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  1. When I was in New York, a best friend of mine was an art dealer from an affluent Indian family who were based in Dehli but raised him in Manhattan. So he was very much an American - in that he and I were degenerate day drinking clowns who had amazing times in that incredible city. Anyway he went back to Dehli for an arranged marriage to a stunning bride. But Akaash was simply too American (ie, kind of lazy, drank too much, and though he wasn't a gamer like you or I, his wife disliked his proclivity for binging Netflix and such). They had a relatively shocking divorce and he's now in Dubai. Anyway I understand your cultural disconnect from so far away. I hope you can show your fam and perhaps one of those dates that computer games and American movies are perfectly reasonable hobbies. As it were, I tricked my very Midwestern, no-spicy-food Mom into eating some wildly good but very, very spicy curry from a Kerala style spot in Manhattan. Her forehead was sweating but she loved it. Show your fam your best games, maybe they'll sweat but like it!
  2. Oddly enough even after I said I'd absolutely vehemently never watched h it again, this chatter has me interested. Indeed I saw it when I was 18 and very naive. 25 years in the service industry over 5 states, and I've now Seen Some Shit. I wonder how the movie would affect me now. Regardless, my 30 year crush on Jennifer Connely does not make me want to watch her gorgeous character fall into depravity again. Talk about a jarring and unsettling "sex" scene. This is me talking myself out of rewatching this mid-post.
  3. Regarding Requiem, it literally made me lose complete interest in ever trying out potentially lethal drugs (ie, more than weed and shrooms). Worked far better than the DARE program I was subjected to my entire youth, which only made me think I'd eventually love weed (I do) and was generally mocked by every kid in the classroom. Instead, save time and just play Requiem to a bunch of 13 year olds who would love the music and beautiful young people, then have their psyche traumatized into avoiding dangerous drugs forever. I was already a college kid and young fanboy of Pi, and definitely still a bit naive about drug and club culture. I very well may have taken a pill or two and who knows what else, but I chose to walk into to a theater almost completely unknowing of what was in store for me. Nope, none of that for me. Pass that dutch, thank you.
  4. I'm excited. Already requested off my night shift. I can drive approximately 45 minutes to reach the totality strip. Trying to get a group to make a whole day of it. Oh man do I hope it's not cloudy; April has lots of storms and overcast weather in April in Southern Illinois.
  5. Hey I definitely wish we as a nation could change the minds of ~180 million complete assholes, but before your call for a fundamental change to our entire government, let's just get the one old guy who isn't a dictator-in-waiting elected first. I'm absolutely with you in that I dream of a truly progressive America that catapults our grandkids into space and an ecologically stable Earth for generations, instead of our frightening trend toward a dystopian hellscape. But let's just make sure voters understand how important it is to not get Trump elected first!
  6. Seeing Sir Goggins alone has me sold. I could install Fallout 1 again right now (alas Windows dislikes it over the years but we've dealt with that), I could still tell you nearly each locker in the Wastes had what ammo or loot. I've never really gotten into 1st or 3rd person games but damned if I don't consider Fallout 1 and 2 among my Pantheon, and I'm glad the series has continued great success. That trailer was fantastic. Consider me truly psyched up, as I was for Mad Max Fury Road - which surpassed my expectations and is my absolute favorite movie of all time. If this Fallout series mimics its trailer, I'll be stupidly happy about it and like Fury Road, re-watch it all the damn time with glee.
  7. Villenueve could have delved into Baron's gross incestual fixation for Feyd, but I think for a big tentpole Hollywood release it worked great to have the whole Harkonnen faction depicted as creepy bloodthirsty psychopaths, even if it simplified all of their weird shit going in in Herbert's novels. I'm surprised and happy that a genre film is a colossal success in that it's made bonkers money in a week, on a property that I definitely did not think would ever reach mainstream appeal. Not even a big fan of the books but holy damn that Part 2 was superb and I'll see it again in a theater - the Dolby Surround experience was truly effective.
  8. Saw it tonight on a rare night off. Just a terrific film with some superb scenes on a big screen. I'm not much for the books but I thought this one knocked it outta the park. Will read up all these spoilers once I'm home.
  9. Well the raid leader in the all-time classic P4L Leeroy UBRS run definitely was in on it as well. His entire pre-run speech was hilarious. Now whether he, Leeroy and a couple others were in on it and left the rest in the dark to run around the egg room like maniacs isn't something I recall or not. On this note, my coworkers at my bar have been running a DnD campaign on Wednesdays while I bartend. I wanted to jump in but not have a full character, so the DM and I created an NPC that occasionally (ie when it's slow near closing time) jumps into the fray. My guy is a berserker named Warboy Leeroy who yearns for glorious death in battle (so I can return to the bar). I've survived three nights in a row so I'm pretty pissed off.
