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Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt. Short (around an hour) and free game on Steam. Kind of a combination of Earthbound (or more accurately, the indie game OFF, but I don't think virtually anybody has played that, so not a good reference point) combined with the Binding of Isaac and a top-down shooter* for combat. It was a little fun game, and I'm considering buying the $3 sequel. *Edited because I originally said fighter jet sim, which was not right, haha. (edit again): Apparently, this game was made in just 4 days at a game jam. I'm rather impressed, to be honest...it's not a fantastic game by any means, but it's pretty decent and fun for what it is.

The reviews for Yooka-Laylee seem about right to me. Yeah, they're a little low, but it's basically because, "This game is more or less a direct spiritual successor to BK/BT...for better or for worse...and also it has a few issues that need fixing." So that they're low doesn't perturb me very much - that's just the nature of a niche game.

I played them on emulator a few months ago. Still pretty solid platformers, although I've always preferred BK of the two - just easier to pick up and play than BT.

Boy, that should be fun to play unpatched.

The main characters not being likeable is probably the scariest thing for me here. Almost everything else can be fixed (...besides certain character sounds being annoying to listen to, I guess - that's probably not too likely). Banjo and Kazooie are a pretty iconic duo, and their games are known for their simplistic, yet clever writing. I kind of feared that they would struggle to get close to replicating that.

Probably didn't like sitting around for a couple of months not knowing what was going to happen. Take the easy job at CBS, Tony: may you be a better announcer than awful Phil Simms.

is it actually 100% true

Whoops, somehow, I read "Tyranny" as "Pillars". Well, either way, I think you're better off with a little bit softer of an approach for a new setting. Baldur's Gate was, you're raised in this great library-fortress of Candlekeep by your foster father Gorion, you're about to go on a journey, get ready. Simple, to the point, nothing too crazy mentioned yet. Pillars was a bit more forceful, especially when you threw that intro guy repeatedly saying the word "Glanfathan" multiple times in the first conversation. If I've played the game for a while, "Glanfathan" probably sounds perfectly fine...but uh, two seconds into the game and hearing it voiced a few times like that is a little much.

I didn't much like that, either. GLANFARTHAN(?) THIS, GLANFARTHAN THAT, what the heck are we even talking about, let me get at least a little accustomed to the setting before you start having all this thrown at me

...I think they meant story-wise...

Bayonetta, most likely, judging from the boot.

Source?

Yeah, I remember in grade school being utterly bored learning about the World Wars and history in general. Meanwhile, in fifth grade, I was spending recesses being entranced by Harry Turtledove's Into the Darkness, which is almost quite literally just World War II in fantasy form, murder and genocide and rapes and all*. Stupid kid brains are stupid, who would've figured? Now, history is one of my favorite subjects... *No, it wasn't really a totally appropriate book for my age, I guess, but you know, it was a character-building experience.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326639-flynn-offers-to-testify-on-russia-ties-in-exchange-for-immunity (alt source: Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-offers-to-testify-in-exchange-for-immunity-1490912959) Former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn has offered to testify on Russian issue in exchange for immunity. An intriguing development, at the very least.

I can never tell what the heck games you guys are playing if you don't say what they are.

And I wish you would go back to reddit. Can't tell if he's talking about the liberals or conservatives here... Or maybe he means the awful mental degenerates who are in between.

Yeah, Paradox is their publisher, I'm not even slightly surprised. Throw the actually important stuff in the expansion packs, and throw the cosmetic nonsense in the DLC - that's the Paradox way.

Is there a specific part in there that I'm supposed to watch, or...

To be fair, though, that meme video is pretty hilarious.

I could survive with no internet or TV, but no utilities...no way of listening to my music or playing my games or reading my books (I've switched entirely to ebooks: I hate the feeling of real books)...I didn't spend years of work carefully putting together my entertainment/media collection just to not be able to use it!

Hah, I was just going to post that. Here is the go fund me page: https://www.gofundme.com/BuyCongressData The CAH guy warned against donating to any campaigns like these for the time being, because we don't even know the mechanic for buying data yet. That campaign looks like it was created by some random.

Build a wall? around the school

It's literally embarrassing, I'm not even kidding or exaggerating in the slightest. You have literally ~20 year old games like Age of Empires that forced client-server synchronization: you're telling me MASS EFFECT in 2017 can't? Are you serious? Just...what?

Which comes back to project mismanagement, huh...

That's pretty crappy. Not what Cheat Engine is supposed to be for. ...Also, it's embarrassing that the netcode is so bad that client-side changes also affect the server. Hyuk.