• Re: It's Quiet... Too Quiet?

    From rms@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 19 22:21:28 2024
    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree"

    I put *well* over 100hrs in the base game, and am in no hurry to return
    to it. Instead, I'm playing this group's most hated game....Doom Eternal!
    I bounced off it hard on release, but now I put it on Easy difficulty and am progressing well, even finding all the secrets on each level and most of the Challenges so far.

    rms

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu Jun 20 06:00:03 2024
    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote at 20:22 this Wednesday (GMT):

    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree". I know the base game was quite popular here,
    so I suspect many of the regulars here have rushed out to buy the recently-released DLC on day one.

    Not me, though. Souls-games never grabbed me the way they did others;
    I play them, but that style of gameplay is more a detriment than bonus
    in my eyes. And the big open world of "Elden Ring" also doesn't help;
    I'm /tired/ of all these giant games. I never thought I'd say this,
    but I miss the era when I could get through a game in ten hours.

    But more power to those who enjoy this sort of thing. Just, um, maybe
    drop by Usenet and say hello every now and again? ;-)


    Actually, I'm losing my mind about the nintendo direct still and working
    on a phoenix wright translation :D
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Ross Ridge on Thu Jun 20 06:00:04 2024
    Ross Ridge <[email protected]> wrote at 05:31 this Thursday (GMT):
    kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
    I'm busy planning my next DnD and Traveller games (also Shadowrun)
    when I am not trying to get my uucp network running on my
    machine.

    Traveller, uucp? Have you travelled back in time to the 80's?


    You say while using usenet
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  • From Ross Ridge@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jun 20 05:31:33 2024
    kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
    I'm busy planning my next DnD and Traveller games (also Shadowrun)
    when I am not trying to get my uucp network running on my
    machine.

    Traveller, uucp? Have you travelled back in time to the 80's?

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu Jun 20 07:42:25 2024
    On 6/19/2024 1:22 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree". I know the base game was quite popular here,
    so I suspect many of the regulars here have rushed out to buy the recently-released DLC on day one.

    Not me, though. Souls-games never grabbed me the way they did others;
    I play them, but that style of gameplay is more a detriment than bonus
    in my eyes. And the big open world of "Elden Ring" also doesn't help;
    I'm /tired/ of all these giant games. I never thought I'd say this,
    but I miss the era when I could get through a game in ten hours.

    But more power to those who enjoy this sort of thing. Just, um, maybe
    drop by Usenet and say hello every now and again? ;-)

    I didn't pre-order it but I'll probably buy it soon. It's apparently
    the highest rated DLC ever, and has about half the content of the
    insanely long main game, and quite a bit more challenging as well.

    I have been playing ER and working on getting a new character up the the
    DLC. It's weird, but the more I play one of the games the more I enjoy
    them. I don't have to look up as much, know what I can skip (yeah I
    didn't skip anything in previous games, but this one's so large I feel
    it's necessary,) and I'm better at fighting the bosses.

    It's been long enough it's not feeling too much of the same-old
    same-old, I'm trying a dex character this time, which is different from
    my others. Yet my subconscious still seems to know the way around automatically fairly well.

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  • From Xocyll@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 20 11:07:53 2024
    "rms" <[email protected]> looked up from reading the entrails
    of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree"

    I put *well* over 100hrs in the base game, and am in no hurry to return
    to it. Instead, I'm playing this group's most hated game....Doom Eternal!
    I bounced off it hard on release, but now I put it on Easy difficulty and am >progressing well, even finding all the secrets on each level and most of the >Challenges so far.

    I thought the most hated game was the one Rin hyped - Duke Nukem
    Whatever.

    Xocyll

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Thu Jun 20 19:20:50 2024
    Kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6/20/2024 7:31 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
    kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
    I'm busy planning my next DnD and Traveller games (also Shadowrun)
    when I am not trying to get my uucp network running on my
    machine.

    Traveller, uucp? Have you travelled back in time to the 80's?


    I might just be a bit of a geek

    "NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu Jun 20 19:20:09 2024
    Nope. Internet is quiet too. I guess summer break. :P


    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree". I know the base game was quite popular here,
    so I suspect many of the regulars here have rushed out to buy the recently-released DLC on day one.

    Not me, though. Souls-games never grabbed me the way they did others;
    I play them, but that style of gameplay is more a detriment than bonus
    in my eyes. And the big open world of "Elden Ring" also doesn't help;
    I'm /tired/ of all these giant games. I never thought I'd say this,
    but I miss the era when I could get through a game in ten hours.

