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No particular order here... and these aren't all milestones, I guess, just movies I really think you should watch. Escape From New York Great Mouse Detective The Usual Suspects Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs Dr. Strangelove (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [The others are good, but Last Crusade is the best. Skip Crystal Skull if you decide to watch the others.] Star Wars: Episodes IV-VI Ferris Bueller's Day Off Blade Runner Wayne's World Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime if you prefer) Spirited Away Casino Royale Duck Soup (1933) Street Fighter Plan 9 From Outer Space Henry V (1989) God, this list is so incomplete. But it's all I can think of right now. I'll try again later.

I'm not the first to make this point, but... it's the Legend of Zelda, gentlemen. It's a legend. Every release is a different version of the same story, and through thousands of years of translator telephone, small elements have changed in various versions until only a few core threads remain the same- Ganon, Link, Zelda, the magical sword, the temples. The legends bleed into each other, details exchanged, references to each other. That's what I think.

I would be interested, though consider me a reserve. My skills are not high enough for me to be a priority for this match. And if anyone tries to take Lux I will stab you until my knife breaks.

People who say "I could do that" when they see a pro gamer are people who don't realize how great the gulf between them are. You can play a game. You can play a game well. You could probably not be a pro gamer. Okay, maybe you could, if you played that game five hours a day every day for a year. But you aren't willing to do that. That's part of what separates you from them. Brain and I play fighting games all the time, and we're not incredible, but we're pretty solid players. When Brain went to PAX, he had a chance to fight Justin Wong, a pro player. In two rounds, he landed one blow. The difference is bigger than you realize.

It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness. Silly it may be, but it's better than doing nothing. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Self-flattery- I'm hardly a good man, and Ubisoft or whatever company as "evil" is excessive, but you get the idea.

Sooooo... you're against systems that waste your time with no challenge, but you use mods to force yourself to take long, empty walks through unpopulated countrysides. Okay. What?

A fair stance. 4th made a looot of sacrifices to cater to a less experienced crowd, and I can certainly understand why many think it wasn't worth it. But yeah, Pathfinder is a 3.5 variant system. Irons out some stupid things, and then manages to make the game even MORE complex. Because if there's one thing we pen and paper gamers like, it's complexity. (Eyes his copy of GURPS 4th)

Oh, not much more annoying than core 3.5. It irons out a lot of the illogic in 3.5, actually. If you want something easy for newcomers, try 4th, but a lot of classic players really hate 4th.

I'm surprised that you run 3.5. Have you tried Pathfinder? Very similar, but I personally find it superior. Obviously, it's all up to the individual, I'm just curious.

As the foundation to this little rant- I don't like the always online drm, or the Auction House. I was interested in Diablo 3, but I'm not a big fan of the series, and to me, those two were enough to be a dealbreaker, because I wasn't big-time into the product to begin with. That said.... Looking at the Auction House by itself or the Always Online by itself will not explain this story. The two are woven together like any fabric, they are tangled together, they reinforce each other. Take Diablo 2. I wasn't big into the game, but there was a fair bit of cheating, is my understanding. A fair few hacked items and things. I don't know how these were distributed SP vs. MP, but I know they were there. Now, take the Auction House. What would happen to the prices of these sold weapons if you could just hack a weapon for yourself? If you could simply tweak the code for a fantastic weapon? Obviously, the AH would collapse. And that would destroy the economy of the game. How do you keep this from happening? Make the game require a constant internet connection, so that no one can cheat the system. So that you can always monitor that shit. Now. The real question comes in as "why not have a separate SP mode that doesn't require internet, but can't be used in multi?" And that is where it gets more dark, in my opinion. The AH, as an existence, could feasibly just be to satisfy players. Sure, Blizzard is going to take a cut of every auction, but it'll probably be a pretty small cut. They'll make a profit, but no big deal. The big deal is that they're trapping SP players into this system as well. If there were an offline SP mode, then they wouldn't be able to sell AH items to those offline players- again, they would probably just hack for them. This is not speaking in absolutes, sure some people would still pay- or more likely, just not use the AH or cheating- but a good number would hack. And that number is a group of customers that they missed. That is the reason for the Always Online- so that they can FORCE people into using the AH if they want items they haven't had drop.

Alright, folks! We want to do an E3 podcast, to talk about all the E3 stuff, in this upcoming week. If you followed E3, if you kept up with the news, have things to say about it, and would be interested in being in this podcast, please message me a copy of your availability for the following week.

Welcome to the trenches, Mister McGillis. May your visits be thought provoking and productive, and your loins filled with fruit.

Chewie, I would straight up never put you on a podcast.