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blessuswithblogs · 5 years

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2018 Game of the Year Top Ten List I guess

2018 has been an interminable mire of exhausting miasma and quite frankly I feel like it has been longer than the entire stretch of 2010-2015 combined. I also didn't play many games released this year because, like last year, I'm still poor. I'll see what I can dig up.

10. Sunset Overdrive PC edition: It's a fun open world game by insomniac. The PC Port is actually balls but like. It's a good game with a unique emphasis on how you traverse the game world, where you can grind and bounce on just about anything and indeed to do so is the only way to not get totally chewed up by the hordes of mutants and scavengers and robots you have to fight. There's also some pretty fun and out there weapons to use, like a gun that shoots vinyl records or one that deploys little auto-turrets kept aloft with propellers or one that shoots out a bowling ball at terminal velocity. The base game didn't actually come out this year (I dont... think it did...?) but it was an XBone exclusive so I didn't play it then. It's got some weird problems with narrative tone and some kind of out of the blue racism but the M rated Nickolodeon toy commercial aesthetic is charming in a weird way. I guess.

9. The Forest: I think this got an official release this year? I don't know I can't fucking keep track. Speaking of a game with weird problems with racism, if you can look past the garbage "main quest" and really deeply uncomfortable racial politics where you murder and steal from cannibal mutants, The Forest is probably the best cool treefort building simulator I've ever played. This game has a love affair with lumber and I respect that. Shouldn't you be looking for Timmy, you ask me? Shouldn't you be shutting the fuck up before I put this airplane axe in your skullmeats? Gazebos are nice. I guess.

8. Spyro: reignited trilogy: haven't actually played this yet but let's be real the spyro games were fucking dope back in the day and giving them an HD coat of paint and packaging them all together is a real standup thing for insomniac to do in between slinging webs and making questionable pc ports. Also its like Dark Souls so it has to be good, right? Everything old is new again. I guess.

7. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: haven't played this one either but like. I know that I am a smash-enjoyer. I even liked Brawl. This is the biggest, smashiest one yet and it's also on the switch which means it could also be portable if I decided I never wanted to leave my bed again. I'm probably going to find some money to get it soon. Should be fun. I guess.

6. The Quiet Man: look no game that is THIS hysterical can be all bad alright? Didn't play it. Won't play it. It's awful. But it's so fucking funny like oh my god. Still better than Fallout 76. I guess.

5. Dark Souls Remastered: was this even a good remaster? I don't fucking know. It's Dark Souls. It's better than 90% of released games by default. I miss Solaire of Astora. I guess there's Shadows Die Twice to look forward to. I guess.

4. Subnautica: I wrote a lot about this actually. Subnautica is great. Just fantastic. A wonderful, visually stunning (mostly) (when it works) journey under an alien ocean to unravel an ancient mystery behind a deadly plague. Building seabases is so much fun (when it doesn't hard crash your computer) and the peaceful playstyle you adopt where you really only kill things for food until you can grow your own, much more efficient produce is a welcome change of pace from everything else. Leviathans are scary, especially now that your cyclops is mortal and not indestructible. This game actually Came Out this year so it deserves to be on the spot. I guess.

3. Dragon Ball Fighterz: Honestly I'm hell trash garbage at fighting games that aren't smash but this was a very well put together, visually impressive as all hell fast paced tag fighter where you can have 3 gokus on the same team fight 3 other gokus on the same team. Goku density alone makes this game worth recommending. The eSports scene that has popped up around it is fun too. I guess.

2. Dead Cells: Another game that gets to be on the list by virtue of it actually coming out this year. Wait, was this on last year's list? Let me check. Ok good it wasn't. Early access is a fucking trip. It's fun, stylish, challenging, has a great deal of variety in ways to play, might have erased my entire save because it became obsolete and I'm definitely not bitter, and it has that classic rogue-lite replay value to give you some bang for your buck. There was that one review plagiarism scandal. I guess.

