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Hmm, is that on Steam?

Was it his own? I'd be pretty pleased if I managed to bankrupt a casino that wasn't mine.

My solution was to never do a kick throughout any of the three Dark Souls games. Even if I could get it to work 90% of the time, that 10% would surely get me killed.

Ah...yes, a tablet is a little more tricky. I don't think Windows tablets run standard copies of Windows (I think they run Windows RT, which is ARM-only). I don't know if there are any operating systems you could do what I suggested with if it is indeed an ARM tablet. (e): Seems like Ubuntu may work with ARM-based tablets? Maybe? Your mileage will probably vary with the specific model...

Assuming the laptop drive is not actually encrypted, create a bootable flash drive for your laptop (either Windows or Linux will do - Linux is the easier of the two because Microsoft very specifically tried to prevent people from formatting flash drives with Windows, though it is still possible), and extract the files that way, as you'll now have access to your laptop's hard drive from inside of the flash drive's OS. I have a bootable Linux flash drive for exactly this reason - though some newer laptops may have protections against booting removable drive OSes, not entirely sure.

Gorsuch could be considered an accomplishment in the sense that he, Trump, was elected, by which Gorsuch was allowed to be nominated. That makes it partly his accomplishment - more that scumbag McConnell's than his, though, I'd say. Of course, there's an argument to be made that any almost other Republican candidate would've fared better in the general election than Trump, but ultimately, he did get the job done (..even if he DID lose the popular vote by 2 million-plus votes - our election system's fault, not Trump's).

Sorry, LadyCrimson.

@Life Is Strange: It had contrived choice dichotomies, the consequences were almost entirely nonexistent, real bad face animations (kind of a big deal for the type of game it is), some characters were written really weirdly (or poorly) at some of the worst times, and some other problems...BUT I still bought into it while playing for various other reasons, and was rewarded with a very unique and strangely fun experience. Life Is Strange is not a game you can probably play casually - I waited a year-plus to be in the right mood to try it out, and I'm pretty sure if I hadn't, I wouldn't have liked the game at all. I'm sort of the same way with movies...which makes sense, since LIS is basically just a mildly interactive movie-game.

That reminds me of how annoying inventory management was in NWN2 even though they gave you a huge amount of it along with giant magic bags. Good times.

I mean, if you're okay with any javascript you happen to run across while browsing being able to hijack your PC, sure. Note that this can include poorly curated ads...

who made this

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ Apparently affects almost all modern Intel CPUs (from around the first Core generation to current ones). A bad enough security flaw that the Linux community as well as Microsoft are attempting to censor and obfuscate all discussion of it for the time being while they work on a fix. Makes it so that any old Javascript running on your browser can access your kernel memory and hijack your PC, I guess. A reddit discussion thread for more information: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/7nqgpb/intel_cpus_processor_design_flaw_may_cause_5_to/

There's a little bit of Quest 64 in all of us.

Those are all pretty striking. You gotta wonder how publishers think that the generic action pose is somehow preferable time and time again compared to something that's actually interesting to look at. Is it all marketing? Probably. At the very least, action game covers are functional for telling people what genre game they are, if nothing else.

That's definitely true for action games...

I know it's a little confusing because it has 64 in the title, but Quest 64 is actually in first place! @Algroth: Yeah, I hate all that crap littering cover art (video games, music, films, whatever). Then you throw in the low availability of decent quality scans on top of it... And yep, actual artistic pieces instead of just plain in-game shots tend to age the best. Decent game artwork became a bit of a last...er...art for a while there, but I think it's been coming back for a while now. Also, what the heck is that Tetris cover? I mean, really. Here's the Tetris soundtrack cover: Why didn't they use something like this?

