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So PC gamer is fluffing about casting actors for video game characters (or their body parts. Like Steve Buscemi's eyes for Sonic ) and this is perfect:

Thanks everyone. Just happened to me, I forgot how awful Internet is without Adblock.

Is it me or does everyone's signature got significantly bigger? Did Keyrock just recently change their sig to humongous US flag that takes up, like, a third of a page and does not scale when one adjusts window size? Also, down with facebook emojis! Gimme back old ones!

Aaaaand happy leftovers day! Anyone knows any decent recipes for egg-based salads other than good old egg, cheese, garlic and mayo combo?

And set difficulty on "Effortless", then your kingdom cannot die. I did it as soon as I read that stupid minigame's failure means game over. If I want to mismanage something, I can always play "Tropico".

Rise of the Hutt Cartel only had Makeb and Scum & Villainy (unless you count that instanced "world" boss as content). Very fun additions to the game, but not large. Makeb had two storylines for each faction, the new expansion has no story. For me, story is very much content, way more important than, say, operations. Galactic Starfighter at least was additional content. Strongholds was... yeah. A good way to teleport between planets and the fleet before they changted the fleet teleport cooldown. Hey, don't knock my Temples of Subtletly and Good Taste! Too bad I cannot show off my decoratin' madskillz because the latest patch broke all decos. No, no, NO! #notmyrevan! My Revan is, a) a girl, b) looks like Vasquez from "Aliens". But then I successfully ignored that perma-stubbled Blandy McBlando in SWTOR, I could easily do the same to whatever dishwater offered by Disney, if I bother watching it at all.

I love 'em. They feel like exactly the kind of hybrid creature medieval folklore could have come up with. Gooooofyyyyy! Seriously, what's wrong with bear's head? Looks way more dangerous than googly eyed derpo that goes "Hu-hoo!" Also, folklore has way better things to offer -- like tatzelwurm.

Dude, their current team of skellies cannot launch a wee patch without breaking something, don't expect them to come up with something like Hutt expansion. At least stuff is going to be pretty, if the same art team that did Ossus and latest flashpoints is still on board. Anyway, I'm happy to get Onderon, loved it in KOTOR2, shame about operation only Dxun, would love to revisit it too.

Pft, it's a comic adaptation, what spoilers? Chin McJaws will be defeated, peace and harmony will descend upon the planet, yadda yadda.

I played BG2 first, did not give a toss about Imoen, "Khalid who?" and Irenicus was such a cheesy and hammy pile of videogame Big Bad's cliches that I couldn't ever invest in him as personal nemesis. That's why I always eyeroll at people who are all "Deadfire gives me no motivation, waaah!" and then "Baldur's Gate 2 is perfectly perfect slice of perfection with perfect motivation!" No, it's f†cking not. Not everyone who's into RPGs worship that thing and it's not the pinnacle of videogame perfection. No, seriously. Eye of the beholder, tentacle of the illithid, all that. I loved the game, by the way -- the setting, the cities, all the sidequests and secrets, and my indifference about anything Irenicus did not ruin my enjoyment of those things in a slightest.

There are some crazies who do. Some crazies also romanticize Hitler for that matter. But it's not surprising to see people assuming one side gets special treatment. What about Hitler / Stalin slash fiction? Not quite that, but...

As I said, yeah, RIP. Anyway -- Dylan, Morrison, Joplin...someone into muzik of the sixties. So, who do you guys think was Andromeda initially named after?

So Kotaku keeps kicking Bioware while its down. In short: RIP Dragon Age 4.

I know about "the Dumas franchise" and his pay-per-line loophole exploit, cannot help but like the creative scoundrel. Him doing that was actually why, as a kid, I preferred his books with short, clipped dialogue lines over books of his contemporaries with their wall o'texts, because "that's how real people talk". Haven't read "The Stars My Destination", shame on me, since it's science fiction classic. Will have to remedy that one of these day. Oh. So that's who Chris Avellone's role model.

I tried reading source material and found it too meandering and unfocused compared to pretty tight story of war and loss of First Attempt. I can't even quite remember where I finally lost interest and stopped reading it. Wasn't interested in watching Brotherhood after that. P.S. Oh! Just remembered what else I really loved -- "Gankutsuou". The best adaptation of "Count of Monte-Cristo" out there (what is not saying much now when I think about it, because Alexandre Dumas shares a sad fate with Stephen King -- to be cursed with adaptations of their works being mostly garbage)

I loved everything by Satoshi Kon, it was the most Philip K. D†ck experience I had outside of well, books of Philip K. himself. Miyazaki too, but he's more for warm fuzzies. Oh, and "Fullmetal Alchemist", the earlier one, that was good too.

What about the one with two ladies in love? I thought it was pretty too. I love Black Mirror. My bestest favouritest series of recent years. Reminds me a little bit of "Tales from the Crypt". Only without the Keeper. And tech-based instead of mystical paranormal. And less campy.

Whaddaya mean, "kinda"? FISTO best husband!

Folk/fairy tales are like that. One popular in my parts has a witch twisting out dog's legs one a day and eventually ripping its tongue out and then someone drops into the ember pit and burns alive. Grew up to be a massive horror fan. Sergio Leone ruined the Western genre for me. The very first Western I saw was "For a few dollars more", it blew my mind and since then my reaction to any non-Leone Western was "Seriously, what's with this cheesy schlock?" Have to watch "Yojimbo" one of them days.

For making you feel guilty about stealing it from that barkeep, of course.

Well, peacefully for me. Not so much for the old girl. Anyway, this choice comes with additional benefit of pissing off Rymrgand so I will never not take it.

Not really! I indeed have no murders in my life, but I am perfectly happy with "murder count = 0" situation and absolutely do not want this ever go >0 even if I enjoy a little slaughter in my vidya games. Same with romances, I guess. Just because one wants to experience them in controlled environment, it does not mean they either lack or want more of them in their reality. Them romances-schmances are just another fringe of your bog-standard power fantasy package, just as dude killing is and neither of them resembles their reality counterpart much. As intended. (However, I absolutely do not have enough exploration in my RL, true. Wouldn't say no to some kleptomania either if not for that pesky law enforcement disadvantage)

I'm a little curious about how romances can make such a difference, when the ratio of romance content/non-romance content in those large, sprawling, time-consuming RPGs is rather minuscule. I mean, I like them and use them if found in a game I play, but I also love making builds, exploring, talking to monsters, murdering dudes and stealing their stuff so the whole package is appealing to me, but I'm sure as heck would not plow through hours of, say, racing game or twitch platformer for a few miserable minutes of stuff I do love. (Also, Boeroer, your theory kind of implies I do not have enough murder and kleptomania in my life and I resent that remark. )

It is a bit on the boring side compared to other Telltale's stuff, but I actually liked I could choose between dude in boring suit and dude in goofy suit. Picked boring suit all the time, as I simply cannot take superhero stuff seriously. (My favorite Telltale title would be "Wolf among us". "Tales of the Borderlands" was pretty great too, but it loses to "Wolf" by not having a smoking, freeloading depressed pig hogging your couch).

Me too, and it's a good, atmospheric game. Loved that paranormal horror was more science-fiction based rather than usual mystic-fantasy schlock, and the creepy paranormal entity was IMO very well done. It's also sufficiently short so that you can go for a new game+ for additional layer of spookiness.