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Man, this show is always eye-opening. Loved the discussion about looking critically at entertainment. I'm totally on the non-critical end of things. I take stories as just stories, and characters' values as just their values, not something that should apply to my life/worldview. But Rob's talk about how cop-shows influence public perception of police rings true. I'm glad someone is looking critically at this stuff. I have a hard time buying that this would be a preferable way of consuming entertainment tho, mostly it just looks like a good way of talking yourself out of enjoying things.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a very pretty game. And also I just finished it. Both the stealth-action and the actual tomb raiding are an improvement on the 2013 game. The story is... so-so. Overall it's a good time!

Naah I think it's well-balanced. It's viable enough to be possible if you absolutely can't do the puzzle the proper way, but if it was any easier to just bypass any puzzle the whole thing would start to feel a bit meaningless.

I'm very excited to play this. It's looking great.

Plenty of the puzzles allow for different solutions! There's quite a few I've done one way then seen youtubers do it another way and go "ooooooh was that the correct solution?" Here's me and a couple buddies doing the Aztec level.

You'll probably have to use US or UK DNS codes to get to that stuff. Free codes can usually be found around the net tho they don't always work well. You can also shell out 5 bucks a month for something like UnblockUS, which'll do it for you. Also it's of dubious legality. And you didn't hear about it from me. My HBO Nordic subscription is running out this week and I was thinking about giving the Amazon Prime trial a go myself (on PS4). Looks like they got some good shows on there. The Grand Tour, One Mississippi, The Tick!

I played through it solo a few months back and yesterday I finished it again in co-op with a couple friends. It's a wonderful game and I'm glad it's finally getting the attention it deserves. On the surface it might just look like just yet another physics hassle game, but there's actually a lot of thought and ingenuity put into the puzzles and levels. Nope, but I can say that on PC I felt it controlled better with M+KB than gamepad.

Here's the GTA Online story: https://kotaku.com/gta-online-updates-push-crime-into-the-suburbs-frustra-1797737125

Someone's making a Twin Peaks fan-film detailing what happened to Annie, and they're wondering if maybe you wouldn't mind chipping in a few bucks to make this happen.

Shitkid is the shit, kid. Get a loada 1:03. The swagger!

BRECKON VS THE MOUNTAIN Game starts at 8:45. Nick finally makes it up the Devil's Chimney at 1:30:35.

Wow, yeah, that's quite different from the original. Still interesting though.

These Idle Weekend episodes are coming out so fast now they don't even have time to post threads! Love having a new episode every week. Keep it up, guys!

The MRAs have outdone themselves this time. I didn't think they'd be able to freak out in a more hilarious fashion than the "Cuck Ball" rant from TFA, but they've really stepped their game up. Amazing.

Yeah I really liked both the VR and non-VR versions of the game. Didn't have any trouble telling if a bullet was gonna hit me. My only complaint is that the story is pretty generic.

My favourite part of BSI was the songs. The first thing that comes to mind about that game is the acapella group singing God Only Knows, and the little girl singing Fortunate Son. Both versions of Will The Circle Be Unbroken are great too. Overall it was my least fave Bioshock game though.

Yeah, Shadow Tactics was great. Seconding the Commandos 2 rec, and adding Satellite Reign. It might look more actiony on the surface, but stealth is also a viable tactic for most missions, as long as you stick mainly with the Hacker and Infiltrator units.

Yeah, it's a good one! I actually like the early reveal trailer more than the final one. Such a great tone-setter. That it doesn't spoil anything of the actual story is just a plus.

Played through it last summer. Not as good as Firewatch or TLD but definitely worth a go if you're a fan of those and find it at a bargain price. I love the narrator's accent and his dad-jokey style of commentary. I also like the way it looks and the object interactions. The narrative is kind of a mess though. The game quickly dumps about a half-dozen narrative strands on you and I'm not sure any of them get resolved in a satisfying way. The whole second half of the game, everything after , felt rushed and unfinished.

I seriously had that tune as my ringtone for like a year after I saw the trailer. Not a big dubstep fan otherwise, but I do seem to have a thing for familiar old game/movie themes getting dubstep remixes. I also loved Steve Aoki's remix of the Ghost In The Shell theme.

Hadn't seen those Stanley Parable and Dropsy trailers before, good stuff! Here are my awards for the best trailers. Best "90's newscast babble" award goes to: Best "Lynchian children's cartoon" award: Best "faux-Werner Herzog" award: Most Smoove award: The Cultural Contribution Award (for making sure every trailer had dubstep in it for the next couple of years):

Started 2018 by completing a couple VR games. Arizona Sunshine Very satisfying zombie-shootin' and a decent narrative props up this somewhat generic and occasionally clunky shooter. 8/10 Scanner Sombre Got this in a bundle and wasn't really expecting much from it, but I got hooked right away. The sense of scale VR provides works great with the caverns you'll be exploring, and it's ocassionally a very beautiful game. I could've done without the horror stuff though. 7/10

Oh hey badatstuff, I didn't realize it was you behind the tunes! I will definitely let you know if I need some music for anything again.

Totally agree about readability of PUBG making it a better spectator sport than Overwatch. I don't play either game myself but I like Kotaku's Highlight Reel series where clips from both are frequently featured. Whenever a Overwatch clip comes on it's usually 30 seconds of colorful madness and I'm left going "Wh- what was I supposed to be looking at there? What was the the interesting thing?". Then a PUBG clip comes on where someone jumps a motorbike into a second floor window and I'm like "Ha! Great!".

Played it, loved it. I really like the simple visuals and the music, and the interface is very slick. Feedback/Suggestions: -Make the first 5 levels or so have no modifiers. I got the space wind in the second level and had a hell of a time getting through it. You really need a grip of the core system before ramping up the difficulty like that. -I think it might feel better if star-mass is set by dragging the mouse up/down instead of just out from the center in any direction. -Put in a counter of traveled systems, perhaps on the dialogue screen. Even if it is infinite, I'd get some kind of a Desert Golfing-like enjoyment out of seeing the number go up.