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There are a bunch of whiny bitches on both extremes of the left/right political axis. Nothing new here. Edit: Not to mention attention whores and trolls (both of whom give exactly zero ****s about any political ideology in question). The former are simply there for attention/money, the latter just want to watch the world burn. Both will "ally" themselves with whatever side helps them achieve their goals and will switch at the drop of a hat.

I'm both excited and a little bit scared about Metro Exodus. Excited since CoP was my favorite STALKER game, in large part due to it's open world design, allowing me to approach locations from a number of different angles and utilizing different approaches. Casing the joint and formulating a plan of action is my jam. Scared because I hope this doesn't just become Far Cry: Post Apocalypse. Not that that would be the worst thing in the world, the Mad Max game was great IMHO, but that's not what I'm looking for from a Metro game.

Except that sometimes they don't go down with the ship. In fact, sometimes even when the company goes down in flames the top executives STILL get their year end bonuses and then get hired by another company for 7 figures to boot.

I continue making good progress in The Witness. Today I completed another full section and solved quite a few puzzles in another. That's 6 full sections completed and firing lazer beams at the main hub. I don't know how long it's going to last, but as long as I'm on this hot streak I'm going to get as many puzzles solved as I can. Eventually the creative thinking juices will run out and I'll hit a wall, it happens even to 7th degree puzzle black belts, such as myself, at which point I'll take another break from the game. Until then, I'll continue to ride the wave.

We're all in agreement that we want the Pats to lose, right?

The Saints missed a potentially game sealing field goal and I was having horrible visions of Big **** Nick engineering another heroic game winning drive until Alshon Jeffery had a pass go through his hands and into the loving arms of a Saints defender. #ThankYouAlshon #DarkestTimelineAverted Next weekend I root for the Saints and Chiefs, since that would make for the most entertaining Superbowl IMHO.

Am I the only one who's #TeamYrden in TW3?

The Cowboys lost yesterday, the Pats obliterated the Chargers, and now Bresus has decided to suck and Big **** Nick is leading the Iggles up and down the field like it's nobody's business. I hate everything. #DarkestTimeline

The Chargers are getting massacred. It's halfway through the 2nd quarter and this game is already over. D:

I mean, if they do force you to buy PSVR bundled with PS5 then I'll just wait for the inevitable unbundled version to come out a year down the line or so. Actually, I'll almost certainly wait regardless, I'm hardly ever an early adopter of consoles. Honestly, it generally makes very little sense to buy a console at launch anyway. You usually get the worst version of the console for the highest price and with a very small selection of games to start. Meanwhile the past gen usually gets supported for another 2 years or so. Plus, waiting lets you find out if whatever gimmick they inevitably shoehorn into the new console sticks or fails. As for the PS5 reserving 8 GB for the OS, that sounds ridiculous. If your OS needs 8 GB reserved you are either leaving an ungodly amount of headroom or you have an extraordinarily inefficient OS.

Muh Boys got their asses whooped. At least we didn't get completely nuked like Indy, but we got handled. The way the Rams' running game had their way with our defense was Weinstein-esque

I found a whole new type of puzzle in The Witness: Environmental Puzzles. These could be anything: Shadows, reflections in water, a row of stones, etc. If you look at these otherwise nonedescript objects from a certain angle and distance they resemble the other more "standard" puzzles scattered throughout the island. Once looking at them from the correct perspective (perspective is a central theme in this game) you can initiate puzzle mode and solve them. Once solved the traced path of the solution appears... somewhere (I won't say where to avoid spoilers in case anyone else here is crazy enough to play this game). No clue how many of these there are and what happens when you solve them all. The design of this game is amazing. Jonathan Blow is a really talented guy.

I made a bunch more progress in The Witness finishing another entire section and getting through a lot of another. Hopefully I can unlock that central hub soon.

Social media is a potentially wonderful tool that has instead become a curse.

Meh, I don't hate Ubisoft, though I do make fun of them a fair bit. To me, they're (slightly) less evil than the other super mega giga giant publishers, namely EA, Activision, and Take-Two, not that that's any great accomplishment. Ubi even makes good games, it's just that they keep making the same game over and over and over again across all their major franchises. The formula isn't even bad, it's just stale because they've put out so many of what is essentially the same game. And you know BG&E2 is just going to be another Far Assassin's Dogs. As for being Yakuza series fans, no need for shame. You can walk proudly with your head raised high.

I completed a whole bunch of puzzles in The Witness today. I opened up a new section and blitzed through all the puzzles in it rather quickly. Sometimes I'll encounter a type of puzzle that immediately clicks in my head and I have zero trouble figuring it out, while a different person might struggle for hours with the same puzzle. Conversely, there are puzzles that other people figure out almost immediately while I'll struggle with them. These particular puzzles had to do with colors and I had figured them out very quickly, as well as the different wrinkles they threw in as the difficulty ramped up in the section. I knocked the whole section out and activated another laser beam that connects to what seems to be a central hub of some kind. I'm sure I will need to activate a bunch more lasers before I unlock the secrets of the hub, but I made tremendous progress today.

Fair point.

I'm going to post this here since it doesn't really fit anywhere in particular. If someone wearing a suit, particularly if it's an executive, is making a speech and the speech includes the word "synergy", what are the odds that they are bull****ting you? 98%? 99%?

I'm a Tex Murphy veteran, I love those games. Not just for the puzzles, but also for the zany characters and cheesetastic acting. ESPECIALLY the cheesetastic acting. Tex has so many things I love: * Film Noir style dialogue * Over the top characters * Self depracating humor * Ridiculous conspiracies

After a very long time off, I jumped back into The Witness. When I initially played the game, eons ago, I solved quite a few of the puzzles, but eventually I reached a point where I was stumped on everything available to me at that point, so I took some time away from the game so that I could jump in fresh sometime in the future. It worked since today I managed to solve another set of puzzles. There are a multitude of puzzles left that I can't figure out right now and countless puzzles I can't even access, but I made some progress and I'm happy with that. Someday I will 100% this game all on my own with zero help and looking up no guides. It may take a very very long time, but I WILL do it. As many of you are aware, I'm sure, The Witness is very very hard. Not just because there are HUNDREDS of puzzles to solve, but also because the game doesn't explain anything... at all... ever. The game doesn't even tell me where the puzzles are and what they are. I may be in a puzzle and not even realize it. The best part about this game is that there are clues as to how to solve every puzzle. Finding said clues is another matter entirely and quite the challenge. There is no hand-holding whatsoever and this game is as obtuse and cryptic as it gets. But that's what I love about it. I have to figure everything out on my own. It gets frustrating, real frustrating, but it's really rewarding when I have a breakthrough and figure a puzzle out. Definitely not a game for everybody, in fact, I'd say it's for a very niche audience: Hardcore Puzzle Masochists. Goddamn it, I'm a 7th degree puzzle black belt. I 100%-ed The Talos Principle and its expansion and got the true endings. I completed every one of the Myst games (which reminds me, I need to get Obduction at some point). I will not be defeated by any logic puzzle. I will defeat this game.

You mean besides them very clearly pushing an agenda to the point that they not only cherry pick but also include information that is factually inaccurate?