This right here. Every running water noise your ears perk up thinking that it’s the worst. Then you realise it’s just the dishwasher.

Another shoutout to summit, coming from an ex-Sync user. It’s very nice.

+1 for summit

Excel

Looks interesting - bought the bundle for $2ish and will check it out

That and the Prometheans were just so unsatisfying as enemies.

The teleporting away (and appearing randomly), how you didn’t seem to visibly hurt them / bullet sponge, disappearing on death etc all contributed to it feeling like a chore to off them.

5 was a bit better but still nowhere near the fun of 1-3/reach/odst

I found this study which would suggest it’s ballpark correct, depending on your weight and what you’re carrying

Will do - I jumped ship to Summit and haven’t looked back. The only thing that would be nice to have here is an instance browser.

Can you reload old saves, or only the most recent? I think being able to reload an older save is important in the case of glitches (NPC walks through wall and is unreachable etc)

So the article mentions tarrifs by Mexico, and provides a link to them - but they just go to a tweet from the Mexican President that say nothing about tarrifs.

What action are they taking?

There are no eggs. Anywhere.

Oh it most definitely is

Can you stop focusing on developing these things and put more focus on AI?

Looks to be about 1.5m on each side (based on 1.8m - 30cm).

Volume of the cube:
1.5 * 1.5 * 1.5 = 3.375m³

Density of tungsten = 19,450kg/m³

Mass of cube:
3.375m³ * 19,450kg/m³ = 65,643.75kg = 65.64375 metric ton

Price of tungsten: 6,672.78 USD/metric ton.
(Tried to find what I thought was a reputable price)

Price of the cube: 65.64375 mt * 6,672.78usd/mt = 438,026.30usd

Hope that’s reasonable

Is that a left hand trackball mouse moved to the right of the keyboard?
Or a trackball mouse that uses thumb for clicking?

I do like that you can keep the stats of gear you’re wearing but change the appearance of it to anything you’ve collected before. Nice to actually be able to look good and have good gear.

One thing I’ve done is turn off the Minimap. It’s made it more interesting - I actually pay attention to the landscape details and the golden path thing is actually useful. Just wish you could keep a compass visible.

I just bought a steam deck, and bought hogwarts legacy when it was on sale a while back on a friend’s recommendation.

Decided to give it a try - such a great game! I tend to compare opens world’s to Skyrim, and the detail in the quests is so much better. It’s not just ‘clear this dungeon’. Plus they’ve really thought about what sucks about those other games and really tried to avoid them. Plays great on the steam deck too, I’ve got it capped at 45fps and it never skips a beat.

I don’t think I’ve had this much enjoyment from a gaming device ever. I’ve done the console and game pass on the phone mounted controller, and that was not very consistent. The instant pause/resume button is a game changer with young kids waking up in the night.

Not at all bothered by performance - in fact I’ve seeing articles about how ‘this windows handheld beats the steam deck in tflops’ but an constantly thinking - 'yes, but it’s a handheld. Is it good at that? Battery life, pick up and go etc are super relevant, not just performance.

Bit of a tangent there, but I am having a great gaming time.

You can tie the tongues of barnacles together and use that to bring down entire buildings when they reel each other in. Oh and btw it’s open world and you can level the whole place ala bf3.

Yep - grated cheese is a good example. The stuff they put in to make it not stick together can contain gluten.

Thanks for suggesting summit - I’ve tried many but never felt like they clicked. Summit feels nice- it has many of the same features, you can customise how posts look (even the width of cards!)