Tale

I really miss satellites. The one you research that reveals the world map. I could build giant death robots and space ships to other solar systems, but I still had no bloody clue where Persia was. And he was somehow winning.

Played my first game. Spent way too many hours on it. I won by scientific victory, as is my tradition. But I was generally so rich and ahead of everyone else in technology I could have raized the planet. They come at me with pikemen, I field longswords. They field longswords, I field riflemen. They field riflemen, I field infantry. They field infantry, I field stealth bombers and giant death robots. They were not catching up.

I bought Civ 5, but haven't been able to give it any time because of the TF2 update. I now have 4 of the new weapons, dagger, revolver, sniper, and flamethrower. I was going to craft the revolver with my next drop when it ended up dropping. So I'll be crafting something else soon enough.

Wait, The Social Network is a Fincher film? I have to see it now.

And people from the Citadel miraculously popped up on Omega. Illium has at least three characters from the first game who appeared in completely different locations. Stuff becomes relevant when writers want it to. In addition to Flemeth recurring. I don't think anyone's thinking it'll be more significant than ME2. But being as significant isn't a stretch.

Is it not against the rules to talk about huffing paint here?

I got paid. yay I know what I'm doing. Blowing cash on this and Claptrap.

Well, I was there. So that was something.

Because more stuff happened in Origins than what simply happened to the PC. The state of kingdoms and god babies rests in the saves!

With Team Fortress 2's update, Halo: Reach has passed its prime and is going on the shelf. So sad to see you go, I still don't have the helm I want. But your multiplayer is simply too shallow. I've got two of the new weapons already. Sydney Sleeper and Degreaser. Sleeper is fun, it's a sniper rifle that can't headshot but has a chance of inflicting jarate effect based on charge. And apparently it has penetration! Now nobody can complain about me bodyshotting. Suckers. Degreaser isn't too exciting. Less damage for faster weapon switch. Makes it an axtinguisher's best friend, but I was more of a hammer guy.

I'm hazarding a guess.

Written by an assistant professor of law. I'm not sure it's his field.

But it's good to let people act like a jerk, sure beats enforced politeness. Depends. Are the jerks obnoxious gits who destroy every thread they enter, including the countless threads they start demanding attention? Or are they the kind of jerk that stops after 10 minutes to say "oh ****, man I'm annoying" and stops. I'd rather have the former banned and gone.

Team Fortress 2 has a new update.

I believe in rational and skeptical inquiry. I don't know or understand a lot of the evidence behind the various beginning of the universe theories, such as Big Bang or M-Theory's branes. But I'm open to them and curious about what will be found to support them.

Played some Halo: Reach in co-op Legendary yesterday. Tilt is on, why are you shooting elites with the assault rifle, people?

I'm with you on that. It really should start and stop with establishing shots. And even those are unnecessary.

Why anybody anywhere thinks these are a good idea is completely beyond my comprehemsion. It's kind of a compromise. Non-interactive cinematics aren't always the best of ideas (exceptions, but far fewer than most recognize). But many developers also insist on trying to be cinematic. Which means camera angles and unique movies that make standard controls useless. Thus they implement a basic action interaction, QTEs.

Saw the leaked footage. Less than impressed. But it's early, so who knows.

I played that game so much it was ridiculous. A guilty pleasure I had for a few months.

Stargate Universe had the season premiere last night. Squee. Not overly different from what I expected given how last season ended.

I would never have tried ME2 if I hadn't liked Dragon Age. I never would have considered buying Dragon Age if As I hated Mass Effect. Heck, I bought that Dragon Age book, Stolen Throne. Couldn't get past the second chapter.

I think my cycle is different. [Get really excited] -> [Hate it] -> [Give up Bioware games] -> [Find some silly reason to try a new one, end up liking that one] -> [Repeat] Seriously. I'm due for a hate stage. I liked the last two. Two in a row? Man am I going to be enraged by the next game.

No fans of the berserker theory? :'(

It's an interesting concept for what it implies about the person asking. There's the obvious implication that the asker is only moral by threat. I can't recall the name of the cognitive bias, but there's one where people tend to overestimate others similarity to themselves. I've read of interesting studies where you get people to accurately describe themselves by having them describe assumptions of other people.