Hoping to get another player for our Field of Glory:Empires mp PBEM. Hoping to go 4-0 in fantasy football. And looking to the Nats to finish the sweep in Washington. That'd make my weekend!
Thanks to last weekend's free trial of The Division 2 I managed to get all of my gaming group hooked. We aren't having a games night this weekend but I will be playing it myself. It's baffling that some issues still remain after the, what, six months since release? But on the other hand it was already an awesome game and there appear to have been lots of excellent improvements with the recent episode 2 release, too. It's also nice to be playing on the PC after having played the PS4 version at launch.
Also Arcen Games finally released 1.0 of AI War 2 which I will be sure to play the shit out of this weekend. It feels good to be poking the sleeping AI giant again!
On a whim I just bought Disciples 3: Reincarnation in the current Kalypso sale on Steam. I absolutely adored its predecessor, and like everyone else was disappointed with the third title in the series. But by many accounts the Reincarnation update fixes and changes a shitload of things, and for roughly £2 I thought I'd give it another look.
There's a free weekend for an MMORPG called Citadel: Forged With Fire. I doubt I'll have enough time to properly evaluate it but I'm downloading it anyway.
Finally, whenever I have a spare half an hour I play another level of the sublime GemCraft - Chasing Shadows, one of the best tower defense games I've ever played.
Modern Warfare and maybe some Mius Front.
Carpet is in downstairs and just waiting for paint now. So close to being finished it's painful. Haven't touched a flight stick in seven weeks...can't wait to set my gear up. :'(
Quote from: MetalDog on October 25, 2019, 05:45:15 AM
Hoping to get another player for our Field of Glory:Empires mp PBEM.
Specifically, Martok had to bail for health reasons :'( (hope he gets better!).
So Speedy, playing the Alans in the Caucasuses, doesn't have a human teammate right now.
We're trying to figure out some options, but the easiest would be for someone to join his team (and we'll do an early restart)! Here's the map of the region: http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=23872.msg654889#msg654889
Meanwhile, aside from various mp gaming:
probably some continuation of
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor;
perhaps also some
Saboteur (I'm finally finishing out Forczyk's
Case Red and would like the occupied-Paris vibe);
maybe some practice getting into new planes for
IL-2 Great Battles or BoX or whatever the surname is now;
a good chance that I'll be plugging along on a mystery new print/screenie narrative AAR, for which I only lack snapping a bunch of screenshots and prepping their code (but I lack a lot of that);
...annnnnd maybe doing some more footage for a second AAR episode of Sang-Froid!
The move is over, but the unboxing-of-things continues apace (funny how much crap you can collect living two decades in one place) so to keep the Mrs. from knifing me, I'm going to be stupid busy "hanging things," this weekend. Ugh. So, so tired...
Stay safe folks and play a game or two for me.
Thanking the gaming gods I have retried Witcher 2 and broke my gaming rut. Will also dabble with Endless Legend but I've pretty much concluded I am not smart enough to either play or win an Endless game. Will also be girding the old loins for the upcoming Halloween sales.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on October 25, 2019, 06:25:05 AM
Modern Warfare and maybe some Mius Front.
Carpet is in downstairs and just waiting for paint now. So close to being finished it's painful. Haven't touched a flight stick in seven weeks...can't wait to set my gear up. :'(
Good plan! I too will probably be playing some Mius Front (maybe the Cubans in Angola?) as well as the usual DCS, World of Warships and maybe some Dreadnought.
Quote from: Gusington on October 25, 2019, 08:38:51 AM
Thanking the gaming gods I have retried Witcher 2 and broke my gaming rut. Will also dabble with Endless Legend but I've pretty much concluded I am not smart enough to either play or win an Endless game. Will also be girding the old loins for the upcoming Halloween sales.
I did okay with Witcher 2 (on the old PC) I might have to replay it. I am too girding for the Halloween sales too.
