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I use the dark theme so I've no idea what @TheMightyEthan or @therevanchist* have put for their list but I'll just assume they're both wrong. I don't think I'd be able to put them in a list (and pretty sure I haven't). A big issue for me would be comparing Doctor Strange with like Captain America films. They're just so different. At least all the Star Wars films are all pretty tonally similar (except Rogue One) so pretty easy to compare em. I'd only rank the individual trilogies (which tbh does mean that Incredible Hulk is both the best and worst of the Hulk films, at least until Ragnarok comes out). I will say I think I'd put Iron Man higher than most of you guys, having watched it a few weeks ago it stands up extremely well given it didn't have any predecessors to work off and it's nearly a decade old at this point (RDJ has spent nearly a fifth of his life doing Marvel films. Though I guess technically the same could soon be said for Tom Holland ). Out of all of them it's probably also the most standalone. The latter films make the (pretty reasonable) assumption you've seen most of the others. *huh, guess you can only use that once per post, or it's just crashed for now.

If you're wanting some TinyBuild keys for cheap they're currently in a humblebundle. https://www.humblebundle.com/tinybuild-bundle Also this months pre-unlock (or whatever it is) for the Humble Monthly is Stellaris which is otherwise normally £30 so that's not too shabby. Might grab it myself. Got a few weeks to think on it at least.

This has probably sold more people on Spider-Man:Homecoming than the actual trailers

Meant to be Pokemon meets Harvest Moon meets Animal Crossing.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1301948399257707760 Valve posting some of the tweaks to the store. The reddit post made a good poitn that a simple addition would be the "I already own this" type option like you have on Amazon/Netflix(though that's watched) so it stops trying to recommend things you own on say Origin or uPlay (or heck, on consoles).

Would people like a general Dark Tower thread?

Villeneuve I can get behind, bit more Blade Runner sure. But not super keen on Leto or aged Harrison Ford. Dave Bautista is pretty fun though, not sure how much he'll have to do in this mind. I think Drax is his only major role, pretty much everything else is bit part henchman types and that'll probably happen here. I like the cyberpunk tunes though. Also iirc isn't a point of the first one is replicants are banned from Earth? Oh on book front Kingkiller Chronicle is being adapted by Lin-Manuel Miranda and one thing they're aiming to do is films for the main bits and a TV show alongside it (I think with TV stuff mainly being the novellas, which are also kind of "things that happened along the main story" stuff).

On leaving there was certainly mixed reactions on the 700 jumps

Having watched the previous film a few hours before I watched GotG 2 I'd say it only marginally changes the Yondu and Starlord relationship and about the only major thing that's "off" is at the end of Vol 1 when he calls Quills father a jerk. I do agree, and maybe reviews do too, that Starlords arc is a bit weaker than everyone elses development. I think splitting them up worked quite well (and probably why it seems like not much happens with Starlord, mainly because a lot happens to everyone else in between).

I kinda like at the start how they drop into animation n back out again into t-pose when another Ellie attacks. It reminds me of something (though for the life of me can't think what, my brain drifts to Agent Smith but they all attack at once or just one on their own). Other than that, it does get a bit disturbing after a while.

Official drop rates have been released so Blizzard can comply with Chinese gambling laws https://www.keengamer.com/article/16190_blizzard-reveals-overwatch-drop-rates

Last year? We've a General Election in a month :/ (Also local elections in some places just last week)

I imagine more people would hear it if she was to go on TV to debate, or not go and campaign in places her people have cleared out first.

I guess this makes a lot of sense, especially given the actors something to respond to.

Well I stand corrected on that point. I was just going off the link MisterJack gave. I figured it was safe to assume that Eurogamer would have correct links (and nothing came up in Google Cache either). Also worth noting the URL you've linked implies that post was only put up a week ago, so I'm gonna take a stab in the dark that they had actually removed it and only recently (I guess with tying into the Gearbox stuff and the devs heckling their Q&A) put the post back up. TinyBuild obviously took in some of G2As feed back because checking their games none of them are listed as purchasable through their site but instead go through Steam, which makes a lot of sense in both ease of use, not having to make sure your sites security is up to lick, and hey no keys spat out by their site to be sold elsewhere n make them upset. Their maths still sucks from when they posted it last year. It's very much inline with the usual "lost sales from piracy" fallacy that used to be trotted out years ago just now it's lost sales from people selling humble keys (or "Humble Store, BundleStars, IndieGameStand, IndieGala" as listed on their site where they also deny it's not keys coming from their distribution partners. Despite all of those selling keys that are easily resold..) And no, my point would be it'll likely be the majority of their keys on the site. Even with the Tinybuild stuff G2A had removed stolen keys. Just because some scrap merchants accept stolen copper and some pawn shops sell stolen goods it's a pretty dim view of the world to assume that it applies to the majority. As I said above, I'll happily change my tune on G2A and others when they're taken to court by Bethesda or what not. But given as I also said above how Bethesda are currently under investigation for colluding with Valve and other publishers I know I'd much rather be "dense" and following actual cases of a games retailer actually breaking the law, than just blindly accepting whatever "our sales are shit because [insert here]" is flavour of the month for indies.

