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[FordGT90Concept]

Washington was as close to royalty/noblemen USA ever got so it makes sense that he was above average. But you're right, I based my figures loosely on Napolean's misquoted height of 5'2" when he was most likely about 5'7" which coincides exactly with that broader study you linked. That sounds about what Jacob should be (give or take an inch or two) because Jacob wasn't nobility/royalty at all. Lara should be about eye-to-eye to him and he should be about eye-to-eye to the rest of the male Remnants with the females being a little bit shorter. The relationship for Jonah to Lara is probably about right--he's a big dude. Konstantin too. Ana should match Lara give or take.

It's just sad that they didn't even try. The skeletons of males are all copy-pasta and the skeletons of females are all copy-pasta. It really trashed immersion for me.

 

[StrayKAT]

Washington was as close to royalty/noblemen USA ever got so it makes sense that he was above average. But you're right, I based my figures loosely on Napolean's misquoted height of 5'2" when he was most likely about 5'7" which coincides exactly with that broader study you linked. That sounds about what Jacob should be (give or take an inch or two) because Jacob wasn't nobility/royalty at all. Lara should be about eye-to-eye to him and he should be about eye-to-eye to the rest of the male Remnants with the females being a little bit shorter. The relationship for Jonah to Lara is probably about right--he's a big dude. Konstantin too. Ana should match Lara give or take.

It's just sad that they didn't even try. The skeletons of males are all copy-pasta and the skeletons of females are all copy-pasta. It really trashed immersion for me.

Way off point now, but I sort of had an "aha" moment. Makes me wonder now if this was the thing going on in people's minds that made many defer to nobles. The nobles were simply bigger, and drank more milk as kids They may have given a literal impression that they were "higher beings".

It also partly ties into the various peasants' revolts that started happening after the Plague and slowly ushered in Magna Carta and other democratic foundations. The plague destroyed the illusion of health, and nobles looked weak... they died like the rest.. but peasants at this point outnumbered them even more and had bargaining power (and slowly lived like nobles themselves or owned land.. and grew healthy too).

Oh, Henry VIII was apparently 6'2" as well. Oooh.. and Edward Longshanks too.

It's also curious in descriptions from the nobles of Joan of Arc, they called her short and a little muscular.. Yet her clothing and some other accounts puts her at 5'2". Strange if 5'2" was short enough for them to remark on - of a teenage girl no less. Unless they were clearly taller themselves.


Eh, back to Gaming.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

playing Warframe & Heroes of the Storm. Keeping boredom at bay before Forza Horizon 4 comes out & probably have enough patience until Metro Exodus & Cyberpunk 2077 unleashes out into the wild along with a GPU upgrade in the works.

 

[StrayKAT]

playing Warframe & Heroes of the Storm. Keeping boredom at bay before Forza Horizon 4 comes out & probably have enough patience until Metro Exodus & Cyberpunk 2077 unleashes out into the wild along with a GPU upgrade in the works.

I'm relaxed now knowing Cyberpunk may get released next year. Got lots of time to catch up with what I already have. It's the only thing I've been hyped about though.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

think we have plenty of time to wait for its release. Also a good excuse for me to save up.

 

[Frick]

Not necessarily. 300 years ago George Washington was 6'4". And the reason I'm tall (although my mom is a 5'2" Asian woman) is my Dad's family is Danish. He was 6'7". Those genes (and old descriptions of Vikings) came from somewhere. Norsemen weren't just terrifying over time. They were terrifying even back then.

I also think a lot depends on diet. I can't remember where I heard this, but I think they've measured skeletons of poor peasant class kids versus rich ones in medieval times, and there's a notable difference. I wish I could dig it up for my own curiosity now. There is this study though: They found that the average man was more like 5'7" in the medieval era. Which isn't too much shorter from now (definitely not 4'6" at least).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ieval-ancestors-just-tall-says-new-study.html


Lastly.. An odd curiosity - and it may make you roll your eyes - but I find it interesting that the figure in the Shroud of Turin is depicted to be about 5'11 or 6'0. Forget if it was from 1st century Palestine. That's not my point. It's just as interesting if it was a hoax from the late medieval age.

edit: That was a huge derail, sorry.

I still don't disagree that Lara should be taller.

Bah.. got Washington's height wrong. He was 6'2". Lincoln a hundred years later was 6'4".

I want to derail too! Because this is really interesting.