1. Monster Hunter World: If you really want to know what I think of this game my previous piece on it is a good place to start. In addition to everything said there, MHW is just a fun game. The loop is satisfying and, later on, quite challenging. The combat system takes some genuine getting used to and some monsters like Nergigante actually literally cheat but for the most part the game's unique fighting style, spread across several unique weapon types, is rewarding to learn because it demands some effort be put into it and the dividends of fighting well are very cool, like just knocking a flying monster on its ass with a single mighty swing of the hammer. When a game is hard in any capacity games journalists get dollar signs in their eyes and start drooling uncontrollably because they can immediately declare that Farm Sim 2020 is the next Bloodborne because they somehow managed to roll their tractor into a ditch, but MHW is actually quite similar in style and execution to deliberate Souls combat, but the comparison is made in reverse. Dark Souls is quite similar to Monster Hunter, the first game of which was popular and a couple of years old before Demon's Souls was even a twinkle in Miyazaki's eye. There's a lot of parallels between fighting a big ol' rathalos in monhun and going for the toes against a dragon in Dark Souls, but I think MHW actually does that kind of fight better. There are a lot of modern conveniences present in MHW that are a godsend to newer players, making the game pretty easy to get into if you're willing to try. It was my favorite game of the year that actually came out in 2018. I kind of wanted to put Warframe in this list but it's been out of early access for years now. I guess.

There were a lot of games this year that I wanted to play, but couldn't. I don't think 2018 was a weak year for video games. It wasn't as strong as 2017 but it had some hits, I just couldn't afford to play them all. Maybe next year I'll be able to give a better list. I think that the whole industry is in for some hard choices and major restructuring of how things get done and how they look at the end result. Stocks continue to trend downward - not just for Bethesda but for most mainstream, prominent AAA developers like EA and Take2. Given the well documented volatility of "The Shareholders", I imagine that they would be most displeased by downward trends even if they were still making a modest profit.

The situation has been likened to an economic bubble ripe for bursting. Games as a cultural institution have come a long way since the catastrophic days of Atari's warehouses of unsold copies of E.T., and I don't believe that we're in any danger of a complete collapse of the institution, but the fact absolutely remains That Something's Gotta Give. The increasingly predatory practices that game developers put in place as they pathologically attempt to Make Every Money Ever are intrinsically unsustainable. People are willing to forgive and overlook the now ubiquitous microtransaction if a game is good enough to overlook it, or if it's the game's only real way of actually making money. Warframe's microtransactions, for instance, are reasonably priced, platinum is often heavily discounted as a login bonus, and you can make large amounts of it without ever spending money thanks to the game's surprisingly robust trading economy. So. Yeah. They get a pass. Warframe is also good on its own merits, despite being free to play. They also listen to their community about pricing. Go check out Warframe. It's free. It's free!!! Warframe is my unofficial top spot.

Sorry I got a little bit distracted. So there's only really two instances where people will tolerate microtransactions and lootboxes in the contemporary sense: either a game is good enough and polished enough and the lootboxes are unobtrusive enough that you can just sort of shrug your shoulders and say "it sucks but what are you gonna do" or it genuinely relies on those microtransactions to support itself. When these tenets are violated, people WILL get mad. People raised absolute hell about Battlefront 2's scummy monetization schemes, enough to get EA to back off. Fallout 76 is getting lambasted in no small part due to its utterly overpriced "cosmetic" shop where you pay ten real dollars to get your power armor to look blue. You can buy fullfeatured, critically acclaimed games for half that price and you already dumped $60 on this lemon of a game. Destiny 2 got into hot water for being cagey about how its exp values were calculated and how the previously free and user-friendly shaders became one-time use items you could only get from rolling the dice. The public is getting positively irate about all of this nonsense, and if Fallout 76 (and evidently battlefield V?) is any indication, we are fast approaching a breaking point where shareholder demand for profit will outpace the consumer's ability to provide it and the developer's ability to skinner box it out of us.

Of course Nintendo continues to march on to the beat of its own drum seemingly unaffected by all of this garbage. Not out of any moral superiority, I imagine. More likely it's just a consequence of that company still being in the process of being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Maybe a few years down the line when everyboy else has abandoned microtransactions Nintendo will pick them up, put a cute Mario motif on it, and we'll be back to square one. Time will tell. We're in a volatile time for games and the timebomb keeps ticking. I just hope the explosion isn't too messy. I guess.

