Badfinger

I don't remember any particular difficulty spikes from MoH:AA, but I am literally humming the music to it. It does get tougher towards the end. I remember the sniper level, and of course Tiger Town. Are you going to play the first Call of Duty? It's a different take on a campaign from the same developers. I remember moving almost seamlessly from one to the next.

Checking in to report that this is also one of the best games of 2017 so far, in addition to sharing the glory in 2015 and 2016.

We saw this on Monday, and I think this is now an irrevocably locked and important part of Star Wars. Outside of the completely ludicrous against canon omg!!! way that there was a corvette attached to a Mon Cal cruiser as an escape ship, the way it weaves this story into the literal moments before A New Hope is brilliant. I disliked Darth Vader being sassy in his volcano fort, but his Darth Vadering right at the end of the movie was peak Vader and one of the best linking moments to the original trilogy. It felt very right and on tone. There's some contrived stuff in there- they play pretty fucking fast and loose with Star Wars' own admission of how hyperspace communication works, and the tension ratcheting of "our secret mission covert ship didn't respond for 35 whole seconds SCRAMBLE THE FIGHTERS" was weirdly out of place in retrospect. All in all though, great movie.

I'm not really at your level, I bounce between high challenger and mid star level, but if you want to play I'm Badfinger on steam same as here.

Auto Hosting is on your dashboard. I'm sure there's an easier way to manage this stuff, but this is the fastest way I've found to get to it. It's on the bottom right there. Hit the gear to manage your auto host options. You can literally autohost anyone. I could choose the top 50 streamers and autohost them if I wanted, as silly as that might be.

I agree, but at the same time if there was a team someone watching the Thumbs stream could say "Oh Idle Thumbs Network? I love Idle Thumbs, the Dark Souls streamer with glasses. I will check out another name on this team that's online".

A few people have said this, and that's not really what I mean. It's not that you literally can't ever play that way, it's that Blizzard clucked its tongue and shook its head and said "Oh no, that's not how you should play." It's a game that's already had all of its tricks and secrets polished to a sheen and codified into every ounce of gameplay instead of being discovered, and it took one of the few rough edges to find gameplay nuance in and sanded that away too. It's fine for ranked and competitive play if they want to codify that, but sometimes I ALSO want to be D.Va. They'll end up with a pick/ban competitive mode within 2 years.

I suppose I do considering this is a GOTY list.

GOTY.CX 2016 DEFINITIVE LIST 1. DOOM 1a. DOOM AGAIN 1b. ok this joke is done, but DOOM is the runaway freight train GOTY. It's the biggest and best surprise, the best shooter, the best platformer, the best action game, the best soundtrack. I didn't even play the multiplayer much and this is still #1 with a bullet. 2. Titanfall 2. I loved the original Titanfall warts and all, and this one added a single player campaign that would easily be the tops for most years except for, you know... 3. Dishonored 2 I loved the original Dishonored also, surprise! I'm somewhat shocked this is so far down on the list for me, even at #3, but it took a little bit to get back in my Dishonored groove and I haven't finished it yet. Something in me wants to "enjoy it properly", whatever that means, and that keeps me from booting it up and just consuming it ravenously. 4. The Division This game is seriously awesome, and people didn't give it enough credit. It was a very good leveling experience, the Dark Zone was a wild west before everyone know what was going on, and the atmosphere and setting were second to none. It had problems, but the team has put in so much work on it during the year it's hard to ignore how much it's improved from an already great experience. The Survival DLC is good enough to be its own game. It's a masterful take on both their own game and the survival genre. Adding goals and a timer gives a lot of meaning to that kind of game. 5. Hitman I haven't "completed" hitman, but in terms of sneaking and stabbing it is definitely the second best one of those this year! To rest on its own laurels, it's seriously awesome. I love the ways you can play, I love how much control they've given you to either forge your own path or to point you in the direction of solutions. I love the presentation, and it looks great. 6. Firewatch I cried at the beginning of this game. Fuck Sean, Congrats Thanks Sean. I love how diegetic the dev commentary audio logs are, it's so very extremely Thumbs, but I also wish I could just listen to them without the game running even if I missed out on visuals. 7. Overwatch I really like Overwatch, but I don't LOOOOOVE Overwatch. It's a very good game, but in retrospect it lost me when you could no longer have multiples of the same character in a match. I also have very little connection to and am somewhat put off by how much attention is paid to everything about the game but the game itself. 8. Rocket League Yes it's a 2016 game fight me. 9ish XCOM 2 10ish Stellaris 9ish and 10ish are games I enjoyed, but not the way "fans" of those kinds of games are perceived to enjoy them. I've not finished a full game of either of these, but I really like them and am happy to own them and I loaded both of them up within the last week. My pile of shame - Hyper Light Drifter, Deus Ex, Witcher DLC oh man I've got to get to this, Inside maybe? - you're on blast to play these, me. My pile of disappointment - The Witness - That first pretentious fucking audio log about being a scientist walking through a door made me want to punch the headphones and alt-f4 delete local content. I finished about 125 puzzles and I'm probably finished with the game.

