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A nice e-mail reminded me that I forgot to pay my motor club membership fee. Somehow slipped my mind. Must be getting old. *sigh*

There's also often some cutting involved. I remember discussions with fellow posters way back about Sailor Moon and I was a bit surprised in just how much content disappeared in the english dub (e.g. the first season finale going from a two-parter to a single episode where nothing much makes sense).

On one hand, realistically I'm with KP on the issue. We'll never see a GRRM written end to his series. The best we'll get is someone else finishing it for him (imagine for a moment the utter horror of Elio and Linda being allowed to do that). On the other hand, buried beneath the cynic lies the hopeful guy who started reading the series two decades ago. The one who actually hopes against all reason that HBO pushed the final season back to not come into conflict with the book release schedule. Oh, wait. He's submerging again... and gone. I'm not buying the book even if it does come out. FU, George.

q3dm17, when picked by utter b00ns. Ah, whole nights of joy.

Regarding controllers I'm the odd one out. I hated every PS controller so far, no matter which one, and I also didn't like the Duke - even though I have really big hands (I also use a small mouse for all my gaming needs, currently a Logitech LS1). The Switch Joy Cons are okay as long as I don't use the clip-on controller pad. The Nintendo Pro controller is pretty good, the XBox S-controllers are also nice except for the terrible D-pad. What I really liked so far is the nVidia Shield controller, except for the start button placement. If I could freely choose I'd play everything on my GameCube controller. *sigh*

Seconded...

Grabbed Steamworld Heist as per recommendation here. Enjoying it so far.

Seconded... Black & White, Diablo 3 prior to Reaper of Souls, WoW: Cataclysm, all of the StarCraft 2 campaigns and Hellgate: London aaaaand... Halo. Or make that Bungie shooters in general, I've tried the free Destiny 2 trial recently, reached level 2 and quit. For good. There's something about their games that just isn't for me.

The comments on Breitbart are hilarious. Like what comments? He didn't just fly too close to the sun here, he dove straight into it, total self immolation. https://www.axios.com/behind-the-scenes-of-bannons-exit-1515533804-334c36b1-5af4-4ba8-a7ae-e63786a552b4.html Just tried finding the more hilarious ones at the article, but many of them have gone. A large bunch of comments is apparently sympathetic to Bannon while earlier today everyone was screaming to lynch him for being the second coming of Judas, Betrayer of Trump, Great Prophet of MAGA.

The comments on Breitbart are hilarious.

Oh, yes... a couple of games managed to make me all teary, e.g.: Planescape: Torment made me misty eyed - Sending your companions back to Sigil, particularily Fall-From-Grace. There's only one though that made me bawl my eyes out (repeatedly, even after knowing the almost inevitable outcome of the story) and that was Kana – Imōto (Little Sister). Googling too much might be NSFW considering it is, in the end, an eroge visual novel, albeit one that uses the sex scenes for storytelling purposes instead of being gratuitous and masturbatory or the end-game goal itself. Oh and there is a censored, sexless PSP version for everyone grossed out by the, uhm, theme of the game. For those who like visual novels but not eroge...

Also, Metal meets 8-bit:

GTA, together with Worms and Mario Kart, gave me the most fun I ever had in multiplayer. In the literal laughing out loud sense of the word.

That depends solely on his /played. I have played WoW and SWTOR with alternating subscriptions (roughly the same price) for a combined playing time of well over 10.000 hours - at a rate that's around 0.1 to 0.2€ per hour played. Out of all the games I paid for myself only Path of Exile has a better ratio - and that's one of the few F2P game with a fair business model.

Started playing Steamworld Dig 2 and Super Mario Odyssey on the Switch. Shelved Cuphead for the time being after finishing it - I'll be back to finish it on expert and S-Rank the remaining bosses but I'm a bit burnt out right now. edit: Can't type any more. Meh.

Hm, when you put it that way... *starts watching*

Oh boy. I'm sure it's unintentionally hilarious but I'm not going to sit through a 22 minute Info Wars video with a guy talking like the love child of Bonnie Tyler and Kermit.

Both games suffer from pacing issues in my opinion but I think IWD's are worse. Usually if I start up Icewind Dale the party eventually stops when Kresselack gives me the quest to deal with Lysan. Having to go back up, deal with her, go back down and then back up only to go to the 5 level madness that is Dragon's Eye usually makes me quit. In IWD2 on the other hand the biggest roadblock is the Ice Temple. The map is also way tpp large there are teleporters and some riddles for entertainment and the battle squares for the masochists among us (finished them once, then immediately installed the skip battle squares mod) but it doesn't work someow. It's just terribly boring. However for me it is easier to power through one boring area than two of them after the other and the Ice Temple still wins by not being as much combat oriented as KT or DE.

That was Icewind Dale 2, which I liked better than the first one. Which was, back then, a relatively uncommon position. It still is, I guess.

Well that can't be it, their shields were active, otherwise The Collector wouldn't have had to slice a hole into them to land on Snoke's flagship.

Yeah, that bothered me too. I mean, I get that Star Wars isn't science fiction, but the whole idea that you could just carve through heavily fortified ships in such a way seems pretty lame. It's the new "rule" behind Star Wars FTL travel: Do whatever you want as long as it makes for a dramatic moment. In ANH Han had to leave Corellia the conventional way and was almost intercepted by two Star Destroyers until he reached a place where he could make his hyperspace jump. In Rogue One Whatsherface, Whatshisface and the chinese box office tokens leave Jedha by jumping to hyperspace directly from underneath a collapsing wave of debris. In The Force Awakens Han hyperspace jumps directly behind the Starkiller Base's shields. In The Last Jedi on the other hand a hyperspace jump turns your ship into a relativistic kinetic weapon.

That was enlightening, you're a Thermian. Now I get it.

Yeah, it's basically in the 3-5% reduction range for games (well, the four games tested, and not in GPU limited scenarios like 4k) which isn't great but also isn't a catastrophe except PR wise. Indeed. Guess I was wrong, although technically not even Battlefront dropped by a full 5%, but it's close enough. They should probably test SWTOR. That game has a nightmarish amount of disk usage - enough to make people claim that it killed their SSDs.

I'd totally watch HUCK. Twice maybe. Once with N-word Jim and once with C-word Jim. In other words, just "binged" Jean-Claude Van Johnson. Not much to binge, it's about as long as a movie anyway. Felt a little silly giving standing ovations after the final credits rolled being all alone in front of my computer but hey, credit given where it is due.