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I wish they had never made controller thumbsticks clickable. It never works well. I wind up pressing the stick when I don't want to press it all the time when moving it around rapidly. And when I do want to press the thumbstick I wind up moving it when I don't want to move it. It's a really terrible place to put a button. I get it, controllers have limited buttons to work with, but there has to be a better solution. I'd rather we went back to 6 face buttons like the SEGA Genesis controller and did away with thumbstick buttons. 6 face buttons is more awkward than 4, but I'm 99% confident that I would erroneously press face buttons with the 6 buttons A LOT less than I erroneously press thumbsticks. Is this just a me problem?

Racing a stock Gremlin X through a torrential downpour: One of the joys of racing games is taking a hooptie and tricking it out. I had to leave it stock for this particular championship, but I'm going to get a hooptie, whether it's this or another ridiculous looking car, fast enough to race against Lamborghinis.

I finished Jane Bell's story: Now it's Pigman time! I'll probably play more aggressively as Pigman.

Bounties are the fastest way to make money. Between the bounty itself and the junk you will collect along the way you can make roughly 300. Your playstyle will have a big effect. Playing Jane ghost style I have way more money than I know what to do with because I'm not spending anything on ammo & healing. I plan to play at least one character demolition style, hurling dynamite like a madman. I imagine I'll be just scraping by with all the money I'll be spending on dynamite. Pro-tip: Buy a horse ASAP. It ain't cheap but it will pay for itself quickly.

Fantastic news! Vinegar Syndrome is putting out a new 4K blu-ray of Miami Connection: https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage/products/miami-connection As you know, I'm a big fan of terrible movies and this is one of my favorite terrible movies of all time. It's a masterpiece of hilarious ineptitude. I've long wanted to own a copy of this to have forever, but the old Draft House Films blu-ray has long been out of print. I'm glad I didn't take a chance and buy a used copy of the old blu-ray. It's in good hands with the fine folks at Vinegar Syndrome. I'm happy to give them my money (I ordered New York Ninja and Pizza Girls while I was at it). They genuinely care about the movies they print, they won't sell you some crappy VHS rip.

I'm not particularly worried about narrative consistency across multiple games spanning over 30 years in a series as silly and irreverent as Monkey Island. Ron Gilbert & Co. can pull out whatever manner of shenanigans to connect the timelines or not. Drop me a reference to a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle and I'll be happy.

Vince McMahon was always terrible at taking the Stunner, but what transpired over last weekend was next-level: What a trainwreck, I loved it!

"Hardware Vendor #3" Jensen hates AMD so much he won't even name them.

The irony is that Curse is IMHO the best Monkey Island. Anyway, I wholeheartedly welcome MI6.

Things you can do when you are a virtuoso-level musician: That's gotta be the weirdest guitar I've ever seen, and I don't mean the dragon claw design. 3 necks: A 12-string guitar half fretless horizontally. A regular 6-string guitar. A 4-string bass guitar half fretless vertically. Plus, an invisible drummer!

Those sly bastards, that almost looks like an honest to goodness Star Trek show. I'm not falling for it. We have some gluttons for punishment here that are still hate watching Discovery and Picard, they can be my mineshaft canaries. Plus, they can deny it all they want, but we all know Mike and Rich are going to wind up watching this and doing a re:View on it. If the unthinkable happens and I have confirmation from multiple trusted sources that, against all odds Kurtzman did a good then I'll check it out. I'm not holding my breath.

Jerk chicken drumsticks attempt #2: This time I added a bit of brown sugar and doubled the amout of habaneros (store didn't have scotch bonnet). Success! The heat level is perfect and the taste is quite yummy. I'm real close to having it perfected. I'll try increasing the ginger content next time.

Tracked one of dem crazy baldies, Oneists they call themselves. Fancy it as some sort of religion, they do. I reckon they're more loopy than a coyote that got in on the wrong kind of cactus. Messin' with spirits and dark magics, it ain't natural. This particular nut job done burnt somebody's house down, hope they weren't still inside. I had every intention to haul her in cuffed and breathin. I was slowly whittling down her sisters, giving them a cozy nap, nice like. It was slow going since she always traveled with a large group, making singling anyone out a chore. Then they all wandered into a church... Well, it was once a church before those crazies defiled it with their black magic. There I was, waiting outside, hidden like, looking for an opportunity when they were to walk out. They never walked out, though. Suddenly a fracas broke out inside. I heard yelling, screaming, gun shots, and all manner of noises too foul to describe. Once the air felt silent I went inside to investigate. Nothin' but dead mangled bodies and blood everywhere. Guess that's what they get for messing with forces beyond their understanding. Well, the bounty did say dead or alive. I wasn't intending on dead, but I ain't gonna look a gift horse in the mouth. Weird West can be wonderfully messy. Unexpected stuff can just happen completely changing the situation, possibly ruining a well thought out plan or presenting a serendipitous opening. There are a lot of variables and sometimes they go off script, with or without your intervention.

