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AAAAH, and thus, I have downloaded Spotify for the first time. Holy crap, Madlib's beats are so fucking good, it's ridiculous. It's like the soundtrack to a blaxploitation film, which seems to be the inspiration of most tracks ("Scarface", being the most obvious). Also, M. Ward is cool.

Not much of a fan of gangsta rap, but Madlib makes this album. Not that Gibbs isn't good, but eh, not really into lyrics that talk about the thug life. Freddie makes it bearable and puts more soul into his lyrics than other gangsta rappers these days, imo. But damn, that fucking beat. Madlib straight up owns this album.

me irl

I've decided to revisist The Witcher 2 on PC, since I completed it before on 360, and holy crap, playing it after Dark Souls' much more fluid and tighter combat mechanics felt weird. I feel combat gets a lot more interesting later on once more interesting enemies and settings appear, but that's just me maybe. As janky as W2's combat is, I feel it's still serviceable and engaging during more creative arenas. I'll try out that mod Nappi linked since it may help a lot with my problems. I'll report back on it once I've got it running.

Use tongue on but hole.

Does he own a Yoshi?

Copy pasted from DS2 Thread: IT IS DONE, I HAVE COMPLETED DARK SOULS 2. Not bad! Definitely not as good as DS1 in my opinion, but overall an enjoyable experience! I'd say the multiplayer is the true star of DS2. So many hours of my time were spent on PvP and co-op cuz it was a much more smoother and much more engaging experience than DS1's take on multiplayer. Time for NG+, I guess!

IT IS DONE, I HAVE COMPLETED DARK SOULS 2. Not bad! Definitely not as good as DS1 in my opinion, but overall an enjoyable experience! I'd say the multiplayer is the true star of DS2. So many hours of my time were spent on PvP and co-op cuz it was a much more smoother and much more engaging experience than DS1's take on multiplayer. Time for NG+, I guess!

Nice try. That's artwork from Episode 2.

This may be a somewhat unpopular opinion, but I'd say that you shouldn't bother with going back to Witcher 1. As ambitious it was, mechanically it was extremely rote and boring, and its story was very much something you may have seen millions of times before. And yeah, it had this blatant insidious sexism that rewarded you dumb sex card trophies after having sex with women. It was really fucking stupid. Witcher 2, on the other hand, is where I feel the series truly shows its potential. It's a separate narrative from the first Witcher (aside from some certain aspects that are easily explained in certain moments and in a Witcher 1 overview cutscene in the main menu), so you don't need to play Witcher 1 anyway, and it's story is way more interesting and well written than most games, if not most modern fantasy fiction in general, imo. And the way it treats branching choices and narrative is still unprecedented in big budget RPGs. Consequences to your choices slowly boil up rather than just immediately ramify like in most RPGs, and the devs went as far as creating numerous different paths to the story based on more important decisions. In other words, depending on your choices, you will experience a whole different story and path than from someone else. Also, combat wise, it's much more fun and open than Witcher 1, and the focus on conversations and character interplay are very well done. As dark and grim as people peg the Witcher 2 to be, you spend an awful lot of time just interacting with characters in non-violent settings, and there is some levity and light heartedness in its writing. Add how extremely bright and colorful it is visually, and it's not your typical grim dark video game. Also, it's take on fantasy from a Polish perspective is very interesting and different to the usual Tolkein inspired fantasy worlds. Also, they realized how gross sex was portrayed in Witcher 1, and opted to make intercourse to not be a misogynistic reward by way of trophy card or the end goal of some relationship tree like in Bioware games, but just as a sex positive act between characters after spending time with them and getting to know them in a non-skeezy and intensely romantic way. And the relationship between Triss and Geralt is perhaps the most interesting romantic relationship I've seen in a game, imo. Or at least, the only one I was invested in. You can criticize it for still being mainly hetero-normative (there are a couple of openly queer characters in the game, tho) in its character relationships, but that's a conversation for another thread, I guess. EDIT: Also, I noticed how much I used also, also.

I see this thread as that Molyneux Cube thing. Every horrendous bad joke is an etching to a mad project. The 1000th poster gets to participate in my comedy standup Kickstarter campaign. Oh hey, Chris. This post is also a bad joke. #blowedyourmind

YOU ALREADY MADE THAT JOKE. UNLESS THAT'S THE JOKE. WHICH IN THAT CASE, GOOD BAD JOKE.

A dark thread rises from the ashes once more... A lion walks out of a casino and shouts, "I got cheetah'd out of my money!" HONK HONK. You're welcome.

The comments under the on Youtube are the best.

Beautiful.

FUCK. It's a PS4 exclusive though, so I'll be playing this in like a decade.

The legacy continues.

Fuck everything.

Yeah, seems like puns make Chris a bit batty. As for me, these puns are making me puma pants! But I guess that's irrelephant right now...

Ya'll are being real catty to each other.

Cool! I'll be using Mumble btw.