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yeah that's another one of the funny things about The Last Jedi fiasco.... Kelly is actually pretty cute, imo... but it looks like they actually tried to make her look terrible with that awful outfit and hairstyle.

Well, the countdown to the destruction of my staycation begins; it appears Dad is already on the road....I have numerous 10+ hour conversations/diatribes (and various "assignments"/advice/Life Coaching) to look forward to.  It's like if all the 24-hour cable-news networks merged with a history professor that does multi-hour lectures daily....and became a sentient being in the form of a human; that's my dear ol' Dad. 

there's so much going on in Vampyr, I'll have to keep some notes on the ongoing saga here....maybe space this out a bit more to reflect on awesome things as they happen and are revealed.  I'm quite powerful at this point; level 14 or so with several offensive options.... I kinda regret buying that blood barrier ability though.  A barrier ability that only defends you from ONE hit is kinda silly (*at least initially; I think it defends against more once leveled up)... it would make more sense if it just had the time limit; like a few seconds of absorbed hits, or it lasts until your stamina or blood meter run out, something like that....in just about all action games there's going to be a LOT more than just "one hit" coming at you.  I may reset my skills just to get rid of that and use the points on something else.

*Nicole Arbour popped up on the Steven Crowder youtube show recently so I was watching that... of course lots of hate-filled comments followed.  I often wonder if the hate towards her would be so strong if she happened to be ugly?  Yes I'm aware of the accusations, but I wonder if her looks are somehow a factor in the strong opinions people have about this broad? I don't really care what she's talking about either way; I'm just there to look and have freaky X-rated thoughts about her.  It's still amusing to me that so many people just go right along with Matt S. being supposedly straight... it's like an "Emperor's New Clothes" situation, man...the guy is SO damn flaming it's hilarious.  C'mon, bruh....Nicole was his "beard" for whatever reason....maybe even a mutual agreement for publicity or something...no way that relationship was a real thing; I have a tough time buying that.

I've become increasingly ruthless in Vampyr now... I fed on another citizen, and of course I'm getting much deeper into the story.  The lore they have going on here is DELICIOUS.  

*edit---oh yeah, my Mesmerize level went up to 2, finally...so of course this opens up my feeding options a bit more.  I went back and healed some folks at the hospital so that district's status is back to either high serious or stable.  There is one woman from Whitechapel that I dealt with by compelling/mesmerizing her to forget something....the humane alternative to killing her... but that district's condition worsened, and she is now "missing" 🤣

As I predicted, this is already one of my favorite games of all time.  It was guaranteed to place high in the elite ranks...simply due to the subject matter.

...this makes it all the more annoying that Dad will be on his way to barge in on my little vacation tomorrow. 😒

oh hey... Paladins for Switch?!?  Apparently so..

Another dose of my #1, the incredible Camila Banus.... wooo lawd yessss

ah, actually it was about 2000 subs he lost, it seems... it shows 184k now.

Tevin had a great stream about it here.  

GTG did a much shorter vid on the event here...

As with anything dsp-related, there is the suspicion that this was all another stunt.  I think it was actually for real though; I am a bit skeptical that he's really that clever and forward-thinking, y'know?  He doesn't seem like one to really plan some sort of "grand scheme" out that has multiple phases, but he did make at least about 800 bucks we know of yesterday from fan support during this latest "crisis", which is pretty damn good (*if you made 800 a day at a regular "9 to 5" Monday thru Friday, that works out to 208k a year.)

*Oh and he went back to stream a bit yesterday; Tevin's vid covers this detail if I recall, but occasionally during the live stream, he kept leaving for a few minutes to apparently delete various vids that would be "dangerous" to his channel under today's ultra PC/rated PG sensibilities. (i.e.-- his "Top 10 Racist Moments!" kind of stuff.  The old, infamous fap vid was back, along with his Call of Duty playthru where he jokingly imitated a WW2-era Nazi saying "turn on zee ovens now!" 🤣  YES, he actually kept this shit on the channel all this time, but set to "private".  EVERYTHING was public now.)

Sheeeeit, on another note, a 5-day weekend starts for me now.... too bad Dad has plans to crash my little staycation though 😞 (*so I will need to take another "real vacation" after this one...) I intend to get as much quality time with Vampyr as possible before he shows up of course.

