Literally anything that you can die from in Oregon Trail. Take your pick: Drowning, starvation, thirst, horrible diseases, rattlesnake bites, crushed by a falling wagon... Dysentery seems to be the most infamous because of the internet meme. If you don't know what dysentery actually is, google it. It's not a pleasant way to go. At all.
Oh, you can also randomly get eaten by bears and cougars during the hunting mini game. That's right. Red Dead Redemption may have made getting cougar'd infamous but Oregon Trail invented it.
Winnie the Pooh is the real reason honey is so expensive now.
Seriously though, anyone see the live action movie that came out a couple years ago? Kinda reminded me of the movie "Hook". I thought it was pretty good.
Geez, ease up on the pizza. You'll cause the entire world to run out by this point.
Pish, posh. Supply and demand. The more pizza I want, the more the factories make!
But luckily, I’m only eating good ol’ turkey & ham sandwiches with mayonnaise right now for lunch.
As long as the grocery stores have flour, pizza sauce, meat, and cheese on the shelves, I'll be able to cook my own pizza. HA!
Wow...I literally got roasted. I’m sad now.
But good job! I wish I could make my own homemade pizza.
Rice with dumplings for dinner. I also snacked on Cheez-Itz earlier.
Maybe I'll have to share some of my recipes then. Right now I'm making homemade lasagna for my grandma. She just got out of the hospital from having surgery.
So this is just meant to be a thread for general coffee discussion. What brands of coffee do you like the best? What is your preferred brewing method? What kind of roast/blend do you like? What's your favorite type of creamer?
For me, I have a variety of coffee types I like. For my drip coffee maker, I use either Maxwell House breakfast blend or Columbian. I need to try the donut shop and house blends some day. This is pretty much my go-to for "wake up and grab a cut of coffee with breakfast".
For my French press, I use the Publix Premium (store brand but really good) French roast. It always comes out strong and rich and makes a very enjoyable cup of coffee. This is my afternoon "I could go for a good cup of coffee right now" coffee.
Then there's my espresso maker. I use a Mr. Coffee brand espresso maker with a built in milk frother. I don't drink Espresso just as coffee. It's far too strong I don't have a particular brand I prefer (last time I bought it I just used the Great Value brand from Walmart). I only use it for making lattes/cappuccinos/mochas. Also, the built in milk frother makes amazing hot chocolate.
As for creamer, I almost exclusively use Coffeemate French vanilla.
Old topic but I thought I'd add this for anyone interested. It seems that Rockstar has added a couple new features to single player. I'm not sure when they did this because it's been a while since I last played, but...
1. You can now fast travel from your wilderness campfire. This was a feature from the first game that many people were disappointed wasn't carried over and Rockstar has at last corrected this. Also, the fast travel menu now includes Beecher's Hope and Colter. Colter is especially welcome because getting into Grizzlies West is a royal pain in the backside.
2. The Evans repeater has been added to the game and can be bought from any gunsmith. I thought this gun was exclusive to the PC version but it seems Rockstar decided to add it to the console version as well. No complaints here.
EDIT 3. The LeMat revolver and the m1899 simi-automatic pistol have also been added to the game and can be bought from the gunsmith in Saint Denis. Unlike the first game, the LeMat can now fire a shotgun shell just like the real gun could, though it still seems to use regular pistol ammo while the real gun was a black powder gun.
Saw it with some friends from work. Without spoiling anything, it was a pretty awesome end to the Skywalker saga. I was surprised by some of the cameos too.
Somebody edited Tommy Wiseau into Star Wars! To quote DBZ Abridged Vegeta: Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known until I received it. Seriously, this is hilarious and the editing is surprisingly good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M-_PX5WFBc
Anyone played the new Star Wars game that just came out? Personally I was pleasantly surprised by it. I was highly skeptical because EA's "Single Player Games Are Dead" attitude had bungled Battlefront and Battlefront 2 and their games in general haven't been all that great. However, this one was actually done pretty good. The gameplay involved a lot of puzzles, parkour, and exploration and the lightsaber combat is probably the best ever put into a Star Wars game.
The characters are all likable and the story was pretty good too. In fact it managed to subvert a lot of my expectations in a good way. So yeah, we finally got the first decent Star Wars game since Lucasarts shut down.
I finally downloaded the "City That Never Sleeps" DLC pack for Marvel's Spiderman. Waiting for my controller to recharge so I can play it. I swear, I miss the days when you could just pop new batteries in the thing and keep playing.
I was literally in tears by the time I got to the end credits. This game, along with Marvel's Spiderman and Ace Combat 7 are proof that story-driven single player games aren't dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdZPnxINQw
Nobody has talked about this game on here so I thought I'd start a topic for it. I got Red Dead Redemption 2 back around Christmas and I still haven't put it down. The followup to Rockstar's western epic is truly something special to behold.
