Bjorn

While I appreciate good coffee, in reality I'm much more interested in quantity and cost than quality. So day-to-day is whatever Folger's was on sale in a cheap drip pot. I drink like 2 pots of coffee a day.

Found a couple of examples for the fun of it. The links go to threads where the context of the quotes come from. The pattern seems to be that women say things he doesn't like, so he labels them "internet feminists" and dismisses them as evil, foolish or insecure.

He got all sorts of bent out of shape and sounded like a true gamergater after a woman wrote a piece about how the de facto dress standards of the gaming industry can be exclusionary to non-white-dudes. You can find some of his responses in this thread. It's one thing to disagree with the premise or conclusion of that article, but he just comes off as a condescending asshat who refuses to even consider any perspective that's not his own. A few months ago he said some other shitty things about feminism, but I'd have to do a bit more work to track that down.

Cool challenge! I don't think this is accurate though: I'd have to go find it, but I'm pretty sure someone tested Beasthood and found that the damage bonus is steady, the bar only controls how long it is active. Increasing the Beasthood stat does not increase damage, only the maximum time you can have it active, so it's actually not a terribly useful stat for the claws which are constantly building it. Also, you could probably make an argument for your hunter to skip Djura, since it's possible to talk to him without him trying to kill you.

Eh, Blow's been doing a fine job of ruining his image all by himself lately, without any intermediaries to quote him at all.

I bought it right after it released, and have never actually got around to playing it.

I definitely think it's possible, but that something like Zeno Clash is the rare exception though. I only played through the first 2 missions of Mirror's Edge and never went back to it, I don't remember it well enough to say how well it did it.

Also, it's different dealing with one versus multiples even. I just had to raise one kid, so only ever had to worry about disciplining/educating/raising a single little human, while balancing the reality that she's a full fledged human with wants, desires, needs, emotions and all the perspectives and irrationalities that go along with being human. Just from observation, it's even easier to reach a point of not-giving-a-shit-about-perfect-parenting some days when you're dealing with 2, 3 or more kids.

I've been playing Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel over the last week in co-op, and then Dark Souls 2 by myself. Which Borderlands has me hankering to play some Mass Effect 3 MP for some reason. Thinking about these 3 different styles of perspective made me realize the thing that ends up bugging me about First Person is the complete lack of mass, momentum and weight to a character. When I backhand a robot with a Krogan wielding a shotgun in Mass Effect, it's got a real feeling of weight behind it. Whereas when I punch something with Salvador in Borderlands 2, it feels as floaty and empty as movement does. First person ends up (often) being less immersive because it conveys a narrower experience range than third person.

Random game goat anecdote, in Skyrim there was a mission modeled after the Hangover where you got drunk, then had to retrace your steps. One of the steps was to get a farmer's goat back that you had stolen and then sold to a giant. I was trying to reclaim the goat being all sneaky, but as soon as I touched the goat to signal it to follow me, the giant roid raged out. So me, the goat and my elfen archer companion all take off running across this field with an angry giant chasing us, slow catching up. I turn back to check on the goat just in time to see the giant slam his club down on both the goat and my archer companion, trampolining them both a mile up into the air (a glitch that could sometimes happen). I was like, "Welp, this missions fucked and now I have to find a new companion." Then the giant took back off after me. I barely made it to town in front of it, where it proceeded to rage and kill multiple guards/townsfolk before it finally lost aggro and wandered. off. I'm just standing in the middle of this muddy road, dejected about having blown a cool mission AND lost a companion. And then, on the horizon, I see my archer trotting towards me without a care in the world. With the goat just a few steps behind him! I don't know how far away they got bounced, but it must have taken them a good 10 minutes to make it back to me. Moral of the Story: Goats make every game better.

Scientists are part of the conspiracy to ruin the Internet and discredit conspiracy theorists. Also, that study sounds kind of terrible. Is it really ethical for scientists to use the public as guinea pigs without their consent? I generally thought that was frowned upon. I also got to thinking about the rampant right wing conspiracy theories (birthers, benghazi, ebola), and how one part of society gets labeled specifically as "conspiracy theorists" while another part that engages in exactly the same behavior generally doesn't.

I'd go with escaping. The Enterprise pulling a cool maneuver is more "Star Trek" to me than it just blasting something.

In SotFS the keys are hidden around the world (in the original version you just got the keys in your inventory when you bought them). The keys are (in case anyone misses them): I'm still messing around with some of my other builds after finally finishing everything with my Peasant. I respecced my goofy Shield build to try out the Majestic Greastword. That thing is awesome! It's Artorias' sword from DS1. The stat requirements are ridiculous (25/25/20/20), but it's got good damage and a great moveset. You get bonus scaling damage when wielding it left handed. It gets several unique moves, including a double spin and a crazy jumping somersault flip attack. Apparently power stancing it has another new move as well, but that's going to take a bit to get my stats there, since I had to gut my stamina and health just to wield it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eDovdtImmjk

I think King's Field would be a hard sell for most current gamers unless they have a particular fondness for the frustrations that can go along with retro gaming. From what I remember of King's Field 2, you'd like get keys with no clue what they go to (and they might go to a door back at the beginning of the game). There were hidden doors with no way to spot them. Backtracking required manually running back and forth across the entire world. I stuck with it because it was so different from anything else I had at the time, but I don't think I even want to ever replay it.

Hooray! You've got it!

OMG he's awesomely huge!

It was box day at the office for the kitties.

I've been on the PS4 playing Bordlerlands with the lady most evenings, she usually quits around 10 or 10:30. If I'm on playing BL, I'd be happy to switch over to Bloodborne for a little while once she quits for the night. Otherwise I'll probably have some time this weekend.

Weird, the entire stamina penalty thing of some equipment disappeared with this update. Might be a confirmation that it was a left over legacy feature that wasn't supposed to be occurring.

When the revolution comes, the cats will side with the robots.

I mostly cut out bread a couple of years ago (not strictly gluten free, but cut down on grains and grain carbs, still willing to cheat when convenient or for something particularly tasty). And after quite awhile of not eating bread, I find it to often have a really strong, and not very pleasant, smell and taste. Particularly if it's a doughy or yeasty bread. I had a similar experience with soda when I cut it out, after months of not drinking one, they mostly taste like a syrupy mess now. It's funny how if you cut out a food for long enough, it can change how it tastes and smells to you.

It's all my fault for watching the Nightly Show again.

My, albeit limited, experience with kids (mine and friends) is that kids' preferences can also suddenly change with almost no clear reason why from an adult perspective. Part of it may be the taste intensity, or quickly shifting tastes. Our daughter would basically eat anything up until she was about 4, then the vegetables she would eat suddenly narrowed down to just a few things. Then around late junior high, early high school, it started opening back up again. We were never the kind of parents to force her to eat anything though, as I ultimately think that's counter-productive. Forcing a kid to eat something will not magically make them appreciate it. One of our daughter's friends literally lived on pop tarts, mac & cheese, corn dogs and cheese pizza. It was like the same three or four things every day for over a decade of her life. Pop tarts for breakfast, m&c for lunch, and corn dogs or pizza for dinner. Every single fucking day. I try not to be too judgy about other parents, but I could never really get this. And yes, all of this too.

Cook's gotta have secrets y'all!