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Oh stop getting reasonable...

I was listening to something slightly related when youtube recommended Sabaton... I listened to a few of them and found them to my liking. One for Poles I guess (Live in Poland): Live at Wacken:

I would've found all of the "Epic exclusive" type deals a bit more palatable if they were all 6 months vs. a year. A little bit. Agreed. 6 months is sort of a "sweet spot" for me. These days I don't buy games at launch anyway and 6 months means most of the obvious bugs will have been ironed out through patches.

So, scheduled for release in May 2027?

Somebody in the GOG thread mentioned nostalgia and the first PC game he ever played. Made me feel like dusting off the first two PC games I bought. While I don't have the boxed versions anymore, I do have Fallout 1 from the Fallout Trilogy pack (FO1,2 and Tactics) and I have the original Tombraider from GOG. Heh, I still remember actually buying an Orchid 3Dfx card just to get the nicer graphics in Tombraider. Glide drivers.... yeah. Those were the times Maybe I should try to see if I can find the emulator versions and have a go at the first two computer games I bought: International Soccer by Commodore and Beach head by Access Software/US Gold

Actually, according to the article, the problem is exactly that they thought they could do like Bioware of old and get away with it (it = a good game). With larger and larger projects, it just ended up not working, as the consequences became more and more severe. Edit: E.g. DA:I was just about salvageable as a project, ME:A didn't succeed particularly well. Swtor.... has an issues list that is longer than a Russian War and Peace novel and Anthem has it's own share of issues to deal with

Meh, nothing truly new (as that was revealed by Randy in a twit last year). New thing is it's "only" a six month exclusive. But yeah, Take 2 and their subsidy, Private Division, which sucks for Obsidian fans, has definitely decided to share their bed with Epic.

I used to have Origin installed, but since the last Bioware game I was interested in (ME3) got released a long time ago, I don't have it installed any more. Gog and Steam for me in that order, Epic when hell freezes over. Never had games that required the Ubi or Bethsoft launcher, so no idea how good or bad they are. Edit: Small correction, I probably use proprietary, game specific launchers the most for the two games spent the most time on the last 7 years, swtor and GW2

Just bought tickets for the Metallica concert in Melbourne later this year. Still 7 months away, but looking forward to it... https://youtu.be/i9fxUlTMRz8 /headbang

Need a bit of foreign policy stuff to take peoples minds off the Mueller report? Russian troops arriving in Venezuela. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47688711

More deeds done here

Start of old thread End of old thread you got a serious advantage over shady when it comes to improving push ups. takes real effort for shady to make gains, but since you has only done once in decades, your gains would/should come much faster. is always a bright side. HA! Good Fun! Heh, add me to the list of the "needy"... I used to go to a Gym, just for 2 hours twice a week, but dang, I can *feel* it, that it's been 6 months since I moved (and haven't rejoined a gym), The curse of age. It's like the maintenance work just becomes more and more demanding

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Start of old thread End of old thread Continuting the news.... and just a reminder. There are already other threads about Epic Games and if a specific thread about the subject is lacking, by all means, create a relevant topic for the subject, so lets move further discussions about the pro's and con's there? Basically, leave the troll posts at the entrance please.

More Guild Wars 2... not so much my little Asura engineer showing off the shield on his back (although it's nice, especially the animated water, wonder how it keeps refilling itself???) It's my excitement about the achievements nearing completion in the upper right corner. The two top ones will give me a mastery point each, exactly what I need to have fully unlocked all "Central Tyria" abilities. The connection to the shield being, I need those two mastery points to learn tier 4 legendary recipes so I can finish the legendary precursor shield he's wearing. Once completed (in some distant future), it will also feature a Quaggan who has made his home inside the shield. ("Out of Cluck" is an achievement for killing all the chickens in a specific Fractal) Edit: What the finished shield looks like from the wiki page: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shooshadoo

Rumours about a Swtor live action movie/series since Disney really wants a return on their LA investment... Disney reportedly planning Knights of the Old Republic show

Majorly disappointed, but I'll add it to the list of things to do in 2020 (like Borderlands 3) when available elsewhere. Found this interview snippet from Boyarsky from about a month ago: "You have these robber barons at the turn of the 20th century. A couple of hundred years later, what if we still have that culture. The corporations have pretty much taken over everything." Just seemed to fit the occasion somehow... losers in the end are the people who have no real choices but what corporations to support.

Gives new meaning to "flexing your brain muscles"

Not sure I would like a CEO running my country when he has 6 corporate bankruptcies and billions of lost dollars (mostly other peoples dollars) as his CV Latest ancestry check did showed that I was of 50% male and 50% female origin. Who would have thought???

Steam may not be perfect, but at least I can understand their business and motives (cornering the market and greed). Epic.... with Tencent owning 40% is a bit more obscure. If backed by the Chinese government, they can offer developers/publishers the kind of money that privately owned corporations are struggling to compete with, because their ultimate motive may not be profit from games sales.

Speaking of Epic ... I guess the new Epic "panic" is from some twitter remarks Pitchford made regarding Epic a few months ago. So folks are drumming up fear that BL3 could be Epic exclusive. Rather counting eggs before they hatch but I can understand why ppl are worried, with all these exclusivity stories. The actual tweets: https://mobile.twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/1070125621785714688 Ah, that would be a shame if it ended up there. Not fear, just disappointment as I would have loved to play the game, but it's not the end of the world missing out on a game

I think it's hilarious, that if the UK applies for an extension to the Brexit date, they will have to field candidates for the European Parliament... which they may not be a part of 3 months later. Politics... the gift that keeps giving.

You have to give it to the Sylvari, they make for some incredibly illustrious and colorful characters with a bit of care.

This is bad.... I'm old enough to remember 'Clippy' and can now just imagine the sales pitch for 'Clippy 2' - with skill trees and user choices that matters! Edit to add: Games I do remember with Microsoft as a publisher... Age of Empires, Jade Empire, Mass Effect... and maybe not a game, but dang, I spent a lot of time flying around the Flight Simulator

Too sophisticated for you?