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So I now know that I'm more nervous about a paper disk than a metal one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/?postshare=9221471534255226&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.8b2d11636d73 So the phasing out of private prisons is a thing on the federal level now. It's the right move. Now we need state and local to follow suit.

It'll be quite interesting to see how the trucking industry adapts. It is anybody's guess. My hunch is where most truck stops are now will still be there but now it's more of a function of checking if everything is kosher with the cargo and truck. Could be as simple as checking if the seals on the truck cargo hold is intact and what they should be. Could be more involved. The checkers could be from the owners of the trucks like UPS, Swift, U-haul or some new contractor companies. These places also could be where come a representative is based that can go to accident sites. In the end though, it'll be (I suspect) less people employed in this industry.

I doubt anybody cares anymore but Bleach is finally over.

It's always good to toss in some gameplay videos. One odd thing I've noticed is that while regular enemies do have feedback from getting hit the boss doesn't. Got to wait till release to know for sure.

It was demons all the long. Not nanomachines. And fuck Konami.

Whoever said that the world was safe never faced down a Edit: Spoiled it if one of you want to go about it organically.

Exhausting all the planets in the star system, I had to buy a new ship for a hyperdrive. Luckily this new one has more space and a hyperdrive upgrade to boot. The only "problem" is this new star system has a planet with theropod aka meat-eating dinosaur aka T-rex. Welcome to Jurassic Park.

I'm trying to find one by going to a higher classed star system but I'm having a bitch of a time finding all the resources and blueprints to build what I need. Chrysonite is not anywhere when I need it. Before hand I had a bunch. I would backtrack to some other planets but my hyperdrive is busted. I guess I could buy a new ship at the space station. On the bright side I got two new hyperdrive upgrades that I'm waiting to build...\ Edit: Copper is another thing I'm having trouble finding. But you know what? Wiki it. I just can't be running around blind like this. And this current planet is a Sentinel hellhole. Great riches but robotic hellhounds and constant harassment by the flying ones is a thing here.

I do the same thing but yeah, I'm talking about the ship itself. You can get stuck. I have a video but Youtube is being a POS and won't upload anything for me.

Don't land and take off from next to a wall. You'll die.

I noticed this while trying to find a star system to jump to: there are four classes of stars to go to. I think now I have a goal besides getting to the center. @TCP Yeah, I misunderstood it. Kind of easy to if you just deal with one after another in a span of 6 hours. I kind of got the hint of just three alien races in a monolith though. Edit: And if I don't get a refund, I guess I wouldn't even be mad.

@Dean: That is a really good summary. Storage space is my main gripe right now. I'm pretty much tied to trading outposts. There's very little reason to horde anything else than fuel for your things. I guess you can horde gold though... Another thing for me is the language. You'll learn an alien language through your stay in a star system but all that progress means nothing once you jump outside of said star system. You'll start from scratch. Doesn't really matter though since you can guess most things. Lastly... stop spamming milestones in my face. Let me play the game. Like seriously, why are there so many things that slow your gameplay down like hold to select (Maybe due to there isn't much purpose to anything I guess...)? But of course it doesn't apply to landing a ship. A simple press can do. Like sure, this game's concept has potential but this is the release version at $60.

Now that I ordered new parts, I just realized that I actually never replaced the Mobo, RAM and CPU so I don't know how my Windows installation will take it. I know for a new GPU you need to remove previous drivers. I assume it's the same thing for the other parts? Maybe reinstalling Windows will be better? My startup times has increased ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 so it might be a good excuse to give a reinstall a try and wipe everything on my OS drive.

The insanity continues. This game is like my NMS...

I'm giving a more of a go with some of the recommended fixes. Works better for sure. The only reason why I'm here right now is that Steam beta client got an update and booted me from the game which is in effect alt-tab out of the game. Thankfully I just got out of my ship not too long ago so things saved.

I have the GOG version. It still has the hitching every couple seconds as I walk around. If it was just some occasional hitching then fine. As it is right now, why should I deal with this at a $60 price tag? I'm sure new driver (it's coming) and updates will help but it'll take sometime before the game is up to shape.

I'm actually returning it. I liked the content but the performance is just bad.

Well they got a small update out that (from what I can tell) reset the options I've selected but at least it fixed having M+KB prompts on some stuff and controller prompts on other stuff.

From the look of my Steam popup, you should've taken a screenshot for each crash. You might've gotten like ten shots.

Oh yeah! South Park: The Fractured but Whole!

Good to know. Oh refund... Edit: And those textures. Also I swear the game looks blurry.

This might have to do with more with my computer but game hangs more and chugs more than any games I've played recently. I suspect it is due to the procedural generation. That might not be playing well with my 6 GB of RAM (surprised that that is below the minimum) and my older i7 950 (I suspect this is mostly the culprit). Maybe putting the game on my SD will help?