Tale

Guardians of the Galaxy is what I felt Avengers should have been. They grow as a team!

The Vinsomer is aggravating me a tad. I'm a level above it and I can only get it mostly down before my party starts running out of potions. Though I did grab everyone's Focus abilities once I realized Focus isn't a shared resource. This might turn the tide. Eat four level threes!

I've only got Hissing Wastes and Emprise du Lion to beat still. The only substantial complaint I have is that there's not enough main quest content to justify all the side quest content. Or maybe these major side areas like Hissing Wastes and Exalted Plains needed more dramatic quest arcs. Because you beat it and then you're still not sure what happened. I would have traded it for one more main story sequence with the villain. Then they could have locked more areas behind quest progression and tiered them that way, shifted around levels. Given it more structure. Still, I'm adoring the game to death. My game of the year. It has optional dungeons! Even Dragon Age: Origins didn't have optional dungeons. They have puzzles!

That's exactly what it is. I enjoy cooking, but I don't have time for it in the morning and lunch. Which ends up with me skipping breakfast and doing fast food for lunch. The other benefit I forsee is that when I'm in the groove for writing, I don't need to stop and cook, I can just pour a cup.

No, because that's at least on topic of what you're supposed to be about. And they've done some truly ****ty stuff. Like the times they contributed to the leak of celebrity nudes, which wasn't even all that long ago. But going after game developers for petty slights, denying harassment, doxing, and the other disgusting things you enable, you deserve to be called out for it. By the same token you don't get to define Gamergate. Actions are more defining than stated goals. Being an amorphous blob isn't a shield from criticism. I've taken no issue with you, TrueNeutral. Your movement signal boosts some truly terrible crap. And the worst I can level at you is being willfully ignorant of it in favor of pursuing some respectable goals. We all make that mistake from tiem to time. I probably spent too much time in Retake despite the people using it just to hurl insults at Bioware on a personal level. But in the evaluation of ends and means, I'm ultimately not liking it.

Then why, 4 months later, is she the top topic on KiA? Because code attribution (that's up right now, at least) is the most important issue in games journalism?

And now look what I found. http://www.quinnspiracy.com/clone/ The attribution is at the bottom. So has the problem been solved or was it always there? Simple mistake or campaign of misinformation by an online mob against a woman they've been targetting for, what, 4 months now? Does it still make sense to want to cover? Because that's the line you're looking at.

Jacque had two really cool things going for him. Throwing back your own words/choices and the twist. Neither really made me compelled by the character. But the design! It's simply brilliant. The villains motivations are shaped by the player.

Had my first meal of soylent and I know you care because I got a bunch of likes on the post where I mentioned I got it. Not completely terrible. Modest taste of wet peanuts. I had intended to go for a two week all soylent challenge, but I've got too much stuff in the cupboard to use up. So I'm going to be doing lunch and breakfast only, stretching it out to 4 weeks.

One post about someone your movement talks about so much you had to come up with a codename for her.

Here's how that's going to go down. The creator of the code is going to contact her, ask her to put in the appropriate comment or readme, she's going to do it, and the creator will say everything's good now. But you're still going to be obsessing over a women who's not a journalist in a movement that's about ethics in journalism.

I think it's cute how you have to resort to codenames so you can pretend you're not obsessing over women who aren't even journalists, in a movement that's supposed to be about journalism. "Cute" is probably not the right word, though. Consumers asking people to make changes to their games isn't censorship. It wasn't censorship when Retake does it, it's not censorship when Sensuki does it, and I'm going to presume it's not censorship when this person does it unless they're organizing e-mail campaigns and petitions to retailers or governments. It's censorship when an authority does it. If the government gets involved, then it becomes censorship. Arguably when Target or K-Mart do it, too. But that's their prerogative. Target and K-Mart aren't free speech zones. Now I guess it's kind of a fine line. Because people trying to get advertising pulled because of editorials and reviews they don't like, well that's also censorship. But for some reason, the movement doesn't have a problem with that censorship.

I haven't gotten any writing done.

