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The Last Jedi Teaser Trailer

I only know one truth... it's time for the Jedi... to end

This looks great! I'm leaning back and forth how much info I want on the movie, but in the end, I probably won't be able to resist watching all the trailers :)

Travis Admin wrote on 04/14/2017 at 09:36pm

This is a great trailer. It teases plot points without giving anything away.

And plus it's new Star Wars!!!

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 04/14/2017 at 09:52pm

I agree! I'm excited about Star Wars again! I imagine someday I'll get burnt out (I'm not anticipating being hyped for the Han Solo movie), but right now GIVE ME MORE STAR WARS

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/15/2017 at 03:54am

Yep, this trailer was really cool and I am excited for The Last Jedi even more now. If Disney keeps going at this pace and with the movies as good as they have been I think I'll be watching them excitedly for quite some time.

Travis Admin wrote on 04/15/2017 at 04:41am

Adam, that may be true about the Han Solo movie, I'll hold judgment until a trailer at least.

But for now I AM ONE WITH THE HYPE AND THE HYPE IS WITH ME

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/15/2017 at 05:09pm

I finally have a couple things to say about this trailer so hold on to your butts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W6as8oVcuM

Sorry that wasn't a Star Wars reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZpIrlcZmXQ

Episode One - More About The Force Awakens

Firstly I want to link to our Force Awakens trailer discussion. Fun to read that two years later knowing what we know now. It's nice to have these discussions easy to find. I know i'll get a kick out of reading them YEARS later. You know, like now only much older...

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/2479/star-wars-vii-the-force-awakens-trailer-2-launches

Firstly I want to step back a bit and say I think the Force Awakens is getting a but too much negativity amongst some fans. The fact that it was made as quickly and was as good and made as many people happy and again, was good is a miracle. I think the Movies With Mikey review sums it up well even though Mikey does tend to get a bit gushy the end of his reviews. Regardless, Force Awakens was a movie I still stand by as "liquid joy" and one of the more magical theater going experiences i've had lately. Until I saw Arrival then that topped it, but Force Awakens was superb and as a fan very satisfying.

I could get into the biggest criticisms of it, but I won't because we've talked about that before. All that to say, my guess is Last Jedi will be incredible and in many ways better than the Force Awakens because the Force Awakens built up so much The Last Jedi can now pay off and kick the world building and incredible parts of Star Wars up 10 notches. I think because of this there will be some new fan share on the Force Awakens because the Internet loves picking apart things and jumping on bandwagons. Or not. But we'll see.

TLDR; Force Awakens is a great movie that builds up an incredible world the Last Jedi can play in so well it will be a really great film.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/15/2017 at 05:09pm

Episode II - Attack Of the Trailer Speculation

I think you can take Luke wanting the Jedi to end in a couple ways. Both are interesting and i'm not entire sure which it will be.

1. Luke actually wants to rid the galaxy of anyone with force ability. Let's face it, the Jedi are ultra powerful and it seems from the films having them around causes a huge amount of problems. Luke might believe that having such ultra powerful people might be too much for the galaxy and he wants to stop anyone from getting that power and using it for bad. This is a parallel between what Vader did, which was for entirely different reasons but the same kind of action. It would be an interesting juxtaposition and since, my guess, Luke is the most powerful person in the galaxy and seemingly for good but not it could create an interesting story. Further speculation on this line is that Luke might train Rey to help him take out the First Order and the Knights of Ren something she might like but Luke might take it too far for her or be too extreme?

2. Luke is speaking more metaphorically and he wants there to be less "evil extreme" Jedi and "good to the point of being dumb" Jedi. He thinks being Grey is actually better and will try and sway Kylo to the middle. I've only heard about the Grey path recently and it's an interesting concept outlined on Wookipedia below.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gray_Jedi

3. Something else entirely.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/15/2017 at 05:14pm

"fan share" => "fan shade"

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 04/15/2017 at 06:40pm

I'm thinking it'll be something along the second scenario, with Luke going Gray (or maybe going clear? Does he become a Scientologiat?), but I'm hoping for something more out of left field. I'm still hoping Luke turns out to be Smoke lol. The first scene in the trailer, Rey falls and looks upset. Sure, this is probably part of a training montage, but maybe it's Luke throwing Rey out of his house/cace/dwelling. Or maybe Luke isn't Snoke, but Rey ends up turning evil.

