This new Wonder Woman trailer is sooooo good! If I wasn’t sold before, I am now!
I Bought A Mechanical Keyboard And Now All Other Keyboards Are Ruined…
I have wanted a mechanical keyboard for quite some time, but I could never justify the price for one with real Cherry MX switches. Not to mention my Microsoft Natural Elite has held up great for its more than fifteen year tour of duty, and if Microsoft would have made a mechanical variant of that keyboard I would have bought it in an instant. Thankfully Corsair ran a deal on its refurbished STRAFE keyboards. Now I can never go back to a rubber dome keyboard.
I didn’t think it would make that much of a difference, but it is night and day. Every keyboard press is registered properly and with 100% accuracy. No more, “did I push that or didn’t I?”, no more squishy feeling. It immediately made a difference in my response times in games too. I was still terrible, but at least now I was terrible with my character doing exactly what I was telling him to do when I told him to do it.
It was keyboard bliss until my ‘O’ and ‘Y’ keys started sticking. I have never had a problem with refurbished hardware before. I was devastated. I was worried that my refurbished kit was buyer beware, but after a very quick phone call my new keyboard was being overnighted to me. A+ for customer service.
Anyway. Now I hate all non-mechanical keyboards. I hate them so much. Yes moving to a mechanical keyboard costs some dough, but it is well worth it. Just look out for those deals.
Here Is A Trailer That I Believe Is Based Off Of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower…
I have not finished all The Dark Tower books yet, so maybe there are parts of the story that I am missing, but this The Dark Tower looks very little like Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. Now there are ways to have that make sense, but I am guessing the movie will not explore them. I plan on waiting for reviews before I fork over my cold hard cash.
What The Heck Is Going On With Buying Games On Twitch?
Did you know that for the last month you have been able to buy games on Twitch? Well you can. Do you know how? Of course you don’t. I said it was going to happen, and low it did. The way it is supposed to work is that you go and watch a stream of a game, then if you like it , you buy it. If you are the one doing the stream you get a 5% kickback. Fun huh. Well in practice it is not going so well.
On the main streaming page the link to buy the game doesn’t show up. You have to go to game info. If you just want to shop for games it takes several clicks to find what you are looking for. There is no central store to see what games Twitch has for sale. If you search for games on Amazon, Twitch’s parent company, you will only be able to buy Steam licenses. Which makes no sense.
Speaking of making no sense, what are the capabilities of the Twitch Launcher? Does it do cloud saves or friends lists, can you buy games from it? The answer to all those questions is of course no. It is just a crappy app that you have to have to download “some” of the games you purchased on Twitch. If you buy an Ubisoft game, you get a key for UPlay. So unless the game was on sale it probably makes more sense to just buy your Ubisoft games from the UPlay store and save yourself a bunch of time.
If I sound frustrated it is just because Steam needs some real competition, and I think Amazon/Twitch is just the company to do it, but not with the crappy system they have now. At a minimum there has to be some way for me to know what games I can buy on Twitch, and if I am streaming, a visible way to buy the game. The UPlay thing I kind of understand. They will sell keys for all platforms to generate revenue, which is a way to differentiate from Steam, but it makes their sales platform look segmented and fractured. I am sure all of this will get better, but I expect more and better from a company that makes its money selling stuff online and has thousands of developers at its fingertips.
Postgame Report: Torment: Tides Of Numenera!
After a little over twenty hours my trip through the crazy world Numenera has come to a close. This post will be a quick follow up to my earlier review. Even a few days after beating the game I think about it from time to time. The things I saw, the different things that I could have said to people. Companions that I could have taken with me, but didn’t. Whether I want to play through it again or not. That’s what Torment: Tides Of Numenera does, it makes you think, and I appreciate it for that.
The only real letdowns from the game were, if I was forced to fight the combat wasn’t great, and the ending, while interesting, wasn’t as satisfying as I had hoped. Just to make sure I checked online to confirm that I hadn’t missed anything, I hadn’t. That was just the way the game ended. That is not to say that it ruined the game, it definitely did not, but still, it did stick out.
Games like this are not made every day, and people should be reward for making them, so you should go out and play it too. Your brain will thank you. If nothing else you will get to see a city built inside an interdimensional monster. That is always fun!