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I finished Alice Madness Returns after about 30 hours, its good fun for all the previous reasons I mentioned. I first played this game about 12-13 years ago and back then I couldn't defeat the end boss. I tried about 10 times and raged quit. But now I won the final battle on my 3rd try. I used a Controller this time so maybe that was the difference? Anyway this game gets 65\100 on the " BruceVC game rating system " and its recommended Then I played The Lightkeeper which is a horror adventure game where the protagonist is a WW1 veteran suffering from PTSD because of what he did in the war. He gets tasked to maintain a lighthouse on a deserted island and supernatural events linked to his past start occuring. It has some very scary moments but its very short. 3- 4 hours. But its fun for a single sitting game Then I played The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante which is a text based, CYOA where you make dialogue options and advance certain skills that give you further options and success around choices. I spent about 20 hours trying to get the right outcomes which was for me about becoming a noble and keeping my family together. I mostly failed and had to restart the main chapter several times but then at the end I reached the perfect outcome for my family but they all ended up getting killed in the riots at the end of the final chapter I had enough by then of the repetition so I stopped playing with that ending. This game is an entertaining distraction, nothing fantastic. It gets a 55/100

Yes, Republicans are suppose to be the fiscally conservative party. But under Trump that definition has vanished

The reality of this debt is both parties are responsible for its egregious increase https://www.reuters.com/world/us-debt-crosses-40-trillion-threshold-after-doubling-under-trump-biden-2026-08-19/ Whats the most concerning is how its doubled since 2017 and how both Trump and Biden are responsible but for different reasons which is all discussed in this link " The federal government's IOU has now more than doubled in less than a decade, from $19.95 trillion when President Donald Trump was sworn in for the first time in January 2017. Roughly one-third of that increase occurred during two years of frantic government borrowing to fund the COVID-19 pandemic responses undertaken by Trump and former President Joe Biden, while the fiscal policy choices of both presidents combined with long-running tax-and-spending imbalances account for the rest.""

That link doesn't work, this one seems fine https://www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-theft-auto/grand-theft-auto-6-leaker-says-they-wont-stop-until-rockstar-and-take-two-apologize-for-anti-consumerism-and-make-a-concrete-commitment-to-do-better/ This type of outrage makes me laugh, what do we define it as? " Game espionage\gaming terrorism " Clearly a global issue and important reason for hacking that matters around a better world " They also listed three "commandments" in the manifesto—no digital preorders, no "fake" (ie, already part of the game data) singleplayer DLC, and mandatory "offline fallback states" for singleplayer games—and warned that publishers who violate them will be subject to sanction: "Cyberleek will not stop until they issue a public statement and apology with a concrete commitment to be better. Words are not enough; restitution is mandatory."

Have you ever played any Dark Souls game more than once .......Mamie tell the truth

I never use to replay any game unless I forgot most parts of the narrative and that normally takes 12-15 years and its mostly from 2007-2010. But now I can replay games using mods because they change and improve so much But this applies mostly to Bethesda games so I have replayed Fallout 3&4 and F:NV and then Morrowind and Oblivion

I completed the Pale Beyond after about 15 hours. Its an excellent narrative survival game, no monsters or magic. Just the harsh reality of trying to survive being stuck in arctic ice in the early 20th century The first 70% of the game is all about intense decisions to ensure you have enough resources to get through winter and the game has a very good system of how you engage with your crew and how you need to gain there loyalty. So most dialogue options you have to balance between the outcome and how this will influence your relationship with the crew member The game gets a solid 70/100 on the globally respected " BruceVC game rating system " Now Im playing Alice Madness Returns. Its addictive and thoroughly entertaining with its movement and combat mechanics. The art and recreation of Wonderland is beautiful and I often stop and look at a landscape It has a few frustrating movement puzzles but once you comfortable with effective jumping its very rewarding to progress over an area.

I wonder if this will ever be implemented but yes its another example of Trump throwing his toys because of the myopic and ill-conceived decision to attack Iran without clear and coherent objectives And then other countries refuse to get involved

The Pale Beyond has got a really good system of how death and failure works I mentioned the game is broken into 50 turns and each turn you have to manage resources, go hunting, respond to personal requests from crew and address various health issues like frostbite and malnutrition. And at the end of each turn you feed the crew and there is summary of your current resources so you can see how well you are doing And in the beginning of each turn the game is automatically saved, this is the only way to save. And if you die you can restore to the beginning of any of the 50 saved turns but all the saves after this are deleted. Which means you can go back and make different decisions but its not completely frustrating where you have to restart I have died twice so far. First in turn 7 where I didnt leave the ship in time to create a camp on the ice shelf and the ship was crushed by the ice and sunk and then in turn 10 where I didnt manage a metric called Decorum which is about overall crew morale and it starts at 100 and if it gets to 0 your entire quest ends in failure But in both cases I restored to previous turns where I then made different choices and ensured I managed Decorum properly. Im now on turn 13 so I have a long way to go to survive but its great fun

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/trump-spokeswoman-karoline-leavitt-to-leave-white-house/107031078 Leavitt is leaving. Its a shock because being Trumps press secretary must be such a great job....no stress and no need to clarify or explain much But she does have a new baby so wanting to focus on that is also a legitimate reason to resign

I finished Fry Cry Primal after 60 hours and it was fun The main narrative and objective is different to other Far Cry games because its really about ensuring your tribe can grow and survive. Yes there are 2 main enemy chiefs you have to eventually defeat but thats part of the overall survival of your tribe So everything is about building and upgrading your village and the welfare of your people Then there are some great mechanics like taming beasts and how you use them in combat strategically and you can go on these unique hunts for very dangerous animals Its well worth playing as a Far Cry game and it gets a solid 65\100 on the globally followed " BruceVC game rating system " Now Im playing the Pale Beyond. Its a survival game designed like a CYOA RP adventure game. You need to make constant dialogue choices around how you manage resources and survive The narrative is you become the captain of a British exploration ship stuck in Antarctic ice in the early 20th century. So you need to manage fuel, food and the constant morale of crew and you have to make hard decisions about who will survive the terrible arctic conditions because of the limited resources Its set over 50 weeks that are broken into turns that you need to survive before you get rescued when winter ends and the ice melts. And there is an overarching question about why you travelled there in the first place which is unclear. The initial objective was to find another ship that vanished 5 years ago but what are the sponsors of this latest expedition really after?

GTA 6 is going to end up as the most popular Rockstar game of all time and its biggest revenue earner But its going to be a while before I play it because they haven't even announced the PC release date

There is downside, he is being referred to the DOJ for contempt of Congress and possible prosecution https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-was-fauci-held-in-contempt-for-pleading-the-5th-and-what-happens-next But we also know the current list of failed prosecutions from the Trump DOJ because of the sensationalism of the reasons to prosecute so I'm not sure Fauci is that concerned?

But does that really make sense to you? I have watched Fauci being questioned before by Paul and its a debate around science and what is considered best practice in any virus pandemic. Its hard to believe as irritating and flawed some of the virus preventative measures were any doctor could be held criminally liable? End of the day governments basically followed WHO global best practice So how could they trap him? The Clinton development was different, he lied about an affair and he did something wrong

Im not sure why Fauci took the 5th? He has answered most of these questions already and he is protected from prosecution for what he did before 2025. This was advice from his lawyers I can imagine its irritating to dispute conspiracy theories and argue with Rand Paul again but its not like he did anything wrong?