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Got around to playing and finishing Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. I'll admit to cheesing Shadow Link, after that harrowing journey I just sat in the corner and kicked him in the head 'til he was dead. I also spent three hours grinding myself to max level in the experience frontloaded island dungeon (there's up to 270 easy experience in the first two screens) after getting my ass handed to myself by the first Blue Ironknuckle (funny how the boss version is easier than the normal ones). That made the rest of the game relatively smooth sailing. Except for excrutiatingly weird things like having to use the hammer on a forest tile to reveal a town and that final dungeon.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Running Obsidian wasn't smooth sailing at the best of times. I can imagine that it's been a harrowing decade and a half for all the owners. I don't blame any of them for wanting to cash out and retire.

I guess what I am looking for a flick that is little outdated with content that hasn't aged well, in hilarious or awful ways. I am sorry if I wasn't clear. I'd recommend Army of Darkness. It's intentionally campy and has a lot of comedy though. Evil Dead hasn't aged that well, even with the remaster, but that was shot on a zero budget (it looks cheesy but is still a good horror film). So I'll go and, uhm, blaspheme a bit: Try the original Poltergeist. The special effects aren't great any more and those actors, decorations and the hairdos? Oh boy. That's almost enough to kill any 80ies nostalgia. And finally, as an avid RedLetterMedia fan, try anything by Len Kabasinksi. Except Horse Ninja, that bootleg is just awful.

I'm really worried about that. The captain himself said that he was changed by events in the past 20 years (seems like the show is set roughly 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis) and that the ideas they have are different - and not nearly as talky. In other words, bad news for people who thought First Contact's Picard was way out of character (it was - still liked the film though, it's pretty much my Star Trek guilty pleasure).

No, not even with very long cables. At the speed the network components can operate (the best a TL-SG1016 does is 1000Base-T) the current Cat 5e/6 cables will do just fine. You'd only neet Cat 6a or better to guarantee 10 GbE with long cables. It is - 100 meters to be exact. That's as far as the specifications guarantee full bandwith for individual segments.

I never sold any consoles or games. I do regret not getting all my games back before losing contact to people. We used to swap games all the time, but eventually school ends and someone has my original Secret of Mana cartridge. In turn, I have someone's Drakkhen. Such a poor exchange, really.

This is clearly the best Picard song:

Nah. Finland's famous for their terribly expensive booze.

T'Kuvma approves.

I finished a quest in Octopath Traveler without even knowing there was one. I just randomly challenged townsfolk to duels and after one my characters gave a verbal smackdown to someone and cashed in 20k. I'm a bit confused now, but that's okay, I'll just be looking up what the quest was about.

I had like 15 or so flies yesterday. Opened the window and let them all out... that was hard work, because they are dumb as a brick. Went to work and when I came back, there had been another 10 to 20 flies. Thing is, all windows were closed, so they must have come from inside. I've let them out again and then started looking for a source, but couldn't find anything at all. There was no old leftover food, nothing that would smell, or a ventilation or whatever... I really have no clue where they came from. I'm hoping that I just missed something and they got inside over the other day when I had everything open for hours..... I'm living in a small town right next to a major floodplain so all my windows have a finely meshed insect screen. Otherwise various stinging insects would murder me in my sleep. Which means the fly came through the door and it is still sitting somewhere and not moving much. I swear it only comes out to mock me when I walk out of the room. We also once had a fly infestation with no apparent entry point. It turned out they were coming through the chimney cleanout door. A small rodent had died inside the chimney somewhere and the freshly eclosed flies squeezed through the small slit between the door and the wall. It was pretty impressive to see. And also pretty annoying. Not only where the flies everywhere they also were all sooty.

To be honest I think that Baldur's Gate 2 is a much better game than Baldur's Gate, but I recognize that the reason I have an issue with the empty areas is because I just can't leave them be. The obsessive having to look everywhere problem is also ruining most (semi-)open world games for me. Especially those where most of what you do is busywork. There's a reason I spent 160 hours on Dragon Age: Inquisition and it wasn't because the game was so great it warranted the time invested. I'd still rather replay BG than D:OS. I get bored in the first area already, and I've only seen it once. Even Bioware's dreaded first level offerings were more interesting. It took me longer to get sick of Taris or Chataeu Irenicus than Cyceal...

I started yelling at the open letter for spoiling the actual fate of Gamora and then I realized Yondu also signed. Crisis averted folks!

Different climate. When I went to Hurghada we landed to a crispy 45° in the shade... at 0900. But noly once during that vacation did I sweat my ass off like I do right now with 15+° less. I almost melted when visiting the bazaar in the city proper (and that was at night).

There's a fly in my flat. I feel like Walter White right now. With less drug cooking, but with cooking heat outside...

Fixed that for you. And yeah, there's a pattern.

Having four of the eight characters now in Octopath Traveler... off to get the others and start thinking about party compositions. Hmmm. edit: This talk about the new XCOM games is fun to follow. I keep thinking of the old ones where you opened the door of your landing craft and were greeted by a bunch of reaction shots and dead people before being able to take any action. Or the inevitable psi test where you find out all your best soldiers have the brain power of toast. Eh, or that time when enemy commanders mindscrew your heavy weapons guy into blowing himself and your squad up.

It is old. Maybe not in terms of release dates but in everything else? Yeah.

I started playing Octopath Traveler. The game is really enchanting. Loving the atmosphere and am currently on the way to grab my third party member.

What, Soldat rocks. Especially when you play it with friends.

Oh, English dubbed anime has more problems than just the quality of the voice actors. They're often censored and have parts re-written, or in cases like Bismark even have replaced entire episodes with newly created ones that fit better into the new narrative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6pwwzsAuI4

They keep being told how free they are and how they are fighting for their freedom overseas, so at some point they start believing it. To be honest I very much doubt that is true for Gromnir and given his occupation he was probably talking about certain laws. Freedom of speech I can imagine, for instance.