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Extended RE5 trailer. I like that they got rid of the knife and replaced it with sucker punches. Plus, Chris Redfield! How the **** long has he been gone?

Quite.

Nah, Sand quite Gammon forever when they started sugar-curing it. The world of pork products held no promise after that.

Good, 'cause I'd totally give them **** when we hang out.

Anything with the word "Trooper" in it is worth waiting for.

Katherine Keener? A cougar if there ever was one.

... yay?

Of course the government can do some things lawfully that others can't. Should we charge the police with kidnapping when they arrest someone and put them in jail? If I locked someone in my basement it would obviously be a crime.

Those shirts are a classic example of "clinically-depressed-dungeon-master chic".

The dress shirts aren't those silk ones with dragon designs on them, are they? Those shirts are queer.

The Stumble button usually yields a good number of fairly impressive DevArt pages. Helps to avoid all the niche ****. And there are 2 major things wrong with the internet. One of them is Ebaumsworld. The other is 4chan. And to stay on topic, Queer Duck

Hmm, well, NWN2 might ultimately fit that category, or CoC, or any other cult-of-idiot-God game. Not that I was all that riveted by the minor villains in NWN2, but the King of Shadows was really just an out-of-control construct.

Yeah, suck it, Europe. Furthermore, I think this puts to rest the speculation over whether or not cats rule and dogs drool.

And the fact that the cat is from the US is also very significant.

Hmm, I think this crowd's a bit too sardonic for this racket, Sega man.

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How mysterious. I'm intrigued.

In the span of 4 haikus or less, someone explain to me what the appeal of Jagged Alliance 2 is. ... Go.

Those are fine in the short term (if we're talking PnP terms, this would include orc chieftains who want to destroy the town just because, greedy robber barons, thieves, etc. etc.) but a long term villain is best layered and complex. If the moustache twirling bully kept getting away at the end of every fight, it'd be difficult to keep the game interesting relative to a game in which the villain has layers to peel away gradually (obvious example, the gradual reveal of Irenicus' full ambitions in BG2) Anywho, I've always preferred villains who've fallen from grace, not in the normal sense of simple corruption (Irenicus being an example of that) but of heroes who became bitter and disillusioned. The Boss in MGS3 would be an example of this, I guess, or better yet, that guy from FFVII, what's his name. I've always wanted to run a D&D campaign that takes place after the events in BG in which the Bhaalspawn takes the "good mortal" path and subsequently becomes an epic-level threat to peace and stability in the Realms, for whatever reason. The best way I could put this in the context of the computer game, I thought, would be . That way I wouldn't have to stretch myself writing a grand heroic history from scratch. When I do something like that it usually comes out too self-indulgent.

If only they got rid of all the sound, and the images of politicians.

Zimbardo's great, he hosted the PBS series on Psychology that we used in our class, and he just recently conducted a nice, long interview with the Skeptic podcast (I think that's what it's called) promoting the book and extrapolating on its contents. Check it out. Got back home today, and am tired.

Who makes their own birthday thread? Boo. Here, have that prairie dog again. And hidden messages.

All in all, I found Ascension to be quite awesome. The final fight was much better than the shipped version. Next up I'll probably go through ToB again with Kelsey and Jaheira in place of Aerie. Rest of the party remains unchanged.