TheMightyEthan

My sister got me Pandemic Legacy for Christmas. Of our group (me, my wife, my two sisters and my wife's brother) my wife and I were the only ones who'd ever played Pandemic before, and we'd only played once, so we ran a couple non-Legacy games yesterday afternoon to familiarize ourselves before we start the Legacy campaign. Lost the first one, won the second, but both were insanely close. The first game we would have won on the next player's turn, but at the end of my turn (I was right before the player with the cards to cure the final disease) we got an unlucky draw that caused two outbreaks, the second of which put us over the edge. The second game was equally close, but the other way: at the point that we cured the final disease there were at least 4 different hotspots in the world that would have put us over the edge if any of them had been drawn. All in all a fun evening. Wish I'd taken pictures. One thing I especially liked about it was that even though it's technically a max of 4 players it's really easy to play as teams, since it's a cooperative game and 90% of the "play" isn't actually making your move but discussing with everyone else what you should do. I think we're going to do a couple more practice games next weekend and then start the campaign.

Oh yeah, I have heard of that, but I haven't tried it.

If that was the "coincidence" then you're right, it makes sense, but they should have done something to encourage us to draw that connection (not saying they needed to spell it out, but I saw it twice and that never even occurred to me).

I don't even know what the game previews are.

^ Not technically a spoiler, but enough to allow someone to infer some spoilers.

Wow, that's a weird system. At Walmart if you order it for store pickup they actually set one aside for you for that order, and hold it for like 10 days.

So I can now confirm that it is aided by a second viewing (or at least by not having a theater full of annoying people).

To be fair, 3 of my 4 Xbone games are exclusives, which is only one fewer than my 4 PS4 exclusives, it's just that the PS4 is better with pretty much all multiplat games (the one exception being AC Unity for some reason) so that's where I get them.

Just noticed a weird thing: when I put my current gen games in alphabetical order (allowing for series order) they're symmetrical between PS4 and Xbone games. What does it mean?!

I did it. No real tips, other than the obvious back up your saves. Although if you use PS+ and have auto-backup turned on you don't even really need to do that (though I still would just to be safe).

Not technically bought, but I got a pretty good haul for Christmas. Mad Max, Until Dawn, and AC Syndicate. Nice.

Humor:

Movies (and the rare TV show that is on neither Netflix nor Hulu) are all I pirate anymore.

Tomorrow is the 70mm limited opening at 100 theaters, December 31 is the wide release at regular theaters, at least in the US. *Edit - Just looked into the leak. There's something mildly amusing about people watching a leaked DVD quality screener of a movie that the director made such a big deal about filming in 65mm and showing in 70mm. I probably won't see it in theaters, but will make every effort to acquire a 4k copy of some kind for my home viewing pleasure. And that sentence is probably enough to give Tarantino a heart attack just so he can roll over in his grave.

It's not open to regular release until next week, this week is only the 70mm road show.

Holy shit, I didn't even know she was in TPM. Was all ready to tell you you're crazy but decided to check IMDb first just to be sure. I don't think you can say Star Wars gave us her though, cause she was in a number of other minor roles before and after that, and didn't take off until Bend It Like Beckham.

Mr. GOH! felt his generosity could not be constrained to merely one person, and gifted me Divinity: Dragon Commander and Tropico 5 as thanks for running the exchange. Thank you Mr. GOH!, you are a gentleman and a scholar.

They do if they're trying to say Anakin isn't a Mary Sue. I think it's a fitting punishment.

I got that each line after the colon makes a complete statement when put all together, I was just wondering if there was something even deeper, like the first letter of each word spells something. *Edit - oh, is it a copy paste from a chat window?

I'm sitting here searching for a code in this, but can't find one. Is there a code?

Mal got me Dreamfall Chapters, Legend of Korra, and Shadowrun Returns. Mal is a cool guy! Thanks Mal!

1.6 motherfuckers.