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Salt and Sanctuary is free until 12/30/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/salt-and-sanctuary EDIT: Tomb Raider GOTY is free until 01/06/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/tomb-raider Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration is free until 01/06/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/rise-of-the-tomb-raider Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is free until 01/06/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider

Congrats on making good money! When a truck breaks down do you just stay there on the side of the road waiting for the company to send a repair crew out or do they send another truck and load all the stuff onto the new truck and off you go to finish the job? 🤔

Vampyr is free until 12/24/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/vampyr Edit: Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition is free until 12/25/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/pathfinder-kingmaker Edit: Prey is free until 12/26/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/prey Control is free until 12/27/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/control Edit: Mages of Mystralia is free until 12/28/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/mages-of-mystralia Moving Out is free until 12/29/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/moving-out

Not on the modem or router as long as both are relatively new in the last year or two as well as any ethernet cables you have connecting them to each other and to your PC or other devices. The majority of them, like the one I linked to can easily do "up to 3 Gbps Speeds, (2402 Mbps on 5 GHz band and 574 Mbps on 2.4 GHz band)" in all directions, downloading, uploading or transferring between computers or devices on the same network. The biggest issue with uploading is the maximum upload speed of your internet connection. Like I have spectrum internet 200mpbs internet. But even though that download speed is great for me, the upload speed for that tier of internet is only 10 mbps. Its horrendously slow for uploading. When I would upload video clips of gameplay to youtube, it could take a while. Thats how alot of the internet companies get upgrades is because people like to stream their games on twitch or youtube. Alot of those people will pay for the next tier or two higher account just for the better upload speeds. Generally 10 mbps upload is fine for most people since its all thats necessary for all the devices in that home to send out requests to websites, like a click, or typing in a website address or sending a couple pics in an email. But in terms of viewing streaming content, netflix recommends 10 mbps download for each tv streaming in HD and I think 30 mpbs download for each 4k stream. So if someone wants to stream their game online to twich, they should have a minimum of 20 mbps upload, 10 for regular use, and 10 just for that stream and even then there could be some potential pixilation. I wish Verizon fios would be available near me so I could switch to them. Fiber optic internet plans have the same upload speed as the download, so a Verizon Fios plan of 200mbps would be 200 mbps download and 200 mbps upload.

Remnant: From the Ashes is free until 12/19/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/remnant-from-the-ashes Edit: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is free until 12/20/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/the-vanishing-of-ethan-carter Edit: Loop Hero is free until 12/21/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/loop-hero Edit: Second Extinction is free until 12/22/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/second-extinction Edit: Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is free until 12/23/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/mutant-year-zero

Overall I think it was a good show with some flaws but still entertaining. The cg was good, but no where near the highest quality when compared to other Netflix series like Lost in Space. The cast was good, but I wasn't really feeling this version of the Faye character. I can understand an adaption taking creative liberties from the source material so its not a 1x1 recreation. They did that with TWD and it kept the series fresh and fans on their toes since they wouldn't know exactly what was going to happen. But Cowboy Bebop kind of threw the plot around a bit much, didn't have Edward in it until the literal last minute and at that point felt completely out of place. I think the show had too many scenes at the club instead of focusing on Spike and the group and it resulted in the pace of multiple episodes feeling way too slow. It almost felt like all the club scenes were Netflix's way of throwing some minority LGBTQ representation at everyone just for the sake of having it since it really didn't improve the overall story since none of those characters existed in the original material aside from Julia and I guess Annie, but she was a convivence store owner that was barely in the original show if I remember right. The plot twist at the very end kind of shot the show in the foot since it went way off from the end of the anime too. Its a shame we won't see how it was intended to end since it got canceled. Kudos to all the actors tho, because they all did a great job. Netflix's Cowboy Bebop was definitely much better than Netflix's Death Note. I hope they don't screw up their live action One Piece and Yu Yu Hakusho too bad, but I'm setting my expectations way low for those.

Neon Abyss is free until 12/18/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/neon-abyss

The Epic Game store is still lacking so many features compared to Steam. Hard to believe it launched 3 years ago and it still looks and functions the same as back then. I'm still collecting all the free games, but aside from Ghostbusters, I haven't played any of my other free games from them yet.

Epic is doing their 15 days of free games again this year. Every day starting today, there will be 1 free game available to add to your account. Each game will only be available for 24 hours. If the Epic game launcher does not work for adding the free game to your library, log into the website directly and add it from there. Shenmue 3 is free until 12/17/2021 at 11:00 AM https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/shenmue-3

PS+ has been sucking alot this year. Sure we're getting games, but almost none have been decent to me. lol. I'm thinking some youtubers are trying to troll everyone with fake news.

The characters and their abilities look great. The open world gameplay looks very similar to the Marvel Avengers game except better. Whether or not that will be true in the final product at release is another story tho considering almost every game released over the last couple of years is no where near as polished as their trailers. *merges threads*

I thought I'd buy this for PC but my current PC could only play it on medium graphics... and the PS4 seems too low of a player count. I'll have to wait until I own a PS5, and with PS5 currently still being mostly unavailable, I have no idea if I'll ever get this game while it's still populated with humans instead of AI bots. 😕

That Five Nights at Freddy's game looks creepy as hell.

