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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/17/conservatives-falsely-blame-renewables-for-texas-storm-outages According to the Graudian, (and an ERCOT press conference which I have not checked myself) there were twice as many outages caused by gas, coal and nuclear than renewables.

Did/could you save-scum so that you can get your stuff back after?

See, it's stuff like this that make me wonder if the Republicans even have any strategists in their ranks. They had their foot on Trump's throat, all they had to do was press down, vote to impeach, and everything would have gone back to normal. Not that "normal" is great, but it's better than having Trump ride roughshod over your entire party. If they had convicted, Trump would have been barred from running again, Reps would have had the perfect "we were left with no choice" excuse, and even if Rep voters were pissed off, are you really telling me that Trump's base would vote for a youngish, female, black/Indian candidate over whichever old white dude the Reps roll out in '24? Come on!

So you'd have to complete the whole game again??? That's not a "fix" that's repro steps for a <100% bug!

Haven't looked at this thread in ages, but feel I need to say, I flipping hate cinema sins.

I think Control was "good" too fwiw. I liked the cursed objects thing and the different powers they manifested, enemy variety was ok. The cast were generally likeable or at least interesting. I didn't watch the hotline videos properly, so I don't really have a brilliant grasp of the "lore", or what "the Board" and "Former" really are. I think 7 out of 10 is a fair score. I enjoyed it, but I am not playing through again on PS5 (even though I think I acquired the ultimax edition already), but might have picked it up again if I could have transferred my save. That puts it squarely in "good but not brilliant" territory.

Is that the one where they had to change up the enemy design a bit because it was a touch on the... colonial... side?

Quite. I thought age of calamity was a prequel to BotW?

Generally speaking I hate "complete it on very hard mode" trophies because normally I only like to play through a game the once and those modes only open up after completion, and normally I don't find more difficulty = more fun. The only recent exception was with FF7R, but I didn't mind that as it was an NG+ playthrough, so I was OP for much of it anyway. I do find FromSoft's "see all the endings" trophies a bit annoying, but at least you can normally save-scum it.

If you are shutting down your in-house studios, then third party exclusives are exactly what you want/need. It's what MS did with the Xbox One when they were paying for exclusives like Tomb Raider due to a dearth of homegrown titles. In terms of money, Google will have thrown some cash at SEGA or given them a minimum guarantee for the privilege so I'm sure they will be fine. Plus, this is almost certainly a timed exclusive, so SEGA might as well take a lump of cash up front from Google now, and then more from Steam customers later.

It must be, because nobody seems to make it any more. lol.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B010B4L968/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1 I used this, connected hdmi from PS4 to the input, then output one went into the PSVR and output 2 into the TV. Just had to flick the switch to choose between HDR on TV or PSVR. But obviously requires 2 more HDMI cables so the rat king was even more ratty and kingly. At the time I struggled to find a switch that (a) Actually switched between inputs, rather than just splitting, and (b) didn't require power (and therefore even more cables).

I always use guides for collectibles. I also used guides heaps for Demon's Souls. I fact, I just use guides for trophies full stop. Normally I'll check for "missable" trophies, play through once blind, then if I want the plat, get a guide to hoover up whatever I missed.

Control is great. Concrete Genie will be nice to add to my PSVR Renaissance.

The Prince is actually a pretty easy read, and feels weirdly relevant to todays geo and office politics. I'd suggest you give it a go for a change.

Last book I finished was Machiavelli's The Prince, which is infinitely quotable these days. I've nearly finished re-reading Guards! Guards! so I'll probably end up doing the whole of the watch series now. A particularly apposite Machiavelli quote springs to mind as impeachment looms: "Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge."

Done's Souls.

Oh my gawwwd can we keep politics out of music please? (This song bangs by the way!)

I am fucking *pumped* for politics to get boring again.

Quick sketch of my sleepy cat wot I did on my Remarkable 2.

I should probably do the same. How do you calibrate it? It's ages since I did that. It seems to work ok, but better is better.

That whole political wing (politicians and voters) is a cesspool of hypocrisy. They chant "blue lives matter" until a cop stands between them and the capitol, at which point they beat him to death with a flag. GOP say they stand for law and order until their president breaks the law. Reps claim to be about family values and then elect and support a man who cheats on his pregnant wife, and openly insults their partners. They claim to be "pro-life" and then refuse to give the needy food and shelter. I think Dems have their own issues. They can't decide whether to be progressive or centrist and so lose both arguments. Their supporters tend to let perfection be the enemy of the good. They fail to do what needs to be done because they get hung up on what should be done.

Is that Majora's Mask?

Yeah, that's fair. MS ahead of the pack in that sense. Stadia, PS Plus, Epic store is, I think, the norm at the mo.