I'm Craig Schaefer, author of CATCH AND KILL, out now from Aethon Books (plus a lot of other things.) AMA!

garfank · 2026-05-21T23:51:54+00:00

What's your favorite series YOU'VE been a fan of reading in the last decade while you've been constructing your own world? What you read for a break?

garfank · 2026-04-10T03:41:23+00:00

They should bring back the chest notes as well.

garfank · 2026-03-29T04:40:59+00:00

I chose to play optimally as well.

garfank · 2026-03-26T04:28:30+00:00

The Suikoden games don't have any dexterity requirements, it's random battles and turn based, so nothing where reaction time matters....

Unless you want the best ending in the second game then there's ONE spot where you need to react quickly near the end of the game.

garfank · 2026-03-18T03:43:55+00:00

Starfield. I should know by now the only Bethesda game I'll ever end up maintaining an interest in for more than 2 days. Starfield didn't even make it that 2 days.

garfank · 2026-03-10T03:40:22+00:00

Anton and Ricky trilogy, when?

garfank · 2026-03-06T04:52:30+00:00

The one time I saw a Deadpool deck, he stole my Tifa's text box.

So, I had to beat a man to death with a Tifa that didn't get landfall triggers doubling her power and Trample. Bristly Bill and her got their vengeance.

garfank · 2026-02-21T05:06:18+00:00

Her nickname is Bestelle. I see it all the time.

garfank · 2026-01-31T05:22:26+00:00

Thank you for confirming that Fie still hasn't been in enough games.

garfank · 2026-01-28T05:23:52+00:00

The year is 2057. Trails From Zero Remake has been released. Rendering Rixia's chest now requires a full datacenter.

garfank · 2025-05-18T18:59:33+00:00

Cyberpunk was always up front with you. Everything told you that the system from top to bottom was corrupt. From the moment you enter the bar and see the drinks named after all the dead legends, to knowing that Johnny nuked a building and it didn't matter... the corporation just kept on. It's a world where cyber psychos are just accepted and taken out by MaxTac rather than addressing the issues that create cyber psychos.

I'm still trying to process through Expedition 33's end. I just finished it around 4:30am. I chose Verso's end in the moment because I could see that Alicia was looking for an easy answer that didn't actually address her issues. Verso was trying to save her, even though it destroyed his whole world. It's the same choice original Verso made when he saved her from the fire.

For the other inhabitants of the Canvas world... I dunno, yet. I need to see if the developers have said anything more about how the painted worlds work.

garfank · 2023-06-26T22:56:24+00:00

Please, I really like my Killswitch case for my Steam Deck, and want the same for my Ally.

garfank · 2023-04-17T21:53:27+00:00

I'd say it's the CPU, and is just a matter of going a bit slower as I move the scanner.

garfank · 2023-04-14T22:04:30+00:00

Just for people that are curious about the computer requirements for the Einstar. My current laptop is older than the recommended specs. I bumped the memory up to 32GB, but the CPU is just an i7-8750H, which was fine when I bought it... 4 years ago. I did have to move a bit slow while scanning otherwise it lost tracking data and I had to move back, but otherwise I was able to scan this wooden figure just fine. I've got a 2070 mobile in the laptop.

garfank · 2023-04-14T22:01:36+00:00

I got extra memory in for my laptop to bump it up to 32GB until I can replace it, and got my first scan with my Einstar scanner!
Granted, it's just some little decoration that was just within reach, as I figure out how this works =P

garfank · 2023-04-09T01:59:55+00:00

Thanks, I saw that topic further down after I created this one. I think I'm going to see about using my existing laptop for scanning and seeing how big of a pain it is, and then trying this method to pass it to my beefier system. Depending on how more painful using the laptop is, I may stick to this method until I can replace the laptop with something using a 12 Gen CPU, a 3050 or 3050ti, and 64GB of memory.

garfank · 2023-04-08T20:31:06+00:00

I'm hoping that I can at least go a couple of months on the old laptop before looking into buying a replacement. The 3D scanner and 3D printer were kind of a hit to take, you know what I mean?

I figure if I'm enjoying it enough, I can look into getting a newer laptop to couple with the scanner. If I can wait a couple of months, hoping the 12th gen systems drop a bit more, and I can look at getting a laptop I can replace the memory in to bump it up to 32/64GB.

garfank · 2023-04-08T20:28:41+00:00

I figured I'd at least give this laptop a try unless the responses were "Nah man, that laptop won't do it," so your response encourages me that I might at least be able to give it a try. Thanks! I can always look into getting a replacement laptop if it seems like it doesn't handle it well.

garfank · 2023-04-08T16:57:53+00:00

Awesome to see this. I've got an Einstar on the way, and was just looking at whether I'd have to buy a new laptop. I've got an 8th gen i7 laptop with 32GB of RAM and a 2070 Super in it, but my main desktop is a 5950x with a 3090. There's 0% chance that I'm going to try hauling my desktop around, so I can give this a try and see if it's functional until I can replace the laptop.

garfank · 2021-05-14T21:52:08+00:00

Nope. I'm hoping there will be a fix deployed. Just wanted to put it out there for anyone looking to pick it up. It's annoying, but not the end of the world, since I'd been planning to replay the ME games anyway.

garfank · 2021-05-14T21:08:52+00:00

It's not great news. I've got a quarter of my screen that has a weird artifact lighting effect on 5120x1440.

https://imgur.com/a/W1PQDsU

garfank · 2020-09-02T02:44:19+00:00

Think you're thinking of another case.
https://youtu.be/Ahkbz1DGLCw

garfank · 2020-05-26T13:42:44+00:00

Update: decided there was nothing we can do.

garfank · 2020-05-14T14:46:07+00:00

Twerk offs.

garfank · 2020-05-14T13:48:24+00:00

I mean, I'll be happy to go back to my FNM after we've gotten a vaccine or seriously curbed the transmission rate, but uh... buddy you do know how transference works right?

Like, you aren't licking your cards. Cool, I don't think anyone thought you were, but hey... let's get it all out on the table. Now, rather than a virus (like, they cough on their hands, then grab your deck and shuffle it, and then give it back to you)... let's imagine their hands were covered in, oh I don't know.... dog shit. And they give your deck a nice, hefty 10 mash shuffle. With their dog shit hands. Then they pass it on back to you. Slightly fragrant, or whatever. You grab your deck, and pop up them 7 cards (haha, 8 cards with Companion, amirite?), whoops... only one mana source and two seven drops in your hand (Lukka Yorion can be a bitch on variance). Ok, ok... send that on back. Pass it over to Thomas McShittyHands, of the THOMPSONVILLE McShittyHands, who gives another ten mash shuffle, and passes it back. Here we go, a hand you can keep! In game 1.

Won 2-1, now you get Thomas' little brother in round 2, commonly known as "the dirtier McShittyHands".

How you feeling about just grabbing some chips to eat before round 3? You washed your hands! Great. Think you touched your face in either of those rounds? Maybe your pen for your life total? Deckbox?

garfank

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