TheLastBaron

So I got my Steam Link back in November and it appear to have already died on me. When I turn it on (plug it in) it just sits at the low res screen with a Steam Link on a blue background. I filed a support ticket a week ago and still haven't gotten a response, but from browsing Google it looks like it's going to be an RMA.

Looking at past games it looks like it's generally a year between the Japanese releases and localized releases so I'd imagine it'd be a summer 2017 release here.

I looked it up and I guess there's a new one called "Story of Seasons Good Friends of Three Villages" coming out in Japan this summer.

I don't care about the Oscars but what the fuck? Mark Rylance!? Jesus.

So I saw there's actually a rom hack for X and Y called Neo X/Y that just makes it harder and I think it basically does what you suggested. I don't have a hacked 3ds or emulator so I can't check it out, but reading the description it actually does sound a lot better than the actual game. I actually kind of do wish Nintendo would do something like this, though I really don't think they will.

I think we're the exact opposite. I don't care about anything in the game for the most part besides online battles. If I could just not play the game and just skip to the battles I would (and pretty much do as the last time I was into Pokemon I spent more time playing on online battling software). That being said my interest in Pokemon peaked in Pearl/Soul Silver,though I liked X/Y. What would a harder difficulty change? Would it mean just a smarter AI because I think without changing the Pokemon every trainer has to a balanced lineup it's still going to be easy. I mean the idea of gyms having Pokemon of all the same type is basically always going to be simple to beat.

That's interesting, because up here I hear the best Asian food is in LA.

Totally agree. I thought he was also terrible in Bridge of Spies.

Wasn't Season 2 of Friday Night Lights the result of the writers strike? Either way I agree it was bad and the Landry stuff was really stupid.

Wow. That looks terrible.

I mean if you enjoy them doing their straight up comedy movies (like Ladykillers) then you'll probably (maybe) like this one, but those just never seem to work for me as much as I do love the Coen brothers. I also just felt that the movie was pretty incoherent, like there were a lot of separate scenes that never came together to form a movie.

I thought Hail Caesar was really bad, not as bad as Ladykillers, but down there, and for the same reasons. Clooney was delightful as always, however.

There are things like The Golem's Mighty Swing by James Sturm which is about a Jewish baseball team, or Essex County by Jeff Lemire which had a lot of hockey going on especially in the second act. Or Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron which is about football kind of, but like Essex County it's really more of a character piece than a sports piece. As far as regular serialized weekly/monthly stories about sports I don't know of any, those types of books existed for sure, but not for a while. The Comics Journal did an interview a few days ago with Sloane Leong about sports and comics, I found it to be an interesting read. http://www.tcj.com/discussing-sports-and-comics-with-sloane-leong/

Watched the first episode of Louis CK and Steve Buscemi's new show and man it's so very Louis CK, which I mean in the best possible way.

So I noticed we don't have (as far as I can see) a thread on sports. I'm not super into sports personally, by which I mean the only sport I follow deeply is soccer/football and then baseball and hockey to a much lesser extent and then I don't pay much attention to other stuff. The only thing I can talk about with any authority though is soccer, and only MLS, The Premier League, and Bundesliga. So, what are other peoples' thoughts on sports?

That's the best all-star game I've ever seen, I'm going to remember everyone lifting up John Scott after him winning the MVP for a long time.

So I was never a huge John Scott fan, even when he played for the Sharks last season, but after following the drama around him with the NHL all star game and reading what he's said/written I got a lot of respect for him.

It just seemed a lot less tight than the first season. I guess I probably was comparing it more directly to season 1 than I should have. Season 3 has a much wider scope which means less time spent on each of the individual plot lines which made it seem slow to me and I lost interest in some of the threads. I guess it was just going from season 1 where there's basically just the police and then the Barksdale crew, or season 2 where it's mostly just the police and the docks witch the prison stuff on the side. There are some specific things that I wasn't a huge fan of like how it seemed like every single character was having an affair and also with the writing it started to stand out to me how everyone sort of talks in anecdotes. I didn't hate the season by any means, I just really loved it when I first saw it and didn't this time. A lot of that might have just been binge watching the show as fast as I did. Also Cuttys plot line I really liked. One of the things I missed was the super low level street stuff from Season 1 did showing young kids getting drawn into the game and Cutty was sort of the reverse of that.

I rewatched it not that long ago and I actually liked the second season a lot more than the first time I saw it. On the other hand I found the third season I originally considered one of the best and I was not a big fan of it the second time around. Nothing beats the first season for me though.

I tried watching Ladykillers last week and had to stop before getting even a half hour in because I hated it so much. And for reference I love pretty much every Coen Brothers movie, except I'm in the small minority of people who don't care for the Big Lebowski. My favorite is O, Brother, but I wouldn't argue that it's their best.

So I saw Room, which I thought was good, but man the music was so bad. It was a lot of Thomas Newman style piano music basically just copying American Beauty and then randomly a song by This Will Destroy You that on top of not fitting was very heavily used in Moneyball already. It was also just so in cohesive and it felt like they never replaced their temp music.

Almost all of those are short stories though and I think what Stack is looking for is a regular ongoing monthly series.

It depends what you mean/want. There's still a lot of good stuff coming out that's grounded and personal by publishers like Drawn & Quarterly or Fantagraphics or Top Shelf or Pantheon, but I don't know if those types of books are what you're looking for (I'm assuming not).

I definitely prefer this to waiting for sales. I like knowing up front what's going to be on sale and I also just like buying all my games at once rather than doing a bunch of transactions.

This. It really bothered me.