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  1. Vaclav

    Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

    When I was experiencing "jam" issues on my PS4 controller with Destiny it ended up being a busted pin inside the controller was keeping the button slightly depressed constantly (looked like a slightly open pacman mouth from the side) - popping open the controller and taking out the pin fixed it...
  2. Vaclav

    Dragon Age: Inquisition (Plot Details in Spoilers!)

    I wouldn't doubt Final Fantasy's got that ball rolling. Ultima was somewhat chainable for the ones I can recall though, since it was all reagent based early on too - pain to farm a ton, but theoretically could just farm close to infinite amounts.
  3. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    Worst intro song of the three by far - still ok though but the other two were amazing - got me into two bands I'd not heard of pretty heavily - this one I'm not even inspired to figure out who it is.
  4. Vaclav

    Mike Rowe responds to a complainer

    Are the Blue Angels only a thing in a few areas? Always had them at least nearby in the Maryland/New England area once or twice a year - and already had a Blue Angels event down here in Florida as well (I'm near Cape Canaveral/Patrick AFB so it's not shocking) - they less routine for most...
  5. Vaclav

    Dragon Age: Inquisition (Plot Details in Spoilers!)

    Dark Souls neutered healing vs. Demon Souls - apparently it's super casual as a result, khalid. Yea, it's a weak argument - it makes balance saner and honestly MORE LIKE THE RPGS WE GREW UP WITH - you didn't play a session of D&D and have your cleric saying "Ok, I cast another heal and...
  6. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    Ah, it's not too exciting or interesting, sure - but it's powerful. Wife's starting hers as an alt now, got a feeling we'll be duoing Nisha's when she's done with the intro.
  7. Vaclav

    MTG thread

    Yea, I've been sticking to sealed but if I'm running Delve AT ALL it's an instant include for me. It's so good. 3 points for Delve for free while hitting their hand hard is ridiculous.
  8. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    Hatorade: I absolutely agree with most of what you say there - but not on the quality of Nisha - Nisha is a fucking house. I'm playing her as well, and the combination of her normal output and showdown coming up so often for badasses she's just simply brutal. She narrows what weapons are viable...
  9. Vaclav

    Facing foreclosure on a home

    Heh, that doesn't necessarily mean anything - old house, you go like three or four blocks away (less than a mile) and you go from our moderately high value neighborhood to a street that had like a dozen hits on sex offender registries. Never saw a crime the ~10 years there as an adult and only a...
  10. Vaclav

    MTG thread

    Yea, I think I was maybe 18 at the time, was like ok, a case for one card I didn't even use. (I didn't like it, so it had been on loan to my female friend until we were at a party and someone offered her the trade and I said "why not"...) Forget if it was Alpha or Beta technically though -...
  11. Vaclav

    MTG thread

    Christ they're up there now? And to think I traded one in lightly used shape for a case of The Dark back when The Dark was new. (They were listing about $500 back then, it wasn't a bad deal..... theoretically)
  12. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    I know one team started it and Timegate finished it - didn't realize they did the in between. I thought it was just them directing behind the scenes to other studios completely.
  13. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    Good dialogue isn't necessarily independent of it being a "repetitive mission" though. You can have tons of repetitive missions with unique dialogue (heck, look at Destiny - VERY repetitive gameplay on the missions, moderately interesting dialogue though)
  14. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    Talking story missions? I'd agree - but 80% of the "missions" in the game were all the sidequests that were all just generic collect/FedEx/otherwise that we've all seen in MMO's even before Borderlands for years. I was assuming they were complaining about the missions in general, not the story...
  15. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    Another "complaint" that's a given for a Borderlands game. We just need a "the graphics are basically the same" to get the whole trifecta on expected complaints in Borderlands reviews.
  16. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    7-8 sounds passable to me - I think Hatorade too - reading the first it reads closer to a 8.5-9 (listed as a 7.5) that they're complaining that it doesn't innovate very much and docking 1-1.5 for it. Which I already knew was a given personally.
  17. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    I don't even see the hate for Randy at all - he misinformed for sure, but he wasn't directly involved with A:CM anyhow - he's no doubt seen shit in a bad state that went through touch up and got fixed in the past and assume A:CM was fixable when it wasn't. What the hell is he supposed to do...
  18. Vaclav

    The Evil Within - Betheseda/Shinji Mikami

    Dunno how it will be but looking forward to grabbing it early tomorrow - the pedigree behind it is good so hopefully resulting game follows suit. (Although with BL:PS coming out too and the wife obviously being demanding of time on it - we'll see how much I get to play it)
  19. Vaclav

