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  1. Taxor_the_First

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    I have the fortune of knowing exactly what my (remaining) cast did. Lester and Chloe married, and he worked as CEO for a large infrastructure corporation with her help before succumbing to a weakness in his lungs and dying before hitting 90. Bonnie had a child absent the father (since Lester...
  2. Taxor_the_First

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    Someone hasn't played above Ultra-Violence. I joke, but there is actually a lot of stuff to go through in the lore tabs in both games, like the fact that Earth is entirely reliant on Argent and so removing it would plunge the world into a dark age, or the subsequent revelation that Argent is...
  3. Taxor_the_First

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    My condolences. I have yet to experience losing a family pet, though with a dog going on 13 years I expect it won't be too long. My guess would be that it is a heart-rending time. I'm certain it's much worse than I could ever guess. o7 doggo. May you be as loved in death as you clearly were in...
  4. Taxor_the_First

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    Played two in my life - Smash (Brawl, 3ds, and Ultimate) and Skullgirls. Don't laugh, I mained Big Band. ... and Valentine. Yes, I count Smash as a fighting game. It is a game that involves characters fighting on a stage, therefore it's a fighting game. Honestly, I'm not sure which I'd label my...
  5. Taxor_the_First

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    The problem is they're right, and it sucks. It's sensible from their point of view to pander to the algorithm, since that's the be all and end all of their distribution, and it's a shame that that cuts into content that might otherwise be fairly respectful or quality. I doubt that'll change...
  6. Taxor_the_First

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    I don't think I can be blamed for making a judgement based on what I know, not what I don't know. And when the thumbnail includes an image of something spoilery - the final boss itself, in my example - I lose any sympathy I might have had for a channel that pretty consistently does...
  7. Taxor_the_First

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    People are doing what. Assholes. I've found it incredibly disappointing to go from the generosity and goodwill of the bushfires to the selfishness my country's exhibited of this pandemic. State's talking about a lockdown? Time to go to Bondi Beach, where people are super clustered and it's...
  8. Taxor_the_First

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    You'd have heard right. They gave Doomguy a dash and then went "now how do we make the game stay challenging... Ah, I know, we'll require more movement, crank up the speed of the gameplay". That's all well and good... Until you start to play the game a second time through and have to endure the...
  9. Taxor_the_First

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    That's true, I hadn't thought about that. Also the fact that it rewards - and basically requires - aggressive gameplay, where a lot of other shooters demand that you hide when you take damage. That's part of its charm, the fact that it takes a lot of conventions and tells them to shove off. Less...
  10. Taxor_the_First

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    It's an adjustment compared to a lot of other shooters, agreed. It's an adjustment even compared to Doom 2016. In that game, I could play on Nightmare and fairly consistently clear levels. I got as far as Lazarus Labs before failing my last attempt at Ultra Nightmare, which means I beat...
  11. Taxor_the_First

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    Cries in Aussie. Fortunately my father only just qualifies as "old", so he gets access to the grocery store hours that are old people and disabled only, so we're good for now. The most I'm suffering is that my personal cache of chocolate (because either my mother refuses to buy any or it's all...
  12. Taxor_the_First

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    Yeah his college workload increased if anything. Fucking bonkers. Meanwhile the uni I went to is apparently going "yeah no this term is basically a wash for any kind of structure, we're just going to cut exams and increase the weighting on assignments". As for me, chilling. Literally. Weather...
  13. Taxor_the_First

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    I believe he is, at this exact moment, smashing out a take-home exam - the first of three. You probably won't hear from him until he's gotten past those. Probably.
  14. Taxor_the_First

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    My quarantine? Well, I'd say it's, as of today... ... hell. By which I mean it's fine. Secured a copy of Doom Eternal, been playing Borderlands 3 since its PC release a week or so ago (yes I know it's been out for a year, that was a joke), kinda missing gym but at the same time not. Sure as...
  15. Taxor_the_First

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    It's a thong. ... Don't you all look at me like that. It's a valid term and commonly used in Australia to refer to sandals, at least modern ones.
  16. Taxor_the_First

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    Indeed. I don't usually take a depressive view of humanity - or of anything, really - but goddamn has the react to all this been thoroughly disappointing. At least my Chinese friend has been able to tell people on quiet train carriages to "shut up or I'll cough on you".
  17. Taxor_the_First

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    "Potentially dangerous", you say. Friend of mine had a look at fatality rate for coronavirus, and to my not-surprise the chance of you dying from it remains at 0.2% until you get over the age of 40, and it doesn't breach 10% until you get to 80. The most risk it poses to me personally is running...
  18. Taxor_the_First

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    Seconded. Improvement requires space to grow, and frankly you'd already almost completed your growth arc.
  19. Taxor_the_First

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    Funny, I'm feeling the same thing for the same reason. Except it's my ass and legs - I almost fell over getting out of bed. Squats can be brutal. That kind of scepticism is healthy. It's always worth remembering that a trailer's job is to hype you up, and it isn't like they're going to announce...
  20. Taxor_the_First

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    See this is both a difficult and really easy question to answer. Main protag? Has to be Samuel. He was the first protagonist I had with a full development arc, start to finish, with other people involved (Isaac takes the mantle of first ever for me, but that was a solo affair minus some critique...
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