Ok, I opened my 'Epic Lootbox' I got for watching a participating Overwatch streamer for 5 hours. Didn't even get a skin. Got a charm for my gun, a voice line and a couple of sprays. Lame. And then looking at the store, for $39.99 I can buy a frikkin' staff for mercy and 20 battle pass level skips. Who are you people that are so rich that are paying for this stuff? I will never pay for in-game anything for a game. Everything I got in Overwatch or Fortnite was gotten for free because paying the price of a game for a cosmetic in a game is ridiculous. I guess at least the Overwatch skins won't have tarrifs since they are made in America unlike Marvel Rivals.
Tune into Twitch.tv now to earn a couple of lootboxes for watching participating Overwatch streams. Watch for 5 hours to get an Epic lootbox. I have to check. I think I watched one a couple of weeks ago for 5 lootboxes and when I went in to the game it said I had them but I could not find them in-game. I should check to make sure I didn't get robbed.
Check it out! Konami's next game 'Deliver At All Costs' is launching May 22 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG but on Epic Games Store, it will be free for the week! Sweet! Mark your calendar to check out the store this coming Thursday to score your free copy of Deliver At All Costs!
ChatGPT has been super helpful in getting Immich set up on the DOH! Network server but am I worried it will take my job? It took a couple of tries to actually get Immich up and running consistently without errors so I was sending some of the same errors to ChatGPT and was getting different answers pointing me in totally different directions. Why was it not consistent? It may have scraped the internet for how to do something but it looks like it does not know what the best way is. And then there was trying to update 'Date Taken' times with ExIfTool. I asked ChatGpt how to offset the time by 9 hours. First response changed the date by years. The second by minutes. This went back and forth a few times until I was like, 'Ok. I see what you are doing and you are not going to do what I actually want so I will change the script myself. Maybe ChatGPT was trying to empower me to know how to do it. Well the joke is on ChatGPT because I can't remember jack.
Epic Games is getting back to giving away big name games this week with Dead Island 2 as the free game of the week. The first one was a fun shooter on an island resort but now the action is coming to Los Angeles, California. Maybe I can find my house in there. Grab your free copy of Dead Island 2 now and save L.A. from the zombie hoards!
Good on Apple TV for sticking with their sci-fi shows. They just released the Foundation Season 3 official teaser. It looks like Apple has stepped it up a notch on the special effects and Lee Pace is the perfect Empire. The rest of the cast is solid too.
Grand Theft Auto VI has been pushed out to 2026 but Rockstar Games was nice enough to drop Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2. The graphics look amazing, the world looks huge, and the adventures look fun. It's going to be a long wait for the game release.
Microsoft has announced Gears of War: Reloaded is coming to Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam this summer! Xbox fans who own the digital version of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition will receive a free upgrade but no love for us old schoolers who ahve thee cd-rom sitting in our garages that can't play it because it had a hard coded end of life date in it. It is possible to hack that but then the save feature does not work and I am definitely not going to get through it in one sitting. I remember playing it back in the day and I had to take like an 8 month break because I could not beat Raam. Then I finally figured out you have to wait for him to walk the length of the train car and when he reaches the lights, the bat shield will disperse so you can shoot him successfully.
Grand Theft Auto fans will ahve to wait a little longer for the next release in the franchise as Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026. DOH! Well, it will probably be less buggy so that's good and we will probably all be playing Half-Life 3 until then anyway.
Listed under 'Gaming / Rumor', website wccftech.com has an article stating 'Half-Life 3 Is Being Widely Playtested Ahead of a Possible Summer Reveal, Winter Release'. If true, that would be a nice little suprise. How they are keeping it so under wraps is amazing. How can they keep all their testers from not letting anything slip accidentally?