I was watching via Hulu Live and the stream also sucked so maybe it was some kind of issue upstream.
I enjoyed the race. I hate all of Red Bull more than I like any other team but I am happy to see Ferrari running good. As a newer, casual fan it seems like they should always be good. One of those "The sport is better when X is good" type things.
What happened with Bottas at the start? They didn't talk about it too much or if they did I missed it but dropping 8 spots right away seems like something must have happened.
Ragnarok is out for Valhalla and I got it even though the Asgard/Jotunheim parts were, for me, easily the shittiest content in the base game. I think its a little nuts this is $40 too, vs the $25 I paid for Ireland and France, but whatever. Anyway, it's a lot better than I thought it would be. The new powers are just fancier abilities that use a new fuel called Hugr as opposed to Adrenaline but they are pretty cool. The Raven one is especially awesome. You turn into a Raven for 30 seconds or so and then can pick exactly where to land resulting in exploration shortcuts or creative assassination attempts. There's only like 5 new powers, but they are all interesting.
I can't really comment on the story as I have only played a few hours and I always go exploring vs doing main quest stuff to start with.
My biggest complaint is that you have to drink the potion to go there and wake up to get back, I wish they would have just made it like going to the normal places.
But I mean that's the franchise. All the Demon's Souls games are extremely challenging and disrespectful of the player's time. Who bought this game not knowing that? Sure someone did but not most people. The disparity in reviews for critics v consumers on the PC seems to be performance issues. The next gen console versions have much closer critic v consumer reviews.
I always find it fascinating when critics slobber on something and users shit on it. This is currently one of the highest rated PC games of all time by critics, on metacritic, with a 95/100 rating. Users, however, are giving it 5.3/10. Lots of reasons this can happen but in this case it seems to be because of the optimization being shit.
I generally don't watch streams and this is not streaming but YouTube videos...that said I found this dude's Red Dead Redemption 2 videos hilarious. Especially the lasso ones.
https://www.youtube.com/user/XpertThief/videos
I saw this CJRB Scoria on a YouTube video about best budget knives and I liked the look of it enough to get it. It's some kind of powder formed steel with black DLC that has a questionable pedigree, but nice Micarta scales. Overall dimensions are perfect for my ideal carry knife. I paid $70 delivered so I am not sure that qualifies as budget but I like the knife.
I was not familiar with Civivi until looking them up after your post. I had heard of We Knife but ignored them because China. I am a total sucker for Damascus and Damasteel though, love flippers as well as Micarta so I bought this one and love it. Button lock also turned out to be a plus, my first one. Anyway I went on a spree and bought five other Damascus Civivi's. This one turned out to be one of my favorites out of the six.
Early thoughts on the other five:
Pintail in Damascus/Wood. I knew this was small but its just too small for me to carry and use. Very nice though. I love the blade geometry and the wood scales are amazing for the price point. I would love this knife in like a 3.5" blade and 4.5" handle. As it stands I'm going to give it to my grandson, its a good size for a kid.
Mini Asticus in Damascus/Wood. This is about as small as I can go. 3.25" blade ~4" handle. Again, the scales are crazy good for the price point. I like this knife enough to keep it but if it was not Damascus, I wouldn't.
Elementum in Damascus/Carbon Fiber. I thought I would like this more than I did. I debated returning it. Button lock, which again is new to me but I like a lot. However unlike the Cogent it's not an assisted flipper. Not a huge deal as the action is great and it flips open and closed easily but when I bought it I thought it had a flipper and I would not have bought it if I knew it wasn't. I don't love the scales, they are slippery. Looks nice though.
Praxis in Damascus/Copper. This is a beast. I've never had anything with copper scales and this motherfucker is heavy. Like, way too heavy to pocket carry in gym shorts which is my default outfit. That said it is a very good looking knife and I put it on display even though I will likely never use or carry it.
Riffle in Damascus/Wood. This is my favorite out of the six. I love the cutout on the blade. The scales, like the other wood Civivi's, are perfect. Handle length is perfect for me.
We are half way through S3 and it's still great. Barry has become one of my all time favorite sit com characters. Ironically, considering there would be no show without the real life dude, Adam is my least favorite character.
Full disclosure I ordered one after binging all the Jack Carr Terminal List books. Was a 16-20 week lead time around Thanksgiving. I went maple and no spike since I am unlikely to go on a successful globe hopping vengeance fueled rampage. Regretting it now though since it looks so cool/unique.
Ok so I played the fuck out of this over the last 6 weeks or so and did all the quest arcs except for Paris, which I started but am very early in and kind of burned out on the game at this point. I ordered Ragnarok but really am not looking forward to it as the Asgard/Jotunheim arcs were my least favorite in Valhalla and the whole absorb their powers shit looks gimmicky to me and I didn't really use but a fraction of the abilities in Valhalla anyway. I almost never used the ranged ones and used the same 4 melee ones for the whole game.
Anyway, I am going to start up Origins or Odyssey. For those who have played both, which order would you play them in? I am thinking Origins then Odyssey...it seems the slight consensus internet opinion is that Odyssey is the best of these three, and I would not want to play Valhalla, Odyssey and then Origins if Origins would then feel like a let down. Also, for me personally, I would be shocked if I like either of the other two as much as I liked Valhalla. I fucking loved it and haven't cracked out on a game like this since Ghost of Tsushima and then Witcher 3 before that.
Yeah. I am generally not hard on my knives and I would hesitate to even call this prying, although technically sure it was. If I didn't have the knife on me I would have used a flat head or even a butter knife. As I was doing it, I was worried about the key fob plastic getting damaged, not the knife blade.