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I hate that it's Medium, because the skill for Medium gives bonuses to signs. But it looks sweeeeet. I might just drop my Cat Gear skill and use it.

I'm now onboard the hype train for No Man's Sky. Haven't really paid it any attention until now because I kind of assumed it was a PC exclusive. But it's coming first to PS4, which works for my situation.

The Lost World novel actually has Grant explain it. He was wrong about it entirely, the T-Rex had just eaten and was no longer hungry. Which is why Jurassic Park III annoys me so much when Grant tries that trick again. YOU FIGURED THIS OUT IN THE NOVELS, YOU FOOL

Yes. I think people are reading too much into Obsidian's interpretation of the consequences of a Jedi Civil War. How many force users did we kill throughout KOTOR 1? Lightside or darkside ending, there's not going to be many left after all that. I'm still amazed that they bothered to show the consequences of a war like that.

FF VII remake, no game footage, just a "promise." It's going to show up at next year's E3 with a new trailer, then we stop hearing about it for 5 more years beyond "we're still working on it." The Last Guardian trailer, while I'm excited they're showing it, actually looks very reminiscent of an old gameplay trailer I saw years ago. Has much change or was all this delay the platform shift?

South Park RPG announced. I can find no reference to Obsidian being involved though. Maybe the actual announcement said who the developer was, but the website and trailer don't.

Three Body Problem I'm reading it for Hugo voting and it's fantastic. So far it's my shoe-in for best novel.

any more details on that? I was thinking about some experiment with gates going wrong and sending an exploration vessel into another galaxy.... so what is the premise? anyone? http://blog.bioware.com/2015/06/15/introducing-mass-effect-andromeda/ No real details beyond the fact that the player will be exploring Andromeda. I'm hoping for the "lost in another galaxy" angle (per my Farscape obsession), but it could easily be more of a New World type where everyone's setting up claims.

So, Bioware Montreal did the thing I said they should do. A new galaxy. I guess I have to give them some benefit of the doubt. I'm obligated by the rules of the internet. Phantom Pain, I had to turn the fan up, it was giving me the vapors.

I know the feeling about loving Jurassic Park. I would watch the VHS every day when I got home from middle school for like a year.

My little dog got out yesterday. :/ I let her out with the golden retriever like I always do when I come home. And then I let them in to eat, only she didn't come back in. She'd kind of done this before and never went far, so I just knew she'd be out front and run right in when I opened the door. I knew wrong. She wasn't out front. This is when panic starts to set in. I rush back out to the back yelling her name. And that's when I hear a little yip of pain from behind the house. I climb up the fence and look around, but I see nothing. I rush back to the front, get in my car, and start driving to the street behind the house. But at the end of my street I see a little dark object in the road. I'm thinking "no, it's can't be. It can not be." It wasn't, just some stupid shoes in the middle of the freaking road. I don't find her behind the house, I don't find her on the street in front of the house, I don't find her on the next street, or the next. I go back home and grab the Golden Retriever, maybe he can sniff her out, and we start walking. He takes me to the left, he's not pulling or moving fast, he's checking every single yard out. But before we get halfway down the street, a little girl asks if I'm looking for a little dog. Stupid Bailey had gone into someone else's backyard through a hole in their fence. I can only imagine she was chasing a cat.

Jurassic World In all my life, I might have only once before called a movie "dumb fun." I'm still not even sure how "dumb fun" works, but this movie is pretty dumb and it's pretty fun. The climax of the film had me both laughing at how stupid what I was seeing was, as well as thrilled by it. Like one of those parodies of 80s action flicks, only played straight.

I had to look that up. Wormholes, zero-point energy and even negative energy I had heard about. Is over-unity a thing? Overunity is just a term for a device that generates more energy than it consumes to run. You may know them as perpetual motion machines. Many such devices are just thought experiments by people who don't understand the forces involved, those are the ones I love. Many others are scams with hidden batteries. And then yet others are simply a very efficient device that can run off an initial impulse for a time before slowing down, ultimately followed by promises that they know what to do to make it even better and run eternally. Suppression of such devices is a popular conspiracy theory.

There needs to be more free energy advocates running around. One of my favorite pasttimes is looking at overunity devices and trying to figure out what their lowest energy state is. Bonus points when they introduce "wormholes" and "zero-point energy."

He didn't die, he was just re-activated by MI6 to save the world.

Good luck to him. Sounds like he's wanting to do some new stuff. I wonder if he'll go try going indie for a while.

House at the End of Time I went in with high expectations due to a wealth of recommendations, was not impressed. The horror is muted when you realize what's going on, which you will rather early. But the movie still thinks it's scary once the danger has passed.

Rented Jupiter Ascending last night. Not bad actually. My two biggest issues is that the soundtrack was terribly generic and the action scenes went on too long. A minor complaint that the leads jump to romance a little too quickly and have no real chemistry, too, but like I care about that in an action film.

Effectively around 35/36. In that most players are reporting that they're there after having done everything. There's very little you can do to gain more XP past that and nothing to effectively gain. Some people have gotten 40+ weapon schematics, though.

Came home Friday to find the router was dead. Had power outage that morning, so that's the likely culprit. Finally getting a new one tomorrow. In other news, I spent three hours yesterday taking a plotter apart for work to replace the trailing cable. Clearly had no idea what I was doing but got it in the end.

Have you ever seen a sad person eating waffles? Because I have not.

Choice based? I did not know that. Was not even slightly interested before that, now I'm curious.

Yeah, if you're going to play a swarm deck, don't have more than 1 of the guys with the name in your hand. Get rid of those in the redraw! You can't use Commander's Horn on them either. No effect can be used on them. They can't be scorched or hit with inclement weather, but can't be buffed or revived either.

The Yennefer hero card is awesome. You can chain that effect I found out yesterday. I had placed a Siege unit with that and pulled Vesemir out of my discard, then they scorched me killing the siege unit. So I played Yennefer, pulled the siege unit back out, and grabbed another unit from discard for good measure.

If you're not playing the game as a Gwent fiend hounding every merchant you pass for a game, you're playing wrong.