Looking at the poster for the movie (http://www.gameinformer.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-SiteFiles/imagefeed-featured-lucasfilm-StarWars-celebration2017-thelastjedi/lastjediposter1.jpg), Rey's lightsaber turns from blue to red, and it's separating Luke and Kylo. She could turn to the dark side and keep Luke and Kylo apart (Kylo's helmet is broken in the trailer, maybe he's trying to turn to the light side in this one?)

I love speculating :)

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/15/2017 at 09:18pm

Luke: Kylo, your problem is you have too many Thetans. We can take care of that for you, all you need to do is just pay 4 easy installments of $59.95...

I'm throwing my bet behind a more Gray Jedi / balanced approach to the force. I love how the Star Wars trailers (at least for the main series) have been so good about making the movies look great without giving away the plot too much. So many trailers show you too much and then you already know what's going to happen by the time you see the movie.

And man, I've watched this trailer like 12 times and I still get goosebumps when the red Star Wars logo shows up. And that end piece of music! John Williams is the man.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/16/2017 at 03:11am

> (Kylo's helmet is broken in the trailer, maybe he's trying to turn to the light side in this one?)

I actually thought that was Darth Vaders burned helmet but it could be Kylo's which does make more sense.

I think this trailer is one of the best trailers i've seen. Also, I like Luke as a Yoga Teacher. "Breeeeaaathe!"

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 04/17/2017 at 03:53am

Where is C3PO and Chewbaca? Are they back?

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/17/2017 at 04:00am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Last_Jedi

Looks like they are in the movie credits.

Travis Admin wrote on 04/17/2017 at 08:25pm

There's no way they don't put threepio in it. Anthony Daniels has been in nearly every single Star Wars property and he's still kicking.

If Anthony Daniels is alive in 20 years when Star Wars Episode 18 comes out and takes place 500 years in the future from Episode 8, Threepio will probably still be there.

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FEZ Celebrates It's 5th Birthday Today & Coming To iOS This Year!

In celebration of FEZ 5th birthday today Polytron had a series of Tweets about the game and one mentioning that FEZ will be coming to iOS this year! The reveal trailer above doesn't mention much about how the game will work but if they get the controls just right it might be great.

FEZ is a special game that features one of the best game scores of all time and once upon a time was getting a sequel that was later cancelled. I hold out hope that FEZ 2 might still be coming or will come back in some form but at least we have FEZ, which is one of the best platformers i've played in quite some time.

https://twitter.com/Polytron

I Wave Goodbye To The NES Classic I Never Had!

You know Nintendo I get it. The Switch is ultra popular and you want to focus on making those and so when you said you were going to discontinue the NES Classic I understood but it still made me sad. See Nintendo i'm bummed because like many people, I couldn't actually buy one. Sure I could have camped out at 5am at Target for a chance to get one but like many people I just figured you'd keep up with demand eventually and Classics would be plentifully stocked on store shelves for everyone to get one... maybe two each! Because the NES Classic is a great idea! What's not to love about a low cost system with 30 classic NES games included? Everyone loved this thing and... Read All

Are Mario Kart Games Always Great? Mario Kart 7 Is!

jdodson gives this a solid "Rad" on the Ghost Scale

This is fun, with very few issues, and is well worth your time.

jdodson gives this a "Rad" on the Ghost Scale

This is fun, with very few issues, and is well worth your time.

