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It's a compelling but mediocre game. You can even call it downright bad but the concept is compelling enough for me to keep on playing when I did. Pity about what Hello Games did... this is a game that should've went through some sort of development hell, not shat out. And Sean Murray is a terrible name to utter.

I just got back from seeing Blind Guardian live with Grave Digger opening. Holy shit the energy that a Guardian show has is AMAZING. Hardly ever misses a beat. Seeing them at Wacken (above) is now seriously on my bucket list. Hansi, Andre and all of them gives as much energy in a smaller show like I've attended as he does in Wacken. It was kind of intimate in a way. I think Wacken would lose that but gain so much more from a massive crowd. The sing-along songs are just so much fun even if you repeat the same verse for minutes at a time.

I gave Kingsglaive a watch. It is very pretty. As for everything else, it's not bad and it does give quite a bit of background on the world of XV and what to come. Most of it is pretty good while some is head scratching. For example: Glauca. Anyhow, Square Enix should just announce a PC version already... I know I shouldn't but I feel like diving into this game ASAP. The story is at least interesting enough for me. Edit: I also think Ravus (Luna's brother) and Ardyn are people to watch.

This is quite the tease...

California tap water is fine for the most part. I haven't had problems with it in the Bay Area, SLO and LA. Then again I don't live in the poorer areas and my water always was sourced from the CA Aqueduct and the like. I bet the water is pretty bad in say the San Joaquin Valley in say Bakersfield. Any groundwater is completely fucked by agriculture. NYC for sure have good water but of course the building could be an issue like some of my childhood homes. Bad to the point of gagging. It had a smell and taste to go along with it. Then again I may have been a kid that just hated the "taste" of water. Now I drink almost always from the tap. If I tried to drink from bottled water, it would get expensive really quickly.

The 60 FPS update brought this way up my wishlist. The sale also helps.

I'm not sure what I'm getting into but I just found out that Granblue Fantasy is available in English so I'm giving that a whirl. Currently you got to find the APK to download it or play it as a Chrome browser app. So far all I know is this is a free-to-play turn based RPG. It has a timer and all but it supposedly pretty good on stuff to do while you wait. Now to dive in... Edit: Eh... rolling for waifus the game. I don't think I will ever quite understand mobile games... well anything besides Reigns. Reigns uses smartphones correctly.

For things to come... Space X just fired off a very bold proclamation I suppose. Lifting 20 people and the supplies they need at once with 42 rockets with the combined thrust equivalent to 3.4-ish Saturn V rockets (The real big boys that sent Apollo mission to the Moon). My mind has trouble grasping how it will all work but it sounds doable. Reason why I put this in this thread. We can crunch out the numbers and physics. Space X just need to get the funding to do such a thing. There's some science that needs to be done before hand like regarding human being in space for so long but it can all be worked out. Still... part of me thinks a space elevator is easier in the long run. We just got to find the suitable material to build it with...

Every since you posted Allegaeon, I've been hooked to them. A nice and easy listening band from Hong Kong that I recently discovered and I really like them. Good vocals, instrumentals and artwork.

Like every time I see something about Japanese arcades: No fair.

There was a reason why the Butlerian Jihad came about.

And it's out and translated. Who knew you can make me feel uneasy by a simple black circle? Maybe the hiatus is a good thing... Here's a rough sketch of what to come.

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Taking a look at some of the recent VR stuff coming out, people are standing and using those Vive sticks or some other specialized input method. It's cool and all but they're still pretty much standing in place (in real life and in-game) and there is no realistic way to solve the space problem when talking about moving about. I just want to see substantial in-game movement in a Vive setup. Granted, I'm not looking very hard. I know that people do play stuff like Minecraft in VR so moving around and doing stuff while seated isn't an issue. I think people and devs are just trying too hard to be 1:1 with real movement. It looks (in-game!) awesome but there's only so much you can do standing and twirling. As for the twirling... I swear someday we'll get good wireless video streams and awesome batteries... Imagine the hardware you'd need for rendering something for VR and then streaming it.

Seems like Berserk is going on a break to coincide with the anime release schedule. So back in 2017 with season 2. Now this:

I haven't checked out Re:Zero but this is a nice song. Not a hard thing to do though...

I don't watch or follow much of anything for anime. I just look at what is coming out and decide what to watch. And guess what? SEASON TWO MOTHER FUCKERS PXOD, prepared to be tanked by me again.

Just found out about this and it's blowing my mind.

I want to speculate a lot but I think I'll just say that I'm intrigued. Edit: Oh yeah... damn it Ethan, what did you get yourself into!?

Well they have a decade of trying to make this world work. Perhaps a really nicely fleshed out world isn't that far out there. The worlds* of FF VII, X, XIII, Ivalice, and I suppose Kingdom Hearts (for being Square Enix) were built up after the first game. I can only think of Ivalice being anywhere near graceful. ... I should just keep on playing Trails games (Being a Western fan is suffering). *Maybe I should include XI and XIV but MMOs are a bit different.

I was watching a stream of the gameplay. It is totally a traditional Musou game but for Guts he'll have all of his tools available to him to use like his arm cannon, throwing knives and bombs. I expect a similar setup for the other characters but tuned to their play style. As for the structure (one character all the way through or like AoT where it switches) of the game, we'll have to wait to find out. Anyhow... EDF! The frogs are mobile as hell and have good aim. You can blast off their arms and legs to slow them down but they will fight back if armed and will eventually grow their limbs back. If they can they will retrieve their guns. So the way to kill them seems to be blow their legs then kill them ASAP. If not, blow off their right arm with the weapon. Cover is also your friend since they can come in waves of 18 (3 dropships with 6). Be careful to not get flanked! The other humanoid enemy is also a giant but they're grey aliens in armor. They are also agile as hell with rolls and they have multiple loadouts. Other than that, not much else is known since the devs cut off the gameplay before it got good with them and the journalists played like crap. Oh yeah, they talk as well. Ants are ants and flying saucers are saucers. They have a more forward momentum to them so they won't turn on a dime like those in 2017 and 4.1. Lastly... RANGER CAN SPRINT NOW. Sadly you can attack while doing so but it'll go a long way to improve his mobility. Wing Divers are still around and I think one stream had a Air Raider but it may be that the skins can change depending on the mission.

I looked into the the story of Nier. Shit is batshit insane. It's the continuation of a really weird ending to Drakengard. As for Nier itself... it seems fine. We'll be running into some characters in Automata. It shouldn't be bad. Also TGS trailer.

A 'Dean can take a break edition' post. TGS trailer. Honestly the only time I've looked at one of the trailers. I can dig the story that the trailer is trying to set up. Can't help but feel that they might add some convoluted plot point that make Noctis into Jesus 3.0 so that they can have a XV-II and XV-III though.

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