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Waluigi-Dan is fantastic.

Had a good chuckle today when I booted up Shadow of Mordor. Don't see it? ...Good job team.

I actually finished Pokemon Y this week myself! I don't know why I decided to pick it up again, but I beat that one now. No interest in going further down the rabbit hole, I'm content just beating the League Champion and calling it a day, but now I kinda want to try out ORAS.

They've done it with Double Fine before. I want to say the PS3 version of Stacking was free day one?

If you already have a decent PC, even if you can't use it that much, you can already play the best of what the XBONE has to offer. I'd go Wii U, both for your daughter and because the best games on there are NOT things you'd be able to play on your PC.

My city hit an all time record high temperature today!

I just hit 250 hours in Rocksmith 2014, after about 100 in the original Rocksmith. I'm actually proud that the thing that I have the most hours in on Steam is "practiced his guitar with computer aid". My second and third place games would probably be Borderlands 2, then Borderlands 1. The thought of 1000 (or more!) hours in any game is utterly confusing to me. I just don't know how people do it. Re: Weddings, I have long maintained that the best weddings are almost always going to be for queer couples. They were unable to do it for so long that now that they can, the celebration is ENORMOUS and usually super fun/irreverent to boot. I have been to 5 weddings in my life, 3 for "normal" couples, 2 for queer. I never want to go to another normal wedding in my life. With our 10th anniversary in sight (8th is soon, not unreasonable to just expect that we'll still be together for the 10th at this point), my girlfriend and I have started thinking about how we could finally appease those relatives who won't be satisfied until there's been some ceremony (both of us don't really give a shit about marriage and don't want to bother). Gay bar would be a great way to go. We'd be able to say to said relatives "HEY LOOK A WEDDING" and simultaneously ensure that none of them would show up.

As someone who lives there, the game that's most reminded me of "home" was actually Red Dead Redemption. I spent summers as a teen on my uncle's farm helping train the horses, and riding up into the Rockies at the start of Act 3 of that game wasn't just coming home for Marsten, it was also this huge rush of "holy shit I made it home" for me. If you're going for the atmosphere/feeling of exploring that place more than a Minecraft-esque ACTUALLY exploring and developing a place, that's what I'd nominate. Also, before moving to Alberta I lived in the Great Lakes region of Southern Ontario, so running around the woods in ACIII was also very much like that for me. Neither of those games are about that feeling, but both did an excellent job of capturing it.

It's been a full page since I went to work and got home, so I'll probably be ducking out of this thread and resuming observer-status after this post, but I wanted to do to things first: 1) Responding to Tycho, I recognized that the separation between the two paragraphs that I posted took a turn between the paragraphs. This was why I separated them into paragraphs and tried to say "The first paragraph is the foundational belief, the second is more wrinkles and internal debates among its supporters". I thought that came across, but sorry if it looked like I was taking a weird left turn in the middle. 2) YES PLEASE RECIPES. Being the non-vegan cook in a house who is cooking for a vegan is tough. Recipes are great for me to have.

I've been observing this thread from the side for a long time, but I wanted to drop in to comment on this bit. For disclosure's sake before beginning: - My girlfriend of 7 years is vegan, but I myself do eat meat. I attempt to source it ethically whenever possible and eat veg/vegan about 3 or 4 nights a week. - I am very sympathetic to veg/vegan arguments, but not enough to ever buy into it completely. You left out the view on killing that I always actually thought was most compelling, so I'd like to add a 9 to your list. It could conceivably be seen as a variant on 6, but I think it has enough differences to bear mention. 9. Killing is wrong because it robs the victim of their future. The act of killing is unethical not because there is anything inherently wrong with ending a life, but because that entity had other experiences left to have that you are now depriving it of. Regardless of plans or ambitions that the victim may have had, in killing you are not just frustrating existing plans, you are also preventing any new ones from forming and denying any potential future joys the victim may have had. As you were generous enough to provide the problematic aspects of the other 8, I'll point out that this means that the closer someone is to a natural death the less unethical it would be to murder them under this rule. This aspect of it is why I will eat meat from adult animals but never touch lamb or veal. Also, by this a fetus may or may not qualify as an "entity" at different stages of development, so abortion may be a thing that is up for more debate than otherwise (I'm still fine with it though). On top of this, believing it opens up a further debate about which animals have the potential/ability to appreciate their continued existence and these joys and whether that should be something we take into consideration (can you rob a future from something that doesn't give a shit about the future?). Kind of the opposite of the "can it feel pain" criteria, following this would subscribe you to a "can it appreciate pleasure" one. However, recognizing and appreciating pleasure would seem to require more complex mental faculties than having pain receptors, so some animals would begin to be included on the list. ...man, sometimes I miss the days when I was a philosophy major.

