Bartimaeus

I don't understand: why are you reading (or able to read) her posts to begin with?

Our government has had such a good track record against whistle-blowers (and similar characters) over the last few administrations, though...

Yeah, it actually seems remarkably similar. A few things were jumbled up, others just straight up missing, and some worthless stuff was added...but overall, it looks pretty similar to Windows 7. I liked that the bootup W10 installer was quite literally exactly the same as the bootup W7 installer, minus a changed background color.

Neat, that should help push PC graphics forward some. (e): Well, sort of. That CPU is still pretty crappy, and not much different from the Xbox One/PS4 CPU. Although I guess it continues to help with multithread gaming, which is finally starting to gain some traction...

Hey, it's just what I've heard. Heh, I'm certainly no BioWare apologist...I've rather expressly disliked them since Dragon Age: Origins...and most people actually liked that game!

Not likely to be playtesters/QA's fault. Given that the project was apparently behind on schedule, it's quite possibly they never really fully got to that stage...or if they did, they didn't have the time on their current schedule to heed them.

Don't buy an M.2 SSD if you plan on using Windows 7 on it. I spent a few hours trying to make it work, including figuring out how to manually patch my installer of Windows, but after finally getting it to recognize that the drive existed at all, the farthest I got was it reaching the Windows splash screen before it repeatedly blue screened. Guess it'll have to use Windows 10.

Yeah, bad choice of words on my part. I haven't played a top-down shooter in about a million years, so I couldn't even remember what they were called...and went with what I thought it was. Now a jet sim in this would be something else...

I bought the $3 sequel and beat it. It was also a fun little game that was mostly similar. Yay!

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.