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@Mamoulian War This is such a brain-dead fight.

That's because coconut milk is mana from the heavens.

Before watching the trailer, I was thinking "you know, you could probably do some pretty cool stuff with an animated Star Trek show that would've been very difficult to do - or at least do well - with a live-action", but then I actually watched the trailer, and yeah, nah, I'm good.

PSA to the clowns who make this forum software (who I know will never read this, but nevertheless): your lack of a plaintext/bbcode mode is bad and you should feel bad for removing it.

I was gifted an Xbox One some years ago (would never buy one myself, given its horrid games library relative to Sony and especially Nintendo). It's a horrific user experience. Update every time I turn it on combined with absolutely lousy download speeds (I have a gigabit connection...and it takes 15-20 minutes to download a 1.5GB patch...what the hell, Microsoft? I know I don't live exactly close to major civilization, but that is so slow relative to every other content provider). These updates seem to be re-inventing the wheel for the UI every time too, which means stuff is constantly shuffled about for no real reason. Ads everywhere. Annoying prompts constantly. Login or you might as well not own this console. Terribly slow everything due to using an HDD with games sometimes exceeding 80GB. It is just the worst user experience and it makes it so I never, ever use it, and should've just sold it the moment I got it (...which I probably would've done, but couldn't realistically without seeming like a terrible person to the person that gifted it to me, bah). Awful console.

Even though this photo has an obvious devil horns thing going on (I'm shocked nobody noticed it before releasing it), he looks so tired, haggard, and...human?, that I realized I somehow still feel a shred of empathy towards the man. I wonder by how many years being president will shorten his lifespan from all the stress and such. It can't have been worth it.

Big yikes at the "Hitler was right" players across the NFL and NBA over the past couple of days...especially when combined with the absolutely deafening silence from other players (remember how quick everyone spoke out against Drew Brees?). 2020 definitely needed that on top of everything else.

Unrelated, but did anyone else hear about MSI's well-liked CEO falling to his death from the top of their headquarters in Taiwan today? Unknown if accident, suicide, or homicide.

Imagine how much more stupid this game would be to play through with a melee build.

Their attendance numbers were at 95.6% last year, which is right about average - however, that says nothing about the number of home fans vs. away fans. I never see any Bills games, so I haven't seen first hand if their fan attendance is bad.

Bills have announced that they will have no fans at their games, and I've heard the Packers are contemplating the same. Redskins are possibly changing their name. Cam Newton signed with the Patriots.

The Red Turtle (2016). Bleh. Highly rated, but I have little to no appreciation for visual storytelling, and this was a very dull Little Baby's First Art, so it was not for me.

Yeah, some time after watching it, I learned that the director is an actual bonafide pedophile that wanted to do way weirder and grosser stuff with the film, and it was pretty much a miracle that it turned out as well as it did. The Handmaiden (2016). I forgot I had gotten this a while back, forgotten who made it, had no idea what it was about before starting it. Whoops. That was different.

People are dumb. I live in a tiny, tiny town and have been hearing fireworks go off every once in a while every night from 11PM-2AM for the past couple of weeks.

How do you know it's a controller? These sorts of trailers usually look more like some kind of scripted movement specifically tailor made to look smoother and more cinematic than normal controls (that, or some people have gotten really good at just making it look that way, since nobody who actually plays games moves the way trailers like these show the player moving). The real question is why is the field of view about 60 degrees, what the hell - feels claustrophobic...and not in a good way. The player's hands coming directly out of their face is not helping matters, either.

Shrine is a stupid, unpleasant area...but at least it wasn't another crappy swamp area that seemingly every Souls game has. Barely remember the boss.

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It's a twist on an Animal Farm line: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

I've played through DS1, DS3, and DeS on NG+ at SL1, I definitely have a formula down for how I approach things in these sorts of games by now, .

I was shocked that this guy was a Lord Soul, given the obvious and painful limitations of his design. Don't think I got hit even once by him, but of course, with Souls games, I usually spend a few minutes being super cautious and studying a boss's movements before I start attacking.

Could American Evangelists Spot the Antichrist? Never gave any credence to Revelations or any similar prophecies throughout the Bible, always felt Revelations was written by a true madman ("John of Patmos", aka "John the Revelator"), but it is rather eerie and unsettling how specific some of these get. Some of them, of course, are loose interpretations, but that happens when dealing with vague "prophecies". The ones about having a conflict at the southern border and attempting to exact payment out of that southern country while also inflicting distress upon their people is a little too much specific for that to not be uncomfortable...

That sounds like a classic dad move to me. Glad to hear he made it.

It'd probably be a little more noteworthy if Obsidian, uh, was actually managing these forums, . Give thanks to the moderation team, not MIA Obsidian (who might very well not feel so kindly if they actually noticed...).

I remember getting rather annoyed by Smelter Demon, but I'm not sure why, since he looks very pedestrian in that video. Strange Telephone (2019). Reminded me of Yume Nikki, which I never played much of because I didn't really like it...but better. At the very least, I finished it. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/e8fo9ecnw5xxgov/xDSEjcnuGo.mp4 Yes, this is an actual game that I played.