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I said GOOD DAY!

He offered recipes. What good is your advice if I still need other recipes to use it? Good day to you, sir. GOOD DAY

YOU GIVE, YOU GIVE NOW And cholesterol! The good news is apparently that the blood pressure problem runs in the family, so there's probably absolutely nothing I can do about it and cutting back on salt won't help. Maybe. I'd still like to give it a try.

Health issues, yay. I actually feel fine, but my doctor's concerned with good reason. Got some tests coming up and the provider who accepts my insurance is on the high end for the area, YIPPEE. I already decided to give up soda before the visits and have been doing good on that. But now it's necessary I give up red meat, soup (this is the real sacrifice here), drastically reduce my salt, and I think I'll toss in alcohol for good measure. I am so going to miss soup.

Action horror games need to stop having invincible enemies that you have to run from or otherwise just kill a bunch of times. It was neat at first, when it was a final boss and the tension was at the highest. Or when it was an interesting premise for the entire game. But now they're just popping up in the middle of the game for no reason. Like they ran out of ideas to break up the monotony of the hallways, so tossed it in. When time machines get built, that's the first thing they need to go back and put a stop to. That and Mass Effect 1's Mako.

Word. Never has walking through a door been more satisfying.

I gave in to impulse and bought some Resident Evil games on sale. REmake, 0 HD, and both Revelations. I like Revelations so far. Not great, but feels like a budget title companion to 5, which was decent. I did just get kind of turned off by coming to my first boss fight and running out of ammo without seeing any difference. It has too many flashbacks, too few enemy types, but at least it's trying to be a bit scarier. Except when it ends up fighting hordes, then it's back to 5 at its worst. The story is hilariously bad in that

I'm not sure how that's any more relevant to NMS than it is to every other game out there. Does one need to know other people are out there in Pillars? I'm not anti-social, I'm just anti MMO.

Losing interest in NMS. I know once I put it down I won't come back unless they have major content updates. All I feel I have left to do is get a ship with more slots, but that's a poor reason to keep playing. My personal hype's died down and I feel I can say it's better as a technical basis for a game than a great or good game itself. It's a galaxy full of collectibles, and those are a poor substitute for actual gameplay. Even the emergent storytelling falls almost completely flat, which is the one area I hoped it would shine in. I've pre-ordered Deus Ex for Tuesday, but until then I think I'll try and finish up X-Men Legends 2.

You're a monster, that movie is treasure.

I got off that godforsaken planet finally. Within like 30 minutes of starting up yesterday. Yay for me. Even traded up to another abandoned ship again, which is all kinds of terrifying after that experience. I should just put together a checklist of all the resources needed to get a ship up and running.

I'm kind of stuck on a planet in No Man's Sky. I was sick of having the same ship for so long, so I grabbed an abandoned and started fixing it up. Little did I realize that you need the Pulse Jet to even launch. Less did I realize that this planet HAS NO ZINC. I can't fix the Pulse Jet. By the time I realized this, my autosaves no longer covered before I switched ships. I scrapped everything in my old ship, so that was no longer an option. Less an option in that I'd walked for 30 minutes and tested summoning the new ship at a beacon. So I can't even find the old ship. So now I'm wandering until I find a store that can sell me some zinc. Then I'm leaving this %#@%@#^ @#^@#%@#%@#@$^ $%^#$^# OF A PLANET AND NEVER LOOKING BACK. Extreme weather planets with constant sentinels are better than this crud. This planet is half water and the swimming in this game is crap, you're literally unable to swim with your head above water. With no fast swimming option, either.

Apparently my local theater has it so you can see a movie before noon for like $6.50. I saw Sausage Party. There's something great here. I think the ending in particular holds something very meaningful, the key to world peace. It's truly great, fun for the whole family, be sure to bring the kids.* *The opinions in this post belong solely to the poster. The Obsidian Forum Community can not be held responsible for anyone taking the ridiculous advice of bringing their children to see the raunchiest Rogen/Goldberg film yet.

Does it feel fun to explore, or do you get the impression it could become kind of boring after a while? Everything gets boring after a while. I can see this doing so, too. But I'm still enjoying hunting down monoliths, learning the languages, and trying to improve my stuff. If you can find a planet you think is beautiful, that can hold you for a while. And that's also something of a continuing draw.

Ghostbusters was still better than Jason Bourne.

I saw Jason Bourne and can't recommend it. But at the same time the Suicide Squad reviews have me afraid it's bad, where Bourne was just boring.

No Man's Sky I didn't imagine things would go so fast in this game. I've travelled like 4 or 5 systems over already. And now my hyperdrive is full to burst with cells, so I can jump another 5 any time I feel like. I've visited a good 9-10 planets, lost my entire inventory once. I thought I'd have an experience of maybe one planet per day. Two. And I could write about it. But it's all flashing by in a blur. I did find a beautiful star system though that I'm going to be spending some time at. Has a nice purple gas cloud hue to it and the planet I've found there so far is a wonderful ice world with snowstorms. Going to a crashed ship after work, probably need to fix it up, but it's got to be an upgrade over the Vector Alpha.

I'm watching Terminator Genisys as we speak on Amazon Prime. In a monster movie, which the Terminator movies tend to be, if the big scary monster is beat up and killed about 5 minutes after it's introduced, it sort of hurts the tension moving forward. The lack of tension sort of hurts the action, too. So I'm not scared, excited, and it's not even interesting time travel. Which might bother me the worst, because the idea of changes appearing in the Terminator cycle is actually a cool concept. But it's more of an excuse for their nonsense than anything else. And yeah, I'm not feeling Clarke's performance here.

My Gwent sets just arrived. That is all.

BoJack Horseman The fact that I had never given this show a fair shake before this week is a poor reflection on you people. Shame.

X-Men Legends 2 for PS2. I bought it back when I realized I really liked Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 and never really played it until now. I also gave Marvel Heroes a shot because some people tried claiming it's like Ultimate Alliance. They were liars. Already deleted it after 30 minutes.

Jason Bourne is probably the most mediocre and forgettable action movie I've seen in years. And the third act action scenes were jumpy crap.

I'm not too surprised. Developer forums can be a delicate thing. And with the amount of hate and bile the Bioware boards have had to put up with, it can be easy to see how it would be disheartening to the people in charge. There's enough other places out there that fans can go to discuss things that they can mine for feedback.

Still loving Headlander. Hit an amusing little turn last night that's keeping it from getting repetitive. Hope they have more in store.

This is getting ridiculous. I think the dog is depressed at not seeing the cat around. He was acting lethargic and without an appetite earlier this week. He has plenty of energy if he sees someone behind the house, but inside the house he's a lump lately. I had to put his food into my hand yesterday to get him to eat it. Today he ate like normal, except for the part where he ran to me for pets and affirmation in the middle of it.