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the various live-streams of Stellar Blade have already begun, of course

Megatron is one of those unusual cases where a change ended up being better. Him having a tank alternate form is definitely cooler and more fitting, imo.....as opposed to a dinky little normal-sized handgun.

the seasons in Diablo 3 are still going---- yep, I jumped into that yet again with a new character; already completed the "challenge rift" to start him off with a few million gold and resources, of course. It's been a few months since I last played this. ...but of course later today or some time this weekend it will be Stellar Blade time as well. It doesn't take up that much space, at least compared to the typical bloated mainstream game these days (ah this modern era where almost no one in the industry cares anything about compression)... Stellar Blade is 30 gigs.

I recently bought The Darkness on sale on Xbox... it and the sequel are frequently on sale for super cheap prices, like 2 or 3 bucks usually. Strange thing is that the character and concept and art/design always stood out as cool to me, though I never got around to buying the comics back in the 90s....kept putting it off but never got to it...I was all in on the hype of Spawn and some other Image books at the time. ....and WHERE the hell is Spawn in videogames these days? I don't think he's been in anything aside from fighting game cameos in the past several years, and that's a shame.

Melissa finally posted something again https://youtu.be/6uIKaQ6Euck

I wonder how many of these people enjoying the Fallout show jumped into the games out of curiosity thinkning---- "...hmmm...maybe I'll check out that latest one, Fallout 76... it's probably cool, right?" Famous last words there 🤣 I still have no idea how anyone checked that out for even 5 seconds of research thinking it would be something good....other than hardcore Fallout fans that just happened to be desperate for anything new in the franchise at the time. It's firmly in that "...not even if it was free." category for me....get that hilariously awful looking wack ass nonsense out of here. Sometimes it's just fun to spew some hate, y'know? This reminds me to check in on what's going on with the few remaining Redfall fans.... 😆 Good thing I made sure to dodge that disaster....such a shame though; I was interested in it at first.

currently on MST3k marathon--- "Wonder Women"---- a 70s-era exploitation flick with quite a bit of eye-candy....there's already been upskirt/panty shots and plenty of legs, etc.... yes yes back when the "male gaze" was fine and celebrated all the time....

Interesting.... but this is already frustrating me because it appears like there is no character creation here...?! I'll never quite get why superhero games with customization are such a rare thing. I only remember there being ....three in all of gaming history!? (Freedom Force and... City of Heroes I think it was called...? ...and then of course DCUO) That's pitiful. Just give us something more like DCUO again and again, where the player makes their own superhero *or* villain.....not sure why that's such a rare concept in videogames. At this point even my precious vampire-related videogames have finally become more common than this idea. ....and again I'm wondering.... why is Marvel's weak bitch-ass NOT trying anything similar to compete directly with DCUO in all these years? That game originally came out 13 years ago, and it's like they're too scared, dumb or unimaginative to bother trying. Pitiful.

BG3-- heh, one of my victims continues to stand out in memory of so many good times of my being unnecessarily evil in this game...a little dwarf shop owner that I had just completed a quest for...soon as that was over and I got my exp....we closed the doors of his shop so no one could be a witness... and he would become my first trial of using the "mind-blast" power (this looks really cool, btw...I love the visuals they use for the powers in this game). He was just an ordinary citizen; low HP...so of course it instantly killed him. Minthara would then have fun throwing his corpse around the shop for a while. I also made sure to loot his corpse to get back an item I sold to him earlier. On another note--- Warhammer Rogue Trader is on sale on Steam at the moment; I've been considering that one.

That's a powerful stain there...imagine someone who sees this and still buys the pants....

Interesting----I just haven't got into Last Epoch *yet*... He cites one problem being a lacking endgame situation... I was thinking it's the classic problem of there just being too much other good stuff out there at the moment that's still fresh. I'm still hooked on Baldur's Gate of course...and then Dragon's Dogma 2 also just came out....and this is just 2 of the major games that have been released lately that can easily get people hooked for a long time. Competition for the player/audience's time in the games industry at the moment is so much more than it once was.

