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Thanks to Dave Mallon for the inspiration.
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I hope those are tentacles...
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I hope those are tentacles...
"These aren't tentacles. They're genticles!"
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Tornadoes passing by, so far we've escaped a good thrashing, hopefully our luck holds out :-)
here's hoping the luck continues.
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Mmmmm. Commander Shepard.
she sure is hot.
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I hope those are tentacles...
:-)
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I hope those are tentacles..."These aren't tentacles. They're genticles!"
even better. :-D
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If you have a better way of exchanging protein strands I'd like to hear it!
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Currently finishing ME3 as an Adept, which is pretty fun, what with detonating combos and stuff. My all-time favorite, though, is the Infiltrator. Tactical Cloak is the best.Excellent choices. In the play through I just finished I was playing an Adept and had fun taking down the Illusive Man's base with the M-11.
I most like playing Vanguards in ME2 and ME3. Charge into a group, blast away with the shotgun, rinse and repeat. Throw in an occasional Nova to spice things up.
I did enjoy blowing up heads as an adept, I am playing as a infiltrator now. The cloak has saved my life several times,but I enjoy being a sniper for the first time in game history. Next playthrough is either a soldier or an engineer, as chosen by CH.
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The cloak has saved my life several times,but I enjoy being a sniper for the first time in game history.
I'm the guy who always plays the sniper, even way back when I used to play Halo 1 with my buddies after work. Even when I play other classes in Mass Effect, I take sniper/assault rifles as my bonus skill every single time. I approve of this post.
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I did enjoy blowing up heads as an adept, I am playing as a infiltrator now. The cloak has saved my life several times,but I enjoy being a sniper for the first time in game history. Next playthrough is either a soldier or an engineer, as chosen by CH.Currently finishing ME3 as an Adept, which is pretty fun, what with detonating combos and stuff. My all-time favorite, though, is the Infiltrator. Tactical Cloak is the best.Excellent choices. In the play through I just finished I was playing an Adept and had fun taking down the Illusive Man's base with the M-11.
I most like playing Vanguards in ME2 and ME3. Charge into a group, blast away with the shotgun, rinse and repeat. Throw in an occasional Nova to spice things up.
I always play as an infiltrator mostly because I love sniper rifles so I can kill them before they know I am near, and because in ME I seem to be rather helplessly unable to aim in close quarters. Oh and it lets me hack locks and data in ME1.
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I used to go in all sneaky Pete on video games, then I watched just the right amount of Archer (there is no such thing as too much Archer after all) and discovered Fallout 3 now I go for maximum amount of devastation possible.
Once you've completely annihilated an entire town of slavers armed with a combat shotgun and a couple dozen Frag Grenades you'll see what I mean :-)
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Bought Crusader Kings II - first computer game I've bought in five years, I think.
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Well I am doing the modern American thing and walking the beach while typing on a phone.
Does anyone know what temperature ginjo sake should be served at? I have a bottle, and I've never had sake before.
Iirc, it's either hot or room temp.
If only jess door were here....
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Playthrough #3 of the Mass Effect trilogy has just been completed. I should probably take a break for a while.
Hello all.
Howdy.
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I'm Rampaging thru The Pitt again, this time I won't shoot Ashur's wife after accidentally picking her pocket, the most awkward part was at the end when Ashur was going off about how much his wife's research was going to benefit society, his daughter has a mom, etc, etc.
I'm sitting there hoping he doesn't check the back room "uh, yeah, that's great news, I really should be going, yup, already met the misses"
... I never went back.. but this time! This time will be different... Ah, crap!... I really need to stop sneaking around so much...
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I finally installed and started playing Witcher 2. I haven't finished 1 but whatever. There were some issues at the start including a few crashes, but seems to work for now...
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Playthrough #3 of the Mass Effect trilogy has just been completed. I should probably take a break for a while.
of course. Play again only when you are ready.
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Well, Day 50 and it's still an interesting journey. I read somewhere that it takes 6 weeks to turn something from an idea into a habit. That explains why during my last attempt, I tried going 42 days alcohol-free before I allowed myself to drink again. The 42 days didn't help in the least. I've also read that it takes 2-3 years for the neural pathways to realign themselves once you stop drinking (and a matter of days to reset if you start again), so I've got a long trek ahead of me. At least now I recognize how hard it is to stop, and how easy it is to fall into old bad habits.
Perhaps the most fascinating thing to me is WHEN I get the urge to drink