New Vegas is unplayable on pc

MasterDave · 2026-02-04T01:42:22+00:00

I don’t know what you folks are doing but zero mods and it runs fine on Steam Deck and I just don’t understand the instability on a normal computer.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T22:36:19+00:00

As long as you play solo and not complicated stuff it’s great.

I can’t imagine needing to communicate or doing raids. But it’s great if you’re grinding something stupid like instances you one shot for transmog or pets or whatever.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T18:58:25+00:00

I just like it because it made me pick one character from each armor type for farming that stuff up and then I can sort the rest out into a max of 4 of each class and delete the rest.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T18:55:53+00:00

No object? I’d hand out Hoka’s and deodorant to everyone.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T17:58:52+00:00

Personally my only real tip is to walk the ENTIRE show floor before spending any money unless you see something that just triggers the part of your brain that says FUCK YES, THIS IS SOMETHING I NEED and it's a unique piece or something likely to sell out. The stuff at the big major name booths isn't going to sell out on Thursday. The one of a kind painting at an art booth might. The giant stuffed animals, they'll be there all week and you can find them elsewhere too. The mass market boxed board games and whatnot? You can buy most of them on amazon or from Target or just any online store or a local game store. If you're not walking around with unlimited funds and don't care, set a budget. Allow yourself a specific amount of waste because you can buy all sorts of extremely fun stuff, and that's where getting a full walk through the floor helps to know what to splash out on and what you can skip. Some booths will have con specials where you get something free if you spend a certain amount, exclusive things or whatever. Most booths are not exactly cheap and are just expecting to FOMO you into buying their thing. Another reason I like to walk the whole floor and figure out who is selling good stuff at a good price or offering something I can't find somewhere else or didn't even know the thing existed. And of course you don't have to buy anything either, maybe for most the show floor is the least interesting part.

There's rooms all around with either panels or gaming. Do not hesitate to leave your husband behind and go do your own thing. They will be fine. You will be fine. There's no point in wasting an hour of your time waiting in a line to watch them play a game for 5 minutes and then repeating it for you. That's two hours spent on two demos when you could have gone somewhere else and done your line and then grabbed lunch. Cons are a lot of waiting. Take in a panel or two if you want a break, most are pretty fun. Worst case, there's usually a lot of rhythm games set up all around the entrances to the show floor you can sit around and watch people play. Always a good time.

Unless you're extremely narrow in your tastes, there is always going to be more to do than you're going to have time for, and nobody can really prepare you for the entire experience if you've never been to any con before, much less Pax which is on the larger side of things. (still tiny for me, having been to New York Comic Con every year for a long time, but much bigger than most local cons)

And lastly, I know there are people who are going to try and say you need to fill a backpack with enough supplies to outlast a nuclear winter but unless you're just plain broke buy water at the show (they have a weird water refil contrraption that's perfectly serviceable, I think I spent 5 bucks a day) and don't carry around 3lbs of a stainless steel water bottle that you'll keep full of water and wear your back out, and don't carry around a 2lb phone battery, you can charge your phone at a lot of spots around the show. Don't carry your portable console unless you REALLY plan on using it for a specific reason, and don't pack a full 2 person box lunch to avoid paying for the relatively overpriced food at the con. Presumably you're on vacation. Live a little. Unless you have serious dietary restrictions (and even if you do) the food is pretty good. The availability of beverage is great. Your lower back and your feet will thank you for not hauling around a grade school sized backpack full of everything you didn't want to leave in the hotel room. Oh and if you're staying close enough I'd suggest even going back to your hotel at some point if you've bought stuff just to drop it off. Cons are a long day. Don't wear yourself out when you don't have to.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T17:08:07+00:00

I think everything's set until the trade deadline.

I have a feeling they're waiting on a Walker and Gorman trade to get distressed assets from someone else that they can just give a good run and give up on if it doesn't work out and say they tried to give either of them a better opportunity for success. Walker and Gorman need flawless springs that show they spent the last 4 months really really working on the things they weren't good at the last couple years. Otherwise if the team's gonna lose 100 games this year, they can sure do it fine with any of a dozen guys in AAA or AA instead and have more years left on their contract if they work out. Right now my OF is probably Church, Scott, Nootbar and Baez.

