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    That is so visually impressive. But with all the robots, I wonder what they actually eat for food.
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    The video looks fun, I laughed when that stunt double vaporized. I skimmed through the FAQ on the site and its even more interesting now. Its a brand new game engine and we can freely swap between the 3 agents in the squad. So I'm guessing this will be a single player campaign and an AI will control the other characters in your party like a RPG. Also... http://www.aomthegame.com/faq/#aom_3776_faq
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    @Strider Hiryu I've only seen a few eps of mountain men but it was interesting to see how these people live. I think there was another show about people living in alaska, but I can't remember its name. This woman ordered thousands of gallons of gasoline to power her generators for the winter and she had so much land, the gas was actually stored in this rubber container that inflated like a water bed and it just sat out in the open exposed to the environment. I couldn't imagine living like that. But it sure as hell is educational to learn how people live in these other environments. I haven't see Deadlist catch in forever. Only caught the first 2 or 3 seasons, but it must be good considering how many awards its won over the years. Another show I loved on Discovery was Dirty Jobs. I learned so much from that show and I miss it. But that show covered just about every dirty job imaginable and quite a few more that were only mildly messy. After rebranding to SyFy the channel turned to crap except for it's weekend b movies. Everything was reality shows and wrestling and only had a few shows worth watching like Haven, Eureka, BSG, Defiance, Z Nation and a few others. But I think SyFy learned from their mistakes. They got rid of wrestling and a large chunk of reality shows. I think because the few scifi shows they had, did good in the ratings, they double downed on what the channel was all about in it's roots. The majority of their programming now is scripted series that focus on scifi, or the supernatural. Check out the lineup, its actually impressive again: http://www.syfy.com/shows Killjoys and Dark Matter should both have season 1 available on netflix now. Great series and I recommend them both and I'm really looking forward to their new season. Same with Z Nation. Sure its a bit campy, but damn its a fun show. Its a much better zombie series that Fear the Walking Dead. I've only seen a few eps of Magicians but it looks good too.
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    I'm 25% done with Uncharted 2 and I've easily died as many times on normal difficulty as I have while playing all of Uncharted 1. The difficulty of normal increased substantially in this game. wtf. O_O I blame the AK-47 for having crap range now compared to the first game. And you have to burst it or it goes completely wild. As soon as I got a FAL, long range shots got much easier. I beat almost all of Uncharted 1 with just the hand gun. Nailing headshots was so easy. Now I can't get headshots worth a damn. Along with all enemies hitting with almost 100% accuracy (wtf), running out from cover against 3 enemies will almost always get you killed. In Uncharted 1 I could just stand there, line up headshots and take an occasional bullet with no fear. Uncharted 2 changes all that. Every bullet fired will hit you almost 100% of the time and every time a bullet connects it throws your aim off with a bit of a stagger effect. The challenge is real and makes the game feel quite different when almost all enemies will flank your position and rush you, while in Uncharted 1 you only had to worry about shotgun guys doing that and dodge roll away from an occasional grenade. I'll get the hang of this tho. lol.

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      Sledgstone

      I'm definitely getting the hang of the game now and I'm loving it. The same stagger I get when hit also happens to enemies but even more exaggerated. If theres multiple enemies, its much easier to shoot a bullet at just about everyone to stagger them slightly and then focus one down at a time and if they're bum rushing, just run around and hip fire but never start fist fighting. In Uncharted 1 I could start punching anyone no problem and anyone around me basically watched. But in Uncharted 2 you become a bullet magnet as all enemies will continue shooting the hell out of you while you're stuck in a fighting animation and can't dodge. I also wasn't paying enough attention to the explosive items in the environment. I love propane tanks in this game in the urban area. Throwing a propane tank at 4 enemies and shooting it mid air to kill them all in a fire ball gives me this great feeling of joy. XD

      Also, that initial hand gun is crap. The .45 Defender is horrible. About 30% thru the game enemies started dropping 92FS-9mm and everything changed for me. That hand gun and the FAL is my perfect combo right now.

