What videogames have you been playing? version 1.22: What's with that plural?

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That and selling a third "improved" version. I love Crystal, but I'm glad they killed the "repackage and improve" version each generation. Not sure when it stopped, maybe after Platinum? Not sure about the B / W and X and Y generations. Was happy that Sword remaining the usable version without having to shell out for Gun or whatever.
After Platinum it becomes odd. Black & White has sequels instead of a third version, X & Y didn't have a third version, Sun & Moon has sequels.
 
The Long Dark

Up to day 28 (Stalker), currently in Milton... finally made it over from Broken Railroad as planned. It took almost a week to slowly stabilize my situation in the Maintenance shed because I only had one can, so I couldn't make water fast enough. Plus with no hacksaw or hatchet I couldn't cut up any wood. The side benefit is that since I was dependent on breaking up those numerous large green wooden crates in the Maintenance Shed, I was able to find a bunch of loot inside/under the crates. I left non-essential gear in the Maintenance Shed and headed around the large pond/clearing to the small bridge/gated path up to the Hunter's Lodge. I ended up getting attacked by a wolf with no antiseptic, so it became infected after a couple days. I made a medicinal wrap with beard-lichen, but I had multiple infections and I couldn't treat them all. Thankfully, I did have antibiotics for that but I took damage for days and almost died before I was able to fully heal.

Once I healed up, I used the rifle I found in the Hunter's Lodge to bag a moose right outside on the frozen pond out front, and almost died twice, trying to fully harvest it, between wolf attacks and freezing temps while harvesting. It ended up taking me about 4 days to completely harvest the moose and cook all of it, but it was worth it of course because I was then able to stockpile large supplies of meat in my "dry-aging" shed at the Hunting Lodge, as well as in the cold storage side-room at the Maintenance Shed. I also used up most of the reclaimed wood that I could break up by hand (no hatchet found yet) to cook all of the moose, thankfully I had 6 burners otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do it.. In the few trips up and down the hill from the Lodge, I also went for a memento cache, which yielded a 25% condition revolver in the bear's cave. I think this is actually a fixed memento cache location for the region. I also left some clothing and a full compliment of rabbit snares for when I return to the Hunting Lodge for crafting and forging. I feel pretty confident that the Maintenance Shed is a superior location for forging and crafting than that Ruined Homestead in my least favourite region.

I then tried to make the trek to Forsaken Airfield, but I only made it through the first set of tunnels to the Far Range Branch Line. By the time I got to the other side, and saw that I had to either descend by rope, or stairs, there was a blizzard going, and I realized that I was in for a much longer trip than I was geared up for. I was down to one last torch, so I decided to go back and head for Milton instead, hopefully to beef up my gear, clothes and supplies, before retrying the journey. As a side note, I discovered that there is a difference between a "memento cache" and a "memento hint". The "hints" are just locations of interest, like the route to Forsaken Airfield being open, which you would only notice if you had visited the spot previously when it was closed off by an impassable ravine.
Forlorn Muskeg is nbd if you're just heading straight across. There's another alternative from Broken Railroad, if you're feeling intrepid, but I don't recommend it until you have more gear: Forsaken Airfield.
The HELL you say...:nope: :lol:... so I did exactly this next, to head for Milton from Broken Railroad, and the region which shall not be named, as always, tried to kill me and came damned close. I first considered swinging by the Ruined Homestead to look for a hammer, but I thought... "No way, that's how you end up dead... detours" and opted to go to the hunter's blind on my way to the entrance to Milton through the basin... the absolute fastest possible route out of the accursed region, I was hoping for a hatchet in the Hunter's blind... no such luck, but no skin off my nose, since its right on the way anyway... so I head up the frozen stream towards the waterfall, again... staying to the tiny northwest corner of the map... which is even low odds for wolves, but of course, I promptly get attacked by a wolf, used up all my bandages, lichen wraps and painkillers left, then, as if on cue, a ridiculously strong headwind sets in, which empties my warmth meter and slows my walking to a crawl. By the time I got to the waterfall I was freezing and had to spend a night in the "shortcut" cave at about 11% life left :sad:. The next morning, instead of using the cave under the waterfall (since I was down to 6 matches and had no lantern or torches left) I had to walk across, and shimmy up that narrow path to the entrance to Milton basin... long story short, I made it to Milton, found the distress pistol in the crashed truck and was able to climb up one rope, spend the night in the cave then climb the second rope to reach Paradise farm the next day. Home sweet Milton :D. Its been pretty smooth sailing since.
The new Aviator's Cap is great; good cold, wind & water resistances. The downside is it uses leather for repair instead of cloth. I found some of the new Acorns too, but I haven't used them for anything yet.
I've found 2 aviators jackets in this run, both in Milton, one at Mackenzie's plane crash and they are sweet. They give awesome benefits and they look really cool on my character in the "dress-up" menu. He looks like Maverick from Top Gun :p. I found the aviator's cap in my prior game, in the Paradise Farm truck, but no hat this time around. Also no pistol at the plane crash and no hatchet anywhere around Gray Mothers. After several days in Milton, I finally found 2 hatchets on the same day/outing. One was in the Ranger station in Milton Park, and the other was next to a dead body right outside the crashed prison bus. The other nice thing I've managed to do is get the transmitter tower completely fixed... although I forgot to turn the switch to the "ON" position, so I will have to climb all the way back up there to do that :cringe:. Not a big deal though, because i still have to go all the way to Forsaken Airfield to get the radio first anyway. Another nice benefit, was that the radio tower location is a "vista" location that allows you do do a special, superpowered charcoal survey that essentially reveals the entire region map in one fell swoop. So that was very convenient. :)