Mario Kart 7 came out on the Nintendo 3DS in 2011 and I picked it for the first time this month. I got a 3DS in December and have been slowly picking up some of the best titles on the system so Mario Kart 7 seemed like a good idea. My first exposure to Mario Kart was playing Super Mario Kart at my cousins house back in the 90's. I wasn't very good at Super Mario Kart but it's a really fun game and when I got a Wii and heard Mario Kart Wii was coming out I picked it up immediately. To date Mario Kart Wii is the best Mario Kart game I've played and the best game that released on the Wii. 4 player local split screen, online multiplayer with friends, karts and bikes and a... Read All Mario Kart 7 came out on the Nintendo 3DS in 2011 and I picked it for the first time this month. I got a 3DS in December and have been slowly picking up some of the best titles on the system so Mario Kart 7 seemed like a good idea. My first exposure to Mario Kart was playing Super Mario Kart at my cousins house back in the 90's. I wasn't very good at Super Mario Kart but it's a really fun game and when I got a Wii and heard Mario Kart Wii was coming out I picked it up immediately. To date Mario Kart Wii is the best Mario Kart game I've played and the best game that released on the Wii. 4 player local split screen, online multiplayer with friends, karts and bikes and a bunch of new tracks that are incredible fun. My only gripe about Mario Kart Wii is that it has some racers and karts that were behind some very crazy unlock gates that I was never able to achieve.

Mario Kart 7 launched after Mario Kart Wii and it is an even further enhancement of a game that was darn near perfect. Mario Kart 7 ditches the bikes and sticks to karts but allows more kart customizations and the ability for each kart to fly. The flying is a fun mechanic that you can strategically use to get yourself a bit further than the other karts if you can manage it and take some very fun track shortcuts. Mario Kart 7 does require you to unlock kart customizations by collecting gold coins during races.

Mario Kart 7 allows for local multiplayer by pairing over bluetooth with other nearby 3DS's. This is made dead simple in the game and I was able to easily link with a friend and go head to head locally. If your friend doesn't have Mario Kart 7 you can beam over a copy for your friend to play making it super easy to play with anyone that has a 3DS. This is a cool feature of a couple 3DS games and something Nintendo doesn't seem to be continuing with the Switch.

Like Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart 7 has online play functionality with your friends where you can race them online or challenge your friends with track time trials. I loved the time trail challenge feature of Mario Kart Wii and it's cool to see it added to Mario Kart 7. That said, you need to magically friend someone in person on your 3DS in a way I haven't figured out so Mario Kart 7 registers that friend in game. So far how to do this is totally lost to us and even after looking online I can't see to figure it out. This is pretty frustrating because part of the fun of Mario Kart is challenging friends to track time trials and playing with them online.

Mario Kart 7 is a great addition to the Mario Kart franchise and whereas it's an old game now if you just got a 3DS or plan on picking it up there is a ton of game here to enjoy and it's not expensive. The tracks it adds are fun and inventive and the game play is buttery smooth. Each Mario Kart game in the franchise is a fairly substantial incremental improvement on the last and Mario Kart 7 builds on the amazing foundation of Mario Kart Wii. I wonder if Mario Kart will take a page from Super Mario Maker and enable some kind of user track creation toolkit in some future release? If Nintendo did that I think that would be the greatest thing to happen to the series but until then Mario Kart 7 is a good addition to an already great series.

When Is It Time To Take a Hearthbreak?

In March 2013 I wrote a post about a upcoming new digital card game Blizzard was developing called Hearthstone. I got access to the beta and thought it was wicked fun and when it later launched on mobile I was absolutely hooked. Like the kind of hooked where you play it every day to grind your quest dailies for gold, follow every expansion closely, read up on strategies online as well as new deck recipes and then create your own web show hooked. You know.... hooked. And I have no regrets about that because Hearthstone has been a nearly free hobby that has simply cost me time and has been an immense amount of fun. It feels like I win more than my fair share of the time... Read All In March 2013 I wrote a post about a upcoming new digital card game Blizzard was developing called Hearthstone. I got access to the beta and thought it was wicked fun and when it later launched on mobile I was absolutely hooked. Like the kind of hooked where you play it every day to grind your quest dailies for gold, follow every expansion closely, read up on strategies online as well as new deck recipes and then create your own web show hooked. You know.... hooked. And I have no regrets about that because Hearthstone has been a nearly free hobby that has simply cost me time and has been an immense amount of fun. It feels like I win more than my fair share of the time and I haven't historically had any huge objection to the game or it's direction. Lately Blizzard has made some changes to the game I think aren't great but those don't really contribute too much to where I am right now. All that said, i've been playing Hearthstone for nearly every day for 4 years(honestly I think i've missed only a handful of days in that time) and i'm thinking about stepping away for a while. At least, I really want to and am trying to figure out how.

