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the character still looks like CGI uncanny valley central, but now we can also see that probably most of the rest of the movie relies on about as much CGI and looks about the same, so I guess it's fitting

Yeah, Lost Izalith was made as they were running out of development time, so it was super rushed and pretty garbage.

That was a game that I thought looked like it could be alright when I had only seen screenshots. And then I played it and realized it was just an extremely wonky and bland survival game with only slight traces of anything approaching horror - it was just too janky to be atmospheric. I quit after about half an hour.

Yeah...wasn't he pushing for invasion of Venezuela not that long ago?

why i never

I did not like Ori and the Blind Forest very much at all. I thought the movement was just...really bad for a platformer? Very sticky and floaty. Couldn't get used to it, so I had to drop it. Looked very nice, though. I guess it's like universally loved, but I'm more used to the Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario Bros style of platforming, where precise movement is actually incredibly important as opposed to simply a pretty afterthought, so it just wasn't for me.

...also the absolute worst search system, with so many duplicated pages and completely unrelated results.

That's weird. I would've figured you'd take the lowest amount of damage if you just don't get hit at all. @Ring of Fog & Nito: Yeah, you have to stay on the half of the map opposite to the additional skeletons if you want to avoid aggroing them. It can be a little difficult when Nito does his big mega blast spell and you get caught in a bad position, though.

Wouldn't that be because those jobs have typically paid a living wage, and their disappearance have left a dearth of jobs that do (especially in places that used to be heavily revolving around it)? But that's really just a symptom of a host of other problems - crazy inflation vs. wages not keeping up with it vs. an asinine housing market vs. globalism, outsourcing, and immigrants/imported workers, etc.

I wouldn't go to those lengths for a game I don't very much like, but I've played through all of Shadow of Chernobyl using only the knife and a Makarov. Masochistic gimmicks can sometimes be fun if you like the game enough. (e): And I played through Metro 2033 using only throwing knives. I discovered after many hours of testing that the safest and most consistent way to kill somebody with a throwing knife is hitting them square in their backpacks. The backpack must be holding their spine together or something.

The Special Counsel has indicted an additional twelve Russian intelligence agents for hacking into the DNC (great timing just days before Trump's meeting with Putin). An interesting tidbit sent between Guccifer 2.0 (the persona the Russians were using as a front for leaking what they'd found via the hack) and Wikileaks (referred to as Organization 1 here):

Yeah, aren't warning labels largely there to avoid liability because of the people who did something dumb/ignorant yet were smart enough to get a lawyer good enough to convince other people that it was somebody else's fault? Obviously, that's a huge generalization, but warning labels are probably more used by reasonably cautious people who may be initially ignorant (as we all tend to be at some point) but who are likely not stupid if they're spending the time to make sure they don't do something dumb. A lot of warning labels are pretty ridiculous, I understand (WARNING: do not turn on power drill inside of your mouth), but not every single one is necessarily totally obvious for someone not familiar with the object.

I never much liked co-op in Soulsborne games. It's like the AI wasn't designed for it at all, since it'll just constantly keep switching targets depending on who hit them last (or over a certain threshold of damage rather than simply one hit, I think, in DS2), which with the exception of Abhorrent Beast in Bloodborne (who's such a gosh-danged ridiculous monster that you really need 3 or 4 people to comfortably handle him - beating him solo is so ridiculously hard, but boy was it great when I finally did), almost always makes them rather trivial. I guess it's just a way for people who really cannot hack it solo to keep progressing, at least.

I can see that for joint pain. If it's bad enough (which it often is in my case), it feels utterly debilitating, which is super frustrating and sometimes agonizing when you simply cannot do what you feel you need to.

If you don't need them, don't take them. I got a big bottle of vicodin for my surgery last summer, and I just didn't take any since it wasn't so bad that I felt I truly needed them. The bottle's still sitting in my safe. Also, good to hear you made it.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Divinity: Original Sin. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of classical computer role-playing games most of the jokes will go over a typical player's head. There's also both protagonists' nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into their characterisation- their dialogue options draw heavily from the rich history of fourth wall breaking jokes in CRPG history such as the concept of CHIM, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Divinity: Original Sin truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in the main antagonist of the story, which itself is a cryptic reference to the Neverending Story. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Larian's genius wit unfolds itself on their monitors. What fools.. how I pity them. And yes, by the way, i DO have a Divinity: Original Sin tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid

Playing some Playstation 2 games that I played and had sort of fond memories of from when I was younger. I have subsequently discovered that there were virtually no titles from the Playstation 2 that I had played that are worth remembering. Whoops. Instead, I'll try out a couple of games that I never played to begin with, like ICO.

If you've never had surgery before, it'll be less scary than you think it will be. Well, unless something unexpected happens or goes wrong, in which case I have no useful advice. Good luck, .

Hmm, I've never played Planetscape Tournament, can you get it on GOG or Steam?

​ What was her last one - "It's her turn"? Gotta be better than that. Whoever thought of that one should probably be launched out of a cannon.

no thanks. but it won't surprise me if we're dumb enough to let her run again.

Right before Avatar Wan was where I had stopped - Korra had lost her memories, and I was basically like, "FML, these next episodes are probably gonna all gonna be about Korra." But then it wasn't, and when it came back to Korra, she finally started acting like a reasonable human being again. I'm not asking for much of Legend of Korra here - if you don't have completely terrible and/or pointless episode plots and utterly unreasonable characters, I'll probably keep watching...but it's been really up and down in both areas so far.

I got through the second season of Legend of Korra. I will tentatively give the third a try. Funnily enough, it seems I took like a week break right before the actually kinda okay part of the season began - I hope this isn't a pattern where the first half to two thirds of each season suck because they're being weighed down by an endless cascade of nonsense silly stuff before the more important stuff kicks in in the latter half of the season. I guess I'll soon find out. I think Airbender had a little better ratio of important vs. silly stuff, and it was better sprinkled throughout rather than occurring all at once like Korra seems to be doing. I don't particularly enjoy feeling like the first 6-8 episodes were completely pointless (and not very enjoyable) to watch.

well, that was interesting