I know I have heard concerns voiced here about some of Ladybird’s leadership, but at this point when Mozilla goes to shit is that the best lifeboat off?

Huge QOL increase. You won’t regret it in the slightest. I despise advertisements

Glad to hear. Here’s to a speedy recovery

Motorstorm: Pacific Rift is one of the best arcade racers of all time

Super Stardust HD (from the Returnal studio) and Resogun are both great arcade shooters

Hard Corps: Uprising is a solid Contra game entry

Pixeljunk Monsters debuted on the PS3 (now on steam and gog as well) and was a fun tower defense game.

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD was a PS3 port with HD textures of the psp game of the same name.

Ratchet and Clank: Nexus is the final PS3 Ratchet entry that while technically flawed (rough frame drops) feels like the closest game in the series to Going Commando on the PS2

Seconding EX Trooper’s fan translation

Just checked and a 32GB kit I got on sale for ~$85ish a few months ago is now pushing $330

That is incredibly unfortunate and not something I’d considered as being a regional matchmaking barrier until now.

Without that communications piece I don’t think I’d recommend the game unless you’re just fiending for a 3rd person shooter. I’m also hard pressed to say it feels better than other 3rd person shooters available (granted there aren’t many), but if that’s the itch looking to be scratched Star Wars Battlefront 2 and The Division 1/2 (PVP modes specifically) I think provide much more consistently entertaining gameplay than Arc Raiders, but reminder here that I don’t care for the extraction genre much so your interests may be radically different than mine on this front.

If you’re playing it for the extraction PvP experience it fills a 3rd person hole that exists in the space.

It’s a pretty impressive technical marvel that has pretty great sound design and really fun PvE encounters.

The progression mechanics are long and somewhat mediocre in my opinion, but I don’t generally care for extraction shooters and am here largely because my friends are.

It has a disproportionate amount of people actually communicating over proximity voice relative to the genre which is the games main differentiator outside of the camera view. Interactions are very frequently fun/dynamic in a way that most extraction games I’ve played aren’t. This likely diminishes over time as a meta is settled and more casual users drop/are pushed out of the game.

If you’re looking to play it and the finances aren’t problematic I’d say now is the time to maximally enjoy the community interactions if that’s your primary interest as I don’t think it will ever be in a more enjoyable state than now. If just the pvp component is driving your interest that should be solid throughout.

I’m planning to play the best piece of capitalist gaming art ever made:

The Red Army singleplayer campaign in Call of Duty: World at War where you get to storm Berlin and mercilessly slaughter Nazis before planting the the flag atop the Reichstag.

Hilarious coming back to this comment after he posts his coverup photo only to have the dogwhistle 1919 (SS) in the coverup photo.

Give me a full body image so I can see how many Nazi tattoos western “leftists” and even liberals at this point can go “idk maybe he’s just stupid and not a Nazi?”

I have two dumb things that I hope bring joy:

1. Mario Party 4/5/6 are being decompiled and ported into a singular PC game with online multiplayer functionality
2. I saw the sweet apartment kitty that I was worried had something happen to it in a window happily snoozing near the front of my complex today and found out the person living there adopted it about a week ago

I’ve got one of the 8bitdo SNES-likes (SN30 pro?) for any dpad heavy game, an 8bitdo ultimate 2 2.4ghz for basically every other controller game (the 4 extra buttons in Dinput mode are great for flying games), and mouse and keyboard for the rest.

At some point I’d love to get flight stick(s) for some space games but I can’t convince myself to spend the money on them when that genre is really more of a passing interest right now.

I also occasionally think about fight sticks but I really don’t play fighting games enough to want to buy in either.

I don’t understand why more people aren’t talking about how Tails was able to synthesize a fake chaos emerald that was close enough to be able to be used in chaos control.

This should have been a world-altering event and people still only talk about Shadow smdh

Gonna be hard to explain why I’m in such a good mood at work tomorrow

And I just now realized by posting this that I now no longer have the “if I remember” out I gave myself yesterday it’s never been worse

“As of this moment all PlayStations are banned from the country. You must use the big beautiful Microsoft.”

I will also be making an unspecified announcement around that time should I remember to

I’ve played a lot of both Peak and Sonic Racing Crossworlds network test with friends this weekend.

I’m very hopefully for Sonic Racing being a very high skill ceiling racer (snaking is viable for those familiar with the term).

Looking ahead to the new Everybody’s Golf release this week. I’ll probably pick both it and the Sonic game up whenever they hit ~$30

I don’t have any major recommendations but a few things:

• I personally feel that 1440p is the sweet spot for computer monitors. I’m currently running a 1440p/144hz freesync monitor (have been for about 5 years now) and don’t foresee myself ever moving to 4k because of the increased GPU costs to push that resolution at that framerate. The only possibly upgrades I would recommend is getting to gysnc/freesync with a higher refresh rate but this shouldn’t be a priority at all
• If you want to save just a little bit of money you can probably get a cheaper case because they really, really don’t matter at the thermal levels that this combo will be producing
• You can also save a bit on the PSU. The Montech Century II is an extremely highly rated PSU that is cheaper than the one identified (Google SPLs PSU Tierlist to look at ranking and try to find the best deal for a B-rated or above if you want to save another 30ish)

That’s really all I’ve got. You’re on an AM5 motherboard so in the future if Sony goes with a huge L3 cache like what has leaked for the PS6 (est late 2027 release date) you can always upgrade to a 9800x3d/9600x3d (not yet released) new or secondh or whatever the 11800x3d/11600x3d end up being when that generation comes out.

If you’re willing to spend some time hawking r/buildapcsales (it’s reddit I’m sorry) you might be able to reduce costs a bit more with promos, but I’m not entirely sure how well that place works for non-US markets (sorry). Additionally know that bundled games are about impossible to sell to offset the price of components due to the way the delivery happens so don’t factor that into price if you thought you might be able to flip the bundled game(s).