Nah, Diablo 4 is much more fun when leveling from 1 to 70 or so. 70 - 100 is just doing the same things over and over with barely any rewards. It’s the other way around there, leveling is fun, endgame is dogshit.
Usually “game starts at max level” is used for MMOs like WoW. Where all the leveling is seen as annoying bullshit fetch quests and at max level you do dungeons and raids.
The story or the gameplay? Because all I wanted to do was play a fun MMO, get items and do dungeons with other people. Instead I did quests like hit 3 rocks with your basic ability. Great! Hit 3 more rocks with the same ability. Done? Now run between 4 NPCs and talk with each of them. Great, now kill 8 enemies over there. Run back, talk with 2 more NPCs. Run through the city and interact with 8 lamp posts, the interaction takes several seconds each, because why not? …
I really tried to power through this absolute bullshit, but after a few hours I simply gave up. It only got worse, not better.
As you say Heavensward, I still hear that there is a ton of dumb quests then. Like the story is right at a critical point and they send you off on hours of fetch quests before you can continue?
The story or the gameplay? Because all I wanted to do was play a fun MMO, get items and do dungeons with other people. Instead I did quests like hit 3 rocks with your basic ability. Great! Hit 3 more rocks with the same ability. Done? Now run between 4 NPCs and talk with each of them. Great, now kill 8 enemies over there. Run back, talk with 2 more NPCs. Run through the city and interact with 8 lamp posts, the interaction takes several seconds each, because why not? …
I really tried to power through this absolute bullshit, but after a few hours I simply gave up. It only got worse, not better.
Not just for series, this is the same with games.
“The first 50 hours of Final Fantasy 14 suck, but the expansions afterwards are worth it!”
“The game starts at max level!”
I can’t stand it. And it’s not like the game magically gets much better, it just feels pretty okay for someone who just wasted months of their time on the bad parts. Of course you’ll enjoy mediocre parts later on after suffering through that crap.
A game has to start being fun ten minutes after the tutorial tops. Why play it otherwise?
Seriously? Breaking Bad was awesome all things considered. But if you are not hooked by season 1 you won’t like it, period.
The middle part of the series was a drag, too many filler episodes. Strong start, strong end, but if you don’t like the start don’t even bother.
I personally like to keep it on. Most of my messaging is with family and friends and it’s good to know if someone read or hasn’t read my message.
Especially if things are time critical. Picking someone up? Asking if they need anything from the supermarket? If I see that they read the message I know that they are going to reply in a moment. If they didn’t even read the message I won’t have to wait around / can guess that they are currently in the car or wherever.
Sometimes you also have a spotty connection, so the received + read receipt can tell you if they actually got your message.
In general if someone sends me a message and I read it… I’m going to fucking reply to it (if I’m not super busy, and even then I might send a quick message back). I seriously don’t get people who just leave things on read and then forget about it.
But the NAS is in your house… which basically means if it gets flooded/burns down all your data is gone too.
I already have my data on my PC, a second backup inside the same house isn’t worth that much. But instead of relying on a cloud service I just rent a virtual server (for various things) and use Seafile to keep my data in sync.
PC breaks? House burns down? My data is on my own server in a datacenter. My server gets cancelled? My data is on my PCs.
So even with your NAS you are 100% reliant on a cloud backup still, so why did you get the NAS when you already have a copy of your data on your devices?
Are you sure you properly deleted them? Reddit rate limits you to about one edit/delete every 3 seconds. If you go faster than that the deletes fail.
All the comments I have overwritten stayed that way, it was just difficult to reach them all (as different comments show up under “Top”, “Controversial”, “New” and so on).
On the other hand you can lose your email address at any time if you don’t own the domain. So if Google decides they don’t like something you wrote your @gmail.com address could be gone tomorrow. And with it all your accounts you set up (as you need email usually to login or do changes).
The whole e-mail ecosystem sucks :-/
My self-hosted mail server works fine for now, but that could change at any moment.
Having 4 active accounts is anything but leaving the platform. Hell, I thought they had a single account they are giving up (like most companies).
What bullshit.
Just fyi: You’re on lemmy.ml, so part of your comment got caught in the slur filter…
Other instances can write and see ‘bitch’ :-/
You need to actually have sex to catch an STD…
Ever thought it might be the game? Maybe the current GPU driver has a bug there?
I found a lot of issues with Snowrunner black screening on start. The fix here is to run it in fullscreen instead of borderless.
Can you try to play the game in fullscreen mode and see if it still crashes? If you use FreeSync it could be connected with that too.
Darn. Maybe try switching off “fast boot” for Windows and doing a proper restart? That option (which is on by default) broke my installation once. Also had crashes that I couldn’t fix, disabled that, restarted, problem solved.
And do sfc /scannow
It’s pretty fast and Windows usually finds borked files. Reinstalling Windows might be better, but it’s annoying.
TDD is great when you have a very narrow use case, for example an algorithm. Where you already know beforehand: If I throw A in B should come out. If I throw B in C should come out. If I throw Z in an error should be thrown. And so on.
For that it’s awesome, which is mostly algorithms.
In real CRUD apps though? You have to write the actual implementation before the tests. Because in the tests you have to mock all the dependencies you used. Come up with fake test data. Mock functions from other classes you aren’t currently testing and so on. You could try TDD for this, but then you probably spend ten times longer writing and re-writing tests :-/
After a while it boils down to: Small unit tests where they make sense. Then system wide integration tests for complex use-cases.
Definitely try a BIOS update first, Ryzen did a massive amount of bug fixes and optimizations with each version. After the BIOS update also make sure to get the current chipset drivers from AMD!
But be very careful when selecting your BIOS update, there might be later versions where they removed support for older Ryzen CPUs (as space is limited). So check the notes if they say anything like “removed support for Ryzen 2000 series”, but I think B450 should be safe for your CPU.
If your PSU is broken your computer would go 100% dark (or straight up restart).
Looking for a similar issue I found this thread:
https://community.amd.com/t5/graphics/rx-7900-xtx-crashes-randomly-to-blackscreen/m-p/584154
The solution was to disable “Core Performance Boost” in the BIOS, but I’m not sure if that’s even an option for a 2700X (I only owned a 3700X, 5800X and 5800X3D so far). The guy also had a B450 board.
Besides that… the classic steps I’d take:
sfc /scannow, if Windows finds any errors and fixes them, run the command again (maybe after a restart) till no more errors are foundIf nothing helps then it might just be your PSU, but that would be weird to be honest. The PSU either can take the load or it can’t, what happens if you run stress tests? Furmark + a CPU heavy test at the same time, does the PSU crap out?
But you can easily test this yourself: Go and try to create a new Discord account without a phone number. Then try to use it.
I couldn’t, Discord immediately forces me to add a phone number on login.
Maybe it’s regional? Or they have different behavior based on your email address provider?
I gave up on having a second account.
I honestly don’t care about the story that much in games. A good story is nice, if the gameplay is there. If the only thing that is actually good about the game is the story… I’ll just read a book instead.