Lechimp

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    Turns out the game is actually really good, or at least I really like it. It's kind of what I was hoping The Witness would be. The puzzles are a little easier and there's more variety to them plus there's an actual story. Plus it has FMV! The only issue I have with the game so far is that I wish it ran better on my machine and had shorter load times.

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    I'm not advocating for this strategy, but there is going to be a president no matter what, and I will vote for the one that I think will be the best of the options available. 

     

    Pretty much. If it comes down to "More of the same" and Donald Trump, I will pick more of the same any day.

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    What a strange, frustrating book. From moment to moment I liked the prose well enough, and there's some quite inspired little nuggets in there, like the story of the widow and her daughter in the occupied Middle Eastern country, but overall the structure and vagueness was too much for me. If this book was trying to say something, it was lost on me. The theme of man-on-woman violence went nowhere. The fox aspect went nowhere. The allusions to Mr. Fox's past went nowhere.

     

    This is kind of how I felt about it too. I feel like maybe I just didn't completely get what the book was saying and will have to reread the book again some point in the future. But it's encouraging that her short stories are apparently better because she's a good writer and I enjoyed her prose, I just had a hard time following along with this book at points.

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    YES! I just reread the first couple of books and finished the rest of the series about a year ago because I'm a dumb baby that thought the Universal Studios ride would spoil the books for me, but it will be fun to watch the movies for the first time.

     

    Any plans to read the side books and the book coming out this summer as well?

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    I'm surprised how good it is. I didn't plan on buying it but the Giant Bomb quicklook sold me on the game. It plays a lot like classic Doom, not just being fast paced but also having to dodge fireballs and avoid enemy attacks in a way that's more interesting than just running backwards while shooting. And like the quicklook shows, it's the right level of dumb. It still has the goofy 90s metal tone that the first two games had.

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    You know things are crazy when McCain is thinking about endorsing Hilary.

     

    That didn't seem to last long. It looks like he's already considering Trump if he just apologizes about what he said about veterans earlier. Paul Ryan and the rest of the Republican party look like they're getting ready to endorse him too.

     

    Is anyone else getting anxiety about this election? I know Hillary polls better than him in most polls but it's scary to me that she's only like 5-6 points above him. I don't even know how it's that close.

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    After flitting around between various D&D podcasts, I settled on Friends at the Table for a bit. Austin walker and some of the StreamFriends folks, It's a great mix of comedy, serious business, and philosophy that not a single other podcast or youtube show has hit.

     

    http://friendsatthetable.net/

     

     

    I just started getting into Friends at the Table and it's so good. It's teaching me a lot too about how to be a good DM which is helpful.

     

    Are there any other podcasts about tabletop rpgs that are worth checking out?

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    Over the weekend I watched the first couple of episodes of Mr. Robot. I found it quite compelling, particularly the main character. However, I can't really tell if the conspiratorial, le wrong generation, wake-up-sheeple angle is meant to be taken seriously or not. Because I'm not sure I can stomach that for 10+ hours if it is. 

     

    I'm watching the series right now too and I don't think it is? It kind of feels like they're being ironic/sarcastic to me but maybe that's wishful thinking.

     

    Still really liking it though. I think it's nice to see a lead character that has social anxiety and depression and doesn't feel gimmicky to me.

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    MO:ULa is free and can be downloaded from www.mystonline.com. The installation on Windows 10 required some troubleshooting: http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=28177 The real pain is getting the account, as there doesn't seem to be any automated system for creating the accounts. Instead you must create a forum account (or resurrect your 9 years old account, depending on your circumstances), apply for PM rights on the forum and then request an account via PM.

     

     

    Yeah, I checked it out a couple of years ago when it was free and it was a pretty odd experience. Since most of the people playing it had already beaten everything in the game a long time ago, it is now basically a chatroom for the Myst community and there were a surprisingly high amount of people playing what was a MMO that didn't have any new content made for it a few years. 

     

    The engine for Uru was eventually used by Cyan to make a game for the chain of hotels Great Wolf Lodge called MagiQuest Online. I guess it's the video game version of some playground thing they have at the hotels? 

     

    This was the only game footage I could find

     

    Cyan has had a really weird history.

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    PinballFX is oddly relaxing for me. I guess because the stakes are so low and if I'm not doing well on a table, I can just switch to a different one and have fun with that instead. Real pinball is the exact opposite though, as much as I love it.

     

    I use Trackmania/Trackmania 2 for relaxation sometimes.  Not directly competing in races.  There's a subset of user created tracks called "Press Forward" tracks where through clever environmental object placement and track construction, the only thing you have to do is accelerate constantly to ping pong successfully through a level.  There's a nice mix to me of admiring the scenery rushing past without having to react, and delighting in the clever ways the designers manage to flip and tip you around.  Sort of like watching someone solve a really elegant math problem, or something.

     

    By way of example:

     

     

     

    That sounds way better than what I remember the majority of Trackmania custom tracks being, where you had to have a perfect run through a level or else you miss a ramp in a 8 minute long track and have to start everything over.

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    Just finished The Devil in the White City and......eh

     

    It really felt like it should have been split into two books to me because the stuff about the world's fair barely felt related to the serial killer stuff.

     

    Currently trying to finish The Innovators before the next Idle Book Club selection since I loved the Steve Job biography by the same author. It's not bad so far but I found the Steve Jobs book more captivating, maybe because it's more focused?

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    I'm a huge fan of PKD. I read The Man in the High Castle in college but I'll probably read it again after the show left me with a bad impression. One thing that makes PKD so timeless is how he intentionally withholds detailed information about the world in his stories to let your mind fill in the gaps, something I wish the show had at least made an attempt at.

     

    I think that's partially why I liked this book and others by him so much. I really want to learn more about this world, and it looks like he considered writing a sequel to this, but I don't think that having the details filled in ever lives up to the mystery.

     

    Also it sounds like if I really loved the more surreal elements of the book, don't bother with the show?