Cordeos

Nice list of good missions from previous games. This gap between the seasons is a good time to go back to the previous games. Blood Money and Contracts are the best previous ones IMO https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/12/the-10-best-contracts-in-hitman-history.html

I was able to download all three of those episodes. I have PocketCasts version 6.1 build 355

1. Hitman (Its a return to form for one of my favorite game series and it has shown how the episodic format can be done well, can't wait for season 2) 2. Hearts of Iron 4 (How will World War 2 turn out if I play country X and do Y, repeat for ~300 hours since July) 3. Astroneer (A great cute chill out game, perfect way to end the year, can't wait to see how it develops and grows)

Anyone have opinions on what level is best to set AutoMod at? Currently I am thinking about setting it to moderate everything but generic profanity

You can build up pretty high, found this on reddit earlier: https://imgur.com/a/13tup Started a new game and I had my first little adventure. Took a truck out to collect some researchable items, got lost, ended up killing myself to teleport home. Then drove around in another truck dropping beacons in an attempt to leave bread crumbs for my first truck. I ended up finding my own beacons and going in circles, got annoyed and killed myself again. I might use a space ship to get over to my first truck and try to find the beacons, hopefully I will be able to figure this out Even though I spent two hours driving around doing nothing in particular I still enjoyed seeing all the weird landscapes and navigating the occasionally difficult terrain. If my next attempt to get my truck home fails I think I will set out for the moon. https://imgur.com/a/Ory3L

I love the art style of this game

I would love to do some coop today or tomorrow. Add me on steam if you're interested, my account there is also Cordeos. So far I am really liking Astroneer, the basic gameplay of gathering, exploring etc are really well done. Excited for more content to be added.

my understanding of the wood elves is that they are weak in melee so require a lot of micromanagement to keep alive. They are sort of glass cannons

Its also a really fun game to discuss in public, I was out with some friends last night and was talking about a game where I had four wives. Three of them would team up to kill my oldest son, then the alliance would shift so one would become the mother of the heir and the previous mother of the heir would plot to kill. I ended up having to throw them all in jail. Other people at our table were a bit confused about what I was talking about.

Portal 2 is longer because they put more story in. I found 2 to be disappointing because it failed to really build up the puzzle challenge well. They never had you use a bunch of the tools in the same puzzle the way they do in 1. The Coop in Portal 2 is super fun thought!

Have they talked about cross play? I wish more games would do it

I hope everyone had a good Krampusnacht!

The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs had an interesting discussion about AI, available in transcript and podcast form http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/20161129/index.html#section-34841

I sniped her right through the armpit changed clothes and sprinted to the exit. No idea how the guards spotted me right away. I want to get that Silent Assassin suit!

I know its almost two years out, but I am super excited. MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries came out in 2002 and I loved it. I still have the joystick and throttle I got to play the game better. I am considering checking out the Living Legends revival now. I want MechWarrior! In terms of features, all I really care about is being able to lead a lance, or two, and deep customization. The lack of being able to make my own loadouts is what turned me off Mech Assualt 1&2 and MechWarrior Online. Here's hoping this game is good! https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/12/05/mechwarrior-5-mercenaries-announced/

I recently tried to install MW4 Mercs on my windows 10 machine and it wouldn't run

If it fails hard enough maybe someone else can get the license I hear you on not trusting the dev, my hope comes from it being single player so maybe it won't suffer from the same issues MWO has.There is also that turn based battletech game is coming out, looks pretty interesting. I still prefer piloting my own mech.

I know Hitman didn't come up this episode, but here is a good article about level design in those games http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hitman-uses-thoughtful-level-design-to-tell-stories

Neat article about hitman level design http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hitman-uses-thoughtful-level-design-to-tell-stories

That menu screen is

Reading in games has kept me from enjoying so many indie titles, I just really don't like reading in games for some reason.

Will there be a yeti who attacks you out of nowhere?

" in 2004, he presented unaudited financials to Deutsche Bank while seeking a loan, claiming he was worth $3.5 billion. The bank concluded Trump was, to say the least, puffing; it put his net worth at $788 million" I'm not saying he isn't rich, but its not at all clear that he is the reason for his wealth or that he doesn't continually misrepresent it. Before his Casino went belly up he was a serial failed businessman with a rich father backing him, he later started selling his name as a brand and not directly running businesses, this was a far more successful strategy. " Around the country, buyers were led to believe they were purchasing apartments in buildings overseen by Trump, although his only involvement in many cases was getting paid for the use of his brand. For example, in 2009, Trump and a developer named Jorge Pérez unveiled plans for Trump Hollywood, a 40-story oceanfront condominium that they boasted would sell at premium prices and feature such luxuries as Italian cabinetry. But with the entire real estate market imploding, condo buyers were looking for bargains, and sales were minuscule. In 2010, lenders foreclosed on the $355 million project. Even though Trump’s name was listed on the condominium’s website as the developer, he immediately distanced himself from the project, saying he had only licensed his name." http://www.newsweek.com/2016/08/12/donald-trumps-business-failures-election-2016-486091.html

Considering his cabinet appointments I don't think there is much doubt. A climate change denier, a school privatizer, an anti-semite and racist from a conspiracy theory laden website. Those are just off the top of my head. He got his start with a multi-million dollar loan from his father, considering how our economy is set up for the rich to succeed, it would take a complete idiot to not still be rich after starting out with $14 million. His business career has mostly been one of failure, he has been most successful as a brand ambassador, he doesn't actually run most of the businesses with his name on them. http://www.forbes.com/sites/debtwire/2015/08/18/a-trip-down-donald-trumps-bankruptcy-memory-lane/#44f3fc8075dd

Watching the Hitman stream without being able to type in chat is so frustrating Nick went past the high octane fuel multiple times during his mass murderer run of Sapienza at night. The streams are a mix of fun and agonizing because of all the mistakes. Perhaps I have just played too much Hitman to be able to watch others do it. I had similar issues watching Xcom streams.