#goty #2018 #monster hunter world #subnautica #dead cells #gamedev

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One thing I noticed about the Fo4 crew. Almost all of the Sole Survivors look the same. They either have scars or grey hair or both and pretty much are cookie cutters off one another. Basically boring and bland. Also almost all of them totally obliterated the backstory of the lawyer/soldier thing and made up their own back story. Couriers on the other hand all are unique, look fantastic, have amazing and creative backgrounds and stories. Why is this? Why are the majority of soles dull?

player freedom. i would blame bethesda's writing, framing, and cinematic on this one and not necessarily fans as a whole just cause there are some really developed soles out there, but yeah it is rare. most of them are also "i ignored the entire canon backstory and made my own up" or even characters that arent sole survivors but OCs that they play as. some people are really good at ignoring it, but honestly i cant. fo4 gives you this premade cookie cutter protag who's face is shown everywhere and the opening is voiced by (and shows what the wife looks like), along with a solid backstory of having a m/f marriage, a son, and a job that you dont have any say in. fnv has a VERY ambiguous protag, with a backstory thats very open for player freedom to interpret what they want (like you can be a courier AND an ncr soldier, you dont have to be just one really), with most of whats actually even there only being in a dlc and it having options on what you think of it. like your courier can deny everything if you really want them to, and its very easy to ignore. the slideshows are the only time you really see the protag, but even then its mostly ambiguous, and just also, generally very easy to ignore. the courier never even got an official name, with fo4 theres Nate and Nora. its just how the two different companies write differently.i generally think the protag should either be so interesting i dont want to ignore them, or they shouldnt have a backstory at all that i can build. fo4 had neither of those. i think there was a huge chunk of people that just bought into the linear way fo4 is written and the premade protagonist. which isnt like... BAD per se but it isnt what fo4 is marketed as.

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Healing America’s heroes: A triple-amputee soldier’s quest to fish | Fox News

Army Major Ed “Flip” Klein fishing in Alaska after being fitted with a 3-D printed prosthetic affection at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. ( Tony Gialluca)

Army Major Ed “Flip” Klein directs a line utilizing the 3-D etched fishing rod adaptor. ( Tony Gialluca)

An instance of the 3-D printed jigging rod adaptor is insured on display at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ( Fox News)

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Army Major Ed Flip Klein is an outdoorsman. Born in Arkansas, the 35 -year-old always obtained a calming spirit in quality, but when he was severely injured during a 2012 deployment to Afghanistan, he wasnt sure hed ever is my finding that calm again.

In October 2012, Klein was a company commander in his seventh month of a nine-month deployment and out on patrol with one of his squads. The troops split in two, and were walking through a combination with anti-personnel mines detection K-9 and policeman, who spanned over an improvised explosive design( IED) before Klein unknowingly stepped on it with his left paw and it detonated.

A medivac was called and situations of emergency intention that Klein had helped craft weeks earlier discovered him taken from the point of his injury to a helicopter, and transported to the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital inside the so-called golden hour. The golden hour refers to the time period lasting for 1 hour or less following a harrowing harm in which there is the highest likelihood that prompt medical treatment will impede death.

For the nine daytimes following the explosion, Klein would remain unconscious, and unable to reach Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, due to his precarious medical status and Hurricane Sandy battering the East Coast.

The first reminiscence he was able to recall is waking up the day President Obama was elected to his second term.

Not many parties prepare to come home in pieces

At Walter Reed, surgeons like Army Lt. Col. Benjamin Kyle Potter, deputy chief of orthopedic surgery, were waiting to begin their work on Klein and other appendage causality patients.

I conclude because of the unique sort of bang winds, even though weve written journal assemblies and papers and textbooks, its not something that you can kind of read about and understand and know how to manage until youve done it a lot, Potter, who has operated on Klein multiple times, told FoxNews.com. It requires us to be very creative to its implementation of our reconstructions.

