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    Starfield

    Elder Scrolls 6 comes first... in 2026. After that probably a Fallout 5. They'd be nuts not to do an expansion for 4 or 76 when season 2 drops.
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    Would you buy a Microsoft SideWinder USB game pad for any reason other than nostalgia?

    Used to love the High Heat Major League Baseball game series. (circa 1998-2003) still in my heart as the best baseball arcade sim for the PC I ever played. I could only play them with a MS Sidewinder Game Pad Pro. IIRC, there was a special config for HH just for that specific game pad. Once...
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    Anyone went strictly to SSDs only yet ?

    My gaming rig is all NVMe/SSD and has no 3.5" bays at all. My media rig has 2 NVMe, 1 SSD and 1 3.5" HDD (6TB) The case had only one 3.5" mounting point I now have a stack of int 3.5" HDDs and USB3 HDD cradles. Will need to e-cycle a few next month at hazmat.
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    What's your opinion on playing first-person shooters on a controller?

    I honestly tried to convert to controllers when the Steam Link and Steam Controller came out in 2015. And it had accelerometers and a gyroscope. Wasn't trying to replace KB+M or use in online PVP. Just thought it would be nice to play Borderlands or No Mans Sky from the living room couch on a...
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    Review the game you finished recently.

    The Expanse: A Telltale Series C+ I'm not a huge fan of Telltale-styled adventure games. I've tried to like them- going back to the Back to the Future in 2010. For every bright point, The Walking Dead or Batman, there's a Game of Thrones, or Star Trek Resurgence. Always with the freakin'...
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    Mouses for life?

    I expect a mouse to last me at least five years. I've had some switches crap out after only two. I don't think I'm specifically hard on them, but I do have large hands and kielbasa fingers. So when I find a mouse I like and feel is durable, I buy multiples. One for work, two for home, and...
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    The Escapist implodes as entire video team resigns after parent company Gamurs Group fired editor-in-chief Nick Calandra

    Yeah, but ZPs reviews don't list a game shortcomings, but a list of game tropes, cliches and mechanics that piss off Yahtzee. Which is funnyAF. https://youtu.be/2zqY4d_-VNY?si=emM88P0s6RE26Ph7
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    The Escapist implodes as entire video team resigns after parent company Gamurs Group fired editor-in-chief Nick Calandra

    I'm a year younger, and am firmly in GenX and clutch on to my LaserDisc players with my dying breath. And I used to follow Zero Punctuation. More entertaining than informative as game reviews. But I agreed with Yahtzee more time than I didn't.
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    What Mouse and Keyboard Are You Using Right Now?

    I've moved on from the Model M (at home). Think I just got sick of the missing keycaps and didn't want to spend $50 on a new set. (still have a M at work) Now on a Daskeyboard 4 Professional. (MX Blues) No lights at all. The action is quite tight.
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    Anyone here collect classic/vintage PC games?

    Would like to start displaying some of my older PC game boxes from the 1990s. I've found lots of places that make acrylic display boxes for console games, but none that do the custom sizing that PC game boxes need. Any ideas?
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    Starfield

    Physical activity is the best anti-depressant. Once went jobless for 10 months, was walking 6 mi a day. Kept me out of the unhappy despairing place.
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    Starfield

    You know the ideal situation is that Starfield will be as buggy at launch as No Man's Sky was. And will be fixed in time just like No Man's Sky was. Endless rage and joy postings for 18-24 months.
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    What Mouse and Keyboard Are You Using Right Now?

    Condolences on your loss. I use a vintage Model M at work too, and although my cubicle-mates hate it... I can't go without it. BTW, there's an outfit that repairs/cleans/restores these vaunted keyboards. Not sure if they can handle spill damage. I'm on the verge of sending my primary in- but...
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    Help me spend $1000 on speakers

    A Consumer Reports write-up led me to BIC America bookshelf speakers in 1992. I'm still using them. Never wanted more or found them lacking. The V52s I picked up in the 90s ($65 each) are still running great and run the 3.1.2 rig in the study. I have the newer DV62s in the main 5.1.2 rig in the...
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    Do Lan Parties happen any more?

    Anyone remember Case Ace's Gear Grips? Back in the day (early 00s) I had harnesses to carry a mid tower, a Shuttle SFF, and a 17" CRT. And they still sucked to move. Surprised that this company is still around.
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    Remastering "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" with Machine Learning

    Blu-ray.com gives a Sept 20, 2022 release date. But I know this Complete Series box set has been around since 2016.
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    Do you remember your history of smartphones?

