On the other hand I was stunned by how good the writing and dialogue was from what I’d played.

Meanwhile, here in Missouri, our piece of shit “governor” purposely botched the rollout of the vaccine to stick it to the two urban areas in the state that went blue. There are frequently hundreds of doses being thrown away in rural areas, meanwhile we have hundreds of thousands of people waiting for them.

I had a friend who got his power shut off many years ago, and it was after several months of not paying or trying to work anything out. The stack of warnings and stuff he had was probably a good 6-8" tall.

Holy shit. I’d be pissed. I don’t get non-pizza delivery because it’s expensive, but that’s insane. Having said that, it’s damn near $30 for my wife and I to eat there now with the same basic order (2 burgers, 1 fry)... which is one of the reasons we don’t go very often, but $50 is crazy.

With the pandemic, my wife and I found out pretty quick that Five Guys doesn’t travel well. The 15ish minutes from either of the locations to our house is probably about 14 minutes too long for both the burger and fries to not be unwrapped/un-bagged. Between the seemingly never-ending price increases on the burgers…

Some people aren’t able/willing to put time into learning. MHW was my first foray into the franchise, but practice and learning are huge.  I can’t imagine trying to play a MH game without going through a tutorial as a new player.

Why not both?

I guarantee you that it doesn’t matter how well (or not well) it’s handled, the result will be the same.  Perfect will eternally be the enemy of good.

a pair of outlandishly racist cops

I haven’t played Wolcen since probably the second or third week after launch, so I should probably give it another shot... but it had a lot of ideas I liked and some really cool skills, but balance was atrocious.

Yeah, a friend streamed it over Discord for a while and I watched.  It looks good.  After Wolcen I was pretty wary of slow development early access ARPG’s, but I think I’ve heard/seen enough good about it to pick it up.

Valheim is still going strong with me, though I’ve kind of dropped back on playing. Summoning the mountain boss sounds like a massive pain in the ass solo, so I’ll probably end up hopping over to a friend’s server, maybe work on upgrading my wolf armor and two fancy new weapons.

Evolve was totally a victim of bad timing.

This is a much bigger issue than drivers knowing how to get through them (which is definitely also an issue).

Counterpoint, Classic is ridiculously easy when everything is figured out for you already, and served as a cesspit for super sweaty nerds to relive the old days of “requiring” others to play ridiculous amounts of time to complete 15 year old, 100% solved content. Every single raid tier was cleared was cleared within…

If she did decide she wanted to come back, I could even see her ending up in the role that Fury was playing... big picture leadership/handler type. She was already doing that at the beginning of Endgame - I wouldn’t mind seeing her do that in less depressing circumstances.

Yeah, same.  It’s a resource hog for no apparent reason.

I think we’re a ways out from a true Avengers movie, so I think they have time to move the pieces in place, but here’s a very rough outline of where I could see it going.

Hordes of unattended children, obviously.

It seems like a lot of people are convinced she’s (as in ScarJo) coming back, but she is likely ready to be done with it, at least “full time”. It’s fairly likely to me that the the Black Widow movie, coming as late as it did in both the MCU and IRL timeline, serves to give a second fiddle character her own movie and…