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Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions
  • Rift crystals are earned by playing just like the first game. Their only purpose is to hire higher level pawns, but you earn them when people pay for your pawn or you complete their quests. It's part of the interplay of players exchange pawns.

    Recent Capcom games have all done this where it's a great game and right on release they stuff a bunch of micro transactions in for in-game currency but you would have to be an absolute chud to buy any of it because it's so trivial to earn.

    DMCV did the same thing with trying to sell red orbs, the primary upgrade currency, but if you didn't see people complain about it online, you wouldn't even notice it in game.

    They are ticking a checkbox for the suits.

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    Useful apps for guitar?
  • Oolimo, the website and phone app is a great resource for me. It lets you enter notes on a fretboard to identify chords.

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    Palworld is now available in Early Access on Steam (and Gamepass, I believe)
  • That's about how well it fits in. You produce and find guns and can equip yourself and the pals with certain weapons. Modern firearms in a generic fantasy setting. It's like a meme game that has too much production budget.

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    Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?
  • Top song is Comin Around by Andrew Duhon.

    Top artist is The Tedeschi Trucks band, no surprise there. Best God damn band on tour right now. Listened to them so much this year as I got tickets to one of their shows this past July.

    It was a good year of listening for me.

    Edit: after scrolling through the comments, pretty cool seeing very few repeated bands.

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    Parent's Bitter Coffee
  • Make them better coffee and then don't comment on it until they ask.

    Most people seem to connect bitter and strong and it's a hard habit to break out of. People are used to crappy coffee.

    Just getting them to a stage where they buy quality beans and grind them fresh is a big leap, but once they reach that baseline you can introduce roast levels.

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    It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox
  • When Firefox announced that a ton of their add-ons/extensions were coming to the mobile app, it got me to switch from chrome after almost 15 years.

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    Games that my non-gamer girlfriend can watch me playing?
  • Any RPG with dialogue and choices. Bonus points for custom characters or male/female options.

    Before my girlfriend got into games, I would often play a new game with her and ask her to design the create-a-character and ask for her input on dialogue choices. Sometimes we would take turns reading aloud in game text and documents. It got her invested without the stress of having to handle the game.

    She eventually bought herself a switch and blasted out 500 hours of animal crossing during the pandemic lockdown and now she is all in on games.

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  • Unfortunately it's fully supported by the statistics and multiple large channels have tried to get away from the shitty thumbnails, but those videos get significantly less clicks.

    We can hate it, but it works.

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    How reliable are EV chargers?
  • As a Tesla owner of 5 years with a cross country road trip in the car, Teslas charging has never failed me. It's rare to encounter a charging stall not working, but every location has multiple chargers and they repair stalls quickly.

    Almost every location I've been to has at least 8 stalls if not more. The navigation in the car also keeps track of stalls in use, electricity prices, expected wait time and if any stalls are not working.

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  • You can still be hyper critical of a product you use. I rely on tons of Google services and also use a pixel, but that doesn't stop me from being disappointed in their behavior at large when it seems like the leadership is allergic to making the easy winning decisions.

    The realistic alternative is Apple and frankly fuck that.

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    OHIO - YES on 1 and 2
  • I voted nearly 3 weeks ago and it was the busiest I've ever seen early voting in my area. This election and the horseshit special election a few months ago have stirred people up.

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    'Amtrak Joe' Biden is off to Delaware to give out $16 billion for passenger rail projects
  • That's incorrect. The administration worked with that union to meet their demands after the initial pause of the strike. That part didn't get nearly as much news traffic as the first part though.

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    Is this case still worth using in 2023?
  • You probably could but it won't have the same cable management, drive layouts modern I/O and airflow that we get on modern cases. Additionally, you would possibly need to cut and remove the drive cages or other parts to allow for modern sized gpus.

    If you don't already have this case, I would recommend just getting a modern case and save yourself the hassle.

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