Mr. GOH!

Yeah. I have most of the story doc for both games already, but I sure ain't buying the ones I'm missing.

Watch Dogs 2 is pretty great. I'm pausing on it to play some backlog, but looking forward to returning to it. The clothing options are amazing. The tone is the right amount of zany. Like all open-world games, it can get repetitive. Not as bad as Ubi's stuff from a couple years ago, to be sure. There's a good variety of things to do. The gating is very minimal, but it's there. I feel like it's short enough that the beginning part of the game before you have access to the basic suite of powers and both drones is just a tutorial. Just reinstalled ME2. Might play through it before andromeda drops.

DOOM 2016. Fucking excellent.

I agree. ME should not be like DOOM 2016, excellent as DOOM is.

Yeah, the full ME2 suite is very good. I think, in the end, ME2 > ME3.

In NYC, a .5 bedroom means that there's a room that can function as a bedroom but that does not fit the legal requirements for a bedroom. Sometimes they're listed as 2 bedrooms plus an office, too, although that usually means the extra room is tiny. In our case, the condo is currently a 2 bedroom, but one of the bedrooms is huge (for NYC; 30 feet long by 12 wide), so we are putting up a wall to split it roughly in half. But one of the new rooms will most likely not technically be a bedroom under the law because it doesn't have a window overlooking a sidewalk or courtyard, just to an air shaft (it's a fire code thing; essentially, the new bedroom will not be easily reachable by fire fighters from the exterior). This only matters if we were to rent the 'half' bedroom or if we were to sell it. The law restricts how it's sold or rented, not on how owners use it for themselves (although the city could deny the work permit to put up a permanent wall; if they do, NYC has a big market for 'temporary' walls indistinguishable from real walls that do not require permits). When we sell it many years hence, we will not be able to list it as a 3-bedroom, but as a 2.5 bedroom. Since the new room will be plenty big to use as a real bedroom or nursery, we wouldn't call it an office (though that is how we'll be using it until we have kids). The condo also couldn't be sold for as much as a similar unit with three bedrooms. But I'm not worried at all about the unit holding its value for decades. There's nothing like buying a new place then waiting two months to move while work is being done. :/

Because you're a sucker? Why else buy a Ninty console at launch?

I hope this isn't as boring as Destiny. The weird skill system for the main character also gives me pause. I think I may wait until reviews are out before buying.

Haha haha. I owe less on the condo than I do on my law school loans.

Seriously, I watched the first few episodes of the clone wars (and the execrable movie), and that bullshit turned me off the cartoons forever. In my headcanon, the only Clone Wars cartoon is the superlative Genndy Tartakovsky series of shorts. So fucking GOOD. The upshot is that the longest kinja thread I've ever started began with me posting incredulity that Darth Maul is back (again!) and that these cartoons are not really canon. So many angry SW nerds, reminds me of high school. But, really, Darth Maul was resurrected to sell toys and get people who were under ten when TPM came out to watch TCW. We all acknowledge this, right? Because Darth Maul was just another point of suckage in the tsunami of suckiness that was TPM.

We closed on the 2.5 bedroom condo in Park Slope. Ridiculously expensive, but now I'm a home owner!

Can someone explain why Darth Maul's resurrection was not completely stupid?

I am enraged and dismayed every time I remember that my fellow USAns voted for him.

Huh. It runs flawlessly on my i5 gtx 970 machine. I was just wondering what machines it doesn't play nicely with.

What are your machine's specs?

Okay, here goes: Sorcery! 1 through 4 Far Cry Primal Recettar: An Item Shop's Tale Hitman: The Complete First Season I am Setsuna Project: Highrise Offworld Trading Company Tabletop Simulator and a mess of DLC - HIT ME UP FOR VIRTUAL TABLETOP GAMES; I AM DOWN TO PLAY ANYTHING Will probably pick up a few more before the steam sale ends, too.

I did. I have experienced zero issues.

Watch Dogs 2 is ridiculously better than 1.

I just played a bit of it and it is pretty great so far. Thanks a million.

Thanks Baconrath for Homeworld: Deserts of Karak, Tails in The Sky: Legend of Heroes SC, Chroma Squad, and Far Cry- Blood Dragon. You're the man and far too generous!

Shit, I need to change up my steam wishlist. It's all out of order. Edit: now it's in a rough kind of order for the first 20 or so games. And I removed games I have on other platforms.

PC version was excellent, I'm happy to report.

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