Brute Force Competition 2022

[czc]

Apologies, I forgot to post the thread I made for 9 to 15 May.

Disposal of electronics

Where is the correct place to dispose of old electronics? The old CRT style TV finally conked out and I need to dispose of it somewhere responsibly. I don’t just want to leave it on the roadside like some people do, you can physically track the progress of it being destroyed as people break bits day to day.

[Solitude]

Fixed!

[DarthMol]

Merge Mansion

As an alpha male gamer I like beer, I like braais, I play competitive shooters and take part in hardcore sim racing and then in between I like to help Maddie and her granny restore the Boulton mansion by merging flowers, butterflies and clean supplies… [image] Merge Mansion is a casual mobile game in the merge game style with a very generous free to play model. There are no annoying ads at all and all gold and gem currencies can be earned in game. The is an energy system and sometimes you hav…

[czc]

My topic for 16 - 22 May

All sorts of Smart TVs

Do you have a smart TV? What brand is it? How do you like it? I have a Hisense TV that runs on some weird thing called Vidaa. It doesn’t seem to have an app store but international youtube videos show that it does. So it has a bunch of pre-loaded stuff that is useless. The work around I’ve found is to use the cast feature from my phone.

[GregRedd]

Week 16 - 22 May

Topic:

EA wants to merge or sell

Interesting, are they concerned that they won’t have the muscle to compete with Microsoft and Sony if they don’t have some larger organisation being them perhaps.

Article:

The Quarry - Will You Survive the Night?

[GregRedd]

Week 23 - 29 May

Topic:

Sniper Elite

Karl is back! The fifth of the Sniper Elite series is out today. [Sniper Elite 5 – Cinematic Trailer | PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5] In Sniper Elite 5 , the player once again assumes control of Karl Fairburne, an elite sniper from the Allied Powers who journeys to France in 1944 to destroy a secret Nazi project known as “Project Kraken”. [Sniper Elite 5 – Features Trailer | PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5 (Web)] Out for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Se…

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If You’re Going to Fly, Fly Dangerous!

[DarthMol]

Coming back to a game you used to play

Tonight I reinstalled Rocket League to play with friends, one of whom was trying it out for the first time. It’s been ages since I last played. It only took a few minutes to remember how fun this game is, especially if you don’t get too competitive and can laugh at all your terrible mistakes. We’ll definitely be playing some more of it. Any games that you dropped and came back to years later?

[Solitude]

Sorry people, I didn’t get to counting last week. Will do the counting for both weeks just now.

[Solitude]

16 to 22 May
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 2
@DarthMol - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@Beo - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 0

23 to 29 May
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 2
@DarthMol - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@Beo - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 0

Standings
@GregRedd - 51
@czc - 39
@DarthMol - 22
@Wyvern - 18
@Beo - 15
@DieGrootHammer - 10

[GregRedd]

So, I get to take the next month off, right?

Not gonna happen. Catch me if you can!

[DieGrootHammer]

[czc]

Sorry again Soli, forgot to post this again yesterday.

My topic for last week, 23 - 29 May

Wheel of time game is on GOG

The wheel of time game is available on GOG. I’m not sure when it happened but I know it was not available before (pretty sure we discussed this somewhere). But anyway it looks like the folks at GOG have made it playable on modern systems. It selling at $9.99

[Solitude]

Fixed!

[DieGrootHammer]

I don’t know but time has been an emeny of mine. At the moment I have no hope of getting back into the competition, but I sure as shit am going to not come last. That’s the Hammer Guarantee ™

[Wyvern]

Diablo Immortal - 2 June 2022

Skarn, Lord of Damnation has amassed his battle-hungry forces in anticipation of your near arrival to Sanctuary. With an ashen gaze and ghastly gesture, the demon lord utters “we are waiting for. . .YOU!” In just a few days it will be up to you, noble adventurer, to scour Sanctuary’s many locales in search of fragments from the shattered Worldstone. Only then will you have a chance in Hell of thwarting Skarn’s nefarious plan. Before you begin to traverse the eight expansive zones of Diablo® Imm…

Stasis: Bone Totem

[GregRedd]

Week 30 May - 5 June

Topic:

Destroy All Humans! For the second time. Again

[image] Yay! The first remake a couple of years ago was solid. This one should be too. Crypto is back with a license to probe. The alien invader returns, groovier than ever. Experience the swinging ‘60s in all its chemical-induced glory and take revenge on the KGB for blowing up your mothership. You’ll have to form alliances with members of the very species you came to enslave. [Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed - Announcement Trailer] In Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed, a faith…

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New Game Releases - June 2022

[DarthMol]

Have a Nice Death

No I’m not wishing you nice unpleasantries. This is the title of a game that caught my eye in the Gearbox publisher promotion on Steam. While I was buying Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak for 90% my eye was caught by the fantastic art of Have a Nice Death. A bit of Hollow Knight, Hades and Dead Cells, and you have my attention. [Have a Nice Death | Early Access Launch Trailer] It’s been released into Early Access but already looks quite promising. I haven’t picked it up yet but thou…

[Beo]

Think I created topic in the week:

Should I buy/play - gaming suggestions

Taking some inspiration here from the subreddits of /r/shouldibuythisgame and /r/gamingsuggestions I wanted to have a space where we can ask about suggestions and recommendations on games across any and all platforms and mediums. I much prefer talking about and getting insights from others on a game’s experience from those who have actually played the games in suggestion, rather than reading or watching reviews and letting that drive the experience. Perhaps this is also just another way to hel…

[czc]

For the week 30 May - 5 June

Topic:

How many settings do you tweak?

You start a new game. There is a bunch of settings to change. Do you leave the defaults as they are or do you change them? For example. In the Amnesia game change the contrast has never worker for me because the contrast was already fine. Alternatively I spent a lot of time playing Dirt rally 2.0 in 720p mode because I thought my PC wouldn’t be able to handle it. Once I had to reinstall it on an SSD and left everything on default, hey presto, it worked regardless of the age of the GPU. From w…

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Captain of Industry

[czc]

For week 6 June - 12 June

Topic:

Would you ever consider a custom shaped PC Case?

Recently watched a LTT video where they made a ‘case’ out of radiators. Then there was the famous desk PC case. On mybb a long time ago there was a guy that built his own case. @Avatar I think you also considered building your own case? Would you consider ever building your own custom shaped case? Would it be a standard ‘shaped’ case, or would it be something more exotic shaped? A banana case /jk If I was to do one it would possibly be a desk one. It could also be something …

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All the games announced during Netflix Geeked Week 2022