Zeusthecat

You know what? Since joining these forums I've grown up a bit, from a 28 year old baby to a 28 year old manly man. I've buried my poop humor deep down. Maybe a little too deep. I can't make any promises but if my poo humor resurfaces I will take every effort to make sure that it will only be super intelligent observations, Molyneux style. And thank you so much to everyone for the kind wishes. It means a lot to hear such kind words from mysterious internet people.

Actually my wife first thought of it and I instantly approved. I gave two reasons why it was an awesome name: Nolan North and Nolan Ryan.

Not a bad idea! We have had multiple ultrasounds that all confirmed it's a boy so assuming that holds true his name will be Nolan.

Your mind makes it real.

My wife and I are having our baby tomorrow. I'm really excited, nervous, and anxious right now and finding it really hard to concentrate on anything. I definitely feel more prepared this time around since there is so much more stability in our lives now than when our first child was born but I am really dreading the whole hospital experience. I hate knowing that we have to have a baby in this type of environment because of circumstances that are out of our control. With our first child, we decided to go with a local birthing center and midwife instead of the hospital and doctor situation. My wife has a degree in family studies and human development and we both decided that we wanted to have our baby in a comfortable, homey environment instead of a place full of sick people. Unfortunately she went past her due date and we had to go to the hospital anyways so she could be induced. And from there, as is common with inductions, she had to be rushed into an emergency cesarian. It was just a whirlwind of craziness after that and we were treated like shit by the hospital staff because they assumed we were just stupid kids (I was 24, she was 22 at the time). We were adamant about not giving our baby formula or a pacifier but the hospital staff just kept badgering us about it and were quick to remind us of that option when she was having a difficult time establishing breastfeeding . It is quite a disgusting business they run. To make things even more difficult, I was in my last 6 weeks of college and was trying to finish my classes and look for a job. Luckily that all panned out just fine, but the job I found was in Phoenix (we lived in Tucson) so we had to pack everything up and move before our daughter was even 6 weeks old. So yeah, we have much more stability now and a better idea of what to expect. But man I am nervous as hell. I feel so bad for my wife that she has to go through another cesarian. It is a pretty major surgery and she will be in quite a bit of pain for awhile. At least this time I won't have to do homework in the hospital in between diaper changes. Sorry for the long, rambly post.

You might have to wait a bit depending on how long you've been inactive. I tried to sell all of my cards the other day and it wouldn't let me do so until 30 days had passed since my first Steam purchase last month. Prior to that I hadn't purchased anything on Steam in over a year and a half so I guess they expect some level of activity and a 30 day waiting period or something.

I decided to continue listening to the Giant Bombcast from where I previously lost interest (about 5 episodes in or so) and now that I've heard some more, I feel like I didn't really give it a fair shake. I've made it through several more episodes now and it has grown on me considerably. I don't feel that it quite matches the humor and wit of Idle Thumbs but I can definitely tell that these are some good dudes that have an intelligent perspective on video games. The only (minor) complaint I have is that I still don't find it all that funny, but that's okay because I'm not very funny either even though I try to be sometimes. I think I am going to go ahead and listen to all of the episodes. I'm pretty excited but sad at the same time for obvious reasons.

Best of luck to you on figuring these out. I definitely struggled for awhile on a few of the pieces but when I did stumble across the solutions they ended up seeming pretty reasonable.

Just beat Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It was cool in the first half and lame in the second half. The fighting segments really brought this game down in my opinion.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade completed! Total play time was about 5.5 hours. I ended up trying the biplane some more when I got back on today and managed to randomly get it to work by flipping all the switches and then mashing buttons until the gauges went up; then I hit the red button. I got past about 3 or 4 planes before I was shot down and then made my way through all of the roadblocks/fights until I got to the grail temple. I had gotten much better at fighting by this point so it was fairly easy to get through all of the roadblocks but it was still a pretty lame segment. After seeing my dad get shot I proceeded to the first trial. I saw nothing to interact with in the saw blade room and tried over and over to get through thinking that I would be able to duck somehow but I kept getting massacred. I finally resorted to using a hint and saw that I needed to click on a specific lighter spot on the ground to get through, kind of a stupid solution if you ask me. The next trial was much easier and there was no hint needed. Just had to step only on letters that made up "GEHOVA". The third trial pissed me off. I went up and down that goddamn ledge and clicked all over the ledge on the opposite side and kept falling in. Even after looking up the location I was supposed to click in ThunderPeel's guide I still kept falling. After a lot of trial and error, it turned out that I needed to come straight out of the previous room without moving at all and click in the exact right spot on the opposite side. This finally got me through and left me feeling quite irritated. It's too bad 2 out of the 3 trials were so shitty, I came into it thinking there would be a decent puzzle here. With the third trial complete, I finally made my way to the grail room. I remembered from the movie that the real grail was supposed to be a shitty, old, unassuming wooden chalice of some sort but from the descriptions of the grails in the room there were several that looked like probable candidates. So I saved right before making the selection and watched in enjoyment as Indy drank from one and got so old he exploded. I chose poorly. After a few more attempts I got the right one and finished off the game. I have very mixed feelings about this game. On one hand there were some good puzzles up until the castle. On the other hand, nothing from the castle on really offered much in the way of puzzles. It was all just fighting and shallow stuff. Edit: Just went back and read the other posts now that I'm done. It seems I took kind of a lame route and maybe missed some more interesting stuff. Oh well. I'm glad to have played this game. If nothing else it will at least make me appreciate the improvements in the following games.