I don't think i'm hooked to the point of having a problem. I'm pretty sure I'm not so crazy about Hearthstone that I can't actually bring myself to stop playing it but when you do something so much(like playing a game every day for four years) not doing it feels weird. Or at least thinking about not doing it feels weird. But I think that may be a good reason to stop playing. That and the game is starting to feel like a chore. Gaming is a fun hobby I have, it shouldn't feel like work and when it does I think it's time to think about stepping away for a time. But it's hard to step away from some kinds of games, especially Hearthstone because of it's free to play reality.

To win at standard Hearthstone you need to have good decks. The way to get good decks is to open packs. To open packs you need in game gold or money. If you want to not spend money in Hearthstone and open packs you need to win quests. Winning quests means you need to grind your daily quests. To open the most amount of packs you need to clear your daily quests and not have them stack up which means you, mostly, need to grind quests daily. Doing this and rerolling lower gold quests for higher value ones means you can open about 78-ish packs per expansion which means that if you do that you can have a good shot to get a fair amount of good cards to keep playing the game and repeat this cycle. So far, it's been a really fun cycle but it's starting to feel more grindy and WAY less appealing to me. I don't think it's anything to do with the game design but just something i'm less interested in doing after doing it this long.

Hearthstone did just launch the new Un'Goro expansion that just blew the door open on the amount of legendaries it added to an expansion set. What I mean by that is that they increased the amount of legendaries you can get which means it is no longer reasonable for a free to play player to be able to play with even a modest amount of the power cards in a set. Before, the amount of legendaries in a set that were good was limited therefore it was easier to acquire the good ones. Now that each class has two legendaries (one being a very cool class specific quest) it is harder to get all the fun cards if you play for free. It's even harder(if you can imagine) if you pay $50 for 50 packs for each expansion. Because of the increased legendary count and the fact that the fun class quests are legendaries many people felt the pinch and honestly the only way to get all the legendary class quests is to spend a lot of money on packs.

As a free to play player I never cared about owning all the cards. I really still don't, it's just something you have to live with. But it's sad to see the free to play aspect of the game seem to slip further away. I get that Blizzard might want to make a bit more money with Hearthstone but annoying me and annoying someone that spends $50 each expansion is really different and the latter pays to keep the lights on for the game. I've always enjoyed that Hearthstone has other players that spend lots of money in the game because I never did and wanted to keep playing it so I was happy other people could fund it's development. But I wonder at what people will people feel like it's no longer worth it?

At this point i'm trying to figure out about how much gold I should bank in my account before turning off the lights and taking a long Hearthbreak. The thought is that at some point I might want to come back to play it and having some amount of gold to spend on whatever new expansion is out would help get fresh with the game again. Not to say I couldn't come back and play the game in a month or so but I'm thinking of just stopping for a long period because it just feels like the right thing to do.

And I do want to thank Blizzard for making Hearthstone and up to now it's been one of the best games i've played. It's just time to take a break for a while and see what else is out there.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 04/12/2017 at 02:32pm

This is how I feel after a few months of playing. You will be back and so will I. 😄

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/12/2017 at 03:03pm

Heh. Yeah, time will tell. I'll do a follow up later about it. Later follow up titles: "I'm Weak," "Why Is This Game So Compelling," "Why It's Hard To Stop Snorting Virtual Digital Card Crack."

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 04/12/2017 at 04:09pm

It becomes tough when your play time becomes limited. You start to wonder, "Is this how I want to spend my gaming time?"

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/16/2017 at 05:08pm

4 day update. Honestly putting this aside was way easier that I thought. Surprised I have no pull to play it at this point and have enjoyed getting a bit more back from my day. Since it's gone so well I am planning on removing a few other activities from my day to get back a bit more time!

