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GatorBeerGeek said:
There were a lot of people excited about Breach and Clear. I am thinking you are setting your sites way too high with that list. Hopefully I am wrong for all you collector types.
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Thermopyle said:
Well they went with Breach & Clear last time and I doubt anybody was excited for that at all. It still sold out crazy fast.

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Oh I'm definitely setting the bar high with those lol. Were people really that excited about Breach & Clear though? I thought it was all just complete collection types.

 
Helldivers is a great game.  It's done very well, and friendly fire is the best!  Nothing like getting frustrated with one of you buddies, and dropping an air strike on them right before the shuttle shows up.  Just be prepared for payback on the next mission.

 
So I debated all morning whether or not to get the BttF or Portal level packs.   So when I got to the store I ended up just grabbing both.  I had a 20% off entire purchase coupon too, so each one was just a little less than half off.  Couldn't pass that up.

 
Zimm108 said:
So I debated all morning whether or not to get the BttF or Portal level packs. So when I got to the store I ended up just grabbing both. I had a 20% off entire purchase coupon too, so each one was just a little less than half off. Couldn't pass that up.
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You should have bought the Simpsons and Portal Doctor Who too. I might have rented them all off of you for a few bucks then :)

 
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Vigilante said:
I forgot about Backlog not being a fan of Telltale's games. :oops:
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Well I did enjoy the ones I've played (TWD S1 and S2, TWAU) I'm just getting kinda bored with that style of game. I think it'll help if I space out the episodes of Borderlands a little. I kinda did that with The Wolf Among Us, but I wanted to see the conclusion and kinda marathoned the last 2-3 episodes. That may have contributed to my adventure game fatigue a bit.

 
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madchemist76 said:
Helldivers is a great game. It's done very well, and friendly fire is the best! Nothing like getting frustrated with one of you buddies, and dropping an air strike on them right before the shuttle shows up. Just be prepared for payback on the next mission.
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It really is incredible. I put over 80 hours in the game before I started tiring of it. I'm about to get back into it now that 2 of my work buddies picked it up on black Friday.
 
Ok, back in my cubicle.

BttF level was pretty fun.  Like I said, the portal level is more portaly.  It's a lot more "put the companion cube on a button, make portals to go through" and a lot less "break everything in the level to see what you can put back together."  The story levels for each pack are pretty short (under 30 minutes if you know what you're doing) but you also open up the hub world for that franchise.  When I streamed portal, Tyler was cohosting and we were chatting, so I missed all of the story.  I don't really know if there was much to it.  Glados antagonizes you, Wheatley is there, Cave Johnson talks some.  Still haven't played the doctor who or simpsons levels yet.

It's hard to say which is better.  I can't remember how young your son is, but BttF might be a little more straightfoward/easy to follow since it sticks a little closer to the typical lego formula.  Plus, Huey Lewis.

Edit: Ah well, I type too slow

 
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pharmacrest said:
I just realized yesterday that they had our holiday party at work on the Friday I was on vacation. Woops. Oh well I am sure I didnt miss much.
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I usually take the week off that they have our party. Supposed to have a company meeting (free breakfast next Friday) but they moved that to the week of Christmas too. So I miss both this year. Not a slap.

Winning!

 
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Our office Xmas parties use to be fun years ago. They were in our office building and there was booze punch and we'd drink that and then we'd go back to our offices and play network games all day. It's not like that any more at all.

 
mitch079 said:
I don't see him being worth that much money. He's a good ball player, great defense, but his offensive numbers have never stood out to me. This isn't to say that I wouldn't want him on the Mets but not at that price.
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In free agent dollars per WAR, Heyward has been worth $198 million in his six seasons. If you base his entire career on 2015's dollar value per WAR, it'd be nearly $250 million.

A player who is close to 20% better than league average with the bat and is best in the game at his position with the glove and on the basepaths, while also being 26, is worth a ton of money in 2015. The reported 8 years, $192 million figure is a bargain.

