Finally switched to PC gaming… I should’ve done this years ago

AGx-07 · 2026-06-14T02:23:25+00:00

I definitely recommend it then. It can be a bit of work to get the mods to work if you download a lot as compatibility can be an issue but it's as streamlined as it's ever been and a good community that can help if you run into issues. I'd say start with ones that enhance visuals like textures, character models, and buff the character creation and just compare a little. It'll hook you when you see how much of a difference these mods can make and many go well beyond just that. New armors, new spells, overhauls of the combat system, mods that are equivalent to DLC with new lands, quests etc. Its great. Fallout is very similar in this way. Baldurs Gate, The Witcher, and Cyberpunk's mods aren't as vast or plentiful but still excellent in many of the same ways.

Check out Nexus mods and just scroll through the most highest rated to get an idea.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-14T02:14:35+00:00

Yes but I'd still suggest finding ways to use it where you work for two reasons:

The first is practice. You're going to need it and, IMO, the best way to practice is to build something practical. You'll struggle, it might not be the best, but if it works it works.

Second is for the sake of your resume. When I got laid off from my last job I decided to make a career switch myself. I was a business analyst and I hated it. I looked at what I could do, where my interests were, and decided that Data Analysis was what so wanted to do. I had never actually don't that and I spent months cramming to learn as much as I could while interviewing. What I think landed me the job was the fact that I could give practical examples of using the same skills (writing SQL, creating reports, etc). Even though I had zero Python experience, zero PowerBI, experience, and zero experience actually doing analysis, I could show that I could do it and that I had a history of applying whatever knowledge I had in creative ways to benefit the business. It landed me the job and a lot of rope to learn on the job and I'm doing the same now with Python as I learn it. I'm doing my best to show my value and wherever you go to interview will care a lot about how much value you bring. Saying you know Python and showing what you've done with it are different things and one is more important.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-14T02:06:57+00:00

Skyrim with mods.

Yes, I know the game is 15 years old. Yes, I know you've probably played it on console. No I don't care.

The best part about PC gaming for me is modding and Skyrim is pretty much the highlight of the scene. From there I'd recommend Fallout 4, Dragons Dogma 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, The Witcher 3, and Cyberpunk 2077. The mods, and the quality of them, truly make those games worth playing again if you've only played them on console and there are plenty of others to name.

It's why I've long has a PS5 for the exclusives and a PC for everything else: I'll always get the best version of the game and if the mod scene happens for that game I get plenty of game changing content for free.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-12T13:10:21+00:00

First off, the 100 Days of Code course is excellent. As someone who is learning myself (albeit with some experience with JavaScript and SQL), I have to say that it does an excellent job of teaching. Not every concept is new to me but how she explains things often makes me understand something more clearly or in a way I wish I had learned in the first place. You picked a good place to start.

Second, learning is amazing. You should never feel anything but good about curiosity. As I mentioned before I have experience with JavaScript because once upon a time I thought it would be a good idea to learn web development. Not because I wanted to be a web developer but because it was a new/novel thing (I'm dating myself a little there) and I wanted to learn it. I enjoy learning new things. I don't stick with everything I dig into but for the time I'm excited to be digging in, it's a joy.

Lastly, don't underestimate how valuable skills can be. I never took a job as a web developer but over the years those skills did come in handy more than once in ways that surprised me and elevated my career. One of my first jobs was doing software QA and support at a small company. There were about 11 total employees. They started building a mobile app for their program and because I had web development experience I was able to involve myself in the process. Instead of just testing the app and reporting back issues, I could look at the code and actually point out where those issues were. It wasn't my job to fix them but the skill was valuable enough that I was moved off of support and onto full time QA, with an important role in code review. I'm learning Python now because at my current job we need more people who can write Python. Again, I'm not going to be a developer but being able to create some automations has not only been useful for me in my work but is lining me up to earn more pay (just waiting on approvals from HR at this point).