    I held on to WP from 2010 to 2018. What finally pushed me to Android was Work requiring 2FA apps that weren't available on WP. Duo Mobile dropped WP in 2019- and barely updated the app the last year I was using it. We stopped writing service catalog KB articles for WP users long before that. I...
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    Gaming in your 40s

    The Gen-Zs can't take a digital beat down like previous gens. Too much victimhood- it's either you're a filthy try-hard or your cyber-bulling them.
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    Gaming in your 40s

    The only issue with that is we can't game forever. The crew I regularly play with is roughly the same age as me. Some grandparents. Some freshly into retirement. All of us are hitting the increased health-mgmt issues we see post 50. X had a stroke, and stopped playing for a few months. Y went...
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    Gaming in your 40s

    I think I was 11 or 12 when I first played Star Raiders on a neighbor's Atari 800 8-bit. I had played 2600 video games for years before that- but Star Raiders was the hook that started me on PC gaming, and it's never left me since. 54 now. This past Wednesday marked the 26th birthday of Team...
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    The Router Recommendations Thread (Consumer)

    Looking to replace my aging Netgear Nighthawk AC1750- not in a hurry to do WiFi6 since I have a lot of IoT. But I'm in a urban area where channel saturation is an issue, and Netgear's auto channel mgmt is a cruel joke. Anyone have any experience with Synology? I love their NASs.
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    Steam Deck officially announced by Valve

    I've never had an issue with his channels/content. I think his broadcast persona is pretty good compared to when he started as a retail voicebox for NCIX. I'm still entertained by his masterful seques into advertising content. I've worked with 20-year broadcasting professionals that can't...
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    What Mouse and Keyboard Are You Using Right Now?

    Believe me, I considered it. If the Sidewinder wasn't so garish-looking I would've done it. My cubicle mates already think I'm weird having a Model M at my desk.
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    What Mouse and Keyboard Are You Using Right Now?

    I was on weighted mice for a long time. (Logi MX518, MSFT SideWinder) I loved having the weight, but hated having to switch back to unweighted mice (laptop and at work) That really screws with your muscle memory. After my last Sidewinder crapped out, I switched to unweighted.
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    What Mouse and Keyboard Are You Using Right Now?

    I'm big fan of the Pro Intellimouse MSFT brought back three years ago. And I've had IM 3.0 and the Sidewinder gaming Mice in my mouse history too. Strangely, MSFT has been the most dependable for me- and I've had Logi and Corsair mice. AMAZ has it for cheap right now, I paid $48 for it two...
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    Steam Deck officially announced by Valve

    Linus gets a strap-on for his Steam Deck! 500K more views if they went with that title.
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    Do you remember your history of smartphones?

    2009 Motorola RAZR V3xx 2010 Samsung Focus I917 2015 HTC One M8 2018 Motorola G6 2020 Motorola G Stylus Yes, I stuck with Windows Phone for Eight Freakin Years. I deserve a cookie, hell, a lifetime supply of cookies.
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    Ratpadz XT

    Another Ratpadz thread to watch! Got mine from the 2011 [H] show in Dallas. There was a tall stack of them and I got two. Shoulda grabbed the lot and bolted.
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    Is this UPS dead or is it just the batteries?

    When the UPS is fully charged and you pull the power cable, does the connected gear stay on? If it doesn't the battery is no more. I got four years out of my last UPS, and it powered a 4bay NAS, router, modem and switch. (850VA) It was a Cyberpower too, and I couldn't locate a replacement...
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    Haven't watched Macross, but I have almost all of her CB and GiTS:SAC discography. The NBebop soundtrack lines up pretty well with the 98' stuff. There are some new versions of the 98' themes. The new stuff is good but a some of it is short cues and brief themes.
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    At least I got new Yoko Kanno album out of it.
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    There is a lot to like. I'm happy with the principal actors. It's obvious they get the characters, even if the writers don't. And the visual aesthetic / look is better than I expected from an anime that's so visually distinctive. My three lingering complaints with Netflix Bebop- Viscous and...
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    Half way through. Like it a lot so far. Feel the prinicpal cast is perfect. Art direction and music are really nice. And it's a blast to be in Yoko Kanno's space again. The original music is pretty good. The rest is callbacks to 98'. But I'm at odds with the new series re-telling the stories...
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    Geek trolling? They dropped the WOPR launch code from War Games too.
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    One of my framed vinyls is Symphonic Suite Yamato, complete with OBI. I grew up on Star Blazers in the early 80s. (in a lot of ways I was crazier for it than SW/ST) But it wasn't until the late 90s that I discovered SBY and started collecting the BGMs. When they rebooted in 2012 with SBY2199...
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    My Anime Soundtrack collection is literally 75% Yoko Kanno. (GitS:SAC and Bebop) the rest is HIroshi/Akira Miyagawa (Space Battleship Yamato/ SBY2199)
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    I'm glad she's only re-using 10% of the 1998 score. The promos have been recycling the original so much I was afraid there was no new music. But to be honest, I haven't heard any of Kanno's younger stuff since Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society. (2006) If you've ever watched DVD extras of...
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    I really want to know how they'll translate this scene to live action. On this, all hope depends.
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    Cowboy Beebop live action at Netflix!

    There are scads of female manga artists that draw proportional girls w/o the "male gaze" attributes and the peculiar camera positions. And a lot of those are produced anime OVAs. "Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis from observing real people. you know. It's produced...
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