Brute Force Competition 2022

[Solitude]

Today is the day! Chess Olympiad starts at 11:30 and will do it while following that.

[Solitude]

4 - 10 July
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 2
@DarthMol - 2
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 0

11 - 17 July
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 2
@DarthMol - 2
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 0

18 - 24 July
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 2
@Beo - 2
@Wyvern - 2
@DarthMol - 0
@DieGrootHammer - 0

Standings
@GregRedd - 74
@czc - 58
@DarthMol - 35
@Wyvern - 29
@Beo - 27
@DieGrootHammer - 10

I’m up to date again. @GregRedd, I fixed the mistake in my previous count. If I made any mistakes this time around, please let me know.

[czc]

Good going everyone.

[GregRedd]

Week of 25 July - 31 July

Article:

Comic-Con 2022: All the movie and TV teasers and trailers

Topic:

Gaming Not Harmful to Mental Health*

It’s official. The eggheads at Oxford University said so, so it must be true. Gaming does not appear harmful to mental health, unless the gamer can’t stop. That last bit is the important * here. Take regular breaks from your game (or make sure others around you do). And learn to recognise the signs of possible gaming addiction, especially if you find yourself playing games because you feel you have to, rather than you want to. The research, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science…

Annapurna Interactive Showcase 2022

Games publisher Annapurna Interactive, currently riding high on the successful release of Stray, held their second annual showcase of games that their contracted indie developers are working on. The showcase highlighted new games and platform updates coming through the rest of 2022 and into the new year. Here’s some of the highlighted games that had trailers or teasers revealed during the presentation, some of which will also be Game Pass Day One Releases. Bounty Star: The Morose Tale of Grav…

[DarthMol]

Multiversus

With the gameplay of Smash Bros and the aesthetic of Fortnite and the bizarre conglomeration of any and every kind of pop culture character and genre (owned by Warner Bros) - you get the weird but apparently quite decent game of Multiversus [MultiVersus – Official Gameplay Trailer] It’s free to play so worth a look if you are interested. So far the response to the game has been good. And the developers have apparently already nerfed Taz for being to buff. I wonder if our resident …

[czc]

Best I could do.

Week of 25 - 31 July

Topic:

Have you ever considered keeping a gaming log?

Have you ever considered keeping a gaming log? You can run around a game world and collect all these pieces of information that the characters have dropped. Why wouldn’t you leave your own ‘data logs’? So would you consider recording a so called ‘data log’ of you game as you go? Perhaps the challenge to come out of this is to start a log of the next game you play.

[Solitude]

25 - 31 July
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 2
@DarthMol - 2
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 0

Standings
@GregRedd - 77
@czc - 60
@DarthMol - 37
@Wyvern - 30
@Beo - 28
@DieGrootHammer - 10

Getting it done early this week. I’m in between projects at work currently. Starting phase 2 of a big project tomorrow so quickly getting this done before work is crazy again.

[Wyvern]

Guess who's back . . . Winamp

[Beo]

Week 32: Mon 1 Aug - Sun 7 Aug

Article

Evolve lives again

Four years have passed since the serves were taken down, now the game is suddenly running again—and no one can explain why. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ink.mostepic.win/evolve-is-alive/

Topic

[GregRedd]

Week of 1 August - 7 August

Article:

New Game Releases - August 2022

Topics:

Meet Your Maker: Build - Raid - Upgrade

[MyM-keyart-static] Canadian developer of Dead By Daylight, Behaviour Interactive’s Meet Your Maker is a new upcoming first-person building-and-raiding game set in a dark post-apocalyptic future. In this dying world, players take on the role of the Custodian, servant to the Chimera: a living experiment created as a last resort to save life on Earth. [Meet your Maker| Reveal Trailer] To help the Chimera evolve, you’ll need to provide it with pure genetic material, the world’s most…

Game Pass Family Plan starts limited testing

It’s finally starting to happen!! Microsoft Xbox have finally started testing Game Pass Family Plans to selected users in Ireland and Colombia, with the aim of rolling the scheme out to other markets “soon™”. [image] To gain access to the trial players in Colombia and Ireland will need to be in the correct Xbox Insider testing ring. The Family Plan is a full Game Pass Ultimate subscription that can be shared with up to four family and friends. … A plan that allows multiple people to share G…

[czc]

Week of 1 - 7 August

Topic:

Gaming cost per hour

Came across a reddit discussion on gaming cost per hour. Its a concept (cost per use) I’ve heard of before to decide on what to buy. I.E. You make a lot of coffee so you might decide to get a better coffee maker, since your cost per use will be better, as opposed to something you might just use once or twice. In terms of gaming for example. I played Battlefield Bad Company 2 for 442 hours and bought it for around R380 so that translates to R0.86/hour Oxygen Not Included is R1.32/hour Cities: …

[DarthMol]

What's the greatest length you've gone to just to run a game?

I enjoyed reading the following article on PC Gamer: It got me thinking of the hoops that I have jumped through to get a game to run. On our old family Pentium I had to create a boot disk in order to run Sim City 2000. The boot disk allowed you to skip booting into Windows and freed up system memory in order to have enough to run the game. Totally worth it since that game was a gem. More recently I had heard good things about the CoD: Infinite Warfare and decided I’d really like to play it. …

[Wyvern]

Alone in the Dark Reboot leaked

Anyone who can help with making an image black and white?

I want to paint something but to trace it onto the cloth, I need it in black and white and I can’t find one that looks like the one I want. [cee73db52f7a6d3bcb9ec3627ba16e9e] Basically, just the two circles, and the chinese characters in that order. (Its the original logo - as seen here: [download] [download] I specifically don’t want this, when I paint it, it will look like the first image. but my shaky hand can’t seem to draw it.

[czc]

August 8 - 14

Topic:

Have you ever rooted your devices?

There are some apps on my xiaomi phone that I’d love to get rid of. But apparently you have to root the phone to do so. Apparently its dangerous to do so. So has anyone rooted their device?

[DarthMol]

Do you really need a new GPU?

Since it would be a bit too wordy to use as a topic heading the full question is as follows: Now that GPU prices are falling and becoming a bit more palatable are you considering upgrading? And do you actually feel the need to upgrade especially with the advancement of upscaling technologies such as DLSS and FSR? The next generation of Nvidia cards are looking to be quite hefty upgrades over the current gen but that could be at the cost on increased power requirements. How much of a factor is …

[GregRedd]

Sorry it’s late, forgot to post yesterday

Week of 8 August - 14 August

Article

ADACA - A Stylish Indie Sci-Fi Shooter

Topic

Rumbleverse - Fight for your right to fight again!

[image] Out today from Oron Galaxy Studios and Epic Games Publishing comes Rumbleverse, and all new, 40-person, free-to-play Brawler Royale. It’s Fortnite meets WWE in all its full colour HD glory. Sporting cross-play and cross progression, the game launches today on PC (via the Epic Games Store naturally), Xbox, and PlayStation [Rumbleverse Launch Trailer] Players get to create their own unique champion, then get shot out of a cannon. You’ll need to smash crates to find upgrade…

[DarthMol]

Aug 15 - 21

AI Generated... well everything really

With the increasing prevalence of the image generating AI programs, there is now a whole host of AI generated content. Is it self-aware? Of course not, behind the scenes of all these different projects is a lot of human cultivation and creativity, the AI is merely a tool in the artist’s hand. A very impressive tool nonetheless. Here are some songs where there is an AI generated image for each line of lyrics: [Mr. Blue Sky - But every lyric is an AI generated image] [The Ul…

[GregRedd]

Week of 15 August - 21 August

Article

ANA Fizzes into Hyper Realistic Life

Topics

Way of the Hunter

[woth logo] Become the new owner of a hunting lodge nestled among gorgeous habitats and rich animal populations. Explore vast open world environments and hunt with a premium selection of firearms. Enjoy the perfect hunt on your own or with friends in co-op. [cover] [Way of the Hunter | Explanation Trailer] Become the new owner of a hunting lodge nestled among gorgeous habitats and rich animal populations. Explore vast open world environments across the USA and Europe. Hunt wi…

GIMP now available in the Microsoft Store

[image] GIMP, the totally free Adobe Photoshop alternate, is now available in the Microsoft Store as an installable application for Windows PC. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your…

[Solitude]

Going to update this today.

[Solitude]

1 - 7 August
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 2
@DarthMol - 2
@Beo - 2
@Wyvern - 2
@DieGrootHammer - 0

8 - 14 August
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 2
@DarthMol - 2
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 3
@DieGrootHammer - 0

15 - 21 August
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 1
@DarthMol - 2
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 0

Standings
@GregRedd - 86
@czc - 65
@DarthMol - 43
@Wyvern - 36
@Beo - 32
@DieGrootHammer - 10

If I made any mistakes, please let me know.