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2 minutes ago, Joe said:

I'm pretty sure it's $1,400 more. Seemed like a pretty fair assumption to make.

Not from Biden's own tweet.

15 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Some are saying $2000. Biden did:

And, for example, this:

Biden expected to include $2,000 checks, new child benefit in major new stimulus proposal

WWW.INQUIRER.COM

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Biden transition officials have not disclosed the overall price tag of the package, but it is expected to be more than $1 trillion.

3rd stimulus checks: Biden expected to unveil COVID-19 relief plan with $2,000 payments

KTLA.COM

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Under a recent Democratic plan that may provide some insight, people making up to $115,000 annually would get a payment. Couples making up to $200,000 would see cash.

But I'm also seeing some say $1400:

Stimulus check update: Biden to unveil plan for $1,400 payments; unemployment extension

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President-elect Joe Biden will unveil on Thursday a COVID-19 relief package he hopes to get through Congress that will include a stimulus check, an extension of federal unemployment insurance benefits and aid to small businesses.

So I dunno who's correct.

12 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

I never finished it, no. If The Old Hunters is a separate area, I never ended up there, though I have the content purchased. I think part of the issue I ran into was that I feel like I ended up in an area “out of order”? I remember going to a new place where the difficulty seemed to spike dramatically, I went from normal Dark Souls level struggle to getting washed / one hit by every mob in whatever spot I was in. But it’s been long enough that I’m not confident my recall is correct and I have no knowledge of what was waxing me. Bugs? Vampires? Bug vampires? No idea.

Old Hunters is a new area, but if you ended up there, then it would have been easy to get back to Hunter's Dream if things were difficult. Makes me think you were killed and then brought into a prison? But the difficulty isn't THAT bad there considering that section is meant to be done earlier.

1 minute ago, Nokt said:

No, not yet. I hear good things about it, but same issue. I have a hard time committing money to something I know I'll probably put down a short time later.

Gunfire Reborn is probably the most time I've put into a roguelike at around 30 hours.

Everything else is probably under 5 hours, including the much loved Hades.

I haven't played Hades yet, but I do have a similar opinion to yours about roguelikes. I played Rogue Legacy, and I had fun, but losing everything and getting different stats or perks instead of what I originally had was never that exciting for me.

However, I loved Dead Cells, and some of the things I loved about it seem similar to what they're saying about Returnal and what I've heard about Hades. Basically, yes, you don't have the stuff you received during your playthrough, but in Dead Cells, there were separate upgrades that remained the same for each playthrough. That would allow you to start with better weapons, find better stuff, upgrade the difficulty, and permanently upgrade your stats and abilities. So even though I "started over," I felt like I was going somewhere, both with the upgrades I accumulated and due to getting good, and I was going through a different level design.

So I ended up with, like, 70+ hours or something on it, and I would usually avoid those games. Add Housemarque's arcade gameplay, and I'm there Day 1. :-O 

4 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

I went from playing Spidey and Miles to Bloodborne and it was like whiplash, LAWD.

 

I forget how far I’d gotten in Bloodborne before I fell off it for some reason. I really enjoyed it, but I dunno how likely it is that I’ll go back to it for reals with the DeS remake sitting on my shelf and the connectivity issues I was having.

Oh, you never beat the original? Or started The Old Hunters?

BB did get me used to the spectacle of a great boss battle because DeS's bosses are not as intricate, or as @Bloodporne said, they don't have that 2nd "fuck you" form to them.  

1 hour ago, Kal-El814 said:

Booted up Bloodborne on the PS5. Aside from the fact that I kept getting errors about being able to connect and getting booted to the main menu, holy shit I forgot that game runs like absolute ass.

I'm trying to imagine what would happen if I played Bloodborne right after Demon's Souls considering going from 60 to locked 30 was jarring and Bloodborne isn't locked.

I'd get used to it because it's a fantastic game, but DeS is so slick. So glad they remade it.

5 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

It's so easy to dunk on Ben Shapiro. Guess that's what happens when you are just barely clearing 5 feet.

