Gwardinen

Fuck, I wish I knew someone with a Wii U. I can't justify buying a console for a single game, but damn do I ever want to play that!

I also enjoyed this.

Jeez, Banner Saga was this year, wasn't it? That definitely goes into my shortlist. I go along with the praise for South Park: The Stick of Truth as well. Games no one else has mentioned yet that I feel are contenders include: Hearthstone Shadow of Mordor (was mentioned but in the context of not having played it) Divinity: Original Sin

So this happened! And it's good! Episode one of A Game of Thrones: A Telltale Whatever Title Because There Are Already Too Many Things Just Called "A Game of Thrones" is out, Iron From Ice. I really enjoyed it. I haven't really felt the same sense of complexity and tension in a TT game since the first season of the Walking Dead. I don't really want to talk about the content too directly yet because it only came out two days ago, under the shadow of many bigger recent releases, so I imagine not too many people have finished it. Particularly since I had to necro this year old thread about it. But if anyone else has played/is playing it, I'd be very interested to hear your impressions because there have definitely been some up and down moments in recent TT games and I can't help but feel like this might be a return to form.

What! Cool!

I find this kind of interesting: The touching hug photo from Ferguson protests is a blatant lie

Man, that is a good deal. I wish I was in the US so that I could take advantage of it.

I totally agree, although from my own tinkering it actually seems like the "won't take effect until the game is restarted" message might not be entirely true. I think most of that stuff takes effect when you quit to the main menu and load back in, you don't actually have to restart the program. Edit: Also, Shadow of Mordor simply ran well while looking good, something none of the big games this past month have entirely managed to do. DA:I is less of an offender than the Ubisoft games in this case, but it can still run a little dodgily for seemingly no reason at times.

Screw it, I'm in. EMPTY BANK BALANCE BE DAMNED, THERE WILL BE HOLIDAY CHEER!

Yeah, I think the game is quite heavy on the CPU. I have over 90% CPU usage at times and there are areas in which it will stutter for a little while and then be all right, as if loading, like you said. That was basically my reasoning, Murdoc; since the mages vs templars thing is such a big part of the world I enjoyed being a mage, and both my DA1 and DA2 characters were mages. But I don't really want to have more than two mages in the party at most which means I can only ever have one NPC mage with me.

It's beginning to occur to me that I'll have a lot of mages available to me. It's making me wish I had made someone of another class, but I really don't want to restart entirely as I've already put nearly 10 hours in.

I honestly recommend turning godrays off entirely. Volumetric fog makes everything look dark, nVidia godrays makes everything look washed out. And yeah, the performance is... up and down. That said, just setting everything to ultra (which is what the nVidia option does) is going to be difficult for any system to handle right now. We all have to get used to the fact that, with a new console generation, the PC can't just automatically annihilate any game anymore. That said, though, all Ubisoft games are a bit performance dodgy at the moment.

We all just got one step closer to becoming Lego.

I'm quite interested in this, but a $20 minimum, potentially plus shipping, is a little daunting. I already don't know how much money I'm going to have left come Christmas, as my mother has added more people to my gift list by dating a guy who has children. THANKS MUM.

I used vim and emacs literally only when I didn't have time to use something better. For a while I... wait a minute this is the Feminism thread. Dammit Barbie, derailed me again!

Some of those images are great. That said, I indent with tabs. Is that a bad thing now?

The bug fix I mentioned earlier will help M&K users, but honestly I'm with Bjorn on this. Those controls aren't good enough. Play it with a gamepad if you possibly can, on whatever system.

You have to specifically equip each character with the potions they can use. For example, my Cassandra has health potions and armor potions, while my main character has health potions and regen potions.

If you're using volumetric fog, that seems to make everything darker. Meanwhile, nVidia Godrays make everything too washed out!

On the PC pause is a toggle. Edit: When using mouse & keyboard, that is. When using a gamepad it's hold RT to advance time, as with consoles.

Oh this is neat, should help at least a little:

My Origin username is Gwardinen, though I haven't played any multiplayer yet.

Yeah, it's a menu option. There are no other ramifications to this setting, so it's purely a personal preference thing.

Sorry to be "that guy", but it was never going to. That is so far beyond the scope of what Doctor Who's production staff are trying to do/willing to do. The fact that it is just accepted without mention that is as close as you're going to get. Some people (like the numpties at Nintendo that thought having gay relationships was "social commentary") probably already think that's going too far, and it should have either been a new character or been shown as totally fucked up by the change or something. There is a silver lining here, though. Have you seen the progression of Jack Harkness through Doctor Who and Torchwood? He started off as being completely pansexual because the idea was that in the far future humanity has shed limited sexuality entirely, but it rapidly devolved during the handing over between several writers into Jack just being Space Gay. He's totally gay, because he's from space, ok? THANKS RUSSELL T. DAVIES. It may have been better for this particular aspect of this particular character to not have been too highlighted, if only because the series does not have a good history of doing well with such things in the long run... As for Transparent, I've watched the whole season and you seem like you have a solid handle on it already. Jeffrey Tambor's storyline is interesting. The rest of it is not.

I watched Sin City: A Dame to Kill For recently. It is basically a slightly inferior version of the first film in pretty much every way. The CG and effects don't look quite as good, the actors aren't quite as A-list, the writing is a little less absorbing, the characters are a little less intriguing and the style is... well, not quite as stylish. Still an enjoyable film, but definitely not the cultural touchstone that the first one was. I recommend it only as a rental/streaming/group film.