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SciFlyBoy wrote:I just planted some purple potato bits that were growing shoots into a cardboard box on my patio because a bloke I follow from Australia did it. I might have some purple potatoes in a few months though, so there's that.

Did some Xmas shopping. Amazon took care of half of that, other online stores and a garden center took care of the other half. The real work begins when I find some salmon and sausages on a deal. I've got to collect enough meats first before I start to smoke it all.

I saw the plan for this vertical wooden structure for growing a lot of potatoes in a relatively small area. Now idea if it'd work, but lacking land, it seems a fun project for a handy person.

Oooh. Smoking your own meats for gifts? How much you want to make some extra for ole' Vol?

magnuskn wrote:Well, the problem with MMO's is of course that you cannot always have the experience of leveling through fresh zones, so there needs to be an endgame.

That too, though I will say, having leveled dozens of characters through the Barrens, there was always a little romance left, even when I know just about where everything is and the best order to do it. Fun fact: For years I had _no_ idea about the harpy quest chain atop the watchtower at Crossroads, or the Wailing Caverns quests in that skull eye above the entrance.

Blizzard sorted started to touch on something, by having the vanilla endgame be fairly loose. You could do MC attunement at 55, you could do UBRS with 15 men, Strat with 10, they were playing with the idea of end game a little, making level cap slightly less important. Obviously they didn't go full in (RIP Shaman tanking, worked up through Dire Maul), but in my head, I can imagine a game where level cap isn't really a target. Sort of like how Legion gated artifact power, where the next level is exponentially more XP, so only super hardcore players would even grind it out until the reduction, or something less miserable. Think there's something to that idea, of having so much content to do at 50, that rushing to 60 would be silly.

Heh, MoP had a _shitton_ of dailies, and I subbed late to it, right around the Timeless Isle, so I had to take the full brunt on the face. WoD wasn't as bad, because there straight up wasn't much content, and the garrisons could be done pretty quick. Legion started to show the bones though, as fun as WQs were initially. BfA, I kept the map _cleared_ of dailies for a good few weeks. But that was about the point I realized I could reconstruct the game's design docs by playing, and Shadowlands continued the trend. To compare to BC, the very first dailies, you had... Skettis, Ogrila, and Netherwing. Then Shattered Sun last, I think. Wrath had a ton more, but they mattered less (Only ever got the epic fishing pole on my DK), started to get annoyed. Cata, eh, barely played it, remember doing the Deepholm dailies as the last thing I did before unsubbing. I think BC had the best balance, where you had the "engagement metric" incentive, but they were less mandatory, had neat rewards/aesthetics, and you always had better stuff to work on.

The writing in WoW never was exactly up to professional standards, IMO.

The writing's always been simple and dumb. But it was fun at least. And I appreciated the effort to add more pathos to these cartoon characters. But then Shadowlands, the writing is so poorly thought out, despite going into some pretty important, lofty places. Garrosh, in his cameo, makes me long for the dumb cartoon stuff I used to dislike. At least I understand him. Orc sad->orc cheered up->orc try to emulate dad->orc thrust into power->orc shaped by power->orc Hitler->Thrall cheats to kill him duel.

Right, I was asking about what streaming/torrent sites are legit anymore. Kisscartoon, Pirate Bay? Anything like that active?

Postby **magnuskn** » December 6th, 2021, 1:47 am

Vol wrote:The writing's always been simple and dumb. But it was fun at least. And I appreciated the effort to add more pathos to these cartoon characters. But then Shadowlands, the writing is so poorly thought out, despite going into some pretty important, lofty places. Garrosh, in his cameo, makes me long for the dumb cartoon stuff I used to dislike. At least I understand him. Orc sad->orc cheered up->orc try to emulate dad->orc thrust into power->orc shaped by power->orc Hitler->Thrall cheats to kill him duel.

Yeah, pretty much. Well, at least they didn't try to redeem Garrosh, that would have been even more unbearable.