There's a few different categories here: ones that are good or at least decent for some reason or another (visually striking and/or giving an accurate/good impression of the game for the most part), and then there are ones that are just poorly composed, ones that are simply dull as could be, and ones that don't give any sort of meaningful impression of the game...and then there are the ones that fall into two or all three of those categories. So far, I think the worst of the bunch are Goldeneye, The Longest Journey (good lord those early 3D graphics did not age well), Dragon's Dogma (could you get any more boring than this?), Tetris, The Pandora Directive, and maybe Grim Dawn. Bloodborne bothers me a bit, too, because it would've been much better without that dummy right in the middle of an otherwise mildly interesting-looking composition - with his back turned, no less. I guess that sort of thing is an industry standard now, though...

This guy gets it. If you look at the latest category (Whoa Dude 2.0), two totally unknown indie games called Luna and CPU Invaders, with 13 and 78 reviews on Steam respectively (and with no presence on any other platform from what I can tell), somehow were nominated by popular vote. Pretty sure it's been gamed in some manner, and I'm kind of shocked Valve did not see it. The good ol' hands-off approach strikes again... As for the new results...Hm, I'm constantly surprised Titan Quest gets as much love as it has over the years, given its terrible initial release and the fact that it was...uh, kind of mediocre, it seemed to me. And I say that as someone who loves the Greek mythological setting... Besides that, I should play Thief someday.

Well, Falcons won anyways, but if they hadn't, Blair Walsh missing another game-winning FG would've been a pretty hilarious way to end the season, too.

Yeah, it's just that kind of game. Glad you enjoyed it like everyone else here did!!

I went into it expecting to at least sort of like it. I was very wrong - I was shocked by how wrong I was, actually. I watched it when I was kid (probably around 3-4), and had fragments of memories from it. All the main characters not named Willow* were utterly awful cringe-inducers that just would not stop. The other miscellaneous characters were fine, like the other halflings (I actually had a pretty good impression of this movie right up until Val Kilmer appeared, which caused it to dip some, and then the introduction of the two micro-Jar Jar Binks caused it to drop through the floor and down into the mantle of the Earth, and then it dropped even a little more on top of that when the evil queen's daughter started doing...whatever it is she was doing in this movie - though by this time, the movie had already completely lost me and I was just torturing myself by continuing to sit through it). At a few points in the movie, I literally physically covered up my eyes and plugged my ears because I was in so much pain that I just couldn't take it anymore. I also watched The Brave Little Toaster (1987 - another movie I watched probably around the same time as Willow and wanted a refresher on). Weird and somewhat trippy cartoon movie, but I thought it was pretty decent. (edit): and whatever the baby's name was, I forget it: she was fine, too.

Willow (1988). Some okay parts interrupted too often by the endless stream of awful garbage that was this movie. Really terrible.

Yeah, and the funny thing is, I'm not really much into casual games at all (either as a genre, or as a method of playing). However, I do think there is a sort of beauty in something so simple: turn it on and immediately start playing with some decent music to go along with it, no complications. A bit like Solitaire or Mahjong in that regard, except faster-paced. If it were a game installed by default on Windows, I'd probably play it every once in a while while waiting for something to complete.

Uh, whoops, my sort of whimsical final vote for Tetris actually helped get it a place on this list. Not that it's totally undeserved (seeing as it's sort of the - or at least a - grandfather of casual games), but still. (edit): Also, games I considered voting for but decided against for various reasons that have currently shown up on this list: Majora's Mask, Hitman: Blood Money, Super Smash Bros., and Super Meat Boy, The latter two because I decided I simply didn't enjoy them enough for them to be deserving, the former two because while I did really enjoy them, MM had too many problems (especially for a game that was almost entirely recycled from bits and pieces of Ocarina of Time) to be deserving while Blood Money always had sort of that incomplete experience feeling to it (in its case, it was mechanically very satisfying, but lacking most everywhere else).

How so? Anyhow, the higher we go in the list, the more the points will make a difference. Right now all games have been voted by only two users out of the 39 who've taken part, so plenty are bound to gather together. I think we would've had less ties if some of us lazy folks (e.g. myself) had been more dedicated to assigning proper point values.