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Even so, if you're actually wondering how you're going to pay your bills, $4000 is a lot better than $0. What operating expenses are there for a voice actor? You either record the lines in your studio at home or they fly you out and put you up in a hotel, presumably on their dime, to record at their studio.

Yeah, I don't know whether $4000 is an insulting offer or not, I'm not in that industry, I could tell you what an insulting offer for a trucker is, but as far as voice acting... That said, I have zero sympathy for the woe is me I can't pay my bills spiel given that she, by her own admission, turned down a $4000 pay day, and, again by her own admission, had nothing else going on at the time. If you're really that hard up you take what you can get. Trust me, I've been dirt poor, I know.

Yeah, I don't know how that compares, what a typical voice acting salary is. Is this a week's worth of work? Is this a month's worth of work? Regardless, I'm playing the game.

Class of 1999 (1990) - In the dystopian future of 1999, gang warfare has overrun urban schools. One school in Seattle institutes an experimental program of utilizing android teachers. I had heard of this movie in passing ages ago, but I never watched it and I didn't really hear about it since. Then it came to my attention that this was written and directed by Mark L Lester, the director of Commando. This doesn't quite reach the level of awesomeness of Commando, largely because it lacks the amazing charisma of Ahnuld in the lead role, but it's still a schlock masterpiece. The cast is fantastic too, with Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, and Pam Grier... Not just Pam Grier, but Robo Pam Grier with a mother****ing flamethrower. There are a few jank ass looking effects, but a lot of the effects look terrific and when the movie cranks it up during the final act it delivers sweet delicious action goodness in spades. Highly recommended, a must watch for any schlock connoisseur.

Well, I just uninstalled Scorn, thank goodness I didn't pay for it. The game makes a great first impression. It looks and sounds great, the vibe is awesome, albeit gross, and puzzles are decent enough. Then the game introduces combat and it all falls apart. Simply put, the combat in this game is SHOCKINGLY AWFUL, and this is coming from a guy who plays Piranha Bytes games regularly. The first weapon you get is more a tool. It has a super short range, essentially melee, and you only get 2 attacks with it then you have to wait for it to recharge, which takes forever. Most enemies take 5 or 6 hits to kill and they hit you like a truck and attack far more frequently than you can. You can't block and you are slow as molasses, making dodging very difficult. You can heal but it's useless, counterproductive even, in combat since it takes eons for the animation to play out and you'll take more damage than you heal. It was one thing when there were enemies in open areas where you could run around them and just not fight. Then they started putting enemies in very tight corridors where you can't go around them. Then the put an enemy in a corridor in front of me and dropped one behind me so I couldn't even retreat. Maybe you get a better weapon later and it gets less frustrating. I'll never find out. It's a shame, this had so much potential.

I tried my wheel on FH5 also and it was horrible. Asseto Corsa Competizione, on the other hand, is awesome with a wheel.

At this rate, in a generation or two they're going to stop making computer chassis and you'll have dedicated computer rooms. Your GPU will come on a truck by itself and you will need a pallet jack or dolly to wheel it into the computer room to connect it to the mother board. The mobo will still be the same size as it is today, by the way, but the GPU will be 6' x 2' x 8" and weigh 230 lbs.

This could awesome or military grade cringe. I don't think there's a middle ground.

Scorn early impressions: Pros: The game looks and sounds great, in a creepy and disgusting way. There's barely any music and what there is is subtle, but near silence with ambient sounds provides just the right unsettling feeling. The biomechanical vibe is awesome. The puzzles haven't exactly been hard so far, but they weren't completely trivial either, which bodes well for the puzzles later on, assuming they ramp up in difficulty, as they should. Cons: I hate invisible walls and there's been no shortage of them. The game crashed once, luckily it seems to autosave fairly often, so I didn't lose any progress.

Scorn It's pretty much Eww: The Video Game. I'm liking it so far. I probably won't post any more images or videos so as not to spoil any more gross and weird stuff further into the game. It's not scary so far, but it's most certainly disturbing. I guess that's still Halloween appropriate (?)