Most of the appendages are missing when I got to get, Potter articulated. Whether youre completing the amputation or trying to close an amputation, its about trying to give them the most functional residual leg possible given the material you have to work with.

The blast cost Klein both legs above the knee, his right arm above the joint, and three thumbs on his left hand. While his left thumb and index finger continue, muscle and nerve mar infringe on their functionality.

As a soldier, I recollect a lot of beings prepare to not come home, Klein told FoxNews.com. Not numerous people prepare to come home in pieces.

In 2011, limb amputations among military personnel distributed as part of Operation Freedoms Sentinel( OFS) in Afghanistan and Operation Enduring Freedom( OEF) in Afghanistan reached an all-time high. According to a Congressional Research Service report issued in August 2015, 257 of the 1,645 major leg amputations among service members dating back to 2001 came in 2011 alone. The report categorizes a major leg amputation as loss of one or more legs, the loss of one or more incomplete extremities, or the loss of one or more full or partial handwritings or feet.

“I were of the view that, if you go to a faraway property and deter me safe, and you get injured, when you come back you should have everything “youve got to be” normal.”

– Dave Laufer, head of orthotics and prosthetics at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

What lies ahead for cases at Walter Reed that differentiates them from most civilian amputee cases, is the immediate reintroduction to physical care at the Military Advanced Training Center( MATC) and parish improvement. For Klein and others, meeting and interacting with other units who have same harms but are farther down the road of convalescence dishes as a source of brainchild and motivation.

They all want to be ordinary

On-site physical rehabilitation also offers an opportunity for Potter and his colleagues to follow up with cases without the hassle of making formal appointments.

I often try to walk through[ MATC] at least twice a week, and just sort of check on the people and gallons, and see how everybody is doing and talk to the therapists, Potter announced. Mostly just say hi, checking folks mitts, and sometimes you can sort of nip something in the bud, if its impeding a small problem from becoming a big one, because surely when we given the last stitch in I dont feel like my work as a surgeon is done.

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Dave Laufer, head of orthotics and prosthetics at Walter Reed National Military Center, exposes a customized extremity featuring a tattoo. ( Fox News)

For patients like Klein, having a near-on-demand prosthetics department and 3-D medical application middle can make all the difference. Dave Laufer, head of orthotic and prosthetic assistance, heads a faculty that works hand-in-hand with patients and physicians to craft the perfect appendage or connect for amputees.

When the conflict started, we started receiving casualties, and amputee prosthetic care was not near this end-state that it is now, Laufer told FoxNews.com. We had a lot of impediments with matching proper designs with 23 -year-old parties that wanted to go out and do what the hell is did before they got hurt, and we continue to have those same kinds of problems because the prosthetic manufacture is geared towards get individual up and capable of working, and the third party recoups are exceedingly, understandably, republican to its implementation of what theyll allow a civilian prosthesis to use in the care of a patient.

In other statements, while Walter Reed has the capacity to craftsmanship customized appendages and holders, they cannot be mass-produced by civilian companionships due germinating cost and limited reimbursement. From the start, Laufer and his crew faced an uphill battle in trying to better many of the terminal designs, which is any type of limb that enables an amputee to connect to the world, like a hand, hoof, or foot attached to a knee which then lodges to the socket.

For upper-extremity amputees, Laufer remarked inventions are really geared toward independent the operations and daily living, but not specific hobbies like angling, golfing or swimming. There are also the patients who have received weaves that did not destroy the entire appendage, but affected the functionality. On any handed era, his district is chattering with brand-new extremity attachments and layouts to oblige the options better.

For Laufer, the process to assistance reverting soldiers get to where they want to be is fulfilling. His department has read arm designs recreated to have the same tattoos that the soldier had before his injury, terminal machines customized to have photographs of cats and dogs, and no petition, so far, has proven to be too great.

They all want to be ordinary, Laufer articulated. I think theyre new ordinary they get allows one to that really quickly, that they have lost a limb. But then they want to be ordinary for their age group. Everybody disappears out and lead, or they want to go out and play tennis, they want to do everything that anybody else at their age does, and I dont were of the view that unreasonable .