      There was a part in this game where I had to take out a Russian Hind helicopter with grenade launchers, I got so many flashbacks to MGS1. This fight was epic. :D I'm not even half way thru this game and its already blown away Uncharted 1.

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    http://io9.gizmodo.com/all-the-major-star-wars-secrets-revealed-in-the-new-nov-1774819531 This is a good read. The new book establishes the canon and explains details about the events that take place between the Return of the Jedi and the Force Awakens. I'll get this book at some point, but instead of buying or even reading it, check out the link to read the major highlights / spoilers from the book. The part about the creation of the first order and it's quick rise to power makes alot more sense now, but there is no mention of Snoke or how he then gained control of everything.
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    All the reality shows on History are just crap now. Pawn Stars was good at first because it was educational, now its just another reality show. Same with swamp people, Appalachian Outlaws and all the others. Interesting shows for the first season because you learn something new, but after that there is no more education value and the shows are just the same old same old. I loved that H2 channel, it was the primary reason I had the cable package I still have. It was H2, Discovery and Science Channel. I swear every time I look a the science channel, its nothing but reruns of How It's Made. That was a decent show at first, but I can't watch it anymore because the background music is often too loud an annoying to me. lol. My favorite shows from H2 that need to either go into reruns or on demand or should be put on netflix includes: The Universe. 5 seasons out 9 were only on H2. I learned so much from Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson and so many other scientists. Life After People, America Unearthed, Modern Marvels, The Naked Archaeologist (he wasn't naked, lol). And these are just shows I remember off the top of my head. There were so many other documentary shows that were great. Science channel is still good, if I can actually find a documentary on there when how its made isn't on. There was a documentary about the worlds monster frogs last weekend that was great. Discovery channel used to be the best, but it turned to utter shit with reality shows. It was only good for Mythbusters, but once Discovery started airing fake documentaries, I stopped watching 90% of it's content. They're fixing that now, but the channel is still tainted to me: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/09/discovery-channel-fake-shows_n_6445982.html I also like watching the Destination America channel for BBQ pitmasters, other BBQ shows and paranormal shows about different monsters. This channel is a trip. Where else can you get BBQ and ghosts in back to back episodes? Unfortunately alot of it's paranormal shows are turning into dumb reality shows like rip off ghost hunters and watching red necks running through the woods looking for monsters with night vision cameras and shotguns. Guess how many monsters they've found? None. Just like the "Finding Bigfoot" idiots on animal planet, they'll never find a damn thing because they keep screaming in the woods in the middle of the night. Its been years guys, change your strategy. All monster hunters, stop screaming in the woods, be like ninjas. Travel Channel has one of the best documentary style shows ever. Expedition Unknown. They bought the Destination Truth show from Syfy, renamed it and changed it from paranormal investigations to historical investigations. The episode about the viking sunstone was amazing. Josh Gates actually went to the locations, literally went into a mine to get the exact rock that the vikings would make a sunstone out of, found experts, turn the rock into a sunstone, fully explained how it works and how to use it.. then got on a viking ship and used it and proved it was legitimate. Epic. And thats just one of the numerous episodes. I love that series, I have about 10 more eps on my dvr I need to catch up on.
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    YT thread