Thank you both for reading various blatherings I've written about my dumb twitch channel! Yes, I think it's easier for me to just stay with twitch.tv/sadfinger because through various stream things and an event I have a few dozen followers and a few hundred views on that channel. I think the "brand management" thing when there's no actual product was a silly leap for me doing busywork to make all the names the same instead of just streaming.

Oh the snowball is great! I don't own it though! He is also interested in doing dev streaming so at some point the mic will be called back. I feel like I need to plan to stream. Some days this week I've come home and I'm just... tired. Ok well I played 3 games of rocket league, installed a game, did one set of adventures in Diablo 3, did 2 titanfall multiplayer matches... That's not a very fun stream to watch. I promised myself that I could only buy Deus Ex if I streamed the whole thing. I don't own Deus Ex yet. But I desperately want to do this hobby. It is exciting to think about. I love tinkering. I want to do it. I'm just facing (perceived) internal and external challenges.

That would be great! I would love to stream. I even carved time out to stream and okayed it with the GF, but she (unintentionally) sends me on a guilt trip every time I go up to the office to do it. She's very supportive, she even asked me about it the other day, but trying to be structured takes just that much more out of the spontaneity of life at home, even if that's spontaneously sitting on the couch for an hour or two. If whomever can get the Thumbs to make a team I would love to be a part of it. Re: Audio - I was loaned a snowball mic from a friend, but I'm seriously considering swapping to this kind of setup. http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-set-up-a-streaming-studio-for-under-150/ I've already massively upgraded my pc both because it was time and I wanted to have a better streaming setup, it's just the little details now. Codifying an audio setup, setting up the green screen in a reasonable way, figuring out the best presentation.

From where you get the first part, the second part is almost directly behind you in the same suite. I'd like to take credit for being a clever boy, but I just happened to luck into it.

I think you'll find that this is relevant to your musical interests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbdewwtm70w (for the impatient it's about 2 minutes in, but you really should watch the whole thing)

If you want a tidy, clean domain but still want to obfuscate it as much as possible - wizardj.am. I wish I had the $100 of disposable income to purchase that for this purpose. Portal 2 (and Portal) are also both excellent comedy in games, but they've made themselves in a framework where you're always silent and often have a fixed or limited viewing perspective so you can't wander too far while the jokes are busy happening. It's so hard to recommend to people who want a funny thing but aren't video game players though, because in between the jokes there end up being some very intense first person platforming puzzle mechanics. How much was that magewell hdmi to usb dongle? I went to the website, and then to the NA distributor, and then it wanted me to email them for a price. e: found it on amazon!

Finished Gears of War 4 this weekend. I thought the environmental set pieces were incredible, and the straightforward cover based shooting was massively repetitive. I was so-so on the game through 3 acts, really enjoyed Act 4, and then Act 5 at least changed stuff up but I wasn't that much of a fan. Weirdly, in a game that I thought repeated the same encounter too many times, it felt like it ended 20 minutes too soon. Switching from controller on the couch to mouse and keyboard allowed me to go through the game much faster, which at least saved me the frustration of the controller not being able to both aim at the skittering small enemies and also zero in accurately and quickly at long distances. I'm doubly disappointed by the non-variability of the Horde Mode. You can't choose how many waves you do or how far in you start. It's start at level 1 and go to level 50 or until you quit, every single time. It could take hours and hours even with a premade group of people getting together to play. I don't have the hours or the friends list to dedicate to horde mode, which was frankly a draw for the game when I bought it. In a year with amazing first person shooters and even great 3rd person shooters (The Division feels excellent and has much more diversity of play), a competent remake of Gears from a new studio didn't cut it for me. It looks incredible, runs great, has crazy physics-tech environmental set pieces, and the shooting and the rest of the gameplay is literally and precisely what Gears has been for a decade. That's way less exciting after a decade of iterating and improving. If it was $30 I'd be really happy but at full price it's big shrug.

