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I'm under a rock.

The Grand Prairie theater near my parents got those seats now; went to The Big Short in those reserved Lazeboys.

Looks like Google PLay's freebies have changed up a bit; was wanting to get those classic rock tunes but oh well. 

Glad you gave the phone company crap for their crap; what provider was it?

Most importantly, where did you get that steak?! Holy shit!

Third Strike never felt slow to me, but I was using a LAN for my PS Now sub when I played IV. Hmmm ...

Also, Red Box game rentals still suck, but I'm gonna get a free one now, so I'll see how long Fallout 4 takes to DL. lol

Haha, race. Start of October and my last job I stopped moving and just sat and ate.

I wanted to watch Labyrinth and Die Hard, but neither were on Netflix. I'm going to but Blackstar by David Bowie I think. Was never a huge fan, but appreciate him and his music very much. Plus, I actually like Lazarus, which helped him beat some record held by Adele on Vevo. 

If I go to the bar for the Packer game, what whisky should I get? I may or may not see this by the time I go. lol

DS Lite? Elite Beat Agents has some mild innuendo I think only due to song lyrics, but otherwise it's rated E and kids might like it. Sonic Colors is another good one I own.

I'd like to listen to Hoth, but I cannot right now. Logo cool. Send snacks.

I've rented ESO and Call of Duty III Black Ops from Red Box on PS4. You CAN go ahead without the updates, but I have waited in both cases. But yes, it's really annoying, I had to delete stuff to play BlOps III and then restart when it didn't recognize I'd deleted stuff. It's not worth it and if anything I'd go GameFly. 

I am not sure re: deleting PS4, but I guess Patrick does. I have re-downloaded stuff and only had to get NEW patches if I want to or go ahead with unpatched game, but those were smaller titles like Rayman and Guacamelee (actually, don't think those had patches upon redownload). 

My library of PS+ games is giant and I am set if I ever buy PS3 or Vita, but I really wish they would just automatically get me those games without me having to go to the library and say "yes, I want this free thing I am paying for." I've been lucky in never really having server issues with PS4, so I'm with Patrick more than Julian there. Julian, where in TX do you live though? I have my issues with Time Warner and usually they are the problem, but I seem to recall you having more Internet trouble than most outside of consoles? Achievements can glitch on a game-by-game basis too though. I know Arkham Knight had a couple that took a second to credit despite the servers being fine.

Google Fiber sounds so tempting. Dallas has TWC and Nacogdochjes Suddenlink as straight-up monopolies. I never had as many issues w/ Suddenlink as my parents have had w/ TWC, but bleh. 

I had the same thing w/ my free Last of Us; didn't mind the disc not being there (well I did, but not as much as) having to set up the Internet to get my game ... what if I didn't have Internet at the time (which for college ppl in Deep East Tx happens)? I wouldn't have a free game. Or I'd have had to drag my PS4 to campus. Didn't happen, but what if? They should maybe tell you these things. And yeah, PS4 downloads take FOREVER. I wouldn't mind if I didn't put my console in rest mode while it's downloading and then come back to "oh hey, downloading stalled, you want to keep trying?" Yes, you fucking assholes, I would like you to rety. If I have to sit here and babysit a download, what is the point of rest mode?

I've always preferred cel-shaded to muddy realism. Colorful realism is cool though. I like colors. 

Couch versus is more my speed than couch co-op. I was actually disappointed when my friend and I played Borderlands and only co-op was there. I prefer versus for FPS and so does he. Co-op felt like playing 1 player with half a screen. I also wish Wolfenstein had 2P but knew it didn't going in. As for BlOps III, it got confusing working the controllers and figuring out who was on what screen and  ... i dunno, I hate signing in to play two-platyer games. Can I just set it so that 2nd controller becomes guest once turned on? And maybe they don't get their own screen of the exact same content when they push PS button? Since that just confuses things. 

I don't own Cel Damage, but I loved that they had an ad for it touting couch versus and co-op. If I play 2player or more, I honestly am doing it at home and no way I'm buying two games or coordinating buying the same game just to access such a feature. How hard can it be to just have the same maps on local and split the screens? I'm 25 and love getting to play 2player when I can. But even my friends don't have same console so I also wish cross-play was a thing between Xbone, PC, and PS4, if not Wii U. My friend wanted me to play Destiny, but he has Xbone and I wanted PS4. Such a bummer. 

