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*sheepish* Yeah, it's showing up now.

Wow, that takes a lot of the visual flair from Papers Please. I mean I guess that ascetic isn't exactly uncommon, but it looks almost like a carbon copy.

Have fun everyone!

Tim manages to strike that really funny balance all the time, and I'm not sure if it's because he's naturally that way, or just a born actor/comedian. Either way, it's brilliant.

That looked pretty cool when GB took a look at it. Glad to hear that it shaped up well.

http://www.themarysue.com/time-schafer-gamergate-joke/ There's a video there, but I didn't watch it as this is my work computer. Quote from the article:

Probably a token firing of someone fairly high up in the police force, and on we go?

Lync/Office Communicator has been the standard at places I work for quite a long time. As a bonus, Lync now includes the old Live Meeting functionality, so you can use it as your conferencing solution. If you're looking for less expensive, Skype now includes some of the technology from MSN Messenger, so it can be used for running conversations as well. I just realized I'm starting to sound a like a Microsoft shill, which I guess is what you get when you live 10 minutes away from Redmond *shrug*

Doesn't look like it's on sale to me either.

My Ion kit is regular USB thankfully, so I expect it'll be pretty easy. Just to keep expectations tempered, they do say this in the FAQ:

Nice to know they're going to at least try to get my Ion drum kit working on the new systems. I actually went to ebay and bought a RB2 guitar as my old one broke, and haven't had the chance to use it yet. This sounds like a good excuse to get the band back together.

As you can see, you're not the only incompetent one here and I've played three of these things now.

I'm definitely doing the caravan missions. Your take on things is interesting, I beat through all of the village quests up to 5* in MH2 and MH3 with one or two weapon categories, with maybe a couple weapons in each if I ended up with elemental attack damage on one.that was undesirable for certain fights. MH3U in particular, I beat the whole low tier game on the Barroth Hammer path once I put down my bow. I like the idea of having that much variety to play with, but I fear that I'll end up not really mastering the mechanics of any of the weapons if I don't concentrate on them. I'm also feeling very resource strapped at the moment, but I'm not exactly sure why. There's not a whole lot I even come close to being able to craft right now (weapons, armor, or decent items.) Maybe I just need to run more expeditions or something. Your gunner tips are actually quite helpful. 1) I just recently gained the ability to buy coatings, which has expanded my repertoire a little, but until then I pretty much had access to power and poison coatings from mission supplies, and that's it. Now I have a few other options, but the difficulty is trying to figure out what status effects work against what monsters. How many status effect arrows should I have to shoot before I know to stop wasting them? 2) The A button does a basic slash attack with the arrow, and that can be used to mount. I have not had a lot of luck with mounting so far, the tutorial was somewhat poor, but I'll definitely attempt it more. 3) I used to use a lot of barrel bombs in older games, I don't know why I haven't used them much here. I'll keep that in mind 4) I'm using one of the shotgun bows that I have to be fairly close with, but I haven't even had a fork in the upgrade tree yet so I'm kinda stuck there. 5) Blind fire doesn't do much for bows, since they do significantly more damage when charged, but I'm generally pretty good at being mobile. In the end, I'm kind of aware that bows are more for multi-player, I'm just being stubborn wanting to make it work. This is the second time I've done this to myself, so I guess I should know what to expect Edit: I'm also stubborn in not wanting to check a wiki, and instead learn strengths and weaknesses on my own, which the game doesn't surface very well. I should probably take the 8-4 Play guys' advice (heard on the Bombcast) that if you're not masochistic, you should use a guide. Edit 2: It turns out the wiki is missing a lot of info anyway, but man you weren't kidding about this being the anti-bow boss. 20 or 30% damage to most of the body, only head, neck, and tail even worth hitting.

Hmm, I still have my Rockband 2 USB hub that I use for 4-controller gaming on my wife's laptop, and the only problem I've had is yanking on the cable too hard and disconnecting it.

The tough thing about using a bow (which I guess initially stalled me out in the MH3 as well) is that you need a completely different set of armor if you want to switch over to melee, which makes it mentally difficult to throw away all the progress you've made and start over. Trying to use a bow in MH3 is what initially killed it for me, before I came back a year later and just went with hammers. I was feeling like MH4 might be different, but I've hit the same wall. It feels like giving up to just switch back to a hammer and brute force my way through the rest of the game like I did before. I guess what I'm saying is that I like the concept of having a difficult fight that requires me to try multiple different tactics and weapon sets, but I expect that more toward the end game, rather than right at the start. *shrug* My love/hate relationship with Monster Hunter I guess.

i like RTwP games.

I noticed fairly recently that they patched in online mode to SimCity. In the end, they completely missed the point of what people were really angry about. That being said, I plan on giving it another shot here soon. Edit: Also, I would have liked to see another Spore Edit 2: I hate how studio names just kinda carry on and move around even after everyone involved in a project has left. It feels like when EA started naming all their different development offices "Bioware"

USB hub?

I got stuck on fighting the Gypceros. I hate creatures with poison attacks. I felt like I was doing tons of damage, but never got him even down to limping. My bow is already the max upgrade I can get at this point, so I'm looking at either starting a new weapon from scratch or grinding a bunch of Tetsucabra to get a new suit of armor. Times when I got stuck in MH3, I felt like there were a lot of options on how I could handle it (attack/defense potions, better weapon, different cat setups, etc) but here I feel like I'm pretty much stuck where I'm at.

Sounds like you'll have the opportunity to hit a lot of panels.

On the other side, I think having Drew there pulls up the level of Dan's discourse, making him seem pretty clever and insightful at times.

Nice, a podcast I listen to is doing a Sherlock book club, now I can participate at no cost

Did the city burn? Because, if so, you won.

Do all ships have cockpits created? I was under the impression that only certain models have internal views and Arena access. Which ship is it?

So, out of curiosity, I fired up my N64 and took a look at my save. Apparently, I got to the point I had the Goron mask but had not yet completed the second dungeon. I also knew the song to slow time, as it was active when I loaded my save. So I don't know what it was that eventually frustrated me into stopping. On the Giant Bombcast, they mentioned having to reset time to save, but I don't think that's true either as my save loaded at 8pm on the last day. *shrug*