Because it has sugar and spice and everything nice.

Great analogy. I laughed.

Okay, so I finally made it through the castle. That was some frustrating shit but thanks to ThunderPeel's fighting tips I was able to get through all the fights. After talking my way past the first main guard I thought it would be possible to talk my way through most of the other fights but I found that seemingly impossible. I got both the servant and Nazi uniforms but I tried every conversation option with all of the outfits I had and never got past any other guard without having to fight. What the fuck? After making my way through all of the hallways and beating up guards I got to Biff. I tried to fight him several times and realized there was no way I was going to beat him. At this point the fighting had me so frustrated that I just decided to look up tips for beating him. As soon as I typed it into Google I saw something about getting him drunk and thought I knew what I had to do. So I went back down to the drunk guard and knocked him out to get his stein. I filled that up and brought it to Biff but it had no effect on him. As soon as I saw that I knew I needed to use the trophy that the dog was guarding to get enough beer to get Biff drunk. It seemed pretty obvious at this point that I needed the meat downstairs to distract the dog. So I went back down to the kitchen to try to get the meat and saw that it was too hot. I immediately poured the beer on the coals (seemed obvious enough) which put the fire out and enabled me to get the meat. The rest lined up nicely and I was able to get past Biff and rescue my dad. When I was approached by the Nazis after breaking my dad out I gave them the old book instead of the Grail Diary and ended up tied up in the room with the secret exit in the fireplace. After scooting over to the statue and using it to cut the ropes I escaped from the castle and went to the airport. From here I tried and failed to fly the biplane and then stopped playing once I got into the zeppelin, which apparently just turned around to head back to Germany. I never did end up finding the combination to the vault in the castle so after I stopped playing I looked that up and saw that I was supposed to give the painting to the guard outside of that room. I guess that wasn't necessary to beat the game anyways so oh well. I'm also curious about the biplane thing. I might reload a save to try that some more since I would imagine using that is in some way advantageous to taking the zeppelin but I have yet to read any hints related to the biplane/zeppelin or anything past that. At this point my opinion of this game has lowered quite a bit. The fighting is fucking stupid and the controls suck really bad. It is really unfortunate that the puzzles were downplayed so much in the castle in favor of the fighting. The little bit of puzzle solving here was okay but it was completely overshadowed by the awful fighitng. Ugh. Edit: And syntheticgerbil, I'm also skipping over most of your post(s) regarding your progress for now in case there are spoilers so I apologize if I sound stupid repeating anything you've already said. I'll go back and read them later.

Okay, those less fun parts I was anticipating are here now. Jesus Christ I am really struggling with this fighting thing. It sucks so bad.

I'm not sure if anyone linked this yet but I find it nice: http://steamdb.info/sales/?displayOnly=Game&cc=us

That's some good stuff elmuerte.

I can't help but feel there is a certain topic I haven't brought up in awhile.

I've also been in the same camp as you guys (I_smell and Gormongous) regarding this whole trading card thing. However, after buying Bioshock Infinite and Dragon Age Origins yesterday I got three cards, then got a few more while playing Infinite. I don't know much about these stupid cards aside from what I've heard here but if I can actually sell every card I get for Steam credit then I'm fucking onboard. I still do feel a little bad for the people that can't resist the temptation to go through the motions of collecting these things but at least there is a silver lining somewhere. Edit: Sorry shammack

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/human-powered-helicopter-prize

Yeah, your probably totally right. My statement was more of a tongue in cheek ridiculous statement.

Why? In what universe would this actually be a beneficial move for a company to make? My crackpot theory is that desperation is setting in and rather than acknowledge that they are responsible for poor sales they want to blame and punish the customer. As stupid as it sounds it could kind of make sense especially considering the frequency of these moves as of late. I don't even think Dick "Satan" Cheney would stoop this low. I mean, shit, it's supporting fucking BREAST CANCER RESEARCH!!!

100% agreed. Even though the extra stuff wasn't necessarily that fun to play I still got a sense of satisfaction out of it and have found that even 4 years later some of the strongest memories I have of GTA IV are the times I went to throw darts, went to the comedy club, or watched Republican Space Rangers on my tv at home.

Yeah, that's what wiki says but I don't want to believe that because it makes it a fucking super lame term.

Maybe this is the thread where someone can finally explain where the fuck "pwn" came from. I get what it means but why the "p" instead of an "o"?