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I think "dumb story where you take down a psychopath" totally enables "do[ing] crazy badass things and giv[ing] the player lots of dumb sidequests in a big open world FPS". A vision ALSO doesn't have to be unique to be coherent. I mean I don't know what to tell you. It really just seems like you don't like the way they present the game and so you assume they don't know what they're doing. Meanwhile, Far Cry 4 follows nearly the exact same pattern that Far Cry 3 followed which to me indicates that they know exactly what they're doing. It's not an on-the-surface exciting concept for people who want More out of their games (e.g., the typical Thumb), but it is a video-game-ass video game, and they're doing it pretty solidly, by all reports.

This is one of the reasons I don't much care about going home. My immediate family isn't like that, but we always have Christmas with either my dad's side or my mom's side (I don't remember which we're on this year). Point being that there are some incredibly racist people on both sides. I only learned this recently, in the past few years. I guess because I grew "old enough" for them to feel free to talk like total pieces of shit around me. I don't know. I do know I hate it and they are ruining what used to be my favorite time of the year. Re: cold showers, I have tried so many times but I can't do it. I don't know how you do it. The second I feel cold I start dying and collapsing into a puddle of misery.

I'm on a ship frozen at the top of a mountain. Like an ocean ship. I'm with my dad(?), and we're trying to fix it so that it can sail again. We're climbing all around the inside and outside of the ship and we think we're good, except for two things. He goes off to do one, I go off to do the other. My task is to check for any damage in the living quarters of the ship. I enter and am immediately emt by a little girl who's been living there alone for quite some time. She's terrified, though. She's been at the mercy of some demon-ghosts for a while now. I immediately know what she's talking about*, and mentally prepared myself. Now I knew how to deal with them. I could sense that there were three of them, so I began the hunt. The first one was in a bedroom. It forced my eyes and mouth closed. The trick was to give in and let it seal your lips, after which you ignore everything else and exert all your will into opening your mouth again. Then you take a deep breath and utter a single syllable, and the demon-ghost will be captured. So I did that. I captured the demon-ghost into a giant luminescent sphere. (I think it maybe even had a question mark on it...) I did so, and the little girl was very happy. She looked like she had hope where she hadn't had any for a long time. The other two had noticed what I'd done to the first and banded together, hoping to overpower me. I chased THEM into the ship's bathroom where they were waiting to strike. Blinded and muted once again, I had barely managed to open my mouth and take that deep breath when... I woke up. *I'd had an earlier dream with the exact same demon-ghost things, where I was the one at their mercy. I was on a family trip, I think, in some building with two floors and... that's about all I remember about the building. But the demon-ghosts were terrifying. If you became aware of their presence, they were able to blind and mute you. If they were weak enough and you got out a good SCREAM before they took over, you could destroy them. Otherwise, you'd just have to wait until they ran away before you regained your senses. --- So yeah that's a dream I had. I literally just woke up from it about 12 minutes ago. I think it was half-lucid with the whole opening-my-mouth thing. When I woke up my mouth was open straight into my pillow. I think I only woke up because I was having a hard time breathing. I think I only had that weird sensation of barely being ABLE to breathe because my head was facedown on my pillow...

Okay I'll do it. I'm doing it. You can't stop me! I'll take anything. Mail me a bag of mummified poo! See if I care! DO IT!

If you say so. I don't think a vision has to be deep to be coherent. They clearly know what they want to do with the series, and they're doing it well, even if it's not something you like.

Oh okay cool then. I guess everyone else is just crazy, and not me. Phew. I uh don't agree with this at all. Their vision is pretty straightforward. Do crazy badass things and give the player lots of dumb sidequests in a big open world FPS.

I guess I AM the only person in the world who's seen Asian gangster types dress like that before.

Pagan Min pretty much immediately struck me as the typical super-flamboyant Asian gangster type with the crazy colorful suits and whatnot. I don't know, maybe I'm just more familiar with the trope? It... seemed like a fairly common thing to me, but going to look for examples I'm having trouble finding any, so now I don't know how I got the idea it in the first place. I unironically think Pagan Min looks awesome and it's a shame he's a bad guy. We need more Rad Suits out there that aren't a shell for some psycho with an inferiority complex.

that's okay the best zeus doesn't have a beard anyway has a baller stache though i mean look at that thing

So much hate! Looks like a dumb movie. Just like the first movie. It'll probably be fun. Let's all watch it together!

Sold. Doin' it.

I honestly had no idea it was a restaurant chain until now.

I actually like Jimmy Buffet. Does that make me a bad person? Yeah well fuck you! The movie looks like a movie and I'm sort of excited against my better judgment. So bring it on, I guess. EDIT: It's blurry but I think that woman in the brown-green shirt behind the all-blue guy on the right is smiling as she's running away from (what I presume is) a dinosaur. That's the correct response.

I just say maths fairly often because it sounds sorta funny. Maybe they're all doing it for the same reason! (I'm American.) (I know this isn't why they're doing it.)

Yes, I believe so. I watched Bassem's stream last night and there were a good number of white people standing alongside the black people. They were of course outnumbered, but not to any degree greater than expected, to be honest, in a city that's 70% black in the first place.

Wish they had VILLAGER PERIOD. ;___; (why do i always get the worst first-post-on-new-page-posts... probably because all my posts are the worst)

Smash Amiibo Feature: If you fight against it, it will learn from your habits and its AI will grow over time. Basically a little pet AI fighter buddy in Smash. Seen reports of people saying they kept taunting after getting a kill and then they'd see their Amiibo do the same. So, on one level, it's incredibly pointless. But, on another level, it's super rad.

Isn't that admission of at the very least not following procedure? When he's that far away, aren't they supposed to Not Fire, as a rule? I've absorbed a lot of information since this started, and I feel like I've read that somewhere, but I could be wrong. If I'm not, I would think that would be enough... Well, I guess there's already enough, but this hasn't been a fair fight from the beginning. This is terrifying: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bassemmasri

NO I REFUSE TO BE OPTIMISTIC

Yeah Wii U version. And yeah I need to get an ethernet connection going on. But then I have to buy an adapter, don't I? *checks back of Wii U* Yep. FWIW, there's nothing blocking line of sight from router to console. Not that that's the only way to get a rough connection, of course. Undoubtedly this contributes. But I have literally zero interest in playing Smash without items. So fuck me I guess.

HOW WHERE I can't find it anywhere. ):

I don't know if it's what's costing me matches, but it's definitely what's costing me having fun. It's completely miserable. I played a few matches with a friend the night it came out, and then I played a bunch of random matches earlier tonight. All bad. Also a significant framerate drop on top of lag is pretty unacceptable...

Man I find Smash Bros. online to still be completely intolerable. It's definitely an improvement over Brawl (I have chat logs of conversations about over a second of delay in some instances!), but even a quarter of a second (probably about what I'm experienced) is just way too much to actually be able to play the game properly. It's a real shame. When will internet be instant? Geez.

Meteos is my second favorite action puzzle game (after Puzzle League of course). Oh I guess Planet Puzzle League is the best action puzzle game, and it's on DS. DS wins! Someone else mentioned Tetris DS earlier, which was the best Tetris ever - Push Mode anyone? Fuck yeah. ...DS has the best action puzzle games of all time. REAL TALK.

I want a Villager Amiibo but they're all sold out everywhere. ):