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Pandemic Playtime: Boardgames evening
I've added an online boardgames evening this Friday (before Jackbox). It's a bit earlier than some other events (because I'm in Germany) but if you can make it we'll be playing games on boardgamearena.com and voice chatting on Discord. (specific games to play will be decided in the moment, but you can see the wide selections of games on the site.)
CB
Re: Let's get it done
OK, I added some more again ... can do ~4M PPD, but this is likely my max. It's everything at home and any worthwhile spare hardware at the office.
mas0n
Let's Wine about lockdown.
So, to deal with being stuck inside I have begun expanding my pallet. Found a decent wine, Back Home Again Red Wine. Very light as red goes, sweet but not oppressively so, and under twenty bucks. Overall would recommend. Anyway go go gadget wine thread.
Re: Let's Wine about lockdown.
Yesterday I opened and thoroughly enjoyed the last 1961 Château Brane-Cantenac from my collection. It was absolutely devine even though it was probably just past its peak. There was the typical Margaux velvety glove as well as rich ripe fruit from the nose all the way through to the finish. This was definitely an almost perfect time to enjoy this jewel as I know it was just going to diminish from this point on. Brane-Cantenac is also the first Bordeaux I ever purchased as a 1971 vintage back many years ago when I first got serious about wine.
Mt_Goat
Re: Pandemic Playtime: The Icrontic Grand Prix
The server is up and running. You can search for it in the in-game server browser by looking for
Pandemic Playtime: Grand Prix
The password for the server is
icrontic
All lower case.
Over the next few days feel free to hop on and hoon about the tracks.
Sonorous
Pandemic Playtime: The Icrontic Grand Prix
Get your wheels, controllers and keyboards prepped. Radio your pit crew. Icrontic is going racing this Wednesday, April 22nd at 8pm ET (7CT 6PT) with RaceRoom Racing Experience.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/211500/RaceRoom_Racing_Experience/
It's a free racing simulator that's welcoming to all levels of players, even those new to racing sims. No special equipment is needed just show up and blast around a few tracks with us.
Each race track will have a 10 minute practice round, 5 minutes to get in a qualifying lap and a 20 minute race. We have 4 tracks to play on and a few car choices. Everyone will be racing in a similar car to keep things fair. The game itself has all kinds of driving assistance built-in so you can talor the racing to your level and I have the server set to allow user choice of driving aids.
The game itself is fairly large so if you plan of participation (40gb) and I would recommend downloading it in advance. I'll update this thread (and discord) with the server information tomorrow.
Sonorous
Re: Expo Icrontic 2020 is cancelled
After multiple support tickets and ridiculous wait times, we successfully withdrew the GoFundMe proceeds safely to our bank account. Thanks very much again to everyone that contributed.
Linc
Pandemic Playtime: PoGo Community Day Lockdown Edition
4/25, 2020 11:00a - 5:00p Local Time - What better community to hang out with than Icrontic!
- Hang out on Zoom with Icrontic
- Share your shinys and other exciting finds
- Giveaways will happen for prizes like Pokemon Plushies and PokéCoins!
- Pokemaster Digi will be available to answer any questions you have about Pokemon Go!
Incense will last 3 hours so you'll only need 2. There will be a one time purchase Community Day box available for 1,280 PokéCoins. This will get you 30 Ultra Balls, three Super Incubators, and three Incense. Also for the first time ever, an Elite Charged TM will be included in the box. This will allow you to change a Charge Move on one of your Pokemon and not only do you get to choose the move, legacy moves / community day moves will be available! For any of you PvPers, this is the chance to make that uber-mon you missed out on. Who will you use your Elite Charged TM on?
There will also be a special research available for $1 if you want to do some extra stuff. Main highlights are 13,000 Stardust, a Poffin, and a Rocket Radar. Let's go through the adventure together!
I will start up a Zoom 8p/9m/10c/11e am so that East coast folks can start hanging out while they Community Day. I will be available for the length of Central community day and I'll stay on as long as I can to help Mountain and Pacific finish up their days. Evolving an Alakazam during the event and up to 2 hours after 5pm to get the fast move Counter. We'll discuss this and how it will affect Alakazam as a raid team member and in PvP.
Alright Icrontic Community, let's be The Very Best!
All Details here: https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/communityday-april2020/
https://pokemongolive.com/events/community-day/
Re: Half Life Alyx
"For many of us, I don't think it's "grumpiness", it's "it will cost $1000 to play this game""
This is, for the most part, untrue in 2020. The Oculus Rift Quest is all-in-one and costs less than an Xbox and it doesn't need a PC to play at all. With the newly released link cable, you can plug it into your PC and play Rift S quality games while still having the flexibility of play where you want when you want it. I know $400 isn't cheap, but we're far and away from the days of needing $1,200+ worth of upgrades and hardware to be able to play.
VR runs great on mid-tier PC hardware these days. It runs fine on a GeForce 1080, so if you've upgraded or rebuilt your PC in the last four years, you're probably good to go already. As the hardware has improved, the software has also lowered the previously insane high requirements to be able to play VR on your PC.
It also helps that most VR games are priced accordingly. You won't find $60 games - most are around the $15 dollar price point. If a game is more of an hour long experience, you'll typically pay an amount that makes sense for what it is.
UPSLynx