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I have some odd tastes when it comes to alcohol, I tend to enjoy the lighter colored spirits that can be used repeatedly to create various mixed drinks. One drink that I typically often get at a bar is a a Trash Can, mostly because it's unique looking, taste is pretty decent, you can get amped from the can of redbull / monster floating in it, and it can get you where you want to go quickly.

Granted, malt liquor does the exact same thing, and is significantly cheaper although the taste and appearance are significantly lacking. However! Before you go writing off malt liquor or other liquors found within the confines of a 40 oz bottle, know that consumption of fast food with malt liquor truly provides a unique experience that seems to both elevate the taste of the malt liquor as well as the garbage food your consuming, the saying is true that two negatives will equal themselves out to make a positive.

As for beer, there is only one kind of beer that reigns supreme in my eyes and that's German beer. Ever since my little community gained an authentic German Restaurant which carries a great deal of German beer (both on tap and bottled), I find it difficult to order any other kind of beer at other restaurants and I usually don't. If you ever want to try some delicious stuff get your hands on some Köstritzer, most liquor stores in my area carry the stuff and bottled it's pretty good but draft it's incredible.

As a person who falls into the category of option 2 of this poll, I can't help but feel this is going to be a visually stunning movie that meanders around pulling in short jabs of "HEY REMEMBER THIS FROM THE MOVIE/SHOW/MANGA? I SURE DO! *gleeful screeching* " all the while piling upon an unintelligent mess of a plot. But, knowing me i'll be in a theater opening weekend hating myself and trying my best not to yell obscenities at the screen..

The commentary track from the original Total Recall with Arnold is just hilarious. It's not so much a commentary of what they went through to film any specific scene as it is just Arnold narrating what he's doing on screen in a dumb enthusiastic voice.

As one who has invested a lot of money into digital goods via the steam platform I never really felt the negative effects of Steam Greenlight. Yes steam is filled with some craptastic tire fires, but in all the years that I've been using steam I never felt overwhelmed or lost in a sea of junk. The idea of creating a curation system where the users get to choose what games appear on their distribution system is novel, but when the power is gifted to the masses on the internet you can't expect great things to come of it.

To be honest over the past year or two steam has been shaping its store to be less of an online communal hub for the purchase of digital goods and more of a custom tailored digital delivery system to each individual user. I do miss the days of the flash sales, or the user vote sales during the wallet killing steam sales. The additional rollout of the personalized discovery system further separates the user from the online steam community by tailoring what games the user get to see based upon their own interest and buying choices. It's a great thing, you get what you want when you want it. Outside of the curators system the steam community's influence on the market or storefront is pretty much gone, so I can understand why Steam Greenlight ended.

As for the paywall steam is setting up for indie developers for access to the juggernaut of digital distribution, this makes sense to me as well. I can't objectively look at steam as a game curation system, so forcing steam to develop a system to play test thousands of indie games just to shield it's users seems like nonsense and a waste of money for both valve and the indie developer. If the idea that you the developer can't pony up X amount of cash to get this game onto a digital market right out of the gate, then I doubt you'll have enough budget factored in for the few months of back and forth testing with the steam curation system if that occurs.

I honestly think the paywall system might also be a reactionary move on valve's part to help curb the ever growing population of "early access" games. Putting up half finished items onto the steam store, and then have the developers charge nearly full price for items only to walk away without ever completing their game does not cast a good light onto the steam platform. I for one do not purchase early access games off steam because I want the finished game, I'd rather not buy something and then find out I had been lied to and the game I purchased ends up going nowhere.

Besides, if a developer is really that serious about wanting their game to make it onto the steam store there are a bunch of different crowdfunding platforms they could take advantage of to acquire the funding they need to meet the require amount that steam wants. And even then, I'm pretty sure there are other platforms out there to explore besides steam for pushing an indie game to. If it was me i'd want my game on every digital storefront possible, and if steam required a monetary investment upfront for using their delivery platform I would probably wait until the game takes off enough to the point that it could pay for said fee, or I would of factored that cost into my initial budget long before even starting down this venture.

John Wick: Chapter 2 - 4.5/5
It is by no means perfect, but overall it is a really fun and enjoyable ride that I found to be beautiful to watch. The cinematography for this movie is pretty killer, and there are a lot of interesting shots employed that do make you wonder "how did they go about shooting that scene?". The story suffers from the whole expand upon idea some, and it does seem like they tread on the same ground as the first, but I did not go into this film expecting a masterful story so I cannot criticize heavily on that aspect of the film. The plot and pacing work effectively enough to keep the movie going and it never seems to drag on more than it absolutely needs to. I'd say go see it for sure, I doubt you'll be disappointed.

I was hooked on the demo / proof of concept they had up and kicked into help crowdfund the game. I played and very much enjoyed SuperHot a lot. I really want to play it in VR someday. I found SuperHot to have the right balance of fun, story, and length for what it was presenting and how quickly it was to jump in and out of the game.

Star Wars. This mostly came from the mass hysteria the fans produce when the inkling of a new star wars movie will be vomiting all over the big screen.

Apple. I cannot stand this company or its policies. The devices they make are overpriced dumpster fires, made with sweatshop labor quality and sold to the masses as if it will save them from their unfulfilled meaningless lives. The aesthetics of their devices are boring, the only design progress they have managed to achieve with each new model is how thin they can get their laptops/phones to be. I bet the end goal is to have a laptop so thin, they can cut their 100% pure smuggled columbian cocaine with their macbook. Don't even get me started on dongles, the concept of using extra devices just so one can gain back the level of productivity they had in the previous model at a high premium is just evil. I'm glad this company is slowly starting to die because it's God is dead.

Judge Dredd.

Michael Bay, I want to see Batman throw batterangs at people and watch them EXPLODE. Or if he kicks people they EXPLODE, or well everything exploding because Batman.

But seriously, Batman should sit on the bench for a while or be a cameo character until more time has passed. I don't think any new take on Batman will be able to live up to the level of grit and seriousness that Nolan managed to capture with his trilogy. But if it HAD to be made, like there's no way out of it, explosions.

Silent Scope. I always enjoyed this arcade game. It's either that or Sinistar just because of his taunts.