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The hair guys were the biggest brick wall I hit, everything else was very manageable to me, but I also made sure to comb every little side area I could find. I really don't know if that's underleveled or not, I didn't pay very close attention to what level I was at different portions of the game.

I've never actually watched one of these live. Tuned it in today some at work (mostly listening) and then the lady and I watched almost all of the Tetris stuff tonight. It's a lot of fun! More fun than I actually expected, even with all the good things y'all have had to say about it before. Makes me feel a bit sheepish for not checking it out before.

Definitely don't discount the power that cool aunt can have in a kid's life. I really think that relationship dynamic can be one of the more powerful ones for a kid.

It was released without controller support, so I imagine that was a big part of it. But it also sounded like they were struggling to balance or make it interesting enough with multiple players. They've said that they intend to keep working on it, and both controller support and co-op are still things they'd like to get back into the game, but no promises. I think it's most frustrating because I was really looking forward to it. From what I had seen of it, the potential for a great co-op game was there.

Heide's in SOTFS is one of the areas where they clearly wanted co-op to be a potential focus, with the Heide Knight additions, the place can be a nightmare early on when solo. But with help, it's quite straight forward. The big guys in Heide's are very resistant to piercing weapons, so your mail breaker is just a laughable toothpick for them. When focusing on a piercing weapon, it usually is a good idea to have a blunt or slash backup for a handful of enemies. Piercing weapons can destroy a whole bunch of other enemies in the game though, built right. I don't personally feel that armor is necessary at all in DS2, but I've also played through it a couple of dozen times now. My opinion is very skewed at this point. 9 times out of 10 though, rolling is better than tanking a hit. iframes on rolls are tied to Agility, which is raised by Adaptability and Attunement. Adp raises it more than att. You should probably aim for a 99, 100 or 105 Agility depending on how you want to distribute your stats.

Out of the mainstream sexyal communities. There are a lot of people,male and female, who openly admit to enjoying watching or knowing of their partners exploits. Cuck is usually favored in the bdsm crowd where distinct power dynamics are present, while compersion is a term favored by swingers and poly folk. Compersion is a bit broader term, and doesn't have the fetish or power meanings within it.

It's kind of fascinating to have watched how the term cuck/cuckold has essentially diverged along two different paths of meaning which both have the same root, but have ended up in two radically different places (one positive, one negative). And it does actually even make sense to me as a word. A man who isn't a cuck is one who has control of both his life and the people in his life, particularly those who should be subservient to him (like women and minorities). A cuck has become subservient to those lesser people. So the emergence of cuckservatives as conservative appearing people who have lost control of women and blacks seems like a natural idea to emerge from those people. And they're also good at coining rather stomach-turning phrases.

Yeah, everything points to Valve not operating as the utopian, egalitarian, corporate society that some want to believe it is. There still may be something to the idea of not being able to deliver the perfect game though, not so much as a company, but just from an individual perspective. Who wants to be the lead writer or director on a game that is so likely to draw a massive amount of fire? Unless you're just inspired as hell, is it worth watching your social media accounts devolve into an angry, bitter, gaming maelstrom of hate for a few weeks/months? I mean, if I had the choice to lead HL3, or just make any other project, I might personally go with any other project.

It makes perfect sense that it would emerge as a word. Cuckolds have long been one of the gravest insults that the wacky right have reserved for men they view as betrayers to their own gender. Of course they would start trying to cram that idea into other words to give it even more ways of being used.

Ah, you've missed a few areas then. Definitely do some hunting around, with the gap jumping ability of the bicycle, there are a few areas open to you now that there weren't before. There's a gap you can't jump in one of the caves that will lead you to another character as well. You can also rescue your kidnapped fellow. I'll spoiler this for folks, but if you really want him back, it's worth reading.

I usually tip $2 on takeout, unless it's a large order (like bigger than $30). I figure most people don't tip at all, so it's appreciated, but I really can't justify tipping more since I'm not getting much service.

Do you have any firebombs left, or characters with fire attacks? There's a person who gives you a hint that fancy hair is weak to fire. I just spammed firebombs at them. There are a couple of places you can farm experience with respawning enemies (the snakes and the shadows). There are characters who are much, much tankier than some other ones. The wilderness guy I know is pretty great. The first time I fought the hair guys, they destroyed me. Bad. So I went exploring, found some side areas I had missed, leveled up, and by the time I went back I was able to handle them pretty easily. Oh, and don't discount attacks that can cause status effects on enemies. Stun, knockdown, and a couple of others can be chained one from another to stunlock some enemies.

