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Haha yeah I stuck with DX11 the whole time because when I did the benchmark test for DX12 I got max 12 frames per second.

Okay, so the game magically returned to its old performance rate - i.e. great! Yay! Did middle of the road with this elusive target.

Wasn't sure where to post this, but it seems kind of okay here, but there was a great article on the bandcamp blog about people that make soundtracks for indie video games (including a discussion with our very own Chris Remo, among others). https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/06/15/interview-indie-game-soundtracks/

It's just weird because prior to the last few days I was able to run the game at high settings without any real problems, possibly a slight hickup when the mission first starts up, but that's about it... My specs are slightly better than the recommended one.

Anyone else have performance issues with the game recently? Within the last few days I'm dropping frame rates like crazy, and even when I change the video settings as low as possible the game is essentially unplayable. Loading missions also takes considerably longer. I tried doing the elusive target yesterday, but it was impossible for me. :-(

Last Guardian has a release date. Is that a sign of the apocalypse?

I guess I'm confused because they said there would be 7 locations. Are they counting the tutorial? Edit: Just to be clear, not complaining, I've already spent 40 hours playing this game so it is not like it is a rip off or anything, just genuinely don't understand.

I am excited about Prey, mostly because it is Arkane making it. Hopefully the Austin office has the same development chops as the French one.

Those bonus episodes sound cool. So what is the 4th location?

Yeah I hope he manages to land on a good team. I worry for him because I think his skills probably atrophied a bit during his stint on DC (just because of the lack of opportunity to play against top tier competition), and that was reflected in the way he played the carry position looked pretty outdated.

I think EG could be strong again with Zai back on the team, and Fear back to carry. Secret on the other hand...

Idle Shrubs is the hero we need.

I am so hyped for Idle Thumbs twitch chat emotes!

For someone who bet on Liquid to win it all, there games yesterday were reassuring to watch.

This is pretty much how I feel about things. My considerations for President mostly come down to my perception of how the candidate plans to conduct foreign policy, where the President has very broad powers. I am not a fan of Clinton's hawkishness, but the more I looked into Bernie Sander's record, I saw someone who very much fit into that 90s Democratic mold of believing in using military force to intervene in conflicts because of moral concerns. But Sanders seems not particularly interested in foreign policy in general, which is worrisome since there is a very loud, influential, and powerful component of government, lobbyists, and other interest groups that beat the war drum loudly, and I worry someone who is generally disinterested in foreign affairs is generally more likely to acquiesce to these demands, and thus more likely to engage in fool hardy military adventures. So ultimately I ended up going with the devil I knew because they both looked like bad choices to me. Arguments about domestic policy rarely matter for Presidential elections. In 2008 Clinton and Obama got into huge arguments about healthcare, but ultimately the ACA ended up looking like what Clinton was proposing because you end up passing whatever is possible if you care about passing legislation at all.

I failed this trying to sneak into the sewers and disguise myself as a bodyguard. I got caught out real fast and that was the end of me!

Just gonna brag here that I hit the top 20 in Imbroglio with the Count Harry IV character. Feel free to copy my board and let me know what you think! I think the ultimate version of that Twitch game is to have twitch chat have assigned roles like in a game of Werewolf or Mafia (you can have a bot in chat assign those roles to people) whose job is either to help or fuck over Nick, and they only have access to particular slivers of information.

I believe that was Febby on Bounty Hunter? There have been some monstrous games this tournament.

If the recent Politico story from Bernie staffers is accurate then he is in a pretty bad place mentally right now.

OMG

I picked Liquid in my Compendium predictions, but I started feeling less confident about them after those group stages. Then MVP took some extraordinary games off of them. So I think I might be leaning towards Newbee at this point? That being said, despite Liquid dropping to the lower bracket I could definitely see them working their way through to the grand finals for sure. Maybe I'm projecting, but I feel like they aren't playing super confident at the moment so they need to overcome whatever nerves and pressure they are facing.

Thanks to the Escalation missions, this version of Hitman is well suited for pass-and-play.

Yeah, I agree, just in terms of animation quality they are incredible. The writing just doesn't work for me (which I suppose is true for pretty much all of my experience with Blizzard games anyway). Kinda the same with a lot of SC2 cutscenes. Incredible cinematic detail, dumb as bricks writing.

To get back to the Overwatch videos, I do agree they compare unfavorably to the TF2 promo videos. Blizzard take their lore so self-seriously whereas Valve know their game universes are ridiculous, and write stuff with an appropriately humorous touch that, from my perspective at least, is much more effective at bringing these characters to life.

That's a good point. I discover a lot of stuff just by playing the escalation missions.