Keyrock

Yeah, I feel the same, but when space flight games are so few and far between I can't be picky. I'm fine with arcadey if the game is fun enough. I just like flying space ships. I feel your pain. This is why I STILL play X3: Albion Prelude.

Of all the times I've ever seen trailers, articles, etc of NMS, the term space flight sim never even entered my mind. I always just assumed the space flight element would be very arcadey and bare bones, not much more than a means of getting from Planet A to Planet B so you could do Minecraft-style farming. Is this an accurate assumption?

Awesome news. Outcast was a great game. Its biggest failing may have been that it was about 10 years ahead of its time.

Digital Chaos March 2016: Team Secret win the Shanghai Major with the lineup of Puppey, pieliedie, Misery, w33.haa, and EternalEnvy. Shortly after that w33.haa and Misery get kicked from the team and replaced by Universe and Arteezy formerly of Evil Geniuses. The original DC lineup disbands after coming up short repeatedly and then is reformed as Misery, w33.haa, Resolution, Saksa, and Moo. EG and Secret do a bunch of nothing. DC starts slowly but builds momentum. EG and Secret shuffle rosters again. Universe goes back to EG. All 3 teams qualify for TI6. EG plays well and is now in the final 4. DC plays well and is now in the final 4. Secret exits the tournament in last place. Karma. Also, the Arteezy Curse continues.

The Sleepy Rat avatar is only available in the limited edition $500 Collector's Box. It also comes with a cloth map and a pack of matches. In all seriousness, I'll play some Shadwen over the weekend. Too much DotA on right now to play any games at all during the work week. I got it now because it was on sale and they released a content patch, which should address one of the issues expressed by people of the game at launch (not enough content). Hopefully they've also had time to fix some of the bugs by now. I'm going to go for a pacifist run (something I always go for in stealth games), assuming the game allows that.

the_dog_days gets it. I'm just trying to save people money. To show good faith, I'm giving all of you the Keyrock Periodically Changes His Avatar To A Different Io Shirai Picture DLC as my gift to you. That's 19 pictures (and counting). THINK OF THE VALUE!

The base game is indeed free to play. If you want to find out my opinion on the game you can enhance your experience with the Game Opinion DLC for just $19.95. Better yet, you can buy the season pass for $59.95 and get all future DLCs at a discounted price!

LOL

And it's gone. The site hosting the downloads got DMCA'd by Big N's lawyers. I'm shocked it took them this long. This project was no secret, there was even a public countdown for the release. The fact Nintendo didn't cease & desist this project months ago shows just how little they care about and pay attention to the Metroid franchise. Well, time for Big N to finally put Samus out to pasture and put a bullet in her dome with Federation Force... Oops, they already did that with Other M.

TECHIES!

Hmm, that doesn't seem right...

@Leferd - To be fair, eSports are still in their infancy toddler years. In the 1980s, baseball had been around for over a century. eSports have been around for less than 2 decades. In that sense, they're ahead of the curve of popular conventional team sports in terms of stats analytics adoption. Also, you and Nahaz would be good friends. He's DotA 2's biggest stat analytics proponent.

Back to Axiom Verge. I killed another boss, the Uruku variant, got a sweet lab coat, and acquired a pair of hentai tentacles. Now to find some Japanese schoolgirls...

I didn't have any issues with the font in W2 DC. While I would prefer Century Schoolbook over anything else for most applications, given that it's the easiest to read for me, probably because many books I used in school used that font, as long as it's a standard, plain, easy to read font rather than something ridiculous like Bleeding Cowboys, it doesn't bother me. As for console release, so long as console UI design in no way encroaches on PC UI design, it doesn't bother me much. There is always going to be the suspicion that the console ports are delaying the PC version so they can release simultaneously, but I'm patient enough that I can get over that.

I might catch a bit of the Olympics over the weekend, since TI6 is off until Monday, but once that comes back on I'll just be watching DotA instead. I don't really care about most of the stuff outside of track & field anyway.

