u/ComManDerBG

Yes, stop XP gain. One of the smaller but no less easily one of my favourite things in Rift Apart is the animations that occur that when you hit an enemy with a weapon. From the way they get bounced around with the Ricochet, to how they get zapped or cut with the Lightning Rod and Buzzblade weapons, or how they just get blasted by the Executor. With the Blackhole Storm it's no different... Except when you max it out, now when you defeat an enemy they disappear in a large, screen obscuring blackhole. Powerful, useful, but no less not as fun as just riddling an enemy with bullets. I've already got 100 percent on the PS5 and as much as i love using the Blackhole Storm i get a super tiny pang of regret when all i get from an enemy kill is them being vaporized, i prefer them being ragdolled by the bullets. Now im on PC with mods and memory editors and stuff, the WAND tool has an editor for Weapon XP but you can only increase the multiple and not lower or remove it. Also for the Pistol, Blackhole Storm, and Headhunter i just flat out prefer how the un-upgraded versions look. So... there is that.

So im up at my grandfathers cottage to help with yard work and stuff and im back in the basement. Oooohh the many *many* hours ive spent in this cozy basement making lego and playing classic XboX, seriously brings me back.

They now have this LG UHD Smart TV but when i hooked my PS5 up to it the picture is extremely dark. Im used to adjusting settings so i know what to do and how to do it, but no matter what i try i cant get it to even out. Jacking up the brightness obviously washes it out, the baclight is at 100, power saving is off. Ive been fiddling with, well, *everything* but i just cant get the brightness up. The games them selves have all been adjusted for the TV at home which i got to be just right so the settings in every tends to be the default since they dont need to be adjusted.

Also i think its up to date, auto updates are on, its connected to the internet, and it says no update found when looked for. It says its version 05.70.50 and the specific model is a "webOS TV UH6100"... i think.

I was listening to a bunch of long form critiques and retrospectives for Deus Ex Mankind Divided and one thing most of them have in common is that the DLCs for the game are given less the positive reviews. I can see why, especially with the two smaller ones, its flat out embarrassing that they were just sliced out of the game, the smallest of the bunch being particularly embarrassing. Even the prison break one could be inserted into the game in the form of an optional conversation with the therapist you can do at any time after Golam City. You would have a quest objective to go talk to her, you'll get a popup warning you that its a large side story, then you seamilyy slip into the DLCs framing device of it being a therapy session.

Ignoring all of that i still like the content. For the small one i play it frequently when all i want to do is a nice focused vertical slice of stealth insertion gameplay. I like to try different approaches, including ones i rarely ever do in the main game like a full on loud combat fight. Ironically it being completely separate from the main game is a plus in this specific niche case.

For the Palisade bank one the fact that it's so obviously a cut chunk of the Prague open city is really sad and a bit embarrassing (to be clear, these insults are strictly dedicated towards Square Enix and not the devs, the same guys who wanted Breach). My absolute most favourite gameplay moment in DX:MD, amongst many many absolutely stellar moments, is getting into the vaults in the Property Bank. It feels like a genuine bank heist sometimes, you enter the public areas, case the security measures, do recon, probe for weakness, make you insertion and get the loot. The middle DLC is this but more, and while it lacks a satisfying vault to break into its still a (data) bank heist.

And the prison break one is just fun, good story, cool undercover angle, good challenge if you choose canon mode, and a really neat unique environment. One small thing some games and artist do that can annoy me is set a location somewhere cool but then set it in a underground lab or cave or some other out of the way location that can be anywhere, basically not taking advantage of the location at all. The DLC takes place in Arizona and instead of that only being a super small pointless detail actually incorporate he heart and desert in the environmental designs. Also the incredible art design is still in full force instead of it just being a bland concrete prison.

The neat thing about each DLC is that despite it being super annoying that they were cut from the main game in order to farm customers for money, the separation mean you can sort of enjoy these precise vertical slices. The first one is a pure "insert into a secure facility" challenge, the second one is a small hub that you can explore and gear up before the big mission, and the third one is basically a full on "you leave the city hub for a mission", uh, mission.

I've been playing DXHR ever since the press preview of the game leaked before its official launch. I've been doing a recent playthrough of the game again, and for some reason it suddenly became super unstable. I've literally never ONCE had an issue with carashing across multiple hardware configurations, patches, literal games, hundreds of hours. I'm saying all of this so you understand that despite so many things surrounding the game changing the game itself has been unfailing stable. Just all of a sudden the save seems corrupted or something.

Literally as i was writing this i think i might know what it is, can the game become corrupted if there are to many objects dropped onto the ground? This playthrough is notable since ive been making liberal use of the dev menu. This isnt a new thing, Ive been "using" it on and off for small tiny things even on the base game, but in this case i have been storing a lot of stuff in my apartment....

By "struggle" i mean that a lot of the technical jank of older games gets to me, i need my widescreen and proper key re-binds and higher resolution. It doesn't have to actually change anything about the way the game is played or even the visuals. Though i do love a good "that's how i remember it looking" style of texture overhaul. that just makes things look a bit cleaner overall.

I know about The Dark Mod and own all the games on Steam.

EDIT: I went and got a proper Ph neutral car shampoo, now we will see what his reaction is.

Me and dad, who owns the car, are having a bit of a disagreement over this. He owns a 2020 GT53 and he washes religiously, loves the car and has a lot of respect for taking care of it. He is fine with me driving it however the unspoken rule is that i wash it before he needs it again. I went to wash it today and it just sort of struck me, he is very careful to use all the right cleaners for the other surfaces, a leather cleaner and a glass one, but it occurred to me that standard kitchen counter top cleaners and other household stuff may not be the best choice for the exterior.

Here is the exact order we clean in:

-fill a clean bucket with water

-add a small amount of the cleaner, just a few drops is fine

-use a microfiber mitt to wipe the exterior with the soapy water

-rinse the water with the hose

-dry the water with a microfiber towel

We make sure the towels are clear of debris.

The cleaner is ""Nature Clean 99% Natural Multi-Purpose Cleaner"