I got it on 3DS as my Platinum reward last year and have previously beaten it on Wii. It's fine on 3DS, though performance hitches a bit with 3D on and the 3D isn't done nearly as well as other first party games anyway. The Wii version was totally fine, and I don't remember having any problems with the motion roll. It was a shitty band-aid on the "this remote only really has two buttons" problem though, so the SNES-pad layout of the 3DS is really nice.

Give Battletoads to Ninja Theory and let nature run its course. I would play the hell out of a DmC-esque Battletoads.

Since it's now come up over two pages, fine. I would probably self-identify as a "decent guy" or yeah, a "relaxed dude" because I pride myself on being able to make whatever situation I'm in more comfortable for others involved. As for booze, it was not until last summer when I was coming off the most stressful six months of my life that I got blackout drunk for the first time (I was 26 at the time, am now 27). Not that I'd never been drunk, or even VERY drunk, but I'd always been able to remember. It was a legitimately scary experience when I reflect on losing control of myself in that way for the first time in my life and definitely made me take some new things into perspective. I worry far more about alcohol consumption than other substances as a result.

Leaving aside the religion angle (because NO religions use mood-altering substances, right guys?), you just described my the way my parents were with weed (and also alcohol) around the house when I was growing up. Do you then think that having it normalized in that way would help reduce levels of abuse, or is there something about pot that makes it different? Job-related Disclaimer: This is purely a thought experiment. I am confirming nothing about my own choices after growing up in this house.

I got a couple of levels into the part in Spacechem where they start making you chain multiple factories together with specific timing. Then I almost broke my laptop. Up to that point, the game was incredible. How dumb will this game make me feel?

Me too, but it's not the first thing I'd say if asked about myself.

Anyone who defines themself by one thing is going to be tedious in every other context. Pot, alcohol, Gaming, Larping, Music, whatever. I agree that pot culture is intolerably dull, but to me so is every other culture that is ALL ABOUT one thing. I know I'm posting this on a gaming forum, but I think that by now the IT group has proven itself a diverse enough group of people (and the discussions in Idle Banter about all sorts of everything reinforce that) that I don't think of this place as a "GAMER" place. We all play games, and that's why we're here in the first place, but we're all also rounded people. If I were surrounded by Capital-G Gamers, I'd want out just as quickly as if I were surrounded by a bunch of people who only wanted to talk about how great it is to get high.

I thought Tanukitsune lived in Spain? I may be mistaken though.

...I don't see the snow. Unless those stones are usually solid grey? Man, people who live in warm places are weird.

If you have Xbox Live Gold, the 360 version was free last month. I downloaded it!

Yeah, it's mostly that Harper still has a hard-on for the Bush years and is holding Canada back from doing worthwhile things. I have no doubt that one of the last things that he does in office is try to get rid of Medicare once and for all, instead of just undermining it like he's been for the last nearly-ten years. Canada as a whole is fine with legalization, Harper is a backwards idiot.

I must abstain from this conversation due to my position as an educator, but I will say apropos of nothing that Zeusthecat is a great guy and probably has some valuable things to say.

Remember back in October when the guy who was one of my best boss' ever at Starbucks lost his job over bullshit? He landed on his feet as the Electronics and Food department manager (weird combination, right?) at a nearby Target. He has not had a good few months.

As of right now, the closest Thumb to me would be Dewar, but I have to cross the border to get to them. I know we've got some BC thumbs. Represent, Canada. There are more than 4 of us!

...I'm a monster.