Bartimaeus

To be fair to Polygon, I'm about as bad as they are when trying to play a FPS with a gamepad. For some reason, my brain can't quite grasp using two analogue sticks at once with shooters, and I play pretty similarly to a person who's never played games before. ...Of course, I'm not reviewing such games (and certainly not professionally), and if I was, I'd probably just stick to keyboard and mouse.

@Meshugger I heard about that a while ago - media and people didn't really care to talk about it then, I imagine they don't care that much now. It is kind of a weird story...

My ideal day is heavy clouds (heavy enough the day looks closer to dusk) with light rain and winds and cool (~60F) temperatures. Sun bad, high temperatures bad, humidity bad, no winds bad. So of course I live in central Minnesota, where I never have anything I want.

That was really painful to listen to - the three show hosts, that is. I couldn't believe that total nonsense the guy on the left was saying.

"BioWare storytelling is all about making you feel emotions in situations where you thought you might not." lol

How come these comic strips you post are always written so weirdly? Can't tell if it's supposed to be humorous or what...and the ones you've posted always feel like they lack any sort of punch...

That kinda crap could happen in EU4, too...for both armies and ships. It stopped being that big of a problem for armies after the major sieges and forts reworks, but could still be pretty annoying for fleets. I suppose I should really be trying Stellaris now, before the game collapses under its own weight of added mishmash DLC stuff. Or maybe I just won't ever bother...

I am not sure. Words of wisdom, I know.

Yes, I thought the first part of the statement you quoted was perfectly fine - Bernie has been much more of a "class leftist" than an "identity/label/group leftist" (or whatever you want to call it), even though he actually is really both. That second part, though, is obviously patently false, then.

I am surprised...weren't all of the Uncharted Playstation exclusives? I'm surprised that it would be available on PC... ...and from the quick research I just did, it's not, so yeah...

A sort of sense of tribalism, I guess? "My team won, your team lost, hardee-harr"? Or, alternatively, "My choice was the correct one, everyone else's (who didn't choose the same as me) wasn't, hardee-harr". That's most applicable for the console war stuff you mentioned, though - for something like Disney discontinuing Infinity, I would imagine the rationale is something more like, "You guys are doing this poorly, please either do it well or just stop cluttering up the market with your inferior product". You say "something they have no interest in", but someone like Hurlshot clearly does have an interest in something like Disney Infinity - it's just not living up to his standards, so he'd rather see it get better or just go away...and that's the end of it. It's hard to consider the human aspect of it (namely, people actually losing their livelihoods and the reality of such situations for so many people, including the employees' families), mainly because we have no idea who they are and have no real understanding that they really exist beyond some abstract "I guess somebody must've worked on this...", so it's easy to not consider them when quickly posting some off-the-cuff comment about the story on some random forums, .

This particular Pink Martini singer (Storm Large) has easily one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard in my life. Obviously probably not for everyone, but man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5FFmHUK0sM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUBYgAR9FiQ

Disney "quitting video game publishing", Disney Infinity also being discontinued. Don't have a proper article yet - only have this fiscal report that says: "Items affecting comparability during the quarter ended April 2, 2016 included a $147 million charge in connection with the discontinuation of our self-published console games business, principally Infinity (Infinity Charge)"

I think Kaine was merely making an observation on the history of U.S. voting rights (and why it makes a sort of sense women didn't have the right to vote in light of your comment about it) - nothing more, really.

I was also speaking of mothers and housewives, too - like I said, that definition is still used today, and it's probably for good reason(s), but... On a different note, according to FOX News, "There’s a debate going on in the Kremlin between the Foreign Ministry and the Intelligence Services about whether they should release the 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails that they have hacked into." It'd be pretty hilarious if they actually did do that (and assuming the story is true and FOX isn't just making crap up).

When "being a part of the workforce" is defined as "being paid for your work", anyways. Which it is today still, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzLmOhJe5I

Isn't that rather KaineParker's point, though - that it's really not that hard to believe based on the current state of affairs? Although his post is actually pretty ambiguous, but that's how I understood it...

Things will be much more interesting, I imagine, when AMD releases info on Polaris (which, to my understanding, is supposed to happen late May-early June, but I could be wrong).

That makes a lot more sense, because she didn't look quite like herself (Audrey), and well, she looked a little too old based on the year of the movie. Which makes sense, because Katharine was 44 when the African Queen came out, while Audrey would've been just 22! Must've read the names too fast. I like Bogart, unsure about Katharine, but the combination of them here, well...it wasn't the greatest. On a side-note, why can't I hit enter? It just makes a space instead... testing testing testing Oh, neat: BBCode is just broken now, apparently. How swell!

A bunch of old movies were on this morning on some random channel, and I didn't have much to do. I watched Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, We're No Angels, and the African Queen. The latter two star Humphrey Bogart (and the African Queen also has Audrey Hepburn). We're No Angels was easily the best and pretty genuinely decent, while Invasion of the Bodysnatchers was also O.K., I guess. The African Queen was just kinda dull and boring, though...

The entire movie kinda sucked from beginning to end. From the moment he picked up that hand thing to beat that kid's face in down on Earth (or whatever), to the super weirdness of finding the Queen at the very end, the movie's tone was helter-skelter and it was paced so unevenly. Ender was supposed to spend years training with the other children - instead it's just a few weeks in the movie. There's no sense of...anything concrete in the movie - no sense that Ender is a good tactician, or that he's a good leader, or that he's mature in any substantial way beyond "I can make serious faces and talk in a normal tone of voice like an adult", or that he's earned the trust of his subcommanders. The entire movie's just a big waste. Which I kind of figured it would be as soon as soon as it was announced - it's oh so difficult to have good child actors, and you need simply brilliant ones if they're going to try to carry a film like this all by themselves...and you need actually good writers and screenplayers. They didn't seem to have any of these elements, much less all.

Yeah, and in the process, the director make Ender unlikable. Brilliant.

Pascal looks decently nice. GTX 1070 for MSRP of $380, roughly equal to Titan X's power. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4i88rj/nvidia_have_announced_the_gtx_1080/d2vy0al https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4i88rj/nvidia_have_announced_the_gtx_1080/d2vyjdf