Sully907

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    Where the Big Dog is terrifying because of its effectiveness, this is terrifying because of its complete hopelessness. You ask for ketchup and the sheer force of the stream shoots a sausage through your eye and into your brain. Now you are dead.

    I think the robots are just luring us into a false sense of security with this one. They make us laugh at them while they pretend to be helpess. Only to strike when we are at out weakest.

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    I am a bit bothered by the fact that Keynes is portrayed as the pimp with the hangover and Hayek is the level-headed geek who gets no respect—especially considering that the Austrian school of economics has been ruling all US economic considerations for the past quarter century. Fuck that shit.
    I'd say they give Hayek his fair props. He gets just as much rap time as Keynes does and gets to do it while Keynes is hungover, maybe a metaphor even for keynes' economic theories?

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    After a few steps in what I assume is 1-2 I saw a long bridge and some charred bodies.... I remembered what happened in 1-1 to get there, so... I fled? :getmecoat
    You can wait until the dragon passes and time your run to make it to the next safe area on that path. Also, if you're sick of dying there or whatever, you could go to the next archstone and try 2-1 or 3-1 or 4-1

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    After playing a big more... I kinda have no idea where to go next... I just discovered a guy selling spells so I might grind until I get the one I want?:blink:
    I would just try the next numbered level in each world until you find one you can beat, all the while leveling up. The most important thing to remember is not to consume any of the boss souls. Most of the spells and abilities from those merchants can be earned by trading boss souls. Don't be afraid to use a wiki to help you with the game's more dense mechanics. It's a brilliant, atmospheric masterpiece, but the usability of the in game stats and inventory leaves a lot to be desired.

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    That's interesting that Irrational now has two community managers? Not that I'm complaining about two of our favorite podcast personalities being gainfully, stably employed, but what kind of day to day duties do Chris and Shawn have that justifies employing them both? I'm aware community managers provide game assets for press stories and things like that, but what else do they do?

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    Yea don't bother running to try to grab that loot. There is nothing super rare there, but if there is a black world tendency, the dragons will not be there guarding it I think. Might have to check the wiki on that to makes sure.

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    Yes there is. Imagine Valve giving crowbar carrying scientist a voice in HL3.

    A Christmas present changes when you open it.

    Gordon freeman is also not a good character. He's just a proxy, or a cypher, or whatever the right word is.

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    Ashley definitely drew his inspiration from NPR's This American Life for ALWW, and your criticism about the sound effects definitely has some merit. Hopefully if he continues the show, he finds the right balance like TAL does.

    It's a known fact that the first five episodes of every podcast suck, so I'm willing to cut him a break on that until he finds the right flow. Sadly, I think he was using the show as a way to get a job with NPR, and I don't think he's committed enough to keeping it going anymore.

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    Also, for the sake of accuracy, let's also remember that Samus is kind of a blank slate, undeveloped character to begin with. There wasn't much for Ninja theory to destroy.

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    Finally borrowed Deadwood on DVD from a friend. I miss out on a lot of great shows and movies because I mostly read and game instead. Man, this show is as great as advertised, I saw Ian McShane on Kings first, but after this, I think I have a mancrush on him or something lol.

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    Maybe I'll have to give Rebel FM another try on your reccomendation then. When it first started up, I just remember it being nothing but pretentious discussions about games as art, anything being a sequel diminished it's value, and so on.

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    Only really bad point for me : the monetary system is sooooo off balance…*When I entered Venice I just bought everything, by the end of the game I had close to a million ƒ…

    Also, look up the tombs, the altaïr outfit is the awesomest of them all.

    Not only is the armor from the tombs the best, but the platforming puzzles inside the crypts are a really nice change of pace from the normal game mechanics

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    Brotherhood actually holds your hand maybe even a little more then it should even when you get to rome, locking off certain areas of the map until you complete story missions, but I guess your criticism about having to remember the controls maybe justifies that design decisions. They want to ease people into it.

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    I am This close to buying the little big planet 2 collectors edition on amazon. Not only does the game look increasingly fantastic, but it's an actual collectors edition that's not an overpriced POS. Downloadable costumes, a cool bookend, and a sackboy plushie all for just 20 dollars more then the standard edition? Sign me up.

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    I've just begun working my way through "Colonel Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris. I'm enjoying it so far, and it really does an amazing job of exposing the manic energy that drove Theodore through the end of his life. If you've read Morris' earlier books, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" and "Theodore Rex," it's an absolute must read.
    I've read both rise, and rex, that's amazing that Morris wrote ANOTHER book about roosevelt, I assume it covers his life after his presidency? A really great series of books.