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Huh, didn't feel like a bad year, but I suppose I just didn't get to a few of 2018's titles until 2019. IGN did leave a couple good ones off the list. Surprised Greedfall missed the cut.

Yesterday I needed to go pick up my RV about 30 miles away. I had dropped it off to a renter on Friday and biked home, and it was a very nice ride filled with fall colors and a good breeze. But Sunday was supposed to be rainy and I kept hemming and hawing about taking the easy way and just having my wife drive me. But the sun came out around lunch time, so I decided to jump on my bike and go for it. The first 10 miles went great, with just a light shower of rain. Then I hit the mountain. Did I mention there is a mountain to climb on this ride? It's about 2500 feet over a 4 mile stretch. The first two miles are paved, so that was fine, but the last two miles are just packed base rock. The tricky part is to keep your momentum going and stay in the saddle, because once you lose traction, you are going to end up walking. It got even trickier on the last half mile where they had put down a new layer of gravel. It felt like I was riding on two flat tires. So I made it to the top with some effort, and I'm now 15 miles and an hour into the ride. The next part is a steep downhill, which I knew would be tricky in the conditions. So far it had been fairly dry, but as soon as I set off on the downhill, the heavens opened up. I got drenched. I was riding my brakes, shivering, barely able to see, all the way down the mountain. I pulled over at a small market at the bottom and tried to compose myself under an awning. I couldn't stop shaking. I had to actually take off gloves and wring out the water. I called my wife and briefly contemplated giving up. I was now only 10 miles from my destination, but the rain did not seem to be letting up. Finally the shivering subsided, and I decided to try and get through it. I put away my cycling glasses, put back on my wet gloves, and started pedaling. Eventually the rain let up a bit. I was still cold and uncomfortable, but the wind was helping me along a bit, and the last 10 miles went by fairly quick. I made it to the RV, dried myself off, and made it home safely. 🚴‍♂️

What a perverse attempt at humor. It's not a competition.

I'm right there with you. I mean, I have a lot of other games on the stove right now anyways, so it's going to be alright to wait. These types of games need polish. I remember the JA2 demo came out like a year before the game, and I played it to death, bit Sir-Tech kept pushing back the due date to make sure the game was ready.

Fascinating, so you can have more than two parties in a government. Next your going to tell me something silly like they provide reasonable health care to the population. 🦄

I already bought it GD.

How many games are really designed to be finished, though? Sports games and online shooters might have a campaign, but it is secondary to the main reason people buy them.

So really you are saying Dem voters are more loyal to the party than the individual.

I don't know about that. Al Franken was a very popular democrat and ended up stepping away after a fairly minor controversy. John Edwards disappeared off the face of the planet after his election fund controversy. It seems like there are less democrat examples, for sure. I'm not sure why that would count against them.

That doesn't sound crazy to me at all. I probably finish about 10% of the games I start in a year. Every once in awhile I'll go back and finish something, but usually I lose interest or get distracted by something else. It really only takes one busy week to completely derail a playthrough of a game for me. It's also why I tend to stick to easy difficulties on most types of games, because it is already hard enough to return to a game after a bit of time away without also having to relearn the best strategies. But yeah, life is too short to trudge through a game after I lose my enthusiasm.

Woohoo, @Hassat Hunter is famous now!

Is anyone else getting really long load times?

Ah, the Hedge Knight campaign. Yeah, I haven't gotten good at the whole idea that you should switch weapons when facing different enemies. I mean, I know I should use a bunch of crunchy weapons to fight the undead, but then I have to carry them all around. A least my current group is better at cracking shields.

I love the elements of the game, but there are some odd performance issues and it lacks the polish of the Xcom games. Also I haven't figured out what my chances to hit are yet. Still, it's early and I can tell I will enjoy it.

Hillary Clinton was on Howard Stern this morning. Much like with Trump, these are pretty interesting people once you separate them from the politics and vitriol, which is what Stern tends to do better than any other interviewer.

I can subjectively say that Outer Worlds is better than Fallout:NV.

So what about The Irishman people? Or has no one had a spare 9 1/2 hours to watch it yet?

They might all be terrible choices, but I think I'm more comfortable with two bad choices limited to 4 years of power than 1 bad choice getting a full 8 years. So yeah, 4 years ago I was happy to vote for someone different, but this time I'm probably going to vote for whoever is not Trump.

The gap used to be a lot bigger between consoles and top-end PC's. But it's always been a bit of a functionality issue. I need a PC for a lot of non-gaming needs, but I really only need a console for one purpose. Plus there still tends to be more titles available and at better prices on the PC than the consoles. Some games play better with mouse and keyboard as well, and those are awkward tools to use on your couch.

I put a ton of hours into Battle Brothers over the last week, so I'm trying to back away from it a bit and not burn out. I tried to play Ark again, but I think I'm just not into dinosaurs and I need a little bit of story to keep me interested in these crafting games. I also picked up OOTP Baseball XX and started off as a manager in single A. This games has improved a lot since the last one I played.

I used the term marginalize, as GD did. But I mean, if you really aren't paying any attention, here is a bunch of examples of him going after Fox News, which is the one press outlet he tends to attack the least: https://www.businessinsider.com/times-trump-criticized-fox-news-anchors-2019-11

This thread title is confusing.

Trump is already doing everything he can to marginalize the 1st amendment, so forgive me if I don't stress out about the potential 2nd amendment consequences of having a democratic in office.

I was pretty surprised how toxic her campaign turned. Early on I thought she had the best chance to beat Trump. I still think she would have done better than someone like Biden, who will basically pull in the same votes as Clinton.

Some examples that come to mind of people who did this, with little connection to the gaming industry, are actor Vin Diesel and MLB Pitcher Curt Schilling. Worked out well with the former and nearly bankrupted Rhode Island in the latter, so I'm going to say it is still a pretty high risk investment.