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I'm pretty sure that the game has cross platform support. Anyway, I have a similar rig to yours (GTX 1070 and i5-2500K processor) and I had some stuttering issues until I capped the FPS to 30. After that everything has been fine. They released a patch that is supposed to help with the stuttering issues and Nvidia also updated their drivers recently, so I will check how the game runs at 60 FPS now. Edit: Nope, still stuttering in the urban areas at high setting. Might try to set it to medium still, but I doubt it will help since the graphics card is not the bottleneck here. Also, sorry, I listed a wrong gamertag for a while in my previous post. Should have been knappi22 not knappi.

I added you as a friend. Idle Car Club privacy is set to friends can join, so you should be able to get in once you reach the point where clubs are introduced. I'm not sure if that process can be sped up somehow. People that have listed their gamertags here are: knappi22 thefncrow PrettyUnsmart2 Horzma Vulpes Absurda MaikaMonroe dinosaurssssss D3war

Turns out the parallels between le Carré's and A Perfect Spy protagonist's childhoods are really strong. I can heartily recommend The Pigeon Tunnel, by the way. It's not so much a memoir than an amazing collection of vignettes throughout the author's life, including encounters with Yasser Arafat, Rupert Murdoch, and a man who calls a French cafe and asks for a made up name whenever he feels particularly lonely, just to listen to the ensuing commotion. I never realized the lengths to which le Carré is ready to go in order to research his novels. Truly fascinating. Also, Stanley Kubrick wanted to adapt A Perfect Spy. Fuuuck..

If only scrolling had been one of those things...

In the web version, when I select e.g. Basics 1, there are 3 lessons and under those a Tips and notes section that gives some grammatical rules. Maybe it is not available for every language (I'm learning German).

Yup! I am moving this weekend and should spend my afternoons preparing, but instead I hurry home from work, do a little packing, a quick walk, and then it's Forza time. Actually it is not that bad, since I started packing early... Prettyunsmart and thefncrow, I invited you to the Idle Car Club, but I'm not entirely sure if invites are effective if you haven't unlocked the club thing yet. I also changed the privacy level to Friends can join. We can of course make the club public as well, but before that it would be nice to know that the club won't get filled with random dicks.

I started using Duolingo for Deutsch recently. It is quite fun, but I'm also occasionally a bit frustrated with the guess the rule nature of the app. I really should take the time to check the web version or some other site (any suggestions?) for the rules before going much further. The problem is I usually complete my daily exercises late in the evening, and by that time I'm too tired for proper studying. I also installed the app on my mother's iPad. She has studied several languages (at least Italian, Spanish, French, Deutsch, Estonian, in addition to English and Swedish) to different extents, and I thought this would be a good way for her to refresh her language skills. She started with Italian, in which she is quite advanced at, and is currently breezing through the exercises and seems to be enjoying the experience. It will be interesting to see how she finds the app when dealing with languages that she hasn't studied as much.

Haha.. It was just a joke. (or was it?) Sorry about that! And I missed you mentioning it too!

Rumor has it, Seth Rogen will be Henry.

Oh ok.. I checked the Xbox app this morning and I think it showed zero followers. However, I think I saw your gamertag yesterday in the "Suggested people" section (which is pretty weird in itself). I've never used this system before and find it confusing as hell.

Haha, what the fuck? What is the point of that? Anyway, I will try to figure out the club invite thing today after work. Hopefully both parties don't have to be online simultaneously in order to send the invite.

Yeah, there is a significant performance drop in Surfer's Paradise.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure now that the CPU is the bottleneck, so it makes sense that your experience is smoother. I'm interested to see if they manage to reduce or CPU load or distribute it better among different cores. Fortunately, the game doesn't drop frames when I lock it to 30 FPS, so the gameplay is not affected. You can change the gamertag in the Xbox app (once for free, I think). You can also log out and log in with a different account, that would probably fuck things up with Forza Horizon 3 purchase and/or progress.

Triple post: I created Idle Car Club. You can join it when you have progressed enough in the game (it will be obvious when). I made it invite only for the moment, because I don't know what happens to open clubs in Forza Horizon games. This can be changed if necessary. I don't exactly know how to invite people either but add me as a friend (gamertag: knappi22) or give me your username and I will figure it out.

I made a beer pan pizza as well. I replaced the water with a porter (Põhjala's Must Kuld 7.8%, pictured), and at first I was afraid that the taste would be too strong for the dough, but it turned out great. I really like the color of the dough too.

Ok, I turned everything to high and capped the framerate to 30 (something no PC player should ever be forced to do) and the game runs fine now, i.e. no more gameplay-ruining stuttering. People are suspecting that the issues are related to poor implementation of multithreading (one CPU core is at 100% while the other cores and the GPU have free resources). Hopefully, this is something that can be patched later. This game is really good! Practically every design decision is geared towards making this a fun, "relaxed" experience. Definitely scratching my Burnout Paradise itch. Now that I'm starting to understand how this game works, my plan is to buy a 1968 Abarth 595, customize the hell out of it, and just drive around gorgeous Australia. By the way, I found this in a barn:

I'm just watching part 16 of the Shenmue Endurance Run. As the game keeps getting worse, the endurance run gets better. Holy shit, this is great stuff!

My experience hasn't been as good. I have a i5-2500K and GTX 1070 and even at low to medium settings, the framerate occasionally drops to about 40 FPS (more often in the city area) making handling temporarily very difficult. Then again, the framerate wasn't that much worse on high presets. For comparison, I am able to run The Witcher 3 and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided at close to highest settings just fine. I wonder if this game is more CPU intensive than those games. I wouldn't like to upgrade my CPU and motherboard just for this game. Of course, the game isn't even released yet, so I'll wait a couple of weeks for performance patches before making any decisions. Other than that, I'm liking this game quite a bit so far, although I'm still confused by all the systems that are in place.

You won't get the PC version if you buy the physical copy of the Xbox One version. There is not physical copy for the PC version. The Microsoft Store page search only finds the physical copy of the Xbox One version (none of the downloadable versions). If you manually go to Games > PC Games or Games > Windows Games (which lead you to the same page) you can find the banner for Forza Horizon 3 Ultimate Edition. Through that page you can switch to the Standard Edition, which costs as much as the physical copy in Microsoft Store (and 10 euros more than in many other stores). This version works with Windows 10 Anniversary Edition. According to the site, the minimum and recommended system requirements are Windows 10 and Windows 10, respectively. Microsoft has really managed to streamline this shit.

I'm looking forward to this. I have never played a Forza Horizon game, as I have never owned an Xbox. In fact, it's been a while since I have played any kind of racing game. I'm not expecting this to be Burnout Paradise 2, but it still looks super fun. Gotta say, buying this game on PC hasn't been made easy. For example, I couldn't find the different versions through microsoftstore.com but could find them through microsoft.com/fi-fi/store/... which the base url actually directs me to microsoftstore.com where I cannot find the different versions of Forza Horizon 3 anymore.

Niiice!

Haha, yeah. I love this series!

I have never played Shenmue, and I'm enjoying the Endurance Run quite a bit!

To be fair, 6 and 7 were still quite enjoyable action movies. I was just bummed about the drastic change in tone compared to 5. The second one completely failed to hold my attention, but in hindsight, it might not have been entirely the movie's fault.

I haven't read either of those books, and I suspect it is quite dissimilar in many respects, but John le Carré's A Perfect Spy – despite its name and the rest of le Carré's bibliography – is not really an espionage novel, but a re-examination of the life of a British intelligence officer. Much of the focus is in the relationship between the main character and his charismatic and destructive con-man father, and how this relationship affected his later life. Even if the novel doesn't fit the bill perfectly, I can still heartily recommend it. It is the best le Carré book I have read, and he has written some excellent books. And I'm not the only one thinking that: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/best-le-carre-novel Incidentally, le Carré just released his memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel. I'm really excited to read it to see how strong the parallels are between it and A Perfect Spy. As I understood it, many of the events of A Perfect Spy are supposed to mirror le Carre's early life to some extent, which makes the novel even more fascinating, and brutal.