Badfinger

None of the people you're targeting are good, none of the people who assign your target are good, and none of the actions you take have good outcomes. It's really a choice between kill and suffer rather than spare.

I'm not against the idea. I'm just uninformed.

What in the world is ice cream Christmas pudding?

Origin is fine. It's biggest issue is building a new friends list (and the 100 friends cap which is just dumb in all settings). I'm not saying I like Origin or the things it represents, but it is a totally functional platform that isn't actively dislikable. Like, UPlay.

Because an Assassin's Creed game set during the French Revolution SHOULD be the best and most joyous version of Assassin's Creed.

Seriously the cutscene where Kevin Spacey addresses the UN is goddamn amazing. This is apropos nothing, I just really loved that moment. It's completely telegraphed, and built up right to that point, and he still nailed it.

You can currently buy games from brick and mortar where it basically gives you instructions for how to log into steam or origin to redeem your code. I can't imagine the situation is WILDLY different from that in terms of money, although we're unused to the distribution method. Humble Store has steam keys, as well. The biggest difference is GMG is more public with offering price cuts to very new games (Amazon does this too) so it seems like someone is losing money when they're just choosing to attempt to get your sale at the cost of making less (but by no means no) profit. Think of it as a sale digital is trying to take from solid goods, rather than digital competing against digital. Anyway! I am excited to see this game in action. I'm hoping to get a reasonable and informed look at the multiplayer from someone.

It absolutely did for me.

Digital goods! I mean, they are still actually selling it. If Imaginary Game costs $30 for them to get a key and they sell it for $48 instead of $60, they only made $18 net but THEY made it (obvious enough). GMG has basically all of the benefits of digital distribution with none of the drawbacks. Not only are they service agnostic, but they're essentially just a license generator. Because you activate the licenses on other services, they're not responsible for any of the bandwidth, upkeep, or troubleshooting basically as long as they keep their site working and email you the proper code. I like GMG. They're willing to go in pretty heavily on discounting and I've never been steered wrong. I have suddenly gone from passively interested in Dragon Age to attempting to corral my excitement. The combo of a good, long SP and the potential of the awesome ME3 multiplayer has me ready to throw money.

They're both good games that I like.

I liked L4D2 a lot. Steam says I have 178 hours in it (it also says I have 35 hours in L4D which is woefully incorrect). I probably got fatigued from it faster than I did L4D just because I never really quit playing the original. That's my biggest criticism, honestly - not "oh $60 for a refresh the next year" but rather they kind of mush together for me rather than standing on their own. I think of them as essentially the same quality.

Upset at myself that the ramp up curve every time I get back into an FPS seems a little bit longer. Makes me feel old.

Without commenting on the gameplay itself, I liked the cinematic trailer much better than the gameplay trailer. Mostly because the gameplay trailer isn't gameplay.

https://twitter.com/Hokie_Wartooth/status/530809876067659776

Lindsey!!

I had no idea about literally any of that. Though it doesn't really tell me, on a session to session basis, the things I can actually do.

So my interview lasted for over two hours. I met with 3 people, and then the decision maker told me another department head wanted to know if I'd be willing to speak with him about a potential position as well. Thus, I ended up speaking to two department heads and impromptu interviewing for a second position. I was told by the first decision maker that the second had asked to speak to me after seeing my resume, and he was extending the opportunity if I was interested. He couched this by saying he still had, as he put it, right of first refusal on the decision to hire if they both wanted me. I don't know if that's extremely good or extremely worrying. No one mentioned any outstanding flaws (that they were willing to reveal) when I pressed them, and they're certainly jobs I know I can do. I had what felt like both strong interview points, and amiable interactions in general. I felt positive overall, but I've done so much interviewing in the past few months over the phone and occasionally in person that I am losing a sense of how I actually fared.

Yes, absolutely. There are some great moments, including a sequence that has come the closest of any game (COD or otherwise) from recapturing the feeling of All Ghillied Up. There are moments when you're not just Following, there are moments when you don't have a weapon. But you're without a doubt being led by the hand for the majority of the campaign through their crazy movie-you-play. Outlets and resources I trust and follow have praised the campaign while noting it lacks some of the ambitious features of Black Ops II. They think it's taken a step back not because it didn't execute but because it's so safe in its ambitions and doesn't push things forward. Having not played BLOPS II I can't comment on that.

So, I realize this is a bit late of me to ask considering I now already own the game... What can you do in this game? I feel like I decided to learn the game by doing transport hauling to just get the mechanics down and earn some bucks, but there's plenty more that it could offer me. You can haul cargo via missions, you can be a space trader either by ferrying things between supply and demand at your own risk or piracy, you can go shoot npc spaceships... and? How do I make money? Is there more? I am asking more for cohesion than other things to do. Just the act of trying to fly between star systems is a tremendous amount of things to do.

I went out and instantly purchased 80 Days after the first discussion about it on IT. Now that I have done so, I realize I should have purchased Desert Golfing. It is the unfortunate reality that the times when I am using A Device (almost always a phone) to play a game it is usually to kill time, or I'm doing something else, or I only have a minute. I have played some 80 Days, and I really liked what I've played so far. I just can't seem to be able to give it my full attention. The apps that have used the most battery in the last week for me are Instacast (driving! Working out!) and Threes. Threes is an amazing but mindless game that I have played so, so much this year. I just don't go to the phone for an artfully crafted story experience, and now that I can do so I'm not sure I can break my pattern to get myself into the habit. When I have the opportunity, in general chances are I'll be using another device to do so.

I don't understand what's wrong with calling it a xenomorph. You know what it means. The fact that it's not referred to in the source material and isn't a dictionary definition doesn't mean that's not what it, now, is. It's like colloquially calling someone a dude and saying "No, he is a man."

That name is completely fine. This is a thing I am not unhappy about.

Thank you! I'd rather be good, but I'm happy to accept luck. I'm not usually very nervous about interviews. Maybe I should be?! I'm somewhat nervous about this next interview. I want this job. I want it very badly.

I have two job interviews today. They're the closest in a long while to the career path I'd like to be on, and one is a gigantic opportunity to move forward. HERE WE GO.

Cine I'm very happy you were here to post this. I came into the thread to bubble about some small happy news, but the fact that you're here and talking with us is much better news than that.