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Since you guys brought up the weird cassette tape of a man pooping, I figured I'd throw this out there. That tape is indeed real (I have one in my game), and actually can serve a purpose. At some point pretty early, you get an upgrade for your iDroid where you can add a speaker to it, letting you play tapes out loud in the world. If you're hiding in a portapotty and a guard starts to come investigate, you can play the pooping tape out loud and the guard will stop investigating the toilet because it's obviously just someone pooping. There are other tapes that have effects for playing them out loud. Another example is that you can eventually collect tapes with guards saying "Enemy down" or something like that in various languages. Should you raise an alert, if you can get within earshot of a guard and play the tape in the correct language through the speaker, the guard will think that another guard has successfully killed you and signal for the alarm to be cancelled.

What's more, he was a minor detained and questioned by police prior to his parents being informed, his interrogation took place without the presence of a parent or a lawyer, and police denied his request to call his parents while he was being interrogated. All of which violates all sorts of rules for how police are allowed to interrogate minors.

I don't know that I'd classify a pencil box as a "big metal case" or a "suitcase". For a sense of scale, use the electrical plug that's in shot. This is a marketing photo of the case, giving you a better sense of what size that is:

I went to a school that had the Greek system but also didn't have actual frat houses. That seemed to at least keep things moderately in check, so there might be something to the idea of having frats minus the shared housing. Of course, that university also had their own problems with rape. The on-campus housing consisted of apartments managed by a third-party that had big problems of their own. They had poor security that led to more rapes reported in student housing than other universities that had 2-3 times as many students in housing and a university administration that thought they didn't need to issue crime alerts unless the perpetrator was unknown or at large. So, for instance, a rape would be reported, someone would be arrested, bail out within 24 hours and go right back to being in housing without any warning to the residents that any of this had happened. I lived in those apartments for a year, and while I didn't find out about that whole angle until a few years later, sadly none of it surprised me.

Yeah, I had a bunch of guys start wearing helmets, and it meant I just had to hold up until they turned and I could shoot them in the face. Problem solved.

There seems to be a way to get Quiet before the mandatory mission where you get her. If I'm remembering what I read (which might have even been in this thread): So maybe the people suggesting that got access to her early, and thus had her unlocked by then.

Watching this, I had that feeling of "I've seen this actress before, who is she?" about the granddaughter character. Looked up the actress, and realized she's Kimmy from The Americans. Instantly it makes that trailer a little creepier to me.

There is, but it's not real public. Sent you a message about it.

I'm thinking about doing this. I'm just in Dallas anyway, so San Antonio is not that bad of a drive.

Oh my god, that Mario Party Party. The ending is superb.

Yep, that's real. There have been reports that Irvin paid McIver a six-figure sum to prevent him from pressing charges. The book "Boys Will Be Boys", about those Cowboys championship teams, opens with that story, talking to multiple members of the team who were in the room and saw it happen.

It's not so much that no one wants to play with that guy, but that his skill doesn't warrant keeping him around in spite of that trait. See: Michael Irvin stabbing Everett McIver in the neck with a pair of scissors because McIver wouldn't let Irvin get his hair cut first.

I'm curious if anyone else played with the cheat code that increased the returned clips from 5 to 15. Running through your early searches and seeing what resided in the next 10 search results gives you a real feeling of how meticulous the writing process must have been.

I don't know that it has to be or even should be all candidates, and that's entirely possible that pushing, say, only Bernie makes a lot of sense. I could try to sum it up, but I'm going to do something instead that I kinda cringe at doing, which is to link a facebook post. But, style aside, it does a good job of evaluating the strategy of "Why Bernie?", and it's pretty simple: Bernie's the one that might actually listen. Those protesters didn't just show up overnight. There's been a simmering issue with Bernie for a little while now, but Bernie wasn't actually going out of his way to address. If Bernie Sanders, out on the far left of the spectrum on his own, doesn't have to address these issues head-on, then why should anyone else? Who in the field is positioned to take up this particular mantle and use it to make them look good and Bernie look bad? If Bernie's not talking about it, then no one will.

Anita posted both to her twitter feed. They're not from any video, they're just GIFs she's made.

