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Suffice to say, 2028 should be a lot more interesting than 2024 in terms of potential presidential candidates.

Everywhere seems to list the PoE soundtrack at exactly 26 tracks, with the exception of the early/prototype physical CD that they released as part of the original Kickstarter (...which is 9 tracks and 25 minutes shorter than the web soundtrack). What're the 36 tracks that you have that are missing?

I know you're joking, but the surgery and rehab is 8 months at a minimum, usually longer...even for young players. These sorts of major injuries are not fun or easy to recover from from either a pain or conditioning standpoint to get back to game shape, and I could honestly see that being the reason why Rodgers might not want to bother - knowing that he's basically taking a year off of his life and normal level of freedom just to dedicate himself to getting back into playing shape again.

Silver linings that you weren't allowed to build up much hope, I guess. I think he'll be back next year, can't see him wanting to leave the game like that, but who knows if he'll be able to do it physically anymore at that point even if he does. Anyways, that's a long ways off, not worth worrying about right now. Very unfun fact: Jordan Love was pressured twice over the entire Packers-Bears game...Aaron Rodgers three times in the four snaps that he played.

Sorry, @the_dog_days, load of total crap for your Jets as per usual. Saw lots of Jets fans basically saying "well, yeah, we're the Jets, so it was pretty much what we already expected".

I honestly forgot about that, but you know, now that you mention it, I think that the Harpers' level of incompetence is directly proportional to how many bards they have...it all starts to makes sense.

video game appearances of the harpers have pretty consistently made them out to be the most worthless secret superhero society that I've ever seen give me batman over those jokers, at least he's good for punching people in the face

Had a friend look at my bicycle, they asked to do a quick test ride. Just fifteen seconds later, they test the brakes and they've flipped themselves over the handlebars head first into ground. One trip to the hospital and an hour later, their memory of the whole event has disappeared: they don't remember what they were trying to do or anything of what was said leading up to (or after) the incident. Diagnosed with a concussion and bruised ribs, but CT scan doesn't show any brain abnormalities. I can only assume that my front brakes were much tighter than they were used to and they didn't think to test them more gingerly to start out with: can't really think of any other reason why someone who I do not believe to be dumb and who is an relatively experienced bicycle rider would suddenly flip themselves over into a traumatic brain injury literally just seconds into testing a bike. I have a few notes from this experience: Always wear your helmet, because between other people trying to kill you and split-second decisions you may make without clearly thinking them through before you do them, your head is worth protecting...even if it's for just a casual and "totally safe" quick test ride. Even though it's not really my fault, when you see someone suffer a horrific injury that could've easily been avoided if you had just said "test the brakes before you do anything else" (which I literally do every time I get on even my own bicycle because I have a mortal fear of brakes not working correctly, which has potentially saved me from a similar fate once upon a time when my back wheel brakes had inexplicably disconnected), it's really difficult to not feel responsible for them getting hurt. I might need a new bicycle. So...how was everyone else's Sunday morning?

The original ending is indulgently long - isn't it like...15, 20 minutes of extra footage? It's great, but it also doesn't flow super well with the rest of the film, and it's not the normal "happy ending" that audiences would want for a tonally cheerful musical extravaganza (ignoring all the thematically heavy horrors and violence depicted there within - if everything is said and done with a laugh and a smile, does it really count?). But with the theatrical ending on the other hand...

"Switch Too" sounds like an alarmingly similar innovation to "Wii U"...kiiind of thinking they're not going to tempt fate with that one. At least the Super Nintendo was successful, though it was obviously forever ago and marketing has hugely changed since then.

They better call it the Super Nintendo Switch (SNS).

rip bozo

If past history is anything to go by, they should be back to being bad by next year at the latest.

I saw this comment recently: "Starfield is like you're over 40 years old. There is a universe to explore, but you're already tired from work and it's time to sleep." ...I'm not over 40 years old (or even particularly close to it), but it still struck a chord.

The movie is quite horrid, and I actually foresaw that it might be someone's only frame of reference for it, which is why I ended up editing "book" into the spoiler, . The original book is pretty good, even if it has some issues...the sequels, uh, have some interesting ideas, but largely devolve into some kind of overtly philosophical soap opera. Not for me, to say the least. Ken Liu's English translation: I thought the writing prose was fine. It's not particularly interesting or complex or distracting or...really anything. It's just fine. If you're interested in the ideas, perhaps that's enough, but it's difficult for me to say fo rsure.

