Amentep

...that's good You really are funny Amentep. I've only noticed it the last month or so. You are very good at your clever one-liners Thanks. Sometimes I get lucky.

Too many games with "Dragon" in the name - I couldn't figure out what "Dragon Derp" referred to...

Christmas Cannibal Party then? Dare not imagine what kind of toys would be in the Christmas Cracker at that kind of party.

MMMmmm...Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories. Always fun.

IMO the timing is poor with the holidays as well - I think most people will spread their money a bit more cautiously right now. If they retried sometime in February or May and maybe with a revised pitch I'm sure they'd do better.

And I hit the level cap (I played the game a whole lot before Dark Arisen came out and had never restarted) while hunting Death to finally kill and decided, what the hell, I'll start over from scratch. If nothing else it makes my storage area a lot...cleaner.

I'm counting on it. Well he posted elsewhere on Lieutenant General Adrian Carton de Wiart - hard to see him topping that but I'm intrigued to see him try...

His father had an interest in Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader who would have been from the Ohio area that Sherman lived, and had been fairly prominent in the midwest through Tecumseh's war and in 1812 when his confederacy of Native Americans joined the British in the war against the US.

My experience is that doing it gradually just prolongs the problem. Of course everyone is different, but when you're addicted to the caffine or sugar and you're getting a little bit but not enough it just seemed to drag on whereas going cold turkey would be a miserable few days but after that it would veer greatly upward experience wise. At least that's what I had when I tried quitting sodas and eventually did quit.

Its a well made game, at least. I can recognize that. But the frustration factor to me was in the stratosphere. I went back and tried Demon Souls but same thing. I think the game just was designed for a different type of gamer than me - but hopefully you'll like it. Tale - thanks for the information; I thought that'd be the case. Still might be fun to be a low level trainee again (particularly since I understand the classes a lot better).

When you start as a new character, do you lose the character creation extras (eye color, skin color, hair color etc) you've bought previously or the main menu character editor? I've been tempted to start over from scratch but don't really want to lose the character creation options (anyhow not restarting entirely until I've finally taken death out).

I picked up Dark Souls when it came out. Sold it back 4 days later. Sorry, but the game was just not for me. Feel free to de-friend me.

You should have climbed on its neck and whacked it with your sword. I tried to do that. But my guy ran out of stamina while trying to climb to the head. So he'd leap onto the neck, shimmy a bit toward the head, then drop down huffing and puffing. Apparently my character is also morbidly obese. That's strange. I climbed its neck with my mage. I had enough of being only a mage, so I decided to just go berserk on it. I'm now a mystic knight (although I haven't played for several days now). Remember encumbrance increases the use of stamina when climbing. If you want to be an all-climby fighter / warrior type you need to keep your gear & supplies light particularly at lower levels when you have less stamina to spare. IIRC Striders use the least stamina when climbing of the three basic types but fighters have a higher encumbrance rate. Fighters usually need to use the shield bash on flying enemies (encourages them to attack the player). Warriors have an upthrust and a good jumping slash for low level flying enemies (but yeah, Striders and Mages have the upper hand there, but many big monsters will one-hit a low level mage but not a fighter). RE: Pip - the game encourages jumping around, climbing and trying to find ways to get to the seemingly inaccessible.

Maybe try a "floss pick" for it?

Shhh, they can smell your fear. And they find it ...nourishing. Apparently the US network are secretly headed by: ABC - Cthulhu CBS - Azathoth NBC - Yog-Sothoth Fox - Nyarlathotep CW - Shub-Niggurath

Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam. Or 3 Dev Adam. I'm just saying.

Wait, you're surprised about this? This is the direction that gaming is headed and has been for years. I estimate we're only a year or two away from games coming out with a special edition you can buy for a cool $20 more where you don't get the game at all, but instead you automatically are awarded all the achievements so that you can show off your SKILLZ and your ePen1s can grow. But you need the X-Box One kinnect camera to show that last bit off, surely?

I've got Ironclad but yet to watch it.

Right now its showing is good on TV By the Numbers Renew/Cancel index and they think renewal. BubbleWatch on the same site (which uses the same number but tries to predict the ratings for a full season) puts it in the bubble but with only four episodes and one on a different night it may be difficult to predict at this point.

Maybe it'll be as good as the original Japanese Manga that the Korean film was based on...?

Looking forward to the Persona 5 for sure. Also new news on the fighter sequel. And I really need a 3DS...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marktaormino/adandd-1e-module-the-hanging-coffins-of-the-vampir Old 1E style, OGL based retro Dungeon Module, "The Hanging Coffins of the Vampire Queen".

They're actually filming a lot of the actors performances now in the booth - particularly for facial expressions - to then be viewed by animators to capture the essence of those actions/reactions. So yeah a very different world now.

I totally agree with you. I remember getting into an argument in the 80s with some fellow anime fans about US voice actors vs Japanese voice actors. They claimed that Japanese voice actors were clearly superior. I pointed out since neither of them knew Japanese they really couldn't comment on the quality of the acting so much as the quality of their vocal intonations, and what they were really responding to were voices that sounded cool because - without an understanding of what they're actually saying and contextually how that should be delivered they couldn't really understand the quality of the acting. One instance was the Rin Taro directed Harmageddon which the main villain has an awesome sounding voice...but without understanding Japanese you really couldn't understand if the performance actually fit what was needed. Needless to say they disagreed rather vociferously claiming that when they had subtitles they knew what the story was and what was supposed to be said (which doesn't explain how they praised performances in the unsubtitled films they got their hands on - this being the 80s when most anime didn't make it to the US) but also neatly sidesteps the fact that the subtitles are an approximation of how things are said and you still lose the context provided by nuance in the original language. All of this to say, I usually look at stuff from other cultures differently from stuff in my own; I think in particular a lot of films from China, Japan, and Korea are very reflective of standards of acting rooted in vastly different forms of theater than either US or UK productions and so you either adjust to the expectations or get lost, I think.

The leftover pizza I was going to eat had went south, so instead I made myself a quesadilla.