First, the nonspoiler stuff. The open world is by far the best I've ever seen and I'm continually amazed by the detail and realism Rockstar put into it. Many sandbox games promise a living, breathing world but this is the first time I've seen one truly deliver.
1. The animal behavior is amazingly realistic. One of my chief complaints about the first game was that animals didn't behave realistically. Bears, wolves, and cougars were always hostile no matter what and they were far too common. This
This time around, bears, wolves, and cougars are far less common, which makes enjoying the wilderness a little easier. When they do appear, they only attack if you get close to them and will otherwise ignore you. I once found a bear eating a dead deer and instead of attacking me, the bear stood up on his back legs and roared at me until I backed away. THen he went back to eating the deer.
I was fishing by a lake and there was a bald eagle sitting on a rock. He sat there for several minutes before suddenly diving toward the water and catching a fish. Here are some other spectacular examples of animal behavior in this game. The aforementioned eagle catching a fish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQleMOK0mU4
2. The open world is so diverse and beautiful, ranging from snowy mountains to dry deserts and lush forests. I'd have to say West Elizabeth and Ambarino are the prettiest states in the game. The map is about three times the size of the map from the first game.
3. The gameplay mechanics. You have to eat and sleep to maintain your cores, hunting and gathering plants have been vastly expanded, outfits can now be crafted and customized to some extent, horse interactions have been expanded, etc. It would be hard to go back and play the first game again after getting used to all the new features in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Now for the spoiler stuff: You've been warned.
1. The story and characters are incredible. With more than 60 hours worth of story missions and another 40 hours worth of side activities, this is b far the longest game I've ever played. I've been playing this game since Christmas and I'm still finding unique character interactions in camp. If you rush through the story as fast as possible, you miss out on so much good stuff.
Dutch van der Lind is the best antagonist Rockstar has ever created and his descent into madness is heartbreaking, but very well done.
Micah Bell is by bar the most vile and unlikable video game character I've ever encounter. Where do I even begin with this guy? He's a racist jerk right from the start, sexually harasses the women in camp, bullies everyone including 4-year-old Jack Marston, an early mission involves him shooting up an entire town, forcing Arthur to go along with it and leading to Arthur getting a $300 bounty and taking nearly every penny the player has earned up until this point to pay off, the fact hat he ultimately betrayed the gang, his endless mocking Arthur's tuberculosis... the list goes on. Oh, and he killed Jack's dog and taunted Jack about it. Can't forget that. I wanted to kill him the moment he first appeared on screen. I didn't feel any satisfaction about killing Ross in the first game, but Micah? It really felt good to finally get to shoot him full of holes.
Arthur Morgan is the best game protagonist I've ever seen. His character development over the course of the story is unrivaled. That's all I'm gonna say.
It's nice to see John Marston again. takes a while for him to evolve into the character we knew from the first game though but his development is handled well.
4. This one has some massive spoilers! . . . Arthur Morgan's story isn't just amazingly written, it's a tearjerker guaranteed to make you cry. There are a LOT of tearjerker-worthy moments but highlights include Arthur's conversation with the nun toward the end where he tells her he's dying and he's afraid, Arthur talking to Rains Fall about his family being murdered, and the entire mission "Red Dead Redemption", the final mission of Arthur's story. The entire mission is basically 30 minutes of the game relentlessly punching you in the feels again and again. Arthur's goodbye to Tilly and giving her all his money, his goodbyes to Abigail, Sadie, and Jack, his last ride back to camp while "That's the Way It Is" plays in the background, reflecting on the life he's lead, Arthur whispering "thank you" to his dying horse, his goodbye to John and staying behind to cover John's escape, and finally, Arthur passes away at peace with himself. An incredibly emotional sendoff to the most amazing, complex, and well-written video game character ever. I literally had to stop playing for a bit after that.
5. The side missions are really good. Especially the ones in Chapter 6. They may be optional, but you miss out on a lot if you don't play them as Arthur.
It took 8 years to get this epic masterpiece, but it was worth the wait. That's about all I'm gonna say for now. Anyone else played this masterpiece?
I've been pretty much binge playing Red Dead Redemption 2 lately. Game's an absolute masterpiece and it surpasses the first game in almost every way. That's saying something because I absolutely loved the first game.
I killed the two drones and beat the final mission with the F-104. It seemed fitting to use an ancient plane to take on the super advanced drones and then fly up the space elevator. I'd have used it a lot more if it had a better payload capacity.
U-571 is an OK action flick, though it has some glaring historical errors. But the soundtrack is absolutely epic. I managed to track down this particularly awesome piece on Youtube.
Thank you, Stan, for giving the world such unforgettable and iconic characters as Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, the X-Men, and many, many others. You will never be forgotten.
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