TheMightyEthan

Oh I already do that, I just buy them faster than I can cull.

He is the chosen one!

I have a UPS that shows me how much power is being drawn through it. The reason I assume it was the UPS going bad was because it was like 10 years old, and it was on boot that it was causing problems, it wouldn't even post with USB devices connected, but once it was booted it worked fine, and then once I swapped out the PSU it worked fine. So I don't think it was actually a total power draw issue, but something with maybe the power coming out of the PSU being too dirty or something like that.

How old was the old PSU? I ask because while my 3080 isn't overclocked like yours, even running full out my whole system draws about 560W, and even with your OC I can't imagine yours would have been spiking almost 300W above that. My old PSU was 700W, which should have been more than plenty for the 3060Ti I initially had in here (running full out that system only peaked at like 380W) but when I had that one in the PC wouldn't boot with anything plugged into USB at all, and swapping out for the new PSU fixed that issue, so it might just been it was getting old and wonky.

How big was the power supply that was cutting out on you?

Hardspace: Shipbreaker This game held up. I really enjoyed it, though I do think it was a little too long. The plot advances as you increase your skill rating, which you get by meeting salvage goals on ships, and there's a stretch in the middle where I felt like it was taking too long to get to the next plot event. Aside from that though I loved it. Grade: A

If you had told me a world leader was going to be assassinated that is not the one I would have predicted.

I'm as much as of a potion hoarder as the next guy, but out of curiosity why do you choose to die instead of using a healing item?

Randomly found the answer to this without even looking:

Returnal for some reason doesn't feel like bullet hell to me, because I agree, those are usually not my jam. I think it might be because it's 3D the area available to the player is never as saturated with fire as it gets in 2D ones.

I have Steam codes for Monster Slayers, Shadowhand, Slain: Back from Hell, or Wayward Souls from a Fanatical bundle if anyone wants them.

Fanatical bundle, these are the three I wanted.

It's not so much that I think I couldn't do it, it's that those kinds of games are super hit or miss with me, so I don't want to buy it. If it were on Game Pass though I could try it risk-free.

I want to try Cuphead, but I've been scared away by the difficulty. It would be the perfect Game Pass game.

So is he like building himself a ladder of technology from stone age, only using what he's done before? Or is he skipping around?

Hardspace: Shipbreaker This game is great. You play as a scrap worker in an orbital drydock, breaking down ships that have reached end of life. You have to crawl inside them and cut struts to break it into manageable pieces, pull out valuable electronics before sending the bulk frame into the smelter, avoid accidentally cutting fuel lines, or piercing a still-pressurized compartment, that kind of thing. All for an evil corporation that has put you in about a billion dollars of debt just to get your training and whatnot, and now you have to work it off. It's so satisfying and cool. It's also Homeworld: Shipbreaker in all but name, all the ships are very much in the style of those games. It just adds another awesome layer on top of the already superb experience.

Neon White No shade on this game, it is exactly what it wants to be. Problem is it's not what I want it to be, but that's not the game's fault. It's just a little too repetitive for my tastes, and I'm not a fan of how there's a "correct" solution to each level. It's very well made though, and if you're someone who enjoys learning a set pattern and executing on it perfectly, then this is the game for you. And I don't want to make it sound like I hate it, I enjoyed the first several worlds, it's just not the kind of thing I want to do indefinitely. It's also stylish as all get out, like the best looking Game Cube game ever made. I definitely think it deserves all the praise it gets. Grade: A

Spoilers because I think not knowing the answer to that question is beneficial to the experience.

I buy things from CDkeys on occasion, and for at least the last several years they've always been a regular digital code, no scanned cards anymore.

Maybe in their focus testing it just appealed to US audiences more. Just anecdotal, but the extra "and a Half" makes it sound more intriguing to me.

I may be confusing them with another site, but I was thinking they were the one that let anyone put keys up for sale, so they end up with lots of stolen keys on there even though they themselves don't steal keys. CDkeys is grey market in the sense that they aren't an official distributor, and they exploit pricing differentials between different countries, but all their keys are legitimately purchased. *Edit - Further research reveals Gamers Gate is not the site I was thinking of, I'm still looking to try to figure out what that was. *Edit 2 - G2A is the one I was thinking of. Sorry for the confusion.

You avoid CD keys but use Gamersgate? Good game though, I liked it, and the reflections on the rainy streets are gorgeous.

Deliver Us the Moon In this game you play as an astronaut investigating a lunar colony that's lost contact with Earth. Most of the game revolves around environmental puzzle solving in the sense of figuring out how to get the right stuff turned on, or opened, or whatever, so you can get where you need to go, and the story of what happened is revealed in bits and pieces along the way. It's all very hard sci-fi, NASA-punk aesthetic. It's basically like this game was designed for me. Grade: A+

This is the only one on your list that I've read, but I also really liked it a lot. Recommendation seconded. Interesting side note: My copy was titled "The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" (emphasis mine), but I've seen both titles. Not sure which is the original.

So, I'm having to return my 3060 Ti because the HDMI port cuts out intermittently. At first it would only happen after coming back from sleep and I could fix it by just unplugging and replugging it, but it's been getting worse and now it happens even if I do that. It wasn't available for replacement, just return and refund, and I took that as a sign that I chose wrong the first time, and used the opportunity to upgrade.