You know how it's commonly said how North Koreans are shorter than South Koreans doe to malnourishment? It's true. Vikings were taller than others back then ... but shorter than nordic people are now. For roughly the same reasons. Romans were quite short as well (depending on time and area obviously, as it was quite a large place and pretty long lived), the army was less than 170cm on average iirc. And the old saying that japanese were short? Malnourishment, and for some reason the average height for them has declined since the 80's. Living conditions and food has a huge impact on physical development, which makes sense. And it's interesting to read some books (mostly I'm thinking about Terry Pratchett) where they describe people 6 feet tall as being really tall.

I made a poll btw!


On topic. Just crafted Avenger, a legendary relic. Took a few hours to farm everything, and bring order in my vast inventory. I've never sold an epic throughout the game, but now I have cleaned house so I now longer have three identical pretty useless axes, but instead only one. Also all my resistances are up so now I can survive the finals of Elite, and maybe even some dungeon bosses. That will take a few more levels though, and possibly some better eqipment. I really should take a look at reseting my devotion points as they are ... not bad as such, but they're not planned or thought out in the least, I just placed points in what I thought was a good idea at them time. Not ideal for long term survivability.

EDIT: Also Two Point Hospital is only a 1.5GB download... Plenty small enough for my poor mobile connection. Seriously considering it.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I got my eyes on Two Point. It's a spiritual Successor to Theme Hospital which was a fantastic game. As always, I wait to buy until they're done pushing DLCs and patches.


Since my friend has been under the weather so we can't take on Endurance mode, I started achievement hunting in Thief 4. Most of the achivements I have left are 110% OCD required so this is going to take a very long time.

 

[StrayKAT]

Reinstalling my system. No gaming for me for awhile. I swear, it takes like two weeks to get my Steam library back.

As much as I love my U.2 drive, my (28 lane) x299/Core-X shuts off PCIe slot 2. I need it.

Since my friend has been under the weather so we can't take on Endurance mode, I started achievement hunting in Thief 4. Most of the achivements I have left are 110% OCD required so this is going to take a very long time.

Do you like the Thief remake? I think it looks great, but unfortunately doesn't hold a candle to the old ones. It's too bad really. Square didn't do so bad reviving the other Eidos stuff (you of course disagree on Tomb Raider.. so I wonder if you like this more).

 

[Kursah]

Reinstalling my system. No gaming for me for awhile. I swear, it takes like two weeks to get my Steam library back.

As much as I love my U.2 drive, my (28 lane) x299/Core-X shuts off PCIe slot 2. I need it.

You could use something like Macrium Reflect Free to migrate to a different drive, I do that all the time for clients and family, whether it's HDD to SSD, or larger drive, or different boot drive, or w/e. That would save you time for sure. I'm only assuming you're going SATA for SSD or HDD storage now to get your PCIe slot 2 back?

Game-wise, GalCiv 3 and Factorio for my strategy gaming and for some FPS action got back into Titanfall 2 with my youngest son. We're having a great time, he's surpassed me, but still close enough we can keep it competitive!

 

[Frick]

Reinstalling my system. No gaming for me for awhile. I swear, it takes like two weeks to get my Steam library back.

As much as I love my U.2 drive, my (28 lane) x299/Core-X shuts off PCIe slot 2. I need it.

Why do you have them on the OS drive at all? I've seperated my OS drive from my "stuff" drives since the 90's. And the Steam folder can be moved without external tools, you just have to specidy the new location and then redownload the game, which will look for local files first, and find them. It's not very quick and it's still hands-on for every game, but quicker than redownloading everything.


Me I'm thinking I have to pause Grim Dawn for a while. I had some Southern Comfort last night, slept badly and dreamt about the game all night long. Probably a sign of some sort.

 

[StrayKAT]

Why do you have them on the OS drive at all? I've seperated my OS drive from my "stuff" drives since the 90's. And the Steam folder can be moved without external tools, you just have to specidy the new location and then redownload the game, which will look for local files first, and find them. It's not very quick and it's still hands-on for every game, but quicker than redownloading everything.


Me I'm thinking I have to pause Grim Dawn for a while. I had some Southern Comfort last night, slept badly and dreamt about the game all night long. Probably a sign of some sort.

It's complicated. I split operations and installed some apps on the secondary drive (and things like the Documents folder were on the Secondary drive too). If it was all Games, it'd be easy.

Anyways, I'll get through it. Thanks for the advice (to the above guy too).

