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I do wish we could get past the 'I found something absolutely fucking insane... I'll make sure to tell no one about it' mode of storytelling. The 'oh from this 19th century map its unclear who owns the land...' schtick is also a bit played out. The USGS does exist, even in "flyover states".

He's not an android so much as a synthetic human. Sort of like a skinjob cylon. I did like James Callis as his father. Fans are primed to see him as evil yet as said above it's clear he was doing the best he could..

You may want to consult a religious person of your choosing. Preferably one with an O-level in demonology.

Stranger Things is targeted solidly at Gen Xers. I grew up in the midwest and was the same age as the characters are in 83/84 and the nostalgia feel of the thing is strong as hell. I actually go back and rewatch periodically just because its so damn fun.

Had one Kickstarter that was super delayed due to all sorts of supply issues but finally arrived at the US distributor on groundhog day...and has promptly sat there for the past 2+ months. 3PL is not some sort of arcane process, there are literally hundreds of similar places across the country...

There is a remarkable white-knight effect when it comes to some of these Kickstarter campaigns that I find fascinating from a sociological perspective. Some delays are understandable but others are just complete bullshit and/or laziness related and yet people chime in with "just so happy to...

The abilities of character 4 were certainly not what I was expecting. Its pretty much a cleric with an AE shield and AE heal. I don't think I used the double-tap bumper ability even once despite it being the defining trait for the character.

So in the end Sylvanas is just Lois Lane level dim when it comes to the Jailer and the whole genocide thing was just sort of a thing to do because she was bored on a Tuesday? I didn't really expect any sort of clever twist to the whole story, but I did expect something that wasn't straight up...

There is carry over for all the characters except character 5. There's even a bit at the start of the 2nd character where they are explaining the whole concept after you recruit the 1st character back into your posse that you will carry over their inventory including any unspent points. This...

FFS! We don't talk about Bruno!!

I'm gonna have to go to theater for the first time post COVID to see this bitch. Aint no way in hell I'm missing Wanda and Strange.

Agnes going full Pat Benatar was unexpected but fun

I do kinda like the anthology nature of it with the different storylines that still manage to cross over each other thanks to the persistent use of the time/date stamp. I did appreciate that it took them weeks to find the crown of Arion given the size of the area they had to search. The...

Elden Ring is not the messianic coming that people want it to be. Its more akin to an abusive relationship where it brings you a nice present after it smacks you around the kitchen the previous night. The 'mini dungeons' in Elden Ring are one step past Lost Dungeons of Norrath in terms of...

Finished the game. Character 5's story was the shortest of them all, but by that point anyone with a pulse can figure out where the whole deal is headed and you likely have orange weapons/armor on your posse-peeps so it was just going through the motions. Never did address the lost skill...

I mean... it had to happen.

There is a Burger King nearby immediately adjacent to a McDonalds. The McDs is perpetually busy and gets a full remodel every couple of years to stay current. The BK? Not so much. I have never once seen a car in their drive thru, even when both lanes of the McD drive thru are spilling out...

The later part of the game has some wonky bugs. I'm on character 5 now and walking through objects / walls and/or getting stuck on surfaces. Lots of random crashes mid combat, posse members getting stuck etc. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but my 'skill' points did not transfer...

I'm only gonna get this if I can get the deluxe edition with the blue-milk luke minifig. The one time where physical edition calls to me.

I'm on character 4 now. Ive gotten to the point now of making sure to load things up on the horse before the end of a given storyline so I have better gear when I buy my horse back (your horse and safety deposit box transfers from story to story). The first story is by far the most 'plain', it...

So having the other leaders come to the Shadowlands at the end would seem to indicate there is not big time skip or etc shenanigans going on...and popping back and forth to the afterlife is just like taking a trip to the mall. The Dragonflight leak seems too thorough to be a fake, and it does...

They do such a terrible job of promoting this show! Good lord in heaven.

Be prepared to save scum like crazy unless you are a superhuman reflex ninja. Even with save scumming like mad I nearly threw the controller across the room while doing a sneaky brothel quest. The overall concept of you switching bodies as you go through the game is interesting in that it...

Was playing this earlier and it's quite good (and on Gamepass!). It is not based on Deadlands, however, and the devs get really salty when you suggest it might be. (I had asked them about it and they insisted it was based on the 'weird west' pulp genre as a whole and not on a particular IP)

Weird West arrived today on GamePass. I had been very intrigued by this when I saw the announcement last year, so I'm happy to see its arriving 'for free'. Its certainly a more tactical game than I had anticipated!

Lots of sour grapea on Twitter after the disastrous PS5 drop yesterday. It's bonkers that we are 18 months in and the things are still gone instantly.

I do appreciate the "that's not how linguistics works!" line.

After the patch yesterday I lost all my pre-order bonus thingys, most notable as I had characters who were using some of those textures / colors on their armor. Contacted their technical support and it was fixed within minutes, so that's a plus.

What a total trainwreck of an expansion. I get that they had a lot going on over the last couple of years, but holy crap this whole thing was bad.

Anthony Burch left Gearbox after the DLC for Borderlands 2. He was brought in staff by Mikey Neumann who himself left Gearbox after he was diagnosed with MS. Borderlands 3 seemed to suffer from his absence as a creative force. I don't know who they got to write Wonderlands but I do want to...

I'm gonna have to watch Tiny Tina as an actual 'Bunkermaster'

Yeah if its a 'Repeating Cast' spell you can indeed shoot while the cast is going off. This ONLY works in the primary (aka left hand) spell-slot if you are using Ambi-Hexterous as the right hand is also the 'gun' hand.

Having the second-class gives some interesting added flair for various builds. Its nice that its not a complete intelligence check in that there is a predefined 'best' pairing for given classes.

I've experienced the 'lag' today on Xbox when it loses connection to SHIFT and is trying to reconnect, so it seems to be affecting more than just PC bros. Thoroughly enjoying the chaos of this game AND how differently the classes play from one another.

Non-spoiler : I made the mistake of drinking a beverage at 'magic missile' and nearly choked.

There are a ton of D&D and general gamer references. Skeletons who yell that you are a 'filthy casual', for example. But they also tell things like trying to liberate the skeleton trapped inside your flesh, so there are some gags non-gamers can appreciate. I dig the small touches, like...

I was wondering why Paladin Mike sounds exactly like Lorelei until Tina's explanation that Mike wasn't her character, it was the character of some barista she met on the EchoNet. We know from BL3 that Lorelei would indeed have still been a barista at the time the framing sequence of the game...

This is much better than BL3 so far. The combat and action is the same (never was a problem) but the storyline / voice acting / general mayhem is much more in tune with what one expects. I think maybe the legacy of Borderlands as an IP got in the way of them doing the necessary weirdness.

Clearly the writers played Mass Effect... https://www.pcgamer.com/the-halo-tv-show-has-a-cheeky-mass-effect-easter-egg/

Enjoying this so far. It's funny and corny in all the right ways. I realize Ashley Burch is having a moment what with Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West and Tiny Tina in this coming out back-to-back