Category: Gaming

CP2077: Money and V

So, V is dying, right?

Some information on telomeres and aging that’s salient to my point: here TL;DR: telomeres are little caps on the ends of your DNA strand that protect it. As you age your cells divide to make new cells, and the telomeres get damaged, and that’s why we age.

Plastic surgery and implants aside, the way the ultra rich stay young is by nanite injections. Now, one would assume that the nanites look at the degraded telomeres and repair them, based on other telomeres in the surrounding tissue, as well as repairing damaged DNA strands. And there’s your fountain of youth.

SPOILERS. End-game SPOILERS. Read at your own risk past this point.


CP2077: my Problem with Sinnerman

I hate/ love/ hate is Sinnerman. Spoiler palooza, because there’s no way to discuss it without.


Mod Spotlight: Nix, A Starfield Companion Who Looks Like a Fuzzy, Scaled Acyloxyl

For anyone coming from reddit: I DID NOT MAKE THIS MOD.

I swore I wasn’t going to add Star Wars stuff to my game, but here we are. Cora, you want a pet? Here you go.

He’s unreasonably cute, and beautifully made. When he runs he kicks up a dust cloud, has 435 carry weight, makes little weird noises at you, and you can keep your other companions. I love him.

Mr.Crozzbow, Thank you

https://creations.bethesda.net/en/starfield/details/7100b1b4-b325-46ee-b4b7-0b6e447568da/Nix___Star_Wars_Merqaal_Companion

More photos after the jump


A love Letter to Sarah Morgan

Slightly edited from my reply to a reddit post pitting Sarah against Andreja:

I’m a straight girl, so romantically, I prefer neither of them, but for the sake of wanting to see all dialog options I’ll boink all my companions, just in case I get different dialog.


My Netrunner Build

The sneaky glass cannon

I like my builds do a LOT of damage, be mobile, and be silent death.


The gaming industry and its mass layoffs

I saw this topic on Reddit, and realised I hadn’t written anything here in a long time. Well here goes:

IGN story  Reddit post

I actually read the article, and I think some things are missing.

The things that are missing it barely mentioned are AI and not listening to customers.


The Medium: Reviewish

If your idea of horror is cheap jump scares, gratuitous gore, and slimy monsters trying to eat you around every turn, then you will be disappointed in this game. I’m a horror junkie, and, personally, I don’t think that stuff is scary; I think that stuff is just cheap, tacky, lazy writing and boring, overused, tired nonsense.

The horror in this is a slow burn conceptual story element and it’s a fantastic piece of writing. I mean, yeah the monsters are scary-ish (I don’t scare easily) but the story is the true horror element. If there were ever a good game to turn into a limited run TV series, this would be it. The story is about a woman, who, after preparing her recently deceased adoptive father for his funeral, gets a phone call from some guy who tells her he knows what she is (a medium) and that he needs her to come meet him because the light is almost gone, which is just vague enough to be intriguing. That’s all the story I’m going to give you.


Planet Zoo: Reviewish

These are giraffes.

So, I’ve played this for four hours and I’m still in tutorial mode. It’s kind of a LOT of tutorial if you’ve played Planet Coaster, and I have, extensively.

It’s a cute game so far, but if you loved Planet Coaster because of absurdity and rides, this isnt that. There is a lot of information about the animals, a lot of specific decorating, and a lot of personnel management. And, in tutorial two, a whole lot of mandrills escaping. I’m not sure how though. I’ve built a 7 meter tall fence and moved every tree, building, rock or other climbable away from the wall and they just keep getting out. could you not, I’m trying to build a spot for my cute little tapirs!


3,000 Hours!

3,002 actually, but whatever.

To celebrate, I feel sorry for social justice warriors.

(Fallout 4)


Modder Spotlight: Niero

I’m going to start off by saying that Niero is, hands down, one of my favourite modders for Fallout 4. His mods are mostly clothing and weaponry, steeped in lore that somehow fit into the wasteland, and stand out at the same time. His work all looks like it was put together by a team of professionals, instead of one solitary person. The models are beautiful, the UV maps are flawless, and the clothing rigging looks natural. The pieces from each outfit mesh fabulously with pieces from other outfits, and I’m usually wearing parts from at least four of these mods, simultaneously. Also, almost all of these items come with unique mods and/or headlamps which cast shadows.

I think one of my favourite things about the Niero mods is that all of them come with a couple colours, but he provides, for free, 4K skin packs on his Gumroad page or his Patreon. Providing them on an external site speeds up your downloads too!

Niero mods never clash with any other mods I’m using, and they seem to be happy anywhere in my load order. I don’t even test new ones anymore, because I’m comfortable dumping a new Niero mod into an existing play through without worrying about breaking my save. I can’t not use Niero mods in my play throughs.

My one single only tiny iiitty bitty gripe is that Niero needs to use more purple. I’m very sad there is no purple of any sort in the Stridgudae gear. I need me some purple. But I kinda want everything everywhere to be purple all the time. Perhaps the lack of purple is good for me.

This is going to be long. Strap in.


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