I have off as of now until Sunday...back to doing ads :uglystupid2: but as a consolation I get Wednesdays off.
will update as usual on the gaming this weekend.
Seasonal depression is hitting hard so it looks like a weekend of brainless Modern Warfare for me...
^The Wife and most of my family have seasonal affective disorder...I think have a touch of it too, which is new.
Quote from: Gusington on October 25, 2019, 12:44:46 PM
^The Wife and most of my family have seasonal affective disorder...I think have a touch of it too, which is new.
Yeah, apparently it's actually super common. It's a bit of a bitch, but nothing unmanageable O0
Good luck with it, breh
Speaking of depression, I got called for Jury Duty today. :pullhair: The trail begins 9am Monday. >:( >:( Boy, is that guy getting fried. :buck2: Until then, Combat Mission Red Thunder to put me in the mood. Have a great last weekend of October Grogs.
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 25, 2019, 02:29:10 PM
Speaking of depression, I got called for Jury Duty today. :pullhair: The trail begins 9am Monday. >:( >:( Boy, is that guy getting fried. :buck2: Until then, Combat Mission Red Thunder to put me in the mood. Have a great last weekend of October Grogs.
If you want to get out of it an shirk your civic duty, just tell them you cannot be "fair and impartial"...
Computer: Still pondering it. Close to pulling the trigger on another John Tiller title (possibly The Seven Years War).
Board: Phantom Leader Deluxe (DVG). (Pre-ordered it in 2012. Sat on the shelf unopened since 2013. Finally got it on the table and am loving it).
Great tune. One of first that really turned me on to Zepplin.
PC wise not sure, may try to get back into CKII or EU4. Also Mius Front and maybe one of the Grigsby games.
Gonna try to play some PS 4 as I've been neglecting that of late, maybe some NHL or FIFA
Board gaming going to play Hadara and Wingspan with the girls
Quote from: Huw the Poo on October 25, 2019, 06:03:26 AM
There's a free weekend for an MMORPG called Citadel: Forged With Fire. I doubt I'll have enough time to properly evaluate it but I'm downloading it anyway.
Well, that lasted all of ten minutes. Awful game.
Maybe get some PBEM files Sunday but in Dallas at a state Elks convention wondering if they could possibly make the drinks any stronger at the hospitality suites of the presidential candidates. This is the way to hold an election!
Learning the new F-16 on DCS. Kinda stripped down due to early access but man....what a blast to fly. And the CBU-97 sensor fuzed cluster bomb. Watching 4 year through an armored column of 2 dozen vehicles is worth the price. Definitely can tell the difference between the F-18s upgraded radar and the F-16's. No wonder they are trying to upgrade to a AESA. DCS does a great job modeling them
Oh, I forgot! -- I picked up Crossroads Inn when it left beta a day or two ago! I expect I'll be trying that out at some point...
Quote from: jamus34 on October 25, 2019, 04:32:25 PM
Great tune. One of first that really turned me on to Zeppelin.
It was Ramble On for me. Soon as I heard Gollum's name, I knew this band was for me! Levee was an early favorite, too.
Quote from: MetalDog on October 25, 2019, 08:58:39 PM
Quote from: jamus34 on October 25, 2019, 04:32:25 PM
Great tune. One of first that really turned me on to Zeppelin.
It was Ramble On for me. Soon as I heard Gollum's name, I knew this band was for me! Levee was an early favorite, too.
"Kashmir" in stereo on the headphones. Yup.
True story. About a hundred of us showed-up for Jury Duty this am. One lady was coughing non-stop. Finally the clerk came over, spoke to her briefly, then she got and left the room. Immediately everyone in the whole room began to cough uncontrollably. :2funny: I'm confident I will get excused after they take note of 2 of my family members being members of Law Enforcement.
Full weekend ahead of me as usual (with 4 kids and a wife)...