    Sledgstone replied to Pchan's topic in Random

    Imagine being his neighbor. I bet they hate this guy. They probably go into their own backyard and see random splat crap of stuff this guy exploded on their trees all the time. He must have some good insurance from his work, because he could loose a finger any day now. I've never seen a big bug screen structure like that over a pool before. Something like that would never survive in a region that gets any snow.
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    That does look great. Its about time History started making some more documentaries I'd actually like. Have you seen History's "Battles BC" series yet? This looks exactly like the same format of that show. Battles BC: "Featuring cutting-edge animation techniques and the expertise of military historians, this eight-episode series explores the strategies, tactics and weapons used by ancient commanders such as Hannibal, David, Caesar and Alexander." It was a great series, but it was on the H2 channel that is now gone forever. This is the first show that would have been on H2 that is finally going to be on the actual History channel. When they canceled the H2 channel and turned it into the "Vice" channel (absolute crap now, I'd rather watch the Oprah channel over the shit shows on that network.), they said "the H2 shows we know and love will be produced for the History channel". Its been 3 months since then and this is the first show that I can tell by the trailer would have been on the H2 channel. I'm glad they're actually keeping their word now. I miss H2, that was my go to channel. ;_;
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    That sizzle reel.. Awesome. I loved my Voltron toys when I was a kid and that clip is amazing. Voltron battling in space!? epic. But that other clip looks like The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra style animation. While not bad, it does seem inconsistent to swap between standard animation and cg animation, especially when they seem to have different fps to me.
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    http://kotaku.com/amds-new-radeon-rx-480-is-vr-ready-for-200-1779922256 I think I found the next graphics card I'm going to buy. I like Nvidia, but this price point is very impressive and within my budget. $200 for a card the equivalent of a GTX 980 and I won't even need to upgrade my power supply to run it. But I might still go with a nvidia since this will force the price of gtx 950, 960, 970 and 980 way down to compete with this price point. Depending on the sales at the end of this month, I might opt to save some cash and buy a cheaper nvidia 960 4gb (it'd have to be around the $100 mark at this point to compete with the price/power ratio of this new rx 480) and buy one of the 1070s or a newer nvidia lower end next gen cards when they get potentially released at the end of the year.
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    YT thread

    Sledgstone replied to Pchan's topic in Random

    That sumo's boob..
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    Alot of the assistance is approved based on the amount of children you have. The more children, the more assistance. I know someone that was rejected because it was just him and his wife and they couldn't manage all the bills with the income he had. But because he had a steady job and they had no children they didn't see him as needing help. The person told him that if they had at least 1 kid with this same income then they'd qualify for every program and would get roughly $1k a month in aid from welfare and food stamps combined. wtf. The system is setup in place to encourage people who can not afford children, to actively go out and have children just to get free money from the government. Compared to part time job at minimum wage, paying $350 a month in insurance (thats how much my plan would roughly cost for 2 adults and 1 kid), and then paying for a babysitter while that person is at their part time job.. its more economically viable to have a kid, quit your job, get on welfare and get free medicaid for the family. The welfare and food stamps combined will pay out more than 2 minimum wage jobs and free health care saves them enough money to pay $350 a month on a giant SUV lease. And as long as at least 1 of the parents works 1 part time job for at least 5 months in a year (enough to file taxes), they'll get earned income credit and child tax credits that pay out far more to them than they'll ever pay in taxes in any given year. Its messed up. (try it in tax software, make a dummy w2 where you make less than $15K, put in 3 children and a spouse and see how those tax credits come rolling in, they live completely tax free. and the welfare and food stamps don't get added in in tax returns since its all tax free too.) The government basically pays impoverished people to reproduce and not work. I had neighbors that played the system. The more I looked into the more I understood how they were working it all. And yeah.. when tax time came around I saw 3 new HD TV empty boxes out on the curb on trash day and some boxes for new bluray players and a game console. Then they'll go out on the first of every month to go grocery shopping. (edit) I have to mention this. Its because of people like this there are the proposals of minimum wage getting increased to $15 an hour. $15 an hour is pretty much the minimum anyone will need to be making to no longer quality for welfare and foodstamps and it would actually give people an incentive to actually work because with a full time job, they should be making more than what all the public assistance combined should be paying out. The real question is whether people will actually do the work or if they will just keep working the system. But even then the $15 minimum wage isn't a good idea imo because minimum wage jobs really are supposed to be a stepping stone to a better job. Or is supposed to be initial jobs for america's youth.
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    Holy crap. Along with the new graphics cards its a completely different generation of PC gaming than it was just 6 months ago.
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    I think the biggest issue with the ppl you're describing is that they are idiots with their finances. I've been in DSS lines before and I've seen those exact ppl you're talking about. They literally show up to apply for welfare and food stamps with gold chains on, $300 Jordans, the newest iPhone and they never actually buy a car either. It's always a lease of something they could never afford to buy. All their money literally goes to their own personal presentation and lifestyle. And after buying all that crap they have no money for food or rent. 90% of the ppl I've seen like that actually live with their parents or grandparents or with 5 friends in a 2 bedroom apartment because they can't pay bills because "they're poor". They wouldn't be poor if they'd actually live within their means. I really don't understand that lifestyle. Some people would rather spend every last dime they have to try and impress others than to actually improve their lives. Its like they're living an MMO fantasy with fashion wars / jewelry, phone, shoes, and mounts / cars as the endgame. Whenever I see someone looking all flashy I think to myself, damn that guy is struggling hard with life. The more bling someone has the more I assume they're basically living free off of someone else while they spend all their money and potentially the governments money on themselves. I've used food stamps before and I know other ppl now that still use them. At least they're the ppl literally struggling to pay their bills and improve their kids lives but the news will never show the actual kids that are starving at a DSS because if they go there to interview ppl they'll come across all those assholes wearing 10 pounds of gold and chatting on their cell phones. Btw, my bro talked to a time warner rep yesterday. This guy told him the network improvements were because of the charter deal. It had nothing to do with time warner doing good with their customers. It was charter telling them to fully utilize their network because they felt time warner was screwing their customers.
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    Only $400-600 a year.. wow. Thats such a small amount compared to everything I'm used to. My parents would often put $10-$20 a week into the church collection plate every sunday. I mention it because thats over $400 a year and not even close to the 10% of income the catholic church wants people to donate. The churches in your region are probably way more funded than your school system. I agree that I don't mind paying taxes for things that the state needs too that benefits the future, but its hit a saturation point here as far as I'm concerned. The taxes go up every year regardless of the economy and they still don't have enough money to fix the bridges or infrastructure. The school budget here goes up over $1 million dollars a year. Every year without fail. Which causes everyone's taxes to go up about $28 or so a year.. every year. And thats just the school tax. The property taxes keep going up to the point, that after a 30 year mortgage, people won't have the extra cash from paying off a house to actually retire with. Because after 30 years of tax increases, the taxes will be so high that the money that would be saved from not paying a mortgage will now go directly to taxes.
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    A city that doesn't cater to big businesses? Wow. Most of upstate NY is property tax free for almost any large business company. Its ridiculous and encourages insane poverty here IMO. NY state is the only state that pushes the cost of medicaid onto the counties instead of the state paying for it. Then the state also mandates what services medicaid must cover. So all the counties here pay for it and everything else with some of the highest property taxes in the country. Unless you're a giant business.. then they don't pay a dime (at least around here). And in turn, everyone else's property taxes keep skyrocketing every year. Most people I know have to pay as much as $4,000 a year in property taxes. Thats over $300 a month just in taxes, not counting the actual mortgage. Sure there is a "STAR" property tax relief, but it doesn't knock the rate down low enough. https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/property/star/ Back when I used to play Sim City, I'd raise the tax rates like crazy and then speed up time to get more cash to play around with. Every time I did that the city turned to crap everything would turn into dilapidated buildings and infrastructure. Its a bit more f*cked up when you live in an area being taxed to death for so long that you actually see those same results over time in real life. I'm just glad I live in a small town instead of one of the larger cities. And I'm only talking about upstate NY. NY city isn't even part of this state in comparison to this region. Back on the subject of internet tho. We have Verizon Fios all over the place here (no data caps), but I'll never see it in my town because of that exclusivity crap Time Warner got. The thing that amazes me now is that my Time Warner connection is now faster than the fiber optic connection Verizon offers. Except for the upload. Verizon Fios internet has the same upload rate as the download. Their 100 Mbps connection is 100 Mbps upload too. I bet anyone that streams would love that. They could stream games in 4K with an upload rate like that.
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    I started Starcraft 2 tonight. I'm only did the first 2 prologue missions and I quickly remembered just how bad I am playing as Protoss. X_x 