I'm not usually one to complain about Early Access games, being as they are what they are, but I'm pretty miffed at the devs of The Masterplan. I bought it while it was in EA because the reviews were good (like the game was complete enough to go ahead and justify buying it even if development stopped on it), and it explicitly advertised itself as a game with local co-op. At the time, playing with multiple people was sub-optimal because controller support hadn't been added, so everyone had to cram around one keyboard. We just figured we'd come back to it later once it was further alone. So it finally exited EA....and it's a fucking single player game now. All co-op was stripped out of it. I know that through the process of designing and building a game, lots of things can change. But advertising and selling a multiplayer game, and then delivering a single player game, is up there as one of the most irritating things I've experienced with supporting a game in its development.

The more bad press and opinions I see of Pixels....the more I want to go see it. A trainwreck is more or less what I was hoping for.

If this isn't too personal of a question, how do you feel about her? Obviously you care about her a lot, is it to the point of thinking she's a potential lifelong partner? I know it's a personal question, but sometimes relationships hit natural ends, which doesn't make it hurt any less, or make it a failed relationship, or make it any less confusing about what you should do. Another option is to actually relax the definition of what your relationship is. If you're not a jealous person, giving each of you some more freedom, while maintaining contact and remaining open to her moving back to the UK once you're in a different place may be a good solution. I think it's the kind of solution that carries equal amounts of risk to just a typical long distance relationship, just different types of risk. Just depends on the personalities of you both on which would feel like the better path to future success.

Some random entertainment, the reporter live tweeting the engineering job it took to remove this crashed truck is amazing. "Truck owner has been verbally assaulting me and others on scene. He hasn't been arrested, as he wasn't driving. Other man was taken away." "Man just asked police officer for his keys so he could drive home. Truck is still wedged on sidewalk. Workers assessing structural stability" "Now the man is exposing himself. I think he's intending to urinate. This is a circus."

I don't feel like Bono was anywhere near as high profile. Bono hasn't had a years long TV show dedicated to following his family around. If it weren't for the Kardashians, Jenner wouldn't have a tenth of the name recognition that she does. And that carries with it all of the baggage of how people feel about her ex and her step-daughters. I also remember some pretty shitty things being said about Bono around the time of his transition. That would have been at the earlier edge of social media though, so you wouldn't have had things be nearly as visible to as many people. Edited: Grrr, managed to switch pronouns halfway through a paragraph.

My partner actually started off studying opera in college, before ultimately deciding to go after a degree with more steady work. So even though I'm not very well versed in it, I do have a fondness for it thanks to her. And it really is badass

Badass. :tup:

Ubisoft? No, you-be-soft.

I think context matters a bunch, and given the extreme vitriolic rhetoric floating around Jenner specifically, common sense would probably dictate that there are better outlets for your humor. I'm sure it's possible to tell jokes about Jenner that aren't transphobic. But if you're drawing entirely on how she looks for the joke, you're likely to cross a line regardless of what your intent was. Plus there's also something about that joke that still feels wrong to me. In that it's going after how, "Isn't it funny when men kinda have feminine features" humor. Which isn't particularly funny, and in context, is trying to reinforce what a man is supposed to look like. People have made fun of Michaels for a long time for not adhering to male image expectations. So it's a bad joke, that's unoriginal, about reinforcing society's gender and beauty norms, that uses a recently out trans woman for the hell of it. There's nothing good or defensible about it (speaking more to Kain than Ninety-Three).

I think there's a pretty big difference between blame and recognizing the source of adult issues. I have some pretty major body image issues, which I know are absolutely rooted in some behaviors of my mother and brother when I was a kid. I don't blame them, but dealing with it now is actually a lot easier when I can trace the lineage of those feelings back 30 years and see the origins.

The lady absolutely adores being read to, and this is a thing we did as well. We also played hangman together a lot, on a public game, and entertained ourselves by trying to code messages into our word selections that other players would never get. That game never had a huge population, and there was even a little forum on it. A year or so after we quit playing, I went on the forum and told the regulars that we were a couple and had gotten engaged. The reaction from them all is still up there as one of the highlights of how good the internet can be.

It's a behavioral study, which I always take with a grain of salt, but this seems to blow the argument of "men are shitty to everyone in online games" out of the water. Study Finds That Online Harassers Really Are Losers

Watched Ant Man tonight. Good movie! It's probably up there as one of the better MU movies for general fun, and anything that gets into daughter/father stuff is always going to hit me harder. As far as tackling any interesting or challenging themes, it's really lightweight though.