Still plan to continue my Campaign in Stellaris (mid-game is really getting boring), Master of Orion CtS with the Sakkras, make a couple of épisodes of my let's play on YouTube of Horizon and maybe launch a new game of Interstellar Space Genesis (new patch released).
Others games i have running in the background:
- Stronghold 2 Campaign
- Stars in Shadows
- Napoleon Total War
- Pax Nova (should really start to play that one).
I really could be playing full-time! :crazy2:
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 25, 2019, 10:51:36 PM
True story. About a hundred of us showed-up for Jury Duty this am. One lady was coughing non-stop. Finally the clerk came over, spoke to her briefly, then she got and left the room. Immediately everyone in the whole room began to cough uncontrollably. :2funny: I'm confident I will get excused after they take note of 2 of my family members being members of Law Enforcement.
Hahaha, brilliant! ;D
Watched Top Gun again yesterday on tv and now I would like to fly the F-14 in DCS.
However this is one of the planes I don't have and it is one of the few planes not on sale ...
So the weekend will be DCS without the F-14 (or with if I lose control once more).
Quote from: Huw the Poo on October 26, 2019, 02:46:22 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 25, 2019, 10:51:36 PM
True story. About a hundred of us showed-up for Jury Duty this am. One lady was coughing non-stop. Finally the clerk came over, spoke to her briefly, then she got and left the room. Immediately everyone in the whole room began to cough uncontrollably. :2funny: I'm confident I will get excused after they take note of 2 of my family members being members of Law Enforcement.
Hahaha, brilliant! ;D
Under relatively new laws in the UK even police officers and judges can now sit on juries.
In 2014 whilst still serving in Devon and Cornwall Police I got called up for jury service in Plymouth. Turns out it was a murder trial involving two brothers from Plymouth.
I was selected for the jury and I didn't know the case or the officers or witnesses involved so was looking forward to a few weeks off work being paid to see things from "the other side" of the criminal justice system whilst on full pay. Sadly a police officer who was sat at the back of the court passed a note to the judge saying he recognised me as a Police Officer and the judge got cold feet over the cost implications of a retrial if the defence tried to make it an issue (despite it being totally legit) and I had to step down >:(
To be fair the judge was very apologetic !
Everybody hates Jury Duty, especially if you have to take off work. But it is a Civic Duty and if I were ever to be on trial, I would want to be judged by a willingly participating jury of my peers, not some stiffs that don't have anything else to do or make some kind of statement. It is a pain though.
Playing the user-made campaign for CMRT: The Road to Minsk-- a huge fight. O0
Playing TOAW IV and III Pbem and solo
Tillers Danube Front PBEM
FOG:E Barbarians PBEM
Pillars of Eternity 1
Fallout 3
Sir Slash, I agree with you. I wouldn't mind sitting on a jury at all. I take justice seriously, so if I found a way to shirk jury duty I'd be afraid that some idiot would take my place.
Plus I'd be delighted for an excuse not to do my job for a few days!
Careful for what you wish for. I've sat on 4 different juries over the years and the criminal ones were okay but having to decide to remove parental rights from a couple is a bit heart wrenching.
I don't doubt it. All the more reason for someone like me to do it instead of some twit who couldn't care less.
I'm playing my first tabletop wargame in at least 25 years - Pacific Tide.
It has been a bloodbath. The system has a 50% kill rate on die rolls and sometimes you are rolling 8-10 die. In a massive battle of aircraft launched from Midway (3 carriers & two land based US aircraft) against Truk (5 carriers) there were 7 carriers sunk, loss of all 7 air groups, and both land based squadrons at Midway destroyed.
At the start of 1943 the Japs have 2 carriers (one without aircraft) and the USA has 2 carriers with aircraft. Japan has control of everything North of New Guinea (which is unoccupied) and the USA has Midway, Aleutians, Solomons, and Marshall Islands. Every amphib operation Japan tried worked - but the allies kept rolling 4-6 and whacking the invaders and Japan is short of troops with most way out of position.
