Mister Jack

I use an AIO, yeah. I see no real reason to bother with a custom loop when it's no longer necessary to get the benefits of liquid cooling.

I was surprised how big my case was too. Still need to add another hard drive to it at some point. If you haven't tried liquid cooling before I highly recommend it if you can swing it financially. My desktop is nice and quiet no matter what I play on it so far.

Perhaps this?

Black Friday deal. 1 TB for 200. Still kind of steep, but I don't see myself ever keeping more than 2 TB of games on my PS5 at one time, even with the increased size of games in the current gen. Kudos to the Sony engineers because this was super easy to install and set up. Took maybe 5 minutes.

Youtube is disabling the ability to see dislikes. This brings it back.

https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com/

Far Cry 6 It's fine. I mean, what can I really say? Everyone knows by now if they like Far Cry or not. You drive, you fly, you shoot, you clear outposts, it's more of what you are familiar with, just bigger and with more content. It can also be a lot of fun if you have a buddy to play co-op with because sometimes due to the random nature of the open world shit will suddenly go bananas without any warning. I once tried to bribe a soldier only for a wolf to suddenly charge in from the side and maul her to death right before a pair of out of control trucks barreled over the both of them and fucking exploded. It's jank as hell but it's fun jank. If I have to find something to talk about with this game in particular I suppose it's the villain and the presentation. I love Giancarlo Esposito. He's a fantastic actor, but the fact is that Anton Castillo is not as memorable as Vaas or Pagan Min and I think this is for two reasons. Firstly, as the dictator of an entire country he has very little direct interaction with the protagonist. They come face to face in maybe three scenes total that I can recall. As a military dictator, Anton also has a hardass no-nonsense personality which is pretty typical for dictator characters and doesn't really have the same kind of evil charisma that you see in Vaas or Pagan. That's not to say Anton is without merit. He has some pretty good monologues here and there, but he's more of a mouthpiece meant to push the story's themes about imperialism and colonialism than he is a fleshed-out character in his own right. The other sticking point for me, and your mileage may vary on this, is that the cutscenes have gone from a first-person camera to prerendered scenes in third-person where you see Dani interact with other characters from an outside perspective. I assume they did this because they wanted Dani to have more of a personality than previous Far Cry player characters, which he certainly does, but I don't know if it's enough of a personality to make losing the first person perspective worth it. I think if the confrontations with Castillo had been delivered in first person they might have left more of an impact. That's what I think worked with previous games. You, the player, are forced to face down psychotic despots. When you watch these kinds of scenes as a passive observer rather than an active participant I feel like they lose something. I can only speak for myself, though. I'm sure there are people out there who prefer the third-person cutscenes.

Oh shit, World of Horror update after a year of silence from the developer! I honestly thought this game had been abandoned but now it's finally time to go back to Shiokawa, baby. Even though it's in early access I can easily recommend it to anyone who likes roguelikes, RPGs, or horror. Now that the update is going to be adding two new cases and Old Gods at the bare minimum it's even easier to recommend, especially at 15 dollars.

Why in the FUCK do games with crafting mechanics still insist on making me push a button to pick up crafting supplies. When am I ever going to not want to pick up crafting supplies? You should just automatically collect it when you touch it. To me, making you push the square or triangle button or whatever just to pick up some doodad is the game trying to trick you into believing that it's more engaging than it actually is by giving you pointless busywork to do. Unless you are playing a VR game where collecting things with your hands is part of the appeal or a huge Bethesda or Minecraft tier game where you can pick up everything that isn't nailed down, there is no excuse to make you do that. Just collect it by touching it for God's sake. It's not rocket science.

Dude was legit one of the best things about it.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Watched this on Disney+. To tell the truth, I would almost put this in the okay movies thread. It's fine. Shang-Chi is fine as a character. Not great but not terrible. The Mandarin is fine. The side characters are fine. They don't leave a strong impression but they're not really obnoxious either. The thing that pushed this movie over into this thread for me was the fight choreography. It's really good. In fact, in my opinion these are some of the best fight scenes in the entire MCU and there's plenty of them. As a Marvel movie, meaning a movie that's meant to push the MCU forward and get fans hyped for the future of the franchise, it's kind of meh. However, as a standalone kung fu movie it's great. If you watch it just for the stunts and action scenes it's pretty enjoyable but it loses some steam in the climax when it turns into a CGI fest like Black Panther did, although the effects here aren't as bad as they were in that movie.