Review started back on Comedy Central, and I really suggest it. It's a pretty dark show, but if you're in for dark humor, it's amazing. The basic premise of Review is that it's supposed to be a TV show hosted by Forrest MacNeil (Andy Daly as this very white-bread psuedo-academic), who is a life reviewer, reviewing life experiences that people ask him to do and grading them on a scale of up to 5 stars. The shows will typically be broken up into a couple of reviews per episode, so it's got this sorta-sketch comedy format, but the show is a thing with continuity. In the first episode of the show, he reviews drug addiction, and when that review is over, Forrest has to deal the repercussions of having acted so reprehensibly to the people close to him while he's moving onto whatever he's been asked to do next. What the net result of this means is that Forrest is basically destroying everything in his life by taking requests of extreme behavior from an audience and just letting it loose on his wife and son, his neighbors, his relatives, basically anyone he touches. He doesn't tell any of them that he's reviewing these things (it'd comprise the authenticity of his experience), and he's basically let the requests of his audience dictate his behavior rather than any sort of personal moral compass. And yet, for as dark as this show gets, it's incredibly hilarious. Episode 3 of the first season is just about the funniest thing I saw on TV last year. If you give it a shot, you should try to get through that episode. If that's not your thing, then it's not going to be for you, but the first two episodes are pretty good episodes that set the stage for something amazing. Also, avoid episode titles if you can. The titles are typically just a short list of the reviews done in the episode, but episode 3 has one big moment that is significantly diminished by knowing the title.

That trailer seems to be trying really hard to be Blade Runner, right down to the Vangelis sounding music.

If you've been watching the Contradiction videos, you should really make sure to listen to the end of the Beastcast this week (at 2:34:30 if you want to jump to it).

I actually quit listening to Danswers a good month or two back myself, but: This is kinda backwards. The story Danny told was that she was the one who broke it off just prior to the wedding, and that he ultimately realized she was right to do that.

Vinny replied to someone on Twitter this morning talking about how they wanted a version of Her Story where Jenks is added as the detective asking her questions, and now I can't get that idea out of my head.

We3 is so good. There was talk a few years ago that a movie adaptation was being worked on. As much as I love that comic, I kinda think a movie of that would be a weird thing. If it's not marketed just right, I could see a lot of parents deciding to take their kids to see We3 and walking out of that thing horrified. Since you got me thinking of that, I just googled it and saw that apparently James Gunn keeps throwing around the idea that he desperately wants to direct We3, and that sounds like something I'd fucking love to see.

Ended up playing the demo of this after hearing Jeff Gerstmann talk about it on the Bombcast this week. Ended up buying the game as soon as the demo ended, looking forward to playing more.

I watched the animated version back when it came out. It's OK, but nowhere near as good as the comics. It gets a big chunk of the fundamental plot, but like most of DC's animated stuff, it's short, which means they have to excise a lot to make it fit inside 76 minutes. They actually cut a large number of the issues in total. It's kinda an adaptation of issues 1-3, 5, 11 and 12. This means They also craft a different epilogue to the animated version.

On the Superman front, it's weird, but in a way Superman is, in a way, the comic book character, and yet the character is most poorly used when placed in typical comic book stories. You have to take a different tack to get the best use out of the character. And yes, All Star Superman is the best Superman story I've read. Incredible stuff.

So in my experience so far, Nekker hearts seem to spawn only from Nekker nests, not from individual Nekkers. I'm not sure that should be the case, because I've now cleared all of the map except for the small islands in Skellige of monster nests, and I'm still like 1 heart short of being able to craft the Superior White Raffard. Also, for when you get to the late crafting recipes, you should be hitting up every bar you can find. Those bar shopkeepers tend to have the more rare liquors, which you need to craft White Gull, which is needed both directly on many high-level crafting recipes and for alchemy ingrediants you need for high-level crafting recipes (stuff like Albedo). Also, you should check all the herbalist shops. Look for the scraps of paper in their inventory, so you can buy crafting recipes. There's one guy you run into fairly deep in (behind a level 22 or so quest) who sells all the recipes.