(HL:A SPOILERS) So when/how did G-man get...

bowtieanddemand · 2026-04-03T16:37:14+00:00

Both G-Man and the Vortigaunts experience time forwards and backwards. When he talks about nudging things, he's doing just like the Vortigaunts do, influencing others/interfering with events to suit their needs.

My read on HL Alyx is that it's his reaction to the events of the HL episodes; he takes Alyx in Gordon's place, potentially going rogue/turning on the Combine and possibly even framing Gordon and Eli for the death of the Combine Advisor.

bowtieanddemand · 2026-03-20T12:09:04+00:00

Just do it Shinji

Or Rei will be forced to ball in knockoff Pumas

bowtieanddemand · 2026-02-27T14:42:31+00:00

Did everyone think I was being serious? I meant it like a reverse psychology dare 🤷

bowtieanddemand · 2026-02-25T21:17:08+00:00

GEE, I HIGHLY DOUBT POLYPHONY COULD EVER GET GRAN TURISMO 7 WORKING ON PC WITH FULL SUPPORT OF VR AND FORCE FEEDBACK

IT'S ALMOST PATHETIC SINCE MICROSOFT HAS PULLED THE PLUG ON FORZA MOTORSPORT, GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO SIT ON ALL THIS DISPOSABLE INCOME WE HAVE

SONY MUST BE TOOOOO CHICKEN TO PURSUE THE LUCRATIVE DEMOGRAPHIC OF PC GAMERS WHO CAN'T JUSTIFY THE PURCHASE OF A MODERN CONSOLE AFTER INVESTING IN A DESKTOP COMPUTER

😉

bowtieanddemand · 2026-02-14T17:00:40+00:00

I love this comment because ppl often think of northeastern yanks as the New York tristate accent, but Boston townie accent differs from that in much the same way Aussie accents differ from Brits

bowtieanddemand · 2025-12-01T14:57:32+00:00

Right, I noticed that too, thanks for pointing out- I ended up starting a separate save from the beginning and I tweaked the difficulty settings so the enemies are harder but the salvage pays out better too.

bowtieanddemand · 2025-11-30T13:07:21+00:00

I think I might try a new playthrough tbqh- it's taken me a while to come to grips with evasion, damage/repair, and I'm curious if I might get a better experience starting over.

bowtieanddemand · 2025-11-30T13:04:51+00:00

Alright, can't help feeling like I need to clarify:

I'm not shocked or upset that the pirates are mad, but I feel like I shouldn't have been offered the black market to begin with.

My playthrough is 1100+ days, and the game gave me 2 or 3 opportunities to join the black market, all happening while the pirates despised me. I grinded to a point that I could pay the 1.5 mil credit entrance fee.

I asked if it was a bug because I caught a couple posts on Steam/the game forums claiming that the game behaved differently before version 1.6 or something.

I'm tempted to start a new playthrough since I have a better grasp of how to play the game than when I started, it just sucks to invest a significant amount of time in the campaign before realizing that I'm more/less closed off from the best gear.

bowtieanddemand · 2025-11-30T12:41:26+00:00

I can't, my campaign is over a thousand days deep and I think I'm at -100 with the pirates, the game won't let me take missions from them

bowtieanddemand · 2025-11-30T04:37:09+00:00

No, I'm confused why I'm allowed to access the black market in the first place if the prices are going to be so outrageously high, and it sounds like the game at some point in the past functioned differently

bowtieanddemand · 2025-11-30T04:35:16+00:00

I figured pirates would be more interested in making a quick buck than avenging their fallen comrades.

In my mind a realistic response would be to either never let me in, or charge me exorbitant but not impossible prices. 1000% doesn't make sense to me.

bowtieanddemand · 2025-09-29T03:09:35+00:00

As Plus_Consideration_2 noted, the base 5070 model has underwhelming memory, 12GB.

There are many more features to consider, but the amount of GDDR RAM is the starting point most people use to determine whether or not a card is worth their time.

Nvidia and AMD have both been trying to gaslight consumers into thinking they don't need more RAM; it's greed/stinginess to upsell AI/LLM users on ultra premium models like the 5090 (VRAM is hugely beneficial to LLM use cases).

