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Dalek_Thal

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Guy who finished a law degree for some reason. I didn’t mean to, it just kinda happened

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Any recommendations for mods? I’m putting together a new build for it ahead of my semi-annual replay of the trilogy

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I second this. My life massively improved when I started to set out to leave the world a better place than I found it in - on average, people feel happier when around a friendly person

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Is it an appeal? That would explain it

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As a fellow Steam user/gamer, I’m in this picture and I do not like it whatsoever

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FWIW, there are two other Dalek groups with timeships in New Who;

In Series 5, the survivors of Series 4 had a working time ship, which the Paradigm Daleks used to escape. The Paradigm Daleks had access to at minimum a small fleet of time ships, which were used to trap the Doctor in The Pandorica Opens. The Paradigm Dalek subplot was then promptly abandoned, so we never got a sense of their force.

In Series 12, the executioner Daleks sent to deal with the fake Daleks had access to a time ship, as supported by the Doctor contacting them via the Time Vortex. They then used the Time Vortex to reach present-day Earth and were then promptly slaughtered by the Doctor with the spare TARDIS, so that time ship was left without pilots.

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Case and point, Dalek Caan, who accidentallied his way into the Time War

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Cooooool, so they’re gonna release it in Australia to stop the scalping here, right?

Right?

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Cool, does this mean they’ll actually fucking sell the thing in Australia, or is it just forever going to be dodgy resellers?

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But you found them didn’t you?

Yes, it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard”

Can an average person who works a full time job become capable enough to rival a secret agent like James Bond or John Wick on their own ?

If so what kind of training they would have to go through ? By training I mean the spatial and situational awareness, combat skills (this is kinda unrealistic), enough knowledge to turn any situation to their advantage etc....

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This is for a friend, right?

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FWIW, one of the lead developers of Dragon Age Inquisition confirmed that a lot of decisions around that game were EA wanting them to make Skyrim (for instance, the addition of mounts) Source: youtu.be/4Q5_RsII_Ho?si=a9CTmyHpEpgfuPTe

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Please let this mean Disney+ will be getting it in the rest of the world - there’s no legal way to watch Classic Who in Australia anymore, as all the DVDs are out of print and Britbox got rid of it in April.

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Dental plan! (Lisa needs braces!)

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God we need survival mode desperately. Atm exploration feels pointless and aimless, a survival mode would make it so we have a reason to build outposts and range out, which in turn would justify resources and just make the game more cohesive.

There’s a great post on the other site that explores these problems, but it honestly strikes me that these were ripped out before release, as so many of these systems don’t make sense.

Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200 year old gun: "I was armed but not dangerous" (www.pcgamer.com)

While Elon’s then-partner Grimes was recording her part in the game as cyborg popstar Lizzy Wizzy, the erratic tech billionaire turned up with an antique firearm to “insist” on being included in the game. “The studio guys were like sweating,” Grimes is quoted as saying. Musk adds “I told them that I was armed but not...

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OFF TOPIC:

Speaking from a feminstic but also Australian position, I think it’s kinda problematic to outright ban language internationally when the connotation of concern is specific to one culture. We use that word pretty liberally here, and it isn’t done so with remotely the same definition; instead, it is typically used interchangeably with “dickhead” and “arsehole”. Whilst I definitely support your efforts, I don’t think this is the right way to go about it, as it’s a very clear use of American exceptionalism when Americans, taken as a part of the world, make up a minority of people on the Internet.

ON TOPIC:

Yeahhhh, Elon both frightens and disgusts me. What a selfish twat.

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Yeah, ultimately this article reads as if it is questioning the quality of a work on the basis of how the audience engages (or doesn’t engage) with it. Ultimately there is one case where the character dies due to a bad dialogue choice, and that response is very clearly a joke one for if you’re not roleplaying.

I dunno, it just seems as if the article is clickbait, and if this game dev would prefer playing a game 90% ludonarrative dissonance and 10% no meaningful player choice.