    But more power to those who enjoy this sort of thing. Just, um, maybe
    drop by Usenet and say hello every now and again? ;-)



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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Fri Jun 21 06:00:04 2024
    Kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote at 07:27 this Thursday (GMT):
    On 6/20/2024 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Ross Ridge <[email protected]> wrote at 05:31 this Thursday (GMT): >>> kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
    I'm busy planning my next DnD and Traveller games (also Shadowrun)
    when I am not trying to get my uucp network running on my
    machine.

    Traveller, uucp? Have you travelled back in time to the 80's?


    You say while using usenet

    I am preparing for the big Usenet revival
    ...
    aaaaany day noooooow


    surely it will come in the year of the linux desktop :D
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Fri Jun 21 06:00:05 2024
    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote at 15:20 this Thursday (GMT):
    On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:31:06 +0200 (GMT+02:00), kyonshi
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> Wrote in message:


    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree". I know the base game was quite popular here,
    so I suspect many of the regulars here have rushed out to buy the
    recently-released DLC on day one.



    There is s new Elden Ring game out?
    Man, if I didn't check here once in a while I wouldn't know.

    It's not a new game per se. It's an expansion to the original, but
    reviews indicate it's such a MEATY add-on that it could, in some ways,
    be considered a proper sequel. For obvious reasons, I can't confirm
    these claims, but I've seen the line repeated several times.

    Anyway, it came out yesterday.


    Is it good?
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Jun 21 06:00:06 2024
    Ant <[email protected]> wrote at 19:20 this Thursday (GMT):
    Kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6/20/2024 7:31 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
    kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
    I'm busy planning my next DnD and Traveller games (also Shadowrun)
    when I am not trying to get my uucp network running on my
    machine.

    Traveller, uucp? Have you travelled back in time to the 80's?


    I might just be a bit of a geek

    "NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


    We're all nerds here, ant
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to rms on Fri Jun 21 08:58:37 2024
    On 20/06/2024 05:21, rms wrote:
    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree"

      I put *well* over 100hrs in the base game, and am in no hurry to
    return to it.  Instead, I'm playing this group's most hated game....Doom Eternal! I bounced off it hard on release, but now I put it on Easy difficulty and am progressing well, even finding all the secrets on each level and most of the Challenges so far.


    Now that would be a good thread, what's your most hated game!

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Fri Jun 21 11:22:11 2024
    On 6/21/2024 12:36 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
    On 6/21/2024 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote at 07:27 this Thursday (GMT):
    On 6/20/2024 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Ross Ridge <[email protected]> wrote at 05:31 this Thursday
    (GMT):
    kyonshi  <[email protected]> wrote:
    I'm busy planning my next DnD and Traveller games (also Shadowrun) >>>>>> when I am not trying to get my uucp network running on my
    machine.

    Traveller, uucp?  Have you travelled back in time to the 80's?


    You say while using usenet

    I am preparing for the big Usenet revival
    ...
    aaaaany day noooooow


    surely it will come in the year of the linux desktop :D

    it's funny, but Linux managed to take over the phone market in most of
    the world, IoT and embedded systems, and most servers in the world run Linux... just that pesky desktop market still doesn't want to switch...

    I think we're getting closer since the Steam Deck uses Linux, and Steam
    Deck is getting fairly popular. And MS seems to be going crazier and
    crazier.

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Jun 21 11:23:54 2024
    On 6/20/2024 12:20 PM, Ant wrote:
    Nope. Internet is quiet too. I guess summer break. :P


    There's still people in school here?

    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree". I know the base game was quite popular here,
    so I suspect many of the regulars here have rushed out to buy the
    recently-released DLC on day one.

    Not me, though. Souls-games never grabbed me the way they did others;
    I play them, but that style of gameplay is more a detriment than bonus
    in my eyes. And the big open world of "Elden Ring" also doesn't help;
    I'm /tired/ of all these giant games. I never thought I'd say this,
    but I miss the era when I could get through a game in ten hours.

    But more power to those who enjoy this sort of thing. Just, um, maybe
    drop by Usenet and say hello every now and again? ;-)




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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jun 21 20:49:48 2024
    candycanearter07 <[email protected]> wrote:
    Ant <[email protected]> wrote at 19:20 this Thursday (GMT):
    Kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6/20/2024 7:31 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
    kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
    I'm busy planning my next DnD and Traveller games (also Shadowrun)
    when I am not trying to get my uucp network running on my
    machine.

    Traveller, uucp? Have you travelled back in time to the 80's?


