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I was trying to avoid resorting to help for the builds, but I might have to. I've gotten 2 or 3 encounters completed with all 10 limiters on, but the one I'm on has had me stuck for a while... We'll see. The duplicate thing is awesome, and I didn't expect it to happen at all. It's making the choices stressful though, as I suspect that I won't be able to get doubles of all of them. It's cool that a total new type of combination is available though. So far I think I've only used it with Jaunt, but I'm sure I'll find others useful as well.

I'm not sure if there is a more appropriate place to post this. My apologies if I'm mistaken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkQMixvWG-I

Has anyone tried going through this with all limiters on? Holy fuck, man... I think I had like 5 active ones when I finished my first playthrough, but the NG+ difficulty along with those last few limiters make this game positively brutal... I thought I was going to go through it like a badass, but I'll be lucky if I can even hit the requirement for the achievement (whose exact conditions I don't recall atm) before giving up on that endeavor.

Sounds like a great memory. I love those I can associate with a tune. On a side note, despite being a band that never had any album I was into start-to-end (though I heard all of them up to a certain point, and liked at least a few songs off of each one), they were my first live show. A really good one to start with too, despite being one of the relatively few stadium-seating events I've had to endure. Monster tour. Good times.

I totally should have switched the /s off. My bad.

This is why fans/gamers suck though, they should have been telling them for years that Kinect is a waste of time and resources that nobody is interested in, rather than being super excited about the Kinect, giving MS the false impression that people REALLY wanted no other option than to buy one with the XBone.

Sorry if this is already in here somewhere, but: "_____ much?" "Lame overplayed joke much?" "Misunderstand proper usage and syntax much?" "Too lazy to have an actual thought much?" "Pavlov's dog much?" Enough with that shit. Let it go already.

If you've played GTAV for any meaningful length of time, it's very likely that you've heard this song at least a few times. In turn, it's likely that it's been stuck in your head at least a few times. If you have the same love/hate (though mostly love) relationship with the song that I have, then you might appreciate my little tribute. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro!

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The burning building from which you need to quickly escape to save your life, but which doesn't deter enemies in the least from laying in ambush or engaging you in prolonged combat. For that matter, burning buildings that don't contain any noticeable smoke, and that treat flames like a bunch of lamps all over the room, rather than rapidly spreading death that you don't want to get within a few feet of.

So Kerbal Space Program has been in early access for over a year now. I'm not one of the people who complain about the (early access) program too much, even though I'm wholly against a couple of aspects of its popular implementation. This though, I feel like is starting to set a really bad precedent. From scanning the forums, its seems like they're trying to evolve the game based on feedback, which is nice, but I didn't think early access was about crafting the perfect product under critical eyes until you're satisfied that enough people dig it. I can envision a day when this sort of game limbo becomes common enough to become an annoyance. Am I alone here?...

Is this where Sony announces that the Morpheus is PC-compatible?

That was the title of an email I fired off to a buddy as soon as it was over haha. Any person who likes to sit around trying to predict what's going to happen next and way down the line just had all their notes ripped to shreds and set on fire. Regarding the spoiler: @HH I personally was pretty well into it from the first episode, but I did feel like maybe some of the hype was a bit unjustified at first. By the 5th episode or so though, I was completely sold. I agree with your decision to give it a few more. Let us know how you end up liking it! side note: Whoever did the casting for that show deserves a medal. Stamper, Russo, Claire Underwood, Skorsky (and everyone at that paper), Linda... These people are seriously strong in those roles. Fantastic choices. Zoe leaves me wondering here and there, but she has her moments too.

As far as I know, most of it was scripted, but much of it was inspired by real life events that Harmony Korine had witnessed. The beating in the square was specifically mentioned as one of those. What's up for debate is the alcohol and drug use. The blunt rolling scene was one of those in question, as was the house party and the flop house scene. Everything else though, from the clubs, the pool, the sex scenes, were either written or improvised, but definitely acted. I think the final, awkward Casper scene was one of those improvised ones. But yeah, the fact that it's even a discussion is testament to how real that movie looks at times.

