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Beautiful games?
  • I find peace and beauty in the wilderness of DayZ

  • What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?
  • DayZ comes to mind. I love the game but it kind of just throws you in and says , "Hey there. Survive."

  • (August) What are you working on now, DIY?
  • Wow. It sounds like you have been hitting it hard. May your work be fruitful and trips to the hardware store minimal.

  • (August) What are you working on now, DIY?
  • I have my guest bath torn down to studs. A new cast iron tub went in. I had to replace a few termite-eaten studs from who knows when. The house is 60 years old. I'm working on putting it all back together now. New insulation, then drywall and backer board. Then, moving on to the shower tile. Also, I have to schedule a new stone top for the vanity and get a new sink and faucet. Then, texture and paint all the walls and finally replace all the floor tile in the area. I started a week ago, but it's all moving quickly. If I can keep up the momentum, maybe I will be finished in a month.

  • What forgotten cult classic games are worth revisiting?
  • Out of This World and Flashback. Always favorite old school cult classics.

  • What are you playing this week?
  • Conan Exiles. I've had it in my library for ages but never gave it much thought. I'm having a lot of fun building my fortress and converting the locals to be my thralls.

  • What are you playing this week?
  • Kena Bridge of Spirits. I'm so glad I tried this game. It's quite good. The gameplay is similar to Horizon Zero Dawn and the story line touches the heart. I grabbed it free using PS plus premium.

  • Multiplayer Co-op games
  • DayZ can be fun. Building up a base and trying to survive together. A bit of a learning curve but a very social game. Especially if you find a good private PVE server.

  • What's your favorite internet "oldie"?
  • GameSpy. Finding a server you clicked with. Meeting the other players that frequented there. Joining clans and chatting it up on the forums. So much creativity flowed making banners or avatars the showed off your stats from the server and such.

  • What value did you get from Reddit that you hope to realize or expand upon here?
  • Exactly this. I work in IT and when looking for an answer I would Google search my question followed by Reddit and normally find a post with the answer I needed. I hope Sysadmin here becomes just as active.

  • Any DayZ fans here?

    I've been playing DayZ for a bit over a year. I played mostly on private PvE servers and now know Livonia pretty well. Just this last week I decided to give official a try on a First Person Only NYC server. 2 days in I've had 4 fire fights killed 3 players and the pure rush of survival is just amazing. I'm glad I gave PvP a try. I will probably stay more on official now. Dying and losing everything is part of the fun. PvE was boring being geared all the time with no real chances to take. Just wanted to post about how much I have been loving this game. I hope the updates keep rolling out for a long time to come.

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    Do you listen to any new bands? Or just same as 10 years ago?
  • Not new bands but new to me. I managed to be a mild metalhead my whole life yet never listened to Iron Maiden. I started on their music a few months ago. I can't believe I waited until I was in my forties to pick them up. Amazing guitar work and great vocals.

  • Games that have stuck with you?
  • Half-Life 2. I have so many playthroughs that I lost count. At the time of release, the gameplay and physics were mind-blowing. The atmosphere over time got even better when Valve released bloom lighting. The water and sky were breath taking. I still go back and visit to this day.

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  • Presearch. I run a node and get paid for running it. The searches are solid as well.

  • What distro(s) do you use?
  • Not for daily use but I run 3 Ubuntu servers here hosting various types of services.

  • Subreddits you are going to miss?
  • Tried searching for 40k nothing pops up. I look almost daily for grimdank, Warhammer and 40k to hopefully pop up a community. Nothing so far. That or jerboa's search function isn't the best.

  • How many of you have pulled the plug and deleted reddit already?
  • I deleted my 10 year old account and haven't looked back. It was all useless karma after all.

  • Tell me about your work life!
  • 90 percent of my day currently is working in Azure portal and PowerShell. I commute 20 miles to the office to do this. Upper management says we need to be on site because we are team oriented. And teams need to be present to work well together. The other 10 percent of my day is complaining with my team.

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  • Not digging to China obviously.

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