The way the map is setup, you pretty much have stage troops through the Marshalls, Solomons, or New Guinea to cut off the Japanese oil supplies from Sumatra and Borneo. Wake has a one unit infantry limit and Midway has a two unit limit.
Lots of fun and a very high naval and amphibious casualty rate - which is pretty similar to what happened in 1941-1942.
Quote from: airboy on October 27, 2019, 12:32:21 PM
I'm playing my first tabletop wargame in at least 25 years - Pacific Tide.
It has been a bloodbath. The system has a 50% kill rate on die rolls and sometimes you are rolling 8-10 die. In a massive battle of aircraft launched from Midway (3 carriers & two land based US aircraft) against Truk (5 carriers) there were 7 carriers sunk, loss of all 7 air groups, and both land based squadrons at Midway destroyed.
At the start of 1943 the Japs have 2 carriers (one without aircraft) and the USA has 2 carriers with aircraft. Japan has control of everything North of New Guinea (which is unoccupied) and the USA has Midway, Aleutians, Solomons, and Marshall Islands. Every amphib operation Japan tried worked - but the allies kept rolling 4-6 and whacking the invaders and Japan is short of troops with most way out of position.
The way the map is setup, you pretty much have stage troops through the Marshalls, Solomons, or New Guinea to cut off the Japanese oil supplies from Sumatra and Borneo. Wake has a one unit infantry limit and Midway has a two unit limit.
Lots of fun and a very high naval and amphibious casualty rate - which is pretty similar to what happened in 1941-1942.
First time playthrough and completed it in about 8 hours. Can probably play a second time in 3-4 hours.
An amazingly stupid oversight and blind luck gave Japan the victory. I thought I had to take Okinawa, but instead I had to take everything else except Okinawa to win. Japan ended up with one damaged fleet in Singapore - which prevented an amphibious landing which gave Japan the victory. The allies could have easily won except they lost sight of what actually gives victory in the game.
Really nice design. There are enough random elements that there should be pretty good replayability. Amazingly deadly. Only two amphibious landings by either side were done without taking casualties. Even when the defender had one or two die they often rolled hits with both leading to bloody advances with the winner taking the island chain with one whole infantry unit.
Quote from: Pete Dero on October 26, 2019, 03:00:15 AM
Watched Top Gun again yesterday on tv and now I would like to fly the F-14 in DCS.
However this is one of the planes I don't have and it is one of the few planes not on sale ...
So the weekend will be DCS without the F-14 (or with if I lose control once more).
Well, take some tums and push through "Iron Eagle". Then pick up the new F-16 module. Problem solved!
Quote from: mikeck on October 27, 2019, 07:51:12 PM
Quote from: Pete Dero on October 26, 2019, 03:00:15 AM
Watched Top Gun again yesterday on tv and now I would like to fly the F-14 in DCS.
However this is one of the planes I don't have and it is one of the few planes not on sale ...
So the weekend will be DCS without the F-14 (or with if I lose control once more).
Well, take some tums and push through "Iron Eagle". Then pick up the new F-16 module. Problem solved!
So your advice is I watch another movie and then buy 2 $80 modules <:-).
Maybe I'll have to pass but just because Tums doesn't exist over here :).
Quote from: Pete Dero on October 28, 2019, 08:50:23 AM
Quote from: mikeck on October 27, 2019, 07:51:12 PM
Quote from: Pete Dero on October 26, 2019, 03:00:15 AM
Watched Top Gun again yesterday on tv and now I would like to fly the F-14 in DCS.
However this is one of the planes I don't have and it is one of the few planes not on sale ...
So the weekend will be DCS without the F-14 (or with if I lose control once more).
Nah...it was more of a f-16 instead of. The F-14 is hard to learn and to fly I think.
And Iron Eagle requires a strong dose of whatever you have that keeps the stuff in your stomach from coming up. Never has there been a less realistic movie. Star Wars is closer to reality. But hey, the F-16 (except it's endless magazine of weapons) is a star
Well, take some tums and push through "Iron Eagle". Then pick up the new F-16 module. Problem solved!
