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Pretty much, it's just a national championship now.
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No. They changed it last year so that the Canadian team that accumulated the most points in the MLS would represent the nation,
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In a sense, yeah. It's a pretty unique service
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How have I just heard of indiebox for the first time today? It seems brilliant. I've already missed some games I would have loved to have. Monthly subscription service that ships indie games with collector's item in retro style boxing to your home. https://www.theindiebox.com/ It's a shame that the price listed doesn't include the large shipping fee. That's a turn off. Though I might just make a go of it anyways. That is if their March game is more appealing than their February one.
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Though it did only make $80 Million in North America. International audiences, lol. Edit: Well, I can't say $80 million isn't a lot, just not that mind boggling or earth shattering. That's still a lot of unfortunate men dragged on to see this thing.
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I have, though it's not nearly as fun as playing through with at least a party of 3.
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Buying at launch and full price aren't the same thing, not if you're planning it right. Divinity Original Sin, Wasteland 2 and a couple of the others that you can't buy in Canada were the ones that I paid full price for, but these others were 35-55% off each. I thought This War of Mine looked pretty good, but I will wait to pick it up. Probably because I need to sink more time into State of Decay first, and I want to wait for the price to come down.
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Could've been longer. It usually is, lol. I just hadn't played enough of the actual game to give it the treatment. In the last year I've gotten Thief, Dark Souls 2, Alien Isolation, Divinity Original Sin, Wasteland 2, Watch Dogs, Far Cry 4, Borderlands the Pre-sequel, Civilization Beyond Earth, Shadow of Mordor, Super Smash 3DS, Super Smash Wii U, Bravely Default, and Conception 2 (3DS) at launch day, or there abouts (I waited for 4-5 of them to ship from the UK.) .. Don't judge, lol. These were mostly done for cost saving measures or collectors editions, and not just basic pre-orders. I regret Conception 2 absolutely, and Thief to a large degree as well (Though it had to be tried as a fan of the series), but I was anywhere from moderately happy to extremely so with the rest. Was lucky that despite not being a great year for games, they were all good enough by my standards to warrant purchases and playthroughs. Wasted a lot of the last year playing games.
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I've been waiting a long time for Evolve to come in the mail. Even before it was officially announced, I was ready for whatever it was going to be, as it was the follow up from the guys who created Left 4 Dead 1. At some point, it was probably my most anticipated of all games. Though I gradually became less and less interested in the game as more and more of it was revealed. By release day, I was only cautiously hopeful for anything that I would fall in love with. I got the game today, and eh.... I dunno. It couldn't have started more poorly. Game launches with a splash about it's EULA, reminding you that you didn't buy a game, but a "limited non-transferable licence to access one copy of the game that may be rescinded at any time", and reminding me personally that I need to pick up a PS4 to stop dealing with this crap. You then get slapped with a Monster Demo, to remind me that this is all about the Versus, and not the co-op from L4D 1. Then actually playing the game, the mechanics seem interesting, but hard to initially grasp, and the game sets up what looks to become a potentially very redundant process that I'm going to be playing over and over again. One look at the characters and classes, and there's maybe one I ever want to be. And on top of other things, it is a game that demands multiplayer, but I'm not a guy who enjoys launching into games with strangers often, and without any friends that have picked up the game yet, I feel more lost than I do playing Left 4 Dead single player. As you could tell from what I've said, I'm hardly encouraging anyone to pick up the game and join me, as it has a what, $70 pricetag in store and digitally? I got it for $35, so I'm not reeling from buyers remorse or anything. But as the end product of something I so anticipated, I do feel let down. And on top of the price tag, they have all these skin packs, and weapon packs for $5-$6 each in their in game store. That's hilariously bad. What is this, a AAA release, or a Free to Play crapfest? None of these have much bearing on the game I believe, as they don't seem to effect the gameplay. But this massive glut of Day one DLC stuff is a slippery slope, and I'm happy that 2K is getting called out for it. Because where there's a slippery slope, these game companies don't accidentally stumble down it on occasion, they dive head first into it. For a very average looking game, played in a relatively small field, you should not require an expensive rig to play beyond low settings, but that's the case for me at least. A lot of unreasonable lag. I can't get into to many positives, because I'm not even sure what they are right now. I'm going to dig around at it to find the core of a good game that seems to be at the heart of all this. Rather, I hope it exists, and that it's not something I'm trying to force myself to see. If anyone here gets it, add me as a friend on Steam if you haven't already. You'll find me on there by searching, or through the CDC Steam group, which still seems to exist. I will be trying the game for a while.
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Well that game was unnecessarily tense, lol. At least it made for one of the more exciting games to watch in a while.