The best part is that NFT owners are gonna have to pay taxes based on the perceived value of their NFTs, so if some dumbass pays a million dollars for a picture of a monkey smoking a joint that means that the IRS will tax you as if it's actually worth a million dollars. Good luck selling your weed monkey to anyone else for even a fraction of that price. This might finally be the push we need to pop the NFT bubble and kill this stupid, destructive fad for good. One can only hope.

Another note about the Drax the Dismemberer trophy

NFT sales over 10k must now be declared to the IRS. GET FUCKED, NFT LOSERS!

Finally got the Guardians of the Galaxy platinum. Truth be told it's not that hard to get but you want to be careful because if you miss a collectible you can't go back and get it via the chapter select because it resets your progress when you finish the chapter. I ended up having to replay the entire game to get the stuff I missed.

Normally I don't buy three games in a row because of the risk of the others getting neglected but I'm currently stuck caring full-time for my blind, crippled mom and she can't be left alone for more than a few minutes at a time which means I can barely even leave the house and I fucking need shit to play.

If I had to guess it might be that Guardians is clearly doing its own thing and is more comic inspired with its designs whereas Avengers always kinda looked like diet MCU even before they changed the designs for that one.

But muh free market

I'm stuck at home so I had a lot of free time. It's probably about 12-15 hours though.

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy I thoroughly enjoyed this one, although a portion of that is admittedly because I love these characters. That's not to say it's another Marvel's Avengers or anything. It's quite good, even if it doesn't compare to something like, say, the Arkham series. The story and characters are the biggest draw for me personally. The Guardians have a lot of fun banter with each other and as Star Lord you often have to make dialogue and leadership choices that can have an effect on future events. I suspect that the main plot ultimately plays out in similar ways, but saying or doing the right thing can come back to benefit you later on so that's cool. The gameplay isn't super complex but it's not totally mindless either. Picture something like Mass Effect with you giving commands to squad members to use abilities only instead of a cover shooter it's an action shooter where Star Lord uses his jet boots to zip around and dodge laser fire. You can also command them to use their unique talents to solve environmental puzzles. You never directly control the other Guardians, which will definitely disappoint some people, but I see what they were going for. At the risk of sounding like IGN, they want you to really feel like Star Lord, and as Star Lord it's your job to keep the team together through thick and thin. There are some really nice scenes where Quill has some heartfelt chats with the rest of the crew to grow closer and get a better understanding of them. Getting back to the combat, each Guardian is useful in different ways and finding synergy between their abilities is the best way to get through battles. My favorite feature is when you fill up a meter you can call in all the Guardians for a group huddle and give them an inspirational speech. If you give them a good speech they all get motivated and receive buffs. If you give a bad speech they get disgusted with your lameness and receive no buffs. Either way, using the group huddle changes the battle music to a random song on Quill's tape player and it is a great way to get you amped for the fight. Speaking of music, the soundtrack is great. There are some really solid licensed songs on the soundtrack, and rightfully so. However, what deserves special mention is that this game made up a fictional metal band called Star Lord and recorded an entire album for them. And these are good songs, too! I would play the Star Lord album in my car without hesitation. Even if you don't play the game, you should at least listen to the album. If I have any real criticism it's that the game is kind of easy. I don't think I ever died in combat on normal mode, so you should play on hard if you want anything resembling a challenge. However, I will note that one really nice feature the game has is custom difficulty settings where you can adjust things like enemy damage, player damage, cooldown times, and plenty of other things that honestly almost seem like cheat codes if you set them a certain way. However, this allows you to customize the game to be as easy or as hard as you want it to be. It's honestly a pretty great feature and while I'm not saying every game should have it, I do hope it shows up more often. All in all I'd give the game a solid A-. The gameplay is serviceable if not spectacular but it's really propped up by the great presentation. Definitely not low-effort junk like Avengers was.

Important note: if the Guardians start to banter make sure you don't walk too fast because it's easy to accidentally cut off dialogue by triggering a story section.

Same here except the PS5 version.