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I loved a full carrier build with Protoss whenever I used them before. I've done some more missions and the Spear of Adun upgrades make Protoss OP. lol. I pumped all my solarite into the middle upgrades to increase build time and initial supply. And the remaining solarite goes to the vespine gas auto assumulator function. That is the most convenient upgrade ever. Gas in the second prologue mission was a pain and now I never even think about gas again. Along with upgrading all my gateways into warpgates, these Protoss have incredibly fast build rates with crazy power. O_O Warp gates make all the difference. It lowers the build time of all the powerful units to be the same as zealots. Thats nuts. I use the Spear of Adun's pylon deployment and then instant warp in half an army on demand. I've gotten used to making 3 warp gates now and I have a constant flood of new troops. I'll attack some enemy base, drop a pylon at the edge of it, warp in reinforcements and I win every fight with ease now on normal difficulty.

      I don't even use stalkers anymore. I go with the dragoons because their upgrade requires no involvement from me and the stalkers need me to blink them around to get their shield regen. I ain't got time to micro manage that. XD My build order so far as turned into making 2 warp gates as fast as possible and making a bunch of zealots and dragoons and then make a 3rd warp gate and dark templar statue thing and getting some dark templars. I just got the stargate and robotics buildings unlocked so once I get carriers available I'm sure I'll change up some of my strategy.

    2. Strider Hiryu

      Strider Hiryu

      I'm thinking I'm going to have to ditch Stalkers myself after the mission to obtain the Keystone (yea, I'm just getting to Shakuras to get the Dark Templar (I'm doing a mission a day)). Stalkers are just so freaking weak and hybrids tear through them like they're nothing (then again Dragoons weren't all that powerful either in the original Starcraft). I'm loving Immortals though, anti-hybrid weapons if I've ever seen them. I'm also thinking of going over the the DT version of zealots. I love the new warglaive zealots alot, especially with their whirlwind ability but they just don't seem as fast as their original forms.

      The increased build time and increased starting capacity are a necessity and I went straight for them as well (I'm ok with the first two SoA abilities so I see no need to go further for now). Gateways are a god send, without them I'd of gotten my ass handed to me more then once in these beginning missions. The ability to warp in units where ever you have a Pylon is amazing, Blizzard really showed the Toss some love in this game. I'm really liking this games play style so much more then WoL and HoS (both great systems in their own right) but I'm just loving how the Protoss work (and the fact that we get a massive ship to help us out). I just wish they'd of released this earlier but that's just my Protoss Master Race side speaking (they've always been my favorite faction in SC).

    3. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I'm also trying to do one mission a night until the weekend, but didn't have the time last night to get my mission in. The Sentinel zealot upgrade seems pretty damn nice. Auto rebuild looks quite effective, but I'm still using the auir zealots with their whirlwind ability. They seem to destroy crap so much faster that I don't have to worry about them dying as often. I'm sticking with them atm because it feels like a berserker strategy, kill the enemies before they kill you and its working out good for me so far.

      I upgraded my Immortals to Annihilators and never looked back. Screw having double shields when I can go full offensive. The Annihilator's cannon attack can hit air or ground units and is OP as all hell. XD It makes terrain tanks look weak in comparison now and these things don't have to go into siege mode. I have to micro manage that cannon, but with the damage those units do, its worth it. A couple of these in my zerg and they take out hybrids in seconds.