Claire once again with more:

I recently found there's alternate "star moves" in Streets of Rage 4 that are unlocked in that brilliant Survival mode... I got Shiva's and someone else so far; usually Shiva is one of my regular picks so that is more fresh on my mind at the moment... his alternate is that cool move he does as a boss character, where he summons 1 or 2 ghost clones of himself as backup....and of course this gets extra crazy in Survival since there's a powerup you can get where your star move also summons missiles from the sky. Yeah, randomized "Survival" mode in beatemups should just be a standard thing from now on.... it is one of the greatest new ideas anyone has added to the genre. Random vid I just searched that has some good info/commentary about the greatness (and features the legendary main man Shiva) ohhh I didn't realize "Fly Kick" was THAT damn good.... oh yeah that's getting picked next time for sure...

Amala digs into some modern female goofiness again here... doesn't surprise me that some of them would answer the question that way... sometimes you have to remember that a lot of people out there are just dumb.

ah yes, a vid where he covers the brilliance of the "nemesis" system.. ...such a shame that WB successfully put a patent on that to lock it down. *imagine what it could be in a superhero game.... or other action genres....such a genius-level innovation, whoever thought of it.

so apparently Dig Dug is 42 years old today... I always loved that game of course games were way more simple in design back in those ancient times. I had it on the Atari 2600....the again and again on certain "Namco Classics" compilations I bought over the years.

hahah the zoom-in on that KOed dude in the one clip at the end was funny... that guy made him take a nap 😆 This guy probably just earned the nickname "One Punch Man" from his friends.

Raxx has his review of "No Rest for the Wicked" I'm loving the visual style of this game so far; I'll have to check it out soon.... *eh, not so sure I like hearing about the "gathering materials" thing... that seems to be a trend lately with games dishing out the "busywork" of cutting down trees and gathering stuff....usually that shit is just boring to me. I just generally want good combat action and cool, interesting lore concepts and story. *also it's concerning that he got thru apparently everything in such a short amount of time... they probably have more content planned though, I would assume.

As always... I can't get enough of women making themselves look foolish for everyone to see (of course with "The View" being a never-ending goldmine of material)....it never gets old It would be funny to see women try to get along and survive in a world where men either disappeared or just stopped caring at all about anything. See what happens when the majority of police, fire departments and armed forces suddenly were to vanish from the world....along with construction/electricians and carpentry, pest control, engineering, tech industry and whatever else helped build the comforts of modern 1st world society that most apparently take for granted.

that's strange----it's not like JLo needs digital/AI "help".....her body is already incredible by default. ...reminds me though---there is a "Celebrity Butts" subreddit; yep I go there on a regular basis... it's a good steady source of "material".

Oh yeah I'm looking forward to that with Baldur's Gate..... I finally got to the point where the mystery of "Dark Urge" is revealed (act 3). The downside here for me is that the air of mystery in a story always makes things more interesting, imo... I suppose the player's imagination can still always just fill in the blanks or pretend it's something else going on with your character's backstory. On another character that's STILL in the Underdark of act 1(!)... I ran into some other robot "Bernard" apparently powered by magical energy that spoke in poems or literature references, something like that... for some reason it started a fight so of course....had to kill them. Forcing some big fall-damage via "repelling" Eldritch Blast is always satisfying... in the combat log it showed it took 29 bludgeoning damage from the fall....heh, of course it didn't survive that....it was quite a long way down for that bot. The other "animated armor" enemies in the area were light work in comparison; they had no chance.

More of Megan...

I'm still laughing about that clip where the fat guy that tried shooting that dude in the truck later got popped into the air by that same dude in the truck; I saved the clip of course just in case it ever got taken down. Centuries later (assuming USA and English still exists), the name "Matt Booty" would still be funny. Imagine the teachers having to do the roll call and seeing that name the first time when he was a kid... "and.... uh... BOOTY, Matthew? Is that right? Matt.... Booty...?" <---you know damn well the whole class probably cracked up laughing as the teacher also tried to resist the urge to laugh at the name. I mentioned here it before, I think but I remember a guy that was in my old school marching band that has the last name "Faggett". I'd argue that's even worse than having "Booty" as the family name.

Castlevania "premium pack" for V-Rising https://www.instagram.com/p/C50sAHyqPhL/

another huge VTM lore vid I was watching recently; over an hour about one of the coolest clans ---- Tzimisce (They're known to represent shapeshifting/ flesh-sculpting body-horror x100000, basically)...