Amazon's investment in Thursday Night Football is really paying dividends. Last week's exercise in futility was the worst game I've seen all year, complete with one of the most astonishingly stupid play calls ever. Today, the Bears and Commanders are threatening to top that by putting up a BLISTERING 3 total points at the half.

Oldie but goodie

Me hiding my xXxBOxXx behind my back:

Every October when they release the obligatory crop of "scary" movies I keep hoping for something that will reach the levels of unintentional comedy that Wish Upon did. Sci-fi Chucky has potential.

I have no clue what matcha is. My next batch of mead finished fermenting a few days ago. Even with only a few days to mellow, it's not really harsh. In terms of strength, I'd say it's in decently strong beer territory, maybe around 6%. I can definitely taste the raspberries, but not the mint, I'll use more next time. My goal is to make something closer to weak wine strength, around 9 or 10%. Baby steps.

Yeah, 5.56 NATO is a much softer shooting round and thus easier to control in full auto, or so I've been told. Plus it's lower pressure so the AR-15 is able to be made lighter since the parts don't have to be so beefy. Ammo is lighter to carry too. On the flip side, 7.62 NATO hits like a truck. There's a reason .308 Winchester (same dimensions as 7.62 NATO but slightly more powerful/higher pressure) is the most popular hunting round in the world.

Not a surprise they look almost identical, the size of the mag is the giveaway. The AR-10 was the original AR that Eugene Stoner designed at Armalite (fun fact: AR stands for Armalite Rifle), a 7.62 NATO battle rifle. Shortly after the US military said "actually, we'd rather have an assault rifle in 5.56 NATO" so he made the AR-15, essentially a scaled-down AR-10. The way I was taught you shoot 1 round then thoroughly clean out the barrel with bore cleaner and a brush. Repeat for the first 10 rounds. For the next 10 shoot 2 rounds and clean, repeat. That should do it. If you're not seeing any copper on the brush you're all set, if there is still a bit of copper then keep cleaning like the second set of 10 until no copper shows up on the brush. Edit: Size comparison of .308 Winchester/7.62 NATO and .223 Remington/5.56 NATO

I wouldn't call it a toy, but it will definitely be fun to shoot. I gotta break the barrel in first. That's not 100% necessary, but I'd like the rifle to be as accurate as possible. As an aside, what did the "visual search" identify the rifle as? Was it incorrectly identified as an AR-15 or correctly identified as an AR-10?

I'm assembling my WW3 Apocalypse Preparedness Kit: With the essentials (mostly, I'm still waiting for the optic for the rifle) taken care of, I suppose I should stockpile some luxuries such as food and medicine. The apocalypse thing is a joke btw... ... ... I hope. ATF van pulling up outside my door in 5... 4... 3...

@AmentepA reaction like that has forced my hand. I present the legendary Larry Sweeney vs One Man Gang strut off:

She had a great run, lived all the way to 96.

That was a squash match. That poor jobber got zero offense in. Meanwhile in Japan...

Despite being .500, I think the Colts are the worst team in the league. Their offense is abysmal, they haven't scored a touchdown in 9 straight quarters, how is that possible? Matt Ryan looks thoroughly washed up, although, to be fair, it's hard to be a competent QB when you have no O line whatsoever. By all rights they should be 0-4-1 right now, but they were inexplicably gifted 2 wins.

The Impossible Kid (1982) - Agent 00 is back and this time he's out to stop a crime syndicate kidnapping wealthy industrialists for ransom. While not as great as For Y'ur Height Only, this movie was still thoroughly entertaining. The fight scene in the dojo was particularly good. You've not lived until you've seen Weng Weng do kung fu. I also found out that the 2 movies I've seen are actually parts 2 and 3 of a trilogy. Sadly, part 1, simply entitled Agent 00, is lost. I hope some day a copy turns up somewhere. Luckily, Weng Weng did star in other movies, so I have that to look forward to.