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"If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying." - Joe Montana

While I love The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, I still think A Fistful of Dollars is the best movie in the trilogy, and not just because it's a ripoff homage to one of my favorite movies ever, Yojimbo.

I'm assuming this is what a baby HP Lovecraft looked like... Except more racist.

It's almost as if you get treated differently and suffer much diminished consequences, if any, when you are highly talented and play at the most valuable position.

Same. Things like rum, gin, and tequila I usually only use for mixing. Once in a blue moon I may drink some rum by itself. I may drink tequila by itself on a dare (and instantly regret it) but there better be money involved. Gin by itself is instant vomit territory, just the thought makes my stomach turn. I generally drink my sipping drinks neat, but that's usually only whisky (more often than not scotch). I guess I also technically drink vodka neat, but I'm not sure if taking a shot qualifies as "neat". Obviously, drink your whisky any way you please, who cares what anyone else thinks, but I feel that if you need ice in your whisky for it to be palatable then consider getting better whisky. Edit: I'll dring cognac (also neat) once in a while, but nowhere near as often as I drink whisky.

I sort of have to disagree; in the case of action schlock, bad is not necessarily a negative... Well, it depends on how we define "bad". For example, take Cobra; that movie is hilariously poorly written and thought out, yet wildly entertaining because it's so ridiculous. For a more extreme example there's Samurai Cop, a movie that's a complete disaster on practically every conventionally measurable level, yet it's very memorable and an absolute joy to watch precisely because it's so consistently terrible in all the best ways. Also... What I'm trying to say is that I will sometimes rate action schlock movies that are conventionally bad higher than average schlock if they are bad in an entertaining and/or memorable way. Take this with a grain of salt, given that I am a lover of terrible movies.

Wait, so your reasoning for Top Gun not being bad is there's this other vaguely similar movie that's worse? To be clear, I remember watching Top Gun and liking it well enough, of course I was at the age where anything with fighter jets was going to be cool by default. I have no desire to rewatch it, on account of it not having left much of an impression on me. The only thing I clearly remember is the volleyball scene.

All this recent talk about Prey made me rewatch Deadly Prey. Given that, and not having seen Prey, I can say with 99.999998795% certainty that Deadly Prey > Prey. As a bonafide movieologist, I present the following evidence to support my argument: 1) It's right there in the titles. Obviously Deadly Prey is superior to regular, garden variety, unmodified Prey. 2) Ted Prior chops off a guy's arm with a machete then proceeds to club him with it. That's worth AT LEAST 10 CGI bears.

My local ABC Spirits had the good stuff in stock, so that's what I'm drinking:

Words to live by.

It's a MegaTen game, so it goes without saying that I'll play this. Not sure if I'll jump in day 1 as there's a free DLC coming that adds very hard difficulty and, as a MegaTen grognard, I have to play on the hardest difficulty. Anything less would be shameful and I would risk losing my status.

Those are 6-sided dice, they're clearly playing Yahtzee.

I'd say Das Boot and Neverending Story qualify as classics. I don't know about the rest of that list.

The new design is going to take some getting used to. Edit: I would be terrified to use liquid metal on that.

Flaki

Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot: The First Cases (needs more colons). I didn't even realize that a new Poirot game had come out (last year). While the world's greatest detective (Poirot > Holmes don't @ me) has had a spotty history in video games, I'm a sucker for detective games. As a bonus, this is an original story and isn't based on any of the books.

Finally, a trailer that explains some gameplay mechanics:

I can definitely get down on some grits with only a bit of butter and salt & pepper.

I can overlook the heinous disrespect to biscuits and gravy, but anyone that so much as utters a single bad word about grits is dead to me.

I had a short and quick delivery today so I had time to go to the shooting range. I have a membership, so going often doesn't cost me anything extra... Except the cost of the ammo, but you don't get better by not firing a ****ton of rounds. Anyway, I'm a lot more comfortable with the Glock 40 now, namely the trigger pull and recoil. I managed this 20 yard 15 shot grouping: I still want to tighten it up, of course, but not too shabby for some shmuck like me. That's 15 out of 15 definite kill shots, granted that shooting a still target while completely safe is not the same as a moving one while threatened.

This looks jank as **** Hopefully it's fun, though.

Please don't suck, please don't suck, please don't suck...

I don't know how to feel about a Gothic game with anyone other than Piranha Bytes making it.

On the contrary, my drinking horn not only has a stand, it also has a holster. If you're somewhere without a table to set your bottle or mug down you have to occupy one hand with your beer. Meanwhile, I can holster my beer and have both my hands free. I add the nail clippings to my meals for extra crunch.