Happy Holidays, everyone. Just had a birthday, whee, another trip around the sun.

I figured out a satisfactory ending to Infinite Warfare. It's a "Non-standard Game-Over", but it works for me. The solution was simple: kill the mole in the anti-spaceship gun control room. You get a "You killed the HVT!" and a game over, but I thought about it. You kill him, his signal stops. You also immediately reset the guns in the regular mission. So, reset guns, still active fleet, and one dead traitor to summon the enemy fleet, right into a combat situation where by at that point, the surviving UN fleet ships are already weapons free. Suddenly the Martian attempt at a Pearl Harbor becomes a trap on them. Too bad the game won't let you do that. :D

In other random bloviating, I don't think it's any surprise that I do like growth drives and I am happy to contribute to them. But I also expect the drivers to follow their own rules. So, if you have a growth drive where you update picture at every $X donated and I donate $X soon after you post an update picture, I expect to have helped you reach the next threshold. What I don't expect is to be told that even though I did donate $X, and it was received, that you haven't reached the next threshold. Um, no. If you were at threshold #3, and I provide $X to get to threshold #4, then I expect to see your next announcement to be, "yay, I've reached threshold #4!" Not, "still at threshold #3!"

Sigh. Silly problem, I know, but it irks me. There's more details, but that's the gist.

Anyway, hope everyone is well. Take care.