It's free comic book day!

Except it wasn't $450,000 worth of stolen keys and it was incredibly stupid of Tinybuild to be all "hey we want a cut of 2nd hand sales", like the right to first sale is even a thing in the US (in fact I'm pretty sure it originated from the US). The hard on that software (and this isn't just games but like office etc) guys have for wanting to use the uniqueness of keys to reap an extra cut each time software is sold on is pretty shitty (and enshrined in law that it's also never going to happen). I've personally sold keys on G2A, and how did I get those keys? Did I go and steal someones credit card n buy a copy of Burnout and put it up on G2A all nefarious, or did I maybe buy a humble bundle as I do, find there's a bunch of games I already have and sell them on instead of stagnating (I have offered to throw them your lots way too but given these keys are obviously dirty dirty I can see why some of you would be suspect, I'm obviously not listed on Ubisoft site as an approved distributor of Driver San Francisco). But then how did Humble Bundle get the games to sell for $1? Did this charity loving site go and steal some grannies pension to get them cheap, or steal a truck full of games? Nah, the publisher put them on Humble Bundle for $1 knowing full well it'd sell for $1 and not only that but they might not even make anything off it if everyone decided to make it a humble tip or charity. But then the developer goes "hold on, there's people here selling the game for cheaper than I've got it on Steam. I'll ignore for now I've actually done that myself through Humble and instead demand that I get extra cash for this". It's pretty much having your cake and eating it. (Also TinyBuild have actually taken down the blog post. I'd take a stab in the dark that maybe someone with some legal background pointed out it's a really bad thing to quite publicly accuse someone of half a million in theft if you can't back it up. Given libel is an actual, and in this case quite obvious, crime) The fact that G2A are even having to respond to accusations of selling pirated games kinda shows how uniformed a lot of people have been made by developers over how game key selling works. @Mr. GOH! Yeah that'd be similar to my (not-G2A) experience as mentioned above for Borderlands 2. Not as convoluted but not as straight forward on most key selling sites.

Remakes just usually suck regardless of being gender swapped or not (with I believe The Thing being considered one of the exceptions to the rule). But it sure makes a handy excuse for failure. Shame Total Recall, Wickerman, Arthur, Ben-Hur, Point Break etc all kinda lack that excuse (incidentally while it's still a pretty shit rating, it's otherwise doing better than most of those).

Huh, much like political compass it says I should go with Greens.

The overly dramatic rendition of the Batman theme from Mask of the Phantasm

Once again, if G2A were actively fencing games don't you think one of the big publishers with big legal teams to hand wouldn't have taken umbrage against them? The 'fact' that G2A is such a dodgy site is treated like some open secret that oddly no one has taken action on. (also G2A is currently raising money for Save the Children so I'm not sure that one site donating to charity and the other particularly excludes them in some way either). And when keys that have been stolen are highlighted to them they do remove them from the marketplace and close the sellers account. IIRC with the tinybuild accusation on the $450,000 stolen keys G2A removed 200 keys from the site. That's not exactly resisting it, and also I doubt TinyBuild games were going for $2,250 a pop. As for the checks, they're about the same as selling any other item online. Though as online attitudes matured you're a lot less likely to hear about how super shady eBay is for example, despite also having a history of stolen goods, deceptive descriptions, and also the requirement of using their own payment system (PayPal certainly has its issues but it's pretty accepted form of online payment these days. Even pay for this place using it). And given physical goods tend to lack a unique identifier it's even easier to commit. Also the "overwhelming evidence" has yet to be produced. Misterjack did mention he hasn't got links handy, and you've just shown that their cancellation for G2A Shield is crap. I have actively looked myself, and maybe my google-fu is weak (but it'd be a professional shame if that was the case) but I just can't find anything that seems to indicate that G2A have ever been proven to be this big boogie man shifting hundreds of thousands of dollars of stolen keys and such. I'm just a bit sceptical. I remember when it was all big news about Game Dev Tycoon being pirated and lamenting how they're being shafted n such. What wasn't really covered was that they were being shafted by being a Game Dev Story clone that no one gave much a rats ass about and the developer has to put their game up on piratebay themselves and it only had like 19 downloads. But make a blog post, point at the bogie man that is piracy and then get a boost in sales when you get free marketing coverage on a bunch of blogs and people buying your game to stick it to those (19) pirates. It gets a bit boy who cried wolf after a while. When the day comes that I'm reading an article on G2A being taken to court by Bethesda for actively selling stolen and fraudulent keys of TES VI then I'll change my opinion on them. But when I'm having exactly the same customer experience as if I was buying from HIB, GMG, S-E, etc then I'm pretty inclined to believe they're more legit than people would like to make out, and just ruffling feathers for encouraging use of globalisation while providing a handy scapegoat for all that ails publishers atm.

