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  1. I'm getting back into Crusader Kings 2 after leaving it on the backburner for almost a year. Invasion of Finland put on hold because the plethora of updates mess with your game royally. As a Maritime empire, you can't exactly play the game when you go from having a massive navy, to then having no ships at all. Every county's fleet reduced to nothing until shipmaking is researched, and money is poured into making shipyards in every city. They found a way to make the game more complex somehow as they patched it through the years. Now all I can do is sit on my ass for a decade and hope that war or unrest doesn't break out anywhere in the next decade, because I can't do anything about it. It was more fun when Queen Ana's peg legged dwarf mother Dutchess Gylda of Sicily had sneaked into a war between Norway and Sweden, and was about to take over half of both kingdoms before she died in childbirth. I mean the game's complexities are what allow you to make stupidly intricate stories like these, but all the technicalities surrounding the gameplay make the outrageous/fun stories too hard to achieve. Far more so in every patch following the 1.0 version of the game. There should be a switch to turn off certain functions/restrictions of it.
  2. I'll have to stop being a Philly fan, if that's the case. I've hated everything they've done this off-season, and all the other things they've been rumoured to do. It's hard to watch.
  3. Chappie - 6/10 I don't quite know what rating to give it, since I'm still not very sure how I feel about it. Not that it was a movie that leaves you with much to think about, but I need to dwell on it before I can decide whether or not I even liked it. It certainly wasn't a great movie, for sure. It was overly cheesy, and the morals are very on the surface. When you're dealing with a movie made by a husband/wife team that graduated from Vancouver Film School, I want to give them more leeway, but the script and the directing came off as very amateurish. Outside of the high level production values, sublime FX, and the big actors, you could have fooled me into thinking it was a film students grad project. There were a lot of moments that leaped in logic, or where people stopped acting like people. I don't get why the CEO of a multi billion dollar robotics company would have zero interest in the worlds first conscious AI. Nor do I get why Hugh Jackman's super military mech was only shopped to the local police force like it could serve no other function. I did like the actual Chappie character though, at least before the ending. when the aforementioned cheesiness gets taken to another level. After watching this, I do think Blomkamp needs to step away from the whole postapocalyptic war motif. I don't know what that means in regards to his rumoured Alien 5 production though. (On a side note, thank god he said he'd like to just avoid the third and fourth movies and pretend they never happened)
  4. Speak for yourself man. Yeah, the league nor the team or trending upwards, but I know plenty of people my age that watch them without a care for the Whitecaps. Moj is talking out of ass sure, but you're speaking in equal extremes. As for the match itself, yikes. Horrible diving from Toronto. Poor reffing. No urgency from the Whitecaps for more than half a game. Poor defensive coordination, and for a vetran, Kah did not show the awareness you need as a centre back. Harvey showed poor tracking on 2 goals against. And why the hell is Darren Mattocks still here? The offence dies with him. I feel like I'm repeating myself with the last 2 years of this guy.
  5. Has anyone here played the game Blackguards? It should be a game that I want to play, as a RPG with turn based tactical gameplay. But I've heard varying things about the game from its combat to its story, and it sounds very rough around the edges. Was wondering if someone had a more positive spin to put on it.
  6. http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/b-c-lions-release-eric-taylor-stefan-logan/ Since no one else has brought it up. I read about these cuts as they happened, and it still confuses me to a degree. They were both useful players.
  7. Thank God. Had enough of this $&!# as a sports fan to last a lifetime. Go out and play some damn soccer.
  8. Both are repetitive really. I'd say shadow of mordor is a better and ultimately more fun experience. Dragon Age would be more fun if it didn't live in the shadow of better games of its type. It's such a stark improvement on the crapiness of Mass Effect 3 and Dragon 2. Yet it's still full of faults. Primarily in how it somehow manages to completly mangle the old combat system. There are various other issues as well. It's ultimately good enough-ish, and it at least looks like Bioware tried in earnest to make a quality game, and that's something I couldn't say about their other recent work. Picking one, definitely Shadow of Mordor. Top level combat that surpasses comparables like Arkham City.
  9. I honestly expected Brendanawicz as well, but he didn't even get a reference or a flashback, let alone a cameo. It made me look up whether or not the actor had bad blood with the show's producers.
  10. It's kind of hard for me to rate the season on the whole objectively, because I was watching it through a very nostalgic lens. I didn't want it to end, as it was the last comedy on TV I could bother watching. I know I enjoyed the gradual manner in which they fit in all the recurring cameos throughout it, but they could have done better with the general direction they took everything. The finale makes up for a lot of things.
  11. It gets a lot better like Monty said. Was sad to see it come to an end, but that was a very solid finale. Was a bit surprised that my favourite scene from it was Jean-Ralphio's 20 second flash forward.
  12. Why is Brian Burke on CDC trying to sell me an MBA in hockey business? It's my favourite advertisement since the one where Messier was trying to sell us snowmobiles.

