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I was just about to say, it's on iOS and Android. It's pretty good with a touch interface thanks to the pause mechanic although it's as buggy as the original. Had mine crash about 5 times on the final boss, then corrupt the save.

That doesn't sound very ethical. It's like Gone Home all over again.

It does take a little getting use to, but I feel like it becomes really intuitive once you get a grip on it. The only things I still struggle with are: 1) Switching between enemies. If an enemy moves out of range, or I want to freeze multiple enemies for CC, I find it awkward to select the one I want just by lock->shoot->unlock. There might be a target swap button, but if it's on the D-pad I haven't found it (mainly because using the D-pad is awkward with your thumb on A for jump). 2) Grappling in a sequence. I can grapple, but I always fall between multiple grapple points. I had a super good session on Sunday where I got 4 upgrades in the space of about an hour. I'm kinda sad now, I think I have all the upgrades. I really don't want Prime to finish.

I'll happily give you a hand, I'm leveling an alt (slowly) and playing my main most weeks. Add Griddle_lol.

Lol, my PC is busted and I don't have time to fix it/can't be bothered. A Vita or 3Ds SMB would be an instant buy for me.

What platform are you playing on Zeus?

Cool, I'll definitely play it through again. I feel like I need a break from it though, I find the game play to be stressful and I can't play for more than an hour at a time. I'm incredibly busy with metroid prime right now (which is rapidly becoming one of my favourite games I've played in a while) and I'd like to finish xenoblade and persona 4 before their respective sequels come out.

Never played it. It's not available on any platform I own. I got to the tower place. I don't know, it just wasn't fun, the difficult platforming I do in some games is like a frustrating part I push through that leads to a reward. Whether it's more environments, more challenges, more combat or more story. Shovel Knight had none of those rewards, just more frustration.

That's interesting, I found the levels just merged into each other, nothing other than difficulty and colour really differentiated them for me. I dont dislike difficult games, I love them, it just felt frustrating to pinpoint jumps. I loved the style and sound track though. Just wonderful music.

I hear amazon US is selling Playstation TV at 50% off.

I couldn't put my finger on what was missing. I think the cabbage lost some flavour, but then again, I usually add cumin to cabbage recipes and I didn't this time. As I said, it wasn't bad, it was just missing something. I ended up eating more than my share. I make two chicken stocks (because I roast chicken once a week for work lunches) - one from the oil and fat which I drain from the roast, and the other by boiling the left overs - generally bones and gristle. They're both pretty good. I've never made a beef stock, mainly because if I buy beef, I don't throw anything away, I eat everything that comes with it. I had a minor disaster with chili I made last night. I bought cheap (Sainsbuy's basics) tinned tomatoes, and the whole chilli tasted of nothing but over sweet tomato. I added salt, cocoa powder and chicken stock (I wanted this to be vegetarian chilli) but the cheap tomato was incredibly over powering. I usually spend more on the tomatoes, but I thought I'd give the cheap ones a try. Never again.

There's an odd culture where I work. No one is willing to let other people handle their stuff without being supervised. I don't know whether it's stemmed from mistrust, or trying to cut down the number of people on publications. There also seems to be little skill overlap, with different people specialising in different areas, so even if I wanted to, the only person who was qualified to handle animals has now left.

I'm done with shovel knight. Eh, it's alright, not anything astounding like people made it out to be. I suspect it's a little nostalgia buoying it up, even if it's not, it's just not for me. I find it way too frustrating. I really liked the idea of breaking check points for more cash, but there's barely anything to spend the cash on, making it pointless to me.

Ah that makes sense. I actually bothered to purchase some moves this time, and the <- -> Punch (or kick) were fantastic for setting up parries whilst simultaneously attacking. I just found the cutscenes really hard to watch in B1, they were ugly, and I had no fucking clue what was happening. The story was simpler in 2 so I could follow it without any trouble. I tried bow/whip but it felt off. I just couldn't get the hang of it, but guns/guns or sword/whip feels right to me. Do you think it's worth going for infinite climax? Some bosses on 3rd absolutely destroyed me (I'm looking at you Golem) but others I killed with very little trouble (including the final boss).