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Do you like the Thief remake? I think it looks great, but unfortunately doesn't hold a candle to the old ones. It's too bad really. Square didn't do so bad reviving the other Eidos stuff (you of course disagree on Tomb Raider.. so I wonder if you like this more).

Yes. Honestly, I don't know why people hate on it. Other than the weirdness with Erin (which is mostly isolated to the prologue), it's still a Thief game. I was shocked/surprised that the few times Thief does wall traversing, it does it 1000 times better than Tomb Raider does. It's fast, fluid, doesn't let the player make stupid mistakes (that Garrett obviously wouldn't do), and the environmental triggers associated with it aren't exaggerated/over used. It doesn't break immersion like the same mechanic in Tomb Raider does. Speaking of immersion, I noticed music is very, very rare in Thief.


All of my games are on a 6 TB HDD that's rapidly filling up. Whenever I reinstall Windows, I just have to run Steam, GOG, Origin, and Ubisoft Launcher on there and they fix themselves/detect everything installed. No additional software required.

Usually back in a game within four hours of starting the install process.

...slept badly and dreamt...

Weird, same thing happened to me but it wasn't game related dreams at all.

 

[Frick]

Yes. Honestly, I don't know why people hate on it. Other than the weirdness with Erin (which is mostly isolated to the prologue), it's still a Thief game. I was shocked/surprised that the few times Thief does wall traversing, it does it 1000 times better than Tomb Raider does. It's fast, fluid, doesn't let the player make stupid mistakes (that Garrett obviously wouldn't do), and the environmental triggers associated with it aren't exaggerated/over used. It doesn't break immersion like the same mechanic in Tomb Raider does. Speaking of immersion, I noticed music is very, very rare in Thief.

I played it for a few hours, and some of the sneaking was alright, but no jumping and that stupid parkour thing in the beginning made it feel like a sneak-on-rails thing. Just give me a huge, totally open level, and give me something to steal, and The Metal Age also happened to have a decent story. Thief didn't do that. Did it have the stylized intros to the missions? I don't remember if it even had missions.

And they changed the character and voice actor, but kept the name. That was just pure sadness for me.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Just give me a huge, totally open level, and give me something to steal,

You get a lot of that later. It ends up being pretty decent, even fun.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I played it for a few hours, and some of the sneaking was alright, but no jumping and that stupid parkour thing in the beginning made it feel like a sneak-on-rails thing.

Sneaking is more or less the same across all four games. Jumping is contextual (likely so you don't get stuck on props). The parkour thing is mostly just that one time in the prologue. It shows that you can do it and also that Erin has a different approach to thievery than you. I suppose it is possible to run around and parkour through the city but I doubt many players do.

Just give me a huge, totally open level, and give me something to steal, and The Metal Age also happened to have a decent story.

That's what the city is between chapters. The client jobs are usually that way too. The chapters tend to be more on rails.

Did it have the stylized intros to the missions?

There's usually a cutscene. Game actually has quite a few cutscenes.

And they changed the character and voice actor, but kept the name. That was just pure sadness for me.

Yeah, that was a downer but Garrett is the strong silent type so I didn't mind as much as I minded Michael Ironsides not voicing Sam Fisher. With Sam Fisher, he talks frequently during interrogations and with whomever your controller is. Most of the dialogs in Thief are intros and outros with one liner comments at specific points (e.g. something about using the claw to get over that wall or "nice find" when picking up a collectible).

I think it's more that the guy that replaced Ironsides wasn't as good of a fit for the character as the guy that replaced Garrett's voice. Both voice actors of Garrett fit the character in my opinion. The guy they got to replace Ironsides just sounded like an average dude where Ironsides has that dark, assertive, gravelly voice that matches Sam Fisher's personality perfectly. The guy that does the Arby's commercials would have been a better fit for Fisher than the guy they recruited. A case of bad casting.

 

[cucker tarlson]

played AK for a few hours today,got some more achievements,i gotta tell you I love this friggin game,the setting,the mechanics,the gameplay and the combat, easily one of my favorites despite all technical problems.

 

[Canon]

MotoGP 18

So, so impressed by this game. Not totally surprised considering Milestone did such a great job with the "Ride" series, unlike Kylotonn with that absolutely pathetic IOM:TT game.

Game looks and runs super smooth, the career mode is replayable to death, AI is fantastic and has a good range for adjusting, player customisation is there and just right too. Sound quality is fantastic.

