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Apparently the release date for Disgaea 5 on Steam (which IIRC, after the initial delay was a vague 'summer') has disappeared from the store page entirely today. I don't even know what to think anymore lol.

Clickhole is usually pretty damn good. Sometimes, though. Sometimes it's pure fucking genius.

I'm more optimistic about it this E3 than I've been in a long time but maybe I should start replaying all the Splinter Cell games. Just to be safe...

Annihilation. Well, that was a pretty fantastic sci-fi horror. I'm super confused as to why they dumped it on Netflix everywhere but the US, though. I loved it but it's a pretty slow movie. Mainstream audiences that are only interested in shoving popcorn in their faces while watching loud CGI clusterfucks are going to be bored to tears by it. I mean, if you're going to pick and choose countries like that, the US seems like the last place you'd want to give a wide theatrical release to this kind of slow and intelligent movie. I think I'll have to grab the book it was based on at some point. I'm curious to see how faithful of an adaptation it was and I'm pretty sure it bombed hard enough to guarantee the sequels will never get made. I feel like the movie stands well enough on its own, but knowing there's more makes me really curious to know how the rest of the trilogy plays out.

Remember this from a few months ago? Well, it happened again! On a whim, I got around to playing Subsurface Circular last night and today Mike Bithell announced and released Quarantine Circular out of nowhere! I'm gonna have to figure out if there's a way to use this power of mine for evil. Anyway, Subsurface Circular is pretty neat. I bought it at launch because I've enjoyed everything Mike Bithell's ever done, but then kinda forgot about it. It's a cool little text adventure kinda deal, nothing mind-blowing but it's pretty cheap and was interesting enough that I beat it in one sitting. Might grab the sequel(?) and play it tonight.

Ghost in the Shell (the Scarlett Johansson one) I went into this one with low expectations but hoping for the best. Jesus, what a fucking turd. It's not even funny bad, although I did laugh at a few moments that were supposed to be dramatic. The dialog is godawful, they changed the story in ways that actively go against the original's core theme and they recreated shots or scenes from the original and somehow managed to completely miss their point and/or suck all the atmosphere out of them. For a movie that's fairly action-packed and has some pretty nice visuals, it is impressively dull. The only good things were the Clint Mansell soundtrack and the couple scenes where Beat Takeshi gets to be a badass. I mean, those scenes are completely out of character for Aramaki but whatever, I was well past giving a shit by that point.

Yeah, I don't think it's ever explicitly explained but a bunch of consumables and powers mention reducing its effects and whatnot.

I'm not sure if it's just related to proximity but it definitely happens. It's related to the fear mechanic, IIRC.

Those things won't be an issue once you start upgrading your weapons and unlocking abilities via neuromods. The best advice I can give you is to max out psychoshock ASAP. By the end of the game it was one of my most useful combat abilities. Also, if you have access to the pre-order DLC, grab the cosmonaut shotgun from the locker in your office. It can give you a little bit of an edge in combat early on. Oh and don't make the mistake of thinking the GLOO gun is only for plugging leaks. It's super useful in a ton of scenarios, including combat.

@Mister Jack Yeah, they released it out of nowhere like 2 months ago. I think it flew a bit under the radar because it wasn't exactly the game most people were asking SEGA to port.

I'm wearing them right now. They're a bit warm but comfy as fuck.

I mostly got it to finally have a decent version of Tetris on Steam, although regular Tetris is weirdly hidden away. You have to go in the challenge modes, pick the Tetris Marathon mode and remove the 150 lines limit in the settings. The main game modes are all battle modes versus other players or AI opponents. Haven't tried the one that mixes both games yet but so far my experience playing Puyo Puyo for the first time went a bit like this: First game: This is stupidly easy... *watches video tutorials* Second game, trying some of the advanced strategies from the tutorial: This is ridiculously hard!

Made a few QoL improvement purchases. Holy crap, how did I ever live without an SSD?! My PC used to take a solid minute to get to the Windows login, then another extra 2-3mins just to launch everything and be ready for use. Now it's down to like 20secs and rebooting takes about as long instead of the 5mins it used to. It's not exactly instantaneous but it sure as hell feels like it compared to before. That alone makes it worth every single penny. Right now I've only got Warframe installed to it but I can't wait to try something more demanding in terms of loading, like an open-world game. The little bit of extra space is nice, too. My OS used to be on a 150GB partition and it was getting a little cramped. That partition has now been reclaimed by the storage drive it rightfully belongs to. As for the chair, my old one broke a couple months back and I've been sitting on a shitty wooden chair ever since. My ass has been hating me the entire time. It cannot get here soon enough. I'm honestly more excited about it than the SSD.

Well, the ending is literally all I know about the plot of Halo 2 but that's probably a fairly apt comparison, yeah.

I liked the first Rage but it's pretty uneven. It's one of the best shooters I've ever played in terms of gunplay, I remember the way the enemies react to being shot being super satisfying. But the open-world stuff is pretty meh. I'm tempted to replay the first one now that we're finally getting a sequel but that trailer makes me think I might be better off not doing so. The trailer feels like there might be a bit of a tone shift and the long gap between the two makes me wonder how much of a direct sequel it'll actually be. The original ended on... not even a cliffhanger, more like it ended just as you thought "oooh, shit's finally about to get started!". It was basically a non-ending. So maybe I'd be better off leaving the original as a fuzzy memory and going into the sequel somewhat fresh.

Damn, I actually liked Radical Heights. It was fun and seemed to have potential. The state they released it in reeked of financial desperation, though, so this isn't exactly a surprising outcome.

Season 1 was 11 episodes and 2 and 3 were 10 each, that's why I said that. But yeah, I assume they upped the amount of eps per season here. It's still a crazy amount of episodes relative to how many already exist, though.

So, I guess Rick and Morty just got renewed for like... 7 seasons?

I know, I know. I got at least that much. It's just funnier to say "the moon got kidnapped".

Well, it's certainly better than trailers that give away the entire plot, so I'm not complaining here. But surely there's a better middle ground to be found other than straight up making shit up lol. People would've noticed and speculated but, I mean, that's gonna happen anyway.

Only me, I guess? FLD#1974 Not sure when I'll really start digging into it. I played the first hour or so the other night and the combat felt really tight and fun but the story was all "Traveler this and Speaker that" and then I guess the moon got kidnapped or something? I had no idea wtf anyone was talking about. It really felt like I was missing something from not having played the first one lol.

So, while watching IW I couldn't help but notice how some lines from the trailers happened in completely different context or locations and last night I realized I couldn't remember hearing Thanos' "Fun isn't something you consider when balancing the universe..." line in the actual movie. I ended up rewatching the trailers to see if I noticed anything else and uh... Talk about false advertising! I want my money back!!

I fucking love the internet sometimes.