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I can dress my waifu up as Princess Zelda or Zero Suit Samus as I have her trudge through spooky suicide mountain.

I posted pictures of mine in the hardware section, I'll link to the post here.

SCANDALOUS sexy unboxing pictures (taken by a really ****ty photographer - me): WARNING: FULL HARDWARE NUDITY! PARENTAL GUIDANCE STRONGLY SUGGESTED.

Update: Serious Sam 3 is now gone from my giveaway cache. Still available (Steam keys): Sir, You Are Being Hunted Planetary Annihilation (the original, not TITANS) Added (Steam Key) Gone Home

@Gromnir - Thanks for the advice, it's appreciated, but I don't min-max, I'm not trying to make completely optimized melee builds, I'm trying to see if I can make it through the game on highest difficulty with a rather sub-optimal party. I mean, I'm having some characters sink points into Luck and Charisma and Barter. As an aside, I like Luck, it's not useless, it's just unreliable. It's certainly not a value stat, you get a lot more bang for your buck out of other stats, but high luck will help you out during the course of the game, you just can't count on it, you don't know when it's going to happen. The yang to that yin is the Unlucky trait, which can be hilarious or maddening. I've so far had it screw over my own party more often than the enemies. I've even had it go off twice during one battle, one hit an enemy and the other almost killed one of my party members. Holmes was lying bleeding out after getting struck by lightning and I couldn't get my medic over to him because his mangled body was near a pod person. I finished the battle and stitched him up with nary a moment to spare after the battle, I think he was 5 or 6 constitution away from death. Good times.

Yeah, I figure those will be some of the roughest fights. I'm going to need explosives, lots of explosives. Those don't actually use any weapon skill, so I don't technically violate my own rules if my core 4 are lobbing grenades.

No kidding. After my first playthrough using a sensible party on ranger difficulty, I wanted a challenge for my next playthrough, for ****s and giggles. I originally thought about supreme jerk difficulty and everybody pure melee, companions included. Then I thought about it and realized certain sections, Ag Center being only one of them, would be straight up impossible. So, I softened the parameters to only melee combat skills on the core 4, companions can use whatever weapon skills. This should still be a pretty brutal challenge, but I'm pretty sure it's possible.

Sooooo, Ag Center on supreme jerk difficulty with 4 core melee characters... not pleasant. Those infected pod people are a real pita. Luckily, I now have 2 companions, both of whom have guns, otherwise those battles would literally be impossible. I have to resort to cheesy kiting; stashing my 4 core melee rangers far out of the way and having Angie and Vulture's Cry each take a shot then back up, take a shot then back up, lather, rinse, repeat. Not the most exciting way to do battles and certainly not the quickest, but I gotta do what I gotta do, since I have damn near the worst possible party for the situation.

Oh man, that's terrible, really sad news. I hope he somehow beats the odds. My wishes go out to him, Genna, and his family.

That's just ridiculous. It seems weird that you can trademark an existing word. Diesel is a thing, it's a type of engine and also the type of fuel that is used in said engine. Is every gas station that sells diesel fuel infringing on the rights of a clothing company? I hope that had the devs fought this they would have won in court, but they (correctly) decided that the costs involved would not be worth it. It sucks that these large corporations get to bully people around, but that's how it is.

I agree Affirmative Action wasn't created out of spite and that it was intended to do good, but I still think it's wrong. To me, the best way to stop discrimination is to stop discriminating rather than to discriminate against those that previously did the discriminating in an effort to "even the playing field".

Absolutely, it's only going to get bigger. VP is a solid tier 1 DOTA2 squad (DOTA2 is the only esport I regularly follow), they've just always been the second best Russian squad for the year or so I've been following DOTA2. They were second fiddle to Empire for the longest time, then when Emipre dropped off and began their struggles is when Vega rose to prominence and leapfrogged everybody in Russia (possibly the world, Vega is so strong right now).

Too bad he invested in the second best Russian DOTA2 squad. Although VP does a lot more than just DOTA afaik.

Afaik, yes. Not to mention that there are scholarships and loans based solely on ethnicity. Discrimination - Apparently perfectly fine so long as the right group of people are being discriminated against.

For once, I wholeheartedly agree with something written in RPS. Alpha Protocol is my favorite Obsidian game ever and I consider it one of the most underappreciated games ever made. For all its faults, and there are plenty, that game is freakin' brilliant. I keep praying that someday we get a sequel or prequel, preferably starring SIE. It's clear SEGA is never going to do anything with the IP, because SEGA, they should just sell it to Obsidian nice and cheap like.

I've always been against Affirmative Action. it's literally trying to make a right by doing a second wrong.

I finished up Highpool with my Three's Company party. This was actually my first time doing Highpool, I mean the Highpool if you do it first Highpool. It's kind of the opposite of Ag Center in terms of combat; getting into Ag Center was easy, but combat got harder once inside, with Highpool getting inside is the challenging part, once inside it's a piece of cake, even on supreme jerk difficulty.

One of the 2 games that launched this year that gives me legit Windows envy (MGSV is the other). I hope some day this gets ported so that I get to play it.

It's almost as if the UN is completely useless and inept. That can't be it, if that were true we would have seen evidence of that previously...

Just over a week until spooky waifu horror game.

Styx: Master of Shadows sequel revealed

Same here. As much as I'd love to brutally murder teenage campers having sex, and I would, no single player no care.

It's worth it to put only 1 in skills at start. You'll definitely want more points in skills later, but 1 will get you by at the very beginning in many situations. If you're looking to create a reasonably "optimal" party (as opposed to my crazy, all melee, Three's Company party) you'll want a good mix of ranged weapons and put a point or two down the road in some kind of melee weapon as a back up for if/when you run out of ammo. You'll want to spread your non-weapon skills among your party members, there's no reason to overlap at all, that's wasteful. Pretty much all of them are useful, barter is probably the least useful since the discount isn't all that impressive (only reason I took it for Stanley Roper is that I though it was thematic, and that's partly what I'm going for). Make sure you have a character with first aid (that's RPG gaming 101, but I figured I'd post that for idiot-proofing [not implying you fit that description ]) If you're a serious min-maxer, you can look up the various companions and plan ahead, since companions can and will cover some skills for you. I won't tell you about any of that here (there are plenty of guides around the interwebs) since I don't know if you're into any of that (I'm not) and I don't want to post spoilers.

^ Yikes. The seeping of microtransactions into full-priced single-player games has been both disappointing and inevitable (especially disappointing in how inevitable it was). I understand microtransactions in a f2p game, the publisher has to make money off it somehow, and I can even stomach microtransactions in a full-priced single-player game, so long as they're purely cosmetic, but when that crap extends to gameplay, that's stepping way over the line. There needs to be a serious pushback from consumers, both vocal and financial, against this. Otherwise, this is just going to keep getting worse and worse. If publishers keep getting away with this, they're just going to keep pushing the boundaries.