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 04/17/2017 at 03:47am

Great to hear Jon!

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This In Absolutely Crazy Gaming Achievements - Grinding To Level 99 In The Final Fantasy VII Reactor!

In 2015 YouTuber CirclMastr had a dream. Slowly... and I mean slowly... grind to level 99 with Cloud in Barrett in the first reactor in Final Fantasy VII. It's an impressive feat he captured over a recent Twitch stream you watch above as he finally hits level 99 in an hour long stream.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/11/2017 at 05:21am

Oh god why!?

I thought I was crazy to grind enough to learn Meteorain before leaving midgard! This is insane on another level.

Travis Admin wrote on 04/11/2017 at 01:02pm

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What he said. I guess the answer is always "because you can." But damn.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/11/2017 at 05:59pm

47:12 "Life has no inherent purpose and things have no inherent meaning. It's up to us to assign meaning and create metaphor for our own lives and our own actions."

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/12/2017 at 03:03am

Alright, now I want to hear everyone's most insane gaming "accomplishment."

Travis Admin wrote on 04/12/2017 at 03:16am

I got the highest ranking on every level and collected every single item in We Heart Katamari. I made spreadsheets. I hated those gray boxes where items should be!

When Beautiful Katamari came out for Xbox 360 all that practice paid off, by some measures of "paying off," because for about two weeks I had the highest score on the last level's leaderboard. But I never obsessed over it, or any other Katamari game, like We Heart Katamari

(interesting side note: don't use the less-than symbol in comments. Trying to make less-than-three hearts broke the comments!)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/12/2017 at 04:04am

Well I did this:

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/656/super-turbo-turkey-puncher-3-high-score

But that's not insane crazy but it is pretty high I guess.

But Travis is the king of trophies and achievements and i've asked him to write a post about his Steam achievements, trophies and badges and talk about his most impressive ones for games like Terraria and others. Like seriously, I have nothing even close to the collection he has.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/12/2017 at 04:08am

> 47:12 "Life has no inherent purpose and things have no inherent meaning. It's up to us to assign meaning and create metaphor for our own lives and our own actions."

I actually think that's really beautiful and something to really think about. I know not everyone would agree, but there is some courage in that kind of outlook because it means you are on the hook for your choices in a way other outlooks might not. Glad he found meaning here, I wouldn't maybe but I respect it even before I knew he had such a cool quotable viewpoint.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/12/2017 at 06:23am

Hmmm... I already mentioned my grind for Meteorain. I beat Link to the Past using only one bottle, the least amount of hearts possible (only picking up hearts from bosses) and never upgrading my armor/tunic.

I was less successful in playing Ocarina of Time without a shield. There are certain parts of the game that require you to use one, so I'd have to equip it, use it where needed, then find a way to lose it since you can't completely unequip one manually.

The craziest thing I've tried to do was master all jobs in Final Fantasy Tactics as soon as the first random/repeatable battle opens up. I never made it, but I came closer than I'd like to admit.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/12/2017 at 06:44am

> Hmmm... I already mentioned my grind for Meteorain.

That reminds me. Back in High School in FFIII/VI, for some reason, I wanted to grind up to 99 experience eggs and you can do that by betting a tonic and fighting up to the experience egg. Some quick googling found the old grind which was Tonic->Elixir->Rename Card->Marvel Shoes->Tintinabar->Exp. Egg.

Not really sure WHY I wanted to do it but I did it. Because, you know, we assign meaning to our lives.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition Review

Azurephile gives this an astounding "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

Azurephile gives this a "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

Review

Recommended

Import saved date from previous games

Visually superior to Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2

New battle system

Strongly open-world RPG including mounts

Dragon Age: Origins was difficult to get into. In fact, it wasn’t until my third attempt at playing it that I finally made some progress and finished it. The combat system was definitely something I had to get used to. The graphics weren’t quite up to par with today’s normal, but they weren’t horrible either. In the end, I enjoyed DAO. I’ve seen some replay value in it, so there’s a chance I may play it again.