  10. Agreed on the discussion of raids. When WoW was still in vanilla, I was in a world-class raiding guild (Elitist Jerks on Mal'Ganis, formed from the Something Awful forums) and I prioritized our major raids over both my college classes and my girlfriend. Grades suffered and I spent many nights doting on the ex to make up for being a dickhead, but you're God damn right that when we were, I forget, like top 25 first in the world do defeat Lucifron I consider it one of the best nights of my life.
  11. I suddenly have three games I really want to dive into with very little free time to do so. Deep Rock Galactic: Survival is a $9 isometric auto-shooter rogue-lite based off the 3D games. Vampire Survivors only with wildly entertaining screen-wide explosions. It's ridiculously fun, and I love that genre as a gamer who prefers grindy, low-focus games while I have whatever entertainment playing on my other monitor. Poor Halls of Torment was a delight, but this is just so damn much more fun. 5/5 stars if you're into that kind of game. Nightengale is sort of a steampunk Valheim, which by definition sounds amazing to me. My coworkers bought it after Palworld unsurprisingly became boring after a week. We had a blast on our Valheim server, and they want to re-create that fun. Alas, I'm just such a solo gamer with crazy hours (I usually get home at 1am and game til 4) that group games are difficult. Finally, Last Epoch just dropped its 1.0 patch. ARPGs are my bread and butter - this year I've been re-grinding Grim Dawn and loving it just as much 1500 hours in as I did 50. Last Epoch doesn't have the same amount of complexity of that or Path of Exile, but it's vastly superior, in my opinion, to the soulless pit that is Diablo 4. The endgame sputters out a bit, but there's many, many fun classes to try out and it is simple enough that you don't need a specific build guide and a university course the way Path of Exile does, and frankly it's just far superior moment-to-moment combat than Grim Dawn. This will be the one I play most of the spring.
  12. Dang, until you quoted it, I thought he was saying Swearington reminded him of far older TV. *Stares off into the dark*
  13. Indeed, polishgenius, joyful is a perfect descriptor for Super Mario Wonder. I think my favorite bit in the game is the repeated meta commentary from the little flower fellas, nearly breaking the fourth wall. Something the wee'uns aren't going to pick up on, but a bunch of us that grew up holding NES or SNES controllers in small hands are delighted by. My best friend has 4- and 6-year old daughters who are absolutely beloved to me. I asked him how old he would let them get before buying a Switch. They play educational iPod games but he hasn't let them fully nerd out yet. I think I have him sold on my incredibly glowing description of SM:Wonder. The younger is far too wild to have the patience to learn hard levels, but the older is a brilliant young nerd, defiant and proud, and she's gonna absolutely kill that game once I tell her how many secrets there are to find.
  14. I am right with you as a PC gamer. I literally can hardly use my thumbs to navigate first person games on consoles. I do use a controller for Hades and a couple other isometric style games, though. Anyway, Mario Wonder looks so amazing that I've also considered the Switch simply for that and Zelda games. I have managed to quell my drive to burn money I don't have by intermittently watching a full playthrough of Wonder on youtube. I watch enough Twitch on my second monitor that it's not vastly different since I'm not a chatter regardless.
  15. I can see the pessimism regarding your Wolves and these repeated collapses - despite dominating teams week after week. DeRozan was a foul magnet, and Coby White continues to impress me despite his comically short T-Rex arms. As per the Bulls' situation, I think games like this are a nightmare situation. A great win against a real contender, helping pad the United Center's #1 nightly attendance, just gives our front office more reason to keep its collective thumb up its ass for the last 24 months. Lonzo was never coming back. The Vucevic trade was an absolute disaster whose sole defense at the time was "It brought in DeRozan". I was one of many who said LaVine's max contract would be a major failure, but I honestly didn't expect it just two seasons in. He's been a consummate professional for the team, but they should have traded him last off-season like so many diehard Bulls fans thought they should. He asks out this year, politely, and garners zero trade interest except the Lakers' pathetic package. Now it's too late and we'll have 65 million dollars in street clothes for the foreseeable future. Pat Williams fucking sucks and always has and won't get better. I haven't seen a single rumor that the front office is willing to trade anyone. It's a catastrophically bad situation. Note that I'm ranting this hard after one of the best wins of the season. I hate being a Bulls fan but I have been since being an 80s kid staring at MJ on a blurry fat TV.
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