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I didn't even know he was gone until I was reading an actress' twitter, and the things she said about him were just as ignorant as you can imagine.  Not that it matters, she'll never go anywhere in her career, the highlight of her career is she was the retarded girl on a TV show.  Guess she drew inspiration from life.

I thought his videos were a bit annoying even when I was watching them, the way he repeats himself and the factual inaccuracies were the real annoyance, but then I saw the video where he admits that he doesn't really collect this stuff at home and that he's got a storage locker where he keeps everything.  Guy basically grabs anything useful/good, but he doesn't use it or intend to use it, he just buys it for his collection, which to me is the same as the guys who buy up every copy of every Nintendo game they find, even if they already have 12 copies, because m-muh collection value.

He gets paid $5200 a month on Patreon, and he can't even be bothered to do a little fact checking on things.  And he grabs anything of interest that other people might want to use, with no intention of actually using it himself.  Honestly, I have to wonder who these people who pay Patreontubers.  You go onto any small time YouTuber and see their patreon and you just have to wonder who the hell is paying all that money.  17 people are paying $30+ a month to this guy, and he doesn't even have a bronze play button.  It honestly looks like people are laundering money.

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

So cheesy it's both good and bad at the same time.

 Can't stand Facebook, deleted my profile permanently using the hidden link almost a decade ago, don't regret doing so at all.  Mark Zuckerburg is a "funny" guy, loves to spy on people while simultaneously being paranoid to death that someone might be spying on him.   

You and just about every other person, I imagine.  It's funny how in the Orange Box they announced the release of episode 3 in December of that year (2007), and they kept teasing that TFG3 will be released with Source 2...  And then Source 2 got a stealth release in Dota 2, and there's never been an SDK or source release for it.  There's been "leaks" sure, but it seems that Valve has done nothing at all to retain their talent .. which very greatly contrasts the original stories we heard from one individual who said that only weeks after Gabe Newell hired him, that he came down with a bout of his long-term illness and Gabe told him that he didn't need to resign and that they'd take care of his medical expenses.

I can't imagine what happened to change their company so much.

So there's been some stuff doing the rounds on the internet, oh no, Marc Laidlaw the writer for Half-Life has released a letter, and he just revealed how Half-Life Episode Game or Edition #3 would have gone from start .. to finish.

https://pastebin.com/q9DMFa7c is the pastebin of the the 'letter.'

Now Marc Laidlaw has specifically stated that he didn't write this in any official capacity, that he had no intention for this to be interpreted as the canon story for Half-Life 3 Episode 3 or whatever (I'm just gonna say "TFG3" and you can figure out what TFG stands for).  He's stated that he's just releasing this as fanfiction at best, and that it should be treated as such.  But for whatever reason, people see something about TFG3 and they're like "OH MY GOD, HALF-LIFE STUFF, WE NOW FINALLY KNOW!!!" and then people get bent out of shape because it ends once again in the same way that other HL games end (which was the entire intention of a franchise where time and space don't fold the way they do in the real universe).

I read it, I thought it was some interesting ideas, I would have probably liked it if this is how TFG3 went.  But the fact of the matter is, all of the writing talent left Valve in 2013.  All of the people who worked on HL1 and HL2 don't work at Valve anymore either, except for Gabe Newell who doesn't so much work there, as he shows up and plays video games all day and pays himself a huge salary because he knew better than to make his company a publicly traded company.  I ain't gonna hate on the guy for that, because I'm pretty sure anyone who had the option would also go for that kind of a sweet setup.

What's more disappointing, I think, is just how people are taking this as the gospel of god, when we all know that video games change a drastic amount from start to completion.  Some great examples are Doom, Quake, Half-Life 1 .. there were all kinds of ideas surrounding these games (which are aptly called "ground-breaking" games).  The original concept for Doom was a survival horror game with a 4-man squad of Space Marines trying to save their friend Buddy Dcote (whose name means "Dies at conclusion of the episode").  The original concept for Quake was what Daikatana tried to be, you were meant to be a special warrior who could travel through slipgates in time and space and do levels in a non-linear fashion to collect futuristic or ancient weaponry to tackle the other levels, collect powerups and keys from one world to help in another, etc.  It KIND OF still exists in Quake, you can do the four worlds in any order you choose.  But the back and forth concept was killed early.  And we saw how it turned Daikatana into such a mess of a game, trying to do too much all at once.  Half-Life went through several restarts to get to completion.

