Keyrock

I always found the best way to immerse myself is to just simply jump in a lake or a river.

It's a murder simulator masquerading as a Tomb Raider game. As NKKKK mentioned, there are some pathetically simple tomb raiding elements, but for the most part the game is murdering and more murdering.

Dual Shau... Wait... Triple Shaundi style?

Stoner Shaundi outfit

http://youtu.be/a79zE7H_LDg

I haven't bothered with the area at all yet. I plan to do it once I get enough AD to upgrade my Acolyte of Kelemvor so she can level up while I complete the quests.

But they're Belgian, that has to count for something.

That was the best episode this season and one of the better episodes in the show's history. The "confession" will likely go down as one of my top 3 Breaking Bad scenes... depending on what else they have in store for us. ****'s about to get real crazy. I think Jesse is the only one who has even a microscopic chance at something approaching a happy ending, but I'm leaning toward dead man for him. Walt, Skyler, Hank, Marie, Todd, Lydia, I think every one of them ends up dead or in prison.

But I specifically wrote no pressure.

This one is for LadyC: Catlateral Damage - A game where you play as a cat and your task is to cause as much mayhem as you can in your owner's home.

Real life recreation of the tentacle bat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q1DADOZ-0w

Nightshape, if this game turns out to be anything less than incredible, I'm going to hold you personally responsible. So, you know, no pressure or anything.

Ugh, I see the US getting sucked into yet another costly (both in terms of lives and taxpayer dollars) disaster in Syria. On the one hand, they did use biological warfare. On the other hand, if we go in there, nothing good will come of it.

You forgot one of Microsoft's favorite business tactics that can be used in conjunction with their other approaches: Strong-arm your way into market dominance by way of FUD and threats.

Oh man, Walt's "confession" on Breaking Bad was so great. You could literally feel Hank crumble as that went down. That was some seriously diabolical **** right there.

Good on you. I wish had that luxury, I wish agent K and agent J erased my memory of that garbage,

I think it's pretty assured that none of us recognize it as being the same entity it was back in 2000 hahaha. Oh, I'm quite certain anyone and everyone here recognizes that, at least I hope so. That said, it's still sad... no, depressing.... no, soul crushing, that the team that made this piece of garbage is carrying on the Interplay name.

Dream Theater's one big commercial hit, Pull Me Under. Not nearly their best song, not even close, but a good track none the less. It's amazing it became a MTV hit despite having a pure instrumental intro lasting a good 2 minutes. I think it speaks to the incredible musicianship of bands like Dream Theater, that they can entertain the masses that won't listen to something for more than 15 seconds without (nonsensical) lyrics with pure (amazing) instrumentals (and this is before Jordan Rudess). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKhfkfnbAMQ Edit: Also, here is Liquid Tension Experiment (which is basically Dream Theater minus vocals) with Acid Rain. This song kicks so much ass that I don't even need to wri... Why am I even still writing? Just listen, thank me later: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edqH0ofRQrM Listening to the crowd cheer after that got me thinking, that's not even close to enough. How do you even express appreciation for something as transcendent as that? Rip out a vital organ and throw it on stage? Edit 2: Here is one more from Paradigm Shift from Liquid Tension Experiment, because I'm feeling generous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFZXfKrFWF0

Interplay and Black Isle are still around ... technically. I would rather they weren't for they are grotesque dopplegängers of their former glorious selves, much like Sierra On-Line, post 1997.

Good win for the Sawx today against arguably the best team in baseball, the Dodgers. More importantly, it's the second straight dominant start for Jon Lester. He pitched 7 1/3 and gave up 1 ER, last time out it was 8 1/3 with 0 ER. Last time it was against the Giants who are pretty ****ty this year, but now he backed it up with another dominant start against the hottest team in the majors. Once upon a time Clay Buchholz was arguably the best starter in the majors and Lester was a dominant #2 that would have been an ace on 95% of teams. Since then Buchholz has been injured and Lester fell into mediocrity. Now, Lester is showing signs of ace form again and Buchholz is scheduled for a rehab start tomorrow. Combine that with Lackey pitching quite well, he pitched a great game last night, with a 2 run shot being the only blemish, but lost because he got no run support, ZERO, and Peavy having pitched well in 3 of his 4 Sawx starts (with only 1 win to show for it) and you potentially got a fantastic 1-2-3-4 going into September and October. On a side note, Xander Bogaerts got his first hit in the majors today. Also, this brutal road trip is 1 game away from being over. The Sawx have spent 15 of the last 18 games on the road and have 1 more road game to go before going on a 9 game challenging home stand that will do much to define the ultimate AL East standings.

It's funny how much the industry has changed. These days, if a game doesn't get crazy sales in the first month or two it's a failure, plain and simple. I remember when Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards initially struggled and seemed like a flop, months later sales picked up and kept going and going and it became one of the best selling games of the time and one of the prime building blocks of the Sierra On-Line empire that ruled an entire decade+. (Sierra On-Line, I miss you so much, I shall post a Ken & Roberta Williams pic to honor your memory)

Listening to some Paul Di"Anno Era Iron Maiden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kmn_9CILtM

The Morrigan body pillow ain't got nothin' on the Cyber Dwarf body pillow (I couldn't justify dropping $100 to get to that tier, but I kinda wish I had):

Rowdy Roddy Rhonda Piper in action: http://youtu.be/Oqs9m_b7AkU

There's something extra satisfying about running around Cyber Steelport and doing ridiculous wrestling moves to people while wearing a Rowdy Roddy Piper outfit. If only they let me slap the sleeper hold on enemies.