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It might not have had cards, but TW2 certainly had no shortage of boobs.

Gotta love that t-shirt.

They've hopefully already made a profit. Much of the game was funded via Kickstarter. The game cost more than what they got from Kickstarter minus fees and cost of goodies, but they made money off Early Access which was used to cover most, if not all, of the rest of the game's budget. Hopefully most of that 1.5 million quoted (and whatever else they made since) has been profit. I'm making my way through Damonta now. I desperately need to get to a merchant who can afford to buy a lot of stuff from me. All my characters are quite weighed down, to the point that I have to leave stuff behind sometimes (which drives me nuts). I'm glad I had Ralphy learn energy weapons. He sucked in battle before most of the time, because energy weapons are garbage in many situations, but he's very useful in Damonta, for obvious reasons.

What!? Who let in the women folk? Is there no place left that's safe? That's it, I'm canceling my pre-order.

If it's a gate/door, you can also brute force it if you broke the lock.

I don't find animals an annoyance in battle, but it shatters my heart whenever any of them gets killed.

I don't know if I'd go so far as to call myself a fanboy, but I'm definitely a very big fan of CDPR. On the other hand, I have no idea who Chris Priestly is, so my reaction is Should I be flipping a table over?

Hmm, what to play for my Harmony playthrough? I suppose I could jam some Grateful Dead.

I originally wound up leaving Rose at Ag Center after clearing that place out for RPing reasons, but then changed my mind and put her back on my team. I've grow rather fond of the old crow. She gets so many skill points per level that I've had her develop lockpick, smart ass, and kiss ass, in addition to the computer, surgeon, and handgun skills she already had. She's not great in a fight (unless you have her learn a better weapon), but she's a great jack of all trades outside of combat. I already had a medic with some surgery skill when I picked her up, but I definitely don't mind having overlapping skills in that department. In fact, I may have a 3rd character pick up a level or two in surgery for contingency reasons.

She may or may not be dead.

Dang, it was 7-4 Billy Beanes in the 7th when I went to sleep. I wasn't watching the game but I checked the score before I shut the computer down. I figured it was pretty much a done deal at that point. Guess not.

Character creation video

The Pats are getting MASSACRED tonight. This may be the worst Patriot defeat since Charleston.

Oh come now, we both know Volo doesn't have opinions. Everything he states is FACT.

I think it's 10. After that, images will just show up as links.

The BS1 re-release was a "Director's Cut" with additional content, mostly involving playing as Nico and covering her backstory (in the original release you never play as her). Some people feel that compromised the pacing of the game, but I didn't mind it, more puzzles are more puzzles. The BS2 re-release on the other hand is just a graphical enhancement and update of the UI. I didn't really have an issue with the added stuff in the BS1 Director's Cut, though it did lack the iconic "Paris in the fall" opening, which is a bummer. I prefer the original version mostly based on the inclusion of that opening and the fact that I actually think the graphical "upgrade" was a downgrade. Somehow, in my opinion, they lost some of the charm in the transition to higher res graphics. I never played the re-release of BS2.

Both are chided, but for different reasons. BS3 is chided because they dropped traditional point & click controls because consoles (as you can imagine, the PC crowd didn't react favorably to that), it was actually a pretty good game if you got past the control change. BS4 brought back p&c controls but was just plain not very good. In my opinion: BS1 > BS2 > BS5 > BS3 > BS4

From last night's game, the Jerry Jones **** eatin' grin:

Have you ever played Sid Meier's Pirates! ? It's like that, but on dry land.

I'm in the market for a new mouse myself, but I have very particular criteria that must be met: It must be a middle-ball trackball - I'm not a fan of thumb-ball trackballs and I will not, even under gunpoint, go back to a conventional mouse. It must have a scroll ring or scroll wheel. It must have 5 buttons. It's really hard to find a 5 button middle-ball trackball these days. I used to have this Microsoft Explorer Trackball: I freakin' loved that trackball. It was the most ergonomic mouse I've ever used. The button and scroll wheel layout was a masterpiece. Sadly, they stopped making them years ago. Even more sadly, the buttons on them were cheap as hell, hence why I don't have it any more (the buttons started breaking and eventually it was beyond repair. R.I.P. Microsoft Explorer Trackball ). These days, Microsoft Explorer Trackballs sell for around $400 because they don't make them any more and because people loved them so much. No way am I dishing out $400 for a (most likely used) trackball. I currently have a Kensington Orbit: It works well enough. The scroll ring on it is surprisingly good. Still, I really, really, really, really miss having a middle button (the scroll ring is obviously not clickable). Since I currently have a perfectly fine trackball (albeit with less buttons than I'd like), I'm not going to settle for a 3-button trackball or a thumb-ball trackball. If I'm going to get a device to replace the working device I already have, then it better damn well meet my criteria exactly. The only trackball I've been able to dig up that meets all my criteria so far is this Sanwa Supply TB38: I'd have to import it from Japan and I'm not sure about how comfortable that scroll wheel placement is. The search continues...

Does the copy of Bayonetta 2 I pre-ordered count? (since I don't physically have the game yet) I've completely abandoned physical media on PC, I'm not sure I even remember what was the last PC game I bought a box copy for (my desktop rig doesn't even have a disc drive of any kind, not floppy, not DVD, not Blu-Ray), but I stick mostly with physical media for the Wii U, largely due to the small (32 GB) capacity of the Wii U's storage and the fact that I can find physical games cheaper on Amazon or Ebay (including shipping) than I can on the eShop most of the time.

Do want.

Rod Marinelli, while an awful head coach, is a pretty good defensive coordinator. The Cowboys D still isn't good, but they're much better than they have any right to be. That fake punt attempt by the Saints was awful. The thing about trick plays, like a fake punt, is that they rely almost completely on deception and surprise. Take away the surprise factor and you’re left with a crappy play with an exceedingly high probability of failure. No one was fooled on that play. I saw it coming, Al and Cris in the booth saw it coming, and the Cowboys most certainly saw it coming. Sean Payton must have recognized the Cowboys were in a formation guarding against the fake, I mean, I recognized the Cowboys were not in their usual punt formation and guarding against the fake. Couldn’t he have changed the play as soon as he saw the Cowboys line up in that formation and just punted for real? With the Cowboys not fooled, what were the odds of that play succeeding? 5%? 2%?