Guest Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Made a new character in Fallout 4. The build I'm using is a kind of black ops/sniper and melee hybrid. When outdoors and in very open spaces, I usually attempt to pick off enemies at a distance with the best sniper rifle I can find or put together on a workbench. When moving through buildings or being up close and personal with enemies, I'll switch to an assault rifle or shotgun for raiders, and the Righteous Authority laser rifle for super mutants or ghouls. If I'm trying to conserve ammo, I'll use a serrated Chinese officer's sword and the Big Jim pipe wrench for melee (20% chance to cripple the target's leg). Primarily a stealth build, lots of sneaking around and staying low, so no power armor here. If discovered, I can go guns-blazing if I have the ammo. Haven't gotten my Gun Nut perk to the level where I can craft suppressors for my sniper rifles yet. Soon, though. Very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 FINALLY found a fortress with a blaze spawner in my brother's minecraft game! Actually this is the 3rd (or 4th?) fortress we've found in this game but only one of them had a blaze spawner and one of my brother's kids broke the first ones we found. (He didn't know it's better to save them & make a blaze rod / XP farm out of them.) The spawner in this fortress actually generated underground so I took advantage of the situation to camp on the spawner and grind a bit for blaze rods while my food/health held out. Someday when I get the time I'll come back and build a proper farm but for now I just want a decent supply of blaze rods so I can make some potions. Without a blaze spawner handy we've had to rely on random spawns (and deal with the inevitable wither skeletons that also appear) so potion-using has been a bit limited. The only problem is this new fortress is a loooooong way from the main area that we've been developing to date and I don't want to have to keep going back and forth. I'm even considering building a portal somewhere in the nether near the new fortress and starting a new base in the overworld wherever the portal leads. It would be ideal if the portal were to lead to a mountain biome or if there's a village nearby that could be developed for trading purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaking66lives Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Playing Fallout 4 for the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 3 hours ago, Otaking66lives said: Playing Fallout 4 for the first time. Very cool! What do you think of it so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaking66lives Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Loving it so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Thinking of causing a ruckus in minecraft this weekend. Last week I spent a lot of time grinding for blaze rods in a fortress and got enough wither skulls as a byproduct to create a wither. I could use a nether star but withers are the toughest mob in the game. IMHO anyway. Then again I still have a ton of iron and a few golems are a big help when it comes to beating a wither. Or I could be an ass and spawn one in the courtyard of my brother's castle, then log out.   (jk.. I would never do that.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 (edited) Decided against the wither thing in minecraft. Not up for a battle today. Instead I built a push-button pharmaceuticals lab for brewing potions.  Spoiler The design is something I found online and uses droppers pushing ingredients into a water stream as the user presses buttons corresponding to the ingredients desired. The water stream then drops the ingredients into hoppers that feed the brewing stand. Sorry, I don't remember where I first saw it but I've been using it since the brewing update a while back that added the blaze powder requirement. (Maybe 1.9?) I like it because its is reasonably compact, flexible, and easy enough to memorize. In this build the nether wart farm and water supply is in the background behind the machine. Potion creation is semi-automatic. Flipping the lever at the right to the up position loads the stand with water bottles from the chest at the upper right. The ingredients are selected by pushing the buttons on the wall to the left. The hoppers will immediately queue the ingredients and dispense them into the stand in the order selected as the brewing process proceeds. Assuming the stand has been loaded with water bottles by manipulating the lever then (for instance) pressing the buttons for nether wart, magma cream, and redstone - in that order - will brew up a batch of long-duration potions of fire resistance. Flipping the lever to the down position drops the contents of the brewing stand into the chest beneath. Repeat the process as desired.  Edited August 8, 2022 by efaardvark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnviousEnvy Posted August 8, 2022 Author Share Posted August 8, 2022 Farm Together (Switch) Not feeling the greatest today so been adding to my farm. Got a tree house built and expanded the lot. Youtubers Life 2 (Xbox) This game came in the mail on Saturday and I'm absolutely loving it. It's a bit challenging but still fun.