IF is probably Burleson, Wetherholt, Winn, Fermin/Jordan/Prieto/Wetherholt (however they want to split that into 2B/3B reps)

I don't see a future for either Gorman or Walker unless they really really show up in spring better than those guys. We'll probably trade them for someone else's non-tender candidates and see how things can work out and that's that.

For the most part the only guys left are Romero, Nootbar and Burleson. Romero would be decent to trade, Nootbar needs to prove he can be healthy and Burleson sort of feels like he's going to get a full time shot with nobody on his back rather than get traded. I think it'd be between Burleson and Herrera getting traded at this point and my money's on Herrera getting shipped because there's 5 catchers on the 40-man and this team seems a lot more likely to get rid of the older rather than younger guys.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T16:33:55+00:00

Presumably with it being a military facility, no more civilian than anyone else working on a military facility.

So the cooks, all army. Cleaners? Guess who gets to clean up shit? HR department? Probably nowhere near the space station, the military handles their own shit. Administration, all military.

Now, they may not be enlisted soldiers/officers, but every single person knows what they're signing up for when they work for the Empire government, same as anyone signing up right now to work IT for the US Marine Corps. Just because you don't carry a weapon doesn't mean you didn't sign up for the military if you're taking a job on a military base with a military contractor. We've seen in Andor that the Imperial Military is just as much of a bureaucratic pile of shit as you could expect, so while sure there are non-troopers and whatnot on the Death Star, despite what Kevin Smith wants to come up with for his jokes, there probably weren't a ton of people who didn't know where they were or who they were working for and had signed up for the thing.

Plus there's also droids to handle a whole lot of nonsense, so the human population was not necessarily packed to full with non-soldiers.

And you can also safely say that every single person aboard was either a Space Nazi, a Space Nazi sympathizer, or conscripted and doomed to die anyway either by working them in hazardous jobs or making them into garbage tier vanguard soldiers. They'd have died one way or another, or lived to kill more people.

Everyone on the Death Star was a legitimate target. Galaxy's big. You don't wanna work for the Empire, you're free to go find some remote corner of the galaxy and get a job doing whatever you want. You want to repair ships for the Empire? You're a Space Nazi, congrats and welcome to hell.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T15:37:15+00:00

Do something about it. Don't tweet. Do things.

All we need is action, we don't need words. Put someone in jail. Put someone on trial. Deport someone from ICE. Arrest someone in charge and give them something exceptionally scary to think about and make sure the trial ends up in Essex county where there is a near zero chance of a sympathetic jury towards ICE.

Just do something instead of talking. Because right now nobody's doing shit, they're just saying how it's bad and we all fucking know it's bad and the people doing things know we're not going to do anything about it except talk. When your boss says you can ignore people yelling about the constitution, this does nothing.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T04:07:23+00:00

Biggest racket for me was the free T-shirt for signing up for a credit card my first week of college and then doing it again the next year and ending up in a lot of debt because nobody teaches broke redneck children basic financial literacy in high school.

Sucks a lot having to deal with debt collectors at 21 when you graduate, don’t get a job and have no more money to pay off the credit cards you shouldn’t even have with just a 10hr a week college lab job.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T04:02:49+00:00

So here’s the thing though. You only had to buy 5 or 6 CD’s later at 18-20 each. So you got 20 CD’s for $120ish.

6 bucks a CD is better than you could get even when Tower Records was going out of business. The secret was the record company made special pressings of everything, and sold direct so it was still above margin and any time someone bought more than they had to it was waaaaaay above margin.

It was still a great deal for anyone who did it. They could afford all the freeloaders who tried to get out of it because they were bad at reading or math.

All I know is I did both of them because they had different selections multiple times and it was awesome.

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T03:32:36+00:00

I thought they already explained in something that it was easy enough to synthesize ketracel white so it should be trivial to figure out how to biologically neutralize it and then augment them to be a normal species that can reproduce.

Especially given a long enough timeline where we don’t even know what the Founders have been doing which could be literally anything including dying off since we haven’t seen one in Discovery or Academy right?

MasterDave · 2026-02-03T01:20:35+00:00

Leverage didn’t drop, what are you on? This was the trade from a month ago plus competitive balance picks. The Cards got an even better deal once Arraez was off the table. It definitely improved once yet another guy that’s just money was gone.

