yeah, it just won't be the same without her.

Goddamnit Winter, attack the giant first, then pick up flowers. 

'unexpected issue'

some kind of late bug I guess.

 

Victor reviewed the game for us, he really dug it: http://gamingtrend.com/game_reviews/monaco-review/#more-60376

you can tell him that I am going to get this based on his review. 

Any interest in splitting a 4-pack?

After reading the quick bit on Kotaku on the SP ai,  it sounds like the worst escort mission ever was expanded to a full game.   Brain-dead companion that you need to rescue after running directly at the enemy.

That they said the best reason to play co op is so you have someone to laugh at the game's flaws with makes me skeptical about paying any where full price for this.

After reading the review here, I am strongly considering getting Monaco instead of waiting for the summer sale.

While I understand all the negatives listed and admit they are all fairly accurate, I really enjoyed the first game. It looks like Riptide is more of the same. In that case I'm sure I will have a blast playing this as well, as soon as the price drops into my range.

Enjoyed the first, except for the end boss, who was a cheapass fighter with too many respawning enemies around him.   Bummed that they didn't refine the game as much as I'd hoped.   

Backlog overrule in effect.   Waiting on a good sale before I pick this up.

Ouch.   Not a good review of the game.   Was expecting a lot more than 2 hours.

best trailer I've seen in a long time. 

link

turn based naval warfare.  looks like a good title for mobile play, plus it apparently has cross platform too. 

ship/fleet customization as well. 

http://www.leviathanwarships.com/

[Spoiler]

did anyone catch this bit the first time around?

Spoiler for Hiden:

Spoiler for Hiden:

As long as we're stuck in a wait-and-see period, what are your personal suspicions -- foreign terrorists, domestic terrorists, lone nutjob(s), something else?

I'm leaning toward a lone anti-tax, anti-government nutjob.

this is awfully close to the usual time anti-government, white supremicist and "home-grown fuckers" like to stage their bullshit protest and their attacks.  of course, it's also Patriots day in Boston, so it makes it a nice target for both extremist m-fers. 

There was a bomb at UMass' JFK library.  

Thankfully,  this was just officially denied by the college.

Two more bombs were found.

Btw,  there's a buzz feed photo thread out there with some pretty graphic pics.   I had to close it after the recent update.   Just awful.

thankfully, nothing.  backlog ahoy!

I will be trying to break through the seemingly impenetrable barrier that is the upcoming Vita game Soul Survivor. Expect a preview within the next couple of days.

I will also be playing a secret game of which I cannot speak. It comes out later this month, and it's kind of an anticipated release for what it is. Scratch your noggins over that one for a bit.

guessing this is Injustice or SMT Soul Hackers.  unless I missed the announcement for a new barbie horse adventure or something. 

btw, if you took advantage of AMD's recent promo, you will be getting a copy of this free.  sadly, it does not appear to extend to the first promo, aka the one I got when I bought the card back in November.  ironically, a big part of the reason I upgraded then was for Far Cry 3. 

[Win8 than on WinXP.]

My gaming pc runs windows 8. I don't like 8 much, but it's been just fine for gaming.

Same here; I upgraded for X-Com. I chose Windows 8 because it's a lot cheaper.

And I don't know if this is objectively true, but I do feel that a lot of programs (Steam especially) and games run A LOT faster on Win8 than on WinXP.

I would expect this to be true.  we're talking three major os versions difference, not to mention moving from 32 bit to 64 bit, most likely.

I'm sticking with 7.  I satisfied all of my curiosity about 8 through the job and I won't be upgrading until the games and the directx version starts to impact what I can play.  Not a fan of the metro interface and unless I can kill it completely, I'll happily avoid upgrading. 

Starbound is the next one that comes to mind.  terraria with spaceships.  Starforge is looking pretty interesting, as is planetary explorers. 

I do think the music is bad, but I do love it.  I think you both mistook my take on it. 

you're thinking of Rip, admin over at OO, iirc.

