from everything I had read about it, it didn't seem all that interesting.

Never played Pathfinder, but I'm not against trying it.

I feel like you could create a system based on 5e to work in Ares, as that was something I was going for initially, but I had decided if I created a game inspired by DnD rather than trying to lift it's system directly from to try and shoehorn into Ares seemed like it would just be an exercise in frustration. It is possible to use Ares with DnD, I simply wouldn't recommend using FS3 for combat and be more reliant upon rolling it out as opposed to automated combat.

I've been working 14 hour days since Wednesday. I'm also working as much overtime as is physically and mentally possible for me.

For the next three weeks. I'm allowing myself Mondays off as is required by labor laws(one day a week).

Why might you ask? Because saving up for a wedding sucks. And because Covid numbers have skyrocketed since school started back up and most schools don't know how to fucking file paperwork needed to properly create an order to allow their students samples to be tested at all. Which is a commentary in the education system.

I'm angry, tired, and so very very frustrated. At both the situation and the fact that I force myself to drag myself off my perfectly comfortable bed and dive into it when I have no sane reason to do other than that weekend and OT pay.

Two more weeks to go.