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This makes me even more proud to be an American. WAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

It bothers me to no end how long Bethesda (the developer) has gotten a free pass from the vast majority of mainstream gaming media for their buggy, broken releases and terrible writing. I can only think of one video game developer that mainstream media walks on eggshells around more, and that's Blizzard. CDPR is probably #3 in that category, and I say that as a big fan of CDPR.

Doesn't that describe every David Cage game?

I got my first load headed west to Cali (Ontario near LA) and now I'm driving back east toward San Antonio. Some thoughts from my trip out west: * If you ever wanted to see fields, nothing but fields for hundreds of miles, then Kansas is the state for you. * Driving through Vegas, Primm, by the Nipton Rd sign, etc made me want to play FONV again. * Everything in Cali is so expensive. How do people afford to live there? * Phoenix is really pretty, at least what I saw from I-10. For a city smack dab in the middle of the desert, it has an impressive amount of green, healthy vegetation.

Is his power still maximum?

Umm, yeah. I'm going to need those TPS reports on my desk by this afternoon.

I loved the first 2 Starflight games. Getting a 3rd game in the series is a dream come true.

Some people are probably masturbating to the new She Ra. I'm sure there are folks that have a vaguely human-ish androgynous cartoon person fetish.

American Truck Simulator is my joke way of describing my real life truck driving career.

I wonder if I'm the first trucker member of Obsidian forums. There have been thousands of members, I can't be the first, can I? As an aside, I'll give the northern states credit in one area. The northern states have service areas on their interstates, they're like truck stops on steroids. We don't have service areas down south, not that I've seen anyway. Sure, everything at service areas is overpriced, but that's no different than truck stops.

Funny you should ask. The short answer: depends on how much weight I'm pulling. For the long answer, let me tell you about my day. I started out the day by doing the last 45 miles to my delivery in Pennsylvania. Easy peasy. I picked up an empty trailer at the drop spot and waited for dispatch. Fairly quickly I get a new run, pick up a load roughly 50 miles away and bring it to Michigan. The 50 miles was mostly on smaller highways with tons of lights going through little towns. That sucks, but with an empty it's not that bad since I can start in 4th, even on an upslope, and on flat ground I can skip 4th to 6th getting me into high gears quickly. I arrive at the shipper, drop my empty and pick up a full trailer that the woman in the warehouse said she just finished loading. Great timing on my part. Everything is going great so far. This load is extremely heavy, only 3 to 4 thousand pounds short of the legal limit. Now I have to start in 1st and no skipping gears unless I'm on a downslope. I set out and everything goes smooth for a bit. I get onto 322 heading west through Pennsylvania, beautiful scenic road. Then I hit the steep long hills. Going down is fine because I have a Jake Brake, which helps slow the truck tremendously going down hills. Uphill, that's another story. There were a couple hills I had to drop to 6th or 7th and crawl up the hill at 25 or 30 mph. It's such a bad feeling watching that needle drop as you go up a hill. Downshift to 9th... Nope still losing power. Downshift to 8th... Nope. Downshift to 7th... Oh thank goodness she's holding steady. And if you miss a shift you better find a gear real quick. The best part was the end of the day. I was nearing the truck stop I planned to stay the night at. 17 miles away on I-80 traffic comes to a screeching halt. The entire interstate was shut down, I guess a truck caught on fire or something. The detour was through little roads very much not meant for tractor trailers with some brutal climbs. I lost 2 hours, thank goodness I had enough time left that I wasn't in violation, and thank goodness the truck stop had spaces left. Arriving after 8 it's usually really hard to find a spot. Of course I meant to stop at 6:30.

I love the lowpoly art style.

My American Truck Simulator adventure is now in full swing. I still haven't been west of I-35, but I've now driven through every state east of I-35 except New York and the New England states (I use to live in Connecticut so I saw plenty of those states years ago). Living in the Carolinas I'm not unaccustomed to heat, but I now understand that the level of heat in Texas is on a whole other level. Of the 7 or 8 days I was in Texas I think it hit 100+ all but one of them. Laredo was 110 one of the days I was there. No amount of "dry heat" makes 110 comfortable. Anyway, I'm on my way to Pennsylvania to drop a load. Kind of nice to be well ahead of schedule for once. I can take my sweet ass time before I get going tomorrow morning.

I'm still quite proud of my 100% pacifist ghost run of DX:MD. I admit it took a bit of save scumming. The final boss fight was probably the hardest part of the game to ghost.

Congrats France. They've been the best team throughout.

Pathfinder is very successful. There was a 3 or 4 year stretch where it actually outsold D&D (during the 4th edition period aka The Dark Age).

I liked the graphics style. :>

They should hire Mimimi, the folks that made the excellent Shadow Tactics: Swords of the Shogun to develop it.

It highly depends on the time of day for me. In theory, I have 30 Mbps. In reality that translates to around 4 Mbps during low traffic times and sometimes less than 1 Mbps during peak traffic.

Hazard's ball control is impeccable.

Oddly enough, I think Destiny wound up helping Warframe a lot. Destiny 1 & 2 left a good number of people with a bad taste in their mouth, but they still wanted to scratch that MMO-ish looter shooter itch. A lot of those people turned to Warframe on account of it being f2p, having a less exploitative microtransaction system, having way more content (all free), and, quite frankly, simply being a better game. It doesn't hurt that the game is awesome, either.

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It's made by a developer I've never heard of before and, while the Pathfinder name does carry some recognition, I don't expect it to break any sales records, though I think it will sell well enough to make money overall. Mainly, I just want it to be a good game. I have high hopes.

Kalypso Media have acquired the Commandos IP, plan new game in the series

I remember the Zidane headbutt, it was glorious. Sure, it got Zidane red carded, but Materazzi was such a piece of **** that it was super satisfying to watch.