Milton has been an absolute motherlode BTW. It was so lean when I chose to start here, but in this run, where I actually travelled there instead, it has been a loot'ey as I remembered it used to be. I arrived in Milton with only 6 matches left. Part of why I was forced to leave Broken Railroad was that my revolver was down to 5% and I was almost out of matches after traveling to Far Branch Line. I had no choice but to migrate at that point. Since arriving in Milton though, I am swimming in loot, tools and gear. I pretty much have all the essential tools, with multiples of some, extra ammo, and so many matches, that I can afford to start leaving books of matches in strategic locations for later. I've read a bunch of the skill books and leveled up in a few categories. The Orca Gas Station was absolutely ridiculous with loot, with tons of food, coffee, a lantern, and Go juice. I also found an emergency stim in one of the random Milton house bathrooms.

I've looted almost all of Milton, the only major sites left are on the northern side, ie the section from the Trailer to the Falls Bridge cars, and all the cars and caves along the way. There is also a memento cache on or near the bridge so I will have to go for a round with the bear again. This time I have a rifle though, so I think I can take him, ninja-bear or no. Once I finish looting Milton, I will have to choose between going back to make a run at Forsaken Airfield, or doubling down on stockpiling gear first, with a trip to Mystery Lake, or going for the Moosehide satchel in Hushed River Valley. Fully geared up, the satchel run is probabaly about a 3 day excursion, assuming that you don't run into any major problems like getting mauled or lost. I have no idea how long it is going to take to get to Forsaken Airfield and back, so I have no idea how much food to take. I can't take much moose meat, because that is going to attract wolves.
 
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The Long Dark

Once I finish looting Milton, I will have to choose between going back to make a run at Forsaken Airfield, or doubling down on stockpiling gear first, with a trip to Mystery Lake, or going for the Moosehide satchel in Hushed River Valley. Fully geared up, the satchel run is probabaly about a 3 day excursion, assuming that you don't run into any major problems like getting mauled or lost.
At this point, it might be easier to just go back to Broken Railroad and make a satchel yourself. Unless you just feel like going to HRV for fun, of course.

I have no idea how long it is going to take to get to Forsaken Airfield and back[...]
You're expecting to come back? :mischief:

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At this point, it might be easier to just go back to Broken Railroad and make a satchel yourself.
Yeah, I doublechecked and I only need 1 moose hide. I thought it was 2. So I am better off just using the hide I already have curing at the Hunting Lodge and the workbench right there in the basement. In retrospect, I could have done that before leaving the Hunter's Lodge in the first place... but then my matches situation would have been even worse than it already was at the time.

