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Personally, I'd get to the point where you open up the FOB stuff, then pause there for a while. I did that, and I wish I'd stayed there even longer.

Except now all that old stuff is new again with Mario Maker.

I literally had the video open on one screen and paused the game at each step to follow step by step. The one thing I can say is that my R&D FOB attacks are top notch because I know every corner.

We're two of the hundred or so poor souls who have Windows Phones.

And yet, there are huge comic conventions in which people sell comics and fan art full of other people's work. Some in fairly high distribution numbers. I don't understand Japan's view on copyright, but then I don't understand the US's view on it either so *shrug* To be fair to Nintendo, they announced this weird YouTube revenue sharing thing a while ago, and it's not going to gain any traction if they keep letting people have Nintendo content up for free. I would think this guy could have seen it coming?

This game might cause my wife to buy an iPhone. I guess we'll see.

The R&D platform is crazy hard. I ended up having to watch a Youtube video for that one. All the others are much easier and can either be completed from pretty much right where you're standing, or by walking a fairly simple and clear path. Regarding the FOB defense, I realized that I was short some research on my battle dress, and I'd also missed a complete research chain on my bionic arm, so that might explain at least why I die so quickly. Other recommendations have been a tranq in the head, which apparently downs a player just as fast as a regular guard. I've also started carrying sleep grenades.

Has anyone ever actually won an FOB invasion or defense directly against another player? I feel like I'm getting the drop on them, unloading a bunch of rounds into them, then they turn and down me in a few shots.

Everything I've gotten from Ikea has been great and lasted me a long time. I would recommend shopping around office stores for a nice chair though. My computing life improved greatly when I splurged on a quality big and tall chair. Even though I'm not tall and only a little big, there's an extra sturdiness and padding there that was well worth it.

More sharks and octopuses.

There are a smattering of missions that seem badly conceived for various reasons. That was the first for me, but there are a few others later as well. The solution for me has almost always been "fuck it, I'm going to start using all these call-ins that limit you to an A rank and just destroy everything."

Responding to Brett:

There are plenty of department stores that overprice things so they can slap a sale sticker on it in a couple of weeks. I try to not let sale prices influence me in that way, but I still fall to it occasionally. Worse is the other side of the coin, where you realize a game was 50% off last week, and thus it seems like a bad deal to buy it now.

That's also a per city rule here in the Seattle area, to the point that I was by a car coming out of a driveway while ridding on the sidewalk and had to figure out what side of the city line I was on to know whether I could be held at fault or not. Turns out I was on the wrong side of the city line so I had to eat my bike repair costs myself.

It certainly is different by state. Washington state laws are vague (what a surprise.) There's a lot of references on non-government sites of the three foot rule, but all I can find officially are these: But then that conflicts with the whole, no passing over double yellow lines thing, so I dunno.

My backlog list continues to grow with PS+ and Xbox Live to fuel it. I've been pretty good about not buying more games than I finish the last few years, but so many things can be had for free these days.

I would imagine a certain subset of people that play these sorts of games would be really creeped out by dicks. Personally, when I watched a few videos I thought the same as you, "You let that thing dangle out there, and someone's gonna chop it off."

Interesting, just from doing more Side Ops?

Not sure if this game really deserves its own thread, but Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is out today. I've been looking forward to it for more than a year now, so that's cool.

I have not heard of that game. Apparently I have the Quicklook downloaded to my tablet to watch, but I have not yet watched it. They've also been to PAX prime, and I don't remember seeing it there. I guess publicity for an indie game is a hard thing, because it seems like they worked their ass off to get the word out. Unfortunately, even if I had heard of it, it lost me at "2D action platformer." I have platformer fatigue. Maybe that's why I just walked past it at PAX?

There's a lot of biking in the Seattle area, and there are definitely bikers who are polite and ones who aren't. The crux of it comes down to a couple of rules. Bikes are to be treated like any other vehicle, thus if they are on the road it is illegal to pass them in any location that it would be illegal to pass a car (IE, most city streets.) Then there are various forms of slow vehicle laws that require a vehicle to pull off to the side if its slowing a certain number of cars, or bikes specifically to get on the far right of a lane unless the lane is too narrow to allow safe side-by-side travel of a bike and a motor vehicle. So some bikes just sit in the middle of the lane and don't let people pass (which is their right) but don't pull off to the side once five cars have stacked up. I don't drive much, and there are starting to be a decent number of bike lanes around here, but when I do come across a bike in my lane I'm the poor sap who just tails along behind it at 10 mph until I can find a turn-off or the bike gets out of the way.

More mission 29 spoilers And mission 28 spoilers

I did it with the tranq pistol. It took a while, but it wasn't that bad with DDog around to spot her.

There are helmets that have plastic face visors as well. No problem for bullets, but blocks sleep darts. Also, mission 28 and 29 suck. I did a stupid and brought Quiet on mission 29 despite possible save-corruption. I don't think anything broke for me, but I guess we'll see tomorrow. Regarding mission 29 does anyone know how...

Bad skills in a weapon are somewhat mitigated if you don't use VATS (which I didn't because of how easy it made Fallout 3.) I also went all in on Energy weapons from the start, deciding I'd just sneak my way around until I could find one, but then found one within an hour or two of starting.