I'd rather go to a Bruxies nearby, or any of the really good, and cheap, diners to get a waffle with eggs and sausage.

I tried Taco Bell breakfast stuff that wasn't their usual staples, they're all just as bland as their staples.

I've also had this exact same thing from Bruxies, a waffle sandwich place, and I gotta say if you get the ingredients and syrup right, it can be pretty tasty.

All that said, don't expect to be able to eat anything other than light snacks for the rest of the day afterwards.

Now this has gone from a small annoyance to a big one, mainly because it's such a constant issue. I visit these forums regularly and every few times I load a page, it gets timed almost perfectly that the banner loads right before I click. That happening multiple times a day, every day wears thin.

Scientific 7 minute workout:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/

Basically 30 seconds each exercise, 10 seconds rest between. The amount of strain/discomfort you should feel should be an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. while doing these exercises, so you really have to push yourself. The order of the exercises matter since it is planned to give each muscle group rest periods.

This uses all the latest data from research into interval training. Apparently doing these consistently at the intensity required is as good as longer workouts.

I think I'll try this for a week.

So yeah.

Jaime is quickly turning from one of the most hated characters into someone you root for.

There's plenty of classics of literature, scifi or not, that I haven't read, but still would be interested in the story for, and any turns it might take.

Especially so if there's a new movie about it. Keep the spoiler tags please, even if I already know the story, others appreciate the courtesy.

Also, what's the deal with the F-22s? I know the book was written a while ago, but what's the gap between the first alien attacks and the start of Ender's Game?

I'm just going to say it, but that's a really white cast save for the token Asian woman and light skinned Latino.

Let's just hope that's the starting cast and he'll add more diversity later, or this group of agents is going to have a tough time infiltrating some countries.

[Spoiler]

So, the lead up to season finale has definitely gotten interesting.

Spoiler for Hiden:

Figured Merlin would find out about Oliver eventually, since according to wikis they have some strange relationship.

Disappointed over the whole Tommy and Laurel thing and them flip flopping on that. Really do not want to see the stereotypical best friend becomes worst enemy, but that's probably how it will work out.

And goodbye Yao Fei, shame to lose that character. And now we have to wonder who is the mysterious woman pulling the strings on the island.

Gotta admit, first post shills don't inspire confidence, but that game does look interesting. Very lost meets silent hill.

Yeah, really looking forward to this. I loved the infamous games.

Saw the IGN article. I'm okay with them choosing one canon ending from Infamous 2 to continue from, it's just too difficult if they didn't go that route.

Another interesting note was that Delsin, the protagonist in this one, has to absorb smoke to charge up, just like Cole had to absorb electricity. But since there are fewer sources of smoke in the city, it's harder to charge up naturally from the environment. I suspect there will be a lot of play where you set stuff on fire to get more smoke.

Hopefully the power set will allow Delsin to be a bit stealthier than Cole was. I think that Festival of Blood DLC for Infamous 2 could have been a practice run for some of Delsin's powers.

Oh and really, really excited to see what they can do with an open world game on this new hardware spec. Sure PCs have had this same spec for years, but no one has ever gotten to use it all by default. Really hoping the city if big and really alive this time, and that they don't just use the extra processing and memory prettier graphics.

I'd have to say that it's getting better, however while this second season is starting off interesting, it's starting to diverge into a lot of different plotlines that they're really going to have to bring together, otherwise they lose the driving force of the first season.

The tech would evolve with Carmack, but you'll be playing crappily designed shooters with uninteresting settings and stories, with polished, but tired mechanics.

This is a very small nitpick about these forums, very first world problems, but is still a usability issue.

So many times browsing late night, with my slower reactions, I'm just about to click on a link when suddenly the ad banner loads and the whole forums jumps down an inch on screen.

Can you please add some placeholder space prior to loading for the ad banners up top? Might also be useful to use the placeholder space as a reminder to those with adblockers still turned on to turn them off if they want to support the site.

Yep, interesting to see the actress from Fairly Legal take on a completely different persona.

It seems like you don't have an avatar of your own as far as I can tell, just the DF style villagers. I'm okay with that, but your own personal avatar would be nice as well.

Also hoping they hit 400,000 for some co-op.

Also, I didn't see too much on it, but it seems like they aren't planning a grand sandbox like minecraft or DF, but rather the maps are smaller and more goal oriented. I kinda want to see something grander, since we haven't gotten a good DF clone with this level of graphics.

It is overstrike, but redone to add more technobabble, and change the generic powers into "edgy" black goo powers, which is fine.

I can't get enough of good 4 player co-op games, so I'm in for this one unless reviews are terrible. Otherwise, if it has at least a 75 I'll at least buy it on sale, higher than that I may pick it up on release.

Insomniac has also always had a good track record of getting basic action mechanics down and entertaining. Their only misstep being Resistance 2, but they more than made up for it with R3.

That kid is apparently Red Arrow from the comics, or will be something like it.

So, after you buy this, does Elizabeth step out of a tear into your living room?

Don't they still have the cinnamon twists? Always loved those as a kid, although they were essentially crispier, lighter churros. Probably why I liked them.

At the same time, they should be concerned when what they preview turns out being decidedly not what they give.

It's a tough balance to encourage creative freedom while upholding quality standards.

Okay so, I'm probably giving up on this one. It's just not hooking me the way I thought it would.

Not only is it showing its age, it has some bad design decisions beyond that.

Things like combat, which everything happens way too quickly, almost all at once, even on the slowest setting. I don't mind it where you basically queue everything up and then everyone does their stuff like older RPGs, but I need some time to process stuff, especially for things like demon loyalty.

Lack of on screen monsters, aka random attacks, is really annoying. Overt reliance on grinding and really retreading areas for demons, that sort of thing.