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The Newer Newer Official WWE/TNA thread.
g_bassi13 replied to marleau_12's topic in Off-Topic General
Probably the best one in wrestling at the moment. If they could fit that match up, and the Rhodes vs. Rhodes one on to the Wrestlemania card, I'd be extremely excited for the PPV, Roman Reigns and Cena be damned. -
The Official European Football (Soccer) Thread
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It really was. Though I'll be interested to watch him when Orlando visits Vancouver. -
I'm trying to figure out a logical way to give anyone involved in that scene the benefit of a doubt... But I can't. I've got a first edition print of The Divine Comedy. $5 OBO.
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I drank a lot. Was relatively fine until before the loss, but afterwards?... I'm only now starting to recover from the effects,
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The Newer Newer Official WWE/TNA thread.
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Half this thread's activity dead in the water right there. -
Essentially this, though my my first reaction was along the lines of what Down by the River said. My second thought was what you said. My third thought was how do you have a show based around forensic crime scene analysis spin off into one of cyber crimes, which by definition do not involve any of what is traditionally accounted for.
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The Official European Football (Soccer) Thread
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Deciphering this was a bit of a puzzle, but I got it. Wenger should have been fired a long time ago. I would have been at wit's end as an Arsenal fan at the turn of decade. Small runs that somehow save his job, but set up for more of the same in the following year. This run they're on is nice, but if it saves his job, it will be detrimental in the long run. He's always going half in, and while his shrewd moves aren't bad, they're never enough. -
I think we used to have this movie on VHS when I was very young, or I otherwise watched it a bunch of times on TV. But I then managed to grow up with this movie somehow never again being mentioned by anyone, so whenever the idea of the movie used to come to mind, I began remembering it wrong as a low budget, obscure film. I then later found it was the large cult classic that it is. Makes it all the more odd that I went 15-20 years without even the name of the movie ever coming up. I still haven't seen it since that time, though I'm starting to think I really should go find a copy to watch (maybe I still have the VHS.)
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The Newer Newer Official WWE/TNA thread.
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Thank God I didn't bother with this show. Vince at it again, lol. -
Interstellar was a bit better, but I don't really think of Nolan's other movies as being different than "everything else". They maybe disguise themselves better, but I gain nothing more than I would from any standard blockbuster. Especially Inception. Second viewing made it only worse. There's little there for me outside the general "coolness" of the movies, and the handful of brilliant visual spots. Intellectually I found the movie pretty void. Exploring dream states and battling with ideas of what reality is, that's all been done before. Not necessarily done to death, but it's not blazing any trails. So when I hear masses of people debating whether the top was going to fall, or talking about dreams within dreams, or "going deeper", or even just adding the suffix "-ception" to anything they considered meta, I would seriously rather have been hearing a chorus of Borat quotes instead. I've said this a few times in the thread before, but I prefer that a movie is upfront or aware of it's intellectual level. Someone would need to hit me over the head and drag me to watch Fast and the Furious 7, but I would rather watch Captain America over Inception for that reason above. A blunt action movie over one full of meaningless platitudes. With Interstellar I felt that the movie was at its best when it was a film about space exploration and the survival of the race. When it came to anything that followed, I spent only about maybe a minute or so thinking about it before I was satisfied with my understanding of it, and I think that in large part came down to what was mentioned about the dialogue explaining nearly every last detail of what happened. I spent far, far more time trying to explain to a friend the general ideas of time elasticity, 4th-5th dimensions, event horizons, and other basic physics jargon. Though I don't think the presence of those ideas makes for an intellectual experience in the same way that the Big Bang Theory is anything but an intelligent comedy. I liked Interstellar far more than I did Inception, or either of the Dark Knight movies, as I found the themes of it to be more fulfilling, and better explored. I understand what you mean when talking about it being moderately challenging, and it could be a decent introduction into films of a similar kind on a greater level for those that were previously unaware of them, but Nolan is no Kubrick or Tarkovsky, lol. I wouldn't know how many ever took that further step though. as what I observed was Inception becoming some sort of platform to look far down on movies like Avatar, which I would actually even put a notch or three above Inception.
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[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
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Roberto Alomar, Russell Martin, Marcus Stroman, Drew Hutchison, and Aaron Sanchez. -
American Sniper - 6.5/10 It was no technical masterpiece. Pretty much every moment after the first half hour or so, I was not gripped by any sense of tension. It was fairly well acted, and I don't mind how the narrative was built for the most part, but I kept looking at my watch towards the end. Though one thing I found hilarious is the blowback and controversy this movie has faced. I think the Iraq war was horrible from it's basic conception, to most of its execution. But the way it's being talked about you would think that no liberal movie has ever twisted around some generalities to force a biased point. I'm left of centre myself, but it's just a movie. An overly patriotic movie that could have done more to show a civilian side of the war on the ground, but a movie nonetheless. It just wasn't a particularly great one.
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Agreed. Kah isn't a bad backup though. Rodriguez is the wildcard.