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^ The biggest change of tune I've seen since Brady moved is now Pats fans swear he wasn't any good.

I've never seen a more accurate character analysis of GM.

Jim Butcher announced that on top of Peace Talks there will be another Dresden book out this year: Battle Grounds. (At the end of the trailer.)

Or the list, as it were.

No one is allowed to like what I don't like.

Thanks, dad.

Since about 2007, so yeah.

The exact same thing as Alt Right: they are both meaningless and can be used to mean whatever you want.

Oh great. Now we'll have another console war.

On the slopes of Dragonmount he shall be born. Born of a maiden wedded to no man. He will be of the ancient blood and raised by the old blood. When the winds of Tarmon Gai'don scour the earth he will face the Shadow and bring forth Light again in the world. For he shall come like the breaking dawn and shatter the world again with his coming, and make it anew.

^ Only ever got that tag once.

Good story? No. Great quest design? Yes. Larian has always had pretty good design but their actual writing was never good. They're kind of like Piranha Bytes that way.

DA2's been roasted for everything from reused assets to playersexual romances, but the problem it really has and the reason I didn't enjoy it is because it lacks a main plot. The story is a series of unrelated events (unless you count the fact that these events happen in the same city and that Shepard Hawk was involved automatically makes them related). The writers even knew that they didn't have a central plot which is why they slapped on a frame in half hearted support of 'Hawk is the common thread' argument. The main thread of a story doesn't need to be 'the world is ending' as it so frequently is with BioWare games, but there does have to be something that ties the beginning of a story with the conclusion so it feels like, well, a conclusion. DA2 doesn't have one and that's the real reason it got so much hate even if players were incapable of communicating that.

I went and bought a 12 pack after reading this. GG

XFL canceled the rest of the season. Coronavirus may have killed XFL the second time.

Well, that and Cold Steel 4 which will get an official translation and the mobile game which probably won't.

Because I know you all care, the fan translation for The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero is due out on March 14.

Hmmm. I'm sensing an alternative motive here.

Pats need a young QB and Brady seems to want to show the Pats that they needed him all along so from their perspective this doesn't surprise me at all.

They made a game out of Darkest Dungeon rule 34 mods?

Aside from POE3, it's almost guarantied that the spin-off games will be in a different sub genre. Which sub genre is anyone's guess as they've already established classes and classes don't always work outside of turn style, RTwP, or at least party based combat. I doubt they would throw the class structure they've built and expanded on out the window just because one game didn't perform well.

Cyberpunk is currently set for release late summer or early autumn. Unless either game delays into 2021 while the other stays put, I don't see how VTMB2 isn't going to suffer in sells due to Cyberpunk. Ironic given that VTMB2 and 2077 were both supposed to come out in spring and VTMB2 announced first their delay.

VTMB2? It was delayed awhile ago. Now looking at digital store fronts you'll see it set for December 31st, 2020 which is short hand for "we're in alpha and we have no idea how long bug squashing is going to take".