I have a Nexus 5 I just bought and the thing feels really fragile. A friend of mine was kind enough to purchase a case for me, mostly to make me feel better about holding it.
I know the day it inadvertently slides out of my hand, it's still completely hosed. Doesn't matter what kind of protective plastic surrounds it, a fall from about a meter is going to destroy it.
Goon. Heard Patrick (or was it Drew?) mention it on the podcast and thought that I should finally get around to seeing it. It was pretty good, despite my inherent dislike of Seann William Scott. I do enjoy Allison Pill and Liev Schreiber and both are pretty great in this one. I also enjoy the cartoonish nature of the violence.
Plus, in my ongoing quest to become a Canadian, it's teaching me about hockey and fighting in hockey.
Canada, definitely. I went there for the first time earlier this year and I about fell in love with the place. Toronto was cool because it felt familiar. Montreal was cool because felt foreign. I think if I had to settle in Canada, it'd be in one of those two places.
It's not going to get Game of The Year because "gay love story". Yes, that aspect was something that really resonated with some people, and the voice given to Sam is really great. However, it also portrays that feeling of young love and insecurity remarkably well, regardless of your gender or sexual identity. It's a game that subverts your expectations at every turn, and the experience is richer for it. The game excels because there's no ghost, no killer, and no gruesome death. It's a game that addresses some really serious issues and pulls you along. It might not be a game for everyone, that's okay, no game will be, but for me it was one of the best gaming experiences I had this year. It was complete, fulfilling, and kept me wanting to search that house and put together the story.
I feel like @xceagle hit the nail on the head. Most of the big-budget full price games that I played this year left me with ephemeral and apathetic feelings. Gone Home stuck with me months after I finished it because all of the pieces fell in just the right places. It's atmosphere, it's soundtrack, it's 90's nostalgia, it's good voice acting, it's all of these things that just make it stand head-and-shoulders above most of this year's crop. Regardless of the general consensus about its qualifications as an actual "game," Gone Home was one of the absolute best pieces of entertainment I consumed this year.
I've been a PC user for at least the past two decades. After shunning the use of Apple products for so long, I've been giving some serious thought to replacing my current PC (a Sony Vaio EA series laptop with an i3 purchased in early 2011) with a MacBook (running a Windows partition, of course. Baby steps). There are some conditions I'm going in with, so it'd be nice to get some recommendations from those that know.
I'd like to get one with enough power to adequately run non-intensive Steam games. For example, I have no problem running games like Papers, Please and Hotline Miami on my current system. However, I tried to play Gone Home and The Stanley Parable on it with lowest settings applied in both cases and it chugged miserably.
I'd like it to have at least 500 GB of storage space
I'd like it to cost no more than $1,800.
At this point, I'm looking almost exclusively at the MacBook Pro and not an Air. However, if the Air in question fits the description, please recommend.
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