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Technically, if you're driving the right faction, you're "disguised" from that faction and they won't randomly attack you. But yes, it's still no reason to drive them. Also, it opens up some extra options with the Death Races. On which note, some of the Death Races are quite...irritating to get right. They slap you in a car you aren't used to that always has worst handling characteristics then the Magnum Opus, and it seems all the moves you're used to doing as you drive around.. now send you spinning out, fishtailing, or some such which wastes huge chunks of time on your run. The story side of the game seems to push you on from region to region without really giving you any reason to stay in a reason to clear it up. I think they rely on gamer's OCD to wrap up all the assorted challenges and clear up the territories rather than story. The other thing that I've noticed, is that by (what I'm guessing the half way point), going to the scrap locations seems very...drawn out. You keep stumbling on this places that have 2 pieces of scrap to find, each one containing 2-6 items of scrap metal... SInce by that point all the upgrades tend to require 300-900 items of scrap metal, and the collection of Ally Camps will be sending you 300-500 items of scrap metal every x amount of game turn, it does seem more of a time waste to find the scrap locations in game. Note - this might sound like a lot of griping, but I'm still having fun driving around getting into bouts of fisticuffs with bizarre bdsm themed post-apocalypse bandits and jumping sand dunes in my custom car.

And for some of that gag reel goodness... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_8Bs0iuw9c

So the internet strikes with...

The Scottish Gaming Rig.. Irn-Bru Cooled...

Mad Max. As expected, it's got some of the control issues similar to the Just Cause games on pc. I was slightly annoyed that I had to set the Invert Y on mouse manually in the config settings. For some reason the in-game Invert Y only works for controllers... Nice and sprawling game with lots of running around to find scrap metal. Lots of scrap metal needed. Seriously. The atmosphere is good, but the steering on the vehicles seems slightly heavy, but still fun.

It seems my clutch is broken on this Monday. I'm feeling bleh and can't get my ass in gear.

After a couple of weeks of not gaming, I deciding to push back into things. Although pondering on whether my gaming ocd will make me find all the Riddler trophies in Arkham Knight before going through the final sequence... Also, Mad Max appears to be pre-loading on Steam now..

Maybe because it's nearly 2am as I start to crash out, but I find this strangely appealing and amusing... Post Modern Gibberish Essay Generator

I'd be tempted to throw this in the weird and interesting thread, but the snark level makes it amusing to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ssgg4JL53E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RXhcqdewf0

To help put a Super Star Destroyer in perspective, someone did this...

I'd say it falls in the neutral because while the author comes across as anti-puppy in her beliefs, she's trying to present both sides arguments and points of view. Not subjecting them to personal bias. And frankly, that was about the most "neutral" one that I could find when I was making the post.

I think I classed it as neutral because it does present both sides fairly even-handed. While it slams a bit on the one guy, it comes across more with the evidence it's because he's acting a jerk, not because of the message he's pushing. It looked at both sides of the issue, rather than jumping purely on the one and doing "bad bad SJWS" or "bad bad racist, homophobic white guys". At least that's how it came across to me rather than the majority of articles out there.

For the mixed sides on the Hugo Awards.. The Neutral, Pro-Puppies, and Anti-Puppy viewpoints. Wired - Who Won Science Fictions Hugo Awards And Why It Matters (neutral) Set Phasers To Kill, SJWS Burn Down The Hugo Awards To Prove How Tolerant And Welcoming They Are (pro-puppy) The Obligatory Hugo Awards Recap Post (anti-puppy)

It's time the capitalist cows made a return... TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. AMERICAN CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull. AUSTRALIAN CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead. FRENCH CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. JAPANESE CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them worldwide. GERMAN CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat only once a month, and milk themselves. BRITISH CAPITALISM: You have two cows. Both are mad. CANADIAN CAPITALISM: You have two cows. Come to think of it, they look more like a pair of moose - in fact, yes they are. One speaks French, one speaks English. One fights to create a new country, the other won't let it. They both play ice hockey rather well. ITALIAN CAPITALISM: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch. RUSSIAN CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. SWISS CAPITALISM: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge an outrageous fee to others for storing them. CHINESE CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest and detain without trial the journalist who reported the number of cows. NEW ZEALAND CAPITALISM: You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute...