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Free The Bard's Tale? *checks e-mail* That's what I get for buying the game I still haven't played yet. But if I play it now, there will be people to discuss it with!

Playing Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. Cute little game. This seems to fit in my "neat ideas" mood. Also grabbed some Daedalic adventures from GOG's sale, so I'll have some story based games to either be enthralled or depressed by after that's done.

I voted for you guys. Not sure if I'll give M4-7329047593QUYDS a try, I'm KOTORed out and I dread those running those sequences in 2 that lack a Jedi character, but I'll give it a serious consideration.

Keith Michael Richardson has done far more than Kestelman has. He is remarkably well known now.

Still waiting for Wild Magic to TK someone.

Did much of Hotline Miami. Now I'm getting into a game depression. I want a well written game I haven't played through before. Something with interesting ideas and clever presentation. Coming up blank. Maybe Geneforge will have something. Edit: Alternatively, I could write.

And now I've finished Walking Dead. They did a good job with it.

Walking Dead. Finished Episode 2 last night.

I expect consistency and the ability to set up the relevant elements of a resolution prior to the act of resolving from all stories, science fiction or not. Nobody's complaining about the titular mass effect, despite it being space magic, because that's established early on and used in a more or less consistent manner. Star Wars didn't rely on a last minute unexplained ability, either. It was about the relationship of luke and his father, which was building up from back in Empire. And some straightforward battles on Endor and in space.

I saw The Hobbit. Didn't want to see it in 3D, but that was the only way to get IMAX at my theatre. It was good, it does suffer from Lord of the Rings comparisons, especially since tone is drastically different at times. But I can get over that.

I could use a barista.

The central ring breaks off and flies away. The Catalyst even says they will be destroyed. This does not matter because the Normandy was between relays, not at one. The extended cut also cuts off the explosion before the bits start flying and says they were only damaged. But then still manages to show shots where the relays are severed or missing pieces, saying they need to rebuild. Again, irrelevant, since the Normandy does not end up in a system with a relay, it is between relays.

You had one job! I love Deponia. I'm seriously considering it my game of the year.

I've never understood this obvious misinterpretation of the ending. In the original ending, the Normandy's engines were destroyed and they crash landed on a mysterious planet between relays, meaning it was uncharted. I'm not precisely sure they have the means to build entirely new FTL engines. Usually that kind of thing requires factories and a dock. Extended cut removed the part where the engines get destroyed.

Between this thread and Tarantino's comments, I am now watching Unbreakable.

As long as it's Unbreakable Shymalan and not the other guy, it might be good. I still hold Unbreakable as one of my favorite movies.

Well, at least if he's no longer working for Obsidian he's going from one great RPG studio to another. I haven't seen him around the office, well that doesn't mean he isn't here mind... Just don't recall having seen that face around these parts. I'm in a corner, with programmers... We don't get out much.... Potatoes. I was wondering where you ended up.

No. On previous talk, Steve can die. I believe it's based on readiness score.

Because they need an excuse for humans to be special. I think there's a bizarre tendency among genre writers to justify the real world when writing their speculative ones. Which is how sci-fi and fantasy get their unintended fascist tendencies. I used to be a fan of the Drizzt books, for example. And there was this whole running thing in the Drizzt journal entries during the Time of Troubles events, where Drizzt tried painting having "faith" and never meeting your god as inherently superior to how the gods of FR were prancing around at the time, having tea parties with their followers. Made funnier by the fact that Drizzt had met his god, but then started dancing around it by claiming it wasn't his real god, he just imagined it, so his faith could be pure. Then there's also the standard trope in fantasy, that I think Mass Effect 1 used, where humans have comparatively shorter lifespans than the species surrounding them, so this means that humans are eager to prove themselves and live life to the fullest! Most science-fiction/fantasy seem to either paint humanity as the "eager/innovative" race or as the jack-of-all-trades race. Mass Effect tried doing both. I actually find it kind of disturbing when you think about it, because the bottlenecks that aliens, elves, and dwarves are faced with imply either cataclysm or eugenics.

This .... makes total sense. And that would be the awesome, actually. I mean, the whole Khan thing was never completely officially confirmed, was it? Even on IMDB it says (rumored). So they could be thinking "everyone thinks it's Khan? Great, let them think that." Note: the character also wears a black shirt with the Federation emblem on it. I suppose he could have stolen the shirt to wear, but if not, that would make Mitchell even more likely (Khan was never originally in Starfleet...). Regardless, I love Benedict, and he's the main reason I'd go see this new ST....in the theater. Even if he is Khan, I bet he'll surprise people and make a decent one for an alternate-reality backstory-Khan. He won't be Ricardo, but no one could be. I'm betting on Note that I was completely wrong about the last Star Trek movie. In pretty much every way.

I'm hopeful for the robot uprising.

Vega was boring. In his defense, almost everyone in Mass Effect 3 was boring. My second biggest complaint about Mass Effect 3 is that nobody has any character development but EDI and Javik for companions. And then Mordin and Steve for the entire rest of the cast. I guess an argument could be made for the VS, but it doesn't seem an appreciable development. Jack is a fun example of the problem in that she is the most notably evolved character from Mass Effect 2, but every single bit of it happened off screen.

How's the multiplayer population? I heard it's pretty dead. No clue, I don't do MP.

I'm playing Grand Theft Auto 4. Overall, I much prefer Saint's Row 3. The car handling is better. But I'm strangely curious about what will happen to Nico next. He has a measure more morality than I expected from a GTA protagonist.