So Saturday I helped a dog get home, but it never has to be that easy, does it? I'm driving to work and I see a dog on the side of the road. Adorable little Shiba Inu, probably less than a year old. It has a collar on so I figure this is going to be easy. I pull over, call to it, it runs a little too daring into the road, but comes to me. I check the collar for the phone number and call it, no answer, I leave a message. Somewhat scarier, the number is a Houston area code and I'm near Dallas. The dog's well groomed and it's a good breed, I can tell someone will be missing it. I put her in the car, head to work, and take care of what I absolutely had to in all of two minutes. Then I start visiting vets to see if any recognize the dog. My vet doesn't, the vet up the street doesn't, but they give me the dog's chip number and the phone number for Home Again. I take the dog home, put it in the back yard and call Home Again. Turns out it's not a Home Again chip, it's an AKC Reunite chip. Call them, the number they have on file is the same number I have that doesn't answer. I call up to the only other local vet I know of, the Banfield at Petsmart. They recognize the dog's name! They have the number in their system! But... they don't know how it got there. They're a national chain, it could have been entered at another location. Anyway, I have an appointment to get some work on my car done. I leave the dog in the back yard thinking that if they call while I'm out, I'll tell them the address and they can just come get it. I'm 10 minutes down the road when I get a call, it's not the owner, it's my mother. The dog has disappeared from my backyard. Another 10 minutes later, the owner finally calls me and I have to explain this. Right when I get my car dropped off, I call my mother and have her pick me up so I can look for the blasted thing. I find that it found its way into the neighbor's yard, I have no clue how this happened. I call the owner, tell them the good news. Not quite done, I open the neighbor's gate and the dog blasts off across the road. It runs straight into the open garage across the street from my neighbor and into his open house door. He's out working on his lawn, so I try explaining to him, he doesn't stop what he's doing except to mention he has two dogs of his own inside the house. Maybe two minutes pass and the Shiba comes blasting off out of the house and heading down the street. I yell out "come here" and it makes a wide turn right back to me. Then I just hang around for the owner to come, not letting the dog down for a moment. Happy ending. Also my Soylent arrived today. Pretty excited about that.

Talos Principle looks pretty awesome. Can't wait for the PS4 version, because I don't think I'll have a working gaming PC anytime soon. I was reading about the HoM III HD version yesterday. Seems Ubisoft is claiming that the original HoM III looks worse than it actually did to try and sell this. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=949321

Killed my second dragon. Crestwood is disappointing after fighting the Hinterlands. I rushed her just to see how it was and saw I was two levels her senior. Beat her in one go.

Took it on at level 13 on Hard, right after got the KE specialization and respeced. KE I will accept without hating you. This time.

If you guys are doing the Ferelden Frostback at 12 or 13, you better tell me you're doing it on Normal. Or I will hate you. I did it level 15 on Hard.

I almost bought it, backed off, now I'm deciding to do it. Only the price and add to cart buttons have been removed. I bet the initial $5.99 was an error and they're raising it to $9.99.

Ace Attorney Trilogy is on 3DS eshop today. Suikoden II is available on PSN for PS3. I don't have time to play either, but I'm still tempted to buy. I'm not good at this whole "saving" thing.

Killed my first dragon, yay, the Ferelden Frostback. Took me three tries, I tried once before last week but made so little progress it doesn't count. The first time I got to about stage two and don't remember why I died. Second time I got all the way to the final stage before wiping. This emboldened me for a third time where I stocked up on fire resistance potions. Overall they're the best dragon fights of the franchise and I feel the Souls games are the only ones that are particularly better. After beating one you get a special drinking celebration with Iron Bull, the approvals pushed me towards actually getting conversations with him. And I got an operation to celebrate the victory, which is cool. Now that I have full run of the Hinterlands, I can also say that the mosaic collection is bugged. There's one piece that nobody can find anywhere. There's another piece that's in an area you're not supposed to be able to access. Just getting to it can make you fall out of the world.

Old thread. I'm being optimistic with the title.

New thread going up. Edit: It's up.

There's only been two big boss games since then, silly goose. But yeah, really disappointed with where Metal Gear Solid has gone. But it still needs to make up for how awful 4 was.

And clearly you have an agenda too. I'm not seeing how this is supposed to be a problem.