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Last communist politician I heard about Japan having was the one that got run through with a sword in 1960, ending his run at high office.

I'll admit that I know very little about Japan's political scene in 2025. It's too bad Shinzo Abe got taken out.

Necromancer is the main thing I know about with Diablo 2. When it came out I was playing a Necro in EQ, and a lot of people were saying Diablo 2 was going to be an "EQ killer" (for some reason). So once EQ inevitably started annoying me, I nearly "jumped ship" to Diablo 2. I remember spending a...

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pokemon/all-pokemon-gen-10-leaks Pokemon Gen 10 leaks for anybody that missed it. The villain is basically Trump lol "Procedurally generated" raises huge red flags. Not sure I want to play a procedurally generated Pokemon game. Give me something carefully refined...

I grew up in the 90's so I'm no stranger to extremely poor translations of RPGs (usually by accident, lawl). The last US JRPG I have left to play is Breath of Fire 2 and I have to choose between the re-translation patch or playing it in its original stupendously bad SNES translation. Not...

This guy posts some interesting stuff about potential genetic tampering less than 800k years ago by an intelligent force. He also thinks that the Australasian Tektites found all around that part of the world might be ancient debris from crashed ships, rather than the current science rationale...

It's a computer game, it's an RPG of sorts, and I missed out on it, that gets it on the list. Warcraft 3 is on the list too. If anything shouldn't be on the list it's the two System Shocks, which I think I'm gonna bump off. Tried to get into the remake of the first one and couldn't for some...

Never fooled with that at all or worried about it. I'll say this though, if any class levels Speed in particular at a good clip, then powerleveling with that class on in particular would turn a character into a deity quick. Guessing that the Speed deficiency with Agrias/Rafa/Malak versus...

Got any screenshots of their bios? I long since uninstalled the game, curious what the passive aggressive stuff is. Speaking of Agrias, is she really terrible as the game goes on or did I not give her enough of a chance? Cause I remember her being great on the PS1, but now she was so incredibly...

I don't think it's a capitol ship, but it might well be a probe of some sort. As for the Fermi Paradox, I think the answer to it is pretty simple. If there's life all over the universe, we can't see it because space is really, really big, and prohibitively difficult / pointless to travel in...

It is though. I'm getting another dose tomorrow, I can scan the exact dosage and what's in it and post it right here. It's a shot, and it lasts around four weeks, taking about two weeks to peak. Also, given this is part of a medical study, it might be something new. Twice, not once but...

A jetpack guy flying around LA? Yeah, that was me back when I played through San Andreas: Enter the right code and you can spawn a jetpack at any time, so I cheesed my way through the entire game using a jetpack for everything I could.

Wasn't a response sent to the Wow signal? Or at least a bunch of radio signals beamed out in that general direction shortly afterwards? As improbable as it is, it's possible something picked it up and sent back a probe of some sort. Mostly improbable because so little time has gone by. Just...

After looking into this, I think Hateful Eight DID get 70mm screenings at some point. Damn. Hope it happens again. The movie itself was filmed in 65mm Super Panavision which is why it looks so incredible. Hell I'm gonna rewatch it later.

Because I'd just taken it out of a dusty bag and was in the car. It's crazy how fast screens get dirty when they're in a bag or a box with a lot of dust. It probably isn't spotless even at the best of times either If all else fails I'll do a full backup/format but it'd be a pretty big hassle at...

What fresh hell is this? Just got this laptop barely more than a year ago (Summer 2024) and it's already having issues. Every couple hours this weekend it'll suddenly reboot and then pop back up with these messages. I hit the power button on and off and it starts up normally. Might be happening...

Well, the game starts, right? And it lets you install it without a bunch of bullshit, right? So it's still way ahead of the last few CODs.

Sounds like it's about the same (ridiculous) runtime as Valhalla. That pretty much ensures I'll never play it, would have considered it if HLTB was correct and it was around 30-35 hours. Ain't nobody got 80 hours for something like this in this day and age, especially with the kind of backlog...

Don't have a wife, I'll have to ask your mom.