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Have you got ship parts in your cargo hold? That’s usually the problem I have

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Very tired of the number of people actively trying to police people playing this. It’s fun. It’s no Mass Effect or Baldur’s Gate, and it’s certainly not a GOTY, but it’s good.

Let people enjoy things.

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How’s the heat on it? Using a PC (desktop) with slightly higher specs than yours, but no problems on High settings. Heavy framedrops like that could mean your CPU is getting throttled due to overheating (based on my old laptop which was a 960M and i5-6700HQ)

Similarly, what settings are you running at? I’m sitting on a 2060 Super (slightly above 2070 in power), and can’t get it above high if I want more than 30fps.

So yeah, two biggest things are temps and settings.

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Nah, DLSS works fine on any RTX cards, but DLSS frame-gen isn’t possible on anything except the 4000 series

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Fantastic mate, super glad it worked! Have fun!

Can you play starfield while mostly avoiding the space cowboy stuff?

I already disliked all the references to US history in Fallout 4. To me, cowboys feel misplaced in a science fiction universe. It’s just personal preference though. But the question stands: are large parts of the main story related to the cowboy characters, or does it work mostly without?

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Starfield, like a lot of sci-fi, compares the early days of space travel to the old west. With that said, at close to 30 hours in my first character, there hasn’t been a single time I’ve engaged with the cowboy stuff. It’s largely attached to one of the two biggest factions, which is a group I haven’t engaged with at any point so far, with one exception being an encounter with one member of that faction as part of a brief, radiant quest.

So yeah, you can completely avoid it! Happy gaming!

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Hard agree honestly - as an Aussie, American exceptionalism tires me. For what it’s worth, there is The Expanse, that compares colonisation of other worlds more to British colonisation (and Roman, for that matter) if that interests you

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Do you sass that guy itsraining? Now there’s a frood who knows where his towel is

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Its best

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Found Rodrick Heffley

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Agreed, although I typically keep everyone in jumpsuits while on the ship (kinda treating them as g-suits to deal with the sheer amount of force they’re under during combat). That said, I’ve discovered the Tamiyo(?) AIO hab comes with a toilet (no shower though).

Hopefully mods’ll add a proper bathroom hab, you’d think the companionway 1x1s would be perfect for this function.

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Amazing mate! I’ll have a play around with a few of the other brands and see what I can find

Not counting games that were unfun because of bugs, what’s the most unfun video game that you’ve played and what made it unfun?

Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.

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I’m gonna piss a lot of people off, and say that I really, really cannot stand Halo - the whole franchise, not just the 343 stuff.

The way I see it, my problem with the series is twofold: storytelling and gunplay. The storytelling is weak at best: whilst I’m usually a huge fan of environmental storytelling, there’s just so little information in game for me to go off! It wasn’t until I read the Reach novel that I figured out who the Covenant were beyond just “evil aliens”. I questioned this issue on the site we don’t talk about and was told to read the books, but put simply, if I have to read a book to understand your plot, then you haven’t told your plot well enough. Chief is presented in the game as this incredible figure (as are the Spartans), but the games never really tell you why, and as such I never really care about Chief or his bullshit.

Regarding the gunplay, I find it (and movement) simply too floaty to be enjoyable. There isn’t enough recoil from a lot of the weapons, and the SFX on most of the guns don’t give a great sense of power.

I understand that it’s a massive series of nostalgia for a massive number of people. I understand that it redefined FPSes, and I respect the games for this. They deserve every bit of praise people give them. They aren’t bad games, but I just do not enjoy them.

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Great question! Really loved the Bioshock series, along with Bethesda FPSs (although they’re not great, I rather enjoy the open worlds). Cyberpunk was great fun, although disappointing in a lot of ways. The Doom series is a personal favourite, although Eternal wasn’t perfect, I really loved how the stories were handled in the previous two games.

For me, I like to seek a balance between story and gameplay. My big thing though is immersion, and being able to really understand the Universe the game takes place in.

Whilst not FPSs, the closest thing to Halo that I loved (Space-Opera shooters), the Mass Effect trilogy tops the list.

