TheMightyEthan

I'm a firm believer in buying last year's model of phone. It's already lost most of the "ooh shiny" price inflation, but you still get most of the usable life out of it. Same as how you wouldn't buy a brand new current-year car.

I thought the dialog implies that he put down the load immediately before the conversation began... I agree they're pretty barebones, but think of how many of those they had to make, multiple ones for every single combination of side characters.

There's a balance to be struck between caring enough to keep society from breaking down, and not stressing about it so much that it ruins your life. As an aside, my line of work encourages this really cynical attitude where I'm relieved when certain people die because it clears cases from my load. "Oh, he died, now I don't have to do that preliminary hearing next week, that's a relief, now I'll actually have time to prep for that jury trial in three weeks..." I always feel guilty about feeling that way, but it doesn't stop it from happening.

That seems weird that they would be pushing them to change since every Rockstar game seems to be a magic money tree. Like, I kind of get it when it's "just" the kind of success that sells a few million copies, but they sell approximately infinite copies...

That must have been on your backlog for a while. ?

What? Why?

Nixon was never actually even impeached, he resigned once it became clear he would be, so there was never any trial procedure discussed. With Clinton it's basically as you say, they proved he lied under oath in a civil lawsuit against him for conduct when he was governor of Arkansas, but since it didn't have anything to do with him abusing his power as president they didn't feel it warranted removal. Trump is worse, because his very much directly ties in to him abusing his power as president, so by acquitting him they're basically saying nothing the president does can be worthy of impeachment.

Honestly, the number of Sony exclusives I care about is extremely limited.

I think it could go either way, I think it depends how core to its identity the original tone is. It's not video games, but the Harry Potter books are I think a good example of a series that grew up with its characters.

I'm slowly working my way through Disco Elysium. I'm very much enjoying it, I love how responsive it is (seems to be?) to the way you play the character. The only reason my progress is slow is because you definitely have to be in the right mood to play it, so I've been interspersing it with Pokemon Sword and Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore.

They actually adopted the same rules as the Clinton impeachment so that they could claim to be being fair. The difference being in the Clinton impeachment they actually voted to call witnesses when that time came.

I know I'm a few days late, but...

I believe it's endgame stuff.

If you're gonna protest vote make sure to actually vote for a more left-leaning party, instead of just not voting. They need to see that there are votes there to be had if they would come more left. And yeah, I didn't vote for Clinton, and I won't vote for Biden. But like you, being in Kansas means I can vote however I want because it's going red no matter what, so my vote doesn't actually affect the outcome. The latest polls show Sanders up in both Iowa and New Hampshire though, so ? (I would personally prefer Warren, because I'm tired of old white men running everything, and at least she's not a man, but I certainly won't turn my nose up at Sanders).

That's legit awesome. The shading especially is fantastic, it really gives it a sense of depth.

The heating up the room part can be annoying, but a silver lining to that is that warming up the room also reduces RH (warmer air has more "room" for water, but the actual amount of water hasn't changed, so the % RH goes down) so it doesn't have to run the compressor as much as it would if it didn't warm up the room.

I don't play Splatoon, but I know some of you do, and I got a code for a free jersey and shoes for Splatoon 2 if anyone wants it.

I would be all the fuck over Pikmin 4, but I agree it's not a big holiday release like some of Nintendo's other games. We also have a rumored Mario Rabbids sequel, which I would love, but again isn't a big tentpole game.

As of right now Zelda is my most anticipated game of the year, but given the tradition of Zelda games being delayed it will probably end up slipping to 2021, in which case Cyberpunk takes its slot for 2020 for me.

@MetalCaveman That game is great, you're in for a treat.

Hmmm, MS is already bringing all their games to PC, and if Sony starts doing the same I won't have any reason to buy another non-Nintendo console again...

Awesomesauce.

Pokemon Sword I technically beat this, but there's a fairly substantial post-credits epilogue that I haven't finished yet. Overall I really enjoyed it. It was Pokemon, and it was on Switch, which was really all I wanted out of it. I know we already had Let's Go, but those games changed the way the wild encounters worked enough that, while I enjoyed them, they just weren't quite the same.