Dewar

National Geographic documentarian.

It feels like the Democratic establishment is scared to loose power to the extreme left, which I guess is a sensible fear given how Trump came in and captured enough of the extreme right voters to get into the White House. I guess the question is "what is worse: no party power at all, or handing the party off to a new ideology?" I wish that both the republicans and democrats would have made different choices at that crossroads, but I'd say that being a Sanders supporter.

Maybe they'll do something out of Twitch HQ? Edit: Also, if Drew is going solo, I certainly hope he'll be doing it as a personality and not a mercenary producer. I was really bummed when Austin left, but that's turning into something great.

Ouch, definitely get out of there if you can. The rush of getting out of a place you don't like is incredible (as someone who was laid off last week.)

:He's probably my favorite? That's a huge huge bummer.

I just finally got all the achievements in ME2. It's about time to start in on ME3 I guess.

Hmm, OK, it seems like a lot of space sims seem to take turns for the worse once they start to try and include actual human avatars. Hopefully this will be a slow and considered roll out. Is there any real reason to play in open mode? I thought that it was required to do the community goals, but after getting blown up (1.5 million rebuy cost) for the 88 tons of robotics I was carrying to the most recent goal, I found out that wasn't the case and I played solo the rest of the night.

This isn't a prelude to walking on stations is it? It's just for multi-crew ships?

Ah, that's a shame. I was hoping to wander the Idle Thumbs server in VR.

Is there a way to keep Fire Emblem on Android from overriding my podcast when I start it up? Even if I set it to Silent mode, it still stops any other sound (music or podcast) from playing. This is the number one thing that stops me using an app.

Hmm, vanilla Minecraft, so I should be able to hook in using the Win10 version?

I really enjoy the "talking over the press conference" bits. At this point I could take or leave the nightly stuff. It used to feel spontaneous, now it feels over planned.

I think Valve said it could be as high as $5000, so panic, but who knows how high it might be. My gut says that they're announcing something crazy to make the (still high) $1000 seem more palatable. They say it's going away in spring, so I guess you have a month or two?

Goodbye Greenlight, Hello something that can't possibly be worse (but probably will find a way to be) http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/10/14571438/steam-direct-greenlight-dumped

Oh Nice! I'm glad I took a look in here, I'll buy it for my 4 player gaming party that I'm having in a couple of weeks.

I listen to the with-ads version of the Giant Bombcast even though I'm a subscriber, because it's good content and it doesn't bother me to throw a few more cents their direction. The same would go for me here. I also subscribe to the twitch streams, partially because of the content, but also because I just wanted to find a way to give you regular money. If there was another method out there, I would certainly consider it.

I've always enjoyed offering my help on bosses in Souls games. It's a great way to learn the boss in a low-risk situation so you can go into your own game and solo it.

Oh yeah, I'm definitely not excusing the UI, just thinking about the choices that might have made it end up that way.

To respond to my own quote from last year, for a long time I played a couple of missions here and there, and I've had a lot of fun with it in that style. I stalled out again near the end of defeating the last few bosses before the darkest dungeon itself. I've heard so many scary things about that final dungeon and how unfun it is that I lost interest.

I would generally agree that the interface is the weakest part of the game. I didn't even know that the tent up on the hill where you can buy new rest skills even existed for 3/4s of my time with the game. At the same time, I think the arcane menus actually contribute to the feeling of the game as you mention in your fourth paragraph. The other big failure in my opinion is the quirk system. You accumulate quirks so fast, and with so little rhyme or reason. You can come out of a mission completely unscathed and get two negative quirks. Eventually, you just have 5 of each, which really doesn't incentivize me to cure any of those negative quirks, since they'll just be replaced soon. Having 5 positive quirks is a pain as well. Since the cost to lock one in is so high, you're likely to see your best quirks go away before you can afford to keep them. I would have liked it if quirks came less often, but had an even bigger impact on things, or maybe if all the quirk related town tasks (curing/locking) were cheaper so you could meaning influnce the system before the endgame where money is a bit more free. I should also note that I've sunk about 40 hours into Darkest Dungeon now, after having bounced off of it the first couple times I tried it out, so my final statement might be more on the lines of "It's a lot of work, and certainly not for everyone, but if you can persevere through the learning curve and bad UI, there's a ton of fun to be had" As for your writing, I found it very readable and it pulled me in and kept me reading rather well, even as someone who didn't need quite the basic introduction you were giving.

I've never worn glasses or contacts. I used to have 20/10 vision, but it's been quite a few years since I've been tested.

Supposedly there are no dead ends, but I've read a couple of people talking about running into bugs that made things unbeatable such as post #6 n this thread: http://steamcommunity.com/app/345390/discussions/0/535152511367699028/

Hmm, apparently this is part of the Humble Monthly Bundle, making it cost $12. It's tempting....

I bought a cheap PS3 to go back and play Uncharted when the PS4 came out and I didn't have the money for the next gen yet. I found them all pretty lackluster myself.

I'm running a few podcasts behind at this point, so I'm hoping this change has been going well? Anyway, I just wanted to chime in and say that I'm good with whatever you choose, and really happy to be able to contribute to the cast a little with a Twitch subscription.