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It's also a "how much money is my time worth" thing. Sure some of those meals are less than three bucks, but how much time are you spending preparing? If you don't enjoy cooking, paying three bucks for a ready-to-eat meal that's also healthy is a pretty good deal.

Man, I'm envious. It's been a long time since I've had the opportunity to vote for something that feels like it matters.

The DVD I have had some noisy/backwards scenes subtitled, and others not. I ended up turning on the subtitles and I don't regret it, but there wasn't much of importance there either. Anyway, this was my first time seeing the movie, though I've seen the series before I never had the intestinal fortitude to watch the movie until now. I also literraly just finished it (going through the documentary included on the disk as I write this actually) so all I have at the moment is a random ball of thoughts. The first bits, all the way up until twin peaks, were interesting but didn't feel very related to everything else going on. The lady dancing funny in the red dress was specifically a non-sequitur. It was redeemed somewhat by Coop having to come after and investigate the disappearance of the FBI agent, but it still felt strangely detached. I'm not sure (and may actually go back and watch it again) who/what the guy was who showed up in the FBI office on the camera. It was nice to get some Albert and Gordon. Despite not getting why they even needed to be there, I love those guys. I only wish we could have gotten some Major Briggs. Holy crap Bobby is so much more hardcore than the TV series ever makes him look. He's killed a man for godsakes. How did he end up being such a doof character in the main series. At some point James got some acting lessons because his scenes in FWWM have some real feeling to them. The confusion that is his hallmark facial expression was much more "I as a character have no clue what this lady is taking about" which is a lot better than "I as an actor have no clue what facial expression I should be making right now" Lots of good extra stuff in Laura's various conversations, but a lot of stuff you'd think someone would have mentioned during the investigation. In particular, Harold came off a lot more sympathetic in this (I hated him in the series) but you think even with social anxiety he'd send a letter or something to someone about the journal stuff. I'm sure more will dribble out of my mind as I think about it more, but despite the first third being slow, the Twin Peaks part was incredibly vibrant, memorable, and a fitting conclusion to the series that I felt was lacking in the final TV episode.

He's there in the final scene when Coop wakes up.

Danny O'Dwyer did a few of the endings for Gamespot, and then also went and played a bunch of the Japan only follow-ups, all available on Giant Bomb Unarchived.

There's a lot of depth there, but yeah you need to play it multiple times, once for each prospective date, and some of them are really fun and others are lousy. Edit: I played once, watched a few more on Youtube, and then just read the rest on a wiki.

Every time I pick up a MH game, I struggle with it for quite a long while before I find my niche and enjoy it. I made the mistake of playing MH3 right before MH4 coming out in preparation, but all it really did is make me a bit tired of the formula before I even started. I just don't feel like going through that struggle right now. If past trends continue, I'll probably pick it back up in 2 years and love it. Edit: Oh, P+D comes out here tomorrow, I guess Europe got it early

Interesting, less hardpoints means I won't be able to keep up my mining/fighting hybrid setup. Really it sounds like my Cobra is better in pretty much every way.

Man, I remember liking this episode when I first watched it but now, watching it again, I found it profoundly disappointing. So much goes on in this episode, but so much of it is either confusing or of little consequence. Ben Horne gets hurt/killed, yet the doctor is in the next scene and hasn't been arrested (and I don't think he's the sort to try and cover it up) so I guess he's fine? There's some sort of conclusion that Donna comes to that Horne isn't in-fact her father, but I don't know where that came from as very little actual information was given in that scene. It was nice to see all these old characters returning, but each scene that they were in was fairly pointless. What does Laura's mother's comment to Major Briggs really accomplish? Why do we need to cause trauma flashbacks to Ronette when there are several others that have reported the smell, if it was even necessary to talk about the smell at all. I guess the scene in the diner with the waitress from back in the first episode was there to establish that Bobby and Shelly don't hate each other anymore, but once again no real information in that scene. Finally, where I remember finding the lodge scenes really creepy the first time around, this time they just felt like mud getting in the way of figuring out exactly what was going on. I've always scoffed at people that complain about Lynch's tendency of being weird for weird's sake, but once you already know the end and there's no tension in the last episode, that's what this feels like. I'm kinda bummed because I was really looking forward to this episode, and even spent the time to race to catch-up so I could watch it along with the podcast.