7 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

3.) 232 + 232 = 464

4.) 464/10 = 46.4

5.) “Gabe Newell” is 10 characters 

6.) we just divided by 10

7.) ???

8.) HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED 

Hey, it may not be 3, but I feel like this announcement stunned everyone!

17 hours ago, Nokt said:

While I enjoyed the short amount of time I put in RoR2 I generally do not like roguelikes. The amount of times I can run through the same content is far less than most people. 

Have you played Dead Cells?

13 hours ago, SimpleG said:

Console arrive early

 

Sent friend request

SimpleG making it look easy. No biggie.

17 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

Still the best Frasier comic:

 

Two observations I've seen people make:

1. Trump lost the 2020 election by only getting 232 electoral votes. 232 is also the number of votes he received for his historic second impeachment.

2. Two weeks ago, he shared some photoshopped photo of him with a Nobel Peace Prize. Now he's impeached for inciting an insurrection -- filled with neo-Nazis, racists, and radicals -- against his own country.

Houston Police Department found that one of their officers breached the Capitol. They say he will likely face federal charges.

I was wondering why there were two threads. Well played

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

Ahead Of Impeachment, Security Is Tight At The Capitol

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Barricades were set several blocks from the Capitol building. Law enforcement and national guard officials checked badges for anyone to enter the perimeter even by foot.

How it started:

How it's going:

There's no joke here, btw. Just observation.

Also from the article:

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“It’s worth underscoring, typically when a presidential campaign rolls in, they sweep the dishes off the table before setting up the new places,” said Wikler. “With the Biden campaign, they deeply integrated with infrastructure that state parties have been building for years.”

Inside Joe Biden’s plan to avoid a midterm ‘shellacking’ - POLITICO

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Presidents traditionally get pummeled in the off years. Especially those in their first term. But Team Biden has a plan. And some Dems are cautiously optimistic.

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In preparation for the 2022 midterms, the president-elect is fusing his political operation with the Democratic National Committee. He is also considering sending a top communications staffer — among those discussed are top campaign spokespeople Andrew Bates and T.J. Ducklo — to the DNC for the next several months as an embed before that person heads to the White House themselves. The idea is to help ensure the DNC is integral to the Biden operation, a source close to the campaign said in an interview.

 

Biden is also empowering his former campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, with his political portfolio in and out of the White House. Dillon, herself a former top national party staffer, is steering DNC meetings in the run-up to the election of a new chair and officers later this month.

 

She’s brought in an ally, Emmy Ruiz, to become Biden’s White House political director. Longtime Biden confidant and incoming senior adviser Steve Ricchetti will also advise Biden on politics.

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Biden is also committed to pumping resources into state Democratic parties that atrophied during the Obama years, according to a Biden official, cognizant of the shortcomings of the last Democratic president’s approach. Rather than build out his own infrastructure, like Obama did, his team is in conversations with battleground state directors about the upcoming midterms and preparing to bulk up outreach to rural voters, with early conversations about having Agriculture secretary nominee Tom Vilsack serve as a possible surrogate.

 

The strategizing comes as the Democratic Party navigates a new, unsettled landscape, with lingering questions about whether Biden intends to run for a second term. The stakes are high for the party, which must figure out how to keep a congressional majority in both houses and also contend with reapportionment in two years.

 

No modern president has had a successful first midterm absent George W. Bush in the wake of 9/11. After Obama’s “shellacking,” Trump was pummeled during the 2018 elections.

The joke was supposed to be that the X-Wing itself was the sandbox but I have clearly failed in all possible ways.  

4 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Even a local bodega?

To the back of the X-Wing and then to the front.

2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

I've had enough of X-Wings for now.

You're able to go anywhere in the X-Wing.

Pretty damn good, actually.

9 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Where you can choose to play as either a protocol droid or a ship refueler droid.

 

EDIT - I will wait to get excited. Open world how? As in running around a city? Or running around a city and jumping in a ship to fly to space? 

Open world in an X-Wing.