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Same. It'll be frustrating but it would be interesting to see if anything sticks. If anything, maybe folks will start to take a serious look at Congress. No matter what the opposition says, the presidency is not a dictatorship. It requires Congress to follow suit. One thing I've been thinking about is, lets say Trump wins everything, will the GOP controlled Congress play ball with Trump? What if was a DNC controlled Congress and with Sanders?

It'll either be Sanders or Clinton. Either a reasonable mix up of what we have (for at least a term) or more of the same for eight more years. If it is somehow Trump, it'll be such a fun shit show. The White House will turn into reality TV... so stereotypically American. I can almost picture the whole of America looking like any one of Trump's casino and "resorts". Like guys, it's a fun thought experiment but to non-ironically or troll vote for him is... odd. I guess this is what you get with such a large and diverse country.

TIL that X Japan came back from the dead/still alive.

Over Californee way, undecides like me get to vote in the Democrat primary. So we got that going for us... not much else.

Now that I am home... okay, you can skip the show but that is like half your game content since what you do ingame will determine which version (of the 40) of the episodes (of 5?) you get. So the show is part of the game. I'm not saying that the general idea of the game is bad (it sounds cool) but the implementation is not ideal, mirroring their scramble to solve giving people who play this game 200 episodes.

The game has cutscenes which is the show and the PC version is restricted to streaming only. As for streaming content for a game... good luck if you live outside the US in some internet poor region of the world.

To add to what MJ posted about Quantum Break: http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/quantum_break_s_live-action_episodes_will_be_streamed_to_save_hard_drive_space/1 Umm, for PC folks we have TBs capacity HDDs. For all platforms, do they think everyone lives in a magical land with fast internet speeds and no caps? Such an odd and dumb design decision. And it is a DRM which can/will take down the game for good once the servers are discontinued.

I personally hate the idea of the same, nuclear family holding office even a decade or more apart. I get that cronyism exist in the parties and it kind of naturally happens with groups but a family is goes beyond that and that sits wrong with me.

I gave it a whirl and yeah, the menus are all cursor driven so it's best to play with KB+M. Normal gameplay though is not really affected since you can just go old school and face every plant or rock you want to interact with... but I can see it helping with combat (it really becomes Zelda-like) but since you can switch control method on a fly, I can just switch to gamepad if I get swarmed by flies again. So yeah, if the dev can make the menus navigable on a gamepad, I can see this game getting ported to consoles. With that said, an additional improvement the dev could do is to tie where the mouse cursor is to where the character is looking. Interactions will make you face that way. In the case of the gamepad, the right stick can allow you to interact with things diagonal from you. It would in a sense bring the gamepad up to parity with KB+M. With how the game visual is ran, it wouldn't look weird at all.

From 1-10, this presidential election is like a 10 on weirdness to me. We got at the same time, both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump who are in my eyes the expressions to the same issue of our elected government and how ineffective it seems. Bernie supporters seems to have the goal of starting the desired changes from the top with Bernie and/or from the bottom with people like Bernie. Trump is coming in to smash things down with brute force. There's no charm in him, even Hitler has more charm. Besides Bernie or Trump, the other choices in both parties are the establishment. Democrats has Hillary and the Republicans... I don't even know. The Republican party is a mess (even more than 2004/8) and that is helping Trump. So odd. So much promise. So much fear. Thanks internet. Thanks Obama.

That's a good example of being nuanced but concise versus simplifying to the point of unrealism. That was hard to watch.

Damn FLD (and Mal)! This is the first I've heard of this game but it looks right up my alley. Is there combat?? Yup. It's basic as in sword swings of Link to the Past. At the moment, I am unaware of any other weapons. While basic, I find it kind of hard once you get past fighting slimes. One reason is that I find combat a bit clunky with M+KB so you'll have to be slow-ish and deliberate in your actions. I haven't tried it yet but it might be easier to fight with a gamepad since with using the mouse, there is a disconnect between where your mouse cursor is and where you swing if it happens to be behind your character. It shouldn't be the case with a gamepad. With that all said, combat is limited to the mines. This game is great in that you could in theory ignore the mines and combat. You can farm your way into wealth and just buy all the ore and metal you need. I wager that you could do the opposite as well and just mine and ignore farming. At the moment, I'm having trouble paying attention to my farm, mine, town and friendships all at once.

