TheMightyEthan

Yeah, I didn't mean it was the whole problem, just that renewables didn't solve it. *Edit - Really what we need is for the regional grids to actually be linked together, so a generation failure in one region doesn't bring down that whole grid, because power can still be brought in from other regions.

Texas' grid is already more than 50% renewable, that's part of the problem, wind and solar farms don't work in this weather.

What game have you been playing where it's that bad? I often have the opposite problem, the effect isn't pronounced enough so I don't realize I'm taking damage until suddenly I die.

No, it's all held server-side, so I had to delete my server-side profile to reset it.

Aya was supposed to be the main character of Origins, but stupid Ubisoft executives are sexist dicks.

I wouldn't have to do the whole game again, just the specific trophy steps. Hitman doesn't gate levels by previous progress, so I can just jump straight to that level and do the things. In fact, that's exactly what I did last night.

Well I should now have the platinum for Hitman 3, except one of the trophies is bugged... (Minor mission story title spoilers): There's a "fix" that involves deleting your IOI profile, which resets all progress, including unlocked gadgets, suits, starting locations, etc, and then doing the criteria for the trohpy again. I'm actually considering it, since it's the last thing left to do in Hitman 3, but I could use those unlocks in Hitman 1 & 2 if I don't...

I loved it. Personally I'd say it's at least a 9/10, but I'd expect overall reviews to be in the 8-8.5 range. And checking Open Critic it has an 84, so I'm spot on there.

Yeah, Control is definitely confusing about what's going on at the beginning, but I felt like I had a pretty good handle on it by the end. Like you said, there's some stuff that's not explained by virtue of the type of fiction it is (like ), but overall I felt like it was pretty comprehensible.

Yeah, glad I got mine already... *Edit - although I'm guessing the console manufacturers already had their orders locked in for at least the first year or so. And this isn't a production issue, it's just that demand has massively increased, so there's no reason the chip makers can't fill existing orders.

Yeah, you kind of have to accept that you, like Jesse, have no real idea wtf is going on.

How long did you play it for? It's basically the government agency that collects and studies all the weird paranormal stuff they can find.

You could get 3, then wait for a sale on the expansions. I was able to import the first two, but never got the expansion for 2 so that didn't import, and to buy it now is $40 so I'll pick it up later. Or if you know someone who has the first two on disc, you just have to boot it up and then it's free to import the levels, and once they're imported you don't have to use the disc anymore to access them. Or you could buy the discs used for like $15 and import them that way.

Yes.

Hitman 3 An excellent end to the World of Assassination trilogy. If you've played any of the previous Hitmen it's more of that, just in new locations. 5/5

Nice.

It is. I don't know the details, that's just what I've heard.

No, it was developed by an entirely different company, just with the Zelda license. In fact, from what I hear, it actually sets the stage for BotW2.

Do you use a dualshock or move controllers.

The purple did grow on me over the last couple weeks, but I'm much happier with my new Mirror's Edge DualSense. Related: I'm also extremely happy with my new phone's camera.

Yeah, I'm very goal-oriented in games, so if I don't have some kind of concrete mid-term goal I lose interest. Usually that comes at the end of the story, but well-implemented trophies can do the same thing. They're not enough to motivate me to play a game I'm not enjoying, but they can provide that little bit of impetus I need to keep playing a game I love but that I've run out of story content for.

Yeah, that's also why horror sequels are almost never as scary as the original. The scariest thing is the unknown, so once you're too familiar with something it just can't be as scary to you. Or at least not in the "existential dread" kind of way.

Given Google's history with just kind of losing interest in anything beyond its core services, I think them shutting down their internal studios is pretty much a death knell for Stadia. In the same announcement they said they're looking at licensing the tech out to other companies, so I think that's where they're planning to go with it, not really focus on providing a direct service themselves.

I don't usually like difficulty-based trophies either, and if a game has one I usually won't even attempt the platinum. The only real exceptions to that are games where the "complete the game" trophy just requires you to do it on something above the lowest difficulty, and the very rare game where I want to play the hardest difficulty anyway.

Oh yeah, that thing looks perfect.