If it's obtuse to mean I'm actually informed, in that I've actually used G2A, Shield, and a pretty large variety of other online retailers and not just straight up buying into publishers anti-grey market BS then so be it. I just think, and IMO it's a reasonable thought, that if G2A really were committing fraud* and credit card theft there would have been some kind of legal action going on. They've got GTAV on their homepage, I'd think if the keys were stolen or what not that 2K isn't going to twiddle their thumbs. Or, scrolling further down the front page; Sega, Valve, Blizzard, EA, Activision, Ubisoft etc. as well. Either none of these companies don't give a shit that a high profile site is trading in goods stolen from them or maybe, just maybe, baseless accusations in tweets are pretty much just that. It might just be a cultural thing (and given the US investigation into Valve is due to gambling and not anti-consumer practices it probably is). Growing up it was an accepted and expected thing to pick up cheap booze or fags from Europe, heck even purposefully go for a trip in your car to fill it up with booze from France (there's even specific shops set up in France for British booze tourists). Buying games online from Poland isn't really any different (just doesn't need me to have a car). Also you're the one that brought up the "not particularly relevant" refunds when trying to say Valves anti-consumer actions are in the past (and haven't even acknowledged the EU investigation into them). Also Googles refund window is also two hours (and vast majority of their apps aren't £50). Like yes it's nice n all that Valve have relented and put in a refund system but it's patting them on the back for doing something they're legally required to do and had resisted against. I'd put money on it being that when the "putting digital goods in a will" stuff comes to a head Valve will once again be in the camp against it. *I will point out that yes I have seen evidence of attempted fraud, though it's not from G2A. Just every now n then developers I follow will post up an email they've gotten from "Jon Starling from Destructor" or what not asking for a key for their new game. Given that it's easy enough to catch out that they're mocking them on Twitter I doubt it's a pretty sustainable practice of acquiring keys. Oh I also see people complaining against people buying HIB keys and selling them on, but once again while people can frown against it all they like it's entirely perfectly legal practice (at least in EU) and no one is forcing developers hands for putting their games up for $1 on HIB.

They've a gameplay video up too. Looks quite pretty. I like the use of the whip for traversal. As for release dates, yeah I imagine 2018 is purely place holder.

TBH I've never had any bother cancelling G2A shield (though this was a couple years ago according to my emails, seems I got it for a free month with DA:I and got it cancelled within the day). Having a crap UI is hardly illegal however or CNET would be in a shit ton of bother for their downloads page. And hey, at least they let you cancel online unlike MS whose obfuscation of cancelling Xbox Live meant me buying Batman on GFWL locked my card because my bank had so many requests to block payments to MS. (though I believe they have recently allowed you to now cancel online like most other services). Buying games through them is exactly the same as buying through Humble. You get your payment processed emails, you get an email with a link for your key on your account page, you then copy n paste the code into "Activate code" on Steam and download your game. What you get (for those that only use Steam). Though I have been using them long enough my first order from them does come with this Also on the "authorised reseller" versus "grey market" I assume you're all fairly fine with Green Man Gaming. They're perfectly fine n dandy and such...with the slight thing that they also acquire keys from low income regions. Vast majority of sites you can buy your gaming keys from are rarely ever acknowledged as "authorised resellers" beyond Steam itself, and Gamestop and GAME (and local equivalent) who sell the official Steam card things. And of course if they're not authorised as Destructoid uses the word "legitimately" it must mean that these keys are...dun dun dun...acquired in an illegal manner and you end up with all sorts of shit flung around about how it's essentially piracy n such. It's like the negativity around buying an Android phone from China versus buying it from your local electronics retailer...who get their stock from China. The "dodgiest" game I've ever bought was Borderlands 2, my order came through as a photo of the CD-key in the case (And I know what country it came from because my Steam library has "Borderlands 2" and "Borderlands 2(RU)". It obviously was a key that worked though. No idea what retailer I got it from though. I guess because we have to assume the worst and no doubt some American publisher would accuse them being from some poor Ukranian driver being gunned down and his truck load of game discs stolen, rather than just some Eastern European games retailer with access to a camera and the internet (they do have it there) going "Huh, I buy my games dirt cheap, I could make a nice profit selling them to westerners for what'd seem cheap to them". Also Steams refund policy only came about after they got in legal bother for not having one. There was of course that time where not only did they lack a refund policy they'd purposefully updated their EU EULA to make out that you'd "used" your purchase once it was in your library. Lest people forget Steam has been operating for over 13 years and their refunds are only less than 2 years old. Also I'm pretty sure even in America that anti-competitive collusion is pretty frowned upon. And lest you didn't read the article on the EU case, it's not in the past, they are currently under investigation. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-201_en.htm As I said right at the top, Valve are happy to partake in the benefits of globalisation themselves so they can access billions of consumers, but would quite like it if the billions of consumers didn't also enjoy those same benefits.