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Another Hyperdimension Neptunia spinoff, directed by Kojima. Taking place in the modern console generation, Laystation and Leanbox are controlled by DRM nanomachines. An out of date Neptune, remotely supported by her sister Nepgear, has to hunt down Blanc who's attempting to establish Outer Haven U, her attempt at bringing down the system via cracks and emulators. Then again, this doesn't sound too far off something they'd actually do with our without Kojima.

But seriously, I think Kojima could do some interesting things with an RPG like game in that it gives him plenty of time to tell a story and let the player interact with the crazy world he's come up with.

@selbie: Giant Bomb has changed. It's no longer about interviews, podcasts, or articles. It's an endless series of videos run by man and machine. Giant Bomb, and its consumption of time, has become a well-oiled machine. Giant Bomb has Changed. Wiki tagged videos show wiki tagged games, under wiki tagged aliases. Nanomachines inside the tricaster enhance and monitor video feeds. Chat control. Taco Bell control. BEast Control. Video game control. Everything is monitored, and kept in well ordered chaos. Giant Bomb has changed. The age of Endurance has become the age of Scanlon. All in the name of invoking catastrophe from Dans of mass destruction. And he who controls the video game, controls history. Giant Bomb has changed. When the video game is under total control, Giant Bomb... becomes routine.

That's my five minutes of creative writing. Get hype!

For me, Kanie suffered from a different issue. It's not that he doesn't have a memorable design, it was that my brain constantly replaced him with Kanye West. It's not just the name too, there are so many parallels that you can draw between them.

I felt 1 was a lot better than 2 in portraying that side of the character. Replayed it recently and recall a lot of characters commenting on Geralt's witty retorts. There's also the amount of times he manages to insult dumber characters and have the jokes go right over their heads in a comedic fashion.

@corevi: Didn't even realize that, I'll have to look into some of his other works. Thanks for the heads up.

Marathoned some anime last weekend, so here's my brief overview.

Psycho Pass Season 2 was alright. To be fair, it's still pretty good but the first season just set such a high bar on that story. One of the biggest weakness was the lack of meaningful character development. I felt the first season was good about establishing these new characters and how all involved parties are connected to each other. The second season barely fleshed out the new characters, let alone giving any of the existing ones some meaningful investment into the crime. Overall, I'd say that this particular plot line didn't necessitate an entire season. While the premise was interesting, that is the collective entity of people being more criminal than the individuals that form it, it was done a disservice by being portrayed through a string of action/shock scenes rather than through some interesting character profiling. Simply put, they didn't really get all that much done for the amount of time they were telling this story. On a side note, dub remains quality.

Second on deck was Steins;Gate. I'm going to go ahead and quarantine this off but if you haven't seen this show I'd recommend giving it a try.

Third was Madoka Magica. Going to spoiler block off this one as well since the progression of the plot is what makes it so meaningful. I'd give this a hearty recommendation as well. Also, don't be turned off by the school girl setting. It's a small part of why this series is so great. I should also mention that I make a comparison between this and Steins;Gate, so feel free to not read if you have not watched that yet.

Last, but not least, is I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying. A 12 episode series of 3 minute shorts makes for a good time. Damn it, can't I watch anything without holding back tears? To be fair, it was the happy kind and my emotional immune system was already weakened by the previous two.

So, that consumed my weekend + a few extra days. Overall though, I'd say I made some great choices. Also, open to recommendations on where to go from here.

Here's the CG Trailer + Gameplay that has popped up on youtube so far. Definitely getting a TF2 vibe but way more fast paced and mobile. Also props once more to the Blizzard CG department, could pass that off as a Pixar movie.

You could always convert the binary to Hexadecimal. It would take up a fourth of the space and still be robot related. Just would be as obvious to those who don't know hex.

I understand the ledge thing, but I can't really agree with the Distance->Random change. It feels like Bungie expected their raid to be much harder/time consuming and are now trying to compensate but way too late. It looks like they are learning the MMO lesson of, "Mothafuckas are crazy and are going to finish that five minutes after you put it out." At a certain point they should just go next door, knock on Blizzard's door and ask how the hell they do it. They've managed to make raids super accessible with LFR, while at the same time having heroic modes that are super challenging for both mechanics and raw gear checks. Speaking of LFR, Bungie should totally have one of those systems in game. WoW can do it with 25, beyond the time it takes to implement there should be no reason they can't match 6 people together.

If you take Northern Ireland, swap around the two words, take out the 'rthern' and 'eland' parts, swap around the 'N' and 'o', and put that all together and you get Iron. Northern Ireland is also known for the Armagh Planetarium. Planetariums allow you to view space, which contain galaxies. Iron Galaxy.

Dave Lang's job title is CEO, or Chief Executive Officer. George Hamilton is also a chief, and constable effectively means officer in the United States. Merriam Webster defines executive as "a: of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs".

Dear god, it all makes sense.