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It for sure proved that 80ies music makes for superior soundtracks. Well and that Eurythmics were the bomb. edit: My favorite scene was the fight with Stefan's psychiatrist, but in general I liked the episode better before he became aware of what is going on.

I'm also using my Switch way more than any other console since the GameCube (and that not only feels like but was half my lifetime ago). Yeah, you can... kinda wait. I've got both and haven't finished either so far. They're good games, sometimes even amazing, but there's something lacking. In case of Breath of the Wild that's easier to put a finger on, it's not Zelda enough for a Zelda game. If that doesn't make sense, watch Joseph Anderson's excellent analysis, he pretty much nailed it: As far as Odyssey goes it's just not nearly as fun as Super Mario Galaxy and its successor were, even if the seamless transition between 3D gameplay and 2D retro gaming is pretty impressive and Mario controls really well.

It had lyrics, Ackbar just didn't like them:

Hollow Knight was a weird case for me too. I struggled with (apparently) easy bosses like the boss at the end of the Trial of the Fool but had no issues traversing the Path of Pain. Edit: Huh. I just beat the boss in Furi in handheld mode on my first attempt today (without getting knocked out even once). How utterly bizarre.

Furi, with which I'm having immense trouble and I'm just entirely sure why. I seem to be unable to get the timing of certain parts of the battles consistently right even after many attempts. What bothers me is the consistency part. If I would consistently suck then I'd just need to git gud or accept that the game's too hard (maybe this game is genuinely so much harder than anything else I've ever played) but there are times where I breeze through phases without hitch and times where I dodge myself into every boss' attack.

I just noticed that for some reason even though it's not mentioned in the Kickstarter rewards my copy of Pathfinder: Kingmaker did in fact come with the DLC Season Pass. Way to go Owlcat. I'll get back to the game once all the expansions/DLCs are released. It's too much of a time commitment to get back into it now.

Heh, that post reminded me of something.

Took some pictures of our family christmas dinners this time around. Yay. Again, made from an iPhone so the quality is so-so. Putting the pictures into spoiler tags to keep the post concise. Cheese plate, cold cuts and homemade cookies: Smoked fish, various pickles, veggies and hard boiled eggs (and some condiments) Fresh bakery and butter: Roasted Bambi and boar: Chop chop: Graaaaaaaaavy: Gravy, part II: With added root veggies: Brussels sprouts: Bread dumplings: Pretzel dumplings: Red cabbage: Croquettes - eh, well, these were store bought (but no less awesome). The reason why most of it is in some sort of Tupperware container is because the food was prepared at three different locations. Christmas logistics for the win.

Condolences Hurlshot... And Happy new year guys.

Mega Man 11. Finished it on Normal, will try Superhero sometime soon. Bounce Man's stage has the potential to become my favorite Mega Man stage.

A friend of mine is a member of Rebel Legion and they rented a screen for a private viewing of The Empire Strikes Back to commemorate Carrie Fisher's death. Seeing it on the silver screen really drives home how much better crafted Empire is than all the newer Star Wars films. It also very much proves a point of Mike Stoklasa that when a film is good enough plot holes don't bother the viewer as much. Between Luke landing on Dagobah and Han reaching Bespin lies a world of timing issues very similar to The Last Jedi's situation of Rey finding Luke and connecting it to the slow chase between the First Order and the Resistance. Yet, while seeing The Empire Strikes Back for what must have been the hundredth time it never once came to mind while it kept bothering me all the time during even the first viewing of The Last Jedi.

Yeah, Merry Christmas to you too guys.

Grabbed the Mega Man Collection and Mega Man 11 for the Switch. Already played and finished the first Mega Man.

Started to read Sexy Losers again after this rainbow kiss discussion. Still cracks me up. Warning, the comic's very much not safe for work.

Public Squadron 42 roadmap with a projected Beta in Q2 2020. Chris Roberts also sold 10% of CIG US & UK for $ 46,000,000. The funds are supposed to go towards marketing and distribution, something he doesn't want to spend the crowdfunded money on.

Alone in the Dark can take a while to finish, especially if you play them all in a row and the trilogy is currently on sale. Assuming you don't mind blocky graphics as muc has SonicMage117 does.

Finished Dark Souls. Did most of it, Dark Sun Gwyndolin is still standing (for some early Titanite Chunk farming). Not sure what to think of it yet. I enjoyed the experience and might even continue in NG+ or replay but I don't really get the hype (yet?).

Don't worry, you can keep the traitor as long as you don't sentence him to death for his treason (or, ahem, if you want the thingy he stole).

Having never played the game before I grabbed the Dark Souls remaster on the Switch and I just killed Ornstein & Smough on my first try, no summons*, Smough first. Considering it's, uhm, legendary difficulty I expected a bit more. In all fairness I read up on their weaknesses and brought fire and fury (eh, bleed) to the fight - here's where you can tell me using Pyromancy is a cheap ass way to play the game, see if I care. Knowing myself I'll probably get stuck for a while on some boss everyone else considers easy. *Well actually I did summon Solaire expecting he will help me get a feel for the battle but he glitched out and got stuck with the Royal Sentinels outside the boss room, I just ran past them. Heh.

I'd still chalk up most of the games failures to interference by EA. Especially the forced engine switch. Adapting a shooter engine to suit an RPG is a tall task, just ask the guys who worked on Torn how much fun adapting LithTech was. Anything that didn't directly have to do with the engine was pretty much Bioware par for the course. Which I do enjoy every now and then, but the actual gameplay, eh... it kept me suitably entertained to finish the game. I suppose that counts for something, right?

It might not be becoming increasingly anti-science but it sure feels like the world is becoming more and more pro-magic. We recently had a nice scandal where city funded hospital paid 95k € for... eh, well, it pains me to write this, for a circle of protection against negative energy to be laid down. Just let that sink in for a bit here. The dude just walked around the building once with his dowsing rod. The hilarity doesn't end, because shortly after this was discovered and made news the Association of Human Energy Practioners* (they're actually part of the Federal Economic Chamber, subsection Personal Services get that) showed up and denounced the energy practitioner that laid down the circle as a fraud, with one of its members actually stating in an interview that he went to the building and immediately noticed that there isn't any protection circle and that they would have only charged 150€ per hour for the same work and their protection circle would actually work. Another gave an interview stating that it saddens him that actions such as this make his entire trade look disreputable. Because obviously it isn't disreputable when you sell dew collected from flowers for 1000€ per liter to go along with a 150€ hour of faith healing. The Federal Economic Chamber even offers quality assurance courses where you can get bronze, silver and gold certificates to show off. They're also purely designed to make money because all you do is an online course and a quiz the end, and each is more expensive than the one before. But I guess that's okay because it's the frauds that have to shell out the cash. *The description of the trade is literally the study and application of the scientifically currently not observable ubiquitous energy field that surrounds and links us all. Does that read like the Force to you? Because it sure does. So I guess we actually have official Jedi healers.

I'm still undecided on what I should think about the show getting a sixth season, let alone a seventh one.