In any case, I think you've made up my mind for me... after i finish looting Milton, its back to the Hunting Lodge to make my satchel. :yup:
Unless you just feel like going to HRV for fun, of course.
:confused: What the hell kinda fun is that?? :p


You're expecting to come back? :mischief:
No, I wasn't... that's why I chickened out in the first place :lol:
 
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On the subject of the very difficult "hard mode" in God of War, after half a dozen attempts to defeat the second revenant getting me nowhere, and the strategies that I saw online not working, I decided to cheese the fight, by dodging a lot and using Atreus' bow to kill enemies from a distance. After I had done away with the enemies that could break my guard, ending that encounter was a matter of hiding behind my shield indefinitively...

Not my most skilled moment, but allowed me to pass the fight without lowering to normal, and to get to my first real round of upgrades.

After that I made some good progress, even when meeting a troll that could one-shot me. I expect lots more moments when progress will be dubious, but so far, I'm advancing.

But really didn't expect the game being this hard...
 
Ah, it's easy. Nothing to worry about. It's really very relaxing.
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If I've learned anything about playing The Long Dark, its that while roads and railroad tracks are the surest routes to shelter... when you are traveling along a road or railroad... get ready to fight some wolves... all the traveling roads/rails in every region are lousy with wolves... you might as well be wearing a hula skirt doing that song and dance bit that Timone and Pumba did for the hyenas in The Lion King

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Luau!
If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat
Come and eat my buddy Pumbaa me cause he is I am a tasty treat

Aaaare you achin' (Yup, yup, yup)
Foooor some bacon? (Yup, yup, yup)
Heeee's I'mmmm a big pig (Yup, yup)
You could be a big pig too.
Oy!
 
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First victory on Normal with Kestral A : ) I got a real good loadout as loadouts go; a Flak Cannon I and the starting Burst Laser II + two Pike Beams. The flak cannon and laser destroys shields, the pike beams wreak havok on the ship, making for lovely destruction in the process. Two defense drones meant I just didn't need to worry about missiles, which is the most deadly part of the Rebel flagship.

The final score was 4135, which was lower than my last one with the Federation Cruiser that I just lost. Weird.
 

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After 3 and a half months of wandering in and out of the room to play, Elden Ring feels like the content is starting up the last crescendo. The spells are starting to be the "OG" versions. Characters I haven't seen in ages are concluding plot lines. There's still probably way more to do left than I realize, but when I find something new, now, it doesn't branch into insanity amounts of new things, like it did for ages. Now it tends to wrap something up.

I really to socialize more. The plot lines that are ending in deaths due to scripting that way or me not figuring out the golden path for that NPC(sometimes it feels more like dumb luck than pigheadedness) are bothering me more emotionally than they should.

But snappy screenshot fashion souls time!

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Flashpoint probably has all of those games already archived.
Hmmm. Even so, they don't have my saved games. I think I managed to save my near-complete runs through N v1.4 and 2.0.

A point that there was to the old XP partition, besides running a couple of old design programmes, was precisely being able to run it as a vintage game console. *sigh*
 
The Patriot (2000)

Militia Man:
A lot can happen in the time it takes to fire two shots.

Benjamin Martin:
That's why I'm not asking you to fire three.

The Long Dark: Tales From the Far Territory

Day 20: I bagged a moose with my bow last night, near the forest cabin on Mystery Lake. It took me 3 arrows, but really, it only needs 1. Get the moose angry enough to charge you; shoot him in the face. If the way you make him angry is to shoot him in the [caboose] like I did, then I guess it takes 2 arrows. I also strongly recommend against missing entirely with your second shot, as I did, but ymmv. Having a 1,000-lb moose skid to a halt right at my feet was more excitement than I needed before going to bed, but if that's what you're into... Anyway, if you keep your nerve, I think the chances of dropping him with one arrow to the dome are pretty good.

Now I have to wait 10 days, so I figure I'll take a trip to Ash Canyon, for the technical pack and the crampons (and the unique rifle, if I happen to stumble upon it). After spending so much time on Timberwolf Mountain on my last run, I'll probably just cruise through without going to the summit. It's tempting to look for the unique lantern too, but I'll see if I feel like taking the time. If I don't lollygag too much, I figure I should be able to make it to the gold mine and back about when the moose hide is done drying. I'd like to get a move-on to Forsaken Airfield soon.

Also, I found a small valley in Mystery Lake that I'm pretty sure I'd never seen before. I don't know if it was added recently, or if it's been there the entire time. I bet it's one of the places where the new bunker might spawn.
 
