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Shingles are fading away and I had a great bike ride today. I ended up climbing up a portion of a road that was gravel, and it was a bit slippery with my road bike, but as long as I stayed in my saddle and kept turning pedals, I was safe. Ended up with about a 40 mile ride with some good climbing. We were at a really good market with an actual butcher, so I called my wife for a ride and bought some Chicken Apricot sausages for dinner.

There are a lot of buttons in RDR2 and I never seem to hit the right ones. I mean, I was pretty good with the GTA layout, and I still nearly shoot people when I am trying to bring up dialogue, or eat a meal when I'm trying to calm my horse. Hopefully I'll get it soon.

Went to bed after the 13th. Wow.

Picked up Red Dead as well, so I will be playing it once it installs.

Glad to hear the Roseanne-less Roseanne is a dud, but I just can't buy the whole narrative that comedy is dead in a new PC world. I mean, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is like in season 15, and Rick and Morty creators are being given Star Trek.

Mine isn't too bad, I imagine it is worse when you are older. Just uncomfortable. I can still exercise and everything, but I am a bit tired so trying not to push it. The doctor gave me a prescription that is supposed to help.

I don't get it. DM means Direct Message on Twitter and also Dungeon Master in RPG's. So hilarity ensues... I think I preferred not getting it.

Alright, but the president is like the least important thing you vote for. Still, I do hate jury duty.

You scoundrel!

Registered Republicans? Maybe Gfted1, smjjames, and chilloutman. Right wring caricatures - Sharpie and SonicMage at present, but we've had some great ones over the years.

It's interesting that we go straight to Right = Republican, when I'm not really sure that is the case. My wife is a lifelong registered Republican, but she didn't vote for Trump or support Cavanaugh. Trump himself was a lifelong democrat until he wasn't. Heck, I vote for Republicans as often as I do Democrats, and some folks here think I'm as leftist as it gets.

I've got shingles. Welcome to 40. There are painful rash spots up and down my left leg.

Huh, I think SonicMage's schtick might be even better here in politics than it is in the gaming threads. I mean, maybe it's a bit too obvious to get the same reactions, but the comedy is there. I hope we all appreciate the work that goes into this stuff.

Best shooter in history.

I get the impression that we have a lot more right wingers here than left wingers, but the right wingers see themselves as some sort of oppressed minority and they need to really double down on the rhetoric all the time. Just my impression.

I think it's more like "bombs get sent to Trump all the time but the liberal media never reports it."

I get that he's a hall of fame regular season pitcher, but that Kershaw guy...

Too bad the last game is one of my favorites of all time, crank out that majestic sequel worthy title at any cost! Chip chip cheerio! Another bummer, their soul eating machine clearly churns out a superior product.

It doesn't help that working on video games is basically a dream job for people, so companies like Rockstar basically have their pick of young idealistic talent to burn out and make bitter about the world.

I thought salary meant you don't get overtime pay?

Well if you have kids, you get to learn what tired really is. I kid, I have more energy at 40 than I did at 30.

I got chosen in the lottery for the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. So I will be jumping off a perfectly good ferry and swimming across the bay in June.

They aren't using randomly generated dungeons or anything, they have to place every asset by hand. Given that the atmospheric storytelling is one of Bethesda's strengths, and the new area is supposed to be bigger than Boston, I just don't see the problem. Heck, I'd go so far as to say they created too many assets for Fallout 4 NOT to reuse them in future titles. It's not like I ever ran out of weird places to explore in that game, it was massive. I found myself more fatigued at having too much to do than anything else.

Because they need something to keep people engaged until Oblivion in Space, and a low-effort FO4 repackage that tries to cash in on the multiplayer survival-building-crafting fad just hits the spot. I don't know. I'm skeptical about the survival/build/craft fad as well, but Fallout 4 had an insane amount of content, so I can hardly fault them for re-using assets. Why reinvent the wheel? Actually it is the reinventions that tend to bug me. SPECIAL didn't need to be reinvented, and they made a mess out of it.

Condolences, Malc.