DoctaMario

She's a hard character to be good with. It's like the devs hate her and never give her any good stuff lol. Which is a shame because she's actually one of the coolest characters imo
 
Couple more and I think I'm gonna sign off.

I really didnt expect to get hit by the wft 😅

Hikaru is a beast, I've been watching some of his streams. Why is Magnus expected to withdraw, is he sick?

That was a hell of a finish you guys. When Cham hit that guard crush I thought it was over but whew

Lol, there's so much weird mobility with the characters we're playing 

Reticently you deserved that last one, nice one

I'll make a lobby in 5-10 min and shoot out some invites

I'll be on in about 10 minutes

I think I could if you are still interested.

I'm probably free around 10pm, give or take a sick kid.

Anybody still up for a SamSho lobby tonight? If so, what time works for you guys?

LoS2 has a really nice art design in the castle areas, and I like the story concept.  Combat isn't bad either, certainly no DMC, but more fun than GoW3 was.  But yeah those stealth sections suck, and a lot of the present day settings are bland as hell.

Castlevania Mirror of Fate HD was also just 3 bucks; I got that one on the Steam Deck, and so far it's alright.. I'm tempted to get Lords of Shadow 2 on Steam as well though I had it on ps3....  but still it was such an odd thing with that game... at first I was loving it, and then they committed one of the great sins of game design... forced stealth sections.
 
It's just stupid/silly---the player is in the role of Dracula here....but you *have* to sneak around in those areas....even though he should be able to easily rip those big armored guys to pieces even with his powers not yet at 100%.  It's very simple what they had to do there, and it could've easily been a top-rank vampire power fantasy game for me... just go all in on it being a DMC or God of War kind of thing but with the Castlevania IP....get that forced stealth shyte out of here, or make it purely optional...like if Drac is noticed that just means it's time to simply fight and destroy those silly mortals....show them who's really on at the top of the food chain there.
 
It started off awesome too, now that I am remembering... soldiers show up in the castle, foolishly thinking they ever had a chance.
 
...and again I'm now realizing it's a real shame that Konami owns this franchise....it's another one I wish were "rescued" and made relevant by a better company.

bros. hard to watch. 
scary af
 
 

Looks like Nakamura is in the candidates
 
 
 
2023 World Championship runner-up Ian Nepomniachtchi[a] 33 2771 6 The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2023[b] Magnus Carlsen (winner) (Expected to withdraw) 33 2829 1 R Praggnanandhaa (runner-up) 18 2741 15 Fabiano Caruana (3rd place) 31 2795 2 Nijat Abasov (4th place) (expected replacement for Carlsen) 28 2679 53 The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss
Tournament 2023 Vidit Gujrathi (winner) 29 2715 28 Hikaru Nakamura (runner-up) 35 2778 3 The winner of the 2023 FIDE Circuit[8] TBD       Highest rating for January 2024[c] TBD      

AC/DC Fridays:
 
An underrated song. I love the guitar riffs in this one...
 
 
 
This song has fallen into oblivion. Time to resurrect it...
 
 

I just took a dump and that shit was gobbling at me 😬💩

you have 10 seconds to comply.
 

Same weakness even 
 

 

I've never understood the self righteous hypocrisy here. Since all living things are dependent on each other for survival, but trying to atone for what is morally unreachable? You're just better off letting things be.
 
And I've had turkey last night. So there lol.

FEMALE FRIDAY: Officer edition!

File size does not indicate actual content size, COD games are over 200gb these days. We are working with lots of uncompressed, extremely high resolution textures and renders these days, not to mention audio isn't nearly as compressed as it used to be, if it is at all honestly. 
 
Games are huge in size due to the fidelity "we" are demanding, not because of actual tangible content size. 

Interview: Preparing Star Ocean The Second Story R for New Platforms
 
https://www.siliconera.com/interview-preparing-star-ocean-the-second-story-r-for-new-platforms/
 

Thanks for the suggestions @Abbachio@AriesWarlock I'll check em out!