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Thermopyle said:
Hah. Yeah, that's just not enough for me. I find most comic characters annoying because they never solve any of the problems they deal with. Batman is always fighting the same villains, same with Spiderman, etc.. Spiderman is more relatable and fun, but still annoying due to that same issue. But Batman? He's a rich dude who likes to beat up bad guys. That's all there is to him. He doesn't give a shit about the city of Gotham or any of the people in it, if he did he'd kill The Joker and all the other people he plays around with.

I much prefer short comics with a beginning and end that tell a story rather than the shitshow sitcom approach that most of the big American comics end up being. This preference for actual character development and story is reflected in my dislike of most comic characters, and hits hardest for the ones that I've had more exposure to. Batman obviously wins the prize there.
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I...I just...I can't even....

10/10 Therms reading that post.

 
As of right now, I have the 50th highest trophy score in the US on PSNProfiles.  It takes a while for their leaderboad to shuffle names so it shows me at 51, but my score is slightly higher than the person in 50th place.

I am sure that person will likely sync trophies in the next 5 minutes and keep me at 51, but I know I should be there even if just for a few minutes.

 
ProfessorStotch said:
The wife and I went bowling tonight. I'm a terrible bowler, but on the last game I started with four strikes. After that I knocked down 17 pins the rest of the game. Wtf man. My first game I got a 158 though and I think that's my highest score ever.
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It's fun. But I took a bowling course in school (don't judge, needed a 1 credit elective) and I STILL suck. Barely scraped by with a B. I can tell you about all sorts of technical shit and its history, though. Just one of many things in my arsenal of panty-droppers.
 
tylerh1701 said:
Went out to watch the ufc fights, and the BWW was filled with Utes fans. Yuck. was fun watching them blow a 21 point lead though. thanks to whoever told me to stay off the bandwagon.
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You post this from your phone or did you leave before it was over? There was some pretty good fights tonight.

 
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finished Enslaved tonight.  Story was pretty weak and the camera controls were awful but a fun game worth the $5 I paid.  The combat was actually pretty decent and most of the trophies were easily obtainable.

Now to figure out what I can beat before Shadow of Mordor arrives...

 
Finished Vanquish, very enjoyable, other than a few higgles that would have improved the experience. I had heard that it ended on a cliffhanger and thankfully that's not really the case, it has the equivalent of a Marvel movie post-credits scene which sets up a possible sequel scenario, but the central conflict that started the game is resolved. I played it all the way on hard which wasn't too difficult other than in a few small areas that didn't have much cover and a couple of boss fights (could never find a very reliable, non-tedious way to kill "Bogey"). Rocket sliding and dodging around from cover to cover is very fluid. On harder difficulties you have to rely a bit too much on cover making it less possible to play more aggressively (I was barely able to make use of the shotgun for example).

A more streamlined weapon upgrade system would have been preferred as juggling weapons to get a version with full ammo so that picking up the partially used one you started with will upgrade it, is needlessly cumbersome. It also would have been nice to have a few ways to customize the mech to more better fit your playstyle, such as the ability to increase defense, or increase boost speed, or reduce stamina consumption for melee, etc.at the expense of other attributes. The mech never really changes or gets any new ability during the course of play.

The ability to activate the "totally not bullet time" system while in cover or standing still (can only activate it when rolling or boosting or it auto-actives if you take too much damage) could have been accomplished by holding X while in cover, then aim to enter bullet time. That became an issue sometimes while playing as when you activate bullet time during a roll its like you are doing it from a crouched position so you can't shoot over railings or if you are in tall grass it obstructs your view.

You can have 3 weapons equipped (of 8 possible) at a time and switch to them at will with the D-pad, the fourth slot is used to toggle between a stun and explosive grenade. I would have preferred a slightly more convoluted method to switch grenade type (such as selecting the weapon you already have equipped with the dpad again) in exchange for having a slot on the dpad for a fourth gun as the EMP stun grenade is ridiculously more useful than the explosive grenade so I almost never switched off it.

The melee button is cool, and it is neat that it changes depending on which weapon you have equipped but using it immediately puts you into full overheat (can't activate bullet time) which leaves you completely defenseless. In almost all situations it is preferable to manually activate bullet time (which slowly depletes stamina gauge) and go for head shots rather than melee. Why give you such a deep melee system when using it has such heavy drawbacks compared to the meager benefits? There is one weapon that consumes ammo instead of overheating when you use it, but it does damage so slowly that if there is any other enemy on the field you are likely to get hit and knocked out of the animation. Melee should have only depleted a portion of your gauge or at the very least, put you less than 100% into overheat.

When you use chapter select to replay an old mission, you lose all of your weapon upgrades. If they wanted to keep the playing field even for people doing score chase / time trial runs then you should have been able to start the mission in either free play (where you keep all your weapon upgrades but your score isn't counted for the leaderboard) or time trial where they are reset to base for the duration of the mission.

 
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Bowling talk?

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GatorBeerGeek said:
You post this from your phone or did you leave before it was over? There was some pretty good fights tonight.
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From my phone during the DJ fight. I can't stand him, he's usually extremely boring. Probably has to do with his competition being garbage at this point too. Me and my friend were watching some skateboarding competition instead.

But yeah great fights tonight. Wish Cerrone would have got the finish, loved seeing his kicks just cripple Alvarez. Mcgregor and Romero victories were both kind of weird. Best performance of the night was Dominic Cruz. Holy shit! I've never seen him be so aggressive. I hope he keeps fighting like that as he moves up the ranks. I'd love to see Faber and Cruz fight, I don't think Cruz deserves a shot just yet.