DLC I may be writing a textbook chapter for if my colleague asks me to do something than my proposed chapter about some of the economics behing YouTube gaming and the relationship between them and publishers. So far, only DLC I bouht was the Arkham Knight Season Pass, as a thank you for having bought the other two games for $5 and paying $15 for Origins oin Steam. Had I not felt compelled to reward Rocksteady for games I would have paid more for, I'd only have bought some of the Batmobile stuff and Season of Infamy. I'm still happy with it because of why I paid foir it and it is a lot of content that doesn't feel as though it needed to be part of the main game. I'm also considering buying the character DLC for Guilty Gear Xrd, both as a thank you to Arc System Works for a game I bought on sale in a series I love and because hey, more characters. That one kinda felt like it should have been part of the game, but again I paid sale price and want to support the company. But yeah, DLC is good when it adds, bad when it takes from main game. 

Is a lot of this stuff problems from last generation? Since I skipped that aside from Steam? I wouldn't know. 

I am all for VR, just not for everything. I don't like motion controls, but I think VR is so much more immersive. I do think there could easily be some implementation that alerts you to real world stuff, but yeah not for parents who need to watch their kids. I am not one of those people, so I'm excited. AS long as you don't have headphones on though, I think it might be ok. You could hear game but also real envirnment. 

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there are plenty of comapnies with your GPS signal as it is. Your mobile phone has it if you use any kind of directions and I am sure consoles and your PC do as well. Can turn it off or on, but still. It'sd at least possible already. 

Cost is going to keep me out of VR for a while though, so if I get shot it'll be because I live in Texas and people have guns. 

I actually don't have very "social" online experience aside from one time I played Rocket League with an old frioend. Mostly, people have their mics off and it doesn't feel like I'm interacting with people, just playing the same game with usernames over the avatars' heads. VR is gonna get soooo much porn though. 

Horizon I am hyped for, as well as Last Guardian. I'll have to pick up Nathan Drake Collection on sale before Uncharted 4, but it does look good. I'm waiting for E3 to see if Zelda will be a NX release. I may buy one. FFXV looks good to me because it's action rather than tunr-based right? Yeah, sorry I'm that "average consumer" messing up your FF experience so I can get into it easier. Ratchet and Clank is another big one for me. This is the first time I have gone Sony instead of Nintendo, but I still may buy a Wii U. Because of Zelda and possibly Star Fox. There's a new Doom? Huh. Kojima is exciting as well. And uh ... if I ever am around Julian in real life, remind me not to be around him when he plays VR not Silent Hills. SFV is another one, but I kinda want a 3D fighter while I'm content with BlazBlue and GGXrd. I do not trust Capcom not to release Super Duper Flooper SFV. Not one bit. It's standard practice for games like that even outside of SF and I think it might be standard practice because of Capcom if I am not mistaken. SFIV is too slow for me. Especially as a guy who played SFIITurbo growing up and GG games now, I like flashy and speedy. SFIV feels sluggish and I honestly feel there's too much delay after inputs at least with the PS Now version I played. 

And with that, back  to p[acking. 

Yeah, I gave up on Bloodborne to play GTA V and will play Witcher III next, most likely. I will come back to Bloodborne, just not in the uber-hard mood right now with everything else going on. Don't need more stress.

I rarely watched it, so I'll take your word. 

It wasn't too too quiet, I remember seeing a few  reviews for it, including IGN and Screwattack among others. It was also released for Xbox One and PC the same day as PS4.

However, I think you're planning on getting the physical copy, which releases for those platforms and 3DS this year. Last year was all digital stuff. I don't see anything for Wii U though, which is odd given that it's a bunch of NES games ... http://megaman.capcom.com/ 

Games I've Patrick'd: DK64, Snowboard Kids 2, Spirit Tracks, and I'm sure some others.

I really want to go to Barcadia here in Dallas. Miss arcades, love beer. Glad to hear pinball coming back. I prefer physical too, but not gonna buy a machine. lol

I would LOVE NX to be console/portable, but I'm with Angelo I only see 3DS library growing for at leas the near future. 

I feel silly buying portables only cause, while I play them, I basically just play them at home. EBA probably doesn't even work with travel, since it's so touch-sensitive. I actually tend to go handhelds instead of TV though when I have a new game; less loading and prep involved in jumping into handheld stuff.

Stopping at the Hoff for tonight. Digging the comedic music choices thus far.

Depends on price, and I may want a Vita now I'm aware of the streaming stuff you can do from PS4, but that does sound tempting.