Ublock Origin Lite is available for safari and blocks YouTube ads perfectly fine.

I recently grabbed division 2 and crew motorfest. Both on sale again for 90% off. More than enough content to keep me busy for a while.

Right there with you. Have a 4080, and only reason I got this one, was because it was cheaper(by a sizable chunk) than the 7900xtx when I got it.

How can I boycott something I don’t participate in more?

Fuck these ages verification checks, for now, embrace the VPN life

I think we have had enough of the rich thinking about children

If you tolerate this, your children will be next. Is a Manic Street Preachers song.

So the same as every American electric car

https://apnews.com/article/data-privacy-cars-data-collection-mozilla-foundation-c616f41983b6cbd62445da0e4962091d

Not just that, but also the Plug sockets, the weird bottle in the top right, The sauce packet in the bowl, the laptop and its weird stickers. Then if you zoom in, the plug extension melts into the carpet, the writing on the note pads and a few other oddities as well.

I agree that he is part of the main cast and an important character, but so far in season 1 and 2 he has been a bit less important. I am hoping that season 3 sees more of his story, rather than just feeling like a courier for the “artifact”. Season 2 definitely saw glimpses of that at the end.

I would say Lucy is probably the Main character, with Cooper also being a good choice for Main character. I dont think Maximus quite meets main character for this.

Lucy - Vault Dweller - Loads of assigned jobs in the vaults.

Cooper - Bounty Hunter

I am a “hero”, which means I am a criminal sentenced to undying servitude and sent to the front lines to kill the Demon hordes.

Yuusha-kei ni Shosu - “Hero” is the worst punishment in the world. Those convicted of heinous crimes are sentenced to become “Heroes” and forced to enter the mandatory military service in the war against the Demon Lords. These convicts are not even allowed to die—if killed, they will be resurrected to fight another day.

You can replicate that with ranked, because you match people of similar skill levels. SF6 has you go from rookie to diamond which is matched with people of similar skill levels, usually within ±1 rank so a gold 2 Vs a gold 3. Then when you get to diamond there is a small chance to match against a Master rank and you get higher reward for beating them(up to 250lp). Then when you have climbed to the top of Diamond 5, you move to master rank. In Master you then switch to a proper elo system.

This removes the vast majority of people getting absolutely stomped on by people who have 1000+ hours when you have 10. You still have to put in time and effort if you want to get better like you did as a kid, but you’re more likely to get fun and closer matches.

I will mention something that looks cool and reminiscent of F-Zero, Hyper Sonic GP. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4236690/Hypersonic_GP/

Single player only though, but looks interesting.

There are a few games I am interested in.

Early Access updates for Assetto Corsa Rally

Marvel Tokon

The Expanse

Over the Hill

Densha Attack

Forza Horizon 6

I also super happy with Super Woden Rally Edge that came out this year, absolutely fantastic start to my year.

No, it is 2XKO because it is 2v2 and you need to KO both characters. It is a garbage name

I have bought a handful in the last 2-3 years. Street Fighter 6 a couple costumes, Juri Onesie and Blanka-chan. And… That is about it to be honest. You could add the battle pass for The Finals I guess as that’s all cosmetic

I feel like a lot of it is dumb people jumping on the bandwagon. But I do think a lot of the dislike/ disappointment since launch was warranted, things like terrible performance, the long matches which had weird downtime. 3v3 on ridiculous sized maps.

I didn’t like the trailer, and I definitely don’t think it should have been the finale for game awards(hurt it way more), but the dumb hate wagon for it and calling it concord 2 was dumb.

Quite niche, but sim racing, I will pick Assetto Corsa Rally as an example.

The definitive way to play is with a proper rig. 9nm+ Direct Drive wheel base, round wheel, a sequential shifter, handbrake and decent load cell pedals. Put it up on a nice ultrawide or triple screen and have an amazing time sliding through the forest. You can also do VR, for complete immersion as well.

Buuut that’s also the expensive way, you can also have a load of fun with a controller or cheaper wheel on a desk.

I keep seeing people saying that another team could work. But I think that would actually have a massive detrimental effect on the game. That adds another base, less chance of a comeback, and then you end up where you started in a 3v3 in an even more empty map with even longer matches.

This needs larger teams. Like 8v8 or 10v10 so you actually end up with skirmishes during the downtime. Your still going to have long matches, but at least something is more likely to happen. Or they need to rework the formula of the matches a fair bit.

If you just want to jump into something small, and single player. Super Woden Rally Edge would be my first suggestion.

Then from there you can decide what you want to jump in to next, more rally would be Assetto Corsa Rally, or Maybe something a little older like Dirt rally 2 or EAs WRC. Rally is probably the easier choice for controller if you want to start diving in to more sim racing stuff.

If you decide you want to look more into track racing, check out Raceroom as it is free and you can do a few weeks of their free multiplayer races(learn the tracks first) or some free stuff in single player, or you can grab something like Automobilista 2 on a sale for cheap, these are both pretty drivable on a game pad, but a bit easier to jump in on a wheel. Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Evo are probably not great on a game pad to jump into, but pretty good options for driving on a wheel, with something like Le Mans Ultimate being the current multiplayer sim racing game of choice(not including iRacing).

If you decide that you want to stick to something more arcade, and controller friendly then Forza Horizon is really good and probably the best option. Gran Tourismo 7 is also a good option if you are only on playstation.