Vol wrote:Right, I was asking about what streaming/torrent sites are legit anymore. Kisscartoon, Pirate Bay? Anything like that active?

Uh, I'll be honest, I haven't torrented anything outside of anime (where nyaa.si still works fine) for a long time. ^^ I think the best I can do is give you a link to the Torrentz2 proxy site, https://torrents-proxy.com/torrentz2/ . Torrentz2 is an aggregator where you can get links for different functioning torrent sites. Use the first proxy, then type in Arcane in the search bar, sort by date and look which of the torrents still has peers. The stuff they say about needing an VPN to use it is not correct, although it probably can't hurt, depending on where you live. I'm not that keen to get a letter by some IP attorney, which is a pretty common occurance in Germany.

Seriously, get a free month of Netflix, it literally costs nothing and you can unsuscribe once you've had your fill of shows you want to watch. There's tons of other good stuff there as well, like The Witcher TV show, which gets a second season this month.

Postby **Sinekein** » December 6th, 2021, 10:36 am

Speaking of MMOs and writing, I've been spending my (non-working) time of the last four days on FF14 Endwalker - admittedly, some time has been spent in queue to log in because holy crap there's a lot of people online.

I'm about halfway through the story - just hit level 86 quests, while they range from 80 to 90. It's glorious so far. The writing and the staging hypes the fuck out of all dungeons and trials. And even though I haven't played FF4, which is the target of the main homages of this expac, I am having a blast. Although granted I did play FFX and got the opportunity to fight against...

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Postby **SciFlyBoy** » December 6th, 2021, 8:25 pm

Vol wrote:I saw the plan for this vertical wooden structure for growing a lot of potatoes in a relatively small area. Now idea if it'd work, but lacking land, it seems a fun project for a handy person.

Oooh. Smoking your own meats for gifts? How much you want to make some extra for ole' Vol?

My garden space, besides having the downsides of being very small and on the second floor, has another major downside. It gets very little sun in the winter. Maybe four hours of direct sunlight. So I grow leafy greens this time of year that don't really need full, direct sunlight to thrive. Kales and tatsoi and mustards and chards. An Idea I thought up of right now was to string up ten or twelve milk gallon jugs and plant in them. An opening is made opposite the handle so you can have a big space for them to grow out AND you can handle them and string them up while making holes on the bottom so they can drip and put a catch bucket underneath them. You string them up on one rope that goes from the floor to as high as you can make them. Then they just hang there in the air and you use up vertical space.

I have only one area I could make that somewhat work, but it would really shine if I had a sunny spot to put them in. Hours of direct sunlight is important people!

On to the fish, one whole smoked salmon fillet that's shipped cold storage to Jersey? Damn, I'd love to do that for you but...$200 UPS next day!? or $30 by ground, but that's a week long and it won't last that long.

It might be cheaper to get a plane ticket and have it fresh at my place. You can have as much as you like while enjoying the view of our glorious brown, dry mountains.

Postby **Vol** » December 6th, 2021, 10:42 pm

magnuskn wrote:
Seriously, get a free month of Netflix, it literally costs nothing and you can unsuscribe once you've had your fill of shows you want to watch. There's tons of other good stuff there as well, like The Witcher TV show, which gets a second season this month.

Much obliged. Where is the free month offer found? Though I did just learn Netflix works on PCs.

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Sinekein wrote:Speaking of MMOs and writing, I've been spending my (non-working) time of the last four days on FF14 Endwalker - admittedly, some time has been spent in queue to log in because holy crap there's a lot of people online.

I heard it was getting so popular that Square had to stop people from entering the queues. Suppose now would be the golden time to reap the wheat as the once king falls. :lol:

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SciFlyBoy wrote:You string them up on one rope that goes from the floor to as high as you can make them. Then they just hang there in the air and you use up vertical space.

That's clever. My Achille's heel in programming was trying to optimize everything well before I needed to, so maximizing growth with heavily finite space speaks to me, heh. Would they be heavy enough, laden, to remain stable during winds and storms?