I finally finished the single player and uninstalled it. I love Horde mode conceptually, but playing on casual doesn't appeal to me in a "I did it just to do it" sort of way, and even with a premade group a single normal playthrough could easily take 2+ hours. I sometimes have that kind of time, but I can't guarantee it or block it out for a single game and get 3 other people. :/ I'd have hoped they would have learned some stuff from Mass Effect's amazing multiplayer, but looks like they just took some coarse sandpaper and paint to the previous model. Oh well, holding out hope that the new ME horde mode continues the new tradition of being incredible.

I appreciated Chris's story and perspective regarding a senpai, because except for probably spending more time in the Idle Thumbs slack than he does, thus gaining additional senpai knowledge through anime osmosis, his experience matches mine. Only understanding a senpai through the memeification and casual usage I see on the internet on a basically daily basis. Thank you for being the everyme, Chris.

I have seen some of you on Trackmania Stadium Unofficial Classic servers. I have also seen you queue up Buck Bumblestep. I know your shame. Confess your sins, and talk about the best dubstep time attack simulator in video games.

It's probably not going to be more deeply discounted than it is right at this moment, in the calendar year it was released, until like 2019. If all you want is single player so you can look back and go "Oh, THAT'S what people were talking about" then yeah sure wait, but otherwise it will meet but likely not exceed this sale price so if you want the multiplayer now's the time. If 55% off isn't enough, then this probably isn't something you really want (this is the calculus I personally use during sales anymore to prune my wishlists). There's no harm in making a Thumbs "group", but there aren't really any benefits from having 7 people in a group and no one on simultaneously except to have [IDLE] in front of your name when you're in a match. I have it on PC, and while I'm very impressed with the controller support (it's the best playing FPS with a controller, eatin Destiny's lunch), MAN a mouse and keyboard is the way to play this. I bet it'll have a bigger community on PS4 though.

You've got a board built to overclock but your chip can't. Get an H170 board instead. ASUS or ASRock both seem fine. You might consider reinvesting that money into a different power supply. Rosewill is the Newegg house brand. Some of their 80+ Gold stuff at higher wattages has reviewed well, but the lower end stuff hasn't been reviewed at all. You're PROBABLY fine, but you could go with an EVGA or XFX Bronze and do better. The EVGA 750 B2 is a steal at $50 if you're buying parts this week. You're going to actually do better at power saving running an efficient power supply than by putting less RAM in it. I did ATI cards once upon a time, but it's been nVidia for years now. Nvidia is easy enough to install, and easy enough to roll back if there are issues. Anecdotal experience - I just bought that case. It's bigger than my old case but it's extremely sturdy and I love the stuff they've done to make it easier to install and move cables around. The USB ports on the top front of the case in the same spot as the power button is a great touch. It's a BIG case for a standard mid tower, though.

I would happily play on horde mode if we can find time. I enjoy it, but my biggest knock is it takes literal hours to do a 1-50 run.

Like Chris, when I decided "I do not want to refresh Twitter at this time", I realized it was basically my default condition and I was left without a basic level of engagement. I'll play a game or be doing something on the computer and twitter will scroll on the other monitor, I'll watch a stream there, something on the other monitor to fill up the soundlessness. And when I decided not to do that, even the things that I normally would do felt like things I shouldn't do. I agree, Chris, that there is some gun fatigue but I don't know that it's Titanfall's "fault", in that it's doing everything it can to not be aiming down sights and then pulling the trigger constantly. I also LOVED the original Titanfall, so I was ravenous to get more. I'll say I did not have the reaction to the opening cutscene, because you can actually do literally everything shown in the video. I was impressed that they wrote a loveletter of a scripted cinematic where the character actually CAN move and act that way. It made me very pumped.

Yes, the race is tightening. That is factual. The question of whether that has an impact on the outcome is a different set of parameters. In Imaginationland, if Candidate A is up by 15 points 1 week before the election they are >99.9% to win. If they drop to 10 points up, they're still >99.9% to win but it's also still true that the race is tightening. Some website ran a headline that said "Clinton Down 7 Points in New York" within the last week. A sane person reads this and interprets that as Clinton having a 7 point deficit in the polls. What it ACTUALLY said was her support had gone from Clinton +24 to Clinton +17 in one set of polling data. It's all about shock, and how data is interpreted. It also shouldn't say 100%, I think he corrected that.