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Tawm, if you want Larry to last longer (and harder ), you can try LSL2 or LSL3.

I'm not a gambler either, but I know how Blackjack works and it's less of a gamble (and more in your favour) than the slots, especially in LSL1.

Naturally, it's the old save-after-a-win, restore-after-a-loss routine.

I've found after some experience that the slots are a lot faster - the game plays quicker and the odds are not bad.
But I do think blackjack is more fun.

The odds are not bad, BBP? I'm shocked (shocked, I say!)

I thought the odds were always stacked against you. That's how casinos work.

Casinos, yes, but not an adventure game except in SQ1 where it may just kill you.

BBP wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 1:12 am Casinos, yes, but not an adventure game except in SQ1 where it may just kill you.

But I did like that you can attach the Star Generator Widget to the Slot Machine in SQ1 VGA to avoid that...

Finally beat MARVEL SUPER HERO LEGO 2...
When I got it when it came out - I got to a part where I got stuck.
And I am stubborn and dislike looking up answers (because it becomes a slippery slope) for new games.
Got other games, got distracted, forgot I hadn't beat it.

Just moved my XBOX One into the guest room.
Loaded it up. Loaded the check point. Got to where I was again.
Couldn't figure it out.
Looked online.

"Jump on the lever you made"

I look.

I guess that's a lever - hard to tell looking at it straight on.

But do it anyway.

Yup.

Then two more areas, which I easily get through and beat the game.

So then I threw in MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA

Been forcing my way through that. The planet HARVAL (or whatever) is the WORSE.

Off that planet, the game is better. But the companions are boring.
The driving on planets is annoying. But thankfully I've unlocked most of the fast travel.
So as I go through cleaning out my quest log - quests are finally ending and not leading to other quests.
Got almost all the side quests done.
Main quest is there.
Just cleaning out the side quests before I go for the finish.
I will be done with this game by this weekend.

Congrats, Tawm!

I never played either of these games. I don't know anything about them.

I played Andromeda just once. Usually, after I finish an RPG like this, I go back with a guide to get whatever small quests that I may have missed. I was so underwhelmed with Andromeda, I never bothered to do that. I don't remember Harval (or whatever) or what was so bad about about it.

Elden Ring baybee

Playing the Asmodee board game version of Pandemic. And losing... and losing...

notbobsmith wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 8:50 pm I played Andromeda just once. Usually, after I finish an RPG like this, I go back with a guide to get whatever small quests that I may have missed. I was so underwhelmed with Andromeda, I never bothered to do that. I don't remember Harval (or whatever) or what was so bad about about it.

It's the dark, dark, dark jungle planet. Where it's hard to see very far, and there's a freaking Remnant building that's half the map that ye have to make yer way around if you don't have the fast points.

And even with the fast points, I effing hated that planet.

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:41 pm Congrats, Tawm!

I never played either of these games. I don't know anything about them.

Well, you know Marvel (just from the movies, even if ye never seen them - I assume you know who Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Man are) And that that, and make it a LEGO game.

And Mass Effect: Andromeda is from Bioware, same folks who made Dragon Age.

Tawmis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 4:10 pm
Well, you know Marvel (just from the movies, even if ye never seen them - I assume you know who Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Man are) And that that, and make it a LEGO game.

I enjoyed the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and Original Trilogy Lego games when they came out in 2005 and 2006, respectively.

Got the two Indiana Jones Lego games for a steal when Target stores were dumping their PC games in the early 2010s but still have yet to play them.

Tawmis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 4:10 pm

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:41 pm Congrats, Tawm!

I never played either of these games. I don't know anything about them.

Well, you know Marvel (just from the movies, even if ye never seen them - I assume you know who Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Man are)

I wouldn't be surprised if Rath didn't know who they were. He might know who the Hulk and Spider-Man are, but I recall a thread where Rath knew nothing about Captain America, so I doubt he'd know who Iron Man is (and to be fair, Iron Man is a character who most non-comic book fans wouldn't have known before the start of the MCU in 2008), among other lesser known characters.

Generally speaking, the public recognizes four superheroes on sight: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Spider-Man. So that's three superheroes from DC and one from Marvel.

Now that the MCU has been around for a good 14 years, I imagine many non-comic book fans could actually identify quite a few Marvel superheroes, but that's only if you've watched the MCU films (and more recently, the shows on Disney+), and as far as I know, Rath hasn't seen any of them.

Er, what's going on? I replied to DPX yesterday, but now my reply is gone?

Yes, I know who the Hulk (Bruce Banner) and Spider-Man (Peter Parker) are. IIRC, Captain America was originally drawn during World War 2 as a 'super-soldier' who punched out Hitler. And Iron Man was originally Tony Stark, a businessman who suffered traumatic chest injuries, which is why he built himself a protective suit of armour.

But if you suffer the sort of chest injuries that Tony Stark suffered, wouldn't you die within minutes? *shrug*

Obviously this is suspension of disbelief. First, there's the fact that (in the movies, anyway) they performed surgery on his open chest in a cave in the middle of a desert. No sterilised room here! Not to mention the size of the hole in his chest -- somehow Pepper Potts can put her hand in his chest? No idea how they could have rearranged his organs to make room.



Second, the arc reactor is also capable of great magnitudes of energy to power the Iron Man suit. This is pure science fiction. The chest piece is also essential because it keeps the shrapnel (or fragments) from killing Tony by entering his heart. These fragments must be so small that even the cave desert surgery couldn't remove all of it.

So maybe we need to believe that the shrapnel truly can't be removed, or Tony dies. (Also, keep in mind that when the Iron Man comic first came out, a heart transplant wasn't possible, even experimentally).

So if we can believe that, why don't they have the technology to heal Tony Stark when he is back in the US? Maybe some kind of way to diffuse his blood, or some other fantastic surgery to remove the shrapnel. X-ray won't do it; MRI scans might. Maybe? But there's an answer to that:

The chest piece serves a purpose for the story and the character. It's part of the drama: if our hero doesn't have it in place, he dies. It gives him a weakness and makes him vulnerable, which keeps from becoming a munchkin! And maybe Tony doesn't want someone operating on him, when he's unconscious and vulnerable, who could then simply steal his arc reactor technology? In the screenshot above, Tony is having Ms. Potts change out his chest piece in his own lab, not some doctor in a hospital.

Let's look at it this way: Tony's a genius, superhero, playboy billionaire with narcissistic tendencies. Maybe he doesn't want to be cured. It adds emphasis when he says, "I am Iron Man".