Agiel

Devs are indeed a bit of an unknown factor, which has deterred me from backing it, but if the reviews on release show it to be as much worth my time as PoE and D: OS then I'd be happy to pay the full MSRP for it. It has frequently been observed that the IWD games were great combat RPGs in search of a great story and something like PS: T was a great story in need of a great combat RPG. Hope that like the Icewind Dale games the PC soundsets are similarly awesome (as opposed to the mostly atrocious ones in NWN2 which I'm revisiting right now). Particularly fond of the female HOW_1 voiceset, which exudes the right mixture of confidence, competence, wit, bloodthirst, and feminine charm. Sadly I've been unable to discern who the voice actress is.

On the story in which Scarborough and Brzezinski were reportedly threatened with a damaging story printed in the National Enquirer, for the benefit of our non-North American readers, that is a publication found on the rack at the grocery store checkout line that has printed some variation of "Hillary: Six Months to Live" on the cover... for the past two decades. "Hillary" is also interchangeable with just about any celebrity that is probably chosen on the basis that the editor in chief just so happened to hit his or her name on a dartboard and "six months to live" can optionally be "in rehab".

Gotta say if you're aware of what getting maced is like getting headshotted by the Saint of Killers is almost a mercy after macing one's own junk... almost. And I know that since it's on basic cable it needs to tone down the sex stuff, but I'll be tremendously disappointed if Herr Starr doesn't get that scar carved on the top of his dome at some point in this series.

The first act can be a chore, while the Original Campaign stays relatively generic fantasy throughout (though I find the companions endearing nonetheless), the game comes into its own starting with the second act. It's also worth playing as a preface to the Mask of the Betrayer expansion campaign which is universally loved by cRPG fans.

Playing through the Neverwinter Nights 2 OC again. Almost forgot how many goddamn traps were in this game. This was what Neeshka managed to pick up from the Graveyard near Fort Locke alone:

I've found that some of Inglorious Basterds' most enthusiastic fans are Germans themselves.

Emphases mine

Ohhh... boy. When that truck said those tacos were spicy, they weren't kidding. 4AM tonight is going to be real eventful

My new boat. With the Hunt for Red October being one of my favourite movies my campaign just got off to an auspicious start: But how we got here... Uh-oh. And so we get underway from Holy Loch in dear old Scotland on December 25th, Ivan having ruined Christmas forever. To raise our spirits COMSUBLANT had plenty of Christmas ham brought aboard for us to dig in as we make for flank speed to our operating area. Our first assignment is to intercept Soviet cruise missile subs looking to run the GIUK gauntlet to break out into the open Atlantic to sink trans-Atlantic convoys. The situation as it stood when we set sail: So far the Soviets have limited their invasion to the Central Front, tanks and APCs rolling across the Inner-German Border, though that may swiftly change. NATO has SOSUS listening posts lording over the Andoya-Spitsbergen chokepoint which clues us into Soviet submarine movements as soon as they clear the tip of Finnmark. Speak of the devil one group is coming right now.

Former Giant Bomb duder Drew Scanlon tours a Ukrainian missile base museum as part of Cloth Map:

Been listening to Deathspell Omega's new EP, <<The Synarchy of Molten Bones>> and a portion of the lyrics of the title track struck me: Are they talking about a synarchy of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Though I suspect whatever Putin's net worth is it far exceeds that of Trump.

Wonder if Ancel will be back on the stage for that caveman game with the giant snake lady in the Sony press conference.

Notably no applause when Bethesda announced the return of paid mods.

Would be something if Bethesda announced a "Fallout: New ___" game made by Obsidian in their upcoming press briefing. Whatever Obsidian was working on it must be something special if it managed to lure Leonard Boyarsky from Blizzard.

After beating West Point in the Army-Navy game fourteen years in a row, they must have gotten tired of winning.

Hell yeah! New Metro game!

Or in the case of a carrier aircraft, fully proficient in landing only after at least a hundred touch-and-go landings and several dozen carrier traps.

A Cold War favourite of mine:

Emphases mine.