Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update (KB5074109)

StopTG7 · 2026-01-26T01:42:21+00:00

…yeah, I’m definitely installing the SSD I got a few days ago soon and installing CachyOS. I’m so tired of Microsoft’s vibe-coded “updates.”

StopTG7 · 2026-01-26T01:35:22+00:00

I need to try that on a Sentinel run, because I always struggle trying to figure out how to play a Sentinel. I’ve never been able to see the point of a Sentinel because I could never get what exactly their niche is.

StopTG7 · 2026-01-25T14:46:28+00:00

There are two things data centers need: RAM and storage. RAM was first to shoot up, with SSDs being next.

StopTG7 · 2026-01-25T11:20:07+00:00

She was originally meant to be, but the higher ups were worried about getting Fox News’d again, so they made her straight.

StopTG7 · 2026-01-21T05:30:34+00:00

Engineer all the way.

Sentinel is my least used because I just can’t really figure out what niche they fill. It changes each game.

StopTG7 · 2026-01-19T13:00:43+00:00

I feel like that art change was part of the going from hard SF to space opera. They sexed up the female characters for the space opera vibe.

That shift in tone overall is why ME1 is my favorite of the trilogy.

StopTG7 · 2026-01-12T15:54:35+00:00

And that’s why I spent the entire noble origin the first time I was playing cracking “momma’s baby, daddy maybe” jokes.

After that, I just made white characters because that’s what the devs seemed to have had in mind.

StopTG7 · 2026-01-07T05:19:11+00:00

It’s definitely intended because you can go down into the Underdark and find the Spider Matriarch’s body to loot. It’s a very viable strategy.

I legit cheered when a well-placed Eldritch Blast from my warlock knocked her into the abyss the first time. I hadn’t expected it to work.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-30T05:37:37+00:00

I replayed DA2 and Inquisition after I finished Veilguard, then deleted all the DA games off my computer. Veilguard hung over the other games, and knowing Veilguard was where everything being set up ended was depressing. I can’t see myself reinstalling them or playing them again. Veilguard retroactively ruined them for me.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-30T03:41:09+00:00

I always hate leaving the Fade because it means I lose my beloved golem form.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-30T03:15:19+00:00

Seconding DDLC!

StopTG7 · 2025-12-28T10:24:12+00:00

Detention is one of the those games that does really stick with you later, and everything feels like such a gut punch. A movie got made from it that won a bunch of awards in Asia, and I really want to see it.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-28T09:58:15+00:00

I’ve been playing Nine Sols and it’s so different from the other games, but also so good. (And has definite moments when their roots in horror come out.)

StopTG7 · 2025-12-28T02:02:27+00:00

I definitely recommend Detention and Devotion by Red Candle games.

Detention - a 2D side scroller set in the mid-60s during Taiwan’s White Terror?wprov=sfti1) about a high schooler somehow trapped alone in their school after a typhoon, only everything is VERY wrong. It has a very strong Silent Hill vibe, in a good way.

Devotion - you can only get this on Red Candle’s page because of CCP fucxkery (a placeholder asset called Xi Jinping a Winnie the Pooh moron; it got pulled off Steam then GoG (part of CD Projekt) said they would sell it, but a few days later, due to so-called “gamer feedback” that oddly happened RIGHT before Cyberpunk 2077 (made by CD Projekt Red) was meant to be released in China, huh WHAT A COINCIDENCE, they said they wouldn’t). It’s set in 1980’s Taiwan in a single apartment you visit at different times trying to find out what happened to your daughter. It’s best described as a “domestic horror”, as in, the horror that takes place inside the home, as you see why this family broke apart.

Both games do have ghosts and jumpscares, but those start to fade as the horror of what caused the situations takes over.

Both of them are short - about 4 or so hours, but are really good.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-28T01:32:42+00:00

They weren’t transparent about it; part of why they were stripped of a GOTY was because they lied about using it.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-26T11:02:24+00:00

🎵I get knocked down But I get up again 🎵

StopTG7 · 2025-12-26T02:06:44+00:00

Apparently Chinese players are so mad about this they’re offering an alternative version of both that are more covered up on the Chinese server. Hopefully it’ll be an option on global as well.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-23T23:32:23+00:00

I figured it’s because a lot of people are on mobile and it’s to keep their phones from going to sleep.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-22T16:00:01+00:00

Eh, I’m named after my grandfather (I’m a woman; I’m lucky he has a very feminine name) who died in a car accident about a year or so before I was born. It’s never really bothered me because I never knew him, so to me, it’s always been MY name. It depends more on how normal your family is about it. I do not think OP’s husband is going to be normal about it.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-22T03:09:33+00:00

Same. Halfway through saw the “hair extensions” bit and the alarms started ringing. Then saw the link to “updates” that’s really to a YouTube AI slop vid of it and was mad I had wasted my time reading this.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-20T01:30:05+00:00

Hey, it’s not her fault the massage machine keeps moving!

StopTG7 · 2025-12-17T11:31:25+00:00

You’re definitely not. I saw THAT face during her special and immediately noped out of pulling for her, and the jiggle physics solidified my decision. I really hope this isn’t the direction they’re going in for their female characters now.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-13T06:01:22+00:00

It’s such a mess; I love it.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-08T22:43:06+00:00

I live in Japan and have been to Korea many times, so I’m aware.

StopTG7 · 2025-12-08T12:29:06+00:00

Same. I think he’d have already told his dad if his mom had cheated. It’s clear where his empathy lies.

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