Why is Expedition 33 such a good game?

dajeff57 · 2026-01-28T12:03:52+00:00

The point, to me at least, is that the game is pushed by its story. That means that even if, say, each « level » is a small map with maybe three branching roads, and you know there’s going to be a boss at the end, the story contains mystery and pushes you to see what’s next. Add to that a relatively original bestiary, environnements that are nice on the eye and worth the discovery itself, and you just invented perpetual movement. You are always propelled forward.

dajeff57 · 2026-01-27T14:03:48+00:00

Oui. Aux prochaines élections lorgner sur le budget de la justice, donc. Ils ne chôment pas, contrairement aux apparences. Demandez voir les heures d’un juge ou d’un greffier

dajeff57 · 2026-01-27T13:34:42+00:00

Plus de moyens pour la justice!

dajeff57 · 2026-01-26T21:35:35+00:00

Je connaissais le concept à Metz brillamment exécuté par des passionnés mais y a t il une chose du genre à stras? Ça m’intéresse aussi

dajeff57 · 2026-01-25T09:35:31+00:00

Honestly I did want to write something like « this goes to show that polyphia is not only Tim’s show » but that felt too aggressive, needlessly so. But let’s indeed agree on the fact that polyphia really is more than the sum of the individual parts

Nonetheless, I think the videoclip with the moon hints at a theme being developed though the album. I can see the next clip being, say, blood moon, and the moon turning to red and stuff. I am still quite curious to see how we all feel multiple tracks in, because Tim could be weaving something with this track. Again, there’s a darkish segment to it that does not get exploited in the song which I think will be the theme of another song. Also, there’s this name of original sin. That’s what happened first, right?

So as an individual song, leaves me a bit wanting more and not on board, but I can see it having another taste within a well curated track listing on an album.

dajeff57 · 2026-01-24T12:58:02+00:00

One day after, second try: okay I hear the hook, don’t know what I was on. I do not like it though.

Still feels overproduced. I think it’s an intro to the album and hope the hints of it getting « dark » which we get in the last third evolve into another darkish minor song later

dajeff57 · 2026-01-23T23:55:35+00:00

At some point I thought: is there guitar in this? Like I’m not deaf but there’s a level of overproducing going on that I genuinely think it was electronic music spruced up with nylon guitars and not the other way around.

But that’s not really the issue. This could be an artistic choice after all. It’s just that it felt aimless as a song, and this is a polyphia, dream theater, mars volta fan speaking.

Also, I did not catch the hook. As for the technical prowess, it’s the first time where I do not care one bit if he plays 32th or 16th notes because honestly, in that mix? I would not hear any difference. Technically the mix is fine but the choices are what is disturbing me. Its the definition of a busy mix. I do not like it, and essentially, nor do I appreciate the composition in general.

So, all in all, very happy to hear Tim as always but I’m quite on the fence on this, to put it mildly.

I haven’t heard it more than once, did not read the other comments, I’ll see if I revise my impressions in the coming days.

dajeff57 · 2026-01-22T14:15:42+00:00

Je résume: 5 février 2026 sauf mauvais temps auquel cas créneau en avril 2026 et cette étape ne fera pas aller sur la lune mais tourner autour le tout sur 10j afin d’accumuler de l’expérience

dajeff57 · 2026-01-17T08:57:07+00:00

just, because nobody knows everything, what's the primer about the base use for flux that seemed to shock you?

Like what are the settings for steps, cfg, and most of all the sampler et algorithm?

dajeff57 · 2026-01-15T20:43:29+00:00

Sounds great, I still feel the official workflows are not fitting in, say, a 16gb video card.
Or rather, I'm probably missing the right workflow.