I got like a third of the way through The Three-Body Problem book before I dropped it. The opening, which takes place in the throes of China's Cultural Revolution where Ye Wenjie's father is lynched during a struggle session, was awesome and I was super hooked from that...but after that, we quickly move forward to the present, and the book did almost nothing to capture my interest from thereon. I'd had quite enough when we got to the video game section of the book: I'd started to have this really sinking feeling that the series was massively derivative of (or otherwise painfully similar to) the series, and so I started reading a summary of the rest of the book, and well...both yes and no, but regardless, I had zero inclination to get any deeper into the series.

Stress-free Packers football for the first time in close to a decade, it should be a nice respite for a season...but hopefully not much longer.

The unequivocal star of the U.S. team, ANT aka Anthony Edwards, said "we're not really worried about those guys" with regards to Lithuania and Montenegro leading up to the game, .

You know, we talked about this within the past year and I thought I remembered that being the case, but I went against my memory and thought for sure Haer'Dalis had to be an option as well. Even though he's really not that much better than Cernd, he is at least not Anomen...but apparently not. How disgusting: BioWare must've really hated its female playerbase. But these kinds of character romances for me, at this point, feel like they just kind of unnaturally break the character in question. It's way too painfully obvious what the game is trying to do, it's both too gamey and transactional (especially with the constant CHARACTER DIS/APPROVES prompts for everything you do, big or little)...and too uncomfortably masturbatory. I don't want silent cardboard cutouts for party members either though, so I guess I'm kind of stuck with not really liking any of my options here. It's an odd thing, looking at BG1 and BG2 and seeing how laughably limited their character dialogues and personal developments largely are, but also being like...well, at least I wasn't annoyed by most of them being in my party, at least they weren't constantly taking me out of the game by being way too obviously playersexual, and I actually rather like a number of them, as simple as they may be. With BG3, it seems that I have to go out of my way to either not interact with characters, or maybe pick responses based purely off of balancing all of their approval levels, in order for things to not get immediately weird and off-putting. But the thing is...neither of those are how I want to play either (the amount of self-rules I'm having to implement or consider implementing in order to fix 'problems' with this game is too high already!), so again, I kind of just feel like I can't really play the game how I'd like to. Why the hell does everyone want to get into my pants just for asking some basic questions about them and for trying to be generally polite while tossing bards down cliffs? Well...actually, now that I think about it, I suppose I'd be pretty in love with anybody that tosses bards down cliffs myself, so maybe that's it. It seems that someone else apparently hates the approval system, because there's already a mod that completely disables it. Well...okay, I guess I'm going to install that, because I really have had zero inclination to play the game since my first camp (i.e. the last time I played).

At least with older games, if you played a female main character, you could just butcher all the guys to make sure no sham romances would suddenly start to fire off. Isn't it that only Cernd, Anomen, and Haer'Dalis are romanceable for female main characters in BG2? I'd gladly kill all those morons even if I weren't playing a female main character, but the fact that I do makes it even better. Now, my only option is to apparently murder everyone I meet. (e): Wait, no, I don't think Cernd is romanceable - he's already got a kid, right? He really is the worst...until I remember that Anomen exists.

That first screenshot is the line she gave to me immediately after she got done telling me that I was wretched and vile, literally the first time I talked to her in camp. I did not find it to be altogether kosher.

1. not sure i really like the look of any of that combat 2. but if they bring back my cheerleader outfit, i suppose i can at least try it out

The Pupil (2022). Rather bizarre Italian film about a bunch of young girls in a nunnery during World War II trying to make it through Christmas while being yelled at for their apparent wickedness by the nuns, selling their little orphan prayers to all the wives and moms worried about their boys in exchange for food and such. The concept is decidedly me, and the execution was...rather amusing. I mean, just look at them. Once a girl decides that cake is more important than Christ, I think that pretty much seals it.

Can you buy the premium, download/preload, refund, then buy the normal version and have it ready to go on launch date?

what i really need with modern games is a 'playstation 1 graphics' mode/switch: less strain on my gpu, less strain on my brain because all the nasty uncanny valley crap immediately goes away