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Captain America: Civil War I'm going through some of the good Marvel films I've only watched once. And this was as good as I remember it being. Next will be Thor: Ragnorak and Infinity War. Edit: 20 minutes into Thor: Ragnarok and I'm laughing out loud. Why don't I own this on Blu-Ray?

Iconoclasts This hit the right spot. Character, pacing, and fun.

Has this made the rounds here? It's from December, so maybe. Since I was complaining about Sony earlier, it's even more interesting that this looks like a good one. They can do well when they can grab talent.

It really shows me how far Columbia has fallen when I went to see Into the Spiderverse and the only two Sony trailers were that and some Christian film that looked like it was filmed with a budget scraped up during a potluck lunch.

I think the fact that it has been 4 1/2 years suggests that self-respect would be best expressed by avoiding this thread.

What did they screw up? I liked Westworld season 2.

HBO? I'm willing to consider it being good.

I was going to buy that along with the sequel last night but I didn't because I wasn't sure if the PS3 was the best place to play it with all the remakes and ports around. Also, I haven't played the first game yet. Still, they are dirt cheap right now. 4.99 each...hmmm... I've played the first one, it's fun just for the puns and references.

11.22.63 8 episodes in and I've decided I just don't care enough to finish it. Happy! 1 episode in and I hope it continues to be this entertaining.

One of my acquisitions over the steam sale was Cross Code. An indie action RPG with a 16-bit style and overwhelmingly positive reviews. And it's kind of a drag. Go through the first area doing a bunch of mindless quests. Get more quests for going through it a second time. Then move on to the next area, grabbing mindless quests. All the while the actual story is on hold until who knows when. People really put too much value into how much a game takes to beat, in my opinion. Not enough questions about if that time was used well.

I may have complained that I had nothing to buy and then bought a bunch of stuff.

Into the Spiderverse I'm mad about two things. 1) That I missed Miles Morales original origin in the comics. This was powerful and I'm amazed they were able to pack so much into this film. 2) That I left after the midcredits, came home, and found out there was a true end credits scene.

I played Tacoma over the weekend. It's from Fullbright, the people who made Gone Home, and I like it a lot more. Mostly because I got completely lost in Gone Home. Tacoma is a very guided experience and tells its story pretty much outright, though it has lots of details you can find that flesh it out. And it tells the story well, with reveals I thought were very clever. Oh, and I played The Hex sometime in the past week. It's from the guy who did Pony Island and it's similarly bizarre and meta. If you like metafictional games, or games within games, you'll probably love this one.

Bandersnatch on Netflix, a choose your own adventure Black Mirror movie. I think it was pretty fantastic at points.

So West of Loathing is pretty interesting. Digging around in spittoons and whipping people with snakes.

Shadow Warrior It was fun enough, kept me engaged a level at a time, but the story really grabbed me towards the end. Enough that I'm compelled to jump right in part 2. Edit: And a couple hours in and I feel like I've stumbled into a Borderlands copycat with even more junk in it. I was so excited for a moment there.

I binged Dirk Gently and loved it. Now on to Legion. It's a good show, but I can't help but be disappointed that he's not crazy enough.

Me: Ooh, that JRPG looks interesting! Also me: Don't you have like 5 of those you haven't played yet that are better? Me: I could use a new horror game! Also me: But I own everything on the top sellers and haven't played half of them. Me: Ooh, I could get the 7th game in this franchise. I like it Also me: You own 1-6, but you're still only on 2. Do you really need to buy it now?

So, final fight of Divinity Original Sin 2. And of course it's got to be frustrating. I actually creamed the first part of it, easy peasy. But there just has to be a second part! With stronger enemies. And the only bad guy that matters can void glide every single round. While all my abilities are on cooldown from killing the first fight. So the only way I can fathom beating it is starting the fight over from scratch and planning knowing exactly how the fight goes. Trial and error.

Anyone who wrote for Tyranny is a winner in my book. Have I mentioned my book is a collection of crude jokes?

It's why I didn't like Red Dead Redemption 1. Marston was a jerk to some people for no reason. There really wasn't any redemption going on.

Still Divinity Original Sin 2. Having glass canon on my main character, practically every boss fight starts with the boss dominating or shackles of pain. And if they dominate, it's when my MC is before my guy who can dispel it. It's getting a bit annoying. Last fight I was juggling revives. And found out Last Rites can crit. That wasn't cool.

Finally caught up on Expanse and finished season 3. Season 4 when?

If you haven't watched SyFy's Adaptation of George R. R. Martin's Nightflyers, good for you. It was a waste of an hour a day for two weeks. I imagine they did it so quickly because they knew nobody would watch the entire thing if they waited a week between episodes. I'll be a little more generous and say I actually did like it, but I can't fathom why. Maybe it's because Jodie-Turner Smith kept wearing form fitting outfits and I need to get out more. It was a show with a ****load of promise and some interesting questions from the very beginning. And the questions it answered... weren't that great. The questions it didn't answer were pretty important like "why would they do that?" The first episode of the series starts with a flash forward to the end of the pentultimate episode, deprived of context. And it kind of sold me. When we finally got the context, I wanted a refund. And it ends on an enormous cliffhanger. This is not getting renewed.

Won't it depend on what the stuff is? And what stuff is available on the way to "full unlock?" If a game requires 100 hours just to unlock horse armor, there's an issue there. Mostly a "whyyyyyy?" And that continues to be true even if the game has satisfactory customization and progression without a grind. When it doesn't, then we've got other issues. The goldilocks zone is "does what is unlocked justify the cost to achieve?" A new color scheme for your armor that costs as much in RMTs as an entire expansion for a different game usually does not fit that bill. And if the playtime required to unlock it for free is comparable to the length to play through an entire other game to the point of boredom, that better be some super sweet loot.