On to the fish, one whole smoked salmon fillet that's shipped cold storage to Jersey? Damn, I'd love to do that for you but...$200 UPS next day!? or $30 by ground, but that's a week long and it won't last that long.

It might be cheaper to get a plane ticket and have it fresh at my place. You can have as much as you like while enjoying the view of our glorious brown, dry mountains.

Ouch, bit rich for my blood. There's a reason I eat more processed meat than fresh, and it isn't for the flavor or nutrition.

Heh, I was (wistfully) looking down the topic list the other at the aborted LV trip. Hasn't been better since then. Though I suppose "only" losing 25% of my savings each of these corona years makes me somewhat fortunate. But if I can ever have a solid work year again, no financial catastrophes or droughts, I'll come hang out with any of you (in America) who wants to put up with me for a few days.

Postby **magnuskn** » December 7th, 2021, 1:51 am

Vol wrote:Much obliged. Where is the free month offer found? Though I did just learn Netflix works on PCs.

Ugh, I just checked and it seems the 30 day free trial isn't being offered anymore, which wasn't the case when I got Netflix in 2019.

Apparently the pandemic made them greedy.

Well, now I feel stupid. But, depending if you want to spend the money for a month (which shouldn't be more than equivalent of 9 Euros), yes, you can get it on your PC. It's how I watch Netflix and all other stuff, although of course I got 38'' ultra-wide monitors. Still works well on smaller monitors, though.

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Postby **Vol** » December 7th, 2021, 10:10 pm

magnuskn wrote:
Ugh, I just checked and it seems the 30 day free trial isn't being offered anymore, which wasn't the case when I got Netflix in 2019. Apparently the pandemic made them greedy.

Well, now I feel stupid. But, depending if you want to spend the money for a month (which shouldn't be more than equivalent of 9 Euros), yes, you can get it on your PC. It's how I watch Netflix and all other stuff, although of course I got 38'' ultra-wide monitors. Still works well on smaller monitors, though.

Yeah, a month's cost to take a peak is no big deal. Thankfully a surprise job came in, so I can justify not being a miser.

Speaking of, was talking to my grandma, and her yearly newspaper subscription came up. First, they tried to dupe her into a monthly payment month, $36/m, then they tried to sell her the yearly model at $275 when she called them out on it. Managed to argue it down to $200, but for a rag that's mostly a compilation of other paper, with far fewer subscribers than ever, that's a ballsy ask. Meanwhile my aunt was seeing papers for sale for _$5_ in stores.

Postby **Dragaros** » December 7th, 2021, 11:50 pm

https://www.wowhead.com/news/shattered- ... ers-325225

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtnpaOoecZ8

That's the card they wanted to play, eh? :lol:

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Postby **magnuskn** » December 8th, 2021, 1:38 am

Vol wrote:Yeah, a month's cost to take a peak is no big deal. Thankfully a surprise job came in, so I can justify not being a miser.

Great! I'll be very interested to hear your opinion about Arcane! :mrgreen:

Other shows I can recommend, in no particular order because I'm typing this down stream-of-conciousness-like, are The Witcher (second season releases this month), also the animated prequel The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which is so much better than it has any right to be, when it is based on a cheap toy line from the 80's. Also Vikings for the first four or so seasons is pretty good and DOTA: Dragon's Blood also was pretty okay (the animation is good and the story decent). Dragon Prince is another animated series which I anticipate the next season of. Castlevania also was brilliant and is complete. Cobra Kai is also an excellent show, if you ever watched the Karate Kid movies (at least the first two).

In order of quality, that'd be then Arcane, Cobra Kai, Castlevania, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, The Witcher, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf and then all the rest I listed in any order. And of course there are literally hundreds of other series which might be good and I haven't seen there.

