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    My prediction is that anyone who was disappointed in vanilla Civ 5 (which seems like either a majority, or a loud minority) will be at least a little bit cool on Civ 6 at launch. Also anyone whose primary concern is opponent AI. The question is, to what degree.

     

    But the audience for these games is so broad now that even if the two groups above reject it, it will still find a sizable audience to satisfy.

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    I beat Obduction!

     

    I only got hints for one puzzle, and it's the nature of these games that I must feel bad about any hints I receive outside of the game (intentionally or not).

     

    But! All things considered, only one hint is pretty low for a Myst-alike game. Outside of maybe a little bit of tedious back-and-forth traversal (with loading waits) required for some puzzles, I'm very satisfied with how the whole thing was designed.

     

    I am excited for some Myst mega-fans in my life to get their chance to play Obduction. Except, I seriously doubt they have computers that can run Obduction, possibly the most resource intensive game I've played on my own machine. Ah, well, eventually maybe.

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    Taking Bjorn's lead, I just watched the double-length pilot for DS9.

     

    Maybe because I set my expectations very low for the first few seasons, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it! To be sure, a lot of the acting/dialog-writing was very bad. Some physically painful line reads in there, especially from Bashir and Dax and Sisko. But also, I totally bought into all the sci-fi they were laying down, even the (admittedly too drawn-out) wormhole god dialog sequence. And many of the characters show a lot of potential already. I dunno, it got me excited for more.

     

    I was planning on skipping episodes according to Gormongous' guide, but now I'm considering just powering through the whole thing. Let's see how quickly I change my mind.

     

    EDIT: also, I only just discovered that Major Kira is NOT played by Didi Conn, like child-me always thought

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    To address your subconfession: I've seen Transformers: Dark of the Moon on DVD, having been convinced it would be a fun romp as long as I wasn't sober. I think it may be my least favorite movie. It is so ugly, and is so full of intended "hell yeah" moments that instead fill me with existential dread. It is also apparently significantly better than the movie before it.

     

    I also, earlier in life, saw the first Transformers movie, but the only thing I remember about it is a recurring masturbation joke.

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    I had already, earlier in the thread, asserted my positive stance on mayo-on-pizza (with the it-must-be-Japanese-mayo caveat).

     

    The AV club's food section (which is a thing now I guess?) has two pieces today relevant to this thread, as if they were reading it looking for content ideas. They include a brief bio on the afore mentioned kewpie mayo, and an even briefer something about ketchup chips. The latter makes a fair case for how ketchup chips can be decent even though ketchup is (as we all agree) garbage juice with vomit.

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    Confession: I had not watched a Fast and Furious movie until a couple weeks ago. I was under the impression that they were a steaming pile of soulless action garbage, like the Transformer series.

    Subconfession: I have not watched a Transformers movie either, rendering the previous sentence completely irrelevant.

    Anyway, I fired up the first movie some time ago, then proceeded to watch the other six. 

     

     

    I did more or less the same thing last year and had a very enjoyable marathon. I think I enjoyed 2, 6 and 7 more than you (in that I thought they were fine) but otherwise agree with everything in your assessments. 

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    I would respect an arbitrary, no-commentary list like that if it were at least somewhat exhaustive. But 16 is pathetic. Clearly he tried to come up with condiments off the top of his head, and couldn't even be bothered to come up with a round number.

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    I remember this, and also a whole series of Heinz Ketchup commercials where the hook was about how difficult/slow it was to get ketchup out of the bottle. Which, to be fair, is one of the better features of ketchup.

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    About the reason behind Hidden My Game By Mom translation quality: like WickedCestus said, it's really hard to tell! It's definitely some genuine-feeling bad translation, so I don't think it was manufactured by someone who can secretly speak better English. But my gut take on the situation is they knew their translation was probably bad, and also knew it would probably be funny if they didn't bother to fix it, and that happens to be a wonderful excuse not to invest in doing it "properly".