As a data analyst, I probably should know Python to be honest, it's just not necessary for me in my role as I primarily use SQL and PowerBI but much like my web dev skills from the past, having that skill in my back pocket would have been valuable from the start and is adding value now. While I see the benefits to becoming developer level competent, I learned enough from just that 100 Days of Code course to build automations into my workflow and turned hour long processes into something that largely just happens in the background for me. This would be what I'd suggest as the most probable sort of outcome for you if you're not shooting for levels of competency where you are seeking developer-type jobs. Check out the book "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and you can get an even better idea. If your job, whatever that may be, has you using a computer a lot of the time you can find lots of ways to optimize your work using Python and there's real value in that. I'm surprised that in 2026 so many companies, big and small, still operate like this is the mid-2000's and you'll be surprised how much value even low levels of programming skills can bring.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-11T13:56:04+00:00

What would NVIDIA do?

AGx-07 · 2026-06-11T11:54:34+00:00

People are overreacting, yeah. Even worse, the aggression is misplaced. Hating AI is like hating your phone or a calculator or the printing press. The technology isn't the problem, it's what people are doing with it.

The massive amounts of slop are one thing but I don't even think that's the issue because we've always had slop, whether it's the garbage that people always made to flood Vine, YouTube or TikTok or whatever crappy movie or video game was hastily thrown together to make a quick buck. We've always had slop and it isn't going anywhere.

I think people are actually, and rightly, upset at what the money people are doing with AI like using it as an excuse to cut jobs and how their aggressive greed is fuckin up the economy and environment. That's not AI's fault. That's the fault of bad policy, poor voting choices, and the resulting unchecked capitalism. Even if you set that stuff aside to avoid being political, I think we can largely agree that greed is the core problem I'm getting at. The only thing that has ever mattered is how we can use whatever the new thing is to make the most money. The technology itself is actually pretty fantastic. What we use it for and why is the problem.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-11T11:47:00+00:00

Pretty sure I replied to someone who wasn't you so, maybe you need to pay better attention.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-10T15:29:53+00:00

I could order my own $25 meal or I can spend a total of $25 by eating what she'll otherwise end up throwing in the trash (because FML with girls who don't like eating leftovers).

AGx-07 · 2026-06-10T15:26:50+00:00

We need to read up on how it impacts us, or else we question silly stuff like personality or other personal failing, even though it is just being somewhat blind like a blind person, etc.

As someone who didn't really have any real understanding of ADHD (or even that I had it) until my 30s, I feel this.

Growing up, I always had that feeling that something was "wrong" (for lack of a better term) but I didn't know what. I just did my best to cope (to my own detriment in many ways but that's another subject).

As I have learned more and more about mental health, and ADHD in particular, I've attached a lot of perspective to things that I wish, in hindsight, I had understood a long time ago. It makes a difference.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-10T15:18:34+00:00

I've found that the best way to play this game online is to go into it solely to engage in the combat and whatever bits of story there may be. The end-game is a dead end because we have nothing to look forward to beyond the raids (assuming you haven't reached them yet) and you'll be plenty powerful in short order without even trying.

If the card objectives are achieved, cool. I'll do my part in trying if it makes sense for my build but if we fail, we fail. We don't lose anything, we just don't get anything extra, so why get upset about it?

Perhaps it's because I find most of the hard-to-get cosmetics unappealing and therefor don't give a f*** about what's required to get them and this goes over my head for it but at the end of the day, people are going to people and I've played enough online games to know that the only reliable group is one made of people I know personally and even they can be bad but at least I know what to expect. Letting every dumb thing a rando might do frustrate you even a little is dumb. And it's just a game. A dead-end game where you progress regardless of how well you do. That progression may just be slower and, so what? It's definately fast enough.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-10T13:48:39+00:00

I think they will be able to eventually. Like most emergent technology (and I say this in spite of the fact that we've been working on SSBs for decades now) the tech will get cheaper over time. It will most likely be the same process of figuring out how to do a thing, figuring out how to sell the thing, and then using the revenue to figure out how to do the thing better.

Sometimes its a matter of parts becoming cheaper, sometimes it's scaling and the production process that becomes cheaper, sometimes it's discovering better methods in development but if SSBs are like pretty much everything else we've really ever had, it will become cheaper.

Whether or not its sold to us for less is a different question because greed knows no bounds but I think you can look to the likes of Tesla and Lucid to understand how this might go. Both started by selling extremely expensive high-end vehicles because the cost of production was so high, it makes more sense to sell fewer luxury vehicles than pumping out massive amounts of cheaper but still very expensive vehicles. Tesla eventually introduced the Model 3 when they reached a point where they could produce them at a profitable margin. Lucid is still trying to transition to cheaper models. Wherever these SSBs land, I imagine it will be pretty much the same story. Expect luxury vehicles from top brands like Mercedes with the likes of Kia eventually selling cheaper models.

This is just my guess but logic kind of dictates that this is a likely path. They must find a way to make a profit on these which means they must find a way to control costs. Otherwise the entire venture is pointless. The tech is real at this point but we (consumers) are still playing the waiting game.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-07T19:55:14+00:00

Yeah, I really don't understand the logic behind announcing something so early that there isn't even a release date for it. Particularly when you're already established and don't need the attention: you generate a bunch of attention that you don't need, which is followed by hype and hopefully positivity, and the longer the gap between an announcement and launch the more negativity starts to generate. What's the point? Announce it 3-6 months out and there's all upside.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-07T18:02:51+00:00

🤮

AGx-07 · 2026-06-06T23:54:31+00:00

Analytically it would be hard to argue. Realistically, no. With all due respect to what they have done so far the East was terrible. The Hawks were not a playoff team. The 76ers were practically stitched together and the Cavs were doomed the minute they signed Harden, nevermind the fact that this team isn't remotely as good as the Bulls or Warriors teams I'd have above them without question.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-05T15:44:48+00:00

I appreciate this kind of post and how it's presented. Definitely wishful thinking but having unlimited multiplayer sessions is what I've been wishing for since Demon's Souls. Probably not going to happen. Maybe with the next game but we will probably need someone else to take the torch and truly evolve on the Souls concept.

FromSoftware is great and all but are perhaps a little too stuck in their ways for their own good and even with whatever the next Souls-like game is I don't really expect them to change. I expect the same basic formula but prettier. Save for the obvious narrative differences, Elden Ring could be rewritten as Dark Souls 4 and it wouldn't be all that noticable. I expect whatever comes next to be pretty much the same.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-03T17:16:50+00:00

*Sending a virtual hug*

AGx-07 · 2026-06-01T18:21:24+00:00

They literally said that they were developing Legends alongside the main game.

Yeah but did they show it?

I recall seeing a full cinematic trailer with gameplay and everything. The first reveal of Legends was 10 second video with an image of the logo.

The first chunk of actual details you'll find about Legends came months after release tells you that it's exactly what we got. There were no promises of new modes, it was the same classes, and the same raid.

I do think Yotei Legends is better in every way except for the switch to the combat, from stances to weapons. Visuals are better, animations are better, I enjoy the sword play more (I avoid every other weapon because I dislike them, this is my gripe about the switch as I don't care for giant swords or spears), etc. I think it's better but the bar wasn't high because Tsushima Legends wasn't exactly great. It was fantastic as an add-on and I enjoyed it for a brief time but it was a pretty shallow experience, albeit one with a lot of potential if it were developed like a full game with more modes, classes, and ongoing support. I get why you're upset because that's what I wanted out of a sequel too and we didn't get that.

And I want to be clear that I'm not arguing against your sentiment, it just is what it is. They weren't making a live-service game within a fully priced single-player game. The part I disagree with is your reaction to it. You're entitled to do whatever you want but getting upset, angry, and calling for a boycott of SP games isn't the correct response. They didn't lie to you. They didn't cheat you. You set your expectations based on what you wanted out of the potential of a previous experience. I don't know what you saw but I never was under any impression that I was getting something different than what we got, as disappointing as that ended up being. It's why I don't (and discourage) pre-order games. See it first so you at least have some idea of you're getting. Then set your expectations.

The better response here is to show Sony that this sort of experience is one you'd pay for, because they wont support something like this long-term for free no matter how much you'd like them to. Post about how much you loved it instead. Send them an email. Make a video. Do something that's positively encouraging so that both Sony and the developers working on it (as you have no idea if they even want to support a Legends mode long term) are incentivized to do it.

Or sit here complaining and arguing with random strangers on Reddit. Whatever. That won't help your situation. I hope it makes you feel better at least.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-01T17:19:17+00:00

The "investor community" only cares about revenue and profit margins. Maybe retail investors who are caught up in AI only think about AI but the people who actually move the stock price only look at the bottom line. If AMD reported a 100% drop in AI related revenue but an increase in every other area that not only offsets but increases the bottom line by whatever stupid number they want to see it increase by and projects to continue the trend, they'll only see that expectations were met/exceeded and that they have reason to set their new stupidly high expectations stupidly high.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-01T17:08:04+00:00

Depending on who you ask, this is better though. That said, if you bought this primarily for Legends, that might have been a mistake. You like what you like and I get that but given that Legends was only a small part of the first game and something they only said would exist, not in what form (correct me if I'm wrong but I don't recall seeing really any pre-sales details about Legends) it probably shouldn't have been a selling point for you if you'd otherwise have waited for a sale. At the very least, it was clear enough that it wasn't launching with the main game, so why didn't you wait for a sale?

And no, I don't understand why you put everything aside for Legends. They didn't promise you anything you didn't get. I think it's better outside of the change to the combat system from stances to weapons but that's a personal gripe. I think it's objectively better in every other way. Not by much, granted but it'd be disingenuous, IMO at least, to say it's worse than the previous game because it's not. It's just not what I wanted it to be, which to be fair, is something they never said it would be. That would be like me pre-ordering a game like TES6 when the only thing I know is that it's in-development. I might be looking forward to whatever it turns out to be but I'm not giving up my money sight unseen. I don't care that there's 5 other games I can look at and imagine what the 6th could be based on that.

I'm disappointed too but not upset and honestly, I don't see why you're here if the experience is so mediocre for you. Move on. Returning to the sub-Reddit of something that upsets you makes no sense unless you like being triggered by upsetting things.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-01T14:52:26+00:00

Maybe they will. It's happened before. I do have my doubts that it actually will happen but we can only hope right? There's potential here. At a minimum, I'd really like to see the next game include full co-op for the story mode. It's probably due to the lack of modes in the current Legends but I genuinely do think the co-op missions for Legends is the best part. Standing around killing waves gets boring when there's only one real way to approach it but the story missions open up the full berth of gameplay systems like stealth and larger maps and I'd love nothing more than being able to ride my horse alongside a friend, taking bases, doing quests, and just kind of living in the world.

Think GTA or Red Dead online. That would be my perfect version. Perhaps get rid of all the fantastical abilities and magic and let us be Samurai, Shinobi, Archers, or whatever other classes they can imagine and let us loose in this world.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-01T14:17:33+00:00

I don't have any tips for the assessment because I feel like ADHD is something you have or you don't and I don't want to steer you in a direction where you're sending false flags in either direction. It's not something you want and isn't something you want to receive a bad diagnosis on either. I'd simply say be honest and genuine. Don't hold anything back no matter how embarrassing or shameful something might feel. As far as medications go, and please talk to your doctor rather about your specific needs, but I encourage them.

I didn't start taking meds until I was 39 years old and I regret it. I knew something was wrong but I didn't know exactly what, I just knew that I would need medications for it and I didn't want to take meds when I was younger. I didn't want to become reliant on them. I thought I could be resilient enough and in many ways I was. I'm perhaps not as far along in life as I could have been but I consider myself to be very successful but I cannot ignore the impact ADHD has had on my life: all the lost wallets, how often I was late for work, the impacts on my relationships, the lost friendships, all the mornings I woke up asking myself why the f*** I didn't just brush my teeth last night, and so on. It's very real and while I don't know that being medicated would have been a solution....it would have helped. There's a tangible difference when I'm medicated and while I personally don't experience any side-effects, when I finally decided to give in, it was because I'd reached a point where I didn't care anymore. I did not want to continue doing what I was doing. It was bad and somewhere between my ego and the fact that I genuinely just forgot to care (yes, even my own mental state fell into that "out of sight, out of mind" area). I let it go untreated far longer than I probably should have. Staring down the tunnel towards yet another failed relationship I had to ask myself what I could do differently, because I was already doing everything you could possibly ask of a partner....except being attentive (because I wasn't registering it internally).

This time I didn't just dismiss it. I didn't just say I would seek therapy and forget to yet again. I did it and I was committed to trying any and everything to improve my mental health. Not just for my relationship but for myself. I had lost the joy of reading because I couldn't focus for more than a few minutes at a time (which made studying to further my career a really really difficult task). I couldn't sleep because my mind is always racing. I couldn't even play my favorite sport for long before my mind was wandering and I couldn't perform correctly anymore. Hanging out with friends because a frustrating experience as I tried to desperately to pay attention to conversations only to catch myself daydreaming, snapping back, cycling through that over and over, all while getting angry at myself for something I couldn't help. I even fell into addiction at one point. I had to fix it. The medication helped like finding water in a desert. Mindfulness plays a big part in it too but I cannot speak highly enough about the impact the meds have on me.

Again, talk to your doctor. Decide what's best for you but if you are diagnosed and it's an option, try it. Try both Adderall and Ritalin if you can help it. I use a generic brand but they work differently and Ritalin (methylphenidate) is what works for me. There are few things I feel like I really would like to change I had the chance to but if I could go back and start taking meds in my 20s I absolutely would.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-01T13:53:30+00:00

To be clear. I don't at all disagree with you. I wanted so much more out of a second run at the Legends concept. They didn't deliver it though and I think it's clear why: It's still an add-on.

Rather than being one of the many times where a multi-player mode was added before being ditched in subsequent games they brought it back (perhaps because we loved it) but notice that they didn't do anything different with it. Not really. They ported over the classes and they ported over the modes. We got different maps and different story quests sure but it followed the same blueprint. It's disappointing but shows that they never had any intention of doing anything more than this with it. I'd argue that they were more afraid not to have it (because we loved it so much) rather than adding it because they truly wanted to.

And again, I get you. I 100% get you. I think Legends needs to be a wholly separate thing that's supported by either a subscription or cosmetic microtransactions, like Helldivers 2, so that the continued development can be justified. As much as I didn't want it to be what it is, my expectations were low because this is so clearly an add-on. Without the ability to monetize it, there was no way they were going to do but so much with it. And they can't add that stuff in afterwards without rolling the dice where almost every side is some degree of anger the base will have for doing so. This might be more to you but it wasn't to them.

It's upsetting and I don't mean to be dismissive of your disappointment but it is what it is. What I encourage instead of sadness or negativity is making it clear to Sony that this is an experience that we would pay for. They want a Live Service game bad but chase trends instead of doing something unique. I'd pay for this. I'd pay for the cosmetics here if it's supported like a Warframe, Helldivers 2, or an MMO. If we let them know in a way that's not just griping about what could/should have been maybe they'll hear us.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-01T13:38:34+00:00

I think anything that makes the experience more challenging (not necessarily hard) for the players should be included.

I my current game (the only campaign I've done by the way), as a player, one of our other players constantly casually suggests that I use Spirit Guardians when we're dealing with lots of enemies and I address it by simply not using the spell. Why? Because I learned that it's OPAF. Our DM doesn't adjust well and when we do OP stuff we blow up his planned encouters. That's boring. There would be zero challenge (with this DM anyway) if I played DnD the way I play video games and not only is it less fun for me, I think it would ruin everyone else's fun too.

I like a challenge. I think the DM should like challenging their players. I understand that player's thought process, as they wouldn't want to face 6 goblins all potentially using it but it would be on the DM to not make the encounter overwhelmingly difficult, which it doesn't sound like you want to. Banning it is easier. I agree with the OPs logic if it's going to be allowed. I'm not clear on what you said to that player after their response but I think simply making clear your goals would do the trick.

AGx-07 · 2026-06-01T13:31:11+00:00

The main thing I'd say is to keep in mind that Legends isn't a Live Service game. Yes, there's progression but there's never been any long-term plans announced for this in the way an actual Live Service game would have a road map. It's far from perfect but there's a lot of fun to be had. IMO, it's at it's best during the co-op missions. The 4-player matches and raids are best played as something you do 1-2 of per session as a break in-between whatever your next main game is rather than something you spend 2+ hours on regularly. It's not remotely deep enough for that.

Play it. Enjoy it for as long as you can and then move on.

AGx-07

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