So your advice is I watch another movie and then buy 2 $80 modules <:-).
Maybe I'll have to pass but just because Tums doesn't exist over here :).
I anticipated the Tomcat like you couldn't believe. Some of the pre-release trailers showing it in flight actually made me tear up it was so God damn beautiful and having the chance to fly it like this was a childhood dream come true, but to be totally honest, the Hornet spoiled it for me. I found the F-14 to be extremely difficult to learn and fly coming from an advanced digital and fly-by-wire system. I just couldn't get comfortable going back decades in technology.
Still, many people swear by it and it is a must have module. Eventually, I will learn it...
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on October 28, 2019, 09:24:11 AM
I anticipated the Tomcat like you couldn't believe. Some of the pre-release trailers showing it in flight actually made me tear up it was so God damn beautiful and having the chance to fly it like this was a childhood dream come true, but to be totally honest, the Hornet spoiled it for me. I found the F-14 to be extremely difficult to learn and fly coming from an advanced digital and fly-by-wire system. I just couldn't get comfortable going back decades in technology.
Still, many people swear by it and it is a must have module. Eventually, I will learn it...
This revised buyer guide for the F-14 by the Grim Reapers was released this weekend and just in time to stop me from getting it. It reflects your point of view : the F-14B gets a 4 out of 5 score for difficulty.
I must resist until the next sale when this beauty will be included.
Well, they dismissed me from the Jury Panel. I can't understand it, I smiled and everything. Maybe it was because I smiled all...the...time? At everything? And everybody? :o I thought it would make them happy.
:bd:
^ Lol'd!
(Laughing regularly at odd times also works.)
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 28, 2019, 11:26:32 AM
Well, they dismissed me from the Jury Panel. I can't understand it, I smiled and everything. Maybe it was because I smiled all...the...time? At everything? And everybody? :o I thought it would make them happy.
Was it your "I'm a friendly grandfather :)" or your "I'm a creepy senior citizen who wants to fry them all" smile? :)
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 28, 2019, 11:26:32 AM
Well, they dismissed me from the Jury Panel. I can't understand it, I smiled and everything. Maybe it was because I smiled all...the...time? At everything? And everybody? :o I thought it would make them happy.
You didn't do balloon animals did you?
Pot is legal where he lives.
True but I don't have a prescription.... yet. In retrospect, getting dismissed might have had something to do with wearing slippers and a bathrobe to court. And then falling asleep on the Defense Table. But I didn't drool so who knows? The Assistant Prosecutor was kind of hot and I started to give her, 'The Tongue' but I didn't want to get her all flustered on the job so I just blew her a kiss instead. :-*
:o
I was going to darkly joke about how rejecting you for jury duty on those grounds was discrimination against your chosen lifestyle or something; but then I realized the actual reason would be that you don't rank nearly high enough on the intersectionality scale to tolerate such behaviors, and then I died a little inside... :hide:
I tolerate a lot but intersectionality is not one of them, whatever that is. >:( I also don't like, Insect-tionality. I spray 'em with Black Flag. Other than that, I am very tolerant. OK, I've had enough of this conversation. Good Bye. :peace:
Quote from: JasonPratt on October 29, 2019, 08:35:16 AM
I was going to darkly joke about how rejecting you for jury duty on those grounds was discrimination against your chosen lifestyle or something; but then I realized the actual reason would be that you don't rank nearly high enough on the intersectionality scale to tolerate such behaviors, and then I died a little inside... :hide:
My English is good enough to understand 99% of the posts here but I fear even an advanced course isn't going to help me here :)).
That is, indeed, part of the joke! O0
This should be the last stop and end of the internet, right here.
Are you trying to imply that we are the, 'Ass' of the Internet? I've always thought of this place as more of a really cool tattoo on the Internet's rippling, muscled Bicep that you flash at people to scare them.
No, this (http://www.internetlastpage.com) is the end of the Internet.
So, that's the last page. I bet I got one away and gave-up and quit looking. #:-)
That other last page is a lot less thrilling than I hoped it would be.
Quote from: Gusington on October 29, 2019, 02:37:43 PM
That other last page is a lot less thrilling than I hoped it would be.
No boobs?
Just us Boobs that went there. :-[
Quote from: Huw the Poo on October 29, 2019, 02:24:06 PM
No, this (http://www.internetlastpage.com) is the end of the Internet.
Holy crap you went through the whole internet to find that!?
No probably just the dull, sad parts.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on October 25, 2019, 02:33:14 PM
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 25, 2019, 02:29:10 PM
Speaking of depression, I got called for Jury Duty today. :pullhair: The trail begins 9am Monday. >:( >:( Boy, is that guy getting fried. :buck2: Until then, Combat Mission Red Thunder to put me in the mood. Have a great last weekend of October Grogs.
If you want to get out of it an shirk your civic duty, just tell them you cannot be "fair and impartial"...
Or go to law school and become a prosecutor. You'll never sit in a jury box again.... :)
The judge told us he envied us because he could never sit on a jury. No one cried for him. :coolsmiley:
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 01, 2019, 10:59:23 AM
The judge told us he envied us because he could never sit on a jury. No one cried for him. :coolsmiley:
I actually agree with the judge. As a former trial attorney, I would have liked to have had the experience of being on a jury. Mostly out of curiosity, but I think it would have made me a better trial attorney. Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely I will every get the chance, because of my work background.
Quote from: Tuna on November 01, 2019, 06:09:53 AM
Quote from: Huw the Poo on October 29, 2019, 02:24:06 PM
No, this (http://www.internetlastpage.com) is the end of the Internet.
Holy crap you went through the whole internet to find that!?
Yeah it was a bit disappointing. Much like my first sexual encounter with Gus.
I hold back the first time, I am shy.
Right. Don't give them the 'Freak' until after they put the ring on your finger. <:-)
I remember those days.
Now I am quickly approaching the days when I am becoming the freak and it doesn't mean what it used to mean.
Right there with you Brother. :'(
^Case in point, I passed on a few beers at dinner last night at home because the family is going out to dinner tonight, where I'll have 1 or 2. But when I woke up this morning I still felt like I drank! Not fair.
I've reached the point where a hangover will sometimes stretch into a second day. That sucks.
I've limited my beer consumption to one pint max in a four hour period. My diabetes cannot handle more than that without potentially running into problems.
Fortunately, there is Scotch.
Two day hangovers...diabetes...I am not feeling better!
I got the Diabetes curse too. I drink mostly mixed drinks so my struggle was finding something to mix that didn't have a lot of sugar or carbs, and I could stand to drink. Sprite or 7-UP is not too bad but there are some flavored waters that have zero sugar and aren't too bad especially with Rum. My biggest foe, and ultimate sacrifice, was milk. I've gone totally to Cashew Milk and rarely drink that. Almond milk I couldn't stomach. I would kill my best friend for a bowl of Frosted Flakes with ice cold milk. :smitten:
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 02, 2019, 10:08:09 PM
I got the Diabetes curse too. I drink mostly mixed drinks so my struggle was finding something to mix that didn't have a lot of sugar or carbs, and I could stand to drink. Sprite or 7-UP is not too bad but there are some flavored waters that have zero sugar and aren't too bad especially with Rum. My biggest foe, and ultimate sacrifice, was milk. I've gone totally to Cashew Milk and rarely drink that. Almond milk I couldn't stomach. I would kill my best friend for a bowl of Frosted Flakes with ice cold milk. :smitten:
Try Goslings diet ginger beer and rum for a dark & stormy.
Will do. Thanks for the Heads-Up Airboy. :notworthy: