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Scorn is cool because it's Giger-esque, and looks to having some shooting mechanics. I hoped Agony would be good because I'm a sucker Dante's hell like settings, even though I'm typically not into over-done gore and suffering. Probably Diablo and Doom have a reason for me liking it. I still get the feeling the journos had something out for Agony, because gameplay seems on par with Amnesia and that was a media darling a few years back. Lorn... the audio reminds of me Diablo 1. Gameplay wise I get the sense they are trying to recreate King's Field. The trailer had a neat idea of aesthetic but I don't think it will translate to the final game.

I really like New Belgium's Rampant. It's an Imperial Double IPA.

Looks great to me, I'm not really seeing Nolan vibes. The tone is pretty severe, I wonder how the movie will ultimately play out.

Balance Man is a helluva drug. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

My favorite Miyazaki film is The Wind Rises, I'm surprised you are stopping short of the end.

They've said they aren't done in The Witcher universe, but that Geralt's story is over. People just assume that means Ciri. I'm not sure they are ready to abandon the series that made them too soon.

2077 is a given, only question is whether there will be anything playable or just another trailer, or hands off demo. There are a few rumours that they may have something else to announce as well (non Gwent). According to investor meetings they should be launching a game in 2019 and in 2021. Probably in Q1/Q2 for both windows. I assume the 2021 title is a Ciri game, and next year is 2077.

Looks under baked at the moment, but then again TW hasn't impressed me since Shogun 2.

Hmmm remaster, or maybe that mecha game they are making is a sequel/reboot?

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1005177339158777856 CDPR looks to have a sizeable presence. If it's not 2077 I'll eat a metaphorical shoe. Trying not to get hyped, I have such a lofty image of what it's going to be like I'm afraid it might fall short. Should still be fairly neat though. TW3 but more pnp mechanics, tabula rasa character creation, mixed 1st/3rd person camera with class dependent shooting/combat mechanics. That's all I really know about it so far. I guess a massive city that uses verticle space well. Gonna b good yo!

Agree. Vita also needed to be paired with a console and should have launched a year or two after the PS4 not before it. Sony could have really preempted the switch. Rumor has it Sony is thinking of another handheld, I just hope it comes out after the PS5. Yeah, Death Stranding looks wild. So glad we didn't lose Kojima productions in that whole Konami fiasco. Sony did good.

Well...that's a complete surprise to me. Not that I ever researched the guy and his life or something. (edit - had no idea about the background issues, I mean) Hubby and I have watched some episodes of some of his shows - they were always hit and miss. Some episodes were very interesting, others were meh to downright snooze-inducing. Most of the time I didn't get any weird vibes while watching, although he probably wasn't a personality I'd get along with if tossed into a locked room for long. But he was such a staple - we joked all the time about how many variations of the format series he had/kept having. RIP. His show was all real, so if they didn't get any material then there wasn't much more than literary references and waxing poetic dubbed over a rather standard affair. I always appreciated that the show was produced without a script. It'd be nice if it was easier to take sabbaticals and vacations. In America there is a lot of guilt taking one, and your always left a bit behind when you come back.

Roughly in order. Immersive Sims / Stealth (Deus Ex, System Shock, Dishonored, MGS) PC FPS (Half-life, Doom, TF2, L4D) 3D Action-Adventure Platformers (Ratchet & Clank, Spyro, Jak & Daxter, Super Mario, SotC) Classic crpgs (FO, BG, Pillars, Kotor, The Witcher, Mass Effect) Rockstar openworlds (GTA, Bully, RDR) RTS (StarCraft, Age of Empires) 4X (Civilization, Endless Space) Action RPG (Diablo 2, Demon's Souls) I tend towards traditional pc-gaming and then Sony first-party stuff. It's really more of a grab bag of variety I guess, but there is stuff I tend to avoid.

