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[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
g_bassi13 replied to The Stork's topic in Off-Topic General
Is it right that the enitre lineup scored in the 7th inning? -
[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
g_bassi13 replied to The Stork's topic in Off-Topic General
It was 8-1. Go out for a bit, eat dinner, return to the TV and it's 13-8. This offence is something special. I know the team teased breaking out in both of the last seasons with massive win streaks, but it feels like there's something different this time around. -
Was Jon Jennings' first drive that good, or am I just to used to watching Kevin Glenn from last year?
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Meh, nothing so far. But unlike past sales the base discount for the things that I want is more impressive. I'm assuming I'll be buying quite a few small things this time. I don't know if I bought a single item in any of their last 3-4 seasonal sales, but they actually have some decent sales for indie games right now.
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[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
g_bassi13 replied to The Stork's topic in Off-Topic General
What it would take to get Papelbon scares me, let alone what it would take to get Papelbon if the Phillies retain salary. -
Well in this case the good guys are the ones that are simply trying to stop the massacre of the pacifist faction by the scientist faction. I meant murdered in reference to that particular hallway scene where her dad dies after shooting up those mind-controlled army guys. It's supposed to be sad that her dad died, but no one blinks an eye at how he shot up a bunch of unwilling parties who would have returned to normal if they broke the mind control without putting holes in their chest. It's why I called it murder.
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https://www.choiceofgames.com/user-contributed/tin-star/ Here's the first 3 chapters so it can partially be seen what i mean. (Not much exciting happens until chapter 4.
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It would be nice if someone paid me to shell out their games, lol. I just really like talking on end about games that I play. The negatives for the game are incredibly obvious, so I left them in the preface, and avoided repeating myself talking about them later. It's a text based game without, you know, gameplay or visuals. I sound so high on it because I love choose your own adventure material, and this is easily the best text based game I've ever played. The games I've ranted the hardest against in the past are ones that pretend to offer choice. Little pisses me off more in a game.
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I think I may have vaguely recommended text based "choose your own" adventure games from the company, Choice of Games, somewhere on this forum or in this thread before. I've enjoyed their stuff in the past, and I say I only vaguely recommend them because you'd already know whether or not you'd be interested in a game that's gameplay boiled down to reading and making a continuous barrage of choices. I've played a handful of their official games, which range from mediocre to fairly good, but they also host a bunch of games created from others based on their engine/source code, to be monetized by them. I started playing one of them a couple of days ago called "Tin Star," and holy crap do I love it. the game is one probably the most complex choice and consequence simulator I have played through. While it has 10 chapters that contain individual storylines that are addressed in each play through, they can be navigated through and handled in so many different ways that you're legitimately creating your own story. Choices are compounded, and called back on throughout the game. There's so much to see and do, and you can shape your motivations in nearly any manner, and temper your emotions to respond with whatever intentions you wish to reveal. It's not just about being good or evil. You could tie yourself to the success of your town, Massacre or befriend various Native clans, Mormon groups, gangs, etc. You could seek wealth. Fame. Love. Power. Prosperity. Law and Order. You could work on your fighting and gun play, and just go around shooting everyone first without asking questions. Or you could develop your reputation and persuasive skills to talk your way out of or into, most situations. Characters carry individual personalities that you can play off of, and in some ways tweak. You could kill any of them ,at certain points. You can berade/create enmity with them through what you say or do, or befriend enough of them until you have a posse that will watch your back, and go out with you on your adventures. The only defined thing tied to your character is that you become a US Marshal. My character was a female Chinese lawyer doctor. Why? Because I could be a female Chinese lawyer doctor. People in the world often responded appropriately, asking how a Chinese woman in the 1860's American West could be a doctor. Or a lawyer. Or a marshal, but nothing prevents you from proceeding as you wish when your reputation precedes you, or you've networked friendships to call on. In short, it really felt like I was in the west, as it was well researched, and the immersion with each chapter was well crafted. It didn't take many liberties with what exactly the "wild west" really entailed, and plays up heavy adventure without feeding to much of into the mythology of it. By the end of the game, I was able to be a shoot a lot of people, save the day, establish order, stabilize and promote my town, and retire to California with a educated Mexican Noble Woman as well as a short tempered daughter of a gang leader both living with me. Was a solid experience that I shortly summarized. The game itself. however, provides an incredibly long and detailed epilogue wrapping up your story, and touching on how you touched all the other characters in it through your actions. It's not that it's a million plus words of well written storytelling on its own, it's that it's your story told the way you wanted, really only not being so when the consequences of your past actions prevent your desired future ones from being so. And that's pretty perfect. It goes far beyond what other "Choice of Games," entries have managed. It's longer, deeper, more complex. more responsive, and more fulfilling than their other works. So there's a short spoiler free summary of the game. I do recommend this one pretty freely. $3 well spent.
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[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
g_bassi13 replied to The Stork's topic in Off-Topic General
Love how we're only up 2 games on the Red Sox, despite us having the third best run differential league, and them having the third worst. Nice to see a couple of walk off games in this little run they have going. And at least we're back to .500. Remember when we were 23-30, that wasn't so nice. -
[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
g_bassi13 replied to The Stork's topic in Off-Topic General
Those moves and that lineup are the kind that keep a GM his job. -
Well, they asked him to retire first. This is just him exploring his chances with another team. The guy could still kick last year, accurately at least. His punting was the issue, has been for a while. Maybe they didn't want another year with a designated punter. Lions continuing to show little loyalty to vets.
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Eastside Hockey Manager 2015/Early Access Edition
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I'll have to continue to wait for now then. -
Divergent - 6/10 Takes place in a more interesting world than Hunger Games, but it falls short as a movie. In it's basic tone it's so obviously catering to specific audience that it limit itself. I spent far too much time just rolling my eyes. Also if I was knocking on Hunger Games for being unoriginal, this is not much more than Harry Potter in a post apocalyptic world. But I dunno, it just felt like there was something there underneath the pre-teen girl pretence. It were a lot more mature, and less telegraphed, it could have been great. As it stands it was kind of hard to sit through. Yet I also want to know what happens next, hence the rating. edit: I thought it was funny how the "good guys" straight up murdered a handful of innocent people towards the end in the same manner that they killed the guilty. Like frack finding non-lethal means, lol.
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Hunger Games: Catching FIre - 4/10 Shut it off half way through. They just recycled the politics from a bunch of sci-fi stories and glued them together into a familiar and unitneresting blob of things. Don't really care to finish watching it. And I actually thought the first movie was half decent. This one isn't.
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Eastside Hockey Manager 2015/Early Access Edition
g_bassi13 replied to Rick Grimes's topic in Off-Topic General
If I were to buy this game right now for CHL play, would it be worth it? What have they done to improve the juniors so far? -
That's far more reasonable, but it should be a sale of 25% off from $60 or $70, and not $80.
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Anything with Tyrese Gibson didn't stand a chance to begin with. Not that a single thing in the movie helped its cause.
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I'm still hoping Amazon and/or Best Buy are still having that E3 promotion this year.
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Game is $80 right now though. They have to change that. That is insane.
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Mad Max: Fury Road - 8/10 Kind of a pleasant surprise, as I wasn't really a fan of the series to begin with. Managed to stand on it's own without resorting to a reboot, so I love that. It was more or less 2 hours straight hours of racing and fighting. I don't remember much of them stopping to take a breath. But unlike Fast and the Furious, which I hated, it didn't feel like a series of misplaced set pieces. It's supported by strong lore, and putting aside how absurd it all is, it mostly proceeds with logic.