    Playstation TV - Launching Octover 14th 2014 - Details / Information / Reviews thread

    Yep, seems nice - on my "to buy" list once we've got the house more set up - mostly as a PS4 "extender" than the other functions in our case though - once we've got this place finished being set up we'll have 4 TV's and two PS4's that might want to be used on a secondary TV at various times...
  20. Vaclav

    Facing foreclosure on a home

    Yea, looked at Mass briefly, prices looked insane on real estate, not much better than NYC.
  21. Vaclav

    Facing foreclosure on a home

    Less than that RENTING 1800 sq ft canalfront here ($1500/mo).... If I buy a similar place (probably will, renting this year to get a feel for where I want to buy - pretty sure I'll be buying on the island too) - around half of that. ($900/mo estimated mortgage on zillow for one of the cheaper...
  22. Vaclav

    Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

    Most of us played enough EQ1 to be used to game files having unfinished areas in advance of them actually adding content to the areas. There's nothing abnormal about that - and with how big the files for the zones likely are with the texture sizes it's saving a shitload of data costs...
  23. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    Yep - got mine going right now, will start the wife's later.
  24. Vaclav

    Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

    I finished leveling beforehand but I swore I was still getting XP messages long after being finished doing any random thing, including end game.
  25. Vaclav

    Pension Lump Sum?

    Yea, remember I was grocery HR specifically for almost all of my years - so you're talking Teamsters I'd have to worry about on the trucking side (probably one of the most infamous union, at least top 5 territory) of the equation and then the grocery unions which are relatively high up there as...
  26. Vaclav

    Pension Lump Sum?

    Well, to be fair, I always avoided working for union employers, so it's all second hand - but always sounded like they complicate normal things like handling how escalation of problem employees get dealt with, an extra layer to deal with the debates over yearly benefits adjustments, ad nauseum.
  27. Vaclav

    Pension Lump Sum?

    That's weird, so it's a union with the company's hooks deep into it since it's just a union for the one company? First I've heard of a grocery union like that. Sounds like the worst of both worlds if so - all the restrictions of the union with none of the power behind it. I'm anti-union in...
  28. Vaclav

    Pension Lump Sum?

    I don't think unions offer buyouts as a rule of thumb. Remember not all groceries are union, just most.
  29. Vaclav

    Pension Lump Sum?

    Didn't he state it as a retirement pension? i.e. restricted to 55/65/whatever the contract is written at.
  30. Vaclav

    Pension Lump Sum?

    Apparently Albertsons is about to own Safeway according to Wiki (news to me though - not been paying attention to such since planning on the move) deal is already through but goes active end of the year. And nope, not familiar with Shaw's specifically - am familiar with Albertsons from some...
  31. Vaclav

    Pension Lump Sum?

    Out of curiosity, care to share which grocery it is? I've not heard of any that have ANY CHANCE of going under for the one's I'm familiar with - and I can't imagine Mom and Pops are doing pensions. Safeway was doing the worst of any I've heard of and they're still far from being close to...
  32. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    There's a few apps out there that don't play nice with the M8 somehow - wife has had to reset hers like twice now since owning it - after I told her to not install anything without asking me first the problem hasn't recurred though, so seems like she just wasn't using her brain and installing...
  33. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I just use the website version, it's so much more efficient especially since it covers all 3 platforms at once.
  34. Vaclav

    Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

    Shrug, I'm enjoying it alot - but I have had a month of barely touching it with so many people being critical of it caging my expectations while I've been waiting on getting the wife's PS4. Of course also rotating through other games too rather than playing 4+ hrs of just Destiny every day so...
  35. Vaclav

    Diablo III - Ultimate Evil Edition

    Might start playing some again soon - still grinding 20 in Destiny and then gonna slowdown (obviously) - got the Platinum a few days ago though (oddly got the gear one without a Legendary Amulet though...) Wife is still playing daily, although she's just starting leveling consistently since...
  36. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    It was like spending 8 hrs with Macho Man Randy Savage - which isn't exactly a bad thing.
  37. Vaclav

    Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

    Got evidence of this? There's tons of file names that were mined with new map names, what the heck would they be for if not for early DLC?
  38. Vaclav

    Borderlands - The Pre-Sequel

    Don't think it is, is it? Just PS3 I thought?
  39. Vaclav

    Jerle Committed Suicide Today

    Only known one here to date, but that was the case for them.
  40. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I guess I'm precise about when I bother to pull the trigger at all, not seeing any difference in D3:UEE or Destiny thusfar in actual practice - feels a bit different on the touch though going from the wife's controller to mine, but no difference in play quality for me. [Keep in mind though...