Sometimes people turn to substances because of what feels like an internal imbalance and they sort of self-medicate. I think though a deeper problem is that competition forces people push themselves past their limits and substances are a great way to mask the self-abuse. They stimulate you through exhaustion, they give you back your evenings when you would otherwise not be lively enough for company, they help you to fake it until you make it. Substances are an easy solution at times, and in other domains of life almost seem necessary to keep up with the flow. The pressures that drive people to substances is immense and the food industry is as rife as any. One moment you're numbing a temporary pain due to incredibly uncomfortable circumstances, the next you're numb to everything but the feeling of impending doom and impression that the substances build up in you. Bourdain was a role model of mine, someone who I thought could manage himself. Who had been through the wringer. I connected with him when I was a heavy drinker and even still when I freed myself from the drinking loop. He had compassion for the little guy, passion for skilled labor, a spine to take a stand, a voice to bring it all together, and knew when not to take things too seriously. Somehow though, this unfortunate passing does not seem alien to his character at all, and that saddens me the most. That he always struck me that he was one of the stronger ones, someone who had already come out the other side. I knew I caught my drinking problem early on, enough so that I can still drink on occasions. But it pains me to realize many loved ones in my life that I think are strong may be struggling internally in ways that I can't comfort or help. I think it was Robin Williams suicide that first really affected me. I realized the joy he brought to other's was in many ways him searching to bring to other's that which he struggled to find himself. Bourdain, however, really hits home on a new level. I see his persona less as a character, but more him pulling his inner self outward. Challenging himself meet an untenable ideal. I think it comes back to having to compete and strive for something ever more perfect just to stay afloat and survive. I see a lot of myself in him. I only ever drank alcohol as my elixir. I know he overcame other substances, but not alcohol which remained more a part of his well rounded meal. I can't shake the thought that those close to me continue to rely on this elixir to get by and I may be entirely oblivious to a deeper pain, or that there could be an impending implosion that even they aren't privy to. The recent CDC publishings on suicide of very damning, I wonder if they struck a hopeless tone in Bourdain. The cascade of media that people take in while being in vulnerable moments today is immense. Hardly enough time to recover to one's better faculties before one is bombarded with a sense of despair. I know journalism is wrought with alcoholism and further there is a latent misery that it taps into. It feeds a desire to endlessly commiserate.

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China is taking ownership of so many new ventures it's incredible...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html Anthony Bourdain committed suicided, he was 61... I'm at a loss for words.

#TheEmpireDidNothingWrong

I wonder if there would be a console command to find out, maybe someone from Obs could weigh in here?

I'm happy for you, almost lost your purity. Btw... why did God make the idiotic choice of having nudes to begin with? Could have just made everyone never-nudes. Taking that a step-further to never-undergarments is a whole new level, I could learn a thing or to from you.

Yup, along with the notion that the SW universe is actually quite small. More so now than ever it feels.

I enjoyed Rogue One, but after watching Solo I went back to watch the Half In The Bag for it and Rogue One. I pretty much agree with they're take, but I realized something in addition. It's really just the SW universe that I'm interested in as a character at this point. It's just a neat world to get lost in. Rogue One I loved seeing the temple and I thought it's destruction was cool. The shield planet was neat. This is the problem though with these new movies. The character's and stories are starting to take a backseat to the world, and the world tends to be half-rehash, and half something familiar set against the backdrop of the SW universe. The force is also being severely under-explored, and instead they are spending too much time trying to rewrite the audience's perception of the force. I could excuse the side-stories for being somewhat half-baked, but TLJ really really gutted the most fascinating and promising parts of TFA. So now TFA is half rehash and half dead ends... how the hell did LucasArts allow that to happen? At least the prequels where all building to something with intention, those films had more of an issue as films and people's expectations of the sorts of films they were to be getting. The new films are better constructed sure, but they've forgotten the whole purpose of a film or film series. They just don't deliver a story, they explore and meander and act as if they are too big to fail. The hubris has begun to seep at the seems.

Blue and grey were the main types, iirc. Blue is intrinsically dangerous since it will very readily break up into fibres; grey is safe for most in situ stuff and proximal applications but can be very bad in case of demolitions and the like, and demolitions are to practical purposes inevitable. My school had grey asbestos work benches in its science labs and they were perfectly safe, but when it comes time to getting rid of them it will be expensive since that's when you have the main risk of it breaking up. Gotcha, yeah it was the blue I had in mind. That stuff is freaky.

Confusing seehorse, with seahorse I see. Common mistake, I saw this once before.