I Renounce This FRIDAY

[jamus34]

Isn't Corpus Christi Native American for "land that big ass sea storms arrive on"???

Good luck gulf coast!

[JudgeDredd]

So it seems I've just wasted £15 on a second hand version of Madden NFL 17 because....I just splurged £60 on Madden NFL 18  ;D

[jamus34]

You do like our American sports, don't you JD?

[JasonPratt]

Jena KS turns.  The battle system is finally grooved into my aging head.

Jena JTS campaign and battle game.

When we're done, you should post some campaign comparisons.

Isn't Corpus Christi Native American for "land that big ass sea storms arrive on"???

It's Latin for "Odds Bodkins", as in "Odds Bodkins, why did we build anything on this coast, the local Indians are cackling madly at us!"

[JasonPratt]

Meanwhile, tomorrow I plan to be playing an extended opportunity for prayer called PLEASE GOD HELP ME SWITCH OUT MY OBSOLESCENT NVIDIA 600 SERIES SLI WITH A NEW 1080 TI WITHOUT TOTALLY DESTROYING MY COMPUTER'S ABILITY TO FUNCTION.

...messing with computer hardware scares me badly. Not for my personal safety, but for the computer's.

If successful, I'll be testing out multiplayer with a new set of head/speaker phones (which should also help improve the quality of my audio commentary in video AARs), and testing out the new gfx on Batman: Arkham Knight.

Probable-to-possible additions, permitted by my computer surviving the weekend:

1.) Will the GROGS OF CRISIS game be won this turn, or shall we go into Turn 11?

2.) Will the new gfx card make Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse: The Hunt Begins: New Factions: BBQ more stable? (Probably not, but I've been on a SS multi-play kick for a while.)

3.) Steel Divisions multiplayer would be nice.

4.) Theoretically the next turn with Barth in DC:Blitz, although more likely I'll be doing that next week.

5.) Planning and prepping for a new one-shot video tutorial for my nieces on one of their games. Also two other new video projects for the nieces which should benefit from a top-tier gfx card.

6.) I've also been on a bit of a Magic Duels multiplayer kick a while.

7.) Heroes and Generals with W8, if our schedules ever converge.

8.) Note to self: at some point if I'm catching Dad up on Netflix's Daredevil seasons, I should take the opportunity to update Warframe.

9.) ...feel like I'm missing something... oh, either Ysk or I should set up our Red Thunder mp game and get that started.

[Kushan]

For me, its going to be Prepar3d and Elite all weekend with maybe a little of The Long Dark, Ghost Recon, or The Division thrown in.

Meanwhile, tomorrow I plan to be playing an extended opportunity for prayer called PLEASE GOD HELP ME SWITCH OUT MY OBSOLESCENT NVIDIA 600 SERIES SLI WITH A NEW 1080 TI WITHOUT TOTALLY DESTROYING MY COMPUTER'S ABILITY TO FUNCTION.

...messing with computer hardware scares me badly. Not for my personal safety, but for the computer's.

Its just a video card not open heart surgery. Remove a couple of screws, un-clip the PCI-E bracket, and remove the video card. Do that in reverse order to install the new card. Congrats on the new card, I went from a GTX760 in my old PC to a GTX1070 in my new one. Noticed a huge difference even with the rest of my specs being more or less the same. Almost went with the GTX1080 but I cut it down to the GTX1070 to save a little money.

[MetalDog]

Just a little cool country to help calm the nerves ;)

[Toonces]

Man, the lack of "Move your unit to..." in the courier system of Waterloo really pisses me off. 

I simply cannot understand while unit commands are available in all of the other courier commands but not this one was left off.

I can't play the game as designed.  This disappointments me greatly.

[Tuna]

Man, the lack of "Move your unit to..." in the courier system of Waterloo really pisses me off. 

I simply cannot understand while unit commands are available in all of the other courier commands but not this one was left off.

I can't play the game as designed.  This disappointments me greatly.

MP is fun, then you're directly controlling you're units. .and courier messages are texts you type out to other players.

[Toonces]

No, I got that.  But you can order your unit to do anything but "move to" in Waterloo.  So if you give a commander an order to move to some point, the commander will move but his troops will remain stationary.

I simply cannot imagine a scenario where, in testing, this seemed like a good idea. 

It's like you do all this work to make a courier system, and then leave this rather critical piece just broken.    I wish I could refund the game, what a waste of money (for me).

[Hofstadter]

No, I got that.  But you can order your unit to do anything but "move to" in Waterloo.  So if you give a commander an order to move to some point, the commander will move but his troops will remain stationary.

I simply cannot imagine a scenario where, in testing, this seemed like a good idea. 

It's like you do all this work to make a courier system, and then leave this rather critical piece just broken.    I wish I could refund the game, what a waste of money (for me).

I'm sure there's some way too get the troops to move to. But it's probably buried under a series of annoying clicks

[Tuna]

No, I got that.  But you can order your unit to do anything but "move to" in Waterloo.  So if you give a commander an order to move to some point, the commander will move but his troops will remain stationary.

I simply cannot imagine a scenario where, in testing, this seemed like a good idea. 

It's like you do all this work to make a courier system, and then leave this rather critical piece just broken.    I wish I could refund the game, what a waste of money (for me).

I'm sure there's some way too get the troops to move to. But it's probably buried under a series of annoying clicks

I think his problem is that you can't do much in that regard with the Courier System.. Which I agree, in single player the Courier system is kind of useless. But seriously Toonces, MP can be a lot of fun, if you want to try some Friday or Saturday night with a bunch of grogs, I'm sure it can happen.

[Martok]

Have been playing Trackmania United the last few days (picked it up on sale), as I've needed some good mindless fun.  Am also looking at kicking off a new campaign in Rome II Total War; I've felt the game pulling at me for a while now. 

[Gusington]

Stronghold Crusader HD and Medieval 2 TW as the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

[JasonPratt]

The new gfx card appears to be working. So far. Updating drivers.

Yeah, in theory it isn't hard to switch out; in practice, I have a near-migraine.  :pullhair: Falcon is usually a great system designer, but this time they put the old SLI right up next to an internal wall, where it proved almost impossible to get anything down to press the release latch on the main slot. And when I did, I was hammering a long emory board right next to what looked like the main i/o bus.  :timeout: That was the worst but not the only problem. (I had enough sense to move the thing down a couple of slots when installing the new card, but then I started worrying that FNW had put the original card there for a good reason, and/or had tweaked the bios architecture to expect it in the old slot.)

Then on the first start, the system simply didn't boot up to the cycling dots under the windows sign. An attempt at a restart, shut down the whole system instead.

But currently I'm in gratitude-prayer opportunity mode.

Relatedly, if anyone would like a perfectly fine used Nvidia 690 SLI card, I'll take bids starting from free. ;)