What made these games great wasn't stringent adherence to some grand master idea (cause that's what killed Daikatana), it was that the games evolved as things became apparently too difficult to do (or too easy).  Marc Laidlaw released a concept for what he envisioned COULD have been the story for TFG3, but it's not an official script/story concept.  They weren't shopping it to be the next game.  And I think that people need a little bit of objectivity to recognize that while this was an idea .. it's not TFG3.  It's just an idea.

Anyway, just some thoughts on the matter, and figured I'd mention it, though I'm sure you've all heard of the "leaks" by now anyway.

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All three?  Damn, that's pretty sweet.

Edit: Oh, I went to check to see if it was on Steam, and turns out it's a PS4 exclusive.  Damn.

Yes. Battleborn has a demo on the PSN.

Is there a difference between this demo and the free one? 

If you're worried about them expiring you can always enter the codes via the online PSN store. Then the games are added to your library and can be downloaded at anytime after you get a PS4.

Hrm, that sounds reasonable.  I just noticed that there's only two actual PS4 games in the bundle, Battleborn did so poorly that I'm surprised that they're only giving you a trial.  Isn't there a free trial on the PSN store already?

SHILL THREAD!!  OH MY GOD, SHILLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

On a serious note, I heard from Dunkey that Sonic Mania is a real good one, and everyone loves Crash.  Is Crash just a rerelease of the old PS1 game or a new game?

Don't these keys have like some deadline attached to them though?  Like I don't currently own a PS4, but I do want to buy one eventually.  It would be nice to buy some games ahead of time for the PS4, but I don't know when I'll actually have a PS4, so buying a Humble Bundle with PS4 keys would be nice, but not if said keys have a deadline like say December 31st, 2017.  I do want to buy a PS4 Pro within the next 12 months, but I still need to upgrade my new PC, so that's what I'm spending my time and money on.  I don't want to buy a humble bundle where my investment goes poof before I can use it. 

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[If all else fails, tell your boss that in 2 weeks, he'll notice you haven't been here in 2 weeks. Then leave.]

I learned a few things over the years with work.

1. If you're going to leave, do it graciously.  Try not to burn bridges.  It's really easy to burn bridges, but don't if you can avoid it.
2. Consider how much you dislike your job, and then consider how much you would hate working elsewhere.  I don't mean "any other job," I mean your other potential job prospects.  If you're not qualified for something, don't use it as the comparison.
3. What you don't like about your job might be situational, what is it that's causing you to loathe your job?  Can you deal with it and get rid of the problem?
4. If all else fails, tell your boss that in 2 weeks, he'll notice you haven't been here in 2 weeks.  Then leave.

Keep in mind, these 4 talking points I just mentioned are things I learned by doing things the wrong way.  When I was working my first job I thought I hated it so much, but there's nothing worse than intentionally getting yourself fired .. and then realizing how much better that job was than what you're doing now. 

Cartridge slot expensive? AT games throws them on just about every system.  The Sega system that was reviewed had a slot 2 wireless controllers for 79. The same price as the snes with out a slot. I agree though, no online access to buy more games is stupid on their part. The previous one with a slot was 49. You can find retro consoles around here at various stores with 3 to 7 cartridge slots ranging from 29 to 99 bucks.  No homebrewing a slot, I doubt i would do that but yes you can pick those up for 10 to 40 bucks. But I would be buying one, not 6 million. 

https://www.amazon.com/Hyperkin-RetroN-Gaming-Console-Genesis-Laser/dp/B00XXVEQPS
this thing has 3 cartridgfe slots, and 3 different inputs for 56 bucks.

I am sure Nintendo can buy say like 6 million cartridge slots for the cheap. the console could still cost the same price.

If Hyperkin can make these with this many options and retail for 60 bucks i am sure Nintendo can churn a profit also.

If I remember right, people had criticisms of the Retron because it would literally transfer the save data from the cartridge onto the console, and getting your save data back onto cartridge proves to be annoying.