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I know someone who thinks Voyager is better than The Next Generation, so you're not even in the top spot for tastelessness (is that even a word?).

What's the thing in the far left, lower row? Looks like a gun part than a gun. Also, is the 'high capacity semautomatic handgun' a flintlock pistol? Looks like one. Clearly not a counter-strike player Or someone that watched SG-1.

Netflix just e-mailed me that they've gotten the rights for TBBT season 10 here. Which means I'll be watching that. I no longer keep up with the show when it airs and it's been on a steady decline since seasons 4 and 5 for me but it's still good for the occasional laugh or two. Which is more than I can say of most "comedy" available.

The goblins had the best battlecry. Also loved that they didn't translate the goblin talk into English. Made them a nice inside joke for German speakers Schnell, haut ihm den Kopf ab, ich brauch einen neuen Aschenbecher! Ah, so they reused the line from the first game? Heh.

I only mind weird save systems when it is clear that the only reason for it is becaus the developer doesn't like the player to save and reload as often as they'd like. For no other reason than "because" or some sense of superiority. Which I suspect is the case here, to be honest. Even in Age of Decadence saving was easily possible, and that's saying something... This extends to other game mechanics as well. Camping supplies in Pillars of Eternity com to mind. Wah wah rest spamming in Infinity Engine games, wah wah. Waaaaaaaah. If you don't like it, fine, then don't. What the hell is wrong with players being able to if they want? Question for players who already have the game, do vendors only buy items they're interested in, do they have a limited amount of money available and is there a barter system (edit: I realize I could just look it up, but humor me, it's been a long day)?

This is just the deep state using deep learning to predict what you've forgotten that is owed to you, you've been swindled!! I'm pretty sure it's Soros' fault. Somehow.

Never played any of the Sacred sequels but I enjoyed Sacred well enough, even if they went overboard with the stats. Who needs three seperate cooldown regeneration stats, two stats that increase hitpoints and a skill system where slotting skills in the gear changes the cooldown in a less daramatic fashion than learning them does in an ARPG? Although the sheer amount of viable builds resulting from the stat and gear chaos was pretty nice.

I'm hearing a very dull bass beat through the walls. Someone close by is listening to "music" apparently. Am in half a mood to counter. My very nice SoundWorks subwoofer here can make glasses fall off the shelves. Two doors down. edit: Oh, wow. I'm hearing Gigi D'Agostino's Bla Bla Bla through the walls. There's good retro and then there's... that.

Resident Evil has a nude Milla Jovovich. There is nothing wrong with this film.

Time to be nitpicky. Blade came out before The Matrix. It cannot have been designed to look as much like the Matrix as possible (at least for first part, of course, which set both the tone and the style for the sequels - just before someone yells "but this deals with the trilogy").

Oh, sure, gameplay caused some emotional responses before Wing Commander. Elation at winning, anger, frustration, the usual. 's why I specifically stated storytelling. My Creative Bundle came with a Sound Blaster Pro, a double speed CD-ROM drive and LucasArts adventures. Monkey Island with a real CD audio track was amazing. But that was a bit earlier than the 16 came out.

This was the most blatant use of Talk no Jutsu since Naruto. The tension of the whole war, and Federation being in the brink of extinction, just goes *poof*. Poof. Like Slughorn's wee little fish Francis. Poof.

Wing Commander 2. Thought the torpedoes I used were nuclear! Forgot I had the expansions actually, will be good to kill Jazz..eventually. Well that's what you get for asking Maniac what he'd like to see in a new fighter model. Of course it ends up carrying a dumbfire nuke. Torpedoes were just phase shield piercing missiles, according to the manual. I think Wing Commander 2 was the first game I've played where the storytelling affected me emotionally. I was sad when Spirit died and I really hated Jazz. With a passion.

No interest in the expansions?

Still playing Celeste, grabbing crystal hearts and doing the B-Side chapters. There's some shenanigans with Madeline's hitbox going on. It's hard to describe but some environmental obstacles look like they're one pixel larger than the save ground below or besides, and when you grab onto a ledge just a bit too high you die instantly, which of course makes sense, but it's possible to climb into the same area without dying. Seems like the grabbing animation extends her hitbox a bit. Considering the placement of these obstacles I'm pretty sure that's intentional. Or it might just be the Switch port. The game also sometimes crashes.

This thread sure triggered some Schadenfreude. Does that make me a bad person? =)

The Korean time zone is really problematic for us Euro-peons. =( Well at least if we want to watch live.

Continued from Shady's giveaway thread: In the past GOG was profitable but not raking in oodles of money by any means, but GOG Sp. z o.o does more for CDPR than just sell games through GOG.com (e.g. host infrastructure). Not sure how well GWENT's doing, that could quite possibly be (have been?) a major boost in income. But CDPR's financial statements are public, so if you're interested (and properly bored), have at it.

Clearly not, Heir to the Empire didn't subvert anyone's expectations. It couldn't have been awesome. Right Rian?

Finished Celeste. Or, rather, the story part. Haven't grabbed all the secrets yet or unlocked all the extra levels. It's... odd. The first three quarters the game is a nice platformer with some puzzle elements and storytelling through visuals, environments and gameplay with barely any dialogue. Then the game suddenly dumps a massive amount of exposition on your head in the form of the only longer conversation there is, afterwards gives you a nice level with an interesting boss fight and then it falls apart a bit. The final chapter is an exercise in frustrating level design. It's not difficult per se just sometimes you'll run into very long screens where the only way to get through is a healthy amount of dying while memorizing the path you need to take. Once that's done it's not hard to get through. In a way that's a bit like Quickman's level in Mega Man 2. Except with less beams and more crystal spikes. I found that rather jarring because the rest of the game barely ever ventures into fake difficulty territory. To put that into perspective, the game keeps track of the amount of dying you do. The last (regular) chapter accounts for a full third of all my deaths.

That is a really good question. STD in its current state is neither good Trek nor good enough to stand on its own, but if one were to excise Star Trek from Discovery, would the remainder be elevated by the lack of bad Trek, or brought low by the somewhat disjointed remainder? The biggest problem, for me, is a universal one. I don't give a crap about Michael Burnham, and that the show tried to make her more approchable and likeable in the past few episodes was pretty much reset by her being a complete arsehole again in this episode. She's like a Katherine Pulaski on crack.

Do tell if it's as good as internetz sez. The gameplay part yes, so far. It's both simple and captivating and the artstyle is rather nice. I just finished chapter 3, maybe it'll pick up but so far the much lauded story does nothing much for me. The "boss" sections of the levels give a pretty good impression of an anxiety attack though.

Enjoyed the episodes I've seen very much so far. Haven't read the book though, so no idea how the adaptation is. If you like cyberpunk and/or (neo-)noir detective stories have a go at it.

Bought Celeste for my Switch. Will probably be playing that soonish.

Reviews are pretty bad. Haven't seen it yet, still busy with Altered Carbon (and will be for a few days more I guess).