    I might just be a bit of a geek

    "NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

    We're all nerds here, ant

    And geeks!
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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Jun 21 21:24:31 2024
    Oh, and I finished D4's campaign earlier today during my free time. I
    played its other quests, but meh boring. What to play next, but heat
    wave is coming so I don't want to cook myself and PCs. :(


    Ant <[email protected]> wrote:
    Nope. Internet is quiet too. I guess summer break. :P


    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree". I know the base game was quite popular here,
    so I suspect many of the regulars here have rushed out to buy the recently-released DLC on day one.

    Not me, though. Souls-games never grabbed me the way they did others;
    I play them, but that style of gameplay is more a detriment than bonus
    in my eyes. And the big open world of "Elden Ring" also doesn't help;
    I'm /tired/ of all these giant games. I never thought I'd say this,
    but I miss the era when I could get through a game in ten hours.

    But more power to those who enjoy this sort of thing. Just, um, maybe
    drop by Usenet and say hello every now and again? ;-)
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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Fri Jun 21 21:22:49 2024
    Justisaur <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6/20/2024 12:20 PM, Ant wrote:
    Nope. Internet is quiet too. I guess summer break. :P

    There's still people in school here?

    Internet is more than usenet. :P
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sat Jun 22 06:49:18 2024
    On 19/06/2024 21:22, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree". I know the base game was quite popular here,
    so I suspect many of the regulars here have rushed out to buy the recently-released DLC on day one.

    Not me, though. Souls-games never grabbed me the way they did others;
    I play them, but that style of gameplay is more a detriment than bonus
    in my eyes. And the big open world of "Elden Ring" also doesn't help;
    I'm /tired/ of all these giant games. I never thought I'd say this,
    but I miss the era when I could get through a game in ten hours.


    I'm really pleased that ER has done so well, even though it's not my cup
    of tea, as for once it was a big budget game where they resisted the
    temptation to shove MTX in to everything as it's "what they players want".

    For the game time part, I'm very much in agreement. The sweet spot for
    me is generally between 15-25 hours although a lot of that depends on
    what type of game it is. So a story driven game longer whereas a
    mechanics focused game shorter. The latter I just find I sit back
    thinking all I'm doing is the same thing I've done before and it becomes
    a chore.

    Some exceptions to this are FO:3/NV and Skyrim. There I found it
    engaging just wandering about and discovering small stories to play
    thorough.

    But more power to those who enjoy this sort of thing. Just, um, maybe
    drop by Usenet and say hello every now and again? ;-)


    I've got my excuses, a weeks holiday and then managed to pick up COVID
    for the first time ever. That's not been too bad but it has made me feel
    quite tired so in no mood to play games.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Sat Jun 22 06:30:05 2024
    Justisaur <[email protected]> wrote at 18:23 this Friday (GMT):
    On 6/20/2024 12:20 PM, Ant wrote:
    Nope. Internet is quiet too. I guess summer break. :P


    There's still people in school here?

    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree". I know the base game was quite popular here,
    so I suspect many of the regulars here have rushed out to buy the
    recently-released DLC on day one.

    Not me, though. Souls-games never grabbed me the way they did others;
    I play them, but that style of gameplay is more a detriment than bonus
    in my eyes. And the big open world of "Elden Ring" also doesn't help;
    I'm /tired/ of all these giant games. I never thought I'd say this,
    but I miss the era when I could get through a game in ten hours.

    But more power to those who enjoy this sort of thing. Just, um, maybe
    drop by Usenet and say hello every now and again? ;-)


    WDYM?
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Jun 22 06:30:05 2024
    JAB <[email protected]> wrote at 07:58 this Friday (GMT):
    On 20/06/2024 05:21, rms wrote:
    I assume that's just because everybody is busy playing "Elden Ring:
    Shadow of the Erdtree"

      I put *well* over 100hrs in the base game, and am in no hurry to
    return to it.  Instead, I'm playing this group's most hated game....Doom
    Eternal! I bounced off it hard on release, but now I put it on Easy
    difficulty and am progressing well, even finding all the secrets on each
    level and most of the Challenges so far.


    Now that would be a good thread, what's your most hated game!


    Hard to say, since I usually don't spend money on a game unless I really
    find it interesting...

    Maybe N++? It is way too difficult :(
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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sat Jun 22 08:37:10 2024
    On 6/22/2024 6:48 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:23:54 -0700, Justisaur <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 6/20/2024 12:20 PM, Ant wrote:
    Nope. Internet is quiet too. I guess summer break. :P


    There's still people in school here?

    Mostly not, I suspect, but there are people who have KIDS that are in
    school. And summer is when you take the kids on vacation.