I always see the selection mark is on the "YES" for giving the pokemon a nickname. I know it defaults there, but I'm really hoping you give all your shinies a unique name.

I don't see how it's a false dichotomy. Either the police vet any suspect calls, waste seconds and minutes doing so, or they respond to every call. How do they tell which are suspect? Do they need to vet before they vet? Sure someone could get hurt by the "SWATing" (which is clearly one of the reasons it's fucking awful) and obviously it's a huge waste of resources, but there's a calculated risk involved with it in the first place from the perspective of the police. They're not going to send a SWAT team (especially in the US where officers carry weapons) to something unless it seems utterly urgent and dire. The punishment for the act is also pretty weird considering many of the potential pranksters are children, who undoubtedly do not understand the potential consequences of what they're doing. I sent a pizza to someone's house as a kid, I thought their confusion and mild irritation was hilarious. I didn't think about the people who made the pizza or the delivery boy's time and possible loss of earnings. That shit just doesn't enter into a kid's head, so is cracking down on those caught doing it going to make a difference? If they're adults, then yes, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and I'm not arguing against that in the slightest.

That looks basically like what I did for the soup base, except I didn't throw away the cooked veg.

I used a cube. I tend to make my own chicken or pork stock, but never vegetable. How do you make veg stock? Just boil a bunch of veg and keep the water?

I work in circadian biology - so body clocks and how they affect illness. 24/48 hour shifts are common place for many of us. Although they tend to be like - take a sample once every 2 - 6 hours, not 48 hours of constant work. So I know how incredibly easy it is to mess up or be absent minded, especially if you're doing it alone (I tend to rope someone else in with me so I don't go crazy). Ironically a lot of our findings are applicable to how shift work and disrupted sleep promote diseases or lead to drug resistance.

I beat Bayonetta 2. It's a vast improvement over the first game, with a few weird changes that I didn't understand (mainly the lack of Witch Time when you parry), but overall it's more Bayonetta, which is what the world needs (or at least I did). The combat is sublime, the story was better than the original (as in this time I didn't skip any cut scenes) and the colour palette used stripped away that horrendous brown/yellow stain on everything. It's bright, it's fast and it's bombastic. Just like it should be. They also took out the penalties for using healing items/power ups, meaning you don't have to be a god to get something other than Stone for a level completion. The death penalty is still in there, but that's understandable. Also all the horrendous instant-fail-counts-as-a-death-for-determining-score QTEs are gone. I delved a little deeper into the combat this time, foregoing B's trademark quadruple guns out and settling on swords in the hand slot, and the whip in the foot slot. Really worked well. I also used the bow for some bosses that I struggled to get close to with the swords, but the bow felt weird to use since it knocks you back when you shoot, meaning you can't really use combos with any foot-mounted weapon as you'll be out of range. This basically meant spamming the same button over and over, then switching to swords when I got close. I played on 3rd Climax (essentially hard) and I intend to go back and get at least gold rating on every level, and unlock the "secret" boss. It's a really good game.

I do, but they were on the first night of a 48 hour shift at the time. It's so easy to make mistakes at 4am that I just can't blame them. I'm not really a vindictive person anyway, especially if something's an accident!

I made Portugese cabbage soup - onion, garlic, celery, potato, cabbage, vegetable stock (and optional chrozio). I added bay leaves and smoked paprika. It sounded great to me on paper, but it's missing something. It's almost delicious, but a little too bland. Anyone know how I could have made it a little better?

It's hard to deal with: what are the police supposed to do? Not respond to calls of the utmost (potential) urgency that they demand an immediate armed presence? I'm sure there's a way to vet the calls, but if a SWAT team arrives almost instantly, you would assume that the false threat was pretty radical and time sensitive which means even a few seconds spent vetting a call could cost people their lives from the police's point of view. Personally, I think I'd rather have the people deal with the terror of getting "SWATed" than have a real emergency result in the death of someone because the police didn't arrive in time (or at all). It's a sad lesser of two evils...

I thought it was satirical. Not a conspiracy theory website.

I had to cancel a large experiment I've been planning for months because someone left the cell culture incubator open over night and killed all my cells. This is a huge set back and will take me a couple of months to recover. I'm not even angry at the person, everyone makes mistakes, I just feel lost.