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At least we seem to be mostly past the phase where every movie poster was at a Dutch angle for no ****ing reason whatsoever.

I'd say Alien lived up to that awesome Polish poster for it, even if the xenomorph looks nothing like that.

Almost certainly it was, and there's a 99% chance I participated in said topic. I don't care, any chance I get to rep some cool, old, hand painted posters I will. Everything today is all digitally slapped together, and some of the posters are kinda cool, but they just don't have that hand drawn magic of old movie posters. Side-note: I should watch Westworld (1973) again.

Spanish garlic soup with croutons: Green onions and parsley were not part of the recipe I used but I added them as a garnish. It's quite tasty.

Poland has had some awesome movie posters:

I would definitely not consider Night City a small open world. Then again, I play a lot of RGG games whose open worlds are the size of postage stamps compared to most.

I'm not Irish, thus I am not wearing green nor drinking Guinness. I'll just say I started celebrating Saint Joseph's Day 2 days early. I have nothing against Guinness, mind you, I just generally prefer lagers.

This seems very Darksiders, which is not a bad thing.

I loved them back in the day, but I tried to play one of the few Gold Box games I didn't play back when I was a wee lad, Champions of Krynn, a few years ago and I just couldn't do it. I've gotten used to modern GUIs and I can't bring myself to take that many steps back.

Curse of the Wolf (2006) - One of Len Kabasinski's earliest movies. This is the tale of Dakota, a werewolf who has figured out a way to keep her werewolfism in control via veterinary medication. She desires to lead a normal life but other werewolves, her pack-mates, I guess, won't leave her be. There are bar fights, shootouts, plenty of boobs, the works. Len hadn't come to rely on terrible digital effects much at this point, so there are less than a handful of them and no green screen AFAIK. 75% of the time he does a good job of using darkness and/or smoke/fog to obscure the costumes, however there are close up shots of the masks in clear lighting where it's hilariously obvious that they are rubber. The story is as threadbare as threadbare gets, only serving the purpose of giving an excuse for fight scenes. The acting is atrocious, as expected. On the plus side, the title theme is every bit as great as RLM purported it to be. In fact, there's a ton of music in this movie, mostly heavy metal, but there are some other tracks as well. The quality of the music is... uneven. Also, the sound quality, while nowhere near as bad as in some of his other movies, left something to be desired. While you could always hear the dialogue and the sound levels were more or less consistent, there were a number of scenes with significant background noise that would have greatly benefited from ADR.

It will happen, except it will be a live service game (because we haven't had enough of those fail lately) pushing NFTs.

It's for the best, Pollard is a significantly better back at this point and Zeke's contract was horrible. And I say that as a long time Zeke defender. Cowboys also traded a 5th round pick to the Colts for CB Stephon Gilmore. Gilmore is a 5 time pro-bowler, but he's also 32 years old.

In loving memory of Aaron Rodgers on the Packers: /pours out 40

AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative. The game starts out with a flashback scene of some quiz show and then these faceless bodies get split in half, from top to bottom. Then I am playing as Mizuki, who was the sort of adopted daughter of the protagonist of the last game. She was a kid back then and now she's 18, which is still a kid to someone my age, but that's besides the point. Anyway, after a sniper takes shots at me I discover half a body in the center of a stadium. Turns out it's the other half of the body of a famous businessman that appeared after a brief blackout on the floor at the quiz show from the flashback, accompanied by a sign with a QR code (I naturally scanned the QR code and it took me to a YouTube video surreal and weird enough to make David Lynch jealous), which was 6 years earlier. If that's not bizarre enough, the coroner determines the time of death to be just hours earlier, so somehow this half of a body whose other half was discovered 6 years prior died just hours earlier. This all happens in the first 10 minutes of the game, so I'm not spoiling anything. The best part is that Spike Chunsoft games start weird and typically get MUCH weirder from there. Also, all the pieces of the puzzle always fit at the end and stay consistent with the logic of the game, even if that logic is bat**** crazy. I'm guessing that it's a clone. I'm probably wrong, but that's all I can think of to make this make any sort of sense.

AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative If it's anything like the previous game, or other Spike Chunsoft games, it's going to be really weird and go to some extremely dark places.

I finished the Hogwarts Legacy main story, I am level 38. I thought about trying to hit the level 40 cap, but you level so ridiculously slowly after level 35. I'll play through the game again and on hard difficulty in the future, perhaps I'll try to hit lev 40 before the final main story mission then. My current play time, according to Steam, is 69.8 hours. Anyway, great game, I had a blast playing it. This game was wildly successful, both critically and especially financially, despite some (rather unsuccessful) calls to boycott. Apparently JK Rowling is cancelled or something? I don't know, I don't pay attention to these things, nor do I care. I assume she had an opinion that people didn't like, or maybe she clubbed a seal to death? Perhaps she's bankrolling the war in Ukraine? Whatever. Clearly there's going to be a sequel after the billion dollars, and counting, that this game made. I think the way to go is to set it in one of the other magic schools. The obvious choice would be Ilvermorny in Murica, but I hope they go with Castelobruxo in Brazil. I could go for some rainforest wizarding, plus the name is way better.

The Niners signed Sam Darnold, they now have two #3 overall pick QBs on their roster and they're both expected to be backups behind a guy who was Mr. Irrelevant.

Handsome Jimmy to Las Vegas? He'll be the second most handsome man there.

I thought it was understood that Rodgers is remaking the Favre movie and going to the Jets?

The Colts are in a weird spot. They really need a QB and they're sitting at the #4 pick. Bryce Young and CJ Stroud are going #1 and #2 in some order, I'd be flabbergasted if they didn't. The Cards pick at #3 and they don't need a QB but some other team in need of a QB could make a draft day trade and take a swing at AR-15, who's a wild card with the highest ceiling of all QBs in the draft because he's a freak athlete. After AR-15 there's a significant drop off, according to the "experts". So what do you do if you're the Colts? Do you stay put and hope AR-15 is still there at #4? Do you offer Lamar Jackson a boatload of money?

@HumanoidDo the keycaps glow in the dark, are they painted with tritium or something? I like having backlit keycaps so that I can easily see the keys in the dark, for example if I'm playing a horror game with all lights off for maximum spooky. At the same time, I don't want the keyboard flashing or cycling through colors or the keycaps being overly bright because I find that distracting. I guess I'm anal like that.

As someone who's not a fan of pastels, I couldn't handle those keycaps, but to each their own. I have plain black keycaps with translucent characters on my DasKeyboard 4Q. I could make them cycle and breathe and do all the wacky stuff kids do with RGBs these days, but I just have them all amber-ish with WASD in red. I did swap out the default system keycaps (they weren't Windows logos, just some weird symbols) with lovely Tux keycaps.

I went to Jasmine Grill, a Mediterranean restaurant in The Queen City, with my sister. I got kofta kebabs with baba ganoush and fatush. Those were some of the most delicious kebabs I've ever had. I'll definitely eat there again.

You and 80% of game developers.