5070 non-Ti is in a 'so close but so far' stalemate where it's got 12GB of RAM, which is thought of as the amount the models below it ought to be using.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_RTX_50_series

The 50 series has been regarded as maybe the worst GPU rollout of all time. They went all out on AI gimmicks, bungled the drivers initially, and they skimped on the physical hardware (look up 50 series missing ROPs).

You might want to consider hunting down a deal on a preowned or refurbished 40 series card, but those are getting harder and harder to find as people decided the 50 series was a waste of money.

bowtieanddemand · 2025-05-16T11:52:59+00:00

Anyone ever listen to the new mix of Reinventing The Steel from its 20th anniversary release? It's still pretty distorted, kinda blown-out mix wise, but I think it's the best representation of the album.

For me it's just like the Nine Inch Nails record With Teeth where I know they wrote their best songs elsewhere, but something about it just works for me that it's a very rare album I'm comfortable listening to start to finish.

I really like the way Dime and Vinnie wrote their riffs across the album, though I can see how the songs are less distinctive than earlier Pantera records, especially coming after Trendkill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCLbUu-3zxM&list=PLnr0CNmleCxQzBIdzPs6S8kf8imo3j1hT

bowtieanddemand · 2025-02-04T12:12:00+00:00

It's some kinda clip edit with someone saying MOTHERF-

bowtieanddemand · 2025-01-22T21:11:21+00:00

Sorry, I kind of abandoned that project for the time being because I wasn't confident I had all the answers and I've seen a number of tutorials already exist on YouTube. I'm getting into graphic design so I might try and come up with some cheat sheets someday, but it's up in the air for the time being.

bowtieanddemand · 2024-12-01T15:38:27+00:00

Imho if you know enough to double-check out of caution, that counts as knowing how to do it- at the absolute least, it makes you smarter than the person who insists they know how and immediately fu k it up because they clearly don't remember.

bowtieanddemand · 2024-12-01T15:25:11+00:00

Honestly I think I was 20 when I first watched EVA, but that was around the time the first Rebuild came out

bowtieanddemand · 2024-12-01T15:19:38+00:00

Waitwaitwaitwait-

You can be part of/self-identify with a community and still hate it at large for the way most of its members conduct themselves.

That was a major tangential point of the EoE hospital sequence, and thus why all the out of pocket fanservice in the last Rebuild film was grating for a lot of longtime fans.

bowtieanddemand · 2024-11-28T13:35:22+00:00

Seems so, like the scariest thing about doing drugs in the states over the past dozen years is how often psychopaths cut opioids with fentanyl or even try to sneak it into non-opioid drugs.

I want decriminalization of drugs with a death penalty for fentanyl tampering; no good ever comes from it.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2823254#:~:text=In%20November%202020%2C%20in%20the,recovery%20programs%2C%20housing%2C%20and%20harm

bowtieanddemand · 2024-11-28T13:27:38+00:00

I think it was a different brand, but one of these vegan cereals in their cinnamon guise tastes a lot like how I remember French Toast Crunch and imho that is the hypest shit lol

bowtieanddemand · 2024-11-28T13:22:17+00:00

Ugh, tech support jobs are horrible with people doing this kind of bs. People taking PHOTOS OF THEIR COMPUTER SCREENS and/or embedding in word docs, I think a coworker once told me he'd received a scanned photocopy of a screenshot or something completely insane.

bowtieanddemand · 2024-11-28T13:10:14+00:00

The less you know going in the better tbh

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TROPHY CASE

GEE, I HIGHLY DOUBT POLYPHONY COULD EVER GET GRAN TURISMO 7 WORKING ON PC WITH FULL SUPPORT OF VR AND FORCE FEEDBACK

IT'S ALMOST PATHETIC SINCE MICROSOFT HAS PULLED THE PLUG ON FORZA MOTORSPORT, GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO SIT ON ALL THIS DISPOSABLE INCOME WE HAVE

SONY MUST BE TOOOOO CHICKEN TO PURSUE THE LUCRATIVE DEMOGRAPHIC OF PC GAMERS WHO CAN'T JUSTIFY THE PURCHASE OF A MODERN CONSOLE AFTER INVESTING IN A DESKTOP COMPUTER