 
My job is giving away 6 TVs at the Christmas party this year, they usually only give away 2. This year it's two 40-inchers and four 32".

 
Feeding the Abscess said:
In free agent dollars per WAR, Heyward has been worth $198 million in his six seasons. If you base his entire career on 2015's dollar value per WAR, it'd be nearly $250 million.

A player who is close to 20% better than league average with the bat and is best in the game at his position with the glove and on the basepaths, while also being 26, is worth a ton of money in 2015. The reported 8 years, $192 million figure is a bargain.
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13% better than league average with his bat. So not exactly what I'd consider close to 20%.

Edit: 16%, my bad.

And yeah he'll worth the money he'll be getting for the 2016 season, but as almost always is the case, they'll be overpaying in the latter years of the contract.

 
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My department had a small "party" with pizza for lunch and there were gifts for everyone that one employee bought from either a local thrift store or Target clearance. I got a combat knife.

Bring on the zombie apocalypse.

 
kanamit said:
Only Zimm needs a ps4 and I think he will get one when his wife is out of his life, or at least out of his living quarters. By then we will all have a shiny new PS5!
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I'm on last gen/best gen too, but I've got too many games to play to upgrade. I'd like a better TV (currently on a 720p 32" set), and by the time I'm finished with the games I have, there will probably be a slim PS4 with another price drop. And all of the games worth buying will be dirt cheap.

 
Backlog_Overload said:
13% better than league average with his bat. So not exactly what I'd consider close to 20%.

Edit: 16%, my bad.

And yeah he'll worth the money he'll be getting for the 2016 season, but as almost always is the case, they'll be overpaying in the latter years of the contract.
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118 wRC+, and his only subpar season was 2011. Welcome to the reduced offensive environment of the 2010s.

 
Backlog_Overload said:
I just hope they don't swap Inciarte for him. I like that guy.
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I'm excited for 2016, even though it'll probably be rough. Late summer should be fun when hopefully some of the bigger prospects start getting called up.

I'm going to try to catch Gwinnett when they come to Louisville and Indy. That team should be pretty stacked with all the young talent acquired over the last year.

 
pitfallharry219 said:
I'm excited for 2016, even though it'll probably be rough. Late summer should be fun when hopefully some of the bigger prospects start getting called up.

I'm going to try to catch Gwinnett when they come to Louisville and Indy. That team should be pretty stacked with all the young talent acquired over the last year.
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Yeah I'm excited to watch the young guys no matter how many games we lose. I read somewhere they were considering signing Bartolo Colon to eat some innings. I wouldn't mind watching him pitch and bat every 5th game. Would be entertaining at least.

 
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P4:DAN has both a story mode and a free dance mode. The story mode is all about idols being sucked into the Midnight Show and the monsters there infecting them with some conformancy hypnotism that makes them succumb to whatever the crowd thinks the idol should be. Sexy, being an airhead, whatever. The Persona cast fights back with dancing. The themes of the game are expressing yourself and being who you are and friendship. I read the first two chapters then held down skip for the remaining eight. I'm not sure what audience the story mode is intended for but I'm not part of it at all. It was incredibly dull to get through and I just couldn't put up with it further.

The dancing is fairly simple. There are six notes--left, up, down, hoop, cross, triangle--as well as a scratch note that you trigger by hitting either analog. Supposedly there was a patch that made the LR bumpers work for the scratch notes but that never happened for me even though I know I downloaded a patch at some point. In addition to hitting the notes you can also have a hold note or unison notes where you hit two notes at once. 

As you progress through the game or through free dancing, each song has a main dancer so you rotate through the cast. If you hit three scratch notes marked FEVER then one of your friends will jump in and dance with you for a bit. As you finish dances you'll get game money that you can use to buy items, costumes, and accessories. The items have an effect on the dancing by making it easier or harder (in free dance) and subsequently giving you a greater or lesser score/money reward. You want to finish the main story, buy a few key items that make it easier to maintain a combo and get more money, then work your way through the free dance.