Ohoooo the rabbit hole gets even deeper... apparently things got sorted out, so now his channel is back, no longer hidden.  Now...the thing here is that ALL his vids just re-appeared as if he re-uploaded them a few minutes ago....so this means that if you happen to be subscribed to Phil right now, your ENTIRE subscriptions page is nothing but dsp vids.  Shit is hilarious, man.... scrolling down and seeing nothing but that.  So...he was gone for a minute for apparently spamming, but now the channel has returned but as a result SUPER-spammed thousands of videos to everyone (even patreon vids previously set to "private")  I just unsubbed to get away from all of it so I could see my other channels again....and I'm sure others have unsubbed for that reason...he's already lost over 1,000 subs as I type this.

DSP's youtube channel is down apparently?  Of course the "detractors" are all over this... Argent is LIVE with a special report, folks

*probably auto-flagged for spam? (since he posts such a huge # of vids regularly)

*edit---damnnnn and it just occurred to me that this just happens to hit him mere days away from E3!  BRUH.... this latest story-arc in the ongoing DSP saga should be a good one..

So far, yeah... of course it's unfortunately not as flashy as a "stylish action" sort of thing, which is what I normally like...but it's good enough to work for me.  There's stamina to consider, as well as your blood "meter"...the amount of blood is of course your fuel for the major vampire powers (the cool shadow-dodge) is tied directly to stamina, apparently....you just have to be extra careful when fighting things that are more powerful/higher level of course.

Code Vein trailer just dropped WITH a date!!!  Yesssssssssssss [9/28/18]

There’s quite a few interesting dilemmas presented in Vampyr…

Currently there is a certain patient at the hospital that just happens to have delusions of being a vampire… occasionally “feeding” on another patient repeatedly… he allows it for various reasons, one of which is because due to his disfigured face, that will be the only attention he gets from women, if I recall. The guy that gets fed on by the delusional woman… he only requires a level 1 mesmorize to get so I could feed on and kill him. That raises the question though of how she will react to this… perhaps she blames herself, or (more likely) her delusional state continues and she moves on to other patients for regular “feeding”…patients who may not be down with a crazy woman biting them on occasion. Ohoooo It should be fun to see what happens here.

It would be interesting if I could actually turn this woman, making her delusions into a very real thing....surely the results of that situation would also be...."interesting"  😄

ohoooooo it looks like DSP has started playing my beloved game VAMPYR......I'm intrigued by how terrible this will be...already hoping for someone to do a "This is How You Don't Play.." version later.

sheeeeit, I should be sleeping right now though... I've been up since around 10-something last night, all thanks to that game.....yes I've actually been awake for....nearly 18 hours at this point.  It's surprising I haven't actually passed out yet.

yes yes yes SAVESAVESAVED like a muthafucka!  Woo lawd yes....  😳 

VAMPYR is finally officially mine!  ohhhhh and it's shaping up to be everything I was expecting so far.  At the moment, I've already fed on some roguish fellow over by the docks when you arrive at the hospital... seemed like the type that always starts trouble with people anyway... good riddance to some riff-raff of the town there.  Heh, his last thoughts were of anger and cursing the world.  He apparently has a wife... maybe she's due a visit from "the good doctor" as well.... 

this vid explains the social circle aspect of the game

I think Sinead still appears occasionally on Collider but that's about it... along with Perri and Emma, she's really the only cutie left on the channel, sadly.... not sure what the hell they were thinking dropping so much PRIME eye-candy lately.......losing Grace Hancock probably wasn't on them though since last I remember, she got some part in a movie (received the text from her agent while live on one of the shows, actually)

Finally, the Perfection that is Ashley Mova posted a couple of new things on her instagram

haha, some devs have absolutely no shame... I remember seeing Fighter's History back in the day and wondering "whoahhhhh how can they get away with that?"

I'm having to get caught up here... just saw episode 4 with the blind cannibals... and the new one is about to come on now so I'm *still* going to be 2 episodes behind...

The TnA report--- Tilda is actually looking quite nice this season.. she's coming along nicely, I see.... one to keep an eye on for sure.  I guessed correctly that she has some Greek in those genetics.  The name is Ally Loannides....nothing exceptionally sexy on her instagram page just yet but I'll be keeping tabs.

it's an odd little thing to me that I'm apparently the only person that is amused by the name of that guy "Ben Jealous" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jealous 

How long you been jealous, Ben Jealous?

sheeeeit, I've been on a streak of good luck with random teams in Gears 4 Horde lately.... went all the way to wave 50 on 3 occasions today.  My Engineer is up to level 9 at this point, heavy is about to hit 8 and Scout is well into 8 as well... I also leveled up the health bonus on Scout so now he has +100% Health....naturally this character class is super easy mode since that 1 skill means you have up to double the health....and he has other defensive/tanking skills too, like increased regeneration and a skill where you gain a % of health each time you're hitting enemies either with melee or shotgun.

