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Turns out I'm only friends with 25 letters of the alphabet. h Work? Anywho: Why do they call it "Always" if it's only used once a month?

http://chaoslife.findchaos.com/homo-hint heheh.

When's the last time Gearbox actually made one of their games?

As Strangelove has astutely observed it's a cash grab. Releasing to just the platforms the engine is built for (and dishing it out to another studio) minimises the cost over rebuilding the engine to run on 8th gen consoles. It's Gearbox, what do you expect?

I will have read it. I sometimes struggle to follow along with your boardgame posts tbh. So I might have phased out.

I've not had a go with it it, though I imagine that it might work quite well with my phone being so big. At the moment just on Swiftkey. Doing me well enough.

@TCP: There's substantially more 7th gen consoles than 8th gen consoles, and as a third party publisher 2K has no incentive to spin out a loss maker to try and spur on console sales or appease people for being good little early adopters.

Captains Log. Stardate 24710.616438356283 Last of Us continues to defy basic economics, especially since moving away from a monetary system altogether some two hundred years ago, and continues to retail for $60. Also lol at the 200 GOTY awards. When you've that many awards it definetly loses all meaning. Games industry really needs to figure out what it's Oscar alternative is (at least in the US, we've got our shit covered in UK)

Hotline Miami 2 trailer. Looks like it might have multiplayer? (this might have been confirmed already, not really been following too much as yet to finish the first)

Smash Up. You start the game with two decks of factions (I've had Ninja Zombies and Ninja Cyber-Apes), each with their own flavours e.g Ninja's can move out of their turn at the last minute, swap things around, suddenly turn into other ninjas. Zombies return, and can even be played, from the discard pile, and so on.# There's then several bases with a numerical value, you play minions from your hands to raise up an army of sorts on each base to "break" the base, with you and the runners up earning the Victor Poiints listed on the card (usually 4 VP for winning the base, followed by 2VP for 2nd place and 1VP for third). Each base has different actions either for a "when minion is played" kinda thing, or jsut a "when base breaks do this". Themed bases means some favour certain factions. Such as monkey lab for the Cyber Apes, Graveyard for Zombies, Greenhouse for killer plants and so on. Winner is the first to 15 VP points. I have only got as far as coming second today (would won too if I got my next turn). Betrayal on the house on the hill Horror themed board building game. You start with a character of various traits (Might, Sanity, Knowledge and Speed). Your points in these determine amount of dice rolled. It's a D6, but has 2 sides blank, 2 sides of 1 and 2 sides of 2. You start in the entrance hallway and explorer the house, it has a ground floor, top floor and basement. you draw a room tile to add to the building as you explore. Each room is either blank, or has a symbol for event, omen or items. Items are good, events are middling, and Omens can give you items (usually occult in nature) but raise the Haunt meter, eventually leading to a haunting. Once the haunting happens you refer to one of two books, one for the traitor(not always the person that picks up the final omen, can be oldest, youngest, least sane, etc) and one for the survivors, each with their own instructions and rules. There's a grid that basically is Omens along the top and room along the side. The corresponding omen and room tell you what page to turn to. I'd guess there's around 50 different hauntings. Ours my housemate picked up a ring in a crypt. The haunting scenario revealed it to essentially be the one ring. She became invisible and psychopathic. She was playing Flash the jock, the fastest of us all and could move 7 tiles a go. Thankfully started with no weapon, but first killed the guy with the revolver. She was now invisible, moving very fast and able to shoot through multiple rooms and we had two occult items that could only give vague idea of where she is (we could only directly identify her if she attacked us, and we survived the attack, and rolled a good knowledge check). Thankfully after whittling us from 5 survivors to just the two of us, she flubbed an attack on me and we found where we was, so other remaining guy got her with a combo of axe and dog minion, then I ran up the stairs and skewered her with my spear...just. It was a good victory, since as soon as she got the gun, and managed to kill one of the occult finding item users while they hid in a vault it was like "oh yeah.. may as well turn our weapons on ourselves". If she'd not messed up her attack on me (she realised too late she should have just stolen my spear. I'd be without a weapon, and not able to identify her location). Certainly one I'll happily play again, it's extremely variable based on both the room layout, range of cards to pick up, and the 50 or so haunting scenarios. Only major issue is it can really take up a lot of table space. edit: image! It's big, best opened in new tab. So here we have the upper floor closest to me, the ground floor in the middle, and the basement off in the distance. The green bar with 0-12 on it is the haunt meter, it goes up as omens are drawn. The cards with event, omen, and item are drawn as you play cards. You'll see on the tiles there's little yellow symbols on. Closest to screen is the Storeroom with an item symbol (ram skull). The hex card in front of person next to me is your character, sliders around the edge go up and down as your stats change (those sliders could do with being tighter gripping, and a bit further indented. They move with the slightest brush. Might be an app which'd work much better.) Photo is good enough you can mostly read that top event card for Possession. The cards give a bit of story to them. Oh yeah, secret passages really mess up the layout (and helped with the Traitor making max use of the seven moves). You could go from the Game room on the ground floor, through a hidden star way to a dusty corridor in the basement, then through a hidden passageway on the other side of that corridor to come out of a bed in the upper floor. There's also a mystical elevator which can end up anywhere.