The trophy list is actually not bad. There's one trophy that's actually difficult, which is for getting a really good score. Even hitting every note won't do it--you have to have the vast majority of those notes with perfect timing and any note less than a Great will screw you. Other than that it's just about playing through the story, playing every song at least once, and triggering a few additional Fever Dance combinations. The only thing that screws the trophy list a bit is the shopping trophies--you have to buy every item, costume, and accessory, which is a bit tedious. If you buy the items listed above you'll be most of the way there when you finish getting the other trophies, though.

Overall it's a fun game. It's not as good as IA/VT from a gameplay standpoint, but it does have dancing characters to focus on whereas IA/VT is just a bunch of notes with some fun visuals. IA/VT on the other hand has an absolutely shitty trophy list that requires playing all 60 songs at least three times just for the easy/normal/hard sets, then also replaying a number for the challenge mode and the daily challenge as well as replaying until you have 100 Perfect song ratings. Even if you're very good at rhythm games and get a lot of Perfects on the first try you're still looking at around 250 song plays.

IA/VT colorful's trophy list is super tedious and an absolutely chore to get through, but while I was playing P4:DAN I was still wishing I was playing IA/VT instead. Except for when Naoto was dancing, anyway--she's the best!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6bVISe0Jic

 
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Went to Taco Johns for the first time in literally decades, I think maybe I went there once when i was a kid but they are all positioned in town that they aren't near my home or my work. The entrees (hard shell tacos and taco burger) were ok, but the potato ole's (basically short, disc tater tots) and oreo churro were great.

 
pitfallharry219 said:
Hey, Brewers fans. Remember when a Cub threw a no-hitter in MIller Park in a game in which the Brewers weren't even playing? That was awesome.
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Remember in the World Seriest when Kent Hrbek lifted that Brave of off first base and the ref called the runner out instead of kicking out Hrbek for cheating, then the Braves lost in 7? Probably not cause you're not old like me.

 
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So I decided 2 weeks ago to stop drinking soda. I've been thinking about stopping for a long time now but never pushed myself on trying. I thought to myself if I can quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey than I can drop soda. I loved Dr. Pepper but recently got a reverse osmosis water filtration system for the house. The water is so good and better than bottle water. I've already lost some weight too so I'm going to see how long I can stick with no soda. I just drank way too much of it so this will be a good change.
 
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Zimm108 said:
Remember in the World Seriest when Kent Hrbek lifted that Brave of off first base and the ref called the runner out instead of kicking out Hrbek for cheating, then the Braves lost in 7? Probably not cause you're not old like me.
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Barely. I'm pretty sure that was Ron Gant. That was the first season I was a Braves fan. I was 9. fuck Kirby Puckett and Jack Morris.

 
Bumslie said:
So I decided 2 weeks ago to stop drinking soda. I've been thinking about stopping for a long time now but never pushed myself on trying. I thought to myself if I can quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey than I can drop soda. I loved Dr. Pepper but recently got a reverse osmosis water filtration system for the house. The water is so good and better than bottle water. I've already lost some weight too so I'm going to see how long I can stick with no soda. I just drank way too much of it so this will be a good change.
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If you stay off them for a long time and then happen to take a sip of one later, you will wonder why you liked them to start with. Soft drinks tastes incredibly sweet to me now. Even Sprite tastes like liquid sugar.

 
Zimm108 said:
Remember in the World Seriest when Kent Hrbek lifted that Brave of off first base and the ref called the runner out instead of kicking out Hrbek for cheating, then the Braves lost in 7? Probably not cause you're not old like me.
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Low blow Zimm. I'm young but I'm up to speed on my team's history, and that shit right there sucked. fuck Hrbek right in the ear.

 
GatorBeerGeek said:
If you stay off them for a long time and then happen to take a sip of one later, you will wonder why you liked them to start with. Soft drinks tastes incredibly sweet to me now. Even Sprite tastes like liquid sugar.
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Yeah about 5 years ago I stopped for a bit but got back to drinking it. I remember the first sips had a really strong sugar taste.
 
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