Gaming, Friday night: I tried. I really tried. I had everything set up. Battle Station 2. The box with the Ryzen 9 – 7950X + RTX 3080 Ti. Thrustmaster HOTAS X at the ready. SteelSeries Arctis 9 Headset charged. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 installed (I have no idea what is going on with this game and its titling; supposedly the content that constitutes it being 2024 isn’t out yet, yet it has already been relabeled in Game Pass).
And yet, after a full day of being burned by the Call of Duty servers being down, I was not able to shake the inevitable thirst and get back to hunting newbs. When I did log in, I also discovered that it was double XP weekend. Not sure if that was planned or something they turned on to make up for the Friday AM fuck-up, but regardless, that set the stage for what will likely be a weekend where I cannot break the grip.
I do really want to log some flight time this weekend though. Hoping maybe if I get a CoD session in Saturday early, I can flip to MSFS and then back to CoD. While I did not go down that path, I briefly considered enacting my plan to start also playing on the XBox Series X and get a FCS for there, since I already fleeted up to a console-specific set of wheel and pedals, which I don’t normally do.
While I thought about it, I also don’t want to go big right off the bat until I know that the game performs well on that device. I will likely start with the Turtle Beach VelocityOne Flight Stick before I beef up, as there is little in between that at $130 before you are spending close to $400. So let’s get started back on PC first, and try out the console necxt session.
Entertainment: I got another episode of Doom Patrol in via HBO Max on the nVidia SHIELD. It looks like we’re getting into Flash territory with some time travel characters showing up. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised it being a Berlanti show. But so far it has not come off as tropish so I will bear it for now.
Rounding Off Infinity 