I'm surprised they thought it was going to do well. I heard absolutely nothing about the game until after it launched, which is never a good sign to me.

If it was free, I'd definitely give it a try, but paid multiplayer shooters just aren't worth it to me anymore.

I can tell you, as someone who has done tax prep for friends for the last few years, that the customer service this year compared to last year was miles better. Shorter waits, less turnaround, I was actually kinda impressed.

I get why people downvoted this, but you're not entirely incorrect. The two "sides" do exist, they just both happen to be on the same side and aren't entirely opposites like "left" and "right" would imply.

Until we see a socioeconomic party platform that wants similar reforms to what is seen in the Nordics presently when it comes to policy, there's no true "left" party in the US, IMO

If I'm reading the referenced link right, the data is from 1886(?), so it's not terribly recent, either.

The X and Y are just labeled weird, both graphs reference father's height has the X and mother's height as the Y

I will forever miss the old pepper and onion mix that CFA had before the breakfast revamp.

The chicken salad recipe was pretty basic, if I remember right though. They have it listed on their app, too, I think; The only important note is you have to use debreaded fried filets, not ones with breading on. Grilled will change the flavor a little because of the marinade.

Link to the CFA Recipes page (may open in app)

They've got the coleslaw in there too, but I didn't work prep when we had it and cannot vouch for the accuracy.

I want to say that is either a Windows app or one of the preloads from the manufacturer - I recognize the icon but cannot for the life of me remember what it's called.

Lenovo and Dell specifically, too, I don't think it's an HP program.

Edit: duh, I didn't notice that's an HP system. That's either a shipped program or one from Windows.

Hands down my least favorite companion.

The original is in English, though?

https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1yk23w/the_magical_wish/

The problem is, I don't want a screen always on. I just want the option to have a blinky light.

Inefficient/unoptimized would be an accurate description. I think it's important to add, for bethsoft games specifically, that the save includes all changes to objects, even if the player themselves didn't interact with them(e.g. Physics interactions, explosions moving things, npcs bumping stuff around), and also includes all NPC changes. Master files(ESMs) get loaded, then the save loads the changes it has baked in to the databases. So, when you load up a save that has traveled the world and loaded a lot of things into save memory, the engine has to sit there and reconcile all the changes with the ESMs, which can add up quick if you're playing modded.

Save bloat is more often related to excess values not being properly discarded by the engine, if I remember right. So it's not that the objects themselves take up a lot of space, but the leftover data gets baked into the save and can end up multiplying if the same scripts/references/functions get called frequently.

It was a lot worse with Skyrim's original engine, and got better in Fallout 4 and Skyrim SE. The worst bloat happens with heavy modlists, of course, as they're most likely to have poor data management in some mod.

Breaking every mod that makes NPC Facegen edits is definitely griefing

It is also wholly possible that Steam changed the availability themselves, so you can't take all the blame away from them, but like I said originally, this is Sony's fault first and foremost as the publisher would have first say on regional availability.

There's no way Steam is 100% in charge of what regions a game is available in. The publisher absolutely has a say in where, and if it was available in all regions at the start that was on purpose.

Yeah, "strong start" is dubious.

I'm not considering the game fully released until the creation kit comes out.

If it doesn't come till after the DLC, I'm just not buying the DLC till it comes.

Independent IT Contractor: I have a 4-wide 1080p screen setup. I keep Slack/Teams on one screen, the semicircle setup means I can only really look at 3 at the same time. I upgraded from 3 screens because I kept having to juggle windows around while troubleshooting someone's webserver.

Also used this setup when I was really heavy into FFXIV- I like having wikis/alerts open and visible, so one screen for that, the game, discord, and then the last one was just for youtube/netflix.

I'm not gonna lie, I read this and thought "Didn't that game come out like...10 years ago?"

Using the exact same name for a reboot/sequel is absolutely bonkers, especially considering the original was also just okay. I remember it being nothing to write home about, especially with DS2 coming out earlier that year.

He got assassinated by someone last year over his family's ties to the Unification Church. The guy used a homemade shotgun, pretty much, made out of pipe.

I've got about 10 hours in, and having avoided the buzz as much as I could, I'd say 6-7/10 is pretty spot on. Nothing drastically new(surprised they got ship combat to work in the creation engine), lots of the underlying mechanics are the same, I've noticed some reused animations, particularly the workbenches, and finally got the stutters fixed by moving to an SSD.

I'm more excited to see what modders put together for the game at this point, but that's how Beth games have been since the launch of Skyrim, so not much new.