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    2. Ronalds.Kenins41

      Ronalds.Kenins41

      lol yeah, I never see ads anymore

    3. Ronalds.Kenins41
    4. HerrDrFunk

      HerrDrFunk

      I ended up disabling my ad blocker on CDC because it was messing up the layout of the site. First thing I see is the porcupine telling me to get my MBA. It was kind of weird.

  13. My rating was based in my not finding anything redeeming about it. Part of what I did there was there was list some of the movie's inconsistencies. As bad as some of them were, I could totally have forgiven the whole thing if I found anything about the main characters to be endearing and worth cheering for. While I can't say that I hated Costner or Gardner's characters, all I could do in the movie's culminating humanistic moment, as he drafts first overall was roll my eyes. I don't think I've ever rolled my eyes harder. The manner by which they used character as an end all marker was hallmark channel-y awful, but the worst thing was their failure in proving how Lavonte really had that character, especially to the extent that they justified jumping 20 spots for him.
  14. I get the general statement you're trying to make, but I'm struggling to think of any Sci-Fi movies that are Green-ish outside the matrix. Sci-Fi is traditionally blue, and that's still the standard. Post apocalyptic stuff is always washed over in a browish-beige, and that's one thing that annoys me about the genre, along the lines of what Glassjaw was saying,
  15. Exactly yes. The Sting appearance was the last good thing in the show. There was nothing worthwhile after that.
  16. As a fan of the Thief series, as well as more modern stealth games, I'd argue that it fails on both counts. Not that it fails miserably, but it becomes a question of why. Why bother? What does this offer? A mediocre way to pass the time, if you can get into it enough. I know I talked about it at length on here somewhere before, so I won't do it again. But all I can offer is a resounding meh. Deus Ex is actually a similar game, but superior in just about every way. I wish it was just a case of Steampunk vs. Cyberpunk, but it breaks down to much more than that.
  17. That was a poor PPV. I could give it props for the first hour, but it offered little of anything in the other 2. Very by the books. Predictable. Don't know why that last match even got a "this is awesome" chant, as it was just Super Reigns doing a Super Reigns match. There were a few spots, but maybe only one or two of them were anything different. But yeah, that first hour. Mainly Cody. Damn. That was brilliant. Why isn't this guy an upper card wrestler? I have to keep asking this all the time. I've lost a lot of excitement for Wrestlemania though. It might just be like a Raw where chunks will have to be fast forwarded through. Maybe even the main event, and some of the other title matches.
  18. Thief is useless, but Deus Ex HR is brilliant.
  19. Automatic overage charged if he reinstalled everything he lost, for their basic plan. You'd think it was 2002 with that kind of BS. In their press statement they made it sound like gamers and Netflix streamers were cheating everyone else out of their good service. And that's after the spiel they tried to spill to me about how they improved their infrastructure to the tune of billions of dollars. It's a solid joke, lol.
  20. Draft Day - 3.5/10 Started off very well for the first 40 minutes, but it trailed off miserably towards the end. You already knew what was going to happen, that's one thing. What was far worse was how exactly it happened. If it was all about the character of that Lavonte guy he picked, what do we really see? He comes off as an entitled and whiny jack ass. So was that Bo Callaghan guy sure, but what killed all the tension is that there were no realistic alternatives beyond him for the first overall pick. Just a top 10 running back and a top 20 linebacker. So you're supposed to feel good when the whiny Lavonte gets his payday by being picked first? Like being a 15th overall pick in the NFL wouldn't afford him the money to begin taking care of his nephews? And they wrap it up with a bunch of unrealistic arm turning by Costner on a bunch of GM's that make no sense. They act like he knew what he was doing the whole time, when it started with him having a panic attack. But he didn't regret it because he knew he was going to take that top 20 linebacker 1st overall the whole time, as evidenced by that piece of paper he wrote at the beginning? Then why the hell were we even watching the movie like he had a decision he was making? And what the hell happens to the cap situation they were trying to balance earlier in the movie when they have to also fit in the 7th overall and a premier kick returner to the whole thing? God, frack this movie, lol. It tries to be so sentimental, without proving why it's ending was the happy one. And it's so full of logical inconsistencies and conveniences that push it there. Very, very poorly written. I liked that Jennings guy they ended up taking, but I hope that the Brown's team failed miserably that year, and that Bo Callaghan torched them for 7 touchdowns in their matchup. And someone need to drop kick Costner's mom. Why the hell would anyone need approval from that awful hag?
  21. You should always backup your installed games if you don't buy the DVD version. For things like this, lol. I have over 500 GB installed under Steam right now, but luckily barely any of it was downloaded. If this was a month in the future and you had Telus, you'd be extra screwed.
  22. Don't know where else to put this, but I watched the series finale of the Mentalist. I'm unsure of why I continued to watch the series the whole way through. The show was terribly inconsistent, and at its worst when it needed to be at its best. So the finale was entirely underwhelming. Don't know if I expected anything different.
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