He's behaving very differently than he was just last season, so I'd go with the former.

Exactly, yeah.

That would explain why they felt it so important for him to come back, I suppose.

Yeah, the level requirements are a bit looser than it might appear at first. It's entirely possible to do quests several levels higher than you are so long as you play carefully, but it being a lower level than you doesn't always equate to it being something you can just bulldoze through, either.

Only partway through myself, but what seems to be the case is that most of the XP you need to properly level up is actually derived from the main story line, not the side quests. I had a similar hump to get over in the early levels (getting from 4 to 8, basically), but just commit to doing a couple of the Baron…

After years of hearing of it only as the butt of jokes, I was shocked - shocked! - to eat there once and discover that it was mostly… fine? Like, I'm sure none of it was "healthy" but if you're on a road trip and need to load up on carbs, you're not gonna hate yourself afterwards.

It'd be a lot easier to buy that argument if it wasn't also what people said about the GOP during the entire election. Only three party members broke rank on the bill.

Exactly, yeah.

Divinity: Original Sin is becoming a strong contender for one of the best co-op experiences I've ever had.

Seconding on Kane & Lynch 2. In some places it really stands out how much it's cut from the mid-aughts 3rd person cover shooter template (see: the helicopter level, the goddam airport level) but overall I just love how it's so sleazy and grimy and frantic in this sneakily charming sort of way.

That Ogre Battle sounds both amazing and like it it's very smart about some things that a lot of RPGs in the intervening decades have been very dumb about, which… says a lot.

Not impressed unless Batman's armor is literally falling apart until he's shirtless, ala Prince of Persia.

Man, if "gives good cranky" isn't already slang for dishing out handjobs, it really ought to be.

Mummy's Red Shoe Diaries.

I too am so completely incapable of actual thought when viewing a film that I need even the most basic of fucking subtexts to be explicitly laid out for me. Thanks, Internet!

Nah man I'm pretty sure that scene just sort of happened organically and wasn't meant to contribute anything to the movie in any meaningful way.

One where everyone makes it out with their limbs/lives intact, I should clarify.

Adapting Scandinavian cop shows is passe now. All the hot shit is coming out of Eastern Europe.

Truly, this is the Darkest Timeline.

Hey now, let's not get ahead of ourselves here.