TheMightyEthan

Man of Medan is on sale for $12.75 at GMG, the lowest it's ever been, so I finally picked it up. It just needs to get in line behind Skyward Sword and P5R (and Animal Crossing, but I've always been planning for that to be a side game while I play other main games).

@deanb My wife and I had a discussion about that, and I don't think so.

Detective Pikachu HBO is doing free streaming of a very limited selection of movies and TV shows, and this is one of them. I was actually pleasantly surprised by how good it was. I expected it to be just fine, but it ended up being a quite enjoyable watch. It struck just the right balance between silly and serious.

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What is SAT?

Meh, I tend to only play one game at a time. Also, I like to be able to sell my games when I'm done with them. Also I just bought Mal's physical copy so he can switch to digital. ?

Broke down, went to Amazon to order the game, they're sold out...

I actually do have a full beard under there... Also, I just re-styled my hair like two months ago ago, and still every time I see a picture of myself I'm like "why is my hair parted on the wrong side?" because I'm used to what it looks like in the mirror...

Made myself a homemade mask for when I have to venture to the grocery store and whatnot.

You guuuuuys, stop making me want this game!

Let's just agree there are pros and cons to both infections.

I think that service is nation wide. I've certainly been seeing a lot of e-mails about it.

Skyward Sword is surprisingly pretty in 4k (I've also installed a high-res texture pack, though it doesn't replace every texture)

I did. I played for a few hours and kinda lost interest. I might look at it again though, I'd kinda forgotten I had it.

I just finished FE3H: Cindered Shadows, and need a new Switch game. Anyone have recommendations? I've already passed on Animal Crossing because I think it's something I'd get bored with quickly and I'm not willing to risk $60 on that.

From what I'd seen he had also considered bombing a black church, a synagogue, or a mosque, and just settled on the hospital cause he thought he'd kill the most people that way. So dude was cray, it didn't really have anything to do with coronavirus.

That's got to be a bug, the whole point of point and clicks is collecting random shit in your inventory.

Sounds similar to the skulls in Halo, which I also really like.

Apparently I never posted in here back in February when I took some more photos of Venus. This was taken on February 8 (oh what a different world that was), with Venus slightly gibbous. I didn't discover until afterward that I had the exposure too high, which is why it's so blown out, but I was able to get much better focus, so you can see it a lot more clearly than my previous pictures. It's no longer just an amorphous blob! It's small because I wasn't able to get it lined up with the 2x barlow lens (2x zoom means half the viewing area, which means it's much harder to find objects). This was taken on March 24, with Venus about as close to half as I'm going to be able to get. Interestingly, this picture makes it look like it's ever so slightly less than half, but official information suggests it should have been ever so slightly more than half. I think the effect might be an artifact of the algorithms my software uses to sharpen the image, causing a little bit of a bulge at each point of the limb. This one I was able to get lined up in the barlow, so you can see a lot more detail in the shape of it, and I also fixed the overexposure problem from last time. Overall I'm very happy with it, and it gives me great hope for getting good shots of it when it's crescent. Those should be even bigger, because Venus is getting closer and closer to us as it moves between us and the sun. It's comforting to me that even with all the shit going on down here, the heavens are just plodding along as always.

@Mister Jack I don't know how to explain it, but when I was playing 2016 I got maybe half(?) of the way through, and realized I had no interest in continuing because every fight felt exactly the same. Like sure the environments were different, and there were different enemies, but didn't feel like that really changed the approach you needed to take.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Cindered Shadows Okay, so it was really just that one level that was tedious, and once I looked where the thing that I needed was I just rushed it with a flyer and ended it easy peasy. Beyond that, I thought the game was really good. It was harder than the base game, but not so hard as to be frustrating. I used Divine Pulse a lot more than in the base game, and I lost more units (I was on casual, so they came back ?), but there was only one level, the last one, where I had to retreat and start over altogether. My second attempt at the final level the only character I lost was Byleth, which is actually the only time I ever lost Byleth. I thought it was fitting that she should die to see that her students are kept safe. ? 4/5

I mean, the US is the country that decided mass murder of grade-schoolers is an acceptable price for having guns everywhere, so I could totally see us as a country just being like "well, that sucked, oh well, nothin we can do" and moving on.

Does it solve the problem that the first (2016) one had where every encounter kind of feels the same?

Well Half-Life: Alyx is the thing that really keeps making me want one, and can't play that on a PSVR. *Edit - Also, the PSVR isn't exactly cheap, and it's one of those things where the "cheap" ones are expensive enough that I'm like "if I'm going to spend that much I want to get a good one" but the good ones are too expensive for me to want them.

@deanb ?