Lootbox shit in this game (*it's unavoidable, sadly)---Elite Pack is the box to get, btw... I've acquired legendary stuff much more often from those.  Heh, for some reason they gave me the Zombie Minh character 3 times today; I already have him so that was some big-time scrap right there.

haha, might not be a problem finding an empty theater... a certain friend sent me a pic of how empty the theater was when he went...it looked like there was literally no one else in there.  ....and we know now that it only made 103 mil over the Memorial Day weekend, which should be an embarrassment for something that is part of one of the biggest franchises in the history of film.  I think this has been a result of 2 critical things...

1. Was anyone really clamoring for a film about this character?

2. Episode 8 being probably the most divisive SW movie ever made, with a lot of folks just not liking it at all....this  has unfortunately poisoned the well, so to speak....heh, like everyone was having fun at the pool party, and some asswipe comes along and shits in the pool.

For a while I still had hope that Episode 9 might save things (*perhaps if they just disregard or pretend various things in 8 never really happened...haha like DB Super goes on as if nothing in DBGT ever happened 🤣)....but I'm not so sure about that anymore.

nah.... I was excited for Detroit: Become Human....until I saw exactly what type of "game" it was.  I'm just not down with those that are in the "interactive movie" category.

Vampyr is available as a digital "pre-order" right now, so I went on and got it already... it becomes officially available that way by 11 pm central time on Monday....hell fucking YEAH I will be on that immediately.  I'm actually intending to sleep early so I can wake up fully rested and ready to start that game ASAP.

So far the only things I'd probably have done differently if I designed the game--- give Dr. Reid a variety of outfits in the game, and some customization of his face and hairstyles...similar to how "Commander Shepherd" is still a set character but can be visually customized in Mass Effect.  I'd also go on to include some other major supernatural things like ghosts, witches and of course werewolves.   For a sequel, my vampire game would have co-op/multiplayer as well...and I'd include different eras of time.  There's so many awesome gaming possibilities with vampires and the lore around them...it's bizarre that it's not a more common subject/inspiration for a video game.

7 MORE DAYS until VAMPYR, folks... it's unfortunate that few others share my enthusiasm for vampire and various other supernatural stuff, but words really can't describe my hype level for this damn game, man... I'm not sure if I want to get the physical or digital version of this first copy (yes... I intend to get it on both systems...probably on PC too once I get a better one in the near future)...apparently at least on Xbox 1, it's playable as of 11 pm Central time on Monday if you pre-order...then again unless it "pre-loads" or something there's also the time of installation to consider.  I always prefer physical copies of games though so I will most likely get it that way.  Also---pre-ordering gets you an alternate outfit and weapons.

behold, another glimpse of this greatness...

and holy shit I just discovered (lost the instructions already) I could change the picture mode... set it on "dynamic", and it just took things to another level....this is insane.  I just got through with another 50 waves of Horde mode....yeah, surprisingly I've had 2 teams of random folks that were in it for that long haul.

hell yeah, man... this also reminds me that one childhood regret was that I didn't get MORE of the action figures for this one.. I only had 2 or 3 of the bad guys.

I had a damn nice run in Gears 4 Horde a few hours ago... I forgot the name of that map but it's with the ideal spot usually being some highway looking place with a broken down car towards the back....of course we had the fabricator back there.  I was Engineer again, and had such a beautiful setup with 4 sentries.... 2 on either side of the highway where another car is at the center of the road....then 2 barriers in front of those sentries.  Naturally, as Engineer I have all these cost reduction bonus skills for getting stuff, so they're much cheaper for me to build fortifications.  I've read that they eventually buffed the sentries and it's definitely noticeable.  Anything trying to rush in got slowed by the barriers, and lit up by 4 sentries + 1 or 2 or more of us also shooting....it was awesome, man.   

sidenote--- I got a new tv recently; a 55-inch UHD... Gears looks RIDICULOUS on this monster 😮