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Yeah, it's got its quirks, but they were very easy to get used to. As a Start menu replacement it's fine, as the enormous menu tended to take up the entire screen anyway.

I just don't see why there needs to be a context for fail states in the explicit narrative. Players have never had a problem with that before. And if that truly is needed, every game should be bookmarked with Desmond bits.

But it's not like that stuff isn't present in the first half of the film. Maybe it's just not for you. It happens.

It's rad is why.

Eating grilled rat in abandoned buildings, you mean. Dude is hungry.

Oh yeah. Huh. The second season of Sarah Connor Chronicles had some good stuff. Despite its stupid name. Too bad it got canceled in favour of Dollhouse's useless second season.

Dang, am I too late to chip in on the gameplay discussion? I like Katie Salen and Somebody Zimmerman's framework for analyzing games in their book Rules of Play. In very broad strokes, games need to be analyzed in terms of rules, play and culture in order to get anything near a complete picture. It's a very holistic approach. I don't remember what they say about 'gameplay', but for me it lands more on the Play side rather than the Rules. Mechanics would be part of the rules, but rules don't define the experience of playing a game. For example, if we think of a game with the same Blink and climbing mechanics as Dishonored, but the level design was all corridors and high walls with no ledges, the gameplay would feel inferior and unsatisfactory even though the mechanics were the same. So that's my definition: the experience of interacting in the gameworld, not the rules and other trappings that make it possible. Chess was mentioned earlier. The experience of playing a timed chess game is different even though the other mechanics are the same. I would say the gameplay is different. The addition of time pressure changes the game a lot more than simply making it shorter.

I've been using Windows 8 for a couple of days. The new solitaire is pretty sweet.

Yeah, and people keep writing in their diaries that you're this crazy killer dude.

Hipsters definitely talk about how Death Cab sold out.

Yup, that's the last mission :X Sucky situation.

I'm no longer interested in this game.

I just think the buddy movie aspects of T2 detract from the theme and some kid bossing Arnie around takes away from the horror of what he's supposed to be. Not to mention the whole aspect of making a Terminator the good guy. T2 is a tighter movie in many ways, but I feel its content is not in agreement with its theme.

Finished it. 22 hours. I was definitely stretching it, though. It's not like there's really any reason to knock everyone in pretty much every level out.

The admins of this very site have deemed Tumblr good enough.

Terminator > Terminator 2

There's DLC with different outfits. Again... only slightly more sensible.

How did you get the apple to stay in place?

"I had my servant sew me extra pockets."

What is that?

I don't get why Spice in Dune can be something other than regular spice, but whale oil in Dishonored has to be regular whale oil. Its presentation in the game makes it clear it's not the same substance.

Goddamn mouse-3. Why do game makers keep thinking that's a good button to use for anything? Mouse-3 is the damn scrollwheel and clicking it feels like crap. Maybe they all think we're using those old mice with three big buttons from before scrollwheels existed. First world problems.

For some reason I think of the whales in Dishonored as being the kind of monsters that were drawn on old maps. Obviously it's not the stuff from Moby Dick, because that stuff didn't glow or explode. EDIT: And in Moby Dick they don't drag the whales to a harbour and start cutting them up while they are alive. That's only mentioned in a book, though. Also, the shortage is a new thing that only came about after pretty much the collapse of society. All their equipment is rigged to use whale oil and there's no-one around to replace that infrastructure with something else. Obviously there's still enough whale oil for the administration, those canisters are everywhere. So for all we know, the other countries mentioned briefly in the game have other sources of electricity, but Dunwall is a producer of whale oil, so it's been the cheapest form.

To make it clear, the -qatsi films all have the same director, but only the first has Ron Fricke doing the photography. Fricke has also directed some unrelated movies. Imo only Koyaanisqatsi and Fricke's stuff is worth seeing.