Agiel

I've generally found DS3 somewhat harder than the rest. Part of that may be because of how magic now takes a "yuge" investment into it to become viable (particularly for my favoured agile Dex/Int/Faith spellsword build) but also because the Black Knight Halberd/Glaive is now only available 3/4 of the way through the game where in DS1 you could get it within 15 minutes (RNG willing) and a third through the game for DS2.

*EDIT* Meant this for the "What are you playing now" thread.

We _do_ have a scientific discovery thread here, you know?

http://richardaboulafia.com/shownote.asp?id=250

Disappointingly there is no Lord's Blade set in Dark Souls 3 near as I can tell, in spite of the rest of the sets from DS1 being quite well represented (Everything from Artorias' set to Havel's armour to Smough's get-up). Given that this will be the first time we've seen a half-way decent dual-wielding system, it had better make an appearance in the DLC.

Fighter pilots proving once again that they're the coolest dudes around:

Got my tax refund, got a raise at work. Had to download a patch for a game that's in a .rar file. Got the same message pop-up as always... Screw it, I'll buy a freaking Winrar license.

This is pretty much in line with what some other Dutch I have spoken to had said on the matter. I would also add that it's a whole lot easier to rally people against a cause, hence how in the US the 2016 election is projected to have a "yuge" increase in voter turnout from 2012 if (and recently, it has become a big "if") Trump wins the GOP nomination.

When was Blizard not all about comic graphics? Their graphical style always had a comic-ish bent even back when they made 2D games - especially the Warcraft franchise. It was Blizzard North who made the Diablo games after all, and even there Diablo II moved leaps and bounds away from the dark, brooding gothic style of the first game. Hrm. Well I missed Blizzard when it was more Aliens and Apocalypse Now than it was Pixar:

As far as the transgender character goes, my outlook is that given this character shares a fiction with the likes of Elminster, such a thing isn't too hard to believe (and the writer would have a hell of a time to make a character as wretched even with concerted effort on top of it).

https://youtu.be/R7ghDhpCLKM?t=13m23s My personal favourite gameshow moment, political correctness be damned.

Keep an eye out for names like "Valerie Viloden" and "Cashmere Poutine"!

As mentioned in the comics topic I previously created, if I were to be asked what comic so quintessentially proves the medium as a valid means of artistic expression, my answer would be <<Partie de chasse>> (translated into English by Humanoids Publishing as "The Hunting Party"). A fantastic combination of Enki Bilal's stunning art and Pierre Christin's biting political commentary, and arguably relevant given today's troubles in the former Soviet bloc:

In other news, while most of us have put April Fools well behind us, I did find this gem for the upcoming Door Kickers: Task Force North:

Apparently Obsidian got beaten to the punch for the first totalitarian dictator simulator of the year: "Soviet City". I can imagine the meetings at chickeninthecornstudio:

That episode "Proposition Infinity" from Futurama, anybody?

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/715207444947832832

They do say that if a newly-minted 2LT wants to make 1st Lieutenant, he only needs to know four words: "As you were, sergeant."

Story of a former SS commando-turned Mossad assassin: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.711115 Sounds like something Kurt Vonnegut would have written with John Le Carre.

While it might not be a fantastic way of spending your Easter weekend, you can get a sobering look into Trump's mind through the transcripts of his interviews on his foreign policy in the New York Times and the Washington Post: Most politicians up until now generally find ways of saying non-committal things dressed up in purple prose, yet Trump manages to get the same general point out while legitimately sounding like a 1st-grader with Alzheimer's.