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I’ve been meaning to; I own it, along with the rest of the Metro series, but just haven’t had the time

So, I accidently won the game. A warning...

Although, I thought I was on the right track to progress the game, I ended it accidently. So I’m wondering if I missed some que at some point, or made the wrong decision. I honestly don’t know. I mean, I don’t think I made it through Act II. So, without spoiling anything, I’d just like to warn my fellow players, that...

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FWIW, you’re correct; you haven’t finished Act 2, and you actually got the bad ending.

Honestly such a great game, I really appreciate that a deus ex machina like that is an option and will just end the game; it fits in quite nicely with how D&D itself works

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Not remotely microtransactions at all. The purchase you’re referring to is the deluxe edition upgrade, which came free to anyone who played the game during the beta, and costs $10 USD for:

  • The Soundtrack
  • An Artbook
  • An ingame dice skin
  • Some completely cosmetic items that are outclassed by literally every other thing in the game.

Honestly? To call this a microtransaction is making a pretty big and unjustified claim. This is a bonus to chuck the devs a little extra money for the soundtrack and artbook. The additional stuff is moreso a bonus for purchasing the first two. By comparison, CoD charges $18USD for a gun skin.

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Lot of people insistent on rewriting history regarding Inquisition. It won GOTY when it came out, and honestly, with very good reason.

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Mate, you have no idea what you’re on about. Larian is one of the most transparent studios there is, and they have not once released a game with microtransactions or DLC. Similarly, every game they made has had a free “definitive edition” within twelve months of release.

Research before you make claims like this, Larian are not a AAA studio.

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Got a source on the child labour thing? Not doubting you, but as a non-American I’m confused as to how the hell youse aren’t in open revolt.

EDIT: Responding individually later. In short, fuck. In long, thanks all for sending me those links, I’m gonna go wash my eyes out with bleach and attempt to un-know all that I now know

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AAAAAAARGH!

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Gets even more painful as an Australian - base game alone costs $120, but with the expansion? Fucking $170. Insanity.

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Honestly mate? Not at all. I’m concerned about Starfield because of Bethesda’s track record since Fallout 4, and in particular, their constant attempts to introduce paid ‘mods’ to their games through the creation club (which are always overpriced for tiny amounts of content) as well as how broken their games have been at launch since Morrowind. When my PC, which can run Baldur’s Gate 3 on max settings, can’t run Oblivion without mods without regular crashes, then there’s a big problem.

I want Starfield to be good. But Bethesda do not make good games. They make broad games, but there’s no depth, and what is there is fairly consistently buggy. They have the Pokemon problem though, where people are willing to give them a pass because of the big name. I guarantee you, if a smaller developer released games in the state that Bethesda does, their games would be (rightfully) panned.

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Successful and good are completely different and unrelated metrics. Fifty Shades of Grey was extremely successful, but no one in their right mind would ever call it good. Psychonauts was met with universal acclaim, and is widely considered to be one of the best games of all time, and yet it was a complete flop and needed more than a decade to get a sequel.

Bethesda games are extremely successful. They are not good games, and their success is not a good thing. Bethesda kicked off microtransactions in 2007 with Horse Armour. This decision completely fucked the wider industry. Not a fan.

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Been checking nearly daily, still none. Please do set it up, Dragon Age is one ot my all time favourite series!

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I dunno, I’d argue prion disease is a great method of punitive justice; cruel, unusual and painful! What’s not to love?

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Does it belong to a guy named Baldur?

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Still got that one burned into my brain. Not to mention the joke Gale made there. Christ on a bike…

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Paraphrasing, as I don’t remember his wording: “Crap, a half-ogre in the making!”

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Hard agree, honestly it was some of the most fun I’ve had in any movie this year, so worth seeing

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FWIW, AAA is not typically defined by budget, but instead by the presence of a publisher and methods of release. If you go by standard definitions, as a completely independent developer who crowdfunded the game at the start, Larian’s actually indie.

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