Speaking of the Great Patriotic War and the Soviets, I HIGHLY recommend this movie to anyone who hasn't seen it. Russian GPW movies make some American WW2 movies look like cartoons, and portray war as something to be avoided at all costs. There's no glorification of anything, just raw...

I'm pretty sure the Soviets would have armed actual bears and sent them to the front line if they could fight. Stalin's "smother them with bodies" strategy was the biggest meat grinder in history.

Early totals: Cast any further votes and I'll check back later. Since it's far away, I might start this before Jan 1st if I end up with a hole in the schedule and if there's a clear winner.

Can recommend Gucci Guilty. It's about $130 for one bottle, lasted me years and years though. Want to say around 5-7 years but it might have been more than that. A girl picked it out and said it was the best out of all the colognes we tested, and it got me a lot of "you smell amazing"s from...

Roger that, I'll just keep going until it's done. Was mainly worried about permanent damage, bacterial resistances developing, etc. However this was a serious infection and unless there's a major reason not to, I'd rather make sure it's totally dead. It'll be 20 straight days of antibiotics by...

I really need to get into romhacks/mods. Too bad I've got nowhere to fit in something like that considering all the major classic legit games I still haven't checked out. Elden Ring: Convergence looks pretty damn good. Wasn't there another major one, Garden of Eyes or something like that? FF...

That's what I thought, but why bother having 35mm and 70mm showings? Just do 70mm showings and be done with it. Would love to see Hateful Eight get a re-release like that. Movie is mind-bogglingly good-looking at times.

TLDR: I like you, but I disagree on women popping up in games. If there's a particular part you want me to spell out and explain with more words, I can do that.

Need advice on an antibiotic dose. Got prescribed Amox-Clav (500-125) for a really bad/painful infection. Despite that (apparently) being a large dose, it went on and on and the pain was horrendous for over a week. Ran out of the first dose and the pain was down to about 30% of where it started...

I did a solo Ramza playthrough once on the PS1. It was a lot of fun. It's surprising how easy it is to break the game and turn Ramza into an uber death machine. Had to do a lot of the grinding before Dorter Trade City though, because of the casters. By halfway through the game he was a...

Except that millions of people on the left actually think that's what MAGA is. A bunch of cartoonish super-nazis that want to have them all killed for their identity or beliefs. ...which makes it really easy for the left to cheer on when those cartoonish evil people are actually being killed...

Full article: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/one-battle-after-another-liberal-critics-bret-easton-ellis-1236545512/ He's right. A movie with antifa-like revolutionaries as the protagonists isn't "what we need in this terrifying moment" like all the critics seem to be saying. If anything...

What's the difference between 35mm and 70mm? And yeah, I'm overdue for a rewatch of Kill Bill, but I'll definitely wait for this theater showing now. 4 hours in a theater is gonna be a bit of an ask in this era of short attention spans so it'll be interesting to see if they add an intermission...

Agreed with all of these. The Ezio trilogy (AC2, AC Brotherhood, AC Revelations) is the high point of the series, and what you should play first unless you hate Renaissance Era Italy for some reason. Can get all 3 of them in one game now. I wasn't that into Revelations but it's the culmination...

I haven't really gotten into one of these since Battlefield 4 in 2014, but if we've got air battles and tanks, goddammit, I'm gonna have to get this one.

That sort of thing only bothers me when it's historically-inaccurate. Like women fighting for an army that wouldn't have had women in it in a million years, yes, that does take me out of the immersion. If the issue is only that you don't like women in these games, then I'd say get over it...

Yeah, Shadows would be good if it focused on Naoe and left out Yasuke entirely. Guy didn't seem fun to play as and I didn't even get as far as having to sneak around (or try to). AC Mirage is pretty solid. Old-school AC game with old-school objectives, takes about 15 hours give or take a few...

This have a campaign? I'm one of the weirdoes that plays the campaigns. BF3 and 4 had really good ones, BF5 didn't have a campaign at all IIRC.

That was an exaggeration, I doubt it took me an hour to do the last fight. It just felt like an hour. I insisted on making it through the fight without losing any characters, so it took 3 tries. The minions spamming Bioga the entire way up was an issue for my party, since nobody had Auto-Potion...