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Good riddance. I'm not typically one to celebrate a passing, but when the man in question helped put the ****ing Khmer Rouge into power, I'll make an exception.

I finished Jusant. It's a short game, about 6 hours, but appropriately priced. It's a super chill climbing game that's very easy on the eyes. It's not going to set the world on fire, but it was a pleasant and relaxing gaming experience.

It's amazing how you could apply this "ad" almost word for word to Murica. Just swap out the names of the parties and the giant corporations running the show and you're all set. Crony capitalism, get the sensation!

I'm introducing the B-Side Classic. The B-Side Classic celebrates the song that didn't get a hit video, didn't get a ton of radio airplay, and yet it might be the best song on the album. The first nominee:

3 wins in a row for muh Boys. They were against 3 chump teams, so they didn't mean all that much, but it was important to bank those easy wins as the hard part of the schedule is coming up. The good news is that we're already at 8 wins and I'm of the opinion that 9-8 will get you into the playoffs in the NFC, so we only need 1 more win. That said, the #5 seed is worth playing for since it means playing either the Saints, Falcons, or Bucs in the wildcard round. That's vastly preferable to playing the Lions or Niners. It would be nice to get at least 1 win in the playoffs before the Niners murder us yet again.

The US Pentagon has failed its 6th consecutive audit. Nothing inspires confidence quite like pouring more and more and more money into a department that can't keep track of its expenses. Where does all that money go? Who cares, let's put yet more money into it! The US spends ABSURD amounts of taxpayer dollars on its military and its shockingly inefficient programs. Programs like the F-35. I'm too lazy to look it up, but I wouldn't be surprised if the F-35 was the most expensive piece of military equipment ever made. What do we have to show for all that money spent? Less than a thousand jets produced and they're not even particularly good jets. Sure, the F-35 can be deployed in many roles, but it's not very good at any one of them. Oh, and also it may just fly off on its own. There's CLEARLY a huge amount of corruption in the department of defense. While I have no proof, it's highly likely money is being skimmed and contracts are being handed out on the basis of favors and campaign contributions rather than value for the money. Seems to me that it would be imperative to clean this up so that we can get value for the money we spend. Instead, the plan seems to be turn a blind eye to the obvious corruption and pour more money into it. In my mind, that's a terrible strategy, but what do I know?

Happy Thanksgiving.

With TTP2 finished, it's time to clean up my immediate backlog. First up, I'm back to climbing in Jusant. After that, I have to finish up Phantom Liberty. Then, I can finally play Starfield. Oh God, I'll never get all this done before Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth releases at the end of January, never mind finding time for Baldur's Gate 3. #FirstWorldProblems

Some Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth screenies:

My favorite thing about this picture is the thousand-yard stare on his face. This guy has seen some $#!+.

I finished The Talos Principle 2 100%. It took me 52 hours and change. I wound up going with the Leap of Faith ending and I got all the extra scenes from completing all the optional puzzles. Fantastic game, probably my GotY, though I have to factor recency bias in and it's been a long time since I played Hogwarts Legacy. Either way, it's a terrific puzzle game. Not too many REALLY hard puzzles, but I really enjoyed some of them, particularly the puzzles in the final stretch. Puzzle games are kinda niche, we don't get a relatively big budget fancy looking one like this very often, a really great one on top of that even less often, so I had to savor this rare treat.

I didn't know anything about Javier Milei until a couple of days ago. He's being compared to Trump, and I can see it, he's got that same big schlong energy and ranting style as The Donald. I believe he's the first libertarian ever elected head of state. I consider myself a libertarian but this guy is faaaar more hardline a libertarian going by the admittedly little detail I've seen of his political views. Sounds like he wants to privatize everything. I think that's going just a tad too far, but, umm, well, I guess we'll see. He's certainly a character, that's for sure. No guarantee this will be a successful experiment, but it will almost certainly be an interesting one. And now, for no reason whatsoever, Boris Yeltsin dancing. The clap under the leg is my favorite of his moves. *chef kiss*

Make Argentina Great Again

I finished all the optional stuff and I'm into the endgame. Even now the game is still introducing new tools. Kind of bonkers given how many tools there already are.

Okay then, how about Jusant? I've posted pictures of it so you can judge for yourself if the art style is realistic enough for you. The game is super chill and there's zero violence. You climb. That's the game, you climb.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have fired offensive coordinator Matt Canada. Our long national nightmare is over.

@BruceVCYou could give Stardew Valley a try. It's essentially Animal Crossing sans Nintendo. You can even marry in that game.

For me it's not hate I'm just astonished at how cheap it looks. Madame Web looks like it had a total budget, advertising included, of $8.67.

My fears of missing the chance of completing all the puzzles in The Talos Principle 2 were unfounded. The devs were kind enough to flat out tell me "you're about to cross the point of no return, if you have any other puzzles you'd like to solve it's now or never." I appreciate it when games give you that warning. Anyway, I'm currently doing the golden gate puzzles which are now open to me. They're structured like regular puzzles, they're just extra challenging. I've completed 6 of 12 so far and they are properly tricky.

DaRon Bland is an alien. Also, muh Boys beat the crap out of another crap team. Hey, I don't make the schedule. I'll take 7 - 3 though.

I made deviled eggs. No special occasion. If it's wrong to make deviled eggs just casually, I don't want to be right.

to start the endgame. There were 2 star puzzles that gave me a lot of trouble, a Pandora puzzle and a Sphinx puzzle. The Sphinx puzzle was the trickiest because the clue can easily be misconstrued and even once you're on the right path, the image isn't exactly correct.

Joe Burrow is out for the year. RIP Bengals season. I'm not a Bengals fan, so I don't care about that, but he is fun to watch so I hate it on those grounds.

To a lowly peon, like me, even a 50 year old fighter jet is extremely expensive.