Then there's the characters, which I'm having trouble connecting to, and it's just so odd not seeing them react to the fact that they just fought demons.

Not based on the Catalyst game, it's something else entirely.

Problem comes from the game's non-standard presentation of the letters, which also helps make it a game and not just a typing tutor.

Leviathan: Warships, but on Android

Already getting Blood Dragon from the AMD video card deal.

Also planning on picking up Soul Sacrifice unless the reviews are terrible.

They actually have been blending, and changing too.

There are actually quite a few accents in America, and more than the obvious ones. Within California, they've actually identified quite a few that have diverged.

One thing to note is that one of the major accents we consider British is entirely made up, and willfully adopted by the British, which then just became normal because everybody thought it sounded sophisticated, which it kinda did.

They also had different languages to start with.

He's definitely adding plot elements, letting certain actors and plots be used more, which is a good thing.

EDIT: Well, this episode was both a lot of great political action and character moments, and really setting up some nasty stuff later. It's actually nice to see things playing out both the same, and different enough from the books to keep it interesting.

Yeah, for as weird and often janky Cage's games are, he does things that no one really does. I'm in, day one.

Unfortunately, there's issues with combat. They will often send many enemies against you, and unlike more well polished games, they forgot to set the AI so that only 1-2 of them attack you at once.

So you can get situations where you're stun locked, or even boxed in. The evade move only helps so much, you can get an ability to block from any angle but the enemies do have a block break, just like you. All the wind ups from enemies are also short, no icon to telegraph either.

All in all, the combat is serviceable, definitely not Batman. Thankfully auto saves are frequent, it hasn't failed to autosave before a fight and hasn't locked me into a fight straight off an autosave, so I can turn around and prepare if I'm not ready.

There's some stealth mechanics, and crafting, all of which are serviceable.

The story so far has been a moderate amount of fetch quests, but some interesting stuff. Honestly stuff you'd expect. I'm about 3 hours in and I'm still in the first camp area just doing story quests that are setting things up for a bigger event. I'm really not sure how big this game is at this point, but the character, story, and setting does have me interested in playing more.

Definitely a 4 player game. It's incredibly different to pull off anything without a combination of abilities.

The Carl's Jr. Sourdough Bacon Cheeseburger

Had the right amount of thousand island (for those that like it) combined with onion, burger meat, and salty bacon.

Thankfully Jack in the Box stepped up with their Sourdough Jack, which isn't the same, but equal in taste.

They're about the only burgers I get these days since everything else is bland.

Got it as well, also with the GMG deal. Only played about 20 minutes or so, barely into the first area.

So far, it's good. You can tell it's a budget title, but you can also tell (so far) that it's a budget title with love put into it. Technically it's been solid, framerate is high and smooth, no weird bugs typical of the style. The Voice acting is good for the main characters, although the writing is off. You can tell they spent more to get good English speakers for the main characters.

The mechanics just work, and it pretty much tries to copy Batman AA's combat, succeeding a good bit, but you know the typical slight off-ness with the timings and such with budget games. This early, with no abilities unlocked and the "magic" locked it's too basic to tell if it becomes something more.

Haven't hit any major plot points, but I should mention this game is has mature content in its writing, even if the writing is a bit odd in translation.

Anyone hear anything about this? Apparently it released today as of this post for $20 on steam.

It seems like it's an independently developed RPG, coming out of some Euro developer. The visuals look pretty good so far, but I can't find much about it, and there's no early reviews.

From what I can gather, it's set on mars, a little post apocalyptic, so kind of Red Faction looking. It also has a cyberpunk element, and the main character has some technomancy magic-like skills. Your character has, as usual, gotten involved in some bigger cyber conspiracy on Mars and now you're dodging police and dealing with what looks to be native Martian creatures or mutants, probably both.

Combat looks to be a bit like Batman Arkham Asylum, viewpoint, not sure about the gameplay. It could be more beat-em-up with RPG aspects.

Considering they have deliberately not shown video of dialog, I suspect some pretty Euro-tastic dubs, but I can stomach that if the game is good.

Edit: Here's the launch trailer. Actually sounds and looks good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfF4KD7_bwE

Basically, third person RPG with Batman AA style combat. It might all fall apart, but I'm willing to give it a shot at $20, even if it ends up rough, it could be fun in the way Deadly Premonition was.

Nah, Red Skull will be the next Avenger's villain.

Well of course no hardware. They have one massively struggling system that they need to boost up with more first party software.

It may just be that The Witcher 1 engine just isn't all that well optimized.

I really hope they don't use another time travel plot to justify that ship.

That said, I suspect the Federation probably used it to do some nasty things.

I think most people know this trope so well by now that they can predict when it will happen. The film language for it is pretty standardized too.

However, there have been a few shows recently have had scenes that look perfect for a Hit by Bus moment, but thankfully they didn't.

You know, doesn't look that interesting at first. But knowing how surprisingly good Thor 1 was, I'm in for Thor 2.

To be frank, GW would not pass on another opportunity like this. It will happen, and most likely with Relic and Sega.

GW just isn't in the position to try to shop the license around right now, and they need more promotion to get people into their core money maker, the miniature games.

As we've seen, the Warhammer license just isn't a money maker by itself, it's often been paired with some really good games that people know it. But has also been home to some real stinkers.

Borderlands 2 is a good example of what they can do right, BoA and Borderlands 1 are examples of good games. But, Aliens CM and BoA 3 is a big sign of how they can utterly ruin things.

I wonder if Borderlands 2's success is enough to keep them secure enough that they don't have to rush out the mediocre, crap, or licensed games.

But one thing we all know by now is that Gearbox cannot handle two titles being developed at once.

Nope, it's not based on that game, that games completely different. I think they just happen to use the same name.