Cliff Hanger

Yeeeeah, I am not a wearer of skinny jeans, but that just caused the GalNote 4 to take the lead in my next phone consideration.

So after World of Darkness Online, that's two high end MMOs that have been cancelled this year, right?

Bought my tickets (Fri/Sat only, none of my friends had planned to go Sunday) for PAX South. Because I already have everything but holsters and toy guns, I will be dressing as Nathan Drake on Sat. (Lazy cosplay FTW.)

If someone in Clan Death Valley Driver could approve zqadams1 (Bungie name) or Cliff_Hanger (PSN name), whichever one, that'd be super.

Are they necessarily talking about external keyboards, or the new ability to replace your on screen kb with something customized like you can in Android?

In my experience, most MMOs don't really try that hard to have a single, overarching story. Instead they tell a shorter story designed to last you a few levels of progression, then give you a reason to move on to the next zone. There are a couple of good reasons for that, not least of which being that if you want to sell an expansion pack with a new 10-level progression every year, it's easier to do discrete stories for each tier than to have the big story end at lv50 only to then try to tie the new threat naturally into the old one when 50-60 launch. (SWTOR was a big exception, but then that was really "Let's make a bunch of KOTOR storylines and put them in an MMO instead", and DCUO was trying more to ape Infamous.) I'm not far enough into Destiny to really judge it fairly, but City of Heroes and Secret World both did pretty good jobs of making the characters fairly memorable and fun (if not particularly deep) and keeping the plot moving. So far the only NPCs I'd really consider 'characters' in even the loosest sense are the Speaker and the Ghost. I understand why full-bore freeroaming open worlds don't work in MMO shooters (lord knows I played enough Planetside in its early days) but I wish there were a little more exploring to do. Lore collectibles to find, places to see that you would never go on a story quest, etc. Still, I'm having a lot of fun with PVE story stuff but I'm not sure how helpful I'm gonna be to the clan when the time comes for me to move into Strikes and Crucible games.

Valiant Humble Bundle is up. First eight issues of all their main series but Rai (4 issues), has Shooter/Layton era reprints at the $15 tier, more stuff to come next week at the halfway point. And a free #1 each day as per usual.

Nickel says that's Hoardak/Ellsworth Toohey looking for things to dislike and gloat about possibly failing. Avengers 35: good read. Still annoyed at the z8 month gap--you go from Steve declaring war on Tony to Steve being totally out of the picture in a "gap". Two of the three revealed Illuminati recruits have enough beef with the a illuminati that it just seems hugely out of character for them to sign on with Team Tony. I get that the idea is supposed to be that on paper the Illuminati position is the scientifically sound one, but it still feels false to see sign on to be junior members of the paternalist cabal.

Just did the tutorial tonight. I got a late start waiting to hear from someone about plans that got scuttled last min. Will try to get up with somebody about clanning up tomorrow. Edit: DYAC

This week's DC mega sale on Comixology is Gotham Central. Any questions?

God fucking dammit CW (or whoever made that decision). Thanks for making it impossible to catch up with s2 before s3 starts unless I use nefarious means.

Watching people geek out on this game makes it sound like it's going to be very difficult to resist the siren's song of a call-in-sick Wed. after my copy comes in tomorrow.

Working my way through the Wool Omnibus/Silo Series/whatever for my book club. Holy shit, the original "Wool" is one of the most perfect pieces of short genre fiction I have ever read. Like "The Cold Equations" level perfect.

Had to wait a paycheck for this because Dragon Con does that to you, hoping to either pick up a copy for PS4 after work tomorrow or order it from Amazon if I can't make it down to Target.

Feel dumb for not realizing previously that the Note Edge is not the only incarnation of the Note 4. So the a note is still in play for my next comically large smartphone along with the iPhone. I hear people say nice things about the G3, but over the last 8 months I have gone from satisfied with the intuition to lukewarm to hating all it's dumb little quirks and shit, so I am gunshy about getting a new one from them.

So apparently the digital-first Arrow comic is going to cover significant shit happening in the five-month gap between the end of season 2 and the start of season 3. I'm torn between being happy they want to actually do something useful with the tie-in and being annoyed as hell that they're stretching that shit out over 24 bi-weekly issues. The accompanying Flash comic is entirely set between the first and second eps of the series, and while the first issue is a perfectly okay little thing, I don't think I'll be sticking with it.

There had better be an Earthworm Jim con immediately afterward, because those two shows are so permanently connected in my brain that I can't dig out the DVDs of one without watching some of the other.

Power Stone isn't Sega's fault. It's a Capcom game. They tried to market the hell out of it, the anime got released here and the second game got a ton of press in places that covered DC games. But it didn't stick, and we haven't seen it since except for the PSP release of the two arcade games (which IIRC had none of the single-player-focused content, what there was of it, in PS2.)

Happy 15th birthday, Dreamcast. The first 'grown up' purchase I made on my own, and one of the most underrated consoles in history.

For me, a lot of it is inertia because I owned a tablet nearly 3 years before I owned a smartphone. I am tired of having an Android phone and an apple tablet that don't play together, and I have a LOT more iOS purchases I would lose by buying an Asus or whatever tab than vice versa. Still, got nearly 4 months to think about it so we shall see how the next GalNote shakes out (I am really not prepared to consider a phone without a screen in the 5" range due to my visual impairment)

Yeah, my plan was to get a Gal Note 3 or an iPhone Impractically Huge in December. (My LG Intuition is well past its sell-by date, and even a factory reset has not improved its performance.) That wacky secondary touch screen is making me lean toward the iPhone Impractically Huge.

That was absolutely the best Gatiss episode since season one's "Unquiet Dead."

Oh shit, time to catch up on the Armor Hunters issues I've missed.

I am aware of that. I'm saying that even as someone who burned out on Telltale around the time of Strong Bad, I'm still more excited about the adventure game than the new shooter.

Weirdly, I am way more excited about Tales from the Borderlands than the Pre-Sequel. And I say that as someone who hasn't played a Telltale game in a couple years.