Pumpkin spice old fashioned. With real pumpkin puree!

“Hmm, we just finished killing off a revenue stream, better raise rates on the other.”

Yes, I’m still mad about the DVD service ending. Legitimately hurt my interest in movies.

Good to know. As a man, I think about Rome at least twice a day.

Unless I’m looking at it wrong, it looks like you have to work the trackball with your index finger. Does that hurt after a while?

Unacceptable. Different thing bad!

pieces of shrek related bags of cat piss

A little off-topic, but am I missing a joke here?

How much does it cost to repair a fender bender on a Suburban? Cus on an R1S, well…

Well, there’s an F2P game called Rumble Fighter that came out back in 2006/7, which for reasons I don’t understand in hindsight got its claws DEEP into me. It didn’t track play time, but I’d put my hours at 8000, conservatively. 2+ hours per day, nearly every day for about 11 years.

Not a point of pride for me, but I’ve always taken the John Lennon’s (alleged) attitude towards wasting time. So, no biggie.

Hoo boy, a college roommate of mine got so hooked on that one that he became effectively nocturnal. To his credit, he was courteous enough to put his bedsheets down over the foot of his bed so the glare from his monitor didn’t bother me while I was sleeping. I googled his name a while back and apparently he got his shit together, but that year was very worrying.

Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I get the feeling that AI necromancy will be the next 3D. It’ll be a fad for a few years, and then we’ll wonder where “look kids, it’s [dead/old actor]!” went. Maybe AI will find a useful place in film, maybe it won’t, but I doubt it will be one of the main draws for very long.

Don’t remember if I played on your server, but UT2K4 was the definitive FPS, hell, the definitive multiplayer game as far as I’m concerned. Cutting-edge graphics paired with gorgeous esthetics, ultra-refined gameplay with a mile-high skill ceiling, a million game modes and a billion mods, strong community and developer support. If it’s good, it’s probably true of UT2K4.

I’ve picked 30XX back up, since it came out of Early Access yesterday. It’s a really cool Megaman X/Roguelike platformer with Playstation-esque visuals and gameplay that’s tweaked to perfection. Recommended HARD. In the interest of shrinking my backlog, I installed World of Goo last night, though I didn’t get a chance to play it. It’s well-reviewed though, so I’m looking forward to it.

“SMOKE VERIFICATION CIGARETTE”

Been dabbling in a lot of games lately. Battlebit has been taking most of my game time for the last few weeks. Is it just me, or have servers been getting laggier?

On the single-player side, I’ve been slowly making my way through Asterigos, which is a Zelda-like from last year. Enjoyable combat, gorgeous settings, but I can’t help being reminded of a post on r/truegaming about how bad writing can ruin a game. All of the dialog feels way too modern for its own good (which isn’t helped by the “aspiring voice actor” grade acting), and most of the plot points have been boring or predictable.

I also have a guilty pleasure in f2p trash like Smash Legends and Flash Party. Judge me all you want.

Dude, Where’s My Car, 17%/47%. I haven’t seen it since it was in the theatre, but I remember thinking it was a good disengage-your-brain comedy that got some chuckles and had a plot that was weird enough to be a joke on it’s own. What were people expecting, with a title like that?

Fair complaint, but fwiw Reddit went through the same thing with Digg. It passed.