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A real shame that Capcom has become one of those companies that is content to just sit on their old IPs forever... I was just remembering how much I enjoyed those Power Stone games. Last thing that was out was the double-pack on PSP. I'm doubting they ever do anything with it again, just like Rival Schools and Viewtiful Joe....even with the modern trend of simply re-packaging old stuff as a "Re-release" compilation pack as a quick nostalgia cash-grab. ...but yeah, I played the hell out of Power Stone in the arcade when it was new, and of course it and part 2 were bought immediately when I got the Dreamcast later. I would've loved seeing that and Rival Schools/Project Justice continue....such cool art and character designs, overall style and fun; I couldn't get enough. Viewtiful Joe is still one of my top rank favorite games ever made.

Oh yeah Double Dragon is on sale on Steam again, probably to coincide with that free update with new characters. Nobody Saves the World is on a Steam sale as well. Baldur's Gate--- I saved "True Soul Nere" in the Underdark recently and got one of those illithid tadpoles as a reward... now I'm considering killing the guy if we can, since I read somewhere you can get another tadpole that way.

So I saw the mentions of "$100 for lunch" making the rounds lately on certain youtube channels I'm wondering... 100 for lunch being a regular thing? Maybe I'm just too much of a cheapskate for that; it seems silly, imo. It's already crazy that little ol' "Chic-Fil-A" combos are now > 10 bucks these days.... (that grilled chicken sandwich combo, which is my favorite there, is 11 bucks and change) ...also who are the dumbass suckers that are willing to send 100 to a woman for her lunch... despite apparently not even being "with" her? (presumably not married to her) ....not even getting anything out of it, most of the time, since they have zero obligations (so of course a lot of them are happy to take advantage of the situation for as long as possible in life)

haha I already knew going into that link that the correct choice of Mario would not be the #1 spot on the list. 🤣 ...and right behind Mario... Agent 47? Really? 😆 ...and Sackboy? **when is the last time we've even seen Sackboy?! I forgot if he even got a PS4 game or not; he was in that Smash clone with the Playstation "all-stars" I *think* but I don't remember anything else recent.

That new Joker in the Suicide Squad game looks awful... it's one of those that looks bootleg... like one of the "Jokerz" gang that's not really him but just some random goon pretender. It is funny/odd though that 1 of his eyes looks "off", like Biggie. Meanwhile, in Baldur's Gate--- I'm still pondering which path to take this character in Act 3 on... who to side with; it's actually quite a tough choice (and oh yes---both appear to be things an evil character would ally themselves with)....so in the meantime, I've been playing another character that's still in Act 1, doing stuff I missed earlier. (*if you miss the "Underdark" area, there's quite a lot going on in there) Also---"Haste" spell, folks.... definitely go for that asap; I forgot when I got it for Gale but it's a simple thing that is incredible--- as DnD fans already know I'm sure, it grants an extra action per turn for whoever you cast it on....so you can imagine the powerful advantage that will give in battle, when you can easily do 2 devastating attacks (maybe 3 counting your bonus action) in 1 turn.

^Imagine, living the cursed life of a modern-day teacher in a typical American public school. I bet the majority of those people are miserable for 99% of the time they stick with that horrible choice of a career. I don't see any positives to it at all....literally nothing other than it's better than being unemployed I suppose....but that "better than nothing" category is in the same league as a fast-food job or being a "greeter" at Walmart....1 step up from nothingness is sad. It's surprising we don't see more videos of teachers reaching a breaking point and going off on some raggedy, amazingly disrespectful "thug-in-training" student. ...yeah this also reminds me at the moment of the intense hatred for my "peers" back when I was a kid in school.

I was looking at an old issue of EGM just now....yeah I still have plenty of those.... April of 1994 so 30(!) years ago...there was a video game starring Kirk Cameron that I forgot existed. "The Horde" on 3DO....from Crystal Dynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horde_(video_game) The "Arcade Action" section also spotlighted Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo ("EGM Exclusive!"), and the mysterious new boss character we'd later know as Akuma. I never had that 3DO....I remember it was quite expensive at the time; 500 or 600 dollars, somewhere in that range. There's also a preview of 7th Guest on CD-i... I wanted to get that one back then....and then I found out that like *most* of the CDi games, you needed an extra thing called the "Digital Video Card" which was another $250. I think 7th Guest is actually on the Switch now. *BG3 today---I found those 2 lazy asshole duergar in the Underdark... yep, we killed them. The others didn't see it so...no consequences.

Ha, of course they patch the damn PS Portal to shift it back to being a useless, joke piece of trash. Really, I wouldn't even accept that contraption if someone was giving it away for free. The amazing thing is that a lot of people apparently were actually buying it. I bet some of the suits at Sony were even surprised. (and laughing)

Random strange dreams....forgot if I mentioned this one before... Recently, I had a dream that this woman my dad dated way back in the day was now married to this new guy who happened to be a multi-billionaire, and for some reason they were interested in going through the legal process to formerly adopt me as their son....and for some reason he happened to own an old navy ship; an aircraft carrier. I had no idea why they were trying to adopt me but this dream was set in present time so it's not like I was still a little kid. I wasn't sure on a response because it was such an odd request in the first place; they gave me a 1 dollar bill and let me hang out for a while on the ship to think things over. ...quite unfortunate I didn't realize this was a dream, since lucid dreaming is always a great thing. She was smokin hot back then--- at least from what I remember she looked similar to that singer Sade. heh, Dad definitely has good taste. UPDATE---- I finally found the name/info on that horrid song I rambled about recently. It played on the radio so I had my phone identify it (I've actually never used that function before)... It's "Free Mind" It's mainly that short melody she keeps repeating that is trash to my ears....but that guy rapping/singing sounds terrible as well, imo haha so I'm not alone in this opinion from what I see in the comment section....most of the comments were positive though but: Yeah, this is str8 trash... was just talking about it with a friend the other day; the first time I heard this song I thought it was a song parody you might hear on something like Ricky Smiley Show or any other comedy radio show.

yeah, it's a shame that despite sidescrolling action still being a popular thing in gaming... there is no modern/recent X-men game like that I'm aware of. All that comes to mind at the moment is Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 which of course is more of a general Marvel game (incredible roster of characters, btw; an obvious must-have for any fan that has Switch... funny how that game imo easily shits all over that recent "Avengers" game on the bigger systems; it's not even close), and it's not a 2d sidescroller type of thing.

Megan with a new one

All these years later it's still one of my favorite moments in the Bleach anime... Yammamoto just slightly flexing his crazy spiritual pressure/power to immediately shut down Nanao before she could even attempt a Kido spell.... She was instantly debilitated and couldn't even remain standing....and of course this is just a small sampling of how completely busted the upper ranks of the Bleach characters are.

Oh yeah---BG3--- one moment of disappointment about last night's battle to get into the city area... there's this big robot thing called "Steel Watch", armed with a giant great-sword.... naturally I was thinking how cool would that be if you could steal it, if not when you kill this thing then by making him drop the weapon... so I casted "Command: Drop"....and sure enough----the sword was dropped.... annnnd then when trying to loot it you get this message that it's "too heavy" to pick up or put in inventory. (the weight is something like "100", way more than any other items you normally pick up) If you have enough points in Strength, actually you can at least get it into inventory apparently....BUT it sadly cannot be wielded like any other weapon you can acquire. There was some glitchy way people were doing it months ago but sadly that was patched out of the game. 😞 I would've left it in there... and perhaps you just need a character with ridiculous strength levels to wield it. Another cool little moment from yesterday... found a newly-turned mindflayer near the city, in a secluded area... it was alone and still weak since it had *just* completed transformation from being previously human (very noticeable in terms of stats too; all his numbers were pitifully low)...he hadn't even found a victim to eat the brains of yet.... haha of course we killed the bastard. You can get an illithid powerup from him as well so that was cool. He had no chance...I don't think he even got an opportunity to attack; Astarion got to sneaky snipe shot on him... Shadowheart hit with Guiding Bolt, then I finished it with that juicy Eldritch Blast.

Baldur's Gate antics--- so... that was a tough battle but I made it through... heading into the main city entrance, this bitch and a large "construct"/robotic guard thing tried to arrest us....oh yes... they would pay dearly for that. This was also a great opportunity to try out another new power I got recently thanks to "Emperor"....that + a "potion of speed" I had was insane results for damage output. ...after all that, some journalist bitch tried to cause trouble because she saw me looting one of their corpses... ok well you get added to the body count as well then....she got her silly ass one-shotted... only 1 exp for that little kill but it was satisfying all the same. Journalist, lady... there's your "exclusive scoop"... you bleeding out on the street with the other victims.

Well, I'm kind of hoping Capcom doesn't cave to whatever pressure may come their way from the fans about the "Dragonsplague" issue in Dragon's Dogma... it sounds like an interesting concept to me....and yeah I'm regretting that I watched a video about it. I imagine that could've been a cool surprise. ...but yeah, we have all seen how sometimes a company will cave to pressure if the fanbase whines about something being a bit too harsh/difficult on the player. I remember being terribly disappointed that Bethesda changed and "fixed" the random vampire attacks on town areas in Skyrim all those years ago (basically; people didn't like it because this of course meant various npcs [especially vendors and some side-quest related people if I recall] could end up permanently dead...sometimes without you even being there to try and intervene)... it was frustrating as it seemed like I was the only Skyrim fan thinking that idea was pretty damn awesome.... I loved it--- that looming threat of them being out there, capable of striking anyone, anywhere.... no one's safe. ...also reminds me; I saw vids showing that monsters in Dragon's Dogma 2 can actually follow you into the town areas 😆 Hell yeah, now that's the good stuff. More rpgs need to roll like that. Nobody is safe....heh, you thought going back to town made things ok?

