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Overdue was also quite good. I’ve always enjoyed Lawrence’s work, but the Library series is quickly becoming a favorite as it evokes emotions tied to the very essence of books for me.

Thanks!

Hey @unJon could you edit the topic title to a general Mark Lawrence spoiler thread?

I didn’t know about Overdue. I will look it up!

I just read Returns before jumping in. Wentworth would seem to share a lot in common with Wobble. Did you ever have a dog that inspired Volente? I also liked the themes of potential and the stillborn child. It wasn’t what I expected to read when I opened up the file to read.

Boy, and a few years ago they had the number one overall pick and you just sort of thought "Here they go, gonna be good for another 5-10 years." And then James Wiseman happens... I don't know about rankings. Top 10, Top 15, a lot of that is splitting hairs. But I know one thing, you can't tell the story of the NBA without Steph Curry. He changed the game and the way it is played at every level.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor 3.40 GHz 32 GB RAM AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

The original FallOut is listed as Playable on Deck. The caution notes just mention that there are times that require utilizing the onscreen touch keyboard and some features do not work with the built in controller function and will require the use of the onscreen keyboard. The positives say that it does utilize Steam Deck controller icons and the default graphics settings work well. To answer your broader question about whether a game is playable on the Steam Deck, that answer is broadly "Yes." Its a PC. Now, it is Linux based PC (that you can dual load Windows onto). So there is hardly anything that you can't play in one shape or another.

Both are listed as “Playable” on Steam Deck which you mentioned…

I saw this bumped and assumed it was commentary on the impromptu signing he did in St Louis this weekend

Book that Broke the World will be arriving for me tomorrow.

I just checked Steam… you can have 3 and NV for a combined total of less than $7.50.

From Wikipedia FWIW

It is number one for the year so far. I assume Deadpool and Wolverine will pass it; but I haven’t seen anything else on my radar that feels like it should be a massive draw. (I’m probably not paying enough attention though.)

Now that the theatrical run is winding down and the home streaming release is two days away, I was checking box office on Dune today and went back to our debate about delaying the release last summer and predictions for the gross. Pretty obvious at this point that delaying it was absolutely the right move. The promotional tour and the positive press it built clearly made a difference in getting the excitement rolling for the movie. My prediction at the time was a bit off: Box office mojo says that the movie has don’t $272m domestic. So I wasn’t far off, but the positive press definitely pushed it above where I thought it would be. At $683m worldwide, it did fall short of the “Billion Monies” that @Deadlines? What Deadlines? and @Calibandar were predicting however. Glad to see we will get a concluding chapter.

They held a press conference at Rupp Arena for Mark Pope’s introduction and had to turn away 5000 fans. We truly are insane. Not bad for a hire everyone was disappointed in 3 days ago.

I’ll post them when I’m back at the office tomorrow. It’s well past the requirements. I did start it up on my Steam Deck without trouble last night.

Did that too.

I've had CyberPunk in my Steam library ever since I bought my Steam Deck, but have never actually played it. All this talk made me decide to install it on my new PC here at the office and give it a go. Installed and the Steam Launcher opened a CDP launcher (I hate launchers that launch other launchers btw). As soon as the game tries to start... it crashes. This is why I've always been a console gamer... they. just. work. So anyways, to the Google machine... I don't have anything running that I feel like should be a problem. I don't have a jsun file. There does not seem to be any Nehemic files running in the task manager (whatever those are). I went searching through my files and found the actual app and tried launching directly. Any suggestions from the group I trust the most for gaming advice on the net? I haven't tried it on the Deck yet. I may do that when I get home. ETA: it has a pop up screen when it crashes that says it has Flatlined and asks permission to send a crash report. But I don't get any error messages.

I agree with all of that. And I guess it’s just the fact that I’m older now, but I thought all those guys were old back then! Cal had done a ton of stuff to only be 50. And yeah… I was 19… but I just sort assumed Tubby was in his mid 50s!!! The fact that he was younger than I am now really hurts!

This is crazy. https://x.com/coreyp08/status/1778796884997419455?s=46&t=q3qEtSbkSoutm2uzooA_0Q Pope is the oldest coach ever hired at UK foe men’s basketball.

Brooks has been killing it here. He had a great Tweet today where he said “As the longest tenured coach in the department, I feel it’s on me to show you around…”

Gotta say... its an absurd butterfly effect when coaches shuffle. SMU hires Andy Enfield, which causes USC to hire Arkansas' coach, which leads to Kentucky hiring BYU's coach...

Naturally I've now moved into the "Talk myself into it" mode. AD Barnhart was just on Kentucky Sports Radio. He said all the right things. There will be $4m in NIL money available to build the team this year. Pope has had two players that he recruited at BYU that wouldn't come to BYU that already called him and said they'd come to Kentucky. (Ya think?) He does play an exciting style of ball and Kelvin Sampson had a quote that BYU was one of the toughest teams to prepare for this year because of the things they run. So in the end, he obviously wants to be here. Big plus. Plays a modern basketball. Big plus. Has no wins in the NCAA tournament. Biggest minus imaginable. Questions on ability to recruit at the highest level. Big minus.

When Drew was gonna be your splashy hire, you know you’ve screwed up.