melkathi

Fretting over Booking, trying to set up my tiny hotel there. Looking at what photos to upload. What data to enter. Bah...

Not logical, yes. Ideological, no. The current, self-styled leftwing government has no ideology other than a mix of grandstanding, corruption, nepotism and tons of incompetence. The populist far right coalition partner manages to get some of their ideology through, but that has nothing to do with the economy, just their mania to persecute minorities. And I keep reading garbage from leftist foreign media that tries to show how the Greek govenrment is that noble underdog and I want to strangle the idiots. It is not the "I live in this country, you don't. so I know, you don't" thing. Plenty of people live here and don't (want to) know what they voted into power. I grew up in the party that mutated into this thing. My family knows most of the government on a personal, human level. It is a small country after all - buried skeletons aren't that well hidden... And just because I think someone makes a good BBQ and is a great host, doesn't make them a good minister :/ Just as changing from one party to the other does not make a person less corrupt than they were in the previous party. Governor of the central bank is now being sued for presenting an independent report to the government that did not reach the same conclusion as the government. Birthplace of democracy, yeah.

Getting worried with the political situation here in Greece. Worst, most corrupt government since the military dictatorship. And when you think it can't get worse and that the country is already down the drain, they try to jam it further.

Steam sales used to be more "fun". When you had to do stuff in-game to get prizes. You bought soem dead cheap game like Toki Tori and fooled around for a day or two. Still you got out more fun of those games than a lot of other sale purchases that got lost in the backlog.

You are missing out on one of the better games of the past couple of years. But I understand the feeling. I do own a couple of UPlay games, but I prefer to own them directly on Uplay and not have to log in to log in to play a game

Child of Light far cheaper than should be legal.

Only came out recently. They changed a few things. The BAD: you can't (yet) transfer your previous character because they revamped the classes completly (6 new ones instead of the old 3). People say it is short. Then again it also costs less But overall it is the same formula as before so quite fun. And it is a bit more Katarina focused - great for me as she is one of my favourite npcs ever.

Been playing van Helsing 3 Very glad they kept the old humour. Who cares if they changed some other stuff. I think most people after a point were playing for the van Helsing - Katarina banter. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=458541757 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455124412

Was reading the dedicated ign article about the PC exclusivity: http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/06/05/why-xcom-2-had-to-be-pc-exclusive Sounds good.

Alternate reality in which we got decimated early on according to ign

It isn't a shameless plug when you don't provide the link This is a shameless plug: "You could abuse Shady's generocity by getting Startopia from him -->here<--- (steam key)" That was a shameless plug

Yes you should get Startopia. You should feel bad for not owning it already. Murky Foot (named after a native american in Asterix in America or something like that) were ex Bullfrog. The game came out roughly at the same time as Black and White. In my mind, and knowing this may sound mean, it always looked like this: Bullfrog fell appart and Peter Molyneux, who was the recognizable name in Bullfrog, went and did Black and White, while some other people, who's names nobody knew but who were the talent in Bullfrog, went and did Startopia. And before you know it, there will be a backlog of aliens trying to get onboard your station. I advise building another docking port to increase the flow of aliens in and out.

Kudos to Crhis for giving kudos to Brian.

Some nice deals in the summer sale though. Desktop Dungeon, Unholy Heights...

You don't really need too many mods. Enemy Within was a huge improvement over the vanilla game and made it quite enjoyable. From there on I felt that installing Long War was pretty much all that was left to do and that installs pretty easily.

Don't like the article. Like the direction they seem to be taking with the game, back to more tactical gameplay and away from the "enemies spawn. enemies run into cover. game continues" that was the previous game. But the article makes it sound as if moving away from that is amazing innovation *rolleyes*

I'll wait for an expansion or two and the community mod that will make XCOM 2 a good game. Winter Sale 2016 or Summer Sale 2017 I guess if they stick to the unfinished release November 2015.

edit wrong thread

Did anyone talk about "Salvaged" yet? It looks interesting. http://salvagedgame.com/ https://youtu.be/kU6FiDd1yuY

I would argue that Furiosa (and Max as well) do not "grow" in the movie as their character is already grown. They already struggle with their daemons, they already have reached that breaking point where they discarded their old self and have confronted the pox-eclipse, deciding not to just crawl in a corner and wait to die. Max is already on his fourth movie. Compared to what happened to him on a personal level in the first movie and to all the crap he has witnessed since, what is happening here is not that shocking to him. He is mostly struggling with his own fatalism, but that is no longer growth, it is the result of growth. For Furiosa we are also shown the end of a journey. She struggled in the Citadel to become powerful enough to escape to her homeland. Who knows how she lost an arm in the process - doesn't even matter. But when her personal journey took her to actively bring about the events of the movie, those events are not going to dramatically change her - they are the result of any change she already underwent. Nux on the other hand was a brainwashed boy, underneath it a tabula rasa. He had to grow or die (or grow and die) when he was ripped out of his world. In a way, the events of the movie are Nux's pox-eclipse. When the world ended, Max was ripped out of his world. When Furiosa was taken to the Citadel, her mother murdered, her world ended. But for Nux this was his world. And it is taken from him in the movie.

I don't know what Pitch Perfect is; 1 or 2. Sounds like a movie about an opera singer losing her voice.

Doof Warrior and his drummers looked as if they could have been straight out of Brütal Legend.

I watched it on Sunday in a small open air cinema underneath the Acropolis. There were hipsters and assorted cultural types in the crowd and it made the whole experience artsy surreal and a lot of fun. Enjoyed the movie far more than I thought I would. Mind you, with all the remakes and boring stuff coming out of the movie industry, I completely ignored trailers, hype and everything and went in just thinking "Meh, lets see if they screwed this up as well." (also why I picked the specific cinema). The film took from all Mad Max movies that had come before and did so quite well. As others say, it can't surpass what Road Warrior did. And it probably won't leave a pop culture legacy like Beyond Thunderdome's "Two men enter" quote. Seriously can't remember any quote from Fury Road whatsoever. But it is a very fun game that fits perfectly with the previous movies. And they set up a great post apocalyptic region that you'd just love encountering in Wasteland or Fallout games. I don't see a problem with Max being elbowed aside by Furiosa. honestly, other than perhaps the first movie, I didn't feel that Mad Max films were about Max. In the Road Warrior Max was just some guy who happened to do (important) things that, grown up, the kid with the boomerang remembers. Third film wasn't all that different - and Aunty Entity was a far more memorable character in that as well.

If you still need another pair of eyes, I can make time.

I have managed to stay an amazing 100% spoiler free so far