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Pics, please! Mother nature is currently throwing a monkey wrench into my bike ride plans. If there is to be any realistic chance of me getting a ride in, it will have to stop raining by about 3 PM so that there are a couple of hours for the giant puddles on the roads to drain away and evaporate. The forecast says that is unlikely.

I would pay good money for Grand Theft Effect. Main character a sympathatic, but still criminal Krogan on hard times. Gets dupped into crimes. Breaking into flying cars, punching people, paying for Asari prostitutes. Bioware, take my money now. Genuine interest: I like the idea, NKKK, that would likely be a lot more fun than whatever Bio is actually cooking up. Matter of fact: However, no playable Elcor, no sale.

That's cool as long as it doesn't handle like a methodone addict going through the shakes again. On the down side, looks like you're stuck being a ****ing human again. No playable Elcor no care.

Yes, I ride with a green Tasmanian Tiger daypack on my back, thats also where I put the water, the keys and the helmet when I go for a long uphill climb. Never had a flat on my bike in my life, but I don't go off road. The pack is small enough not to interfere with the aerodynamics: Fun fact: I've caught a lot more flats riding on the road than off-road. Granted, much of that has to do with the fact that I ride a lot more on the road than off-road. Now I ride exclusively on the road, because I have a road bike, which, obviously, doesn't work too well in rough terrain, but most of my life I've had either a mountain bike or a hybrid, and even then I still rode on the road some 75% of the time. Most of my problems with flats came when I lived in Torrington, CT. I swear I caught more flats in the 5 years I lived there than in the entire rest of my life combined, and I've been riding a bike pretty much every year since I was 6. They did a really ****ty job sweeping the streets in Torrington, I guess.

I haven't had problems with my ass getting sore from riding either. Usually my first ride or two of the year (usually in late March or early April) I'll get a little sore because my body hasn't ridden in several months, after that there's no problem whatsoever. I did a nice long bike ride today, about 2 1/2 hours or so. I would estimate I did about 35 miles (56k), though that's just an educated guess. I could have gone a lot longer because I felt really good. I had all types of stamina today and was powering through the last few uphills before getting home like I was just as fresh as I left the house (except significantly sweatier). That bodes well for tomorrow's bike ride, assuming I can find a suitable gap of decent weather between tomorrow's projected thunderstorms. @Woldan - Do you ride with a backpack? I notice you don't have a bag under the saddle to hold a spare and some tools (like I do). I would never ride without a spare and some basic tools. I've had real good luck this year and haven't caught a single flat yet (knock on wood), in fact, I haven't caught a flat in the last 2 years, but I would still never chance it.

Maybe its just me, but "my opinion as fact" rants don't amuse me. Not to mention that dumbasses like this shouldn't be retweeted, shared, or whatever. These people should be shunned, not have attention brought to them.

Hyrule Warriors trailer

Sweet, I've been meaning to run through Dragonfall again somewhere down the line.

Is that the Star Wars game that famously has one of the worst final boss fights ever (Vader, I think), or is it the other one? I know there were 2 of these games, Force Unleashed, or whatever.

I hope you get to play as smoke head rather than guy with hoodie.

I appreciate Platinum Games' dedication to sheer lunacy. They just go completely over the top ridiculous in the pursuit of goofy fun and don't try to pretend to be even making an attempt for any sort of gritty realism, even though gritty realism is all the rage these days. Sucks that Bayonetta 2 won't be appearing on any other platforms, but the game wouldn't have been made at all if Nintendo hadn't stepped in, so you can't blame them for making it an exclusive.

Bayonetta 2 gameplay from Comic Con As expected, it looks completely ludicrous.

I thought work had stopped on this project after... what was it, 1.6 or 1.7? Apparently not. Does this version fix the red sky bug?

Best photobomb ever? https://twitter.com/_JaydeTaylor/statuses/492269017215012864

Same here. I was internally screaming "For the love of Gods, at least quickly click on all the different races before you commit to one!"

Nice. I watched as far as character creation, then as soon as the game proper began I turned it off immediately. I definitely liked what I saw out of character creation, though. That's interesting, you also don't want to ruin the surprise....but it was hard to stop watching? Yes, it was indeed hard to stop watching. You're probably right, but I'm taking no chances. I don't want anything at all spoiled for me, not even minor details at the very beginning of the game. I want to see everything for the very first time when I play it once it's fully released.

Nice. I watched as far as character creation, then as soon as the game proper began I turned it off immediately. I definitely liked what I saw out of character creation, though.

Pretty cool. Most of those "custom builds" are just old DOS games running in DOSbox (same as they do on Windows), which you could always run on Linux in DOSbox, but at least now it's all "out of the box" install and play, rather than configuring DOSbox yourself. Curiously, The Witcher 2 is not among the initial rollout of Linux games on GOG despite the fact that there's a Linux version available on Steam. I imagine they're probably waiting for the kinks to get ironed out by the company that did the OpenGL wrapper for it (there was a nasty memory leak among other issues back when I played it a month or two ago) before they unveil it on GOG.

Project Cars screenies:

The sweetest irony of this thread is that it likely brought as much, if not more, ridicule on the OP than the original lightsaber argument, and rightly so. Self-congratulatory threads deserve every last bit of ridicule the get.

Playing Final Fantasy VIII has reminded me just how insanely needlessly confounded storylines are in a lot of Japanese games. This isn't just confined to some of the Final Fantasy games, either, a lot of Japanese games deliver their stories in a very cryptic and confusing way, and then there's Kojima who has been engaged with himself in a battle of oneupmanship to create the most ridiculously contrived convoluted storyline imaginable. I wonder if it's a lost in translation thing or a cultural difference that causes the Japanese games that make it west to be so bafflingly needlessly confounded? Somebody needs to tell Japanese game designers that telling a story in a relatively straightforward, easy to digest, manner isn't necessarily a bad thing.

That whole Areal Kickstarter has been fascinating to follow. It's sad on one hand, since the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is so near and dear to my heart and it pains me to see its name used for such an underhanded scam. On the other hand, this has been such a bizarre trainwreck that it's endlessly comical and entertaining. The "Putin letter" was the icing on the cake. That was just... wow.

Well, there's the upcoming Raven's Cry, that pirate RPG from the folks that made the ****ty Two Worlds games, assuming that's still happening (I haven't heard a peep about that game in the longest time). Edit: Ninja'd