TheMightyEthan

From what I'd seen he had also considered bombing a black church, a synagogue, or a mosque, and just settled on the hospital cause he thought he'd kill the most people that way. So dude was cray, it didn't really have anything to do with coronavirus.

That's got to be a bug, the whole point of point and clicks is collecting random shit in your inventory.

Sounds similar to the skulls in Halo, which I also really like.

Apparently I never posted in here back in February when I took some more photos of Venus. This was taken on February 8 (oh what a different world that was), with Venus slightly gibbous. I didn't discover until afterward that I had the exposure too high, which is why it's so blown out, but I was able to get much better focus, so you can see it a lot more clearly than my previous pictures. It's no longer just an amorphous blob! It's small because I wasn't able to get it lined up with the 2x barlow lens (2x zoom means half the viewing area, which means it's much harder to find objects). This was taken on March 24, with Venus about as close to half as I'm going to be able to get. Interestingly, this picture makes it look like it's ever so slightly less than half, but official information suggests it should have been ever so slightly more than half. I think the effect might be an artifact of the algorithms my software uses to sharpen the image, causing a little bit of a bulge at each point of the limb. This one I was able to get lined up in the barlow, so you can see a lot more detail in the shape of it, and I also fixed the overexposure problem from last time. Overall I'm very happy with it, and it gives me great hope for getting good shots of it when it's crescent. Those should be even bigger, because Venus is getting closer and closer to us as it moves between us and the sun. It's comforting to me that even with all the shit going on down here, the heavens are just plodding along as always.

@Mister Jack I don't know how to explain it, but when I was playing 2016 I got maybe half(?) of the way through, and realized I had no interest in continuing because every fight felt exactly the same. Like sure the environments were different, and there were different enemies, but didn't feel like that really changed the approach you needed to take.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Cindered Shadows Okay, so it was really just that one level that was tedious, and once I looked where the thing that I needed was I just rushed it with a flyer and ended it easy peasy. Beyond that, I thought the game was really good. It was harder than the base game, but not so hard as to be frustrating. I used Divine Pulse a lot more than in the base game, and I lost more units (I was on casual, so they came back ?), but there was only one level, the last one, where I had to retreat and start over altogether. My second attempt at the final level the only character I lost was Byleth, which is actually the only time I ever lost Byleth. I thought it was fitting that she should die to see that her students are kept safe. ? 4/5

I mean, the US is the country that decided mass murder of grade-schoolers is an acceptable price for having guns everywhere, so I could totally see us as a country just being like "well, that sucked, oh well, nothin we can do" and moving on.

Does it solve the problem that the first (2016) one had where every encounter kind of feels the same?

Well Half-Life: Alyx is the thing that really keeps making me want one, and can't play that on a PSVR. *Edit - Also, the PSVR isn't exactly cheap, and it's one of those things where the "cheap" ones are expensive enough that I'm like "if I'm going to spend that much I want to get a good one" but the good ones are too expensive for me to want them.

@deanb ?

I keep wanting to get a VR headset, and then I remember that index is $1000, and I realize I don't really need a VR headset...

I would honestly like to know what people like about Animal Crossing? I ask because I keep seeing everyone talking about it on Twitter, and it makes me intrigued, but it seems like something that would get real old real quick.

Has the government changed it's "nothing to worry about" position at all?

It's a Wii sensor bar for PC that lets you connect your Wii-mote to the PC and play Wii games in beautiful 4k with antialiasing and anisotropic filtering instead of ugly jaggy 480p without those things.

Got the urge to play all the main-line Zelda games after listening to a retrospective on the Kinda Funny Games podcast, and I didn't feel like staring at a horrible muddy jaggy 480p image for however long it takes to play Skyward Sword, so I got this Mayflash sensor bar for PC. It's pretty great, it syncs the controller and everything, so now I get amazing beautiful 4k Skyward Sword. Also a bunch of other Wii games. Mario Galaxy looks way better than I would have thought possible.

Does he not own a laptop? Or a cell phone? A short little video really isn't hard to produce...

Alright, now that I've taken a break and then gone back, I'm enjoying FE3H: Cindered Shadows a lot more. It seems like it was just that one battle that was super tedious, so I cheesed the shit out of it, and now I'm really liking it. I'm also playing Halo: Combat Evolved: Anniversary Edition since it's out on PC now and I already had Gamepass so I could play Ori. The graphics enhancement is actually better than I remembered. In my memory they had really fucked up the art style, and while there are a few things (like the doors on Assault on the Control Room... just... who thought those looked good or fit with the aesthetic?), for the most part I think it really does a good job of capturing the feel of the original while making it much more modern looking. I mean, obviously at this point the Anniversary graphics are almost 10 years old themselves, but the difference between them and the original is night and day. Graphics aside, it's OG Halo, which is always fantastic.

Hmm, well I'm glad I used at least $15 of my Powerup Rewards already, so I broke even on the membership.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps Omg, sooo good. I loved the first one, so I was extremely excited for the sequel, and it does not disappoint. At it's core it's just a metroidvania, but everything about it comes together so well. My only real complaint is that some of the boss encounters are too long without a checkpoint between stages. Dat ending tho... 17/10

Since they're calling it a "drug cocktail" I'm guessing it's supposed to be a treatment, not a vaccine. In other news, the Kansas Supreme Court has issued an order suspending all court proceedings state-wide except for a narrow list of "emergency" functions. The order is technically indefinite, but will be re-evaluated in two weeks.

Hopefully it pans out and doesn't just give people a false sense of security.

It lasting longer is actually probably good though, what with flattening the curve and all that. The more it can be spread out, instead of hitting all at once, the less likely the medical system is to get overwhelmed, and the fewer people will die.

I remember playing Doom 3 when it first came out, eventually I got to a room with a button in it that would open a door I needed to go through. I knew that if I pushed the button a bunch of hidden chambers would open and monsters would swarm me. I realized I did not want to push the button. I quit and never played it again instead.

That's been on my list for forever, but I also haven't gotten around to it, good to see it's good.

You're right that long haul truck drivers are a huge potential vector, but without them society really would grind to a halt. There wouldn't be any food.