That's just the kind of thing specieist ****lord scum would say. #LiterallyHitlerFzoulChembryl

There's one close enough to where I work that I can go there for lunch.

It counts as a level of the abyss.

My Kenworth W900 It will have to do until SCS add the badassery that is the Peterbilt 389 (there is actually a mod in the workshop now that adds the 389 but the price for it is ridiculously low, like 1/4 of what it should cost, and I don't want to cheat the economy).

I finally watched John Wick. It lived up to the hype. That movie is badass.

I finished the Rage of Demons expansion for Sword Coast Legends. It was... disappointing. Keep in mind that this expansion was free, so in terms of content to price ratio there's nothing to complain about. That said, the quality of the expansion is significantly lower than that of the base game, not that the base game was anything to write home about, though I'm one of the few people that enjoyed it. Still, I was hoping for a little more than this. First off, the positives. The expansion introduces a new class and race, the Warlock and Tieflings, respectively. The two are obviously meant to go together as Tieflings get a bonus to charisma and Warlocks are a charisma-based class. It's a fun class to play, essentially a less focused mage with slightly better weapon combat ability. Tiefling would be a cool race to play if the game ever reacted to your race and allowed you to role play it, granted the expansion takes place in the Underdark, and if there's any place people wouldn't bat an eye at a Tiefling, that's probably it. There's really no room for role playing of any kind in the game. You generally don't get any dialogue choices other than bog standard good character. You almost never even get to make a snide remark, which, sadly, is the extent you get to play "evil" in all too many RPGs. There is a bit of choice in the expansion, as it opens up with a side questline that allows you to finger or clear a character. You also get the choice of aligning yourself with one of 3 factions: Drow, Duergar, or Zhentarim. Ultimately, the choice makes no difference, aside from whom you'll fight as enemies in one of the side quests. You can do the main quest or side quests in whatever order you like, other than that, the game is linear. All the dialogue is uninspired, as are the characters. There are no new companions, one new hub area, and a few generic dungeons. It's not even 1/3 the length of the base game, which isn't an issue given the price ($0), but the expansion just sort of ends suddenly. It's never a good sign when my reaction is "Wait, that's it?" as the credits roll. Granted, the final boss is a worthy opponent, but the game implies a greater enemy that you never get to so much as sniff. I suppose that leaves room for a second expansion. However, given the reception and performance of SCL, I highly doubt we'll ever see it.

I mean, gender is an artificial construct anyway.

It's not about blatantly and purposely lying, no mainstream news outlet would do that because of the potential consequences if they're caught red handed fabricating a story. Mainstream news outlets are, however, often times willing to regurgitate misrepresented and skewed stories from more extremist outlets. Generally speaking, the more you go from moderate to an extreme of the spectrum, any extreme, the more people are willing to bend the truth and even straight up fabricate things, probably because the more you go to an extreme of the spectrum the more you need to bend and fabricate to make things fit your views, since the unbiased truth tends to fall somewhere near the moderate middle ground. It's less about political leanings and agendas and more about the bottom line, though. The top priority of almost any large mainstream news outlet is money, and since they get paid in advertising revenue and more views equals more advertising revenue, it's all about getting as many views as possible... Clicks, I guess the current unit of measurement of exposure is clicks. Anyway, it's fairly commonplace for mainstream media to pick up on and run sensationalist "news" stories from more niche or extremist outlets. For the most part, the stories are just regurgitated as is. Fact checking takes time and effort and who has time for that, amirite? Besides, they're being handed what essentially amounts to free money (since sensationalism sells and sells well) for little to no work, why look a gift horse in the mouth? The best part is that they have their own asses covered in the event that they are called out for misrepresenting the truth. They can just cite their source and put the blame on them for fabricating a story. So long as they have plausible deniability, the worst case scenario is getting burned for incompetence, which, while not great, is a heck of a lot less damaging than getting burned for fabricating the story.