Here we are again on a weekend WRUP trip. Hopefully everyone is doing well out there. I think today may well be pretty busy for me doing mundane BS before the rain coming tomorrow.
It's time to take recycling in and get that sweet refund. I've probably got $30 in plastics, aluminum and glass in the back of my truck right now. Too bad that will barely cover the gas to drive it in to town. Still though I'd rather do it now than wait until the storm passes and I have to pour rain water out of every can and bottle that sits waiting for transference to the recycling center. I've also got to get the outdoor gym equipment covered up. And probably most importantly, I've got to clean the gopher fill out of the drainage so the water doesn't wash ruts a few hundred down my driveway. This has to happen along side getting the last U-Haul of my sister's things to her new place and unloaded today, as well as returning the truck. So yeah, just a day of boring, mundane life tasks that I wish I just didn't have to do. And now that I've bored you, let's move on to some WRUP things.
Big news from EVGA saying they will be severing their partnership with NVidia and will no longer make their AIB graphics cards. Maybe this is lazy of me but I'm not going to go into much detail about this. EVGA state many reasons and instead of parroting them here I'll toss a couple of links in with videos from JayzTwoCents and GamersNexus who explain pretty thoroughly what's going on in a much more comprehensible way than I feel I can.
From TechSpot, Metal Gear Solid 3 came pretty dang close to including a boss fight that would have taken a real time two weeks to complete. An end boss character, The End, would be hiding in a field somewhere and players would have to move slowly and intentionally while looking for clues to his whereabouts until they found him and could actually pull the trigger. WTF Kojima...
Ubisoft is telling folks that NFT's weren't really something they were interested in in the first place. Que the eye rolls. They say they were just using NFT sales as a research point. Presumably to see how it goes. One can't blame a company for dipping their toes into a new market, but holy smokes NFTs and crypto in general are just so scummy and horrible. You'll never convince me Ubisoft didn't know how bad it would be received and of course would hope that it would rake in cash anyway. It's no surprise to me that they would be trying to save face now after poor sales. ArsTechnica has the beans.
Playing stuff this weekend?
Yoda: One last turn and burn and 16 hours of driving for me to be all moved out of California! Woot. So only game I'll be playing this weekend is the one where "Objects in mirrors are [LOSERS BECAUSE I'M IN THE LEAD!!!]"
AJ: Found my old TurboGrafx-16 and cleaned it up a little. Will probably play that a bit, as well as some Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2.
Greywolfe: oooollllld games for me. i beat akalabeth [which is just called "ultima 0" for the most part] and am sort of doodling around in ultima 1 at the moment. might do a little more immortals: fenyx rising, but i play that game in little bursts, because it's set up like a modern assassin's creed with the millions of icons on the map, and we all probably kinda know what i'm like with that sort of thing, by now.
Scroo: I'll still be in Destiny 2. As many complaints as I have about it's absolutely hands down abysmal systems and information conveyance - I am really enjoying it's game play loop and content.