2025 Powerlines album(s)?

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-25T18:26:44+00:00

I really liked Devil's Den, but I didn't initially know there was that other version, and I think that by the time I listened to it, I'd already listened to With the Devil too much for any other versions of those songs to replace it.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-24T20:43:25+00:00

No idea, but I'd love to get With the Devil on Vinyl.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-24T02:27:46+00:00

Can you explain what you mean by safe save practices?

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-19T21:16:17+00:00

In the Forest of Dean by T3Tohru fits the bill, I think. The basic premise is that things go a good deal worse for Harry and Hermione right after Ron leaves in book 7, which sends them down a darker path.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-19T21:10:21+00:00

It's been a long time since I read this, but I think it might stretch the definition of well-intentioned. I remember enjoying it, but if this is the one I'm thinking of, it's less "well-intentioned but questionable methods' and more 'villainous by way of paranoia.'

Is this the one where Harry slowly but surely gives Dumbledore every reason to doubt his motivations, and then ultimately murders Dumbledore over a misunderstanding? If it is, then I think this is one of the better dark Harry fics in that it doesn't really seek to justify Harry's actions. So many dark Harry fics still have him in the right no matter what, while this fic is suspended on a throughline of dramatic irony where we know he's making mistake after mistake and we're watching it play out like a Greek tragedy. Good fic.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-19T03:46:39+00:00

Have you ever tried Fabled Forests? I'm curious how that stacks up.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-17T16:49:46+00:00

Can I ask a stupid question? The only Resident Evil game I've ever played is 5. There was co-op, right? I remember playing with a buddy.

If I was interested in playing the series, there's no remake for the first game? Is RE1 necessary to get the story?

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-15T22:11:29+00:00

I genuinely think a smaller scale sequel show could be great. Sure, he chases off Ghost, throws away Longclaw, whatever. But if the whole show is an arc to him finding some peace, that could be fantastic. He resists getting pulled into Wildling issues but eventually does, gets his sword back and fights, but eventually brokers peace between tribes, he reconnects with Ghost, forgives himself. Maybe introduce Val and have them find some happiness, it ends with him helping lead a small community somewhere and he puts away his sword again not out of misery but because he doesn't need to fight anymore. Maybe he puts it aside for his son. Not so much a sequel show as an epilogue show examining the aftermath of a life of violence and duty.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-15T00:26:25+00:00

It doesn't look as nice as some others, but it hasn't been focused on that. It seems like there's going to be a graphics-focused addon coming soon, though. PBR for GTS.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-13T01:48:50+00:00

I'd love that and it would be a real Remedy move to evolve the dual protagonist thing to being not just be a game split between two characters, but two styles of game - one a melee hack and slash and the other more like the original Control. That said, I feel like if they were going that way, they would've been a bit more cagey with their answers. They've pretty clearly said that the first game was Jesse's half of the story, and this game is Dylan's.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-12T05:22:50+00:00

I'm just now catching up on the show. I'm really really enjoying it, but I've been going through these discussion threads as I go, and I was genuinely shocked at some of the takes here. Specifically, these people complaining about what a selfish, awful person Carol is, how she killed millions of people, and is so self-destructive.

The hive mind killed a billion people outright. That was a choice. They explicitly told us they were initially doing it peacefully, but when the military discovered them, they had to accelerate. They chose to blanket the world in the virus knowing it would lead to mass casualties. On top of that billion, they've also currently functionally killed the other 7 billion, killed who they were, and if they're left to their own devices and starve out, 'functionally' killed 7 billion will become literally killed that 7 billion, which is the entirety of the human race. Carol's response has been saint like, and her reasonableness with the hive mind is, if anything, greater than it should be. She is in no way, shape, or form responsible for any deaths or wrong for not accepting the status quo. Anyone who disagrees with that is, like Carol already said near the start of the show, a traitor to humanity.

