OT 19/3: COVID-19 Isolation Chamber/Panic Room

[BoltsFanSinceDay1]

Some hopeful news, despite the headline:
Sources: NHL no longer considering neutral sites

 

[Felonious Python]

Hey, Kim Jong, just say if you're dead or not. Get on with it.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Hey, Kim Jong, just say if you're dead or not. Get on with it.

He’s just sleeping it off.

 

[Felonious Python]

These have been known about for a while, but not everyone may have heard.

 

[Felonious Python]

The most polished Total War game is free to keep if you get it on Steam before May 1.


It's a toss up between Shogun 2 and TW: Napoleon for my favorite that I've played. Rome 2 was fine I guess.

A video review posted just yesterday for Shogun 2.


The game still looks good.

 

[Felonious Python]

some pretty good deals right now on EA Origin games (which is rare). Every game listed is $3, with the note that Mass Effect Trilogy is three games, making the $9 price point still accurate.

Mass Effect Trilogy
Titanfall 2
Battlefield 1
Dragon Age: Inquistion
Burnout Paradise: Remastered

 

[Felonious Python]

I see on Twitter a lot of people downplaying the massive unemployment/furloughs because the stock market hasn't crashed, or they're memeing like 'die for the stock market'.

What's happening is that the Federal Reserve is doing quantitative easing aka printer go brrr.

The real economy to the stock market is like saying pro sports are doing fine because sports betting is doing fine. People (maybe even some of us) can't pay their mortgage or their rent this month. There's a breaking point somewhere where the dam breaks on foreclosures, evictions, and bankruptcies. The housing market crashes for real, and we're off...

Maybe the Fed keeps pumping money. QE didn't cause inflation issues after 2008, but it was focused largely on the banks.

from Investopedia:

Hyperinflation is an exponential rise in prices and tends to occur not when countries print too much money; instead, it is associated with a collapse in the real underlying economy. The printing of money is a desperate effort to maintain stability and prevent production from coming to a halt, as what happened in post-WWI Germany and during the 2000s when Mugabe headed the government of Zimbabwe.

 

[Felonious Python]

video on inflation

 

[Felonious Python]

Ubisoft putting their April giveaways together for the next week. AC2, Rayman Legends, & Child of Light.
Ubisoft Free Events

 

[Felonious Python]

Nice to see a fellow X Æ A-12 in the world.

 

[Felonious Python]

Rebellion giving away Evil Genius, one of my favorite games ever.
Rebellion ID

It's from 2004, so a bit dated in some aspects, but there's not a lot like it. The closest thing I can think of is the flash game Mastermind: World Conqueror.

You should also pick up the fan patch raises the minion limit to 150, fixes some bugs, and adds some henchmen.

 

[Felonious Python]

Has anyone mentioned the idea that Elon Musk is just trolling everyone like he does all the time?

This is kid #7 for Musk.

Nevada, Griffen, Xavier, Kai, Saxon, & Damian. Now X Æ A-12...

 

[bov]

I saw bits and pieces of Elon Musk's most recent appearance on JRE (might have been today) and something felt a bit different. He almost seemed dead inside, or as if he had come to a sad conclusion or felt "compromised". I'm not familiar enough with his personality to know if it was actually anything of note, but it definitely stuck out to me compared to some other videos I've seen with him.

 

[Felonious Python]

I saw bits and pieces of Elon Musk's most recent appearance on JRE (might have been today) and something felt a bit different. He almost seemed dead inside, or as if he had come to a sad conclusion or felt "compromised". I'm not familiar enough with his personality to know if it was actually anything of note, but it definitely stuck out to me compared to some other videos I've seen with him.

Elongated Muskrat was on JRE in the past day or so.

The people who have their portfolios heavy on Tesla stock are sort of nuts when you consider how their CEO acts sometimes. If it was privately owned, whatever, who cares, but people are putting their net worth on the line for a company led by a CEO who in the past week said the stock price was too high, causing it to plummet, named his kid X AE A-12, and who *really* needs a Joe Rogan podcast to go well.

Publicly traded company CEOs are usually silent.

 

[Felonious Python]

Quibi

 

[Hoek]

Quibi

That's it. That's the post.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Not sure Quibi will be that great. I'm not a fan of watching videos vertically. It also seems like an unnecessary challenge for production. And horizontally, well then I still prefer my TV. But who knows. Episodes are supposed to be only 7-10 minutes long, so it might be a cool thing for people going to work by subway or train or when you're on the toilet.

The timing of the release is a bit strange too: People have more time than ever to watch entire series and long movies on Netflix or Prime these days.

 

[DMB06]

Since there's a lot of game talk in this thread, or at least some, anyone have an opinion on which Far Cry I should play next? I played the original years ago, and last week I finished Primal. Looking to buy another one as open world games are my thing.

I'm thinking about getting Far Cry 4 unless one of the newer releases are better. It seems universal that Far Cry 3 is the best in the series but reading through Steam reviews a lot of people talk about crashing issues, which I don't want to deal with.

 

[Felonious Python]

Since there's a lot of game talk in this thread, or at least some, anyone have an opinion on which Far Cry I should play next? I played the original years ago, and last week I finished Primal. Looking to buy another one as open world games are my thing.

I'm thinking about getting Far Cry 4 unless one of the newer releases are better. It seems universal that Far Cry 3 is the best in the series but reading through Steam reviews a lot of people talk about crashing issues, which I don't want to deal with.

I've played FC, 2, 3, and Blood Dragon.

Blood Dragon and FC2 are my favorites. Very different games. I think 3 was a bit too vanilla for me outside a few set piece moments. Vaas, who is only really in a few cutscenes, got way too much attention from fans. None of these games stories are all that important or good. It's a very mechanical series, which is probably why I like the more 'distinct' iterations of the series. I've played a few shooters, so give me something different.

FC2 feels more like an immersive sim with not a lot of menuing or HUD elements. You don't fast travel everywhere, which can become tedious, that's the cost of staying immersed.

 

[LightningStrikes]

“Serenity now!” for one last time. RIP

 

[Felonious Python]

Getting in to Gaming in the Clinton Years reviews after all this time.

 

[Felonious Python]

Humble 10th Anniversary Bundle
Great 1 dollar tier. Hotline Miami, Beat Cop, and Dustforce DX

It's nuts that HB is 10 years old now. I actually bought the very first bundle they did, back when they were still operating under Wolfire Games. I wasn't enthralled by the games, but I had to support the business model. They didn't even give Steam codes the first few days. They were a basically unknown company, and Valve wasn't familiar with them until they started gaining traction. Their approval gave the credibility that it wasn't a scam.

Now I get the vast majority of my games either through their bundles, or use my discount from being a monthly bundle sub in their store.

 

[Felonious Python]

Death Coming is free until 11 am on the Epic Games Store. The next free to keep game for this week is another small indie title called The Grand Theft Auto Five.

CKII: Horse Lords is also free for a few days.

 

[Felonious Python]

The biggest giveaway of the year, right here.

The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Game available free!

 

[Felonious Python]

'Trial by Media' on Netflix is good.

Humble is giving away Aegis Defenders
Get Aegis Defenders for free