One of the things I’ve loved about the DA series is the ability to import saved games. I... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/11/2017 at 04:13am

So after playing them all it seems like you like DAI a bit more than the others? Makes sense, again i've heard good things about it from friends though I don't think they completed it.

Azurephile Super Member Post Author wrote on 04/11/2017 at 06:02am

I haven't finished DAI yet, but I think I do like it best of the three. I liked DA2 more than Origins and I still liked Origins. So, I think it's all good. I think that at some point I got used to the game and cared about the characters and what I was doing. It's pretty cool.

Azurephile Super Member Post Author wrote on 04/18/2017 at 01:04am

Does Origin tell you how many hours you've spent playing a game? I wonder what my hours look like for DAI. Well, I know the game can tell me, it's in the title of my saved games. It does auto save, some what often, so it seems unnecessary to save so often. I ran into that with DAO, having to make sure I saved, so I don't lose progress after getting killed.

This game really looks comparable to a shiny new car. There are a lot of shiny things in the game.

Leveling up seems to take a while. I'm only level 20 or 21 right now. But, I feel more powerful than ever. I killed one or two Higher Dragons on my own, but another two or three were destroying me when I was about level 17. The dragons were higher leveled than me, around 20. Once I came back to those fights when I reached 20, they were so much easier. Honestly, I think my mage is more powerful than anyone else in my part. My character is a Warrior, but I keep another Warrior (Cassandra), a mage (Vivieene), and a rogue (Sera) with me.

I'm still enjoying it!

Travis Admin wrote on 04/18/2017 at 02:08am

yep, when you click on a game it tells you in that panel, far right of the play button.

Azurephile Super Member Post Author wrote on 04/18/2017 at 04:17am

I see it! I've been playing by right-clicking the icon in my system tray and then clicking on the game. Thanks, Travis! Origin says I've played DAI for 50 hours.

Azurephile Super Member Post Author wrote on 05/01/2017 at 05:38am

I finally finished DAI and I really liked it. It was fun, interesting, and looked good. If there's another DA game, I will certainly be interested.

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Clean Your Retro Games With Metal Jesus!

If you have retro game karts that need cleaning or repair this Metal Jesus video talks all about how you can go about that. Jesus and Kelsey also talk about how you can go about fixing game discs that are scratched to the point that they don't work. They even have some tips on how to get remove someones name they've sharpied on a game kart! Really good advice here for getting longest life possible out of your old games.

Hearthstone Nightlies For Ghosts Ep. 14 - Un'Goro Pack Opening & Maiev Shadowsong Quest

Hearthstones latest expansion Journey to Un'Goro is out and I was able to open 78 packs! Watch to see what I open and stick around to see some absolutely incredible matches. I play with a fun Shaman Elemental deck and take down a Warlock in what could only be described best as a 3 tier boss fight. Plus Dinomancer. Always Dinomancer.

Travis Admin wrote on 04/08/2017 at 08:01pm

After logging in daily over the past few days to get all those rewards, I actually played some today for the first time in ages.

I still suck at it :D

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/08/2017 at 09:22pm

Hahahaha yeah, it's a hard nut to crack at first.

Not sure what cards you have but i'd search for a budget basic deck and see what you can build from that.

Travis Admin wrote on 04/08/2017 at 10:42pm

Yeah I'm not sure what cards I have either and the interface for getting through them is slightly overwhelming.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/12/2017 at 08:30pm

Have you ever thought about taking a break from Hearthstone?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/13/2017 at 05:03am

I know you are joking but yeah I have and I even did while I was making this video.

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The Witness Comes To Mac on Steam And The Apple Store!

Jonathan Blow released his follow up to Braid last year called The Witness. The Witness is a Myst like puzzle game that blends incredible visuals, a compelling story and deep puzzle mechanics that garnered rave reviews from gamers and the press. The game initially shipped on PC and PS4 and today released on Mac on Steam and the Apple Store. Recently The Witness was featured in the Humble Freedom Bundle and if you picked it up there on Steam you can now install it on your Mac like I did today.