Huh it really has been up for a year. Time flies and all that. Early Access is probably going to crumble under it's own weight. Been a lot of shady stuff pushed through on it (including a fair few "F2P" games). In general what Steam really needs is a massive re-think of how they want to sort and present the games (and programs) on the stores.

Yay. Beaten Sleeping Dogs. A good, though at times quite buggy, game. I felt a lot of the mechanics with the fighting and shooting were pretty good. Was quite quick to beat since many of the side quests while fitting with the theme just didn't feel to great (though one of the random side quests where you find a woman in the boot of a car who berates you for "saving" here was fun). I'd definitely grab a sequel. Oh yeah also as mentioned earlier, it's all rather pretty, was nice to flex my new GPU n monitor a bit. Now to figure my next game to beat. Only 152 to go (I found I'd missed a few games in my last count, including Sleeping Dogs)

http://curve-studios.com/why-isnt-curve-working-with-microsoft-part-i/ One dev chimes in on the whole PS4 versus Xbox One for indies. This is Part 1, Part 2 is yet to surface.

I'm aware of issue there. We already generally fine with popping in each others rooms for bits n bobs. His right to be annoyed at my partial clean of his room falls way below the whole smoking in house, hoarding cups n dishes, n old bread. He'd been asked to specifically sort the glasses from his room several times the past week. He'd give "yeah I'll sort it" then return to RO2.

http://youtu.be/GgJ4PPDx4dE So soonish I'll be able to watch Attack on Titan.

It'd seem to be a very mixed usage name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini#Name Some of Europe calls it Zucchini, some call it Courgette, and then Scandinavia calls it Squash. I know when younger you kinda call it a baby Marrow(as it says it's called in Oz), since it pretty much does look and taste like one just..baby sized.

So every now and then I see this "zucchini" mentioned. Now I think "huh, must be some exotic vegetable or something. Anywho turns out it's just a courgette. About as unexotic as you can get.

Has it really been a while since anyone posted here? Anywho just hit tipping point with one of current housemates. Room has generally always been a tip, but it's been expanding from his room and into general household. Double so that more and more of the kitchen has ended up in his room. So just done a bit of a raid on his room, secured kitchen implements, binned some of his more obvious rubbish like empty bottles and 6 month old baguettes. Found a fresh butt put out on one of his cans. I'd noticed it stunk of smoke but just figured it was him. So yeah him smoking in the house, in his pre-build bonfire of a room on top of that, isn't leaving me well impressed. The fact he's spent most evenings with almost non-stop Red Orchestra too (and I don't know how long in the day, I'm at work) instead of lifting even the barest amount of finger to bring things up to scratch. I've offered to help have a bit of a tidy up of his room, the computer he's playing RO2 on is my old PC (even has the monitor that my new purchase replaced too). Gonna join forces with other housemate and try and get his shit in order. We'd let it slide at first with "oh well he's just getting used to moving out, his independence" but it's been nearly a year now (our fault for giving him even a few months leeway I guess). The BF mentioned in previous posts is also gone bye byes too. New one is pretty cool. Certainly get along with them both much more than I did with her and past BF.

I should either set up my surround sound or get some speakers for my room. Currently I mostly listen through headphones mostly, but for speakers on PC I use my monitors/TVs, which turn off when the monitor does which can suck.

I don't think MS have said, which I'd take as a "no".

http://youtu.be/6YdBvWauNwA A bit of a featurette about lightsabers.

Oh I do enjoy the ram. I have recognised some words from DXHR, which I imagine are either swears or pleas for life (they both kind of come in that kind of context).

So good cast and it's from Luc Besson and that makes it super green. However my only beef would be with the "10% of your brain" thing.