The camera is my biggest complaint. You can change the angle from directly overhead to 45⁰ and anything in between and rotate freely, plus there are 3 zoom levels. It works perfectly fine in open outdoor areas, but when you get into tighter areas, buildings, and so on, walls, ceilings, and foliage don't turn transparent soon enough, often times leaving your vision completely obstructed for a few seconds. I can work around it, but it is annoying and some tweaks could go a long way to making it less frustrating.

Most XP boards are on the ground and easy enough to break, you just need to find them. A few are significantly more challenging: It took me a decent while to get the speed and angle just right. The rewind feature, which you can see me use in the video, made this a lot less frustrating than it would have been otherwise.

That re:View made me want to rewatch Raising Arizona more than anything else. I will go to my grave saying it's the best Nic Cage movie. Don't @ me. As for Darkman, I remember being lukewarm on it when I saw it forever ago. I didn't hate it, but for whatever reason it didn't really work for me, and I'm a big fan of Sam Raimi (he's the only reason I have any interest whatsoever in Doctor Strange 2: Multiverse Boogaloo). I rate it well below the first 2 Spiderman movies and light years below Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness.

The trail led me to a tobacco tycoon. Big money like this usually comes with dirty hands, but he had information I was needin'. The fat cat tried to strike a deal with me. He was wantin' what someone else was havin' and that someone else didn't much want to give it to im. Didn't need to be no fancy head doctor to see I was dealin' with a feller slimier than a yellow-bellied toad. Told im I'd think over his proposition but I wasn't keen on shaking hands with the devil, and that's even if he intended to ever honor his end of the bargain. I chose to find a, shall we say, alternative way to get the information that I needed. Now, I don't take pride in pilfering through another man's property, but given the nature of the feller in question and the things that I found, I don't feel the least bit bad violating his privacy. I got what I needed and I got scarce.

I fully believe Palpy would be sinister enough to sneak in an advertisement into a recruitment speech for an evil cult.

Brisco County - EP7 Pirates! Brisco and Bowler take on a pirate captain chased off the high seas that now does his pirating in the deserts of Nevada. Tangentially related to the main plot since said pirate was one of the men that killed Brisco's dad. Not as good as Riverboat, but still an above average and highly entertaining episode. It's an interesting way to sneak some swashbuckling into a western TV show. Bowler was great as usual and we got some more bonding between him and Brisco. Also, Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle appears in this episode as a sick kid.

Bagged my first bounty, the varmint had his posse holed up in a gold mine. Yeb done blessed me with foresight cause I happened to have my trusty pickaxe along. No sense in letting those gold nuggets go to waste. I dragged that feller kickin' and screamin' all the way back to Grackle, nice comfy jail cell waitin' for im. I tell ya, that boy had fire in his eyes when Flora slammed the cell door shut. Like 2 burning coals those eyes were, yessir. It might have been better to kill the varmint, far as my own neck is concerned. But I ain't about to let this demon infested land turn me into a monster, no sir. If that varmint ever gets out of those cold iron bars and comes fixin to put some lead in my body, well I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Weird West Sitting on the throne: But is it OG Zombie Undertaker, Ministry of Darkness Undertaker, or American Badass Undertaker?

It comes standard with jank games. No extra charge.

Going back on what they had said previously, Intel has now revealed that the initial version of XeSS, their answer to DLSS and FSR, will only work on Intel Arc GPUs with their XMX technology. The version of XeSS that will work on any GPU is supposedly coming at some undefined future date. Nvidia could do that with DLSS because a) they were and still are the market leader b) they were first to market. AMD wisely made FSR vendor agnostic, had they not FSR would likely have been DOA. Why would any game dev spend the time and resources to implement XeSS in their game, a feature only a small percentage of PC gamers could use, when they could instead either implement DLSS, which a much larger percentage of gamers could use, or FSR, which everybody can use? Unless Intel throws a sack of money at them, no game dev is going to bother with XeSS.

Weird West first impressions, so far so good. It's a mixture of Fallout 1 & 2, Divinity: Original Sin, and a twin stick shooter. The game is from a new studio with former Arkane devs, including Raphael Colantonio the founder of Arkane. It definitely has that Dishonored quality of letting you be creative in how to approach a situation. I'm playing the game as if it's Desperados. You give me the ability to stealth and I'm going to attempt a ghost run, that's just how I roll. It's a Raphael Colantonio game, a ghost run is likely possible. I did experiment with a decidedly not stealthy approach by sneaking an extinguished lantern to a strategic location, retreating to safe location, firing my revolver to get some outlaws attention and to break the lantern, creating an oil puddle, then hurling dynamite as they ran through the oil. It was super fun blowing a guy up and setting others on fire. Then I reloaded and stealthed the area. You can interact with most things, pick them up and throw them. I can confirm that you pet a horse. I have not found a living dog nor a cat so I cannot confirm whether you can pet them. You can take a $#!+ in an outhouse, though. Edit: Also if you dodge while aiming a gun you go into Max Payne bullet time while in midair, so you can play this game like a John Woo movie if that's your thing. Also, if you kill somebody a vulture will land on the corpse and start eating it. They get there quick too, those scavengers don't **** around.

@WormerineSkillUp also disliked both Judgment games, his taste in video games is clearly suspect. I'll post my first impressions over in the appropriate thread once I get a chance to play it for a bit.