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...although Tales of the Sword Coast is easily the worst and most broken bit of the BG series and really not worth playing outside of MAYBE Durlag's Tower...

You and most programmers.

Also, not having to stealth kill the Nazis after you exit to the surface after saving that stupid kid (...who has an absolutely terrifying voice in Redux, by the way - they got rid of the 2033 actual child voice acting and replaced it with some Dragon Ball Z-style woman-tries-to-sound-like-a-male-prepubescent-child-but-fails-horrifyingly-badly voice acting instead; sure, the original work was pretty wooden, but at least it didn't make me fear for my life like the new stuff did, yikes) did admittedly make the Redux experience automatically better than 2033 for me. Trying to stealth kill that big group of Nazis is seriously ridiculously hard, and probably takes the most work (...and luck) out of anything else in the game. Do not recommend. Of course I played through wanting to use only throwing knives while also wanting to (stealth) kill everyone I meet, because I'm a masochistic retard...

In 2033, or in Redux? ...I guess it doesn't matter, since the answer is the same: yes. Not that it really made a difference for me, since I never used bullets anyways. Although, funnily, 2033 is virtually unplayable if you play on the "easier" difficulties: like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (also a Ukrainian dev, an odd coincidence), 4A's idea of "easier" difficulty was to make everything take much more damage to kill, player and enemies included. If you're playing the game for the first time and you decide to play on easy, you're probably going to quit, because the game is just going to feel absolutely stupid with how long battles will take because of how much damage everyone absorbs. Switch it up to the hardest, and hey, what do you know, the game suddenly actually feels like a competent shooter...but you won't realize that the harder difficulties will make things better in that regard your first playthrough. Sure, you only die from like 2 bullets, but so do enemies, and the game's stealth system is so forgiving that you should have the drop on most enemies, so really, playing on the hardest difficulty is probably easier (and certainly more fun) than playing on the easiest.

I wasn't too impressed by what I played of Metro 2033 Redux...but the one change that I really liked, I think, was that they introduced an ammo limit on all the different ammos...which meant that I could play through the game using guns for the first time without my OCD going completely mad about having to "collect all the ammos" while not ever using them. It was weird playing through without using only throwing knives (and the occasional Helsing/crossbow) for the first time.

Gosh, Steam has turned into such a garbagehole over the last 5-7 years...there was this little short golden age after they opened up the store to the halfway decent publishers and SOME indies, and then they stopped trying at all after that... I never open the store anymore unless I already know what I want to look at or buy. The store has become utterly useless for discovering things I might be interested in. Ugh.

It's *been* ten years already...

That's the way football goes, sadly. They either sacrifice some of their salary for more guaranteed money, or they take more money for less guaranteed. On a side-note, he was also arrested for marijuana possession just a couple of months ago, which didn't help his chances of staying on the roster...and it won't help his chances of getting signed elsewhere, seeing as he'll be suspended for at least a couple of games. He also has never played a full season during his 7-year long career...it's not like they got rid of him as soon as he was injured. At least this gives him a lot of time to try to catch on to a different team if he's truly determined about it...which I hope he isn't, for his own sake.

In recent news, the Packers have released Sam Shields, our once Pro Bowl-quality CB who's basically been out for the last two seasons because of concussions. He's basically the Wes Welker of CBs at this point with as many head injuries as he had...and like Wes Welker, he has indicated that he wants to continue to play against all given medical advice. I just hope that he's able to remember whom he is by the time he's 40. P.S. My first ever thread after having been registered here for nearly ten years - neato! ...Aaand it's about stupid football...

That's pretty sweet, actually!

The only thing more silly than sports? Sports games.

The new content from the EEs are pretty bad, so I personally opt for the originals. However, in general, the EEs will look better and be easier to play if you don't want to mod, so if you combine that with not minding overpaying for the EEs, then they're O.K. Personally, they're not for me whatsoever, though, and I'd rather just mod out any issues I have personally rather than accepting Beamdog's hamfisted "enhanced" version of the game.

Sorry, I don't catch the meaning. People thinking the same for Bush? ...Course, others thought the same for Obama, and others still thought and even planned worse than that still for both of them, and I'm sure the same will be true for Trump.

Trump seems like a pretty contemptible person, but wishing for his death seems a bit harsh.

Hm. I didn't really get "desperate" or "defeated" out of it...at least, not by the end of it. Yeah, you kind of get that feeling in the first half, but by the end, it starts to really pick itself up and sound the opposite to me.

Another musical masterpiece by Neil Cicierega.

Your own activity feed, too. Although you should hopefully not have friends that would make use of such an exploit...

That's neat, I guess. I've always thought the HUDs in Zelda games have been a bit too over the top - I know what A and B do at this point, guys, don't need to have those icons permanently there for me to see - so I'd probably use that if I ever play that.

You're thinking of the Comeback. It was actually a wild card game, where Buffalo was *down* 32 points against the Titans (probably still called the Oilers at this time)...and ended up coming back to win it in overtime. Largest comeback in NFL history (playoffs and regular season). This one ties for 5th biggest comeback in NFL history, I think, and the 3rd biggest in the playoffs. Blew out the biggest comeback in the Super Bowl, that's for sure - 2.5x times it. Yeah, Falcons really gave this game away very badly. The Super Bowl is not the place to be making such a myriad of unforced errors and to phone it in so bad in the middle of the 3rd quarter.

He was *just* - and I really do mean just - beginning the forward motion when the defender knocked it out of his hands, way, way before he completes a clean release. No referee is ever going to call that anything but a fumble on the field...and no-one would ever overturn it...or at least, they shouldn't, especially based on precedent of how these are usually called. A closer look: It's already leaving his hands at this point while still being way behind him: there's no way that would ever be called anything but a fumble, especially when you look at the trajectory of the ball as its leaving his hands. Yeah, technically, they may have been just the slightest forward motion...but c'mon. Another angle...way out of hands in this one and his hand is still way behind him and he hasn't gotten even close to completing the motion or a proper release yet. Easy call for the officials. (e): Looking at it more, what it basically looks like is that his elbow just started to go forward...but his forearm had not really begun the motion of the pass (i.e. his forearm hadn't really begun to snap forward in an arc yet). I'm not clear on the exact rules, but I would think the forearm would be more important for determining this than the elbow simply moving forward, especially because some QBs will hold it higher than others and you could argue that their natural body movements (their elbows moving forward and back as they're moving around in the pocket) could therefore technically constitute as the beginnings of a forward pass motion. Think it's the forearm that matters most. Either way, the call is perfectly consistent with the way I've seen these called over the years.

Where once was light, Now darkness falls. Where once was love, Love is no more. Don't say goodbye, Don't say I didn't try. These tears we cry, Are falling rain, For all the lies you told us, The hurt, the blame. And we will weep, To be so alone, We are lost, We can never go home. So in the end, I will be what I will be. No loyal friend, Was ever there for me. Now we say goodbye, We say you didn't try. These tears you cry, Have come too late. Take back the lies, The hurt, the blame. And you will weep, When you face the end alone, You are lost, You can never go home. You are lost, You can never go home.

rip

well, I guess patriots are going to win the good news is, people are probably going to forget about the packers' embarrassing NFCCG collapse if the patriots win here, because this one blows all other ones out of the water

If by "killed it", you mean she was the same as any other craptime show, I suppose so.