[corn on the cob?]

Hell, I eat corn out of her ass... Too far?

popcorn?
creamed corn?
corn on the cob?
corn flakes?

I think this one is the most disturbing of the bunch.  the second one is a close second though. 

now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go throw up my lunch. 

Boston isn't even IN Maryland, silly.  

no, but you know how bostonians like to party. 

and living here in the PacNW, charging for every month it rains is the same thing as a regular monthly bill.

RIP, you crazy man you.  I've heard some pretty oddball stories about him.

That's pretty damn awesome Crusis.  I look forward to reading these

been out of the scene for 10 years now.  it was primarily just games, but now due to the following, I don't.    More money/more games, less free time means I don't see the point in having large volumes of permanent backlog titles, and the fact that so many games have cheap sales regularly, means I have a legitimate backlog of stuff I am interested in already.  

with tv/movies it's almost the same thing for me, but I've cut back on both a lot since I was younger, to the point I am moving towards cutting the cable out of the monthly bill entirely.  I have netflix now and will subscribe to hulu plus when I do to cover 95% of what I watch at 1/3rd the cost.

yes, I know this doesn't touch on the core question.  in my eyes, it's pretty much the same.  Media of any kind, whether books, games, movies, music, it's the same act of taking for free that which is for sale.  it happens, it will continue to happen and smart providers will do what they can to make the most money they can.  the rampant piracy of the last decade and a half was born out of CD prices being out of alignment with consumer desire for easy, cheap access to the songs they wanted.  other media followed as the technology advanced to make transferring it painless.  by the time that providers got their services online to support the market, the visibility of pirating sites and the ease of using them made pirate sites impossible to shut down completely.  even the threat of lawsuit and prison didn't squash it.  

I think people have the same attitude to pirating that they do speeding.  don't go overboard and you reduce your chances of being caught.  'bigger fish in the pond' to catch.  when you add the hurdles that some providers throw up at you, illustrated by the GoT comic above, you end up with people taking the stance that the corporation is not treating its customers well and this makes it easy to justify piracy.  

tl;dr version.  what theoatmeal said.

The older I get, the more "my type" gravitates toward any non-obese female under 50 who has a pulse.

Coincidentally, those were the exact requirements CK put on his eharmony application.

Except for the pulse part.

www.eharmony.com/singles/servlet/about/profile/Ceekay

LF:  BB Female (optional)
Age:  Mature (must be at least 2x my age)
Status:  Living - Preferred, but open

thankfully, the page crashed and has since become unavaible

bad music, bad narration, bad plot.  bad VO work with another terribad performance by Biehn. 

I intend to finish the main quest in Skyrim, thus finally beating at least one of the TES games.  (at least marginally).  I figure that pushing close to 200 hours between the pc and 360 version should have me covered enough in the game for a while. 

I really fell in with it by default as my recent attempt to play Stalker Call of Pripyat failed miserably after the 5 hard lock in 2 hours of playtime last weekend.  so now, I am split with where to go next.  nothing is on the horizon that really interests me, so it's been a tug of war between Bioshock 2, FONV and S:COP (at least after I forgive it for crashing).  I still have BI installed to see if the DLC coming warrants a purchase, XCOM on the back burner and uncounted more on the backlog shelves. 

Major spoiler alert if you read that article on sexism before finishing the game.

I think at this point, any discussion about the themes of BI needs to be assumed to be spoiler filled.  otherwise, what's to discuss that hasn't already been as beaten to death as the dead horse in the earlier E3 demo. 

Same vein

http://i.imgur.com/tKesNdr.gif

Usually when it comes to the babe du jour, I find them overrated (Megan Fox, for example).  But Kate Upton... yeah.  Wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers.

Hell, I'd let Megan Fox eat crackers in bed.   Kato could eat whatever he Damn well chooses in my bed.   Ribs even.

 

We all know Kato is a lightweight.   One half a beer and he passes out.   

How is this relevant?   Easy,  it's now the couch instead of the bed.

