Bjorn

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    I felt like it was left open ended about whether or not an affair happened. I do not think you, an engaged man, casually take a married woman to a concert unless there is interest on both sides. It would be nice if we lived in a world where that was okay, but I think there was at least interest on both sides and that it's possible that something happened.

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    Not interested in the game at all, but how is it? (Understand this isn't the thread for such discussion. was just lurking when I saw you brought it up)

     

    Haven't played it yet!  I'm neck deep in an Xcom campaign.  I did gift it to a regular Thumb, and I am not kidding, who was playing Far Cry 2 when I accepted his friend request.  Because that's what Thumbs do.

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    In the swiftness of reading, I read "my brother's wife gave birth to his mom." So I've got that going for me which is nice.

     

    And thus was Oedipal Thumbs born...

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    I kept a spreadsheet of my card sales for several months until I got lazy about keeping track of it.  When I quit updating it, I had sold $129.15 worth of cards.  I'm probably around $200 worth of card sales at this point. Both my wife and I have Steam accounts, and I was selling the cards off both.  Some of that I spent on buying the cheapest games with cards, just because they had cards, until I realized that the drop rate on Boosters is low enough that it wasn't really profitable.  Still, most of those cards are from games that I wanted anyways (or Humble Bundles I was going to buy anyways), so selling the cards has ended up letting me buy a ton of games that I otherwise wouldn't have. 

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    I've beaten the first boss and traveled to the beta sector, my friends are the ones who have made it all the way to delta I believe. Getting that far in the game reveals some pretty serious ballance problems, so it's probably for the best to stay dabbling in the early game for a while. Once you're able to regularly and easily tackle level 5 planets, you'll start to wonder why you waste fuel hopping back to your level 1 home planet every time you want to craft something. I'm hoping they put something in the game that either gives real value to having a solid home planet, or the ability to build out your ship as a moving base. Also, having a list of favorited planets would be nice.

     

    That long term balance has been one of my concerns about getting deep into the game, or feeling that you need to rebuild your base on a semi-regular basis for ease of access.  I put a ridiculous ton of work into my original house in Terraria and loved it.  I'd hate to feel that I have to abandon a base for no other reason than it is inconvenient.

     

    This looks a lot like Terraria. Is it by the same devs? I also recently saw a trailer for a game that seemed to be a cross between Terraria and Capsized, but forgot the name. Anyone know that one?

     

    Are you thinking of Edge of Space?  Seems to match that description.  And Starbound's lead dev was the main artist on Terraria.  The main programmer of Terraria is working on T2.

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    The store was the worst part of MP.  You didn't really need to pay to win, just get good enough to run Gold level missions most of the time.   I usually spent $6 each time they released a new content pack.  Not because I felt that I needed to, but because each of the content packs was awesome and I would have paid double that had they charged for them. 

     

    I eventually got good enough that I routinely ran 2 and 3 people squads on Gold.  It was actually a lot of fun that way.  It was about a 50/50 chance for my wife and I to extract on Gold with just the two of us, whereas we almost never failed with 4 people.  So it added a nice challenge.  And we'd do themed role playing matches like having two Quarians, or a Krogan and Salarian who had been marooned together and had to depend on one another to live. 

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    I was just about to buy a Don't Starve Two Pack for $1.70 but I guess Valve or whoever realized that was a mistake while I was checking out and brought the price up to $7. Too rich for my taste.

     

    I got the 2-pack at the price, just thought it was an awesome deal, and then looked again a few minutes later and it had jumped up in price.  I actually feel a little bad, I really like the developer of Don't Starve and didn't mean to take advantage of a glitch. 

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    I just got past the base assault in a NI playthrough with the new content, wishing I had started on Classic now.  But I went Normal first as I wanted a chance to experiment and learn without being punished too bad.  I'm loving all the new stuff, particularly the new scripted missions, but the endgame of a Normal playthrough is going to be a cakewalk.  Mimetic Skin is nuts, as are Mechs who can punch anything to death and sprint halfway across a map. 

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    That stuff was going on almost immediately.  People had servers up running automated buying programs, and even less hardcore guys were sharing Greasemonkey scripts to do it in a browser window. 

     

    If you look at card history graphs, every once in awhile you'll see a $0.10 card that sold a single unit for $10.00.  I often wonder if that's some automated buying program that glitched out. 

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    There's a destruction derby level that is totally nuts and the AI drivers start driving backwards when their fronts are too damaged! (is this common in destruction derby games?)

     

    Don't know about games, but this is how real Demo Derbies work.  Your car will last a lot longer if you're ramming people with your trunk rather than your engine.  Most drivers will only ram with their front if they are desperate.

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    My daughter had one of those moments to restore your faith in humanity today.  She works at a UPS Store, and a little girl came in this afternoon to give her a friendship bracelet to thank her for helping her and her mom ship gifts to the rest of their family. 

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    On the 360.  I thought about moving over to the PC at one point, but the way you progress is by earning credits playing matches, which you then spend on booster packs that unlock and upgrade guns/equipment/characters.  You have to start over if you start playing on a new platform, and I couldn't imagine starting over after having almost everything unlocked on the 360.  When you're starting out, it sucks if you want to unlock one specific gun/character, but it's not bad if you just accept that everything can be fun and enjoy what you are unlocking. 

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    I think I'll just buy one copy today and see what I think of it.  Will buy a second one if I really dig it, or maybe just hope that they add in local co-op down the road.  Just went reading through some of the developer comments on it.  They just added actual controller support, which was one of the limiting factors to having local co-op.  Without having official controller support built in, they couldn't figure out a way for two people to share one keyboard due to the number of buttons used.  So maybe local will get patched in now. 

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    Looks like the US PS+ additions for January have been announced. I don't know anything about the Vita titles but the rest seem like a really good set of games.

     

    Don't Starve (PS4)

    Bioshock Infinite (PS3)

    Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (PS3)

    DmC: Devil May Cry (PS3)

    Smart As (Vita)

    Worms Battle Islands (Vita)

     

    Well that's awesome that Brothers is coming to the PS3.  I won't bother buying it on Steam now.