Your fiendish plan was successful.

Which version of Pirates you playing?  The last one I seriously played was the Genesis port on an emulator.  I had like 125% completion due to successfully having privateering deals with two nations pretty much the whole game.  I really do need to replay the more modern incarnation though Pirates is one of those games that has been around in one form or another almost as long as I've been gaming and that I've played or replayed for nearly as long as that.

I did a review of it for a friends site. :0

Played more Dark Souls last night, got past the giant dudes and the goblins that hurl lightning, oh, and those annoying pricks with the giant bows. I'm inside that big chapel looking place now, and I'm trying to kill Lautrec, he is hella annoying.

I really need to get back to Dark Souls but I know I'll get back to Skyrim to at least beat the Dawngaurd campaign before that happens.  And I just bought Sleeping Dogs and all the DLC on Steam while it was 75% off so I'll probably be playing that as well...

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb.   I really think David Gilmour performed one of the most perfect guitar solos ever with this song.  The tone, the intonation, the pacing, the meshing with the overall mood of the song.  It's one of those gems you can listen to over and over again and still enjoy. 

AP: Got the job at Polo.
Holy shit I haven't been this happy and relieved in I don't know how long. Hopefully I can impress them enough that they let me stay longer than the six weeks because I'd love to be making $9 an hour at least until I graduate (if that day ever comes)

Congrats man!

Beat Tomb Raider last night.  I'll probably put up a review later this week.  I will say that overall it was a good game and worth playing.

Dammit I doth declare, thou must spendeth $3.40 and two minutes of thine time, to purchase a game thou shalt not playeth for ages past, and then thee can returneth unto thy Marvel Heroes Beta, to forget about thyne purchased game for months. Forsooth!

Word.

I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I moosh the BLUE moth?

I lol'd

And I thought magna porting the pistol with spare junk was bad.  My brain hurts...

Not sure if it will apply to where you're stuck at since it sounds like you're farther than me (I haven't gotten the rope yet) but keep in mind Lara can jump to and land on narrow shit like tree branches that don't always look like you should be able to walk on.  The last thing I did was clear out the flaming tower.  I like using the bow over the pistol so far, maybe after I upgrade the pistol a bit more I'll dig it.

I had the same issue at first but found out if you  place a waypoint marker on an item on the map her survival instinct will flag the location.

Got the y button QTE's down.  The button needs to be pressed while the target is shrinking between the two circles.  Outside the large circle can fail it and inside the small circle is too late.  Seems counter intuitive since the button flashes like you're supposed to press it just as it passes the point of no return.

And the game is fun but two things already bug me.  What's the point of hunting when apparently the only time hunger is a thing is when it's first mentioned?  (Not that it stops me, heck I'm like the grim reaper of deer and rabbits)  And... suspension of disbelief was lost when she used random garbage to magna port her pistol.    But so far the pros far outweigh the cons and the cons are mostly nitpicky at this point.

Also the deaths don't bother me much either.  Since game one deaths were always slightly squicky with grossly realistic limb snapping sounds and brutal ragdoll/ohgodthatsnotsupposedtobendthatway animations.  I remember being perversely proud of myself when I managed to kill her by missing a jump in the mansion warm up area which was described as "a safe area where you can get used to the controls."  I don't think the deaths have really gotten worse, I think the character is clawing her way up the other side of the uncanny valley which makes it seem worse.  The little touches they've added to her animations are incredible.  One good example is if she's between a drop off and a wall she'll reach out to steady herself on the wall as she walks.  They've done a lot to give her movements more personality than just walk forward in a straight line until the player stops pushing the stick which I think makes the impact of failure more jarring.

I love Celldweller.

Homer I don't drink or eat any more.

Dafuq did I just read?

I'm playing Tomb Raider as well. It's pretty good so far, but these fucking quicktime events are killing me. I don't know if it's controller lag or what, but I just have to mash the Y button during cutscenes because they keep popping up, and no matter how many times I press the Y button while it's actually on the screen, I fucking die. And, of course, I love that I have to watch Lara be killed in excruciating ways every time I fail one of these fucking things. Jesus.

At least it's not just me... I failed the first one like four times.  But I don't think it's controller lag, I've yet to fail the control stick or trigger QTE's, just the Y button.  I think the Y button just hates me.  Or hates Lara.  Maybe the Y button is lilke a creepy guy who watches snuff films and has to watch Lara die a few times before he allows you to progress.  Fucking Y button...