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Really? Huh, he was the first melee character I had used and I found his variety of hits pretty useful. He was also a better mage than most of the runners I hired. He was better than that elf guard I brought for an extra bug zapper. I think I'll go decker next run through. I also didn't use many riggers, but I noticed quite a few air ducts for them to take advantage of.

Gah, I finished! It was awesome, and I already want more adventures. Hopefully the modding community will be fast. I've played around with the toolkit, I have no idea what I'm doing.

I've played 3 Kickstarter games at this point, and they've all been gems. I was skeptical at first, but it really is looking like a bright future for crowd funding.

Wow, Full Control is banging these games out. After Shadowrun Returns they've earned my purchase. edit: Oops, was confusing the Shadowrun Returns developer with the Jagged alliance Flashback one. Well Space Hulk will give us a good idea on what the new JA will look like, at least.

That looks more like the Ouya developers are the failures, not the Ouya itself. Isn't it also not fully released yet?

Best line of dialogue so far from my PC: "I'm not really the committee joining type"

I had a good hockey game last night, we won 4-3 and I had a nice goal, but I also landed on my hip at some point in the game and now I am hobbling around. Ah, old age.

Wires are a beacon for small children. They basically scream "pull me as hard as you can!" That being said, it is pretty amazing to watch my 3 year old open up my tower face, push the CD button, put in his game, then close it up, then use the mouse to start the game. He just figured it out one day when I was out of the room.

Ah, the cyberware is a bit tricky. select the item form the list, then click on the highlighted body part. It wasn't very intuitive for me.

I've pumped a few points into charisma to unlock academic and corp etiquette for my street samurai, it isn't limited to Shamans. There are plenty of karma points to go around so far, so I don't consider it a waste. I'm really enjoying the depth of the skills and playstyles. It's a fantastic game, for sure.

You mean Jake Armitage? He's right at the start, so I don't think it's much of a spoiler.

I think movie studios need to start instituting a hard cap on a lot of these films. Quite a few decent films have simply been the victims of bloated budgets. John Carter was very good, but it was set up to fail from the start. The Lone Ranger is dealing with that as well, it's a western, there is no reason it should cost so much to make.

Heh, my kids are less understanding about the saving situation. I am absolutely loving it so far. They've really nailed the Shadowrun vibe, I love the skill progression and my character is awesome. I went with a Street Samurai Ork who loves pistols. That's the same character I made in the PnP game in middle school, so I'm definitely basking in the memories. Combat is slick and simple. The writing has been very well done so far too. I'm very happy, it has blown away my initial expectations when I pledged on Kickstarter.

When I was in college, I actually started working on a Shadowrun type game with an artist friend and a programmer friend. We really only planned out a couple mission ideas, but I'm going to see if I can make them work with the toolset.

It is a relatively short game, so you'll probably be able to play through it with different styles easily enough.

Again it is a budget title, you can buy it for $20 so I'm not surprised by some of the limitations. I'm really excited to hear the buzz about the toolset. Hopefully we will get a good modding community going and end up with some amazing user campaigns.

Yep, people keep complaining about the save system, but they went into pretty good detail about how big a roadblock it was to implement full saves. I'm not happy about it, but I also think you get what you pay for. This is still very much a budget title.

I read that Valve charges developers extra to release games on midnight. Not sure how reliable that is, but it explains why the game is coming out fairly late into the day of the 25th.

I took my daughter to swimming, then we picked up our RV from the shop, then I took my daughter to tutoring, and then I went to the gym. Pretty busy day, now I have a delicious pot pie cooking in the oven. I also realized at some point in our travels the antenna dish on top of our RV got ripped off. It wasn't a big deal with our old TV because it couldn't pick up digital air channels, but our new TV can and now I need to replace the dish. I have on idea when it came off, crazy. Nothing else is damaged on the roof, so I think it just shook loose on its own.

I'm not against abuse in MP games, they are deathmatches, not an afternoon tea. There just needs to be a way to get rid of the rampant racism and misogyny.

That Xbox controller is awesome to play with, but the battery situation is ridiculous. I take out the battery pack every time I am done with it since there doesn't seem to be any way to shut the controller off. They couldn't put a power switch on the thing?

It is now part of our curriculum in many school districts to try and teach kids not to be internet dickwads. We call it digital citizenship. I have no clue if it will be effective, I think I can do a pretty good job talking with kids about this stuff since I've been dealing with you guys for so long but a lot of my coworkers are clueless.

Why are you making stuff up Volo? You know what, I dont think you really support PEDs, I think.you are just arguing for the sake of arguing. I will stop now, you got me.

Here is a quote from last year's NL MVP winner Buster Posey about Ryan Braun: So this really is about the players. The owners would probably love to let these guys juice it up, jeopardize their personal health for bigger numbers and all that.

No one is saying steroids will make a crappy player great. That isn't how they work. You still need the hand eye coordination, the discipline, and everything else. Barry Bonds is one of the greatest hitters to ever play the game. He didn't need steroids for that. He knew the strike zone better than every hitter of his time. But steroids allowed him to strong arm more balls over the fence. Does he break the homerun record without them? The evidence of his early seasons says no. The sad part is Barry Bonds did them because he was watching Sammy Sosa and Mark Maguire, players he felt he was far better than, getting all the attention in the homerun race. When a player does performance enhancing drugs, they are cheating, and the people who suffer the most are the other players. They are the ones playing against someone who is cheating. Every player in the majors is immensely talented, you don't get there unless that is true. So when two players go against each other, and one has used chemicals illegally to give them an edge, I don't understand how you support that. You are basically telling every player that they have to take PED's to compete in the big leagues.