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Windows 10 support is "over", so I decide to upgrade to the ESU version with massgrave.

Upgrade from Home to Pro, no problem.

Try to install ESU, gives an error, Windows not updated.

Ok, just install the updates then.

Error. 0x800736cc. Ok? What does that even means?

Delete update files, try again. Same error.

Do Windows Repair. No errors found.

Do Dell Assist. No errors found.

Run sfc. Corrupted files found. Use DISM to repair.

Run DISM, can't fix files. Error 0x800f081f.

Search around. DISM can't fix, gotta do inplace upgrade.

Download Windows 10 ISO. Wrong version, needs 64 bit (That one is on me, didn't notice the numbers)

Download right version, reinstall Windows.

Install ESU, works normally.

Try to install new update. Error. 0x8007000d.

Look around, no one can help.

Try to install update again, works.

Restart, video driver was disabled due "unverified signature".

Disable driver, enable back. Works again.

This whole thing made me notice something, fucking Windows Update corrupted system files LONG ago, never bothered to warn me or fix it. I remember one day it downloaded and installed updates without asking, froze on boot, then undid the update.

I now wonder if every time this PC froze during boot was related to a faulty update.

Even then, I am not moving to 11.

Microsoft can pick their PC bricking AI generated code and choke on it.

23 minutes ago, John Caveson said:

The true spooky is the queue times this year lel. The only silver lining with the seasonal updates is that they're temporary and the matchmaker goes back to a somewhat useful state with just the non-seasonal maps, which of course will slowly not be much better off if they keep adding new maps permanently from the seasonal. Map bloat is real.

The weird thing is, the longest queue I had was 10 minutes or so, on one of the last maps, I think it was Perks. I usually got a map in 5 minutes, although I often was getting into a Virginia server even though I am from South Brazil.

25 minutes ago, John Caveson said:

Boy do I have the mod for you.

Might be interesting, but for me the best TF2 era was 2014 Smissmas.

This ended in my youtube side bar.

"And first person stealth horror is game design on fucking easy mode. All you need to do is smash the game over button if the pursuing enemy so much as touches the player. Pac-Man perfected this formula forty years ago (...)"

Yahtzee murdering that one Freddy game.

10 hours ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

Honestly the general halloween experience is pretty terrible since the maps are on a spectrum ranging from "The worst gamemode ever on a poorly designed map with stupid gimmicks" to "an acceptable map at the very least still ruined by the base halloween gimmick of 'doubly random crits' if not other things"

 

The mask thing though, I definitely think that's just an issue of everyone that cared already having it, and anyone who would need to get it nowadays not even knowing it exists. It is absolutely absurd though. Honestly I'm surprised they at least had the bright idea to not force people to play halloween maps in fucking sequence for once, what an absurdly stupid thing especially considering there are like forty maps now

Oh, I completely agree. The maps fucking SUCK rotten ass.

I definitely want to play the same map, but this time there are instakill bombs everywhere, instakill trains coming in FOUR DIRECTIONS, people are throwing spell grenades around like its TFC and that dumb Kunai spy just gave the other team free crits.

Whoever did Devilcross (Doublecross) is a moron.

Bombs everywhere, spells everywhere, ghost train from 4 directions, pits everywhere, the intelligence only has one entrance because the other is a lava pit that only a few classes can bypass, 15 second respawns AND THE MAP DOESN'T HAS A TIME LIMIT.

So its an eternal stalemate because both teams have like 3-4 engineers camping the intelligence, both teams don't have neither enough people nor are coordinated enough to push, there are 2 snipers camping the sightlines and the people actually trying to do something are dead because they got hit by a flame spell or some shit and now have to wait 15 seconds to try again, and even if they do get to the intelligence, there are 4 sentries that they can't destroy.

After playing TF2 again since forever, I really have to say I wish old TF2 was still here.

Aside the gameplay feeling rather worse, all the community severs I went being dead and people seem to just play one loadout, the halloween event is so stingy with items.

I remember back then playing on Community servers and finding a bunch of stuff, trading away items I had repeats for stuff I didn't had.

Now they are limited AND untradable.

Hell, we even had the class costume transmutation, now not even that, its completely random.

Out of the 64 halloween packages and 19 transmutes, I got 16 pieces I didn't had. I am still missing 34 pieces, and all I can do is wait until next year.

How the hell are people supposed to get the Saxton Hale mask? There are 237 possible costume pieces, including the masks. Its about a 3.8% chance of finding ONE mask per package and you need all 9 without repeats, and you can't trade them.

