Irishjohn

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    I'm loving Gamepass (I don't have an Xbox) but it is weirdly inconsistent in letting me download stuff and sometimes even play it. Also, the Outer Wilds does not seem to be on the PC version of Game Pass, which is a bummer. But I can't complain.

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    I'm a little old for this but I'm not complaining: Santa got me a PS4. ID is rockknowsnofear.

     

    I've been added to the community already, but I thought I'd post here. I'm a dad gamer and so am basically available at mum/dad times and for mum/dad durations.

     

     

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    On 12/26/2016 at 2:18 PM, root said:

    I was given the Destiny collection for christmas. I've got consumables that will hike me to I think levels 20 and 40, but since I've never played before I'm gonna take my time and start at the very beginning and learn how the game works.  But if any thumbs wanna fireteam with me, my psn name is rootsworks!

     

    I'm in the same boat and am planning to do the same thing, just level up from scratch. Any more experienced Thumbs have any ideas on that? Am I being silly and should I just take the level-40 upgrade?

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    anyone with thoughts to the next generation of nvidia/amd cards? The latest articles i can find talk about 2nd half of 2016, but no hard release dates yet

     

    I am ready to dump my 6850's (xfired like a fool) - and am ready to also switch to the Nvidia train, it is The Way Its Meant To Be Played™

     

    The price range in the mid 300's, which in current gen is the 970 model.  Presumably the next generation will have a similar tier of pricing, that 980 and TI tier is going to be very hard to fit in budgets

     

    I look forward to hearing what more knowledgeable Thumbs think. I have an HD 7870 screaming to be replaced (hopefully soon), but I'm not buying a new monitor soon so I really just need the best card I can get for 1080p gaming.

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    Forgive me for basically double posting, but I didn't want people on this thread who might not read the Plug Your Shit thread to know about the podcast I mentioned here a couple of weeks back:

     

    Episode One came out two weeks ago, the audio from Bob's interview on Red Dead Redemption. Episode Two, out tomorrow, is more of a discussion cast between myself and Bob. Episode Three, in two weeks, will be the audio from our latest episode, on Far Cry Primal.

     

    We'll be releasing episodes every two weeks and gradually going through the back catalogue of our video episodes.

     

    You can find us on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.c...istoryrespawned

     

    and iTunes at https://itunes.apple...t=2&i=364442062

     

    and on our own website at http://www.historyre...ned.com/?cat=86

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    Hi guys,

     

    I've mentioned our video series History Respawned here before (http://www.youtube.com/historyrespawned), but I wanted to drop in and let everyone know we now have a podcast!

     

    Episode One came out two weeks ago, the audio from Bob's interview on Red Dead Redemption. Episode Two, out tomorrow, is more of a discussion cast between myself and Bob. Episode Three, in two weeks, will be the audio from our latest episode, on Far Cry Primal.

     

    We'll be releasing episodes every two weeks and gradually going through the back catalogue of our video episodes.

     

    You can find us on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/historyrespawned

     

    and iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-respawned-podcast/id1091357872?mt=2&i=364442062

     

    and on our own website at http://www.historyrespawned.com/?cat=86

     

    Hopefully some Thumbs will find the podcast interesting!

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    Sounds cool! I have an awful memory, could you repost or post in the Plug Your Shit thread when you have it on iTunes?

     

    Will do! I'll post it in the Plug Your Shit thread when iTunes confirms the feed is open. We haven't applied yet so it might be a while.

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    Annnnnd I'm looking for a new history podcast. The History of Britain got bogged down in names of successive kings and the boring things they did or didn't do. Can only listen to so many episodes talking about Kings with basically the same name before the whole thing just becomes a grey sludge in my memory and I've learned nothing. It started out well though! 

     

    Any suggestions? I'm pretty sure I prefer ancient history, we don't know enough to get bogged down in too much detail. 

     

    Apologies for being shameless, but we're launching our new podcast, based on our video series "History Respawned," in a few days. It's eventually going to be two a month we think, with one episode featuring us talking about specific ideas and the other being a podcast version of the video episode for that month. The first few episodes will likely be converted from video episodes. Episode 1, for example will be our episode on Red Dead Redemption:

     

     

    Anyway. May not be your cup of tea or you may prefer to watch the videos, but that is a thing that is happening. We're going to call it The History Respawned Podcast, I think. It may just be listed on iTunes as History Respawned.

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    So just memorize a bunch of the heroes (or keep dying due to ignorance). Sounds like Dota is not the game for me.

     

    Well, I think that you would genuinely get a feel for it over time, especially if you're playing different characters. Speaking as someone who has not played that much DOTA at all but has had some fun with it, it seems to me if you stick with the Lords Management beginners golden rule of running the hell away as soon as you're worried you might die and just trying not to feed, you'll start to get a better feel for it. Also, if people give you crap just ignore it.

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    I was irritated when the Spacebase thing happened for a few different reasons, but I got over it.  DF's been around for 15 years and has produced something like 15 or 16 games, most of which I've either liked or loved.  They've been one of the most accessible and open companies in gaming.  Out of all that time, and all those games, we have this one example where they fell down, both in game production and communication.  I can forgive that. 

     

    I think that's the best way of looking at it. It kind of sucks, but these things are going to happen now and again to the best of us. I'm mostly sad they didn't get to finish it, though I have never played the game, so I might be mourning my imagination of what the game was going to be anyway.

     

    There's also something weird about the way some gg folks piled on to this after Tim Schafer made fun of them. This is absolutely not what Ninety-Three is talking about, but it really just gave me further incentive to assertively extend my benefit of the doubt to Spacebase.

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    I just started and it was running GREAT on my far from cutting edge setup but has suddenly started lagging. Just the base game, not the beta. Might need to have a look.

     

    Also, I think I am very slowly falling in love with this game. I've just done a few courier missions so far, landing my spaceship and hanging out.

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    I haven't played in quite a while. I was busy, then played a game one night and had a jackass team mate complain that "Jaina so bad" just as we were being kicked out after a loss wherein I didn't really play well but I hardly cost us the game.

     

    My biggest problem with Lords Managements is that I'm just not interested in getting to a point where I'm throwing my controller (or mouse or keyboard) but that I land in a situation where other people enjoy the benefits of coming out the other side of that scenario. I don't know.

     

    I'll add my details to the spreadsheet anyway and look out for people. 

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    Overall, I'd say there's more things on sale on my list than I've ever seen before, so that's a plus. I'm not feeling the pressing need to get a new game at the moment though. Tales from the Borderlands is the only one that I'm dying for right now.

     

    Yeah, some great prices there... I'm really feeling the push on Elite: Dangerous all of a sudden.

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    Some really cool popular history has been seen on YouTube lately. Extra History by Extra Credits has been fantastic their series on the South Seas Trading Company is my favourite highlight and their episodes on what they get wrong are as cool as the main body. There's also a week by week history of WWI that I forget the name of but is worth a look.

     

    If you are interested in history on YouTube you might want to check History Respawned, too: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyx1mPZXobOxCyzO2CwmDZA

     

    Full disclosure/admission of cheekiness: I work on this series alongside its founder, and so am not really in a place to say if it's really cool or not. I'm proud of it, though.