    And even if you DON'T have kids, still summer break applies, since
    adults like to take a break from work for their own benefit too.
    Whether its to take a hike in the woods or go down to the beach, most
    people find the experience more pleasant when the sun is high, the
    days are long, and the weather is clement.

    TL;DR: regardless of age, summer is when people abandon their responsibilities to frolic in the sun. ;-)

    Alternately, they - kids and adults alike - are just playing Elden
    Ring.
    ...while frolicking in the sun.

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  • From Xocyll@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 22 11:42:15 2024
    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:

    On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:24:31 +0000, [email protected] (Ant) wrote:

    Oh, and I finished D4's campaign earlier today during my free time. I >>played its other quests, but meh boring. What to play next, but heat
    wave is coming so I don't want to cook myself and PCs. :(


    I've experienced that; heat waves so bad that even the AC can't keep
    the room cool enough to keep the PC on (especially if its CPU and GPU
    are pegged running some high-end game). You just gotta turn off the
    computer until temperatures become more managable (it probably helps
    reduce the load on the electrical infrastructure too. ;-)

    Sounds like you have air-flow issues.

    It's not the ambient temp, it's all about how much heat you can get to
    go away from the computer - set up one of those oscillating desktop fans
    (in non oscillating mode) blowing down the side of the comp so it blows
    the hot exhausted air away (and incidentally, draw more cooler air
    towards the comp.)

    Heat waves suck. They should be made illegal or something.

    I'd be all for that, living in a non air conditioned apartment, but my
    computer never even comes close to overheating, since I have lots of
    airflow through the apt.

    And that lack of overheating is even when I have several browser windows
    open, newsreader and a couple of games running (BDO afk fishing but not minimized and playing STO, but sometimes waiting out a timer for
    something.

    I also have 13 fans going moving the air through and keeping things
    livable, all inclusive rent rocks!

    Even when it's too goddamned hot to sleep, the computer doesn't
    overheat, only me.

    Xocyll

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sat Jun 22 21:35:02 2024
    On 6/22/2024 6:48 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:23:54 -0700, Justisaur <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 6/20/2024 12:20 PM, Ant wrote:
    Nope. Internet is quiet too. I guess summer break. :P


    There's still people in school here?

    Mostly not, I suspect, but there are people who have KIDS that are in
    school. And summer is when you take the kids on vacation.

    And even if you DON'T have kids, still summer break applies, since
    adults like to take a break from work for their own benefit too.
    Whether its to take a hike in the woods or go down to the beach, most
    people find the experience more pleasant when the sun is high, the
    days are long, and the weather is clement.

    The weather is hotter than the hinges of Hell here in the summer, as my Grandfather used to say. I try to stay away from the death laser in the
    sky. Probably has something to do with why I game so much.

    We are taking a 2 week vacation next month to the far north though.

    TL;DR: regardless of age, summer is when people abandon their responsibilities to frolic in the sun. ;-)

    Alternately, they - kids and adults alike - are just playing Elden
    Ring.

    Guilty of the last one. :)

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Dimensional Traveler on Sun Jun 23 06:20:06 2024
    Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> wrote at 15:37 this Saturday (GMT):
    On 6/22/2024 6:48 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:23:54 -0700, Justisaur <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 6/20/2024 12:20 PM, Ant wrote:
    Nope. Internet is quiet too. I guess summer break. :P


    There's still people in school here?

    Mostly not, I suspect, but there are people who have KIDS that are in
    school. And summer is when you take the kids on vacation.

    And even if you DON'T have kids, still summer break applies, since
    adults like to take a break from work for their own benefit too.
    Whether its to take a hike in the woods or go down to the beach, most
    people find the experience more pleasant when the sun is high, the
    days are long, and the weather is clement.

    TL;DR: regardless of age, summer is when people abandon their
    responsibilities to frolic in the sun. ;-)

    Alternately, they - kids and adults alike - are just playing Elden
    Ring.
    ...while frolicking in the sun.


    /in/ the sun? That doesn't seem healthy.
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  • From Ross Ridge@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 23 12:33:21 2024
    candycanearter07 <[email protected]> wrote:
    You say while using usenet

    Nah, porn and other pirated content carried Usenet into the new milenium
    at least.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Ross Ridge on Mon Jun 24 06:28:19 2024
    Ross Ridge <[email protected]> wrote at 12:33 this Sunday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <[email protected]> wrote:
    You say while using usenet

    Nah, porn and other pirated content carried Usenet into the new milenium
    at least.


    still vintage :D
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