Mr. GOH!

Huh. I woulda thought a prosecutor wouldn't want to give material aid to a known fraudster. http://www.pcgamer.com/tiny-metal-delayed-as-accusations-of-kickstarter-fraud-swirl-around-developer/ I also bought a pair of SteelSeries Arctis 7 wireless headphones and they are a delight.

I actually bought this last week and set it up yesterday, so it counts for the 2017 thread. My old headphones were falling apart and the battery life got real shitty. These are pretty dang great for the price.

Buy it anyway.

Damn, Ethan. You show that game to your wife?

Thursday also got me the DLC for Nier:Automata, which I just noticed when I went to download the game. Thanks again!

Thursday very generously gifted me Nier:Automata for PC. Thank you Thursday and have a very merry Christmas!

If you buy an Apple product you knowingly cede all decision making powers over it to Apple because daddy Apple knows what's best for you feckless children.

Horizon Zero Dawn for sure.

A couple notes and questions:

The Last Jedi is phenomenal. It pushes the saga ahead while retaining everything that makes Star Wars Star Wars. I have a lot more to say, but I will hold off until I have organized my thoughts.

I upgraded my phone! I'm liking the s8+ so far, though it's still updating over the slow wifi at work. Much slicker and faster than my od LG G4.

The Southern Reach trilogy is pretty great. I hope Garland does it justice with the movie.

I believe that the director of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull could make a glossy piece of garbage. Spielberg has made some great movies and some stinkers, but lately he's just made *boring* movies. His overdeveloped sense of sentimentality will combine with Ready Player One's nostalgia and its own sentimentality to make a glossy but ultimately empty movie. It will have well-directed action and lots of emotional manipulation (a Spielberg specialty), but it won't have anything interesting to say and I doubt it will be as fun for me as the book was. At least I don't think Cline did any direct product placement in the book, which I doubt is the case for the movie.

I read the first four or so volumes of the Battle Angel Alita manga years ago and everyone has manga eyes in it; hers are not specifically different, as I recall. Ready Player One will be a vacuous nostalgia trip, kind of like the book.

Next coin-op movie will totally be Centipede. Jurassic World was awful and not fun at all so I see no reason for its sequel to be any better.

How long is Infinity War? Don't say "forever," or "infinity," or "neverending," or "infinitely," or any such nonsense, please.

Only it goes to a whole country. ??

I bought a bunch of games recently because I have no self-control and the looming arrival of my son makes me want to get ina s much gaming as possible before March. First Up: You run a town dominated by a cult. Every season you pick six advisors, one of whom you must sacrifice to your evil god at the end of the season. Very atmospheric light management game. I liked the old PS1 Star Ocean and I felt like trying a last-gen JRPG. I liked Stick of Truth alright and thought I might as well try the sequel. It's Batman. It's Telltale. I always was gonna buy this.

Two movies: The Shape of Water. This is Del Toro's best since Pan's Labyrinth, which I think would be a neat double feature. The acting, writing, production design, direction, and special effects are all superlative. Everbody should see it. I could write a lot more about just how delightful the whole thing is, but I don't want to spoil anything. One of my top movies for the year. The Disaster Artist. I did not realize it would be played as a kind of dramedy, though more comedic than dramatic, but I thought it worked extremely well. My wife, who has never seen The Room, also really liked it. It's funny, but gentle on everyone involved in The Room. James Franco really does a great job of being Tommy Wiseau. I was especially impressed with how he was able to make his Wiseau feel like such a hulking and weird presence when James Franco is not nearly as large as Wiseau. Dave Franco was also pretty great as Greg Sestero. Unsurprisingly, the Francos had great on-screen chemistry. THere are lots of cameos from comics and comedic actors I like, though your mileage may vary. It was way better than I thought it would be.

I've had sous vide steaks. It's like having a pot roast or other slow-cooked beef thing that is also a steak. Yes, medium is the way to order at restos, but any decent grillperson knows that direct heat and subsequent resting creates a wonderful crust as well as a juicy, well-cooked (rare) interior.

I'm kind of over massed charge shots in movies featuring super advanced space weaponry, but otherwise, this looks like it could be neat. Better than the atrocious Justice League.

Steaks need to be charred outside and very pink inside. Uniform gray sous vide steak looks gross. Sous vide works wonders for poultry and fish, though. It's also nice for slow-cooking pork, but kinda of redundant if you already have a slow cooker, I guess. I also got this for my wife for Xmas and it really pained me: Ipad 9.7 inch with 128 GB because she watches tons of movies on it. This is replacing her increasingly-misbehaving Mini 2.

Leave it open to December 1.