Ben_H

Yup. On certain missions, there'll be a raised up chunk where the sniper can longwatch from and see everywhere, so I'll leave them there even though there's no cover.

That's good news. The series needs a serious overhaul.

I'm really digging it so far. I haven't run into any of the performance issues somehow, though I did immediately disable vsync and turned down the anti-aliasing, something I do for pretty much every game I play since I prefer a better framerate to a couple jagged looking edges, when I first started playing it (I'm using a 970 on a 2560x1440 screen so I was expecting worse performance than I got).

For the game itself, I haven't lost a team member yet outside of the tutorial mission at the start on the default difficulty so I'm thinking of cranking the difficulty up (I may wait until my second play through). It seems like you can abuse sharpshooters almost as badly as in Enemy Unknown and Longwatch is super strong still. I like how all the classes work, especially the Specialist. I often take two Specialists, one who is specialized in hacking, and one a medic. I'm still quite early so I'll be interested to see where this all goes.

I have run into a couple weird bugs though. Halfway through a mission once the enemy AI just stopped working. It would go to the enemy turn, sit there for a few seconds and then go to my next turn. It took restarting the game to fix that.

I'll echo what other people are saying. Skip Rocksmith, learn the fundamentals from books or online guides or whatever, and then go from there. Maybe consider Rocksmith in a few months or a year, after you are completely comfortable with playing guitar and can do chords correctly. Trying to keep up with Rocksmith when your technique is not even remotely developed will do much more harm than good.

Learn the basic chords, build muscle memorization for both hands. Focus on learning to use the pick correctly. Become comfortable using your pinky finger. Don't be a three fingered guitar player. Use a metronome to practice scales and songs. USE A METRONOME. USE A METRONOME!!!! It's important if you hadn't noticed. It helps so much. Not using one when practicing songs or scales will get you nowhere (you'll be playing easy passages too fast and difficult ones too slow or at an inconsistent speed. I was guilty of this for a while before I saw the light). There's no excuse not to have or use one, since you can get metronome apps on your phone that are more powerful than metronomes that cost over $100 10 year ago. Likewise, always tune your guitar. Don't get lazy and play out of tune. You can get apps for that too now that seem pretty decent.

Trying to rush things when learning guitar tends to end poorly. It's much better to go slower and learn in a more thorough way. I've been playing guitar for about 12 years and one thing I've observed about a lot of newer players is that they seem to emphasize speed over everything else. Playing fast but sloppy sounds bad and will not help you become a better player. You might be able to wow a couple of non-guitarists but you'll hit a wall in your ability to play fairly quickly and be stuck there.

Finally, be patient. You won't be Paul Gilbert or Slash or whoever in a month. Not even in a year, or two years, or three. Most of the people that get idolized as guitarists had to practice for a long time to get where they are.

Holy that race was close. Just insane. The Nissan was on a tear the last ten minutes. So exciting!

Oh snap safety car.

So many blowouts today.

edit: I love that they just push-started a Lambo.

This race is about to get interesting.

edit: Pit mistakes!

This race continues to be awesome to watch. Glad I remembered to watch it.

Also, one of the Erebus Mercs triple stinted soft tires and the driver said they were fine after three stints.

Tekno is saving that crazy fast guy for the last stint. The last hour of this will be interesting.

I think I'm onboard with endurance racing. Definitely tuning into WEC this year.

edit: I think the most mindblowing thing is that it's been closer than any F1 race in the last two years for more than 8 hours now. This is like early 2000s F1 levels of close where the top 5 are all within a few seconds and actual battles happen.

Well, it just went. Not sure what they were doing either. They just wasted a tire.

Also, that orange McLaren is putting in work. It's in second after having to do a complete restart and plummeting down the pack.

Edit: They've brought out the hammers on that Bentley. It'll be interesting how much they can do to patch it up.

Oh snap orange McLaren is out for the count.

edit: and it's back. Phew.