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Of course, his name is Clyde Caldwell--the third member of the holy quad of dragon artistry. Jeff Easley is the missing name, but I can understand why his work might be more "overtly fantastic" than Josh was looking for. Either way, it's exciting he mentioned these guys. Hundreds of hours, have I spent admiring their collective work. PoE has all the potential to become my Number One Game of All Time.

What's the point of that? Just drink bourbon. It is, frankly, an insult to the bourbon that you're drinking a substance whose only appeal is that it licked Bourbon's bathtub after Bourbon got out. Didn't see this due to preferential ignorance. The man drinks plenty of bourbon, enough to appreciate nuance of flavor and variety of source, unlike hairy-palmed nut wetters. woop, forgot to say what I'm drinking. Still the Angry Orchard. I like 'em, but liquor-ish apple flavor gets old, kinda. I don't know, not really.

That is a terrific idea. I agree it's probably too late to implement, but expansion packs have to have something to expand. What would happen if Captain Concept had a baby with Captain Obvious ... or is it impossible for two officers to fraternize.

The melancholy peaceful ambience is in deference to the impending forced silence of every last great-cat druid on the face of the earth. Some dark paladin's baleful glory in extermination, I am given to understand.

I know, I'm late, for Cap 2, but it was worth waiting for in IMAX 3D when only a handful of other goers are in the theatre. I just cannot do crowds of seat-kickers in confined spaces. I frrrickin loved The Winter Soldier. Bucky Barnes' arc is compelling and emotional, for me, but I'm nerdy like that. Coulda done without seeing Agent Carter, as she was. Her role in the first movie was beautifully inimitable, and heart-rending ... but it felt strange this time. I don't think I've ever seen more vehicles practically destroyed on-camera in any other film.

Snow in April, cowboys in North Dakota ... all of these things are not like the other. I'm slightly shocked at the beheading of Stefano Domenicali, the F1 Ferrari team principal. Sure, they say he quit ... but, you know, Italians. Chinese Grand Prix this weekend ... sounds like an oxymoron. Can't wait for the series to return to Europe. India, China, and Russia need to not be on the racing schedule.

This very much mirrors my own rant on the game some months ago when I played it, except you did it in a much more calm and rational manner, whereas my rant was a lot more bitter and hate fueled. The game skews heavily toward everything I hated about the Tomb Rider series (combat) and away from everything I loved about the series (exploration, puzzle platforming). It's a well made game, but it's a cover shooter masquerading as a Tomb Raider game, not actually a Tomb Raider game. I remember the expletive you used wanting the game off your hard drive. I dig Lara, always have, probably always will. Except Angel of Darkness, which doesn't count. I'm hoping this Playstation Now thing will let me play the blocky originals on PS4. Not playing anything, right now. I never had a PS3, so The Last of Us on PS4 in June is what I'm waiting for, at the moment.

Doggerel ... what a good word. Haven't heard that one since, maybe literature class(es). You know at the end of this year, Inquisition and Pillars will be vying for my attention. DA first, probably, then PoE ... which means I have to play and finish Dragon Age in a romantic hurry in order to enjoy the hell out of the real game I've wanted since forever. Or 2012, which is the same thing.

Holy moly, the game's composer took time to post ... I feel like I just walked past him on the street! Cool, thanks for the update and all fantastic, hard work.

Well I wanted to post a wee post in the NFL thread ... but, it's gone into Page 4 Purgatory, I guess. All this time I didn't realize Off-Topic only lasts 30 days?

Where is that Canadian, anyway. Haven't seen him for weeks. Probably has a job, or something. Or making a new Allan Plays Goat Simulator.

For sure, PoE will be massive, like Half-Life 2 for Valve, and then Obsidian will open their own digital distribution portal that shames Origin and Uplay, for one because it's so cool with a name like Fracture,® and two because you can download PSN and XBL games right to your console. It could happen.

Fungi are awesome. mmm, it's been awhile. 25mph down University on motorcycles at night seemed closer to 80mph through a gauntlet of the brightest streetlights on the planet. Blackreach in Skyrim already has gigantic blue-glowing mushrooms in a dim, eerie cavern/dungeon. But at least Od Nua would be a guaranteed better setting.

I just don't see how securing unlimited development capability is a bad thing for any product.

Well that is disturbingly humorless irony, but what kind of insurance coverage doesn't provide for vandalism. I thought "acts of god" was the only real indemnity trapdoor.

Tendered my resignation, today. Lasted three years, eleven months. It's not nearly as grandiose as 'tendered' and 'resignation' sound. Hard work and loyalty get you nowhere, I have discovered, so might as well jump off a cliff and see how deep it goes. If I had kids, I probably wouldn't do scary things like this, but, c'est la vie. Looking forward to the Masters golf tournament this weekend, if nothing else.

Could we ... are there any tastefully appointed photographs of the Duchess. They showed a few of Princess Kate sailing a yacht on the national news tonight ... I seriously cannot remember a more perfect post-child posterior in the history of womankind. She is just impossibly beautiful, I must say.

I tend to silently congratulate a fit man for earning the privilege to wear a tank top. It's the saggy soft guys with no regard for the eyes of the rest of us that deserve unmitigated labeling.

No way. There is no way--no possible way in any universe--Agent Ward is as what was implied. If it is somehow true, I will be forced to gesticulate wildly at the TV and loudly sigh multiple times.

Good skin is so hard to come by, I just don't understand covering it up so. Lena Headey is in GoT? She is the all-time hottest of hot. Next to Gwyneth and Diane Lane.

If you can't find a way to make your show interesting for 17 out of 22 episodes, then it is not because "this is how it needs to set up". It's because you have a piss-poor creative team. Hail HYDRA!!

Yeah, but then it's cool, like a new language class, the straight-forward parts. Then you get into it, and you're like, okay Turdas is real. Today is Turdas. But then it's not, it's Monday.

Smart Car tipping is straight up Funny Things thread.

What the ... that place sounds like a spam email come to life. What kind of gentleman's clinic is that ... I'm not sick at all, thank god, and I've been walking around you carrier hosts all year.

I'll see your surreal Nobody and raise you a surrealier Stranger Than Fiction with an un-Will Ferrell and a bakerette Maggie Gyllenhaal. oops, and a peak Emma Thompson, I forgot.