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I honestly don't remember, but I think some of the stuff was available in sets at a discount.

Honestly, I could even deal with that (I wasn’t remotely happy, but...); what really pissed me off was that, even if you bought every last bit of DLC and every last MT item available, you’re damned butler would still “remind” you to check out the store, every time you returned to your sanctuary (I think that’s what it…

I’m pretty sure that it’s since become a load-bearing game case, and removal would likely cause the building to collapse.

I really hope they don’t, mainly because I hate the current trend in gaming to cut half the lore out of games and force players to read books and comics or watch some movie just to get a full understanding of the story. I get that it’s an easy way to make money, but I draw the line at DLC - let your game tell your…

The texture quality would still have been somewhat limited by the system’s processing power, and Nintendo’s cartoonish style meant they could use a lot of solid colors, so the actual noticeable texture quality improvements would likely have been fairly minimal; the texture variety, on the other hand, would probably…

The fact that they managed to get something remotely game-like working on what was essentially a CD video player is actually impressive - we’ve all seen (except for the youngin’s) those horrible wannabe quasi-games that were released for DVD players back in the day, using the remote as a controller (and i use that…

Well, no one signed to an agency would be able to just apply, their agency would do the paperwork. And if you’re building a new idol unit, having them already be signed effectively means they are off the market, so that part makes sense - a VA gig is one thing, but an agency won’t willingly hand over their talent for…

Sounds like you still are - I suddenly gained 40 pounds over 3 months at 29, and it took ages at 1,200 calories a day to get rid of it (and tons of working out to make sure I wasn’t just loosing muscle mass). I’d kill for just 10 pounds at 50 :)

But then he would have had to go through the divorce the traditional way, and those things can get expensive quick.

The event itself kind of reminds me of Freespace 2, where (and forgive me if I mess up the details, it’s been over a decade since i last played it) the human/alien alliance secretly build a giant supership to take down the massive enemy dreadnought leading the invasion, and, after they finally manage it and everyone…

I hate you for keeping that metabolism until your late 40's... Mine suddenly petered out in my late 20's, and I went from a steady weight and body-fat percentage at 4k calories a day to a steady gain in both at 1.9k calories a day, with no change in exercise.

Hey, be proud, you managed to type all that without using the word ‘poop’ once. I think I’ve probably used it more in this single thread than I have in the past 10 years in either written or spoken form.

I eat way less and far healthier than I used to, but poop far more often (usually 2-3 times a day), so I think it’s a little more complex.

For all of you running to your doctor terrified of cancer from a little blood in your stool, if it’s bright red, there’s a good chance it’s simply hemorrhoids or an anal fissure - which you probably should still have looked at; if it’s dark red, it’s likely something less fun (though it could still be any number of…

Your profile pic is the perfect combination of terrifying and epilepsy-inducing.

It always made me think that ME-Universe soldiers probably die horribly embarrassing deaths relatively frequently - just imagine hooking your pistol to your back to go for your shotgun while rushing for cover, only for it to get caught on something as it folds up, leaving you hanging out in the open. You get shot in…

I can definitely empathize with what you went through. For me (working as an independent consultant), the most draining aspect isn’t necessarily any sort of pressure I feel during my free time to be working instead, but rather that the lines between the two become so blurred sometimes that I end up more or less just…

I really enjoyed the concept, the universe it was set in, and the fiction in general, but I was severely disappointed that it played much more like a single-player MMO than an RPG (or ARPG). The world was just so static, and almost nothing you did had any real impact outside of that specific questline, never to be…

I wonder if the generalized buff is in any way strategically related to base Destiny 2 being "free" with PS+ this month? I.e., make the droves of new free players feel extra-badass to motivate them to buy expansions, then return balance to the Force once the buying rush has subsided? Or maybe I'm just cynical.