Kids (1995) This movie is just as chilling as it was when I first saw it (maybe a year after its theatrical release, when I myself was about 15), only now I respect it. It was quite controversial when it was released, and I think it still would be if it released today instead of 1995. I felt like it didn't deserve a lot of its criticism, but also totally deserved some of it. I was even more critical back then, as I was largely looking at it through the lens of cultural accuracy, and felt like the movie was a bit inauthentic in many ways, not to mention over the top. To some degree I still feel that way, though a lot of the content became more familiar to me in the years directly following when I saw it, and other script/direction choices just seem like better ones to me now that I have a different understanding of the medium in general. The director still comes off as a bit of a creep though, and a friend of mine who went to an art show of his confirmed that that is likely the case. Looking at it now, I think the movie had some seriously strong points that I never gave it credit for as a teenager. It is one of the most authentic looking and sounding things I've ever seen. The first of the two main reasons for this result is the way it's filmed, which makes it look almost like a documentary. The second is the cast, which as I understand was nearly if not completely comprised of of actual kids that the director saw hanging out (and in some cases hung around, which is another weirdness involving this movie altogether) and thought would be appropriate. There was little-to-no acting experience to be found among them. His results were pretty much justified, as most of the actors came off as very natural and realistic, and even more important: familiar. There were a couple of exceptions and weak moments, but more present in my mind in those situations is how much these look like real people, and not actors in costumes (no perceivable makeup, lots of people need haircuts, etc.) . Authenticity beats performance in this case (in my opinion), and the result of the combination of cast and and untouched locations is something that screams 1990s NY louder than just about anything else I've seen. From the language, to the lobby intercoms, to the bars on the windows while people shout to each other, to the turnstile-hopping, the way people are dressed, the brownstone (interior & exterior), the LES apartment interior, the bodegas, stoops, the subway rides (complete with ACTUAL subway panhandlers, one of whom I even recognized), the Jamaican dealers and the kids hanging out at the Washington Square fountain, ... All of it just comes off incredibly raw and gritty. You can almost smell the smells that you know are there on that oppressively hot day in the city. Another thing I applaud is how well this movie addresses one of the biggest and least directly confronted (considering how many were dying from it at the time) topics of the time, which was the rapid spread of HIV. Anyone who wasn't afraid of it before then, or who still had it in their heads that is was only something that affected the gay community, I'm sure they had a little bit of a change of heart after the grim events depicted in Kids. It's a shame that much of the controversy surrounding the film kind of overshadowed that. Or so it seemed to me at the time, anyway. It's an overall good script too. There are some really heavy scenes in there that demand pondering. The fact that it was written by Harmony Korine, who was 19 at the time, makes it that much more impressive. I think I've hit the babbling mark. Here's a link though, for anyone that's curious, or that remembers the movie and feels like seeing how it's aged. *edit* Side note: Rosario Dawson got her start in here, as did Chloe Sevigny and Justin Pierce, who was in Next Friday shortly before his suicide in 2000.

That's exactly what I'm afraid of. And it seems like my fear is justified, given this quote I just saw from a Guardian commenter: "spoiler alert: Season 2 Episode 1 ends with a 'twist' which will only come as a surprise if you've not seen the BBC original" I'm definitely glad I didn't watch the original now, as the twist is pretty gigantic. Maybe I'll take in the first season after I complete the second one of the US show. I should be ok as long as I stay far enough behind.

I initially was going to bring it up in a status, but I didn't want anyone to catch any collateral spoiler damage. House of Cards; Season 2 is off to an amazing start. I think they may have actually set the bar for the season a bit high with it. I'm confident the people writing over there are up for the challenge. Then again, I heard that this is also an adapted show, and I wonder how much of it is completely unique. Has anyone seen the original? I'm afraid to watch now it and then spoil the US version for myself.