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What's more, the next avatar I plan to use in my rotation doesn't even have animal ears. Isn't even an anime girl in fact.

I'm glad that they never even attempted to make a sequel to Alpha Centauri.

I'm glad that they never even attempted to make a sequel to Alpha Centauri.

Every time I see an ad for Ready Player One I think: what if that developer guy was replaced by Terry Davis and instead of the Oasis it was TempleOS.

Have to do a bunch of scheduling, and am running into major problems due to the fact that nobody else is working 10 hour days, so I can't do things too early or too late. When the fuck did I become the most responsible person in the room?

Got plenty of things planned for my admiƞ powers. But I have to sleep now, so I'll just do it tomorrow.

Of the first 5 my playtime is probably in the order of: 3, 2, 4, 5, 1 One is actually a pretty solid game, but two is basically one plus more features meaning that most of the time if I'm thinking about playing one I'll just play two. I hated four at first, but over time I've grown to like a lot of it. It's still not in the same league as 3 or 2 though, but pretty good. Say, at least as good as Age of Wonders 2. Five is the opposite; at first I really liked it, but over time various aspects of it annoyed me more and more and I realized that the things I liked about it were largely done better by 3. Maybe 5 is better than 4, but 4 is different enough from 3 that I'm more likely to come back to it.

You can get Heroes 1-5 on GoG for about 20 bucks right now, or 10 bucks if you stick to 1-4 without the Chronicles expansion, which isn't a bad way to go.

Batta's way of getting people interested in his work while encouraging them to just buy the fucking manga is to post it without dialogue. I guess you can see a couple of chapters with the dialogue and with expert voice acting here though:

For years I thought that the following title: was just random Engrish. Then today I realized that it's actually a reference to the original meaning of OK (i.e. "Oll Korrect") since Haken says "OK" quite a lot.

You make up the dialogue:

On a scale of filth to garbage how trash is this series? (Asking for a friend).

Thinking over what I said earlier about TSR's last days, and looking at both the current state of the game and all the gimmick moves that Wizards has pulled lately, and it seems plausible to me that they will be sold off within two or three years. The only thing that makes this not certain in my mind is that they are owned by the mega-giant Hasbro, so it's not like the whole company's going to go down, as essentially happened with TSR. But at the same time, if the division does become a liability it make sense for Hasbro to sell them off; it's not like they don't have plenty else that they can make profit off of. Anyway, supposing that they do get sold, who do you think is going to buy them? Blizzard would be the obvious choice (ushering in a D&D 6th edition which is literally just Warcraft), but I don't know if they even care enough to buy.

Man, Watamote season two took a weird turn:

A decade later, this still pisses me off:

Haven't bought Magic products in a few years, so I just found out that M25 was retailing at 10 bucks a pack. I'm laughing for real right now. EDIT: On looking on a few more sites I guess maybe the standard price is $8? I dunno. Still dumb.

I have a 2002 camry, and the only issue is that I had a can of dr pepper explode and now all the buttons are sticky and the CD player doesn't work.

Same thing happened with me and Baldur's Gate 1 and 2. Thought there would be another sale inevitably, but instead they got replaced with the "enhanced editions" which are double the base price (and thus likely would never be cheaper even with a sale) so I just bit the bullet and bought them while I could. At least Bethesda still lets you buy Skyrim basic, even if they make it hard. Scumdog only gets their products to sell by making it impossible to sell the original.

Also in gaming news, I think that I must have just checked GoG in the middle of a botched announcement. Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island are currently being advertised, but there is no announcement like there usually is of such things, nor is there a forum thread. Even weirder, while Monkey Island 1 and 2 are in the games catalog along with Maniac Mansion, and you can apparently buy them, The Curse of Monkey Island doesn't seem to be despite being visible on the advertisement for the Monkey Island series and being listed in the title of the package deal. A shame too, since that's the only one I was thinking about buying (having Monkey Island 1 and 2 on Steam, and having Maniac Mansion via the easter egg in Day of the Tentacle).

When they made Namco X Capcom, there was never going to be a 2. When they made Endless Frontier + Exceed, there was never going to be a 3. Reiji and Xiaomu will continue on. If nothing else they'll probably show up in either a future Super Robot Wars, or alternatively a Xenosaga spinoff. Maybe even Xenoblade. And there will probably be a massive video game RPG crossover at some point too, regardless of what it ends up being called.

Speaking about Hasbro/Wizards though, and in particular about their mismanagement, I'm reminded of how about five or so years ago I purchased some Avalon Hill line board games, and remember being shocked at that time about how poor the quality of the material was compared to pretty much any other board game company's offerings. Of particular note was the card warping present in many printings of Betrayal at House on the Hill, which seems very similar to the warping seen in Magic cards today. There it was particularly fatal since the warping also affected the house tiles, which were used as a board that pieces were placed on. Of course, just generally the product was pretty shoddy. I got my hands on a printing that didn't suffer from the warping (or to be more precise had warping, but only slight and not enough to affect play), but it still had problems like the fact that trackers used on the character profiles were far too big for the cards (or maybe the cards shrank?) so that they would slide around, making them impossible to use for their intended purpose of tracking stats (I ended up just replacing them with paperclips). Anyway, the reason that I bring this up is that at that point the Avalon Hill lined seemed to be pretty mismanaged. Maybe things have changed now since I haven't purchased anything in that line since then, but I doubt it. I wonder if there were already management problems at that time, but they were shunted away to a line that no one cared about while the heads tried to protect the big lines of Magic and D&D.

Has that new "no seriously this time we're totally going to beat Hearthstone since now we have Twitch support" Magic online game come out yet?