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Trailer (lots of possible spoilers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go8nTmfrQd8

If you like gypsy jazz, Stephane Wrembel has released a ton of playalong backing tracks on youtube (notation on his site for each): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0SnbbdCiY_H3o2I4-LQWMo9VBTFzpYBc

Played and finished Disco Elysium. Wow. Incredible game but definitely niche. It feels like an adventure game with RPG elements, in a good way. I'm really impressed by how they made a fully realised, engrossing RPG without combat. I'd say it still has some flaws but they're massively outweighed by the great story, art, voice acting, music and gameplay systems. The checks system was good, especially when the game is open and there's a lot to do, but it's easy to get barred behind it and I nearly got locked out at Feld like many others. I liked the Thought Cabinet but I had a run of spending skill points to unlock thoughts that led to more negative skill modifiers, which was not great and definitely did not help progress. I think some of the complaints about the ending are valid, namely the murder investigation part of the story, but I was fortunate it wasn't unexpected for me because of my in-game skills and where I thought it was heading. I also thought the writing had a habit of getting just a bit too verbose and self-indulgent.

And it will all be gone in 24 hours. Just like storms that hit Denver in the winter.

Holy shit, the bloat in that guy's video is basically a weird parody/tribute to Star Citizen itself. How many times does he say the same fucking thing? "It's very uncertain how much things are uncertain, but if you think about it, you have to be uncertain. Perhaps very uncertain, perhaps not uncertain enough, perhaps too much. If we knew more, we might be less uncertain, but maybe we would be more certain. It's just not very certain. But perhaps it is."

My newest project is going to be laying some flagstone to replace a paver pathway that I'm dissatisfied with.  This is something I've been wanting to do for years, but I've had trouble finding a landscaper that does the kind of thing I'm envisioning and will take on a small project.  Recently I came across this guy's blog and he makes it all sound easy enough that I'm just gonna tackle it myself.

The utilities are all marked, I've got all the equipment I think I'll need, and I've picked out the rocks, so all that's left to do is actually break ground and then hope I can see it through in a reasonable timeframe instead of having an embarassing gravel pit in front of my house for months.  

oh that sounds awful

Now I will say I made the first Castlevania 3 playthrough a little bit harder on myself than it needed to be in order to get Steam achievements. Each character has an achievement for beating the game and I decided to do a solo Trevor playthrough first, but I made that decision after going through the paths to get to Alucard. Problem being, a number of the  areas that come after are designed to be a lot easier if you turn into a bat. The one area in particular where you have to spend like 5-10 minutes waiting for blocks to fall in order to progress up was a massive pain in the ass.

I absolutely love how he blew up his ship on takeoff because he hit the hanger roof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9x7QppQabk&t=1820s

Edit: at 30m 20s for a bit of exposition leading up to the event

There is a very long video that explains very well why they keep doing shit like that. Granted, we actually all know that so the video is indeed useless, but since Haem asked...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9x7QppQabk