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I see by it updating in my Steam account that it's out already (rather than the usual 1 PM EST time). Pretty sweet, though it doesn't do me any good because I'm off to work. Stupid work, always getting in the way of things.

Finished Pirate Creed with 94% completion. I know I missed 1 buried treasure (and the map for it) somewhere and I imagine the other missing percentage is not getting 100% sync on every story mission because, to the best of my knowledge, I did everything else, found all fragments, treasure chests, shanties, messages in a bottle, did all assassin contracts, all naval missions, etc. I may one day come back and replay the missions I didn't 100% sync, though more likely I'll just say close enough and be done with it for good. I enjoyed the vast majority of the game, but there were a few exceptions. For example, if I never have to tail somebody and/or eavesdrop on them ever again, it will be too soon. Most importantly, my schedule is now clear for Wasteland 2 tomorrow.

This Thursday night game... Holy freakin' beatdown! It's gone way past comical to just plain sad at this point.

How does it compare to the original Dragonfall?

I'm at 83% completion in Pirate Creed and should be really close to the end of the game. I'll almost certainly finish the story when I get home tonight, though I probably won't get 100% completion. Do you need to get 100% sync on all the main story missions to 100% the game? Either way, I'll be done with this game after tonight. Gotta clear my schedule for Wasteland 2.

New trailer for Fatal Frame 5, now with added hazubendo! I swear, if this doesn't get localized for North America, so help me, I'll... get really mad, pout quite a bit, and maybe write some angry emails.

Fargo definitely likes to take shots at the industry and create a us (gamers) vs them (publishers) vibe. Whether he's truly bitter, really believes his own rhetoric, or it's just a marketing ploy (judging from the amount of pledges he's gotten for his 2 Kickstarters, a successful one), I don't much care, I mostly tune that stuff out and try to go by the games or game concepts themselves. Anyway, the gameplay footage itself looks absolutely marvelous, in my opinion (as exhibited by the Sailor Moon heart eyes gif I posted). I was really struck by just how insanely gorgeous everything looked. It's hard not to compare it to what we've seen of PoE, and I'm thoroughly happy with what I've seen of PoE in action, but this... my eyes literally popped open wide and my jaw dropped a bit when I saw TToN in action. Much of it is likely because of how alien everything looked, that's part of what I loved so much about PST and Morrowind, but also everything just looked so beautiful and the animations were so good.

I'm definitely going to get Civ: Beyond Earth eventually, but I won't pre-order it or get it day 1 because it suffers from Releases on the Same Day as Bayonetta 2-itis. I'm looking forward to impressions, though.

Looks like Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is a month away from release.

I also enjoyed The Bard's Tale "remake" (honestly, it's a completely different game). It's a pretty fun tongue in cheek action game.

Ironically, Resi 4 is the game that dumped the horrifically bad controls of the early games in favor of more modern shooter controls, but also signaled the move away from horror and toward action, making it a bittersweet game. It also has the distinction of being one of the most notoriously awful PC ports ever. They released an updated "HD" version earlier this year (because, of course they did) that supposedly works a heck of a lot better on PC. I haven't played the new version so I can't speak from experience.

I'm at 73% completion in Pirate Creed. I might just 100% this before Wasteland 2 releases on Friday.

It's because they were every "expert's" sexy pick to make the superbowl going into the season. They were cursed by the media.

I'll take most of what's in that blog with a grain of salt, since it's a bunch of cherry picked tweets and without the full context of each of those individual scenarios it's impossible for me to make any sort of informed judgement. With that said, under no circumstance is doxxing someone or advocating doxxing someone okay. That's really ****ed up and insanely unprofessional.

Man, Kaepernick and the Niners' second half meltdown was Romo-esque.

Please be real. Please be real. Please be real. Don't be fake. Don't be fake. Don't be fake.

The Cowboys looked shockingly good today. I'm going to write it off as them playing against a weaksauce Titans team, but, man, their running game looked terrific (it looked pretty good in last week's hilarious derpfest too) and they actually stuck with it. When he's not fumbling, and when his body is not shattering into a billion pieces, DeMarco Murray is a damn good running back. Also, the O-Line is run blocking really well. As a double bonus, the G-Men lost in hilarious fashion while the Cowboys were winning. It's been a pretty great Sunday all around for me.

I wasted a fortune in quarters on X-Men vs. Street Fighter back in the day. Since then I've barely touched fighting games. I'll occasionally play some Tekken or Dead or Alive, because I can do rasslin' moves with King or Tina Armstrong. Also, boob physics.

So, most bands, if they're lucky, have either a good guitarist, or a good bassist, or a good drummer. Occassionally you get a special band that does 2 of the 3 things. Once in a long while you get a band that does all three, at the same time.

Yeah. I wish I had harder climbs, but I can't change geography so I do the best with what I have. If I wind up moving to where I'm planning on moving a year or two from now, I'll not only have warmer weather year round, including, most importantly, super mild winters (average highs during January near 50 ), but I'll also be close to the Appalachian Trail, which means real deal mountains. As far as weight lifting, I haven't lifted in about 3 weeks, though I plan to start again next week. I hurt my right forearm, I don't know how (get your mind out of the gutter ), a while back. I initially tried to work through it and still lift, and while I still had full strength, it hurt a lot and didn't get better, in fact, it kept hurting more. So, I stopped lifting altogether and have tried to avoid lifting with my right arm (difficult because my job regularly requires lifting 50+ lbs.). I've done my best to lift with only my left arm as much as possible over the last 3 weeks. I suffered a couple of setbacks because I had things at work just too damn heavy to lift effectively with one arm (it's one thing to lift it with just the left arm, it's another to put it on a stomach-high table), so I kept re-aggravating the injury. Finally it seems to be healed. It has felt 100% for almost a week now, but I'm going to give it a full 7 days before I weight lift again (Monday). #GettingOldSucks

Awesome biking weather earlier today, about 70 degrees, very little wind, moderately low humidity. It was overcast, but hey, you can't have everything. I did the Avon Mountain climb for the 6th time this year. Thinking back to the first time I did that climb this year, it was so much easier today. The side I went up today (it's the side I go up most often because it's the closest to where I live) is set up as such that the final 25% of the climb is the steepest, most difficult part. No struggle on that last 25% today, I powered through it a gear higher than my previous climbs up that side, and with no problem. I'm definitely going to do that climb at least once or twice more before the year is done.

How many men does it take to hoist that monster up? The Jackdaw must have pulley systems with insane mechanical advantage. Also, how can the mast handle that much weight?

Oakland's meltdown is now bordering on epic proportions. They are in serious danger of completely missing the playoffs. They need to get their **** together immediately or we may soon be comparing their collapse to that of the 2011 Sawx. Maybe Billy Beane should comb the clubhouse for fried chicken and beer?

Finally took down a man o' war in Pirate Creed, a couple, in fact (not at the same time). It wound up being easier than I thought. It doesn't hurt that my ship is relatively close to maxed out. A couple mortar shots from long range while I charged the man o' war, followed by ramming it, then unloaded broadside cannons and it was all she wrote. The man o' was never had a chance to do much damage to me. The second one didn't go quite as smoothly, but it still didn't manage to damage me much. I'm at 65% completion now. I'm most likely going to power through and get to 100% completion, I'm too close to the finish line to give up and take the easy route now.