Brute Force Competition 2022

[DarthMol]

The Invasion of Ukraine

Since the start of the invasion there has been countless news articles, videos, tweets etc. on the situation in Ukraine. The Wikipedia post sums up quite nicely the gist of how it started: On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, its neighbour to the southwest, marking the largest escalation of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming that post-1997 enlargement of NATO was a security threat, demanded that Ukr…

Here is my tribute - that and the requisite number of replies.

[czc]

My Topic:

Streaming Hardwired vs Wifi

So I’ve been streaming Czech TV for Czech Masterchef. Strange thing that happened is that the streaming degraded to such an extent that the stream basically paused every minute and then spent another few minutes buffering. Although there was no actual movement on the network view most of the time. Today I tried moving the router so that it was connected with lan cable directly and there was no pause in the stream for the entire show. So why would the thing struggle so much over wifi and stream…

My Article:

Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster

[Solitude]

Last Week
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 3
@DarthMol - 2
@DieGrootHammer - 2
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 1

Standings
@GregRedd - 12
@czc - 11
@DieGrootHammer - 9
@DarthMol - 9
@Beo - 4
@Wyvern - 3

Good luck for the week everyone!

[DieGrootHammer]

You know what I just realised…

Last year @GregRedd endeavoured to write a massive piece on the “Day of the Year”, and succeeded splendidly. And he did that every single day of the year, 365 days in a row. So, while I myself am still in the race, I want to place a R100 bet on @GregRedd winning this. I know it’s early days, which means the odds should be high and the return on the bet just as high

[DarthMol]

I reckon that’s a safe bet. Still, we can put the pressure on and make him work for it

[GregRedd]

@DieGrootHammer

I want to place a R100 bet…

Don’t fall for it folks… A fool and his money are soon parted.

Alternatively, take Hammers bet then PM your offer to me to throw the competition so you win. I’m prepared to take a 50% split if the winnings are high enough.

[GregRedd]

@DarthMol

Still, we can put the pressure on…

I like it!

[czc]

Hey now, no match fixing.

[GregRedd]

Article:

Stream Scene - March 2022

Topic:

Games with great character creators

Watched a video yesterday about the Character Creator tool in Elden Ring that looks at all of the options avaialbe. (This one…) [Elden Ring Character Creation - All Options] Got me to thinking about why we (“we” as in “gamers”) so often spend ages creating an avatar to use in a game that we will seldomly even see. In addition to many games being played from the perspective of our characters, there’s also the fact that in many of the games we cover our characters’ faces in masks, he…

[czc]

Article:

Godsbane

Topic:

Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson

For all the fans of Brandon Sanderson watch the video below first. [It's Time to Come Clean — Brandon Sanderson] So as you can see there is a kickstarter available which has already crossed 15 million dollars. There will be the four novels released quarterly and the other months will have boxes containing swag. A year of Brandon Sanderson. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-four-secret-novels-by-brandon-sanderson

[Solitude]

I will do the counting tomorrow. Didn’t get to it today unfortunately.

[Solitude]

Will get to this this evening. Work has been relentless.

[Solitude]

Last Week
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 3
@DarthMol - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 1
@Beo - 0

Standings
@GregRedd - 15
@czc - 14
@DarthMol - 10
@DieGrootHammer - 10
@Beo - 4
@Wyvern - 4

Not a good week people. May this week go better.

[DieGrootHammer]

Sorry @Solitude I didn’t post my thread for last week. Here it is.

ECOTAG - The Open World gaming personality test

Here’s a fun little metric I found while listening to the Triple Click Podcast (Link to the podcast if you are interested). In the discussion Kirk Hamilton (ex-Kotaku reviewer and writer) came up with an interesting way to profiling open-world games. Similar to the personality tests, there are sliding scale metrics by which open-world games can be categorised. His theory is this, any open-world game can be ranked on three different metrics: Emergent - Controlled (How dynamic/simulated is the o…

[Solitude]

Cool will update the scores a bit later today.

[czc]

@Solitude

Not a good week people.

Will try harder.

[Wyvern]

Personal Health Advice Thread

I figured to split this into a topic since we all use the threadkiller and sometimes the questions gets lost in the noise. So 2 things I am sharing today: 1st : Since the situation we are in as a family, I have been doing my research and reading to see what is ahead for us and maybe give me insight on what is going on in dad’s head (we want to book a meeting with the neuro surgeon to ask a lot of questions - why did they do the burr holes on top of the head and not closer to the brain bleed a…

I need help finding a dvd of on old VHS tape

I have to say I gave the guy a 5 star rating, it arrived in better condition than I expected literally the day after I paid. So impressed and it all works

Two topics, does it count? no idea

[DarthMol]

What game do you want to come to Game Pass next?

I know that a fair number of us are either active or past subscribers of Game Pass (Xbox, PC, Ultimate). I thought it could be fun to share what games we’d hope to see on the subscription service. I thought we could give a realistic option and a pure dream option. If you have another suggested category feel free to add it. Here’s mine: Realistic: Immortals Fenyx Rising (what with their being talk of Ubisoft games coming to the service) Dream: Elden Ring (would love to try it out to see if it …

[Solitude]

@GregRedd are you okay?

Also I must still fix @DieGrootHammer 's points.

[GregRedd]

Forgot to press the Reply button last night

Article:

F1 Manager 2022 - Unleash Your Inner Wolff

Topic:

Dream a little dream of... your teeth falling out?!

This map shows the most frequently searched for “meaning of dream about…” terms around the world. “Snake” related dreams are by far the most frequently searched for dreams - tops the list in 52 countries. Second most common is “teeth falling out” in 17 countries. For someone like me who has zero dream recall at all, “teeth falling out” is a bit of an odd one. Has anyone here ever had a dream where your teeth have been falling out? [image] There’s a fair few other dream searches that are also…

@Solitude

are you okay?

I’m okay. What did I do?