Vol wrote:Speaking of, was talking to my grandma, and her yearly newspaper subscription came up. First, they tried to dupe her into a monthly payment month, $36/m, then they tried to sell her the yearly model at $275 when she called them out on it. Managed to argue it down to $200, but for a rag that's mostly a compilation of other paper, with far fewer subscribers than ever, that's a ballsy ask. Meanwhile my aunt was seeing papers for sale for _$5_ in stores.

Sheesh, I think newspaper might die out completely, aside from traditional market leaders, in the next thirty years, when all the older people are gone.

Dragaros wrote:https://www.wowhead.com/news/shattered-legacies-new-shadowlands-9-2-cinematic-featuring-sylvanas-spoilers-325225

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtnpaOoecZ8

That's the card they wanted to play, eh?

Yeah, fuck that noise. No whitewashing of Sylvanas by going "It wasn't really her!" What bullshit. :evil:

Although that High Elf model did look gorgeous, as did Uther.

Postby **Dragaros** » December 8th, 2021, 1:26 pm

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Postby **Dragaros** » December 8th, 2021, 6:17 pm

"Watch this amazing concept video for Ico the devs unearthed for its 20th anniversary"

"GTA Online Is Getting a Franklin Story Expansion, Set Years After GTA 5"

"More Activision Blizzard QA Employees Join Walk-Outs To Protest Raven Lay-Offs"

"Lawyer demands Activision Blizzard victim compensation fund 'in excess of $100M'"

"PlayStation Exec Fired After Being Exposed As A Predator"

Postby **Vol** » December 9th, 2021, 12:12 am

magnuskn wrote:Great! I'll be very interested to hear your opinion about Arcane!

I'm such a hermit, the only one of those recommendations I've actually seen is the first season of Cobra Kai. Was rather good, though my gut warned me they'd fuck it up, haven't heard a peep since. Coors Banquet isn't that bad, though, thank you marketing. But I'll take your opinions under due consideration, as I enter the normie-sphere.

Sheesh, I think newspaper might die out completely, aside from traditional market leaders, in the next thirty years, when all the older people are gone.

Same with her cable and phone service, it's ridiculously overpriced compared to internet + a smart phone, but she's too old to learn that stuff. It's despicable, in a way, to gouge the elderly to sustain obsolete businesses.

Dragaros wrote:Yeah, fuck that noise. No whitewashing of Sylvanas by going "It wasn't really her!" What bullshit. Although that High Elf model did look gorgeous, as did Uther.

Whelp. Some people are saying that by "admitting" her evils, she'll "pay" for them. But in the sense she had no power to actually not perform the evil, she would be blameless, so REDEMPTION ARC WOOOOOOOO. Heh.

Dragaros wrote:No voice in our ear but Slaanesh, his and her minions are the breast, we coom and we feast, of every man every beast, consent doesn't matter, we'll make coom of them all.

I figured Slaany was going to have the worst setup, being so hard to actually represent and make unique, but CA's done a good job thus far of making me interested. Nurgle >Slaanesh > Tzeentch > Khorne is my tentative planned play list.

Postby **Dragaros** » December 9th, 2021, 1:39 am

https://www.gamesradar.com/former-mass- ... me-awards/

[[ The first game from former BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn's new studio is set to be revealed at The Game Awards on Thursday.

Flynn dropped a teaser for the announcement on his personal Twitter account, saying that the studio planned to reveal its project as part of the big awards show. Most of what we know about the unannounced game comes from a 2019 Game Informer interview, where it was framed as an online RPG. Though parent company Improbable has avoided calling the project an MMORPG, it does seem to be taking aim at that overall part of the games market.

Flynn was a longtime BioWare employee who worked his way up from a tool programmer on Baldur's Gate 2 to studio general manager during the time of Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Mass Effect: Andromeda. Flynn left BioWare before the release of Anthem in 2018 and soon after joined up with Improbable, a gaming and simulation tech company, to lead its new foray into games in North America with an office in Edmonton, Canada." ]]

https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-infin ... zelda-size

[[ "Halo Infinite's open world was reportedly cut down from a scale similar to that of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, to what it is today. Apparently, almost two-thirds of the planned game was chosen to be cut in the move.