Yeah,  the monthly payment will be a benefit in the end.   I'd start with taking the money that went to the bank as your fed payment.   At least you'll have it paid off quicker.   I'd go for that in a heart beat.   Although they'll will undoubtedly want some money up front though.   

Maybe a loan off a different bank.

Usually when it comes to the babe du jour, I find them overrated (Megan Fox, for example).  But Kate Upton... yeah.  Wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers.

Hell, I'd let Megan Fox eat crackers in bed.   Kate could eat whatever she Damn well chooses in my bed.   Ribs even.

Finished this up myself.  never has a game left me feeling as drained as this one has.  one of those ones I wish I could get my wife to play through, but she's decidedly anti-zombie.  won't watch the show either. 

[Spoiler]

more on the post-credits bit

Spoiler for Hiden:

after reading this and watching a youtube vid on it, I think the ending is a lot more uplifting than either or.  basically, the theory is that since Elizabeth kills Booker before he becomes Comstock, therefore erasing every thing that Comstock or the alternate Bookers did.  it also erases Elizabeth as in every universe she exists in at that point in her life is a product of Comstock's doing.  with that loop closed, no one is there to trade Booker for Anna and in the end, while you don't hear Anna crying, only her music box, she's lying there in the crib and Booker goes on to be a better father and doesn't fall into the heavy drinking and gambling lifestyle.  (hopefully)

I was pretty bummed that RS isn't involved, but that CVG list sounds awesome.  looking forward to this. 

I like this version of AA more than the drunken AA from the other day.  I also like the explanation.  so very neat that I'd almost guess you had a hand in the story. 

as for the post credits bit, I have the same feeling as I did after watching Inception.  it has a very either-OR feel to it.  I wish I had known it was there instead of having to watch it on youtube.  would have had more of an effect. 

ok.  fixed this.  disabled raptr's in game chat interface.  buggy pile.  they must have updated it or something.  I've had it running for a while now. 

This just started happening a few days ago.  In game, when I mouse to the edge of the display where the secondary is, the cursor leaves the screen and moves about the secondary monitor.  If I click while in this mode, it alt-tabs out of the game.  I have to move back within the limits of the main monitor before I do anything.  I have switched back and forth from windowed to full screen in whatever I'm playing, but it has no effect.  the mouse still goes outside the main monitor.  I've had this setup for over a month and this is the first time this has happened by accident.  I finished up Bioshock Infinite on Friday without any sign of this happening.  It doesn't affect BI even though other games are currently affected.  

This has come up in the last few games I have played:
Skyrim
Fallout NV
Stalker Call of Pripyat

I've resorted to using a program I dug up which limits the mouse to one screen, but it's imperfect.  Last night in Skyrim, I inadvertantly tabbed out when I right-clicked in game, despite being nowhere near the border.  plus, it's always on, so I have to turn it off after gaming.  Much rather get this sorted out and back to normal.  

No, haven't updated drivers.  last let windows update on 3/20.  Last thing I did before noticing this was install Call of Pripyat Complete.  I didn't play much as the base game is buggier than expected and between that and the mod, it crashed 5 times, hard lockup.  I nuked it after fighting it for an hour.  not sure if it has any relevance but felt it warrants a mention.

Running Catalyst drivers 12.4 as the 13.1 drivers were playing hell with the extended desktop configuration.  
AMD 7850 @ 1920x1080 on Samsung SM2333T
CrossfireX
AMD 4250 @ 1050x1680  on Dell 2005FPW

BioInf is a strong contender for best story in a game, but TR beats it for the overall package.  such a perfectly made game and I have no disappointments from it, except that I wish it had gone on longer. 

BioInf is good but I really wanted to see some of the early demo gameplay they hinted at back at E3 2011.  Elizabeth is a great character, but is more of a random buff in combat instead of a real participant.  I wanted to have her powers be grand in use and have that cost of potentially hurting her through over use.  instead, we get hooks and cover, turrets and med/salt kits.