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So is the Plan C fusion rifle worth getting from Xur this week? It doesn't look all that great but then again maybe there are scenarios where it would be useful that I'm not considering.

Up was a huge disappointment. So much potential wasted on fucking talking dogs flying airplanes. I'm still patiently watching this thread and waiting for some talk about Inside Out. That movie was truly outstanding and you should all go see it immediately.

Jared Fogle versus Prince William. Yeah it's not a perfect comparison but they both have that lifeless, dead inside look hiding behind those freakishly toothy smiles.

Also worth pointing out, the father seemed to have no objection to this and can't be reached for comment because he's in Israel right now. Giant fucking red flag if the dad is totally okay with his kids being placed in juvenile detention and then just goes back to Israel. Good for all three of those kids for standing up to their piece of shit father and that piece of shit judge.

I don't know where the best place to post this is but this is terrifying and makes me physically ill.

Does anybody play Disney Infinity? My wife bought one of the editions for my daughter for WiiU and so far it doesn't seem very good. And it's way more confusing than I expected it to be. There's so many dang newfangled contraptions that you have to put on that base and there's these Infinity coins you can collect and adventures and toybox mode and other glowy mode looking things that I don't understand yet.

Thanks for the tips Jon. I don't have that helm yet so I'll make sure to start rolling on it whenever the helm engrams are available. I'm pretty much trying to max out my orb generating capabilities so I've got Gift of the Void, Armor of Light, Gift of the Light, and Iron Harvest active at the moment. When I play with Zasa, he runs with a similar build but with Blessing of Light instead so if we both pop shields we get armor both inside and outside of the shield. Definitely agreed that Defender is OP for PoE. But man it's fun to run with 2 Defenders. We pretty much have our supers all the time with those subclass bonuses and maxed out Intellect.

I do like the orbs of light I get from melee attacks with my Defender subclass. But what I tend to find is that in any of the higher tier stuff like PoE 32 and above, it usually seems to be a pretty bad idea to get in close enough to melee guys and I usually get wrecked pretty quickly. The best use I've found is to pop my shield near a bunch of guys and start beating the crap out of them when they try to rush me. With the additional shield I get while in my bubble I can usually get quite a few kills, generating a few orbs of light in the process. But even that generally feels like a reckless approach and I feel like I would always be better off trying to keep my distance and kill guys before they can get in too close. Maybe I just need to work on my skills.

Is there ever a scenario in PvE or PvP where it would be ideal to stack strength instead of intellect or discipline? I've pretty much always avoided gear with strength because it seems vastly preferable to have grenades and supers recharging faster than it would be for your melee power.

I've grown pretty fond of using the Vex Mythoclast myself. It worked pretty well for me over the last week and it's range and rate of fire is just right for my play style. But man there were so many instances where I would manage to kill someone in a shootout only to bleed out and die right afterwards. I try to be sneaky but more often than not, the person I am shooting manages to at least get a couple shots on me, and if they have a Thorn that's all it takes.

I have been finding Thorn pretty damn annoying in PvP. I did pretty decent in Iron Banner over the last week. Got to rank 5 and even hit the 10 kill streak bounty almost every day that I played (which is usually much more of a challenge for me). It was a lot of fun but I'm so fucking tired of all the post mortem Thorn deaths. Nothing says fun like killing someone and then just watching the last few chunks of your shield melt away with nothing you can do about it.

Someone please explain what the hell I just watched. All I did was Google "Mark Kern" since I keep seeing his name brought up and I was curious who he was. That led me to some Reddit post explaining why he was ousted as CEO of Red 5. As I was skimming some of the comments in that thread, I randomly clicked a link that led me to the above video. I honestly have no idea who any of these people are or what's going on but I laughed very hard.

I made a really sweet fort in my living room on Friday for my Destiny Iron Banner marathon. Luckily I have kids so it was easy to justify spending two hours covering our living room in blankets and other fort parts. But secretly, it wasn't for the kids, it was for me. Also, pro fort building tip: use lots of bag clips to hold the blankets together.

I avoid them as much as I can. If I wanted to go on all the cool "waiting in line" rides I could just go stand somewhere in the comfort of my own house without people sneezing their diseases all over me. When I do go to an amusement park, I always try to go during the off season.

I don't really care for roller coasters, mostly because if you ever want to ride on one, you have to wait somewhere between 30 minutes and 3 hours. Waiting in line for something that only lasts a fraction of the time you waited in line is something that really annoys me.

No Goldeneye or Perfect Dark? Or are you only considering games that are currently on your backlog?

I decided I needed to build a fort for my destiny session tonight.

Just sitting at the airport waiting for my flight and bored off my ass.

Not that it justifies any shitty depictions of Mexican culture but I do recall a Bombcast where they talked to the Drinkbox guys about Guacamelee and they talked about how the concept and themes where dreamt up by one of their Hispanic team members who was from Mexico and was really into some of the cultural lore. Supposedly they consulted him on every decision made and worked hard to try to make sure they were depicting the culture in a responsible way. Maybe they still fucked up a little but it sounds like they at least put thought into it.

Two trees constitute a forest. Although I'm a bit drunk so maybe it's three trees?

Yikes, I didn't realize Guacamelee was that divisive. Yeah it had some dumb referential humor but aside from that, I loved almost everything about it. And yeah it was pretty difficult in some spots but it never took much more than 30-45 minutes to get through some of those spots which I felt was still in that range where it was more satisfying to overcome than it was frustrating. And personally, I loved the music and art style. Maybe I just have bad taste.

So I'm stuck in Minneapolis. I was supposed to have a connecting flight to Tulsa Oklahoma but the flight leaving Phoenix was over an hour delayed and my connecting flight was just starting to taxi as I got to the gate. Now I have a new flight leaving at 5am tomorrow morning which means I need to wake up at about midnight phoenix time to give myself enough time to get a cab to the airport, check my bags, and take another long ass flight with another layover to finally get to Tulsa some time after noon. And I was supposed to meet with our prospective client's IT department tomorrow morning to set up for a demo. So now I get to show up super late with 2 hours of sleep if I'm lucky and try to impress these people and get our system up and running. And no word on my luggage yet. Just sitting here in baggage claim waiting for them to find my shit. If they don't then I guess I need to go buy some new clothes since I'm in shorts and flip flops. Flying really fucking sucks ass. I haven't been in this much of a panic in a really long time.

Thanks Argobot, that's a solid response and I think you're right. It sucks that our industry is so male dominated and that we don't just have an equal number of qualified women so this wouldn't even be an issue. I would love to bring your perspective up to her but I'm really hesitant to try to convince her to look at it another way. Being a dude and all it would feel kind of wrong.

Yeah, Steins;Gate didn't do much for me until around episode 12 or so. Then it proceeded to become possibly my favorite anime. With the caveat that I've still only seen less than 20 anime. I've watched the whole thing about 4 times now. Just don't watch in English, it's terrible.

On the E3 thing, that reminded me of something that happened at work recently. We have this demo coming up and and some of the people on the selection committee are female. So some of the higher ups in our group decided that we should bring one of our female team members along to show better representation. However, when one of our female team members was asked, she got pretty offended because she felt like we were only asking her to come because of her gender, not because her skill set was a good match for what we are trying to show. And I totally agree with her and think she had every right to feel that way. So what do you do in that type of situation? Do you include a female team member (whether it's the E3 stuff or my situation) just because she's female or do you only do so if that person is the most qualified person to cover that material? It seems like it can be kind of sticky either way and I'm not sure I understand the best way to go about making these decisions.