I'm currently debating an unwise purchasing decision in buying a 3DS game to keep my occupied on commutes. I'm currently trying to decide between Fantasy Life, Story of Seasons, and Puzzle & Dragon Mario Edition. Obviously that last one isn't out yet and I've already heard some info about Fantasy Life, so has anyone got into Story of Seasons and have any thoughts? I know that there's a thread specifically for it, but these sorts of discussions seem to get more play here.

At the moment I don't have the cash for Witcher 3 anyway, and it sounds like the politics stuff (which is the part that I really loved in the first one) in Witcher 2 is pretty awesome. I'm generally pretty good at games, I don't understand what is up with the Witcher games that just doesn't click with me. I guess I'm going to stick with easy, since I remember how much of a struggle it was to get through the first Witcher and I'd hate to get 3/4s of the way through and get stuck.

So, I just finally started Witcher 2. I played through the somewhat buggy tutorial, and it decided that I should play on easy. Defiant, I started the game on Normal anyway, and then promptly died twice in the second fight in the game (at the ballista in the courtyard.) Sheepishly, I dropped back to the main menu and lowered the difficulty to easy, but now it seems that shields don't matter and one guy can hammer on me for 30 seconds straight and not even get me down to half of my life.

I usually splash a little orange juice on mine when I get them. It burns for a few seconds but then goes pretty numb, so at least it doesn't bother me all day. I too used to have them a lot when I was younger, and it contributed for me not liking certain foods (tomatoes being the biggest oddity.) I also had monthly sinus infections. Both went away when I had my appendix out, and then shortly afterwards transferred out of public school which reduced my stress level a lot. I assume the latter is what had the real effect, but sometimes I wonder about the former.

Man, there are so many plot threads during twin peaks that it just feels like someone pulled the eject lever on. For instance, everyone is glad that Lucy picked a father and all, but what about the kid that they went so far as to break into an orphanage to get records on, then had the heartwarming speech from the doctor about? I guess they just kicked him back to the curb. What the heck happened to Gerard? I guess Hank just went back to prison? We was pretty much the only bad guy left with any credit at this point. I guess Norma's mother and her husband disappeared at about the same time, one brief confrontation and that's over. How about that south African lady that tried to assassinate Truman? Jacoby was such an interesting and weird character in the first season, with one particularly revealing scene with Bobby, which then got tossed to the side and returns to basically be in the background of a few scenes. *sigh* Not all these plots were good, some were downright bad, but the thing that has infuriated me more than anything else during this rewatch is how much is just tossed into the garbage can without a word.

That was part of the joy of the whole thing for me I guess. Plus hearing someone on the podcast really excited about anything was a welcome change.

Announcement of the permanent price cut I guess?

Hmm, has there been any ballpark announced for the price of an Imperial Courier. I'm really interested in getting an Imperial Clipper, but that's a long way away at this point.

Well, you can pull the pork apart when you're done to make sandwiches and whatever, or slice the roast thin. It doesn't have to be eaten in big chunks just because it started as.

If you get really fatty cuts of meat (I like short ribs personally) then you don't have to put any liquid in at all. The fat will render and the whole thing will be immersed in juices by the time you're done. My mistake is always trying to put too much in and ending up with a stew. Recently, I've taken to being lazy and buying the packets of still-liquid Campbell's slow cooker sauces. Then it's literally just the meat, the sauce pack, and a few vegetables.

Man, I love that Dan cared enough about Kirkhope versus Wise that he put together a quiz for it for the Bombcast.

The other option for slow cookers is to clean them immediately when you're done putting away the food. They're a pain to scrub if you let food dry on them for sure.

I am hopeful this will be a good game simply because they didn't go "movie's out this week, ship it now, I don't care if it's ready" like most licensed games. It seems like they're putting at least some effort into it.

I've realized that the actual core story line in most Bethesda games is pretty short, so I've been getting in the habit of saving a file off to the side, then just finishing the game when I'm ready for it to be done. I actually got a pretty good ending despite leaving several major quest lines unfinished. I at least did all the things that you would need to do for the yes-man missions, so I hit the high points.

Nice, I can't wait for this to release.

I finally, two years after purchasing it, finished Fallout: New Vegas last night. I didn't end up doing any of the DLC, and there's still a good chunk of the map left to explore, but I'd had enough for now and I want to move onto Witcher 2. Man, that's the thing about Bethesda games, I love them all so much, for about 20 hours, and then they're 50 hours long.