I'm not sure if I would recommend this over Ride 2 since it's purely short circuit GP racing however I'm hopeful that if another Ride title comes along that they'll implement some of the features in this game.

Well worth checking out if it's your kinda thing.

 

[ViperXTR]

Farming Simulator: World

 

[FordGT90Concept]

It's very slow going in Thief. I did the Bank Heist (rob a bank side job), Hand Tailored (steal a mechanical hand from a tailor shop side job), and another chapter as well as trying my best to comb through all the loot in the Stone Market and South Quarter sections of the city. Still have for sure two more side job, five more chapters, and at least one more section of the city left to do.

The game actually surprised me. I'm requiring myself to get all of the loot in every mission and some loot is hard to get because of guards/civilians. On top of that, you can get one more playstyle objective: ghost, opportunist, or predator but in order to qualify, you have to do the objective for it and have a majority of that style. On this last map, ghost was remain undetected (usually pretty easy but ghost means leaving everyone untouched and putting everything back the way you found it), opportunist was to not knockout or kill anyone (not easy at all when trying to collect all of the loot), and predator was aerial takedown 5 people (usually don't do predator because it costs in terms of arrows). The previous two chapters I did opportunist because that's just how it ends up knocking out people and riffling through everything. Because opportunist refuses that approach on this chapter and ghost would mean giving up on collecting all the loot, I was forced to play as predator. First time ever in the game, in fact. Needless to say, bodies hit the floor (often with my added weight ) and everyone's pockets are lighter except mine.

 

[AlejoZ]

Some Far Cry 5

 

[StrayKAT]

Not exactly gaming related, but since I'm reinstalling my system, I've been exploring a lot of software. It's kind of amazing how many great and free development tools there out there (games related and otherwise). From Microsoft as well. This was unthinkable when I was younger. Too bad I'm not that skilled. Kids nowadays have so much within their reach.

 

[purplekaycee]

Some Far Cry 5

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How's this game really compared to the previous one far cry 4?
Is this one an improvement? About to begin my gameplay

 

[rtwjunkie]

I'm playing The Council. I absolutely got hooked! Before I knew it, 10 hours had passed and I had finished the first 3 episodes. It is an adventure game with fantastic writing and story, with RPG elements, which assist you in your verbal engagements and observations, and choices which really do seem to matter. You can easily lose out on whole elements of the narrative, or have different results with people depending on your sentence choices. Sometimes you can't help it, because you didn't invest in a skill, for which you use the points you get periodically for being successful.

Downside? It's episodic. 4th episode releases next month. Also, voice acting is overdone and cringe-worthy, as far as the accents.

Overlook those things, and you a nice adventure which starts out as a type of world illuminati meeting, and becomes a version of Clue, somewhat.

Now THERE is a dilemma!

 

[StrayKAT]

Well, that was an exercise in frustration. Giving up an SSD for my system drive is harder than I thought. Went back to the old setup..

But! No one told me Optane can now run on secondary drives (8th Gen boards). I decided to try it on x299, and despite not being 8th gen, it works. This is freaking sweet. So now running U.2 Optane on my main drive.. and a 10tb HDD with optane memory for secondary. It's better than mere caching, if you use the Optane app (not RST)… since you can select specific programs or games you want to go into it. If you want a lot of space, it doesn't seem like we can do better than this.. until 10TB SSDs are within reach.

Anyways, haven't downloaded much. Doing the slow process of adding a bunch of retro ROMs (RetroArch). Thousands upon thousands of little files to scan. Wish there was a faster way to do this.

 

[Frick]

Overlook those things, and you a nice adventure which starts out as a type of world illuminati meeting, and becomes a version of Clue, somewhat.

Sounds intreuging. Wishlisted!


Taking a break from Grim Dawn ultimate ... with other Grim Dawn chars. Trying a dual gunslinging Mage Hunter (inquisitor/arcanist) and it's a lot slower than the necromancer. Really need some decent AoE damage, but I'm just in my teens so far so we'll see how it develops. Hoping to find the last pieces of some low level sets while I'm at it.

And I am seriously considering changing name of my main char (by external tools). I named him Sandro, expecting to do a necromancer, but I didn't have the expansion in which the necro is, so I became a Commando (soldier/demolitionist) instead. Thinking about Terek. The necro's called Vidomina amd the gunslinger is Orrin. Notice a theme?