Congrats on finally getting your product! If you decide to get a wifi router, I recommend the TP-Link AC3000. Solid router and affordable. https://www.walmart.com/ip/TP-Link-Archer-AX3000-4-Stream-Dual-Band-WiFi-6-Wireless-Router-up-to-3-Gbps-Speeds-Powered-by-Dual-Core-Processor/100797162 Walmart has them for $99 which is cheaper than amazon, and they sometimes go on sale for $79. But $99 is still a good price. Looks like the Ayaneo is wifi 6 and so is this router. Have it connect to the 5g band and it should get pretty similar speeds as if it was directly connected to your modem or wired router.

I played the hell out of those Leisure Suit Larry games when I was a kid. I own all of them except the most recent 2 from a different bundle from Fanatical a year ago when they were all bundled together for about $2 I think. I was wondering why this bundle was $10 but its because it has the newer games. I never considered Larry games to be porn games, more like "perverted adult humor" because any sexual stuff aside from nudity would be censored in shadows or was not something anyone would want to actually watch because Larry never had an actual good sexual encounter until the end of each game. I didn't know they made new games until earlier this year when I saw a playthrough of Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry. I was surprised as all hell to see there was a new Larry game and decided to watch it... and that unicorn scene, wtf. x_x I'll pass on this bundle mostly because I own most of them and I'm not interested in playing the sequel "Wet Dreams Dry Twice". I loved point and click adventures way back in the day, but the new Larry games seem like they'd be a bit too slow to play (It was alot of trying to combine inventory items to figure out what needs to be done in a given situation to trigger the next course of events.) when I can watch a playthrough instead. Also, all the old games did not age that well at all. All those old school VGA graphics are so outdated now.

Man Playstation plus is really sucking. 🤨

Omg.

I tried watching that new sailor moon on Netflix and I just couldn't get into it. The animation was decent but after 3 episodes I felt bored.

I had a good time with the BF 2042 beta and it definitely feels like BF4 again. My biggest issues are with spotting. Spotting still seemed non existent to me. I could spot someone or a vehicle and that spot lasted a whole .05 of a second. The only time spotting felt good was with the recon drone. I was able to get alot of spotting done and it felt like I was a huge help to my team when I was doing it, but I received absolutely no points for spotting, no kill assists, no anything. Even though I was helping the team there was no incentive at all for me to continue doing so. Also, one of the attack helicopter seats was for spotting and that was it. That helicopter moves so fast to try to avoid being shot down that spotting seat was completely pointless. Not only was it incapable of spotting anyone or anything, the camera almost induces motion sickness. That seat was pointless and all it did was give me a few points towards the helicopter by leaching off the pilot doing all the game play. They need to add bombs or something to that helicopter seat to make it at least somewhat functional. The gun play was good, but I had an easier time sniping people with an engineer kit crouched with a tripod than I did with a sniper rifle. I liked the gadgets, especially the heat seeker missiles to shoot down air vehicles. The PC version felt better than the PS4 version, mostly because the PS4 beta seemed much less populated on the large maps with only 64 players. The 128 players on PC was a huge difference. I felt like I was running into people and enemies constantly which was nice. Overall it was a good beta, but I personally didn't get that joy I used to have with BF4. I'm thinking its just my own personal preferences that have changed over the years. I definitely prefer single player campaign games nowadays over multiplayers. Edit: Heres my one good highlight from my PC gameplay. My weapons and gadgets are all over the place because I was using the mouse scroll wheel to swap around.

October kind of sucks. I don't think I'll play any of these games. 🤔

My prediction is the 3.5 trillion bill will pass and all those people getting massive child tax credits aka "breeder money" will have money burning holes in their pockets to keep spending for the next 4 years and inflation will continue going up as a result of people having way more money than they are used to having. And as a result, people who never got huge money or increases in pay or large payouts of stimuluses will have their buying power further reduced with the higher prices of supply and demand. Since the unemployment bonus ended, it looks like around here people are applying for jobs again, at least according to staffing agencies: https://cnycentral.com/news/local/syracuse-staffing-agency-sees-record-high-demand-as-americans-return-to-the-workforce-09-20-2021

I had more to add to this, but my response is generating a server error. I'm not sure if this is a software error or a server thing. I'll look into it over this week. wtf.

That whole 3.5 trillion infrastructure bill pisses me off. I haven't read all the stuff involved in it, but from what I have seen they want to extend the huge child credit that everyone with kids got from the last stimulus to last another 4 years minimum. WTF. They can justify giving $250-$300 per kid per month increase for every single family in the USA (thats 74.2 million kids that qualify for this huge money per month), but SSI recipients (8 million in the USA) and the disabled still only make just under $800 a month to live on which is below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour/40 hour work week. My friend has 3 kids, him and the wife work good jobs and the government gives them $750 a month extra because "thats barely enough to live off of and we need kids out of poverty" just because they had kids. WTF. It was the same with the unemployment money they did. $600 extra a week, A WEEK! when covid first happened, because that was the bare minimum to live off of WTF. and even when it was reduced to $300 a week, thats still more money than disabled people get. WTF. Meanwhile I'll google almost anything about SSI and social security and all I see is, "the funds will run out and benefits will be cut in the near future!" again.. WTF. They don't have money to actually raise the SSI income of the elderly and disabled to the bare standard of federal minimum wage, or heaven forbid, increase it to the actual poverty line income, but instead they have endless money to give breeders excess cash hand over fist. They somehow have money to give people money that don't even need it while giving a big FU to the people who do. F*ck their trillions of dollars spending bill. I hope it fails at this point. None of these politicians understand what people actually need help, nor do they understand their actual constituents at all.