Roderick

Since it's a very old bug, could be they already fixed it? I always considered it the biggest bug in the game, but then maybe I just have a weird playing style. I always trigger the 'Domino not speaking' bug in Grim too, apparently I just have a very unique way of playing games

That's the hard part, there's apparently a way you have to visit worlds to not trigger it, but I always did it wrong. It's somewhere along the branching paths of Talanzaar, the desert. If you trigger it, you can still paly huge swaths of the game, but then get stuck in Okaar, the forest area, where a specific quest event won't happen. I always lost heart at starting over because the mistake was hours and hours earlier. So I really hope they fixed that one.

SuperBiasedMan:

Might be my number one regret right now. Undermind, I might actually get a bigger vehicle this time around, since that'll ensure more grip on the road than a smaller city car. Most of all though, I'm simply not gonna drive in dangerous weather anymore. As soon as it starts pouring and freezing, I'm outta the game. Safety first.

Yikes. I've never hydroplaned... let's just get gundams instead to bring us from point a to b. And I'll see about buying a new car in the coming months. Hopefully I can get a nice one for no more than 5000 europeans. My dad and friends are already on the lookout.

Dewar,

Yeah, I always somehow operated under the assumption that if I'd drive carefully and well enough, nothing major could/would happen to me, but that fantasy is off the table now. You can just get swept away by any old gust of wind and you're out. In Germany, winter tires are enforced, but not in the Netherlands. I've learned my lesson though, when I get a new car I'm getting separate tires for the season. I don't know if the airbags malfunctioned. Though the car was totalled, the interior was undamaged and the bump wasn't that bad, it really wasn't more than 'mild bumper car hit'. Crazy thing: as we went into a spin both of us stayed completely calm. I immediately assessed that we wouldn't get banged up too much and said to my girlfriend: "Hang on tight!" like out of a goddamn movie trailer. Also, the German police totally complimented me on the way I'd secured the scene of the accident. Yesssss!

Whoa, I had a car accident this Saturday when the south of the Netherlands and parts of Germany got hit by a snowstorm. I totalled my car. I'm OK though, the airbags didn't even trigger. I was heading out to bring my girlfriend to the station, I drove super carefully and only 70 km/h. But the road was an ice skating ring and I got into a spin out of the blue and hit the railing. The front was just busted up, so I called the Polizei and the Dutch Wegenwacht to pick me up, we waited in the blistering cold for 45 minutes and then we got towed off. Totally made a 'damage selfie' too. The biggest bummer is that by happenstance I changed my insurance from all-risk to limited, which is now biting me in the ass hard: I've lost my car and I'm getting no money at all. It sucks enormously. At least we're both fine. But fuck me, that went fast and there was literally nothing I could do save not going out that day (which was advised and broadcasted).

Good recommendation, Sno, perhaps the time has come I will finally finish Outcast. If they've solved that one bug that always stopped my progress dead.

We've made a terrible mistake regarding the appearance of wizards. We thought they looked like Harry Potter, but they're actually all Hagrids

Faced with serious charges, the Non-LECckian Adventure Rebels are forced to found a topic of their own to discuss their various random sojourns into the genre! Let's find out what fate has in store for them...

So far I've only played this one and Deponia, and was both times very impressed. These games come straight from the Lucasarts point & click lineage and I think they're well designed and anything but paint-by-numbers. They have insane amounts of puzzles and especially Deponia is not always very logical, but if like me you find that enticing (and would rather have this than, say, a puzzle-light adventure like Broken Age), Daedalic games are fantastic. I also quite enjoy the voice acting across these two games. They spend a lot of effort on it, and it shows!

Continuing my streak of never playing games when they come out, by and far the most interesting and wonderful experience I had was playing Bioshock Infinite. It was super-duper. Here's something I wrote after playing it (spoilers): By and far the most miserable time I had with Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon. It was soul-crushingly bad. (Yes, I finished it. And yes, I posted the worst screenshot I could find, but that wasn't a difficult job.)

Synth, I finished Sanitarium and I thought it held up pretty well throughout. In terms of puzzle design and exploration it stays strong. It has a very distinct 'American halloween' vibe to it, but that's OK. The ending is lame of course, but overall I enjoyed it a lot. After years, this is still a fun and unique adventure, especially because of the intuitive controls. Then I went on and finished The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, an unutterably charming game that reminded me, in tone, surprisingly, of the Kyrandia series! Notably the first one, which was largely serious. Chains of Satinav has the same vibe of being in a very European, quaint fantasy world where you meet idiosyncratic characters. It's less funny (The Dark Eye is a serious world), but there's so much imagination strewn about. The puzzles are also deftly designed, and with the exception of a few that took the game a bit into the doldrums, I had a blast. Bask in how nice this looks:

The best story about bad dates

It wasn't until I started dabbling in online dating myself that I understood how mainstream and ordinary it was. Before that, I too had bought into the idea that it was for lonely weirdos, I have to admit. It might take a while longer before that idea has been rooted out. Also, all the jokes and japes (Jakes) people wrote here about dating profiles are accurate. It's astounding how many people love going out, but don't mind an evening on the sofa either. And the glass of wine they drink with that is perennially a Good Glass Of Wine, as if they're worried you might think they drink shit.

Wow, Mington, that is a special Christmas song.

No need to get vile, like, whoa

I remember the Burly Brawl, this is terrible. I recall that it featured a CGI Keanu Reeves that is not quite convincing at that point.

I'd like to add a little thing on the online dating stuff. I've been doing it for about a year now, had a few dates, nothing that really worked out. And what do you know? A few months ago I meet a girl on one of the anime conventions I frequent, where I sell my recent novel, and she hovered around my booth and we talked and clicked. Met up a few times and it was pretty much instant sparks. We've been dating ever since. I'm very excited about this, and surprised and delighted it came from the place I feel most happy and at home in. What struck me as inherently awkward about online dating is that 1. You easily get into a rut of comparing profiles and making lists about what you want out of a partner. It's not only easy to start hiding behind those lists, often you don't really know what you want and what you respond to. Which is to say; those lists present an idealized version of what you think you want out of someone, but your heart might decide a totally different way. 2. When it comes to flirting, a big part of it is the playful tension where you give each other hints and, well, flirt, while it's not yet outspoken that you're interested in each other. It's so much harder to flirt when your cards are on the table. With online dating, it's out there: both parties know they want something out of the other, and that makes flirting kind of awkward, I found. You feel so goddamn obvious. That's not a big knock on it, I think online dating's a great way to meet people, but it's also different and you have to accept that.

Final Kentucky Route Fantasy Zero Fifteen

Haha, seriously? Guess they really needed that 300.000 Coins to get it right. But basically, yeah, they say Outcast we say hold on lemme get my wallet.

Holy cow, 13 Canadian dollars translates to 9,1 euros. We have over 1.5 times markup. That's nuts.

Sorry Rob, your podcast has inspired me to give the Warhammer 40k games a try, despite everything discussed