Up persuasion right away. Once you max it, you can just keep picking the green speeches and you’ll always succeed.

I’d place Big Fish much higher, especially over Dark Shadows. Yeh, it’s corny at times, but also kinda delightful and the episodic nature of it works well...

Apparently he was “behind himself with grief” I mean give him a break!!!

Well it’s official. Che is an asshole. I’m sorry, but not all stand ups, and especially the great ones, trash their exes for laughs. I’ve seen a lot of great stand up comedians and not a one said a word about a former partner. Even if they talk about their current spouse, it’s usually a man talking about how his wife…

Note to Hollywood execs who treat DEI as just another quota to meet:

We’re not going to get a real-life version of Running Man, are we?

I think the initial clip is perfect in its length and the use of a single (and perfect) location gives it a fun, tossed-off vibe. The full-length video feels a lot more deliberately jokey and less concerned with nailing an aesthetic. But hey, if this helps him sell some singles and maybe chart in some capacity, groovy.

It’s really not terribly difficult.  If you can take apart an Xbox controller, you should be able to solder without too many problems.  If you have any dead controllers, you can practice on those.  Otherwise, you can practice soldering on a piece of perf board.

I think calling Cocaine Bear a bad movie is reductive, but I did find it tonally schizophrenic. The trailers marketed it as a horror comedy, but there are some weird dramatic turns throughout, and Isiah Whitlock gives what I can charitably call a “confused” performance. The pivot toward tepid family drama during the…

They should develop and sell a hall-effect joystick and trigger conversion kit. Now that 3rd parties are selling controllers and kits, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo no longer have any excuses. If they keep using actuators, they might as well admit they purposefully designed controllers to fail, so we have to buy new…

I think society changed enough since then that we all collectively realized how silly it was that we prudishly shamed Reubens for doing a totally harmless normal thing, and Reubens felt that.

But the way they handled story/content progression,

Vulnerable damage is still the best thing to spec into, by far. It’s just that you need even more of it now than you did before. Isn’t that fun?

Yeah I was waiting to play again till season one and now I probably just wont’ play again. I got my $70 worth but it’s time to move on. 

I mean, there are reasons but none of them are good. It sucks!

Invigorating strike is not really good imo. In most builds you want to be well over 50% energy almost all of the time to get the full benefits of Edgemaster which is one of the strongest aspects so you don’t get to apply vulnerable with it.

Puncture is super fun, especially when you unlock the version that throws three knives and triggers vulnerable. It’s great fun watching the health bar slide away with a poison DOT, vulnerable debuff, and Rapid Fire just hammering away at a boss.

I’ve also been having success with a poison trap build. I haven’t really tried penetrating shot; I’ve been using Rapid Fire.

Oppie jamming out to Its The End of the World As We Know It is a real choice. 

Yeah, seriously. The fact that I pull up the list of Xbox games on my Series X and can see games I bought for the 360 over 15 years ago and they just work without any trouble is possibly the BEST thing about the console.