Another thing they can address is the cost of drugs by allowing Medicare to join the Defense Department and the Veterans Administration to negotiate drug prices.

You really have a knack for finding deals.

We, as well as the whole East Coast are having cooler than normal temperatures while the West is baking. We should vote to start the new year in October and get rid of 2020.

Australia Post is essentially *privatized* in several ways, if not in fact. The LNP have been slowly changing the way it works for decades, and especially since 2012. Their latest example is this notification members received: “Notification of Online Community site closure 2 Oct 2020” — It was an active community, but the past few years it became a forum for annoyed people relying on AP to openly vent their annoyance and frustration with the slow destruction of the services. So, they did what the GOP would do, close it.

Age of Empires & AoE 2 were remastered last year and early this year. I’d forgotten, and I thought I already had those. But I didn’t. Luckily, because AoE 3: Definitive (remastered) hasn’t been launched, I was able to cancel my order. Steam had the complete collection on sale after I ordered AoE3 DE. I also found that M$ were offering a US$5 discount for anyone who owned the previous editions of each (just needed the license codes). So I saved $15 on top of the discounted bundle. Cost me AU$41 for all three. I installed the first two and tried them last night. They really did a huge overhaul, as well as the graphics updates they added a lot of speech and sound to the games. So far, so good. 😉 😀
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/11831/Age_of_Empires_Definitive_Collection/

Yesterday was warm and sunny, today looks good so far. It got cold last night though.

Screwing the postal service is the first step towards privatizing it. Got to pay off campaign donors.

I remember the Age of Empires. I wondered why I was seeing a spate of ads for it recently. Hell, M$ just reissued Flight Simulator that includes a map of the world – a bit too large to play off line.

We may be approaching Autumn. The air conditioner has been quiet for longer periods recently in the house and the car. It’s a bit earlier than normal, but nothing has been normal this year.

Our current gang of criminals in Government are screwing our postal service too. Or I should say, have gone all out to screw it even worse than before. Happened about the same time as der Don screwed yours. Funny, that.🤷‍♂️

I’ve updated that build post several times the past couple of years, not just updates but adding detail as I had some messages & eMails from some people new to building a system.

It was warm just over a week ago, even into the late evening. But it’s gone back to warmish days and cooler evenings. Need to either rug up well (which is a bit restrictive) put the heating on after about 8 PM. Temp’s drop down to 16 or less.

Want a Nostalgia trip to the 90’s with DOS 6 & the M$ shenanigans? 😉 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa3xp1xNwvM

One of my favorite real-time Historical strategy games from 2009 has been completely remastered and is being released in October. Called Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition. And it’s not priced sky high for a change! AU$28 is fair enough. So i ordered a copy. I still play the original now and then, last time just before Xmas. But it is showing it’s age! So that will be fun! 😀 The original series is owned by M$, one of the many Studios they bought did a great job. It’s a very curious thing… M$ leave the game Dev’s alone and don’t bug them too much, and they deliver pretty good games! If only they could do that for OS’s and other s/w! Oh well.. Dream on! 🤷‍♂️

https://store.steampowered.com/app/933110/Age_of_Empires_III_Definitive_Edition/

Take care mate & I hope things settle down for you and all!

Busy, oh the Tour and 5 tropical systems at a time with one coming fairly close, not as bad as flying along the coast of North Korea or Libya back in the days of my foolish youth. Yeah, tropical storms when you are surrounded by people who have never been in one can get time consuming.

I forgot how detailed you were on that build. Actually the changes Google made to Blogger in the update to Blogger 2,0 is the reason I moved to this place and switched to WordPress.

To add Trump’s screwing around with the Post Office to all of the COVID restrictions November 3rd can’t come soon enough. My absentee ballot should be mailed tomorrow and I will have that sucker in the mail the first part of next week with twice the postage required and hand delivered to the post office. My supervisor of election has a system to track ballots and tell you when it has been received and when it has been counted.

You should be getting warmer, and I hope your government has managed to get a grip on the virus, unlike mine. At least Scomo doesn’t seem to be saying the virus isn’t a problem and your state leaders aren’t as clueless as my governor. That said, none of these leaders in my country or yours took things seriously early enough to save us a lot of aggravation.

Overclock just updated their web site (for the second time in five years) especially for member’s system builds. Mine has been updated. Not sure I like the changes, though it does look better than the previous one and is easier to use. I decided to spend some time re-formatting it (I have a little more control over the format and text now), and fixing errors and grammar. 😆

https://www.overclock.net/showcase/6700k-gaming-multimedia-test-build.136179/

I’m guessing this thread is about to expire (for comments)? 😉

I couldn’t get to your Twitter account. The Cat Quest looks fun. More detail later. The doors to my house and the cats’ house are swollen from the rain. Another job I didn’t want. (sigh)

I saw that Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died. A very sad day, in many ways.

I posted a tweet:

https://twitter.com/Kryten_42/status/1307186606726553603

This is a very nice little box! And from an Engineering position, very well executed! It’s been awhile… And it’s a very good price too, especially now. You don’t need the *high end* spec. The other options are cheaper. You could play the kitty games ( well, kitty and kitty ‘n’ doggie)! 😸🐶 I am enjoying them.

here is a good game-play video that will show what I mean (for CQ2). It’s corny in so many ways… Yet it strangely works! As the lass in this video shows:
Cat Quest II Ep 1: DANGEROUS DOGGOS – (Cat & Dog RPG Adventure!)

After thousands of hours in D3 RoS, it’s actually pretty easy. It’s like anything in life, a lot of experience makes it mostly autonomous. I can adjust the difficulty from “full auto brain mode” to “Damn! Too slow! I died again!” 😏 But yes, it does help with the anger management no end! I just ordered this game on pre-release (something I swore I’d never do again after being burned! Now THIS is an insane game! I can’t wait! (note, there is some swearing. I’m sure I’ll be the same!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9O7PBloCLA

This one is more in-depth by the Game’s Director. This was the reason I decided to buy (plus there is a 25% discount and *actually* useful items for people who pre-order.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJmL2uHcaeE

The other game I have pre-ordered, is Cyberpunk 2077. It’s from a studio i respect & trust, they created the “The Witcher” game series since 2007. There is now a popular “Witcher” TV series now also, on Netflix I think. A BIG deal for the studio!

I am also officially beta testing a game (they liked my credentials, especially as I played, and still play, the original game for a lot of hours that this game is based upon. the original game was Startopia (2001). It was a lot of fun! Spacebase Startopia is the new one that keeps the core concepts & characters intact, it’s more of a modern expansion with of course much improved graphics and extra levels and characters, of the original.

The old:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/243040/Startopia/

the New:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/840390/Spacebase_Startopia/

it’s pretty good so far. I haven’t found any major problems so far. But they are still working on the last levels of the game.

In many ways, I am glad I no longer have a car (with all the associated expenses) to worry about. Although I do miss the freedom. I have to do some serious housework, I have a lot of junk filling up cupboards I really do NOT need! I’ve run out of space. I was hoping to get my right arm fixed though. I’ll need both working properly. Oh well… As usual, just do what I can! 🤷‍♂️

Good luck, as always.

That sounds like a nice box that is more than enough for what I do. I hope the ChiComs don’t shut it down as a cultural aberration.

RoS doesn’t sound like anything that would allow you to clear your mind, more like a full-time job. Of course it could be helpful bleeding off hostile feelings without involving the constabulary or fire brigade 😉

I’m going to be cleaning up starting tomorrow. My car looks like I drove through a hedge – it’s covered with twigs and leaves. I also have some branches I need to get off the roof. About 50cm of rain and gusts of 100 kph make a mess of things.