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Oh man, I had managed to mentally blot out the final boss. What a letdown.

Just went to see The Big Sick with my wife. Absolutely wonderful, heartwarming and hilarious. Recommended.

Agreed. Pretty fun! I'm not sure I'm sold on the real-time aspect but that's not my thing in general anyway.

I read several books over the holidays, most of which I greatly enjoyed. Top of the list is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me which managed to write a bunch of stuff about the black US (and to some extent Western) experience down in such a basic, incontrovertible way that it really hit home hard. Second, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, one of the most emotionally affecting books I've read in quite some time. It admittedly gets there at times by being almost over-the-top nasty to its characters, but some of the most moving stuff is actually the positivity, friendship and great-heartedness. A book that could have been a lot shorter yet never outstayed its welcome for me. Third, I finally got around to Silence by Shusako Endo. Kind of fell flat in some ways because the religious impulse is entirely alien to me, so the whole thing felt like an incredibly depressing waste of time of energy on the characters' parts, made even bleaker by the historical facts.

Ha! I knew this was coming. Sad to hear it's my least-favourite of hers. Maybe I'll give it another go, I may have changed.

I quite like this game but I loathe the sportsball. It's the same disastrous thing that happened with Frozen Synapse turning into Frozen Endzone. I just can't enjoy sportsball computer games, and I've been trying since Sensible Soccer, probably (maybe speedball?). Luckily the art, writing, world and characters are enough to make the ballgmae speedbumps bearable. Supergiant games all have in common for me that their mechanics are adequate at best , from Bastion's meh Zeldalike, to Transistor's irritating pause and sprint gameplay to, well, this. But they are still just such a joy to partake in just because everything else draws me in. Oh well.

Kuro's totally blank reaction during the interview and then just tearing up... oh man. Beautiful.

Great reply Rob. I wonder what it is about 3MA that attracts such a reactionary audience compared to Thumbs.

There are two main things making bitcoin an ethical and environmental disaster: - The fact that there's a limited amount of BTC that will ever exist (the rate of new ones being 'mined' is decreasing by design) makes the currency inherently deflationary, meaning the rich will only ever get richer. The world is already in enough inequality trouble with mostly inflationary currencies. - The power used by the network is already at the level of a small country and will only increase due to the increase in size of the blockchain and associated computing requirements.

Some really hype games yesterday. I've only just dropped in what with having been on holiday. Sad to see my man BigDaddy drop out, glad to see Liquid doing good.

This has been our approach as well. So far it's worked great, but with the eldest at almost 7 I'm anticipating some way tougher calls ahead.

Fuck off, nobody has less authority than Dan

I actually thought it was a Queen reference.

I'm tootling around on a necro, it's pretty damn fun! My deets are in the id thread.

Played in the splatfest a bit, had some fun but boy do the controls in this game make me mad. Definitely not a 60E purchase for me, especially given that you can't do local multiplayer without getting a second Switch involved which would be crazy.

I'm going to PC, paying for online was too irritating to me.

My first thought as well. Maangchi is a great endorsement, I'm addicted to her kimchi.

It's interesting which of these games will suit whom - I never managed to get into AssCreed, and only the first Batman game held my interest, but Mordor was just what the doctor ordered. Something about messing with the nemesis system and orcish hierarchy made the world feel much more alive and interesting than the creedlikes.

Yeah sorry just joshin' a bit. Reading your fps thread is super fun but also is demonstrative of the extreme difference we have in tolerances. Anyway, shame this game didn't click for you, I found it to be great fun.

I thought it was fine, but I'm less persnickety than you.

That would be super cool. I can't tell you how many blueprints I've lost haha. Approaching completion though!

You're right, that was super painless. Here's a stupid death! It's surprisingly hard to focus when you know you're also being recorded.

I don't have the background to go into it with any kind of authority, but I've read quite a few authoritative accounts of how mr. Diamond does not do the whole picture justice at all. I think @Gormongous may have a can of links for us?

I definitely don't make any timed doors unless I'm specifically going for it, except for the promenade one. There's just too many nooks and crannies, even in spite of my indeed constantly running & rolling. We should upload vids and compare! I'm going to see how hard it is to recortd this stuff i think

Oh I have to explore every nook and cranny of every map, my lust for goodies is too great. Call me a dwarf.