As I had yesterday and today off, I managed to advance a lot in God of War, to the point that I'm now thinking of extra though spots as difficulty peaks, actually, and no longer seeing the game as consistently super difficult. Even with there still being quite a few foes that can one-shoot Kratos!

Weird thing that such peaks were so early on in the title...
 
I'm now on my 6th attempt at the Ukraine - 1865 scenario in Railroad Tycoon III. Now it's January 1886, with the game ending at the end of 1890, and the Dneiper Rail Co still could achieve the scenario objectives.

The criteria for a bronze medal are the most ambitious of any scenario I've played. Gold being tough isn't rare, but bronze is rarely this tough. The key tough aspect is hauling 7500 loads of cargo in 26 years, of which 50 must be steel, cheese, and furniture. That's 50 of each of those, not 50 of those combined.

Cheese and furniture don't appear until 10 years before the end of the scenario, either. But the real tough thing is the 7500 loads of cargo, especially if you play like I do, RT2-style where you set the cargo for each route instead of just saying, "haul whatever is most profitable". I could probably make the goal a lot more easily then; in particular my long-haul routes would be broken up into many smaller-haul routes and thus count as extra loads. But what's the fun in saying, "haul whatever's most profitable?" We want to guarantee Dunder Mifflin Paper Co that we'll have a train to haul their paper!

And 7500 loads of cargo might sound easy enough, 300 per year, but you start out really low, with a handful of trains; I had 18 loads over the first two years combined, and that's better than most of my earlier starts. What it winds up meaning is you must haul significantly over 300 per year in the later years to catch up for the early years.

So now it's 1886, and I have 170 trains, over 7400 miles of track. I've dug deeper into the bag of tricks this time. Buying fewer industries is one such trick; they make a lot of money and can be the best way to boost profits, but they also cost a lot of money, so instead I've put that funding into more track and more locomotives, including building out a passenger network more quickly. Passenger networks have network effects; people only take the train if they can get to where they want to go, so it starts slow but has exponential growth. When I do buy industries, I've been preferring to buy existing unprofitable ones and haul cargo in, rather than building new at an ideal location. It's less profitable - we're burning fuel hauling the cargo farther - but hauling the loads in counts, and it costs less to bail out an unprofitable steel or lumber mill than to build a new one. And I've been building wooden bridges rather than steel, as small of stations as will do the job, and buying cheaper freight locomotives that are a bit slower - all to reduce upfront expenditures and allow the network to be built out more quickly.

You could say I'm applying classic business strategy to the game - do something at the lowest possible cost that will do the job well enough for now, and use the savings to scale your operation.

Now I have a spreadsheet, complete with a bit of calculus, charting loads hauled per year and making projections about whether the rate of increase in loads hauled is fast enough to achieve victory. The good news is continued growth at the rate of the past two years will equal victory, and profits have been going up every year. The bad news is the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. There are only so many more dairy farms and iron mines to connect to the rail network before there won't be any left to add. And my advisors tell me we're behind pace on delivering cheese.
 
Silly question, maybe @Lexicus if you know.

In Pokemon Go, every now and then your buddy's mood can go from "really happy" to "ecstatic" or something and it unlocks the capacity to earn double hearts for the day. Seems to also halve the amount of distance required to walk to receive a candy. Do you know what triggers this? I thought it was spins, originally, but it doesn't seem to be. Then I thought it was distance walked, but that doesn't seem like it either, nor does it seem like you can simply force feed the thing extra berries until that works.
 
Silly question, maybe @Lexicus if you know.

In Pokemon Go, every now and then your buddy's mood can go from "really happy" to "ecstatic" or something and it unlocks the capacity to earn double hearts for the day. Seems to also halve the amount of distance required to walk to receive a candy. Do you know what triggers this? I thought it was spins, originally, but it doesn't seem to be. Then I thought it was distance walked, but that doesn't seem like it either, nor does it seem like you can simply force feed the thing extra berries until that works.


But it's much easier to just feed the buddy a Poffin, that gets it to Excited automatically.

You can get Poffins from doing the AR scan quests that you can get from certain gyms and pokestops.
 
Link isn't opening for me.

Further silly statement: I delete all the research that uses the camera and cover the lenses with my hand for buddy interactions.

They already get live GPS of my crotch, I'm not scanning stuff for them too. :dunno:
 
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