Говорят над Псковом был удивительно красивый закат:
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Hardware bug 🐞
Today I was suddenly bitten by a hardware bug, and decided to install two additional Noctua coolers I had stashed for a year or two on the sidepanel of my BeQuiet case
After all, it’s a full tower, should have plenty of space for that. Took me an hour, and ended in a failure.
First, I installed the coolers on the sidepanel where the motherboard is. But there’s clearly no space for them to fit. And when I tried to install them on the opposite side, first the cables to the motherboard make opening the case very precarious, and then I also discovered I have to move some of the HDD cages up to free that space, and maybe that will stretch the cables too much 🤦♂️
Also, since the panel is so heavy, it almost tore one of the fan power supplies out of the motherboard and bend it badly when the panel fell out.
So I ended up just opening the ventilation windows a bit, and returned everything else to where it was 🤷♂️
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Памагите, у человека веру в хорошее убивают!
Stormfront is a fun new addition for sure. But the second season is basically Homelander’s show.
For the first couple of episodes, I was pessimistic. But the show does well what it does: showing a N-sided conflict.
Stormfront kills Kimiko’s brother. We have The Boys, who now want revenge.
But by doing so, she also seized the agenda, so Homelander is envious.
I expected it to be good, and it is indeed really, really good. The beginning is a bit deceptive, as you’re told that you have different bounties to collect.
But in fact, the game is linear, and each bounty is just a separate level. First levels are short, about 5-10 minutes each, and with checkpoints, although you get bonus for completing each level without dying. At the end of each level is a unique boss, who’s also voiced. And second boss already has two phases. Super impressive.
There are three characters to pick from, each with a different main weapon and throwing skill. There are covers, like in Blackthorne, and the covergame is the same. Your sidearm has infinite ammo, and then you can carry another weapon with a limited ammo as well. The most fun is to pick up a minigun, and you don’t have to wait long until you find one.
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Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson
There are good parts to this book. Hunting for a doppelganger among King’s advisors. A city besieged by multiple armies, and not just one. Very reasonable politics: traders want titles, nobility wants to end the siege so everything will go “back to normal”, commoners are just terrified.
But then there’s this “girl can’t choose between two boys” part. I can’t count how many times Vin just labels Eland, her boyfriend, “a good man”. Then there’s torment of “he thinks I’m a monster now, he’ll leave me”.
Also I noticed that I became totally uninterested in fight scenes. Or maybe those aren’t very good.
Interesting that even the best modern authors, such as Joe Abercrombie and Sanderson himself couldn’t avoid adding some kind of “orcs” to their universe. In Mistborn they’re called koloss, but it doesn’t change the brutish nature. Another similarity: both in Abercrombie’s and Sanderson’s universes those were created as by a magician for their needs.
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“Painkiller” vs “Dopesick”
Both series cover the same even, the Opioid Epidemic in the 90s, but from different perspectives.
Painkiller is more of a crime drama, where the Sackler family and their salesmen (and more importantly saleswomen) are presented like in “Wolf from Wall Street”.
Sackler constantly sees his diseased uncle approving his actions, even if just in his head.
Dopesick is much more down to earth in many aspects. It focuses on a doctor, a community leader, and how he feels he failed his community.
It’s also interesting the different approach to the lead female character. While Painkiller undersexualizes her while oversexualizing the saleswomen, Dopesick does exactly the opposite.
Sackler in Painkiller is Jack Nicholson’s Joker. Sackler in Dopesick is Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker.
The game reminded me of Ruiner. Same cyberpunk settings and warm palette. Fixed isometric camera angle. The controls are twin stick. But unlike Ruiner or Clid the Snail, there’s proper inventory and equipment system. And one thing I never saw in twin stick shooters is that you need to take enemy height into an account. Shorter enemies can only be hit by hipfire of while crouching, from what I can tell.
Leveling up gives you attribute points which you can distribute, but no abilities. Abilities are picked up as gadgets.
Loot is Mass Effect like, not Borderlands or Diablo like. There’s just one kind of assault rifle. But those have levels, which basically just boost its attributes, but doesn’t change the characteristics whatsoever.
What annoys me is that there’s no way to sort items in your inventory. Would be useful if I could sort items by their value. But nope.
After years of Souls-like punishment, the game is surprisingly forgiving. If you die, you don’t need to recover your loot or credits, you don’t loose XP, nothing. There is no punishment for dying.
I started the game with gamepad, but quickly switched back to keyboard and mouse. In most of the encounters, enemies pop behind you, in a “climbing over the rails” animation. Being able to just point at them helps a lot.
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Росийска экономика действительно идет вверх:
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Действительно неудобно как-то получилось 😁
А вы как считаете?
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Должен признаться, я люблю все Metal Gear Solid, включая MGS5, но исключая MGS2:
PC:
- Beautiful Desolation
- BIOTA
- Call of Duty: Cold War
- Children of Zodiarcs
- Forgive Me Father
- Sinking City
- They Are Billions
Tried many games on Switch, but didn’t complete any 🤷♂️
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They Are Billions
Completed They Are Billions.
It’s a long game. The campaign is long by itself. Then a lot of the missions require you to spend an hour of real time waiting for that last wave of zombies. Then there are no saves, so if you die, you need to repeat it all over again from the very start.
The last mission is fun… until it isn’t. On one hand, there are a lot of choke points you can plan around of. But then on the other, it’s very long, and those waves are frustratingly hard to predict.
Annoyingly it is also crashed before showing me the final cutscene. Although it isn’t much of a cutscene anyway.
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Knives Out
Enjoyed it less than I expected. And in general, it was a different movie from what I thought it would be.
I expected it to be a parody hermetic mystery where the Patriarch stages his own death to prove how rotten his family is. The family indeed turns out to be rotten, but not in the way I’d expect.
The writing is quite good, I must admit. For example not a single person remembers from which country the nurse, Marta, originally from. They all say different South American countries: Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil. Ironically, I myself made the same mistake, thinking that Anna de Armas was born in Brazil. She’s from Cuba.
Then they’re also making fun of the youngest girl in the family begin “some crypto-marxist-gender studies student” while the youngest boy is “alt right Nazi troll”. Figures. Speaking of the youngest girl, Katherine Langford looks like she was filming in between “13 Reasons Why”, without even changing the makeup.
Here are a few interesting explanations to what’s going on in terms of storyline structure:
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Говорят на одного миллионера стало больше! 😊
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Какая печаль. Таких больше не делают.
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Опять криворукое киевское ПВО!
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