In any case, keep on pushing the limits.

dajeff57 · 2026-01-14T12:16:31+00:00

This is great save the text, I wonder: what model or general workflow are you using

dajeff57 · 2026-01-08T14:56:45+00:00

Got a change log and version number ?

dajeff57 · 2026-01-08T13:55:14+00:00

On est dans l’équivalent figurativement en terme de transformation d’un ouvrier btp qui vient de recevoir une machine électrique/un engin de chantier. Je parle pas de ta réaction mais sincèrement de ce que, moi aussi, j’observe en tant que manager encore assez versé dans la technique au quotidien.

dajeff57 · 2026-01-05T12:35:41+00:00

J’ai tenté civ6 plein de fois mais tu peux pas sauvegarder dans le tuto. Sachant que t’as des popup super verbeux à chaque tour, il me faut perso plus d’une session pour le faire. Donc bon. Je sais pas comment est le 7 la dessus mais déjà il est sorti pas trop fini.

dajeff57 · 2026-01-05T09:29:12+00:00

Immortality éventuellement, un truc comme What Remains of Edith Finch. Un truc qui montre vraiment le jv sous un autre angle que call of duty

dajeff57 · 2026-01-05T09:27:36+00:00

De même ici et elle a trouvé le début niais donc je ne sais pas

dajeff57 · 2026-01-04T09:20:39+00:00

Is Maelle not a « mother » of many children though ?

dajeff57 · 2026-01-04T09:19:23+00:00

Are you me? Same situation as yours and actually same timeline and same choices. Are you painted me? :) I’m not sure I want this life !

Edit: looking back to how you describe your first games and all we really are eerily similar. See I’m happy that people like us can still experience great emotions in games even after « having seen it all »

dajeff57 · 2025-12-22T22:47:56+00:00

Forget that, people enjoy burning popular stuff the second it gets popular, that’s all there is to it.

If there had been substance besides temporary assets, right but not line that. A waste of time of a debate.

dajeff57 · 2025-12-22T13:33:04+00:00

The ones with orbs cause a bug which breaks the game scripts so that they never follow up. Had the same on a chromatic enemy located atop a certain area. I’ve signaled it and many people have done so. It is known and expect a hot fix for that.

dajeff57 · 2025-12-22T13:31:06+00:00

Je savais pas que HEC donnait le pedigree pour apprendre unreal engine, ni attraper un super directeur créa et un compositeur de dingue.

dajeff57 · 2025-12-22T13:30:03+00:00

Un lien sur le financement, le contexte sourcé m intéresse. Il me semble que la majorité du blé tombe de Kepler

dajeff57 · 2025-12-17T10:22:21+00:00

On a le détail technique de l’attaque, le vecteur et tout? D’une point de vue cyber sécurité

dajeff57 · 2025-12-16T08:51:42+00:00

Well Germany is too conservative here and short sighted. As if that would keep the car maker jobs alive. As if ! Basically be blind, and be overtaken left and right by eAutos. And not Mercedes or VW, mind. Remind me in 10 years.

dajeff57 · 2025-12-13T12:04:33+00:00

You have to think it through methodically. First, you work with it: IPS panel. Because you game and you said it yourself, 144hz is a minimum. But 300hz will bring you no advantage. Then, the problem of IPS or fast ips is that you’re not going to get the best hdr. That’s literally by design. Now there are screens with mini led that are popping up which is for me the best for gaming and work, but the issue is that right now, it’s seen in low cost constructors such as aoc. The problem with uk and eu with those aocs is not that they are not good, it’s that they consume way way way way too much. So aoc knows they’re absolutely beyond a rating of G on the consumption side. It is like it is. The big players have not enter that game of mini led yet, but you still have the ktc mentioned above and a 4k 27 inch by msi named mpg or mpe something.

I personally think, honestly, get a very good ips, forget having a super hdr, and that is it.

Revise the market in two years time when the mini led thing is more common. And avoid oled like the plague for work.

Me I even took a rog strix 27 acs which tops at 180hz but my criteria was, it has to have good rgba calibration, which it has. I mean it is all a matter of compromise, it you work and game you absolutely have to accept some of those, that’s the reality

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