That chance drops down to 0.42% for a specific mask.

Same happened to me when I found out I had a game I'd rather not disclose on GOG, when I was looking for a torrent.

I think I got the whole Might and Magic bundle for $5 a few years ago and only tried a bit of 1.

Edit:

Talking about the bundle, something is wrong here.

I am missing ONE game, why is the price so much higher depending of where I check?

I often forget how good was the Regular Show soundtrack

Owner of Carpe Fulgur has passed away, and the company is closing.

I guess that means no Recettear remaster.

Fuck.

14 hours ago, Rynjin said:

What's this referencing?

Aspyr is releasing a Deus Ex "Remastered", which improves the graphics from early PS2 to late PS2.

Will you sign my petition or UNATCO will bring you back, in a body bag?

You are definitely improving

I don't even know who the Engineer is, but we did have that event to "kill" the ETF2L Heavy.

Not really a drawing, but I was playing the Crash remake, noticed something strange on Coco's portrait, she looked weird.

Then I noticed she is missing her eyelashes and eyebrows, giving her this distant, bug eyed look.

Anyway, that's it. Thanks for coming to my blog.

11 minutes ago, TheOnlyGuyEver said:

Will it include an arachnophobia filter?

Actually yes, enabling it will immediately jumpscare the player with photorealistic spiders, put a permanent spider filter on screen (as in, several spiders crawl over it) and add several spiders to hundreds of different spots in the game.

The game will be locked to the arachnophobia route and won't disable the mode until you finish the route or delete your save/profile.

Then remind the player that the game is called "Conquer your fears", not "Live comfortably with your fears hidden at a safe distance"

Wait, hear me out, its actually genius!

I was looking at my Steam discovery list, and that dogshit Date Everything game showed up. You know, that garbage that people like ironically that is more of a creature catcher game and deep as a plate of water.

And I am like, "why is every dating game about super models, himbos and bimbos? Where is the representation for the ugly ones, abyssal creatures, sleep paralysis demons, cryptids and denizens from the nightmare realm?"

And while I was thinking that, an idea came to me. Someone should make a game where you date your fears! CONQUER YOUR FEARS!

Let me get in deep with thalassophobia! Feel the caressing of arachnophobia! Talk about our differences with dysmorphophobia! Be sanguine with hemophobia! Look trypophobia in the eyes without blinking! Share jokes with coulrophobia!

It has to be a 3D first person game, the effects must be mind boggling and the sound design must be unreal.

I had a crazy idea for a game, anyone that knows designing, programing and has money? I am the ideas guy.

Now rate them on the anthro scale.

>Wait to see Humble's monthly games

>WWE, previously free with dead playerbase online only 40k game, toddler gaming and 40% of Destiny 2's DLC (not including dungeon keys or this year's DLC)

Round 3.

Veronica. Made to be kind of the opposite of Penny. Related to Catharsis (shadow blob with mask OC)

Had a dream that someone I knew(?) wanted to show me a game they made.

The game was called "Beyond the Call" and it was a 3/4 top down view horror game.

It starts in a ruined city, where people are running away from sort of tangle creature.

You walk around and use your flashlight to direct people into spots to move debris or open up paths.

At first it looks like its a resource management game, but that changes when the creature just starts to shred everyone and you can only run.

There are secret paths in the city that leads you to some collectables and secrets, I remember finding a newspaper talking about a "loose killer clown with a musket".

The level then leads you into swimming in a river, which by hindsight might have been the sewers.

There was a giant Yoshi egg you could hit and after hitting it enough it would submerge and a giant crocodile would swim up and help you by throwing eggs at the creatures.

Level two starts into a forest, everything is covered in spiky vines.

A vine tangle creature shows up and speaks with you, something about how you will never reach the fridge.

The level transitions from the forest, into a ruined house, into a factory. There was a secret room that if you entered in a special order you would get transformed into an ice cube, a trash can knight or a curling stone.

In the factory was a giant fridge. When you enter it, it becomes a platforming game where you have to dodge this giant woman from grabbing you, while climbing to the top of the fridge.

I stop playing after this level and start to talk with the guy that made the game.

I said it was actually pretty good and that he should sell it on Steam. He didn't understand the concept of Steam... or of an online store like EGS, Humble, GOG, etc.

I explain to him what he would need to do, then I turn back to play the third level, but I woke up.