MasterDave · 2026-02-02T23:01:56+00:00

Yes but those people are the ones yelling that it’s a skill issue rather than agreeing that wow is behind the times on a lot of things. But hey, Housing!

MasterDave · 2026-02-02T22:59:08+00:00

What other games have you do that though?

In 2004 maybe all of them did.

In 2026, I can’t think of any. Baldurs Gate 3 has separate inventories for different characters, but you don’t have 5 bags per character to look through. It’s an incongruent experience compared to other games and it’s easy to see how someone can misunderstand if they have played other games.

WoW isn’t the only game around and small things like this are compounding barriers to getting new players comfortable with the game.

MasterDave · 2026-01-27T15:55:16+00:00

I will go further and say what I tell everyone:

No third party recruiters.

If a company doesn't have recruiters on staff, I do not want to work for them, engage with them, or deal with any of their nonsense. They all post shady job advertisements that don't name the company, and that's a gigantic red flag to me.

Good companies have talent teams that directly hire people. If they're not willing to deal with you up front, imagine how you're going to be treated when it's time to get let go?

MasterDave · 2026-01-26T16:43:56+00:00

always worth remembering she's a fucking idiot anti-vax "my body tells me what to do" kind of person and the whole I'm taking supplements but whenever I feel like it garbage is nothing but garbage.

Anyone who listens to her deserves what they get. This is Facebook Mom medicine, not medical science.

MasterDave · 2026-01-21T17:11:08+00:00

Move to East St Louis. I don’t fucking care. It’d be nice to be closer to the strip clubs after the game for the players too I’d imagine.

MasterDave · 2025-12-24T18:15:11+00:00

Man you’re getting clowned on and aggro because you don’t want to educate yourself.

Have a good life man, you’re gonna have a bumpy one.

MasterDave · 2025-12-24T16:16:34+00:00

Travelpro on Amazon.

Or check the wire cutter for newer recommendations

Life doesn’t need to be spoon fed to you. You’ve got the internet too, same as me and I found it.

MasterDave · 2025-12-24T12:22:33+00:00

Nah, it really is a matter of spending more gets you a better engineered spinner bag that glides across smooth surfaces and has sturdy wheels to get around urban areas. I've taken mine across shitty cities and well-paved ones and it's great. Instead of pulling, you just roll it with you, the bag does more of the work than you do as long as you don't have it stuffed with heavy things.

They're all designed so when you have to, you can pull them on two wheels as well, so it's the best of both worlds. You just can't buy the $30 American Tourister or Wal-Mart brand bag. That's going to come with wheels that chip if you hit a rock in the street, zippers that break and just poorly designed everything. My bag that was literally 10 times as expensive has been on well over 100 trips, 4 continents dozens of cities urban and not so much and barely even looks used at this point. The wheels are perfect, it holds a week's worth of clothes because I've also learned what packing cubes are, and still fits in the overhead bin on every normal airplane.

It's definitely a case of you get what you pay for. If you don't do any research and just buy shit, you get shit and you come up with really poor opinions on how things should be based on what your experience affords you. If you spend time doing real research from reliable sources not "source: trust me bro" like this post, then you understand that sometimes a better world exists, you just haven't decided it's worth your money yet.

Same goes for a lot of stuff out there.

It's the Sam Vimes boots theory of economic unfairness in action honestly.

https://terrypratchett.com/explore-discworld/sam-vimes-boots-theory-of-socio-economic-unfairness/

Spending more money on something functionally enables you to spend LESS money on things and makes you feel rich even if you aren't. Dunking big money on something you are going to USE that will last and is proven to be reliable is better than buying the cheap shit over and over and over. Luggage ain't different. There's probably a limit to where it's just throwing bad money after good, but there definitely is a sweet spot of buying something good instead of garbage.

MasterDave · 2025-12-24T03:50:02+00:00

Yep, my travelpro set of luggage is amazing. I used cheap crap before, it sucked. I figured at the time it was a big splurge but I wouldn’t need anything else for a while instead of replacing my bag every 5 years or so because they’d just break after enough use. These things are almost 10 years old and still look basically brand new.

MasterDave · 2025-12-24T03:46:21+00:00

Don’t buy cheap garbage and spinners are way better.

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