 
I didn't even know that was the topi tonight. i usually doht like bowling. and now the bumpers are popping up only on my turn. taking pitty on me.
 
guardian_owl said:
If you want to watch a really good Batman movie about how that morality is tested then watch Batman: Under the Red hood. Superman vs. The Elite deals with similar themes and is probably why I liked it better than all of the recent live action Superman movies.
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Or if you don't care about spoilers...

Batman: Under the Red Hood clips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCtSArjZCLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZgngEWXzLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXVStoatWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kscfb9XzPs

 
Sooooooooooooooo many exotic weapons, holy shit. I really wish I could equip all 3. I just got Truth (Exotic Rocket Launcher) from a legendary engram. I really wanna run the raid again. It's pretty damn fun.

 
Finally started AC 2 again and saw that I was 18% of the way through. I played for awhile today and made some decent progress in the story. Should be no time before I can scratch that off the backlog. Right now I am playing Dead Space Extraction.

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I hope that BF this year places that sell games go butt fuckin' bananas. Like a b2g2 free on all Preowned last gen games and they are all 50% off...39.99 or less Xbox 360s, $19.99 wiis. 50-75 cent games... I don't know I just want them to try to clear their stock.

 
Corgstradamus said:
I hope that BF this year places that sell games go butt fuckin' bananas. Like a b2g2 free on all Preowned last gen games and they are all 50% off...39.99 or less Xbox 360s, $19.99 wiis. 50-75 cent games... I don't know I just want them to try to clear their stock.
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i read bf as boyfriend. lol

 
If Snakey were a super hero his name would be Bruhman. He would drive the Bruhmobile and his favorite meal would be Bruhlogna Sandwiches with Red Bruh and he always  would eat it at Bruhnch. One of his powers would be super speedy stealth (because he creeps.) His main tool would be the Bruhmarang. His catch phrases would be "I Bruhked you up, Let's get Bruhk nasty and I told you not to Bruhk around." His costume would be made out of MicrophiBruh. His colors would be black and Bruhgundy with a Bruhking Bronco on the front.


I'm going to bed.

 
Corgstradamus said:
If Snakey were a super hero his name would be Bruhman. He would drive the Bruhmobile and his favorite meal would be Bruhlogna Sandwiches with Red Bruh and he always would eat it at Bruhnch. One of his powers would be super speedy stealth (because he creeps.) His main tool would be the Bruhmarang. His catch phrases would be "I Bruhked you up, Let's get Bruhk nasty and I told you not to Bruhk around." His costume would be made out of MicrophiBruh. His colors would be black and Bruhgundy with a Bruhking Bronco on the front.


I'm going to bed.
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Adorbs <3

 
Also for anyone keeping score any of the previous Rocksmith cables will work with the PS4 version so no need to rebuy if you have one.  I imagine they're just usb to 1/4" cables or something anyways, right?

 
simmias said:
Anyone getting Rocksmith on PS4? Might be fun to play some co-op. I'll even take bass.
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Not sure what you mean by "I'll even take bass". As if it isn't the superior choice.

simmias said:
It's free PS+ weekend? I forgot about that. No wonder multiplayer is running like shit and there are so many low levels in TLOU.
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PSN was a mess when I played yesterday. Friend requests didn't work and messaging was slow as hell. Great way to advertise PS+. Lol, I don't even understand how a free weekend on PS4 would do this when it remains free on PS3 and Vita.

For anyone playing Destiny, a workaround we figured out for adding a non-friend to your fireteam is to create a party chat through PSN. Next, have them join and link up with you by 'joining game session'. Worked like a charm. Make sure your fireteam is set to PUBLIC (defaulted for friends only).
 
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guardian_owl said:
You have a used version or something? the catwoman DLC came with new copies and had you take a break periodically from the Batman main mission (usually when he gets knocked out or captured) and then you would do a mission as catwoman. It happens 4 or 5 times during the story campaign.
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PS Plus version.
 
breakfuss said:
Not sure what you mean by "I'll even take bass". As if it isn't the superior choice.


PSN was a mess when I played yesterday. Friend requests didn't work and messaging was slow as hell. Great way to advertise PS+. Lol, I don't even understand how a free weekend on PS4 would do this when it remains free on PS3 and Vita.

For anyone playing Destiny, a workaround we figured out for adding a non-friend to your fireteam is to create a party chat through PSN. Next, have them join and link up with you by 'joining game session'. Worked like a charm. Make sure your fireteam is set to PUBLIC (defaulted for friends only).
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Seriously, what the fuck is up with friend request and messages?!?!?!?! I was play in Minecraft friday night streaming, just doing nothing killing time until I got the 100 days trophy. I wanted to let some randoms from the stream join my game but I couldnt get any of their friend requests to go through. id get the notification at the top, but the request wouldnt be there when I went to accept it.

Thats something that has to .work nright away. I mean, how much bandwidth could a friend request possibly even need??? Very frustrating.
 
Follow up on the Galaga book. I'm about halfway through and don't recommend this one even at the 5 dollar digital price. The author alternates talking about his childhood abuse and playing at the arcade and what Galaga themed merchandise there is every other page. The problem is that for half the merchandise and game hacks he says he made them up two pages later. This is the only one in the series I've been disappointed by so far. It feels like a big waste of time
 
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