      I need to re-learn some keyboard shortcuts. I figured out a couple days ago that I can hit tab while commanding a large group to swap between the different units in that group. That makes micro managing so much easier. Now when I go into a fight, I tab over to the sentries and pop their shields, tab over to my templars for their lightning attack, tab over to my annihilators to shadow cannon big targets. I'm going to look up a couple more keyboard techniques on youtube to make my experience more enjoyable. I'm having a blast with this game. :D

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    Holy crap. that is some horrible Internet there. And I thought my lack of options was bad. Meanwhile my dad in Ohio has 3 different cable broadband providers that he keeps switching between because each one keeps offering him new customer deals. He switches providers about once a year. It's kind of odd to. There's only the one cable line that goes to his house that's actually owned by time warner, but these other cable companies lease access to the network like how cricket wireless will use Verizon or AT&T's network. So even tho he changes providers, he only has to swap out the cable box and modem. Where I live that's not an option tho because time warner got exclusive provider rights with its network here in this town thru some shady back door deal as far as I know.
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    Thats some corporate greed right there. There would be not justification for Time Warner to put a cap in place at this point. They can't even use an excuse like "our network can only handle so much traffic". Thats obviously not the case since they're drastically increasing everyones speed at no extra cost. But with the price they charge for cable packages and internet, we've all been paying that cost for years now. Even Windstream's crappy DSL service here doesn't have a data cap.
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    No data cap here. I've never had a broadband connection with a data cap before in Ohio or NY. I think only Comcast and AT&T impose data caps on their customers. I couldn't imagine having a data cap with the amount of Netflix I stream. x_x
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    It is my router that is capping my speed. Look at this speed test when I'm connected to the modem directly: I still don't like the wifi strength of the Arris modem, so unless I buy a better wifi router to replace my existing belkin one, I'll just call up time warner and lower my package to save some money. I'm used to having only a 30 Mbps connection, and 200+ is just overkill for me right now. (Edit) I forgot to mention, I changed my modem to "bridged mode" and my PS4 is having no problem whatsoever with NAT issues like what I mentioned in this topic. All those other settings like port forwarding, etc. are all pointless with NAT issues if using a separate modem and router. Just set that modem to bridge mode and all the NAT errors are resolved. Of course that doesn't help me with my speed situation. I could direct connect my main PC to the modem to get these insane speeds, but then my PC would have none of the protection of the router firewall, NAT, etc. because I still need my modem to be in bridged mode for my PS4 which is connecting wirelessly. Arris modem's wifi's signal is crap or I'd just use it. But its all good, I'll be lowering my internet plan to 100 Mbps anyway so it doesn't bother me.
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    I have a cheap Belkin router, its supposed to do "150Mbps (for 2.4GHz), 300Mbps (for 5GHz)", but I've never had an internet connection faster than 30 Mbps before to actually test those numbers. According to Time Warner's site, I'm supposed to have a 200 Mbps connection now. Either the connection is only around 94 Mbps and my router isn't transferring fast, or my internet connection isn't no where near 200 Mbps and its actually about half that. Thats still a better connection that my one friend's DSL service. Hes just out of range of Time Warner and the best package he can get is 10 Mbps down and 1 (maybe) Mbps upload. And with Netflix HD usually needing 10 Mbps by itself, his internet is horrible.
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    I hooked up my new modem today. I'm currently getting speeds of 94 Mbps download and 24.05 Mbps upload. Not bad, but thats through my wireless router and not directly connected to the Modem. I have a feeling my wireless router is showing it's limitations now. I still have to change some of my modem settings to bridge mode to not screw my router's NAT settings. I might just plug my PC directly into the modem later and try the speed test thru it as a comparison.
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    A year after they said it would come out in September of 2015, we now have this promotional video: “And make the bad guys cry like an anime fan on prom night” With the amount of money this game got from kickstarter, I'm really surprised the graphics quality isn't far more impressive than this. And it looks like they went overboard with the dashing. If 95% of the game is having to stare at that dashing animation and endless explosions caused by that dashing animation, I won't be rushing to buy this.
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    I noticed Battleborn got a $20 price cut the other day to try and compete with Overwatch, and then I saw that Overwatch dropped by $10 today too. By black friday, I bet I can pick up both games for $20 each if I haven't bought them by then. Genji as a counter to Bastion makes so much sense. I never got a chance to try him in the beta, but I do remember that bullet deflecting being a pain in my ass.
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