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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.

Well yeah, that's why many of them prefer to be called "illusionists" now. The only people going around calling themselves magicians are those crappy ones who can't perform without a group of actors pretending to be amazed for the cameras for their TV series. Err, I might be too opinionated on this.

The one "area DLC" also has a story. Just pointing it out, haven't played it myself either. No news of other DLC, but they told about that one only a day before it was available, so I'd assume it's the same for any future ones. I'm pretty sure there will be some. That's why I said "compelling."

Needs to be Rogue Trader. Because I want an Ork companion.

Any word of other DLC? Still saving my next playthrough for some sort of compelling story DLC. I know they released that one area DLC, but never heard anything about it that had a hook for me.

As one of his fellow skeletons, don't speak for me. It is entirely possible, and I'd argue even desireable, to enjoy something while still criticizing its problematic elements.

It took me 7 runs and 3 characters (~230 h) to get all the achievements in Dark Souls. They were very inefficient runs, but I've never really felt the need to get all the achievements in a game before. The best part is that I still boot up the game occasionally for PvP or random challenge runs. Definitely worth the price, I doubt Bloodborne is any different. Does the game still have those horribly long loading times? I never really noticed the load times, even before the patch that was supposed to fix them. So I'm not a good judge. Got about an hour of The Witcher 3 in. Feels like The Witcher 2 to me, but slower to start, and with more openness. That's not a bad thing.

Speak of the devil, the packet dropped today right as I was itching to buy Witcher 3. And then the battery on my kindle got really low while reading, so I bought it anyway to play while charging.

3D is for suckers. Really great movie.

Got my platinum for Bloodborne, pretty excited. This meant that I ran through it three times, defeated all the bosses, got all the equipment, and beat the chalice dungeons. And I loved every minute of it. Not playing anything now, but might grab the Witcher 3 this week. Depends on when the Hugo voter packet drops. Got lots of reading to do.

I just hope the PS4 version is fine with the Day 1 patch. Because I'm looking to get it day 2 or 3.

Only one more trophy needed for Bloodborne and it's one of the three ending trophies. So I've started up a new character for my third and final playthrough. I'll probably skip most of the grinding and side bosses this time.

Better than Dark Souls 2, not as good as Dark Souls 1. Couldn't get into Demon Souls myself.

Final chalice dungeon of Bloodborne! Only two bosses left and then I just need the ending trophies.

Beat the tar out of the penultimate boss of Bloodborne. Running around to do other stuff before finally committing to completion.

I went to a clinic and it might be strep. That's going around and I don't want to take any risks. The quick test was pretty inconclusive, but I still got penicillin. Aww yis. I'm also apparently getting worse if last night is anything to go by. Back to my too-hot/too-cold sleep routine, where I'm freezing until I fall asleep, then I immediately start sweating. This causes me to freeze even more a short while later. On the plus side, the tylenol kicked the sore throat in the nuts just well enough for me to sleep pain free. Never felt like tylenol actually did anything for me before today.