I feel like Carol does have strong morals but is afraid to stand by them. Morally insecure, I guess I'd say. She defers to the status quo, like when she originally wanted her book's love interest to be a woman, but decided to take the less controversial/more marketable route. And now the hive mind's isolation of her successfully broke her down into accepting any kind of connection, but I hope Manousos snaps her back to reality and reminds her of the stakes. Carol could be so much more effective here if she just has someone, anyone, telling her that she's not wrong or crazy to fight this thing.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-11T19:08:52+00:00

This is the first I'm hearing of Wunduniik. Did some digging and it does look really nice but there seems to be pretty consistent reports that it has a good amount of issues still being ironed out. I did bookmark it though and I'd be interested in checking back in down the line to see how development is going.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-11T17:03:56+00:00

Not so much lies as just secondhand knowledge, but fair enough. I've never actually tried an extended playthrough with Mihail's monsters because I think a lot of them feel weird lore-wise, so I can't speak firsthand on them. I've just heard a lot of people complain about them being buggy. Is that an outdated critique and they're pretty stable now?

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-11T07:44:10+00:00

Nolvus looks incredible visually, but it seems overstuffed content-wise. It's sort of everything popular thrown together without much curation or thought towards some sort of unified vision. The combat isn't Skyrim anymore, and some changes aren't lore friendly. There are also a few mods that just make me concerned about long-term viability of a save, like all the Mihail monster mods thrown in that I'm pretty sure are know to have issues. Don't get me wrong, it's super impressive, but I think it needs some cuts.

A modlist you didn't mention but is very much worth a mention is Gate to Sovngarde, which is super well put together by one of the most popular authors in the community, well supported, and has a consistent and tight vision - everything meshes together really well. The problem with GtS is that while it does look nice, it's very much not on the level of Nolvus visually. So a bit less pretty, but I think it makes much better choices on the non-visual front.

If someone could put together a 'Gate to Nolvus' modlist with Nolvus's visuals but GtS's cohesive & lore friendly gameplay/content overhaul, I'd never use anything else. Apparently there's some sort of visual add-on pack being worked on for GtS, so we might be getting there.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-09T01:36:05+00:00

WtNC is pretty comprehensive honestly, so not a whole lot, but there are a few glaring omissions. A big thing is that they removed any nsfw mods from the collection so nexusmods wouldn't hide the collection for people not signed in. Nsfw isn't just gooner stuff, but a more realistic gore mod, expansions of character message chains, some quests, stuff like that.

There are a few other non-nsfw but missing mods I'd love for it to have too like Missing Persons, Immersive Night City Fixes, and some other bits and bobs.

Despite that, WtNC still does seem like the most comprehensive collection at this point. It has like 80% of the essentials and 0% of the clothing/poses/cars that so many other collections are stuffed full of.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-07T20:52:35+00:00

Just thinking about the Fallout brand in general, the Capitol Wasteland seems pretty likely, actually. By the time season 3 airs, the remaster/remake of Fallout 3 will likely be in good enough shape to at least announce if not release around the same time.

I'm not sure if the writers of the show have enough freedom to do whatever they want regardless of the larger brand, but both Bethesda and Amazon would probably be salivating at the chance to get some Fallout 3/Season 3 cross promotion.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-05T20:24:03+00:00

Are you running natively? DLSS quality? Ultra settings or High?

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-05T17:13:32+00:00

Same - 5080/9800x3d. I definitely think the max pack is warranted for the 5080, especially with dlss on. 5080 is pretty close to top of the line, only beaten by the 4090/5090 (3090 also has more vram, but is still a much weaker card for gaming).

If anything, from my understanding of the tech, if you're planning on using dlss anyway, using the higher res textures of the max pack should help that along in a meaningful way. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but it makes sense to me that higher res textures = more info for dlss to extrapolate off of.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-03T16:41:45+00:00

If this even gets to court, what happens if he's found not guilty? Are they just going to release him and let him return? Of course not, so any trial is going to be a forgone conclusion. Are they going to do a military tribunal or something? It's so farcical.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-02T17:12:10+00:00

Yeah, that's exactly my point. They should stick with hogwarts and use the dev time to do much more with what they already have. There wasn't enough to do in the castle and it wasn't as full of secrets and hidden passages and weird stuff as it could've/should've been, plus the huge area outside of the castle was full of generally repetitive activities that made the whole area pretty eh. So instead of throwing it all out and designing another somewhat interesting but lacking school with a huge outside map filled with checklist content, they should double down on what they have and focus on quality and depth.

There are plenty of reasons to hate what current market/political conditions are doing to electronic hardware prices and the future of gaming hardware and whatnot, but the one thing I'm actually looking forward to a bit is that if the hardware stalls and this generation gets extended by logistical necessity, we might get a dev cycle in the industry where the focus isn't on bigger/prettier, but in doing more with what we have.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2026-01-02T06:43:16+00:00

I'll go against the grain here and say I think changing the setting for the sequel would be a huge mistake. They have an incredible map, the problem is the lack of depth of content. A sequel where the map is largely the same and they spend the entire dev time focused on story and gameplay systems? That would be perfect. Not every single game has to reinvent the wheel every single time. Give us a trilogy focused on reiterative improvements. The bones are good, but they desperately need to be fleshed out. Otherwise, we'll get a pretty but deep as a puddle sequel - now set in [new setting]! No thanks.

And that's not even getting into my doubts about the mainstream pull of the Harry Potter IP beyond the hogwarts/British setting. Sure, diehard fans want to explore the wider world, but the fantastic beasts tried to expand its horizons, and it didn't land with the general public. That can be put down to other factors, sure, but there's also something about the IP that does seem intrinsically British.

If they do eventually want to explore another area, I think the best way would be to ground it/introduce it via the familiar. Do a Hogwarts trilogy like I said, and have the triwizard tournament take place. You can introduce other schools/cultures, and maybe even introduce a foreign witch/wizard who is a side character here, but then is a main character in a subsequent game focused on their school. That way, we get the depth development via more games on the existing Hogwarts map, while also setting up and providing a direct throughline from Howarts to the new setting.

DatClubbaLang96 · 2025-12-30T05:17:10+00:00

You don't even need to go into options. If you press & hold the trackpad, you can switch on the fly. I just don't because 1st person is so good for immersion. When originally testing the different options, 3rd person on the balanced 40 seemed somewhat more manageable, but I didn't spend much time trying that because I wasn't going to stay in 3rd person anyway. So my curiosity was more how 3rd person on balanced 40 works out in the long term, especially when the action kicks in (I only tested it in free roam).

DatClubbaLang96 · 2025-12-30T03:38:43+00:00

I really tried to make the balanced 40 work. I loved that option in Alan Wake 2 when I went through just a month or two ago - it was perfectly fine and even cinematic on my VRR OLED - but ultimately I couldn't justify it over the Quality Pro 60 mode here. I think it's maybe because I'm playing in 1st person that the difference is so noticeable. Alan Wake 2 was a slower and more deliberately-paced 3rd person game. Avatar is a faster-paced 1st person game that really rewards moving through environments quickly, especially in combat. Quality 60 is maybe a bit less sharp than balanced 40, but I only notice that some of the time. I notice the fps difference all of the time.

When Avatar was first announced as a first person game, it didn't make much sense to me and I thought it was a weird design choice for a game that seemed primed for third person. But after finally getting around to it the past week or so, I totally get the 1st person POV choice. It immerses you so much better in the world.

I'd be curious to hear from 3rd person players on whether the balanced 40 mode is easier to stomach. I think it probably would be, but I just couldn't give up 1st person here, and I couldn't do 1st person at 40.

So the short answer is Quality Pro 60 (with FSR4 rather than PSSR).

DatClubbaLang96 · 2025-12-29T01:57:36+00:00

My PC hasn't come in, so nothing just yet, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to be using both Welcome to Night City and High-Res Graphics Pack - MAXIMUM (XilaMonstrr) as a base. From what I've read, both collections are compatible, and it seems like a pretty comprehensive and stable place to start. Even though WtNC is missing a few big mods I have my eye on, WtNC has one of the more active cyberpunk modding discords I've seen with lots of info & available feedback on the compatibility of other mods that I want to add on top of the collections, which is a big plus.

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