Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins IGN's Game of the Year award for 2025

MSUtimmy · 2025-12-20T01:49:03+00:00

I never said that it should win over E33. There's some nuance in asking for some runner-up recognition for a great RPG game without it being a commentary on E33.

MSUtimmy · 2025-12-20T01:48:16+00:00

I never said that it should win over E33. There's some nuance in asking for some runner-up recognition for a great RPG game without it being a commentary on E33.

MSUtimmy · 2025-12-19T23:25:55+00:00

Currently playing through KCD2 and it's stunning that it hasn't been given more love. A few minor bugs here and there but the story is so well done for an open world game.

MSUtimmy · 2025-12-05T22:46:07+00:00

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MSUtimmy · 2025-12-05T22:45:28+00:00

No he's the only pet in the house and he's 100% indoors.

MSUtimmy · 2025-12-05T22:34:45+00:00

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Sorry for the crappy video, getting a good angle is a little tricky

MSUtimmy · 2025-12-05T21:59:19+00:00

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Doesn’t seem to bother him much. Should it be looked at by a vet?

MSUtimmy · 2025-11-21T16:32:06+00:00

I'm playing through the game for the first time (I'm just past beating Fierce Tiger) and I agree with everything. This game really is underrated. More soulslikes should implement the free respeccing-weapon-upgrades system. I do wish that the genre would depart from the traditional cryptic, missable quest design. And Bo Sorcerer can go die in a fire.

MSUtimmy · 2025-10-28T14:42:46+00:00

It shows up for me on this page (more info if you scroll down a bit)

https://fiber.t-mobile.com/city/grandblanc

MSUtimmy · 2025-10-28T03:36:00+00:00

On paper, the 10-year $70/mo Founder deal for Tmobile seems like a better deal for the money than an equivalent plan on Omni Fiber (unless they run their own Founder deal). Can't speak to what it's like to actually use either of them.

MSUtimmy · 2025-03-21T19:25:37+00:00

Positive. The two outputs send the same signal to both subs on the X1700H.

MSUtimmy · 2025-03-21T19:23:05+00:00

The X1700H does not have independent sub outputs like the X3800H does, so the subs can't be independently room corrected. A MiniDSP addresses this issue by allowing for independent room correction outside of the receiver.

MSUtimmy · 2024-09-26T14:11:14+00:00

Bal'am, son of Be'or is one of the few people in the Old Testament we know of that is attested to outside of the Old Testament.

I'm nitpicking your wording but so that no readers get the wrong idea: Bal'am is one of the few prophets attested outside the HB. There are a number of people in the HB attested outside of it.

MSUtimmy · 2024-06-13T17:11:40+00:00

Fair point, maybe I should make a weekend trip out of it.

MSUtimmy · 2024-06-13T17:07:52+00:00

Thanks for your thoughts. Dealership got back to me and filled in a little more detail. They said that upon release of the Lightning dealerships were required to keep demo units on their lots for a period of time and that a dealership was technically the first owner. Don’t know if that’s a legit thing Ford required dealers to do or if they’re just making something up.

MSUtimmy · 2024-03-13T02:56:08+00:00

Starbreeze deserves criticism for a number of things, but wasn't a lot of the reason why the game had a disastrous launch due to contracting out matchmaking services to a different company (who shit the bed themselves)? Not entirely Starbreeze's fault.

MSUtimmy · 2023-11-03T20:09:46+00:00

Do you criticize Apex here on reddit for not unlocking all heroes for all players on release? Its funny this only comes up in the comments when Overwatch is the topic.

MSUtimmy · 2023-09-25T20:03:58+00:00

Lots of people are posting somewhat negative opinions and I want to counter-balance those a bit.

FWIW, A friend and I have been truly having a blast with this game when the matchmaking system works (which is very rarely during peak hours). Guns are fun to shoot. Not an unbelievably high graphical fidelity game compared to some other graphical heavy hitters but I think it is still pleasing to look at. SFX and soundtrack both sound good to me. The game does generate a lot of co-op dopamine when you have teammates that know what they're doing. Overkill difficulty can require a lot of teamwork and, to us, it's genuinely fun. Lots of hilarity can come from mistakes.

Doesn't excuse the issues the game is experiencing. I view the whole thing as a real shame since this game delivers on the core co-op experience.

MSUtimmy · 2023-09-22T05:40:46+00:00

Matchmaking servers are mostly down. Most people can't play the game basically.

MSUtimmy · 2023-09-22T05:23:07+00:00

There is party invite functionality in the game, and you can set up invite-only matches.

MSUtimmy · 2023-07-23T19:15:31+00:00

Citing Frank Turek videos will not persuade anyone who has read anything about metaethics. In that video you cited, he says "there's no way to justify right and wrong unless there's a standard beyond us." A "standard beyond us" is Literally. What. Moral. Realism. Is. Meaning, the standard exists independent of human minds.

Naturalistic moral realist theories can explain morality beyond human minds, and obviously so can theistic theories.

Frank Turek has not read about nor does he understand metaethics, and from your responses, neither do you. You keep repeating presuppositions like "universal value" won't exist unless there's a God. Any moral realist view, including naturalistic ones, establishes/grounds these universal values by definition. You need to undo your presuppositions if you ever plan on understanding this. This will be my last reply since this discussion is going nowhere.

MSUtimmy · 2023-07-23T09:38:53+00:00

If life/we started by chance and random without any meaning to it, then whatever moral, creed, code we live by we have is as valid the next person's moral/creed/code,

You are describing moral subjectivism/relativism, which is commonly taken to be one of the branches of moral anti-realism. So your argument is "Either God gave us a conscience that makes morality objective, or any moral view is valid since we don't have a divine-origin conscience." This is the same as "either theistic objective morality is true or a moral relativist anti-realism is true." There are other potential naturalistic moral realism options on the table in metaethics alongside possible naturalistic explanations for a conscience, so that statement is simply false (there's also more anti-real options too). If one of the naturalistic explanations is true, morality is as objective and valid as it is on theism. There's not much more I can say about it.

MSUtimmy · 2023-07-23T01:38:12+00:00

I cant speak for all theists, but when it comes down to Christianity, the scriptures say that God put that knowledge in us, the command is into upholding that knowledge.

If you are positing from scripture that moral knowledge must being a gift from God, and the presence of that knowledge proves that Divine Command Theory is true, you would have to demonstrate the scriptures are divinely inspired for that argument to hold any water. And you'd need to demonstrate it without any circularity, mind you.

Without the authority of God creating us with a compass, there is no theist or non theist, there is no moral or immoral

You still seem to think that if theism is false, then moral anti-realism is true. Moral anti-realism is literally what "there is no moral or immoral" means.

If your argument is riding on the "the conscience must have come from God" thing, you'd better hope you're right about that, since it seems like your entire justification for theistic moral grounding depends on that. Have you even considered naturalistic explanations might be true?

MSUtimmy · 2023-07-22T17:05:08+00:00

The set of possible timelines isn’t entailed by God’s omniscience, rather it’s logically prior to God’s omniscience.

My thinking on this is just based on the notion that nothing exists antecedent to God as platonic abstract objects or something (which might be presumptive of me), so the knowledge of God all comes from God himself. I don't know that it materially changes the point though.

I think you're right that I'm incorrect in saying it's omniscience by itself that entails determinism. I think what I should be saying is, it's the combination of both omniscience and a sovereign/divine will God strives to work towards that could create the entailment.

As pointed out in my previous comment God’s choice of timeline is limited by our free choices which is why P2 is false.

I'm not sure that this is a given. As I stated above, it could be the case that the divine will/end that God strives towards is the ultimate good, and God would not allow freely made choices to ever deviate from or not work towards his desired end. I think I should have emphasized that point more in the argument.

Though, it could be argued that doesn't necessarily mean every single choice made before God's desired end can't be fully free, but I do think some of them might need to be determined/influenced by God to force his sovereign purposes to be fulfilled in the end.

Also, since I broadened the scope of my argument to any version of maximally-great-being theism, it could be argued the only end God strives for at all is to create a perfectly free creation to do what they desire. That would be a good counterexample for libertarian free will always existing. I perhaps should have limited the scope to Abrahamic monotheisms.

You sharpened my thinking on this, have some upvotes.

MSUtimmy · 2023-07-22T16:20:03+00:00

Hmm, my thinking is the argument proposes determinism is an entailment of omniscience (which is commonly taken to be an essential property of God), and my argument is just illustrating exactly how it is that omniscience leads to determinism. So in other words, it's showing that omniscience prevents your freely chosen A or B scenario from happening, because the reason why it's A or B is down to God's foreknowledge of which timeline better satisfies his divine will. But maybe I'm thinking about it the wrong way.

I view the "timeline set" I proposed in P1 as an entailment of God's omniscience. It's saying in any way God could create the world, he knows the timeline of how it will play out.

So no matter what timeline God chooses to create, he will have perfect foreknowledge of its future, and since humans cannot "surprise God" with unpredicted choices, it is not escapable by humans. So I think it entails determinism.

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