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HLJ royally screwed me over, they lost me as a customer. I pre-ordered Lucina and Nendoroid Mario directly from Goodsmile this time.

I´m going to keep this short, but I thought it was fantastic. Well, episode one was fantastic anyway. Bought the game immediately, unlike Game of Thrones, because unlike Game of Thrones, I´m not that bothered about spoilers (I haven´t played Borderlands 2 (yet)). Gameplay is exactly the same as Walking Dead. You click on things, you choose your dialogue, and there´s the occasional QTE. To be honest, if season 2 of The Walking Dead disappointed you, I´m not sure if this is for you. It is longer than the average S2 Walking Dead episode (I think I spent 3 hours playing it), but I don´t know if they will keep that up for the next episodes. I don´t think there will be incredibly deviating storybranches (but again, this is only ep 1). Dialogue changes minor things so far. The difference between this and Walking Dead is (for me anyway), in The Walking Dead I just stuck with the one canon playthrough. I played my way, and wasn't that interested in other variations. This game however, is absolutely hilarious. I´ll definitely go play this again to see the other responses. The dialogue is great, and the expressions are great. Story looks to be great. And that´s why you play a Telltale game anyway.

Yeah, I think I´m slightly regretting it. I know the game´s cool, I played the beta earlier this year. Player rate isn´t really a problem yet, I can find games in the mode I play most (Variety pack). But I can´t really keep up with the current players, plus I expected there to be more weapons and mods in the full game, since some CoD veterans worked on it. Oh and the player rate does seem to be a problem on the DLC maps..

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/amiibo-discontinued/

And yet another Steam sale, this time the Game awards are the occasion. This is I think the cheapest high profile game, at € 25,-.

This is a stock photo, but I bought some slices of my new addiction, truffle cheese:

I´m slightly allergic to Reddit, so I prefer people post stuff here than simply point to that mess of text and links.

January.

Aww, I barely got to use my power. I was looking forward to it.. Vote mods are cool!

Hello ladies!

Yeah, I finally started this series some months ago, but I only watched the first 7 or 8 episodes, before I stopped watching. I thought it was great, but I just barely watch television / use my Netflix subscription. Few weeks ago I hoped to correct that, so I´m catching up. Currently I´m at the start of season 4. Funny anecdote (well, funny for you, sad for me): Before I decided to start watching again, I was just browsing the internet, looking at some interviews on Conan O´Brien´s site. I always check out the cute girls, one of them was Krysten Ritter. I didn´t know who she was at that point, again, she just looked cute. then in the interview, they reveal

That trailer did nothing for me. I wonder how many of the rumours end up being true though.. At least one of them was confirmed just now.

Origin is having a sale of its own by the way.. I might finally pick up Titanfall (€ 10,- for base game or € 20,- for game + season pass) for my multiplayer needs. @%1;, still playing this? Anyone else?

From what I´ve heard your site is pretty popular? Maybe you can get away with asking for review copies in the future?

Steam autumn sales have started. Definitely some games on sale I´m interested in. Maybe I´ll pick up some new multiplayer titles, it´s been a while since I´ve had some good multiplayer sessions.

..And currently it´s € 20,-. I assume it´s worth that?

Engadget is doing a livestream on Twitch (well, I´m sure there are / will be others): http://www.twitch.tv/engadget

Small pic but looking good: Reveals some other hair options. Slated for June, not up for pre-order yet.

Haha, like I said, it was a long time ago, and it´s probably more fair if the money goes to, you know, the person who actually bought the ticket? :p But you know what, next time someone gives me a winning lottery ticket with a 20 euro prize, I´ll give it to you if you personally come over here to receive it .

Well, in that case it wasn't a gamble, but I dunno, I want to earn it I guess.

Lotteries are evil. I don´t want anything to do with gambling.. I know of better ways to spend / use my money. I´m not going to gift someone a ticket, and I probably refuse one if one was given to me. In fact, my dad tried to give me a lottery ticket once, a long time ago. He was just being nice I guess. He usually buys them for himself, but he said that I could cash in the ticket if it matched any winning numbers. Didn´t care at all. Didn't bother to check. Some days later, it appeared it actually did match a winning number, just a small prize of I dunno, maybe 20 euros or something. Would´ve been free money for me, but I just didn´t care.

Probably of no interest to any of you, but: I pretty much go to North Sea Jazz festival every year, and 2015 is likely not going to be different. As you can guess, it´s a jazz festival, but it´s pretty big, so they also have genres like soul and funk and other related genres, even some more geared towards the pop side of the spectrum. It´s in July, in Rotterdam. No line-up available at this point, they reveal the full line-up in April. Last year I saw Kelis and Nile Rodgers + Chic there. Unlike North Sea Jazz, I don´t go to the typical Dutch Dance festivals every year. In fact, the last one has been a while. I´ll try to go to Mysteryland and Extrema outdoor this year.

I overall really liked it. Some of the science / time travel stuff felt off, but I can´t tell for sure. But the atmosphere was absolutely great. The impending doom of Earth, and the loneliness of starting a most likely one-way journey to some far-off planet.. I thought that was really well done. Some amazing visuals, and a few exciting Gravity-like actionscenes. The sound was off though. Christopher Nolan has now gone public and stated it was all as intended, but I call that bullshit. I didn´t have problem understanding the dialogue, but sometimes there were rumblings that (literally) felt out of place.

I didn´t like the season overall either. I liked some episodes, but the season as a whole was disappointing. The first part of the 2-parter was good I thought, only to be concluded with a bad ending. I was really looking forward to zombie cybermen. I liked Missy, but she deserved much more than that wimpy (supposed) death. Instead of those Marvel style credit scenes to give glimpses of Missy, she needed a full episode to show her background and her intentions. Maybe they should´ve made a 3-parter instead. PE as a character was incredibly underdeveloped, and his relation with Clara was forced. Wasn´t he going to be a time traveler by the way? And what exactly was up with that portal? Was that an exit from the Nethersphere? Ridiculous.