According to a report on the game's development by Bloomberg, 343 decided to drastically slash the game's open-world map in 2019 as it attempted to stabilize the direction that game was heading.

Reportedly, by the summer of 2019, Halo Infinite had hit a number of issues. As per the report, the studio took the decision to cut almost two-thirds of the entire planned game in an effort to streamline production. As part of this decision, the outlet notes that the game's open world was significantly scaled down from a "Zelda-like experience into something far smaller."

Despite scaling down the game's open-world map, Infinite's problems continued past 2019. In July 2020, the developers showed off a range of gameplay footage for the game, which was met with overwhelming disapproval from the Halo community. Fans mocked the gameplay footage across social media for its poor quality, creating memes out of 'Craig the Brute', and airing their frustrations toward 343.

Following the backlash, Infinite was delayed by an entire year from its intended November 2020 release. Since then, the game has undergone something of a revolution. While more minor issues have still cropped up with factors such as the game's multiplayer progression, critical praise for both Infinite's single player campaign and multiplayer mode have been widespread in recent weeks." ]]

https://www.pcgamer.com/nexon-is-making ... gmar-game/

[[ "Videogame giant Nexon has announced that it's come to a licensing agreement with Games Workshop to develop and publish "a new Virtual World" based on Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. AoS is Warhammer's highly successful reboot of the original Warhammer fantasy universe, which had a slightly rocky launch but ever since its second edition has won (most) fans over.

"As one of the world’s largest game publishers, Nexon is the ideal long-term strategic partner to bring Warhammer Age of Sigmar to life in a unique new way that will appeal to gamers the world over," said Jon Gillard, Games Workshop's head of licensing. "Nexon’s world-class Live Operations and infrastructure offers exciting opportunities for engaging current and new Warhammer fans in this massive universe. We’re really excited to see the fruits of this collaboration over the coming years."

There are a few details on the game but no visual material or release date. "Built on the legacy of Age of Sigmar, the new Virtual World will feature a socially interactive player-versus-environment world supported by Nexon’s world-class Live Operations for sustaining the fun with new content and service." I'm surprised they didn't get the word metaverse in there.

"It is an era of war," reads the blurb. "The Mortal Realms have been despoiled. Ravaged by the followers of the Chaos Gods, they stand on the brink of destruction. Players will command the war hosts of the God-king Sigmar and his allies as they fight to reignite hope and bring order back to the realms." ]]

Postby **SciFlyBoy** » December 9th, 2021, 1:45 am

Vol wrote: There's a reason I eat more processed meat than fresh, and it isn't for the flavor or nutrition.

Fresh smoked salmon is relatively cheap compared to packaged. You can get 6oz for $8-$20 premade or you can smoke a fillet for as much you can fill your smoker or weber grill. I can spend $200 filling my smoker up if I didn't care about the price. That's eight decent sized 3lb fillets. But I prefer to get salmon on a steal, anything in the $5-$7 per lb range.

Probably intended for the food thread, but if you want to make a foux smoked salmon then put your grill on very low, throw in some mild wood, like apple or maple and put a salmon fillet on the grill and cook until the flesh starts to come apart freely with a fork. It's smoky, it's moist and if you love it then you'll venture into making it more and more. That's how I got into it and now it's my specialty. I never have to buy it.

Postby **magnuskn** » December 9th, 2021, 8:18 am

Vol wrote:I'm such a hermit, the only one of those recommendations I've actually seen is the first season of Cobra Kai. Was rather good, though my gut warned me they'd fuck it up, haven't heard a peep since. Coors Banquet isn't that bad, though, thank you marketing. But I'll take your opinions under due consideration, as I enter the normie-sphere.

Season two and three are very good as well, although the cheese factor goes up considerably in some areas. ^^

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