['Splosion Man]

1. 'Splosion Man - XBLA (awesome platform/puzzle game, fun sense of humor. cake song!)

I'm totally with you on this one. I loved every second of this game, but what really pushed it over the top was its sense of humor and, of course, the unforgettable and hilarious ending.

5-3

Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes

Want.  Need to remember to grab this tonight if the sale is still good.

Missed it.

I need to remember to check this thread daily. It is the least I can do to honor the efforts of the legendary Ceekay!

I think I'm going to read a book.

I feel like we're watching the last days of Ol' Yeller...

Thing is, I can't stop going til i'm banned.

I have completely had it with the condenscending, know-it-all, elitist bullshit here from people that can't disagree with someone without throwing insults.

and you know it's true, since I have returned the insults now and nothing is being done.  

If I disagreed that you were a man and your produced a picture of you naked, dick swinging in the wind, as prove that you were, and I deemed it a forgery, does that make me admirable for standing by my convictions?

So wait, do birthers claim that the certificate released by Obama, the same one anybody from Hawaii would have access to, is actually a forgery? That the state of Hawaii fabricated it for him so he could be eligible for president? I honestly don't get why it isn't deemed sufficient, because the alternative is that the produced document was faked by someone, somewhere, for nefarious reasons. Is that what's claimed?

I think it's more vague than that.  Zekester seems to be making a sort of deep epistemological point:  how can we really know anything?

Surely not conceivable here, since you all know everything

Then, of course, the question is why isn't it sufficient. I'm still waiting to hear the details of what's "fishy" about Obama's birth that makes the produced document suspect. I imagine it has something to do with his dad. You know, the one in "Dreams of my Father" that Bill Ayers wrote about.

So wait, do birthers claim that the certificate released by Obama, the same one anybody from Hawaii would have access to, is actually a forgery? That the state of Hawaii fabricated it for him so he could be eligible for president? I honestly don't get why it isn't deemed sufficient, because the alternative is that the produced document was faked by someone, somewhere, for nefarious reasons. Is that what's claimed?

4-12

C'mon
Low

Nice. Sold.

Seeing Christie Brinkley makes me wishes I had a sandwich to dance with.

I just watched the trailer.

Hetzboner Unlocked!

2-2

Cease to Begin
Band Of Horses

Great album. And it looks like a GREAT song on the album, "No one's Gonna Love You", can be downloaded for free.

mellow-dramatic

That may just be the most unintentionally brilliant oxymoron I have ever read. Bravo. 

1-21

III/IV
Ryan Adams

As a big Whiskeytown fan and a (sporadic) fan of Ryan Adams, I really can't get into this one at all. I blame Mandy Moore.

1-22

Portrait of a Legend
Sam Cooke

YES! If you don't own any Sam Cooke, first  you need to rectify that personal inadequacy and this is an excellent collection to do so. Shows his depth beyond just the hits. Plus, if you have a lady you are trying to have the sexy time with, playing this will significantly will increase your chances.

 

So you're refusing to answer? LOL You're either running for some public office in the future, or, as I always suspected, are just a paper tiger.

 

I happen to be on that guy's "side" ....albeit to a lesser degree. So i'm just firing the shot back at you.

In what sense are you on his "side"? I'm genuinely curious.

The character's name was Dave Novotny. The actor who played him also played the inept tennis instructor, Milos, on Seinfeld.

But there's no way in hell that is Dave Novotny. A high school teacher would know that the word "have" would never follow the word "neither". Obviously, "has" is the correct verb to use here. While it's not the most egregious grammatical infraction I've seen on Tea Party signs, I doubt that a woman of Reese Witherspoon's caliber would lay down with a such a careless and inarticulate chap.

Which one? The teacher who sleeps with Tracy Flick?

Usually just some rightwing cracker who claims Obama was born in Kenya and therefore isn't eligible to be president.

Why has it even become an issue with Obama?  

Yeah, if he has the evidence, why won't he produce it? I mean, why is he being so niggardly with the proof?

I'm affraid to ask where the smoke is coming from.....

I'm not afraid. It's her vagina.

Holy crap, Zekester was right. Breaking news: the shooter walks.

Second, I think the negative, potentially=violent rhetoric IS even from both sides. One look back during the Bush Administration easily equals what is going on today.

Your turn.

My father had prostate pain. Claimed ceasing his caffeine-intake eliminated it. I don't know if this is any way relevant to your situation, but I thought I'd throw it out there just in case.

Well, I found a workaround to get rid of most of the stutter. I tab out of the game, open up msconfig and assign "high priority" to the game. For whatever reason, that's made it playable.

I still have to run it at much lower settings than I would have hoped, but I'm actually killing goblins now!

cc, do you have a pc you can try it on?  i believe if you buy the mac version, you have access to the pc version as well. 

I actually am running it on the pc side of my mac via bootcamp. Sorry I forgot to mention that...

Oh well, I have several other games in the backlog that seem to run fine. I guess I'll move on to those.

I bought this during the Steam sale. It was the most I paid for any game, and the one I was most looking forward to diving into. Unfortunately, I can't get the game to run smoothly. There is this peculiar choppiness that occurs during movement... it mostly looks like the movement of the ground skips frames while everything else looks ok. It's really disorienting. And the strangest thing is that it occurs independent of the graphic settings. Turning the resolution down, and limiting bells and whistles doesn't make a difference. I'm on a macbook pro w/ a geforce 9600m. Not the greatest set up, but definitely should be capable of running the game. I just played F:NV, alpha protocol and even mafia II w/o problems.

So, yeah... ugh. I probably should have tried the demo first.

might as well grab the Mafia 2 DLC since it's all 75% off.

What do you know about the DLC? Just more missions? How are they integrated? I'm nearing the end of Mafia II right now.

I'm also considering Divinity II, since I seem to recall some buzz about it in the PC games forum. I know you say to buy everything, Ceekay, but is this game worth $20? Is it a Gothic-type RPG? Those tend to be my favorites.

Chatting with strangers on gaming forums is my false intimacy of choice. 

I'm still waiting for Mafia 2 to go on sale.

It's $12.50 for a digital copy from Amazon. You can purchase it there, but activate the license to download and play in Steam.

12-29

Nevermind
Nirvana

Never heard of it.

What type of game is King's Bounty?  Any good?

I love the series. It is turn based strategy very much like the Heroes of Might and Magic games, except instead of building up resources to defeat other enemies on the map, it is quest based w/ a much bigger emphasis on the battles than on resource development. I've put in over 100 hours into the series.

The Shield.
Breaking Bad.
Friday Night Lights.

Ohhh, pooh! No sales today. I guess they'll start again after Xmas.

Yes there are. They just came up.

12-24

The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe

Great stuff! This one has topped a number of "best album of the year" lists I've seen. 

I was a big Gothic fan up until Arcania (didn't buy it based on poor reviews). I understand Risen is much like Gothic. Anyone think Risen is worth the $15 tag?

Definitely!

+me

They have updates their list to include some more titles, including Mafia II for $12.50 and Bioshock 2 fo $5. I'm peeved about the latter, because I just dropped $10 on it on Steam a couple of days ago!

I just totalled up the amount I've spent so far, and I'm sitting at $118.60.  figuring the few things left that I want I should hit my earlier estimate of $200.

After the sale season is over, I'd really get a kick out of having you list your ENTIRE backlog. I'm starting to flex my index finger muscles now in preparation of some heavy use of my scroll wheel. 

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Wow -  *every* Square Enix / Edios game on Steam for $75.

Arkham Asylum
Deus Ex Series
Hitman series
Just Cause 1 & 2
Kane & Lynch series
Tomb Raider titles
Thief: Deadly Shadows

and more

That is crazy....

The 2k pack blows my mind:

Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Civ III
Civ IV (plus expansions)
Mafia
Mafia II (plus DLC)
Borderlands (plus DLC)
NBA 2k10 & 11
All the Strongholds
All the XCOMs
And more...

All for under $80. That's a TON of gaming.

REM was transitioning into a much more radio-friendly band around that time, but I loved Out of Time and Automatic for the People all the same.

And, although I wasn't listening to them at the time, I now might have to nominate Uncle Tupelo.

12-6

The Lady Killer [Explicit]
Cee Lo Green

Ooooooh, I just might bite!

(date me if you want to know for sure)

A little online NBA2k11 with my brother, and some alone time with FO:NV.