I think Stardew Valley fits into my gaming schedule quite nicely since saves are hardcoded into the end/start of the day so I can easily call it quits then. It helps regiment out my playtime. As for the game, I think it's quite fun in the running a farm or going caving kind of way. So far I haven't even ended one season yet so I have just the barest of a farm. Between splunking and farming, I don't feel like I have time to just go about town to find my in-game SO. Maybe some automated watering will help with that... It's quite impressive that this is the work of one guy. Makes me think that someday maybe I can pull off a game... think Ys.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/01/microsoft-to-unify-pc-and-xbox-one-platforms-ending-fixed-console-hardware Sounds awfully like the upgrade-able console concept I've talked about in the past. There isn't precedent for such a thing for some of earlier Nintendo and I believe Sega consoles. Quick whole console iterations are quite annoying for the consumer, you only have to own a Game Boy and DS' to know the pain. On the other hand, last generation (PS3, 360) was way too long with it getting too close to a decade for comfort. Smaller console upgrades might be the thing. I think the climate for these upgrades is different now than back with the SNES and the like. Can it work? Hell if I know but not everybody is comfortable in owning and maintaining a PC to get the best performance (usually) out of their games. For people who are willing to dish out for a better (?) gaming experience but unwilling to tinker, this should be good. It might be a hassle still? The ease of upgrade-bility and costs are keys... the Steam Machines which is a similar (but closer to PC) concept doesn't leave much hope... Regardless, knowing Microsoft, they might screw this up somehow. Somehow. Or maybe it'll be a slow burner like Steam was... and will have their own problems (#1: CS).

Harvest Moon-like game comes to PC and everything points to this being good so I choose this as a low priced game to get. Beat out Super Hot. So this and Disgaea should keep me occupied for a while. inb4 this game is $25 for FLD. Edit: This game might be a productivity problem...

One of the oddest finds from my foray into Chinese/Cantonese metal. It's the type that you do not expect to find in such a young scene. It's pretty well done in my opinion. Describes my mood pretty well at times...

That is so Metal Slug.

Holy shit, I got my T100 working again. Apparently I can power cycle it a few times or flash the BIOS blind to get it working. It has been a while so I don't recall if things were ever this sluggish but hey, I can read PDFs in bed now. It's my main reason to try to fix it again and well, this time I got the patience to do it. Last time I lost my school computer so I was in a panic to replace it. The T100TA everyone! Shit has problems but it never seem to be truly dead. Figuratively smack it a few times and it just might work again.

That did it and game is snappy as hell. There's my old Disgaea with improvements! There's still a but of screen tearing going on but I think I can troubleshoot that away. Now for NIS/NISA to figure out why it is doing that since I use the beta client to aid and improve streaming to my Link. Then again maybe the official client is up-to-date now to include the streaming fixes. Bizarre problem though... And thanks for the heads up, FLD.

One of the few times I actually like the song for these kind of adverts. Fits pretty well.

If we're talking about these guys: I call them portraits but they are better termed as busts. They existed for a while in a digital media disk they sold. It blew my mind when I stumbled across them since the quality completely trashed what was in the PS2 version. I remember it since it was before wide spread broadband internet adoption and I got a rip of the disk from someone on the internet. I showed interest in all things Takehito Harada and someone asked if I wanted a disk full of the stuff. The above was freaking perfect for pre-1080p wallpaper making days. On a 1024 × 768 screen, they were massive. Hell, I think they come in even larger size not shown in internet galleries now (PNG files maybe?). Might be the 1024 × 768 talking though. Anyhow, I'm going to sit on this release for a week to see if it clears up. If it doesn't, I'm returning it before my two weeks.