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Yeah, we got less than a foot where I live, maybe 9 inches or so. It's not over yat as we might get more snow later toady, but nothing heavy. Works for me. I still get the day off paid and cleanup is easier. Win-win.

I'm getting paid for the day(s) too. So as long as the power doesn't go out, lucky bastard indeed. We has a freak storm about 5 years ago at the end of October (which is extremely early to be getting snow here). The temp was just above freezing when the storm hit. Had it been colder it would likely have been at least 2 feet of fluffy snow (and far less damage) but because of the temperature we got about 14" of heavy, wet, water saturated snow. It took down trees all over the state, which in turn took down power lines. Power outages all over the state. Where I was living (different town than where I live now), power was out in the entire town for 3 days, and I mean the entire town, everything. After 3 days some of the town was running, after 5 days much of the town had power, where I lived the power was out for a full week. That sucked. Highs in the mid 40s lows in the mid 20s. No electricity, no heat, no hot water for 7 days. Those first 3 days when I wanted a warm meal I jury rigged a stand to put a can of soup on and put a candle underneath it to heat it up. Only about an hour and a half of "cooking" and the soup was kinda warm. After the first 3 days at least I could walk somewhere to get a warm meal even if it was Burger King (in that situation I wasn't being choosy). That was a rough week. On a related note, I hate Connecticut.

Look at it this way, to southern Californians a storm like this would be the end of the world, to a Minnesotan, this would be a joke and we should stop being such p*****s.

Quen is far and away the most overpowered ability in TW2. If you don't use it battles become much harder and much more interesting. The combat is still not responsive enough, but without Quen at least you're forced to use your brain. Quen is essentially the "I Win" button in TW2, particularly if you upgraded it.

We got hit with about 22-24" 3 years ago, and had back to back storms that put down 16" then 12-14" within a week 2 years ago, so unless this storm winds up being in the extreme upper end of the estimation (30") it won't be worse than what we've gotten recently.

I'll make sure to make JOKEZ when you enjoy your wildfires in about 6 months.

Connecticut is shut down. Gov. Malloy has issued a travel ban. I'm home. I got plenty of food and I got booze. Obviously no work tomorrow, possibly no work Wednesday, depending on when this stops. Last I checked estimations were 18-30" where I am. I just hope my power doesn't go out. As long as I got power I'm good to go. I made sure my laptop is charged in case we do lose power so I at least have some contact with the outside world besides my phone. Edit: Made sure my flashlight is working. (My flashlight is my bicycle light detached from the handlebar).

My favorite electronica artist of all time Tom "Squarepusher" Jenkinson

That, for whatever reason, reminded me of this

Geralt's glorious beard gets shaved off? No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I like how instead of going down a hill all awkward like still using the regular walking animation, they have Geralt slide down it sideways. Edi: Phew, they just confirmed it's possible to keep the beard. Beard Master Race for the win!

Have some classic Zlad Long live Molvania.

I think there is room for games to be more artistic. I feel there is room for games to be more diverse. I feel there is room for games to be educational. I feel there is room for games to deal with unpleasant topics and to disturb. But I also feel there is room for games to still be goofy nonsensical romps. Heck, I feel there is room for games to have giant boobs in bikini armor and there is room for hentai dating sims.

I can has Curse of Monkey Island? I believe they were already leaked. It's all Star Wars. I recall one was Republic Commando. ****ing Star Wars, always ruining everything for me.

The best/most heretical part is that I sometimes think Curse is the best game in the series. I feel that game is really excellent and Ron Gilbert not being involved doesn't bother me one bit. I go back and forth between Le Chuck's Revenge and Curse as the best MI game.

I can has Curse of Monkey Island?

The site is already online? I haven't even seen it in the #GG twitter-feed. She needs to promote it more. I don't think it's up yet. They sent me an email because I am a contributor and I registered for a user name. The email has a short survey and the option to review a game, which I did. I think they're collecting some reviews before hand so they can have something on the site when it does go up and not just "hey, here's our site with almost no content, stay tuned". Also, maybe (hopefully) they want to screen reviews for stupid JOKEZ reviews before putting them up? I'm not sure how "Needs Improvement" helps a shipped game unless the idea is that it can be fixed in a patch. I'd probably suggest a more complex (possibly byzantine) rating system, though so may not be the best choice for advice. "Needs Improvement" is a nicer war of saying "Bad" or "Sucks".

No, but they will have community reviews. People often trust user reviews more than press reviews anyway, so long as they're not stupid "Within the first 10 minutes I threw my controller across the room. 10/10 would throw controller again" joke reviews. Also, I meant to obviously write "objective" instead of "subjective" (doh!). Changed in my original post now, but obviously not in your quote block.

I just wrote my first review for Based Gamer (Bayonetta 2). I did my best to be thorough and as objective as I possibly could be. Plus, I left them some suggestions for things that could be improved. Most notably, there was no section for Content/Value (how appropriate you feel the amount of content was for the price tag), which I feel should be a section. On the bright side, I like the new ratings (Needs Improvement, Average, Excellent, Exceptional) better than the previous. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this site. I'll certainly try to do what I can to help it along. I'll likely write another review or two tomorrow since I'll almost certainly be home (we're about to get hammered by a major snow storm), provided I don't lose power or if I do, for however long my laptop lasts. Edit: Thinking about it some more, I think I'm going to suggest that they change "Excellent" to "Good' or "Great". It just might be confusing having 2 ratings that not only start with the same letter, but also look alike a bit.

Not really sure how this is relevant to GamersGate - and bothering to discuss it in a GamersGate context (IMO) just feeds the idea that GamersGate isn't about ethics in journalism. Agreed. I'd say the guy's past is neither here nor there.

CDPR has stated that there will be no platform-specific DLC, no pre-order DLC, no store-specific DLC, plus they will be giving 16 pieces of DLC away for free to everybody that owns the game, regardless of platform (that number is likely inflated to sound more impressive than it is and some of the DLC likely could have been bundled together, but still, it's free). As of so far, CDPR has never gone down the milking their customers with DLC or only putting certain DLC on certain platforms route. The only fear I have from seeing all the XBOX logos is that the game will not be as great on PC as it could have been due to it being held back by console development.

Don't know about what they said, but they played a trailer I think. Now this I want to play, all the cool characters and setting minus the gameplay I dislike from the main series. Hopefully Telltale makes a Linux version eventually. They make a Mac version already, meaning it already works with OpenGL and a unix-like OS. /crosses fingers

That's pretty cool. I'm assuming it will be a for realsies Bard's Tale rather than the parody game they released a while back (which I kinda liked), right? As for Dying Light, I have to admit this game has me kinda interested after watching some Let's Play videos despite the fact that I'm pretty burned out on zombies. It looks like it might be Dead Island minus the crap that eventually made me hate Dead Island. Plus the whole idea of having to scramble to a safe house before it gets dark or you're totally ****ed seems like it will add much needed tension to the game. I'll be interested to hear how this game does once it releases in a few days.

Rightfully so as it does indeed get repetitive. I did like the combat, though. Usually turn-based/real-time hybrid systems suck, but I thought that system worked pretty well. They could have done a lot more with it, though.

Entrance theme for current World Wonder Ring STARDOM champion Yoshiko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp00Q0jFfMU While I don't think she's the best wrestler in the company, she is insanely good for someone who's only 21, plus her entrance theme is dope as ****. Not to mention, you gotta love a lady hoss.

It's not. Throwing their own absurdity in their faces is not only funny, but exceedingly appropriate and very much called for, in my opinion.