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaking66lives Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 Played some Soul Calibur VI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaking66lives Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Replaying Onimusha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Skate 3, f1 2021, golf with friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 Still rockin' it with my Fallout 4 character (well, most of the time anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 Descenders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 (edited) Was going to try to play a little more Minecraft but since I only had a few minutes and no real plan I decided to go for a quick look into the Minetest engine instead.  Ubuntu has it as a flatpack install so it was only a 30 second install, then another quick download of the Mineclone2 resource pack(s) to get something that very much resembles the Minecraft experience. Like I said I didn’t have much time.  Just enough to do some basic tree punching, enough building to get a little wood shack and a bed/furnace/crafting table going, and enough mining to pull up some iron and coal.  Verdict:  I miss the visual enhancements of my mc shaders but as far as game play goes it was certainly a comparable experience.  If MSFT starts pulling their usual tricks then I know which direction I’m heading first to satisfy my MC urges.  I wonder if there’s a translator for Minecraft world files to whatever minetest uses?  Spoiler  Edited August 14, 2022 by efaardvark typoos and pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeath Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Not today, but earlier this week I got my Hanzo golden gun, finally have my 5th golden weapon in Overwatch. It was a long journey, but it's sure a fun one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnviousEnvy Posted September 4, 2022 Author Share Posted September 4, 2022 Saints Row (PS5) Picked up the new Saints Row. Don't understand the hate it receives... I actually find it pretty fun. Only thing I wish was better clothing choices. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 (edited) Unexpectedly got a bit of free time this weekend so I'm playing a little minecraft. Mostly digging a bit more into the ProjectLUMA shader. It's decent but it has a few visual glitches such as immobile stars that appear in front of the moon. (And of course it doesn't fix MC's built-in problem with the lunar phases vs sun angle*.)  LUMA does do a good job otherwise however, especially with large caverns and underwater, and it doesn't kill performance.  BTW, if you want a more interesting night sky in MC, try the AstraLex shader. (See below.) Stars, the moon, another (huge) planet, nebulas, and even constellations, auroras, and metrorites are all there. Makes for a somewhat busy sky however, and I don't like the pervasive haze during the day. Always makes me want to clean my glasses.   (*In MC the moon is fixed relative to the sun, and always opposite the sun. This means it should always be full. Yet somehow it shows phases anyway, including the new moon! Doesn't really affect gameplay but a small part of my brain sighs every time I play because it is so obvious yet the devs did it that way anyway. I keep hoping that they'll eventually fix it. Maybe even add "surprise" solar eclipses in mid-day, complete with special spawns or special rules.) Edited September 4, 2022 by efaardvark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Finally got up the nerve to play a round of Hive in real-time on Board Game Arena. It was a close game, but I managed to win this time. Starting to get a feel for some of the strategy behind it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaking66lives Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 played some Soul Calibur 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnviousEnvy Posted September 9, 2022 Author Share Posted September 9, 2022 Disney Dreamlight Valley (Xbox) Been binge playing Dreamlight Valley the past couple of days. For just running around and absolutely no combat its pretty addicting. Got Moana, Maui and Remy to the town... currently working on saving Donald Duck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) tfw you hear a ghast scream out a fireball while you're laying a line of TNT. Took a full stack of TNT to the nether and used all of it looking for netherite. I was creative in a way that would impress even Megumin but also productive and the activity resulted in 12 ancient debris. Smelted the debris and used the 3 ingots plus one that I already had on my helmet, breastplate, leggings, and pic-axe. Not bad for only a couple hours work. Still need another ingot for my sword tho. Edited September 16, 2022 by efaardvark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaking66lives Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 More Soul Calibur VI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdChillin123 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Anybody into Tekken? I got rid of Tekken 7 but have been excited to try Tekken 8. The trailer came out a little while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Used up all my gunpowder on TNT but I finally got my sword upgraded so I'm finished making large holes in the Nether for a while. Now I'm ready for anything*...  *Now is when the minecraft gods take offense at my hubris and I wind up at the bottom of a lava lake due to a hilarious sequence of highly unlikely events.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 3 hours ago, efaardvark said: *Now is when the minecraft gods take offense at my hubris and I wind up at the bottom of a lava lake due to a hilarious sequence of highly unlikely events.  THE FLOOR IS LAVA!!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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