Legendary pawgy Claire G. has posted again today

Baldur's Gate.... haha, so there's a circus... most unfortunate error in judgement that they allowed my warlock and his bloodthirsty crew of murder-hobos in there. They actually bought the lie when I promised to not cause trouble 🤣 There's what looks like a cross-dressing necromancer person with a cool magic "staff of hollows" I think it's called... we casted a cloud of darkness on her and the dancing skeletons while Astarion ran over to the tent area to lockpick the treasure chest she had... then figured what the hell and went on to kill them with a fireball into the darkness...Minthara got the finisher hit on that bitch and then secured the weapon. There was some dwarf that ran over trying to help so we killed him too. Surprisingly this didn't cause too much of a noticeable scene so we got away with it. ...shortly after that there's an area with a caged displacer beast... I tried picking the lock to set him free but of course that didn't go over well... I should cast invisibility first then...

Baldur's Gate---quite unfortunate there's only 4 characters to a party... I want to get Gale back into the crew, but it's a tough call having to give up one of the others: Astarion, Shadowheart and Minthara are just too good/useful to leave any of them back at camp....and their stories are interesting. *I was going to leave it there with finishing Act 2....but so much cool shit just happened; major revelation; part of it I already figured... an "Emperor" showed up and I made a choice of who to side with in a battle that was going on. ...and this latest battle was pure highlight reel stuff. Our enemies stood no chance, really...even though they had some interesting/cool attacks. So many layers...so much going on to think about and reflect on.... This game, man.... words can't really do the experience justice. whoahhhh and I didn't think this big choice would happen just yet but here we go....

and finally--- I've been trying over and over to beat the act 2 boss on Baldur's Gate 3 for some crazy amount of time today.... Astarion came through with such a critical big hit for 49 damage out of nowhere on a sneak arrow shot...that was an unexpected big deal to help turn the tide on what was seeming like yet another hopeless attempt. Minthara was down, unfortunately...and she's one of the heavy hitters. I had to use that new *spoiler* Dark Urge-specific power, so with that I was able to get some big hits as well and that finally sealed his fate. This played out like such an epic grand finale battle in a show, with some people dead or critically injured... our main protagonist having to rely on his latest upgraded power he recently acquired to finish the fight in a big way. The characters even look bloody and bruised now, as they stand over their defeated foes on the battlefield. One of them had an illithid worm in there so that's another little upgrade power for us to collect; I let Minthara have this one. My warlock has 7 or 8 of those unlocked at this point.

Ok, I finished the Stellar Blade demo... yeahhhhh baby this is good stuff. It's as good as bought day 1, easy. There's a cool first boss encounter to end the demo; when you kill that thing it immediately goes into a flashy montage of the action to be expected here. I'm liking the parrying and "blink" ability a little more as my defensive option... the "blink" is a thing of beauty. On the TnA front---imagine what would be possible if/when this hits PC and the modders work their magic.

oh yeah I'm looking to download the Stellar Blade demo very soon today; from what I've seen on livestreams it looks like fun in addition to having the obvious eye-candy appeal. There's a parry system in there so I'm already wondering what the limits are on that, if any.

ha, so I just saw a pawn by the name of HOE#1 in Dragon's Dogma 2... nice; yeah I had her in the crew for a while. I unlocked Sorcerer vocation a few moments ago...and more spells so now I'm finally cookin' with the real power here. One slight annoyance is the graphical texture stuff disappears sometimes... there's been several occasions where the "dirt" on my character that helps him look nice and shit-stained.... is gone....and that sadly leaves him just looking like a regular dude. At least the strange green eyes are there to make him look non-human. I should have also made him as dark-skinned as possible.

Cyael is playing Stellar Blade now... of course he picked the Skin Suit asap

And so... Dookor and his crew arrived in the first major city area where you meet that dude that looks like Idris Elba...... I fought the large ogre by the waterfall... it's a bit unfortunate that I already know about using the explosive barrel by the rocks since so many videos showed that off...after all that water hit him it didn't take long to kill the rest of his hp. I have the Quickspell ability (a must-have asap) and now the lightning spell. When you start off, you only have that 1 fire spell and the basic non-element magical shot.