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I wonder how many people that first episode of Love, Death + Robots stopped from continuing. It's like an edgelord explosion of edginess for the sake of being edgy. Look at us, we're animated entertainment for adults. We have violence, swearing, boobies, lesbians and (off-screen) gang rape. All handled with tasteful, uhm, immaturity. But yeah, some episodes are fun and they're so short the bad ones don't really matter. It's just sad that the frist episode is that... eh. Well, edgy.

Owning things even less. I'm still not convinced that they really solved the input lag issue. Sure when you have a connection that can give you a theoretical 20 to 30ms round trip from the button press to the video reaction on screen you're not going to feel much difference in most games - except for high precision platforming and really fast shooters. But people connected through ASDL or LTE? Eh. Sure you have the bandwidth to stream the video, but the latency on these services is more often than not dreadful. And of course there's the huge issue of ownership/licensing/etc. Proponents of game streaming usually come up with Netflix as a defense here but that's much different. Outside of a few films you really enjoy who's watching and rewatching films all the time? Matrix and In Bruges was gone from our local Netflix library due to licensing issues for a wile. Now they're back. I missed both films a total of zero times. Not having a game to replay when I feel like it? Much, much different.

Ah, 90ies Europop/Eurodance.

I'm pretty sure this what what Arnold meant when he said drugs are bad for you.

Well, here's one for Lexx then: No gun though.

Hum, so Star Trek: Discovery really is in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

Razor 1911 and FAiRLIGHT were from the 80ies, DEViANCE started in the late 90ies and later split into a bunch of groups like ViTALiTY (man, that was some internet drama), RELOADED and who the hells knows what else. Following the end of DEViANCE every new group on the scene was accused or thought to be former DEViANCE.

You sharpen your Razor 1911 times, with no Deviance. Once you see things in a Fairlight, everything can be Reloaded. I just realized that, aside from DEViANCE which stopped being active back in the mid 2000s, I have no idea if those groups are still around.

I will always remember the day when my mother picked up some Stargate Slash-Fiction to read without understanding exactly what that meant she'd actually be reading. That reminds me of the time we had a fanfiction contest on Ashford City (one of the more popular Interplay spinoff boards). Fun times. A good deal of slash fiction. And some poking fun on people who thought Goldenbell was a real girl (like Yrkoon, heh). Seems so far away now. I'm not even sure if people who posted at AC are left on this forum.

Axel Voss sez mayb YT shouldn't be. Just in case you're wondering who to vote for in the upcoming European Parliament election. As if that wasn't clear enough anyway. edit: Well who am I kidding. Assuming the EPP will lose votes they'll just all go to the ENF, a faction equally as imbecilic when it comes to technology - and if you look at people like Harald Vilimsky proof that the human race is devolving. Dude's essentially a Nazi in anything but the name and looks like he's on the verge of being part of the Planet of the Apes. And not as human slave. Talk about irony.

Watched After Life on Netflix. Language warning, lots of cursing: Well worth a watch. Bloody fantastic, actually. Final episode gets a bit too sappy perhaps.

It's simple, BruceVC is posting a little more in WOT. It's hard to get in character for two really similar but somewhat different personas so he's sticking to one over the other for a while. Or he's doing the method acting version of trolling.

Obviously, but only if you had the real version, not the lame censored one.

Assuming that information about the deal is the real, eh, deal. I can absolutely understand Snapshot's/Julian's decision. It keeps his people employed, the investors happy, even if the sales are virtual, and takes pressure off the development team. As good ol' Adolf once said: "There is but one moment when the Goddess of Fortune wafts by, and if you don't grab her then by the hem you won't get a second chance." It's still unfair to backers and those who pre-ordered for a certain platform. I still don't like it. Understanding it helps a bit, though. Plus I don't need to back or by any future Snapshot games. And at the end of the day Malcador's right: All that will be forgotten, like tears in the rain, by the time the game's released.

You get different ending slides and depending on how your game goes taking one over the other might leave you without a Councillor for a while.

Lessons learned: Just don't scale stats. It's annoying anyway and it really is okay if a level 3 player with super low level weapons can't compete in high level dungeons. Really. Le sigh.

They have clearly stated on the Phoenix Point website that backers will get the Epic Store key and then, after a year also a choice of either Steam or GOG. https://phoenixpoint.info/epicfaq?_ga=2.50455979.366310557.1552422198-21793489.1539077113 Heh. That passage: Wasn't there yesterday when I posted. That pretty much means they can keep my pledge and I'll just sit it out. It'll probably take them a year to work out the kinks anyway. As stated above - Snapshot giving out keys on other promised platforms, only later, is a newish addendum to their FAQ. They already backpedalled on that. Of course I didn't save the text but yesterday the FAQ read "I'm sorry if we lost you during this move, you can request a refund", I'm pretty sure the option to sit out the exclusivity period was added as a quick fix to all the complaining. Or all he refunding. Which means poor Julian underestimated the reaction to his revelation. The crowdfunding, uhm, crowd can be pretty anal about this. Grim Dawn only appeared on GOG after a lot of people complained to Crate that they still haven't delivered on their DRM free promise where the lead dev later popped onto the forum and explained that the thought the issue would be through with not having DRM on Steam and that he doesn't quite understand why Steam's the devil in these people's minds. I can only assume Epic is going to cover a lot. Regardless of it being the new hot thing on the market or not, the move is a risk for an indie game 40% funded by investors wanting to see at least some RoI (and Fig*'s flagship project Deadfire already tanked in that department). Limiting sales, possibly drastically, only makes sense if Snapshot blew the money and are hurting for more. Of course I know that Epic is trying to diversify, but Phoenix Point seems like a really bad choice. It's a niche game in an already niche market that most people only care about because XCOM was a hit for some reason. *Speaking of Fig, I presume that idea is finished. Deadfire sales didn't live up, Microsoft bought half their advisory board and now one of their better received campaigns is making exclusivity deals after the fact.

Okay, so what the hell? Well, now I've got 28 days to decide. Since there's no way for a backer to wait for a key on some other platform I'm leaning towards a refund. The other option I'm thinking about is something I can't post here, but it involves letting them keep my pledge and getting the game through some, uhm, different means of distribution. I don't get why. I assume it's about money, of course, but what are the parties getting here? Epic gets a game that the teenage wangsters on Fortnite wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole and Snapshot Games puts a game on Epic's store that nobody is going to buy there. Neither the backers nor the investors on Fig can't be happy with this move. I for sure am not.

He also got chased by Trent Reznor:

I feel arse. Got all the symptoms of lateral pharyngitis and a cold. Fun times. Will visit the doc tomorrow. It's been four or five years since my last sickleave, time to get someting out of my insurance.

While Kalameet isn't he boss that I needed the most tries for it was definitely the hardest boss in Dark Souls. That seems like a contradiction but that dubious honor goes to Bed of Chaos. Wait, what did you look at? Absolute Radiance? Or the way to get to her? Both? I'm currently stuck in the Pantheon of Hollownest. Individually the bosses aren't that much of an issue, but fighting them for 30+ minutes takes a good deal of concentration and more than a few tries are barely possible to get in before I start getting tired. Not sure who thought this was a good idea.

Wait didn't we already establish that they're working on a sea shanty singing Clippy addon to Microsoft Office?

Yea, I did. Godhome has heavily beefed up versions of the Hollow Knight and The Radiance, a few new bosses and increased challenges for the old ones.

It would help if fighting her wouldn't mean having to go through the Hollow Knight each and every time. Keep trying, it only gets worse from here on. Much worse.

Bernd is probably the most hilarious kid show character ever created.