Hope everyone had a great day. Mine was pretty calm, worked, napped, washed off the stench of mediocrity. Windows Update didn’t buttsex my machine, and I got the other set of watermelon PJ’s! Now I feel complete.
This Nendoroid is simply fabulous!
Not gonna lie. I kinda want this:
Admittedly I have been looking at Nendoroids lately. I’m not sure what one get, possibly one of these? Those eyes… and that hot tub.
Evening Open Thread
Came home from work early today, then I ate and went into a rain induced coma. Woke up, ate again and now I’m readying myself for another coma.
Anyways, open thread!
Weird Ransomware Of The Day
I’ve seen a lot of strange applications and joke viruses in my time, such as ones that make your keyboard sound like a typewriter or one that would shut down your system at noon for you to take a tea break; but this malware is just all kinds of WTF:
In what could only be a joke, a new ransomware has been discovered called “PUBG Ransomware” that will decrypt your files if you play the game called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
Discovered by MalwareHunterTeam, when the PUBG Ransomware is launched it will encrypt a user’s files and folders on the user’s desktop and append the .PUBG extension to them. When it has finished encrypting the files, it will display a screen giving you two methods that you can use to decrypt the encrypted files.
You can either play PUBG for an hour (or just three seconds) or input a “restore code”. The malware doesn’t seem to be that advanced, as people have already found out that renaming any executable to TslGame.exe will also decrypt the users files. :v:
It’s unclear how this “ransomware” is circulating, but for the most part it seems rather harmless. :zorak: I wonder if this will be added to the malware museum. :trollface:
I found my signature PJ’s
It isn’t everyday that I impulse buy something, but if you can’t tell from the pictures below I had a good reason to:
I’ve tested them a bit, they’re quite comfy. There’s also a different set I wanted to buy that had the same pattern, but they were out of my size. Oh well, two out of three ain’t bad. :happy:
Returning to NieR Automata
After yesterdays unhealthy gaming pattern I broke out and did something completely different; I returned to NieR Automata and hack, slashed and hacked my way through enemies and completed quests. I’m still playing from 9S’s perspective, learning the backgrounds behind these machines and why they’re the way they are. This game is still mindblowing to me, with the graphics, the music, story and gameplay… appealing to all the senses. Plus I have to admit I enjoy Yoko Taro’s sense of humor, hands down one of my favorite parts will forever be this games’ version of Romeo and Juliet:
At some point I’d also like to get my hands on the original NieR and maybe even Drakenguard… From what I’ve read you don’t need to play the older games in order to understand Automata, but if they are anything like this I’d like to give them a go. :happy:
I am PC, the gaming transformed
Deciding to take a break from The Phantom Pain in my butthole (not a Chuck Tingle novel) I wanted to return to a couple other games. I played around a bit with Skyrim, but have been crashing constantly. With a friend’s advice I’ll install and uninstall a couple things in an attempt to solve it. I figured I’d save that for another day and instead went into modding MGR as I have plans to stream/record that at a later date,, after all with the attention I’ve been giving TPP it would make sense to cover MGR and the others. :happy:
I haven’t done too much to it yet. I mainly patched the game to run at 1440p and swapped the main model out for the one you see at the game screen as that one has higher res textures. There are some other mods I plan on adding too, like the unarmed mod and a couple others. Unfortunately this game doesn’t have much in the way of mods as compared to The Phantom Pain. If anything I see MGR pour into other games via mods rather than the other way around. It’s not like I go out of the way to find these mods either. They have a habit of finding me instead. :zorak:
Anyways, after tonight’s bit of play I can tell that I need to practice again, the controls feel kinda rusty to me… and I also need to practice with the Steam Controller. Something about making exact slices with the Steam Controller just sounds so… therapeutic.
On another note here is a fun fact: Both The Elder Scrolls and Metal Gear series both have Grey Fox one way or another. :v:
We Are The Diamond Dogs
I’ve been trying my darndest to complete a Mother Base side-op that involves shooting a bunch of dummies, but so far I can only find 26 out of 35. Navigating the R&D platform trying to find all these fuckers is a nightmare. Involves lots of stairs and gay pipes. :melon: I don’t even think I can continue until I finish it either, I have no other missions or side-ops. I might have to break down and use a guide for this particular side-op. Either that or take a break and play a different game of the metal gear persuasion, or just another game in general. Though with my track record it seems Metal Gear leaks into all of my other games when it finds the chance.
Spyro returns to his former glory
These haven’t been confirmed for PC or anything outside the PS4, but I imagine if they’re releasing the Crash Bandicoot trilogy on PC there’s a chance this will too in the future. If it does I’ll definitely purchase it, just as I intend to purchase the Crash Bandicoot remasters. Until then I’ll keep emulating the originals, even though I do have a working PS3 they would play fine on. :v:
Cardboard Box Enthusiast At Work
I’m impressed. I did a side-op where I didn’t set any alarms off AND managed to abduct a new victim for Mother Base. Just had to be patient, and go on sled rides while waiting for sunset. It’s been fun streaming/recording these adventures. Now if I could just complete that one Mother Base side-op I’d be good… Feels like I’m playing hide and seek. :zorak: