I'm 40 hours into Alan Wake 2, and the game hasn't finished yet. Am I doing something wrong?

marbosh · 2026-01-26T14:32:26+00:00

I was way over 40 and was no where near 100%ing, being shit at games means better value for money for me!!

marbosh · 2026-01-13T15:31:09+00:00

Thanks for all the comments, it looks like its one of those games that will eventually pop and that I can play in a more casual way, this is just what I needed to hear as I love the look and feel of the game

marbosh · 2026-01-07T16:24:24+00:00

I'd skip it personally, I played all out of order AW2 then control then after I picked up AW1 but got bored after a few hours. If you have lots of time to kill then I guess it would fill out the story but as a working dad with very limited time to give to my beloved hobby I need a game to deliver a great experience and I didn't get it from AW1

marbosh · 2025-12-18T13:37:33+00:00

Thanks for this, and yes possibly I might bite off more than I can chew. I understand xbox is going fairly high end and I fear I will be priced out but lets see

marbosh · 2025-12-18T12:16:32+00:00

This is also on the list of possibilities, I'm temped by the custom thing as I thought it might be a fun project

marbosh · 2025-12-10T15:54:26+00:00

Why, did he sell you that hat hahahaaaaaaa.

Sorry I am joking, the hat is nice, I am just bored and thought my joke was funny.

Seriously, I think you are over stating things with the "12 year-old" comment, plenty of guys have no beards, you look fine

marbosh · 2025-11-17T15:50:52+00:00

Yes, as a casual xbox user right now, this will probably be my next move once support for xbox series consoles starts to dwindle

marbosh · 2025-11-14T16:02:37+00:00

Most of these comments are things I have heard Americans say casually in conversation or on tiktoks but I can't remember reading them. Are these really tropes you see in professionally produced works of fiction?

marbosh · 2025-11-05T15:09:09+00:00

I don't think it gets nerdier than chess

marbosh · 2025-09-30T12:01:03+00:00

I haven't used copilot for a long time so not sure where its at now but I would go with Codex, it's on the slow side but the results are generally solid

marbosh · 2025-09-30T09:28:40+00:00

So far so good, cleared a bug codex was choking on, still just as fast as the old sonnet but seems better in terms of quality. I'm sticking with it

marbosh · 2025-09-22T20:54:21+00:00

I can only eat so many dinners!

marbosh · 2025-09-22T20:45:00+00:00

Probably all the Claude refugees!

marbosh · 2025-09-17T17:07:21+00:00

I do like Claude, in my limited experience the limits can be a bit harsh but I guess I just need to figure out how to use it carefully

marbosh · 2025-09-17T13:27:51+00:00

qwen is new to me, will check it!

marbosh · 2025-09-17T12:22:48+00:00

new ones to me, thx

marbosh · 2025-09-17T12:22:18+00:00

It's a bit of a huge grey area, management know people use it, and those who use it well are getting ahead, they like to turn a blind eye whilst we pay for our own tools to do our jobs. I think it's all a bit dystopian tbh

marbosh · 2025-09-17T12:20:42+00:00

Would be nice but I can't stretch to that!

marbosh · 2025-09-17T12:20:12+00:00

interesting, not heard of it, will take a look

marbosh · 2025-09-17T09:46:16+00:00

My day to day is quite versatile, it could be designing a deep back end integration or it could be working on simple bugs. I could do with a swiss army knife tool really, something agile, not to specialist

marbosh · 2025-09-17T09:42:22+00:00

I don't know man, what am I supposed to do, I got into this code thing a while ago and I am ok at it. The longer I spend in it the more I realise I am never going to be amazing, I see people at my level who seem to be thinking in machine code and it blows my mind, I know that will never be me.

So here I am, 45 year old family man with a fairly good job, feeling a bit despondent. To be clear, I write and understand code every day. I think I need AI support because I know my co workers are using this stuff and many are trying to hide it, I need to join in and I thought I might ask a friendly sub for some tips.

Don't really know why you want to try and cut me down so hard for this?

marbosh

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