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If you want to play that card then being American is evil as well. The American thirst for energy drives most of our policies. With that, some of our elected leaders are willing to pay any price to quench it (Have you guys seen the Cheney interview?). But yes, I am willing to go into gas and oil. It is not high in my choices of things I want to do but you bet your ass that I won't deny that door if it present itself. I may not be able to do anything about the political/policy side of things but I do on the ground level. I like clean land and water myself. With that said, I rather go into academia or environmental assessment/consultation.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/15/news/economy/2-dollar-gas/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 If I was a gas and oil geologist, I would be shitting myself. I guess I can try to extend my master term to three years... to wait out the storm if I want to get into gas and oil. Talk about bad timing on my part... seems like most of the transition from old to new people is happening way faster than I thought it would. BUT YEAH CHEAP GAS.

There is really no way around it besides try making new things. I also typically eat out on Fridays to shake it up.

Final Fantasy VII and VIII I can legally replay them now. I doubt running them in an emulator will help with them much so why not? Also I'm debating about III and IV but knowing how porty they are kind of turns me off.

Square Enix sale. Maybe Steam will be better but hey, if you want most of the Final Fantasy PC ports, this isn't bad.

Me these past few weeks:

My impression was that the first person was received pretty well. It is just something extra and an added incentive to get the current gen version. I personally can't wait to try the game because so far, even though unreliable, the PC port seems to be shaping up pretty well. Also, Jack, don't you realize games are meant for kids, not adults? Why are games made for adults!? /s God damn, that view got to die in a fire. It's wrong on a fundamental level and it is old as shit. Besides, we're talking about GTA here. The in-game universe is meant to be ridiculous. Like, shit, the world is to ours like how South Park's world is to ours. It exaggerates things, especially the bad things, in our world.

The Guardian to me is pretty reliable. Far better than The Daily Mail.

You know what will be neat? If they add in some denser planets to explore and really sink your teeth into. These worlds could tie into the overall story/plot of whatever the hell is in the center of the galaxy. Since it is preset, I imagine the way to find the planets is to get lucky with random planets that provide clues to where they are. It could be a community thing since there is not way around the metagame. This is from the impressions that I got that the galaxy you are in is the very same one for everybody else. To me this would add a nice extra layer to the progression. So far it really not that different from say Minecraft where you do random shit till you are able to find and enter the End. You can easily get burnt out on the quest to get to the End. I imagine the same for the center of the galaxy. You know what, fuck my original comment... it's too spoiler-y no matter how I word it. But yes, there generally seem to be a black hole in the center of every galaxy. You're a space faring race with FTL travel. I think you can handle a black hole.

I'm getting $6 for that game. Check again because they might have updated on you and thing got wonky because of it.

I never played a Suikoden game. I'm curious now. That is one series that I severely overlooked. That and Breath of Fire.

I will need to sneak a flask of something for this movie. I think the grad students in my department are hell bent on this.

I can be festive too.

This is better than Sonic games... kind of. Anyways. I too will welcome a suddenly broken singleplayer where the game for some reason throw you 2x the enemies to fight. Who know, maybe Naughty Dog will make a good AI buddy...

I expected him to bust out a saber. If I don't see a steam-powered rifle, I'll be sad.

They're running it old school. To be honest, this might get me to buy a Wii U in the next holiday season where this game is bundled with the Wii U. I dunno why but I also want to play Captain Toad.

Santa Claus got some good words to live by. Also seems like you need work more than time to game especially considering you can't even shell out a buck.

This will be good in ways that only this guy can pull off.

Imagine if I stored my entire Steam folder of 200+ games. I would expect it to clock in at at least 800 GB due to the amount of older, less large games. Recent games, however, are big as shit. For example, if I delete Shadow of Mordor and Wolfenstein The New Order from my Steam folder, I'll have about 80 GB back (surprisingly, Wolfenstein beats out Mordor with ~44 GB to ~35 GB). My current install runs about 400 GB for some perspective. I have 60 other games installed. Must be those delicious sound files... or large texture files for 4k gaming. I might be having storage issues myself soon enough... Edit: But yeah, delete stuff if you are done. If you are unwilling... get used to it.

Tomb Raider A solid game that isn't actually that close to Uncharted. To be honest, the current setting for Uncharted 4 seems eerily like Tomb Raider. Enemies wise, there is an actual good reason why we're fighting each other and why Lara shouldn't be too traumatized by it. Still though, there are many places where you go to that are unalerted to the gun battle you just had down the cave... at least enemies didn't felt like sponges. Now that I'm done, there is no incentive to 100% single player... duel-wield pistols unlock would be nice.

I think it will happen but it'll involve the main Playstation Final Fantasy games (VIII and IX). Three remakes with more or less the same engine. They'll get the most bang for their buck like that. They've done it for some of the SNES titles. We're getting closer and closer to the 20 year mark so I would expect 2017 for VII, 2018/2019 for VIII and 2019/2020 for IX. Then who knows, they might upgrade the engine for X and keep going. We'll see... If it happens, I'll expect bitching because people are whiny assholes. I prefer a movie...

They could just make a movie retelling the story with fancy visuals. That really all people are after because, right? Come on, it's just a turn-based JRPG which we have tons of now. It would also not involve a whole game studio to work on. If they could do it with Advent Children then I think they can do it for the original story. It would also be something I would be down for. A game? Not so much.