Corpse Run 381: Additive disappointment
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What? A Borderlands strip? That hasn’t happened in a while. I finally decided to finish up some of the DLCs that I had sitting around, which prompted some Borderlands love.
A few months ago I went through Captain Scarlett and, while it wasn’t horrible, it was pretty disappointing. This time around I tackled the Sir Hammerlock DLC…
That one was pretty horrible.
But then I ran through Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep…
It was incredible. Absolutely astoundingly amazingly incredible. It features a nice twist to the already stellar Borderlands 2 gunplay while featuring a narrative that had me rolling with laughter while pulling on my heartstrings.
If you’ve never played a Borderlands game, it’s worth it just for Tiny Tina’s DLC alone.
A minor nitpick, however. I guess this is less of a nitpick of the game than it is of how my brain processes information, but I constantly have issues when a boss dies and tons of items drop. Each item has a glowing line rising out of it, it’s color related to the item’s rarity.
In order of rarity (low to high): White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange, Teal.
For health and money drops, those glow lines are Red and Yellow, respectively.
Nearly every time I look through a crowd of items, I’m so sure a Pearlescent dropped, only to find that it was a green, blue, and white item viewed from a funny angle.
The same applies for health and money, which leads me to believe that a Legendary dropped.
Frustration!
And now, a food story from last week that I never got around to.
I was making gnocchi last week and wanted some graded cheese to go with it. Fortunately, there was a full container of Pecorino Romano in the fridge.
Expiration date: sometime during 2012.
The package was still sealed, and hard cheeses generally last a really long time… right?
I figured the expiration date was more of formality than a suggestion. After pulling off the plastic seal and giving it a quick whiff, I decided the cheese was fit for consumption.
If my toilet could talk, it would tell you that was the wrong decision.
Expiration dates, folks… follow them.
Ah… expiration dates are an approximation based on assumptions, and then made with a safety margin. Some things are crazy. There’s an expiration date on the CO2 container for my sodastream. Because carbon dioxide… what… breaks down? Rots? The bubbles get a bit chewy?
I’m wondering if it wasn’t the cheese’s fault. I mean, you’d have smelt that. But if a preservative broke down over a few years… I’m just saying I’ve heard of worse studies done for a doctoral thesis.
It’s weird, it totally smelled fine! Curse you, old cheese!
Well every now and then you win the potty lottery. Some Expiration dates are realy not for show.
Same goes for cereals obviously, cause one time I´ve got my myself literally nailed to the bathroom for over an hour. -_-
Considering that I eat cereal by the box and not by the bowl, I think I’ll never have to worry about eating expired breakfast flakes! Wooooooooo!
I hope your next morning culinary adventure doesn’t land you in the john!
I loved Borderlands so much and then having colors combine and appear as different rarities was so agitating, especially when farming.
Uggggggg, I was doing some BNK3R farming last week, and every time I thought I happened on good loot… nuts.
Eh, no love for Captain Scarlett because that was great stuff but whatever . Torgue was also good.
And I don’t know what was up with Hammerlock because it wasn’t mediocre, it was just bad. I could not get over how wooden shields and spears outmatched my fancy gear.
Scarlett wasn’t bad, really, just underwhelming. I never felt an attachment to any of the new characters, and while the treasure at the end is nice, it wasn’t the same feeling you got from the end of General Knoxx.
Seriously though, the Hammerlock DLC wasn’t up to their standards. I liked the narrative’s premise, but all the enemies felt like giant ammo-sinks; every fight was a long form endurance test rather than a fun burst of action. Mix in overly large environments with slow transportation, and you get a game that was more of a chore than entertainment.
I totally forgot to mention Torgue, by the way! I loved it!
Oh, I know that feeling real badly…
Also, Alex, stop drawing my second waifu 😛
Our milk can be really fickle in regards to expiration dates. Sometimes a bottle will stay ok well after the date, while sometimes an UNOPENED milk bottle will go off days before its’ expiration date.