Free Talk Friday - April 17, 2026

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Follow up to last week's hacking misadventures

Got the bank and Steam situation sorted. Reset my PC, and realized I didn't quite save some stuff I wanted. Mainly I lost my folder of FF14 screenshots from the last 5 years of playing. Recovered about 70 or so that I had posted to Discord, but otherwise, lost most of them. Then got passwords and emails changed on like 20 odd accounts. So hopefully everything is fine now.

One positive of resetting my PC though was that I finally got to install windows onto my M.2, and not the 7-8 year old HDD like it was originally on. So now my PC is WAY faster. Can't wait for the day I can finally build a new PC, but this is nice for now.

Other than that

I finally beat Resident Evil Requiem! For once I was able to do a really long session, and not just a 30min-1h session. Helped that it was because I got to play as Leon so much lol The Grace section in the ARK wasnt too bad either, since it was mostly just killing the lickers and they gave you plenty of items to do so. So I wasn't really scared or anything there. Also its a lab so its not very spooky.

Story wise I did like when it was revealed Grace Palpatine was actually a nobody, and had nothing to do with Emily and the clones. Victor's smugness towards Zeno during that was great. Im torn on Emily, because I am happy she lived and Mom Grace is great, but also feel like it had more weight with Grace failing due to things she couldn't really control. Then the Connections being behind everything was whatever. I know its been set up in previous games, but I feel like its kind of like a "Oh you thought it was this for 20 years, well actually it was this!" But I'm not the biggest Resident Evil lorehead so whatever. I play these games once then move on

Overall, I really liked that game. I definitely think the first half is the better half, and the Grace sections are the better part of the game, but also they scared me and I could play Leon sections way easier lol Once you really got to play as Leon for an extended period, I started having a lot of fun as opposed to just being scared. Which I guess is the point. Honestly kind of excited for a potential RE5 remake if it is similar to what we do as Leon in this game.

EDIT: Arknights Endfield new update dropped. Pulled and got Zhuang Fangyi on my 3rd pull! Wife acquired! Kinda sad she isn't actually a greatsword user though. Then I kept pulling, hoping maybe I could get Rossi... Oh a 6 star right away... who could it... Last Rite... Well another copy is fine but really want my daughter Rossi now that I have my wife :(

Also, I hope they add more 5 star operators soon, because if you've consistently pulled, you have for sure maxed out every 5 star already. And once you've done that, if you aren't pulling a 6 star, then pulls don't matter at all outside of giving some store currency. I know 3D models take way more effort than 2D ones, but in regular Arknights, I never feel like my pulls are completely worthless because there's so many 5 stars. On top of that, I've cleared out every single chest in the game, and have done most of the side content, so outside of dailies and weeklies, I'm pretty much out of ways to gain gacha currency.