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This is the first year that I started Christmas shopping early, like summer 2023 early.

And by that, I mean I would buy something here, something there a few weeks later, etc., so that I wouldn't break the budget. It actually works well if you haven't tried it.

1 hour ago, ShreddieMercury said:

Yeah it's bad.  And then it provided the template for all the other modern Insomniac games, which are also mid AF.

You take your mid AF opinion back right now

31 minutes ago, Derek said:

The premise makes me lol. I haven't watched South Park in years. Is it still quality?

Yup. I'm honestly surprised they've still put out episodes that I felt were classics.

1 hour ago, MarSolo said:

I genuinely think some users here doom and gloom way too much.

If our friends spent as much time trying to register voters in their community as they did thinking about the worst case scenario to every event, they could take agency and not feel like a passive observer.

1 hour ago, Massdriver said:

Politico had some articles about an effort to do this in the general election in several states. I don't think it's likely to hold up. The people want Trump back.

I think it's less about "the people" wanting Trump back (he once again has the same 47ish percent he had the previous two elections) and more Biden's unpopularity currently. Both men are at sub-50% support, which means lots of undecideds.

My feeling from what I've seen -- not saying gun to my head -- is that 2024 will hinge on Biden's popularity. Even though the economy is objectively good by so many metrics, inflation is inflation. It doesn't matter to people that ours has come down significantly quicker than just about every other developed nation, at least for now. But if people feel things are better and Biden is more popular for it, I think he would be set to win. If he's forever at 38% approval, then he doesn't.

Caveats would be all the lawsuits against Trump and the trials which are happening at times when people are more tuned into political news. I think a lot of people are missing that Trump is quoting Hitler right now, but it's not going to be silent during election season. I also met people who were wondering if they should vote and freaked the fuck out when I told them Trump wants to pardon the Jan 6 morons.

1 minute ago, GameDadGrant said:

 

Says who?

Video Game Chronicle's Andy Robinson:

"It should go without saying, but VGC won’t be reporting specifically on any of the stolen assets in the Insomniac hack. This isn’t a ‘leak’, and people’s personal information is included in the breach. Feel for Insomniac today."

I really enjoyed the finale. The ending of it reminded me of the ending in the last episode in the sense that it 

And as the writers said, they straight-up have the characters mention that they may still 

 so viewers wouldn't be a step ahead of the episode.

Good stuff. Overall an enjoyable season with 3 or 4 episodes that I felt really gelled more than others.

I know nobody here means ill, and I've been reading everything as well, but this isn't a leak; this was a malicious ransomware attack. Employees' personal info were part of the information that was spilled.

After Spidey 2, they have my complete attention in the superhero world.

Might be a while but Ratchet continues.
 

Venom looks to be a Miles Morales situation.

Switch was damned good, but PS5 was also damned good with its third party games plus Spidey 2 and the introduction of PSVR2.

Actually, I think everything was damned good this year, so....

I actually did enjoy the numbers and letters one, just because some of the corny jokes cracked me up, but I did really like last week. Poooopppppeeeee!

Hope to watch the season finale later.

3 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

Rudy Giuliani hit with $148M verdict for defaming two Georgia election workers

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An attorney for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, had urged the eight-person jury to “send a message” with its verdict.

 

Ya hate to see it

WWE Hall of Famer Tammy 'Sunny' Sytch sentenced to 17 years in prison for fatal DUI crash

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Former WWE wrestler Tammy “Sunny” Sytch has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for fatal DUI crash.

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Former pro wrestler Tammy "Sunny" Sytch has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for drunkenly colliding with another car, killing a 75-year-old man, while her blood alcohol level was four times the legal limit, authorities in Florida said.

 

Sytch, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011, pleaded no contest in August to driving under the influence manslaughter and other charges. She also had an unsealed bottle of vodka in her vehicle and cannabis in her system at the time of her arrest in Volusia County in March 2022, authorities said.

 

She had faced up to more than 25 years in prison during her sentencing hearing on Monday. During the hearing, Sytch said she felt remorse and regret "deep in my soul" for killing Julian LaFrancis Lasseter of Daytona Beach.

Also, this needs more attention: they're working on more than one single-player game.

I don't mind multiplayer from them, but I'm totally fine with Uncharted 4 stuff -- an addition, something fun to go too, but nothing I have to invest so heavily in for years on end if I don't want to.

2 minutes ago, best3444 said:

 

Can you still choose an easy difficulty level? Excuse my ignorance on this. I am a huge fan of this game. 

Yup

This shit's so good. Apparently some big story developments occur, and they already have for me.

I dig the anti-Vietnam War ones. For standards, my favorite version of a beautiful song:

NG+, mission replay, audio description coming in early 2024 patch:

43 minutes ago, stepee said:

I think I’ll save this for something new on the inevitable pc release.

No point waiting. Play now Here I just bought it for you

578

Been hearing fantastic things about this. Will start tonight or tomorrow.

FFmotherfucking7 Rebirth

Apollo Jus-motherfucking-tice Trilogy

G'damn Helldivers 2

maybe Rise of the Ronin

Ha-fucking-des 2

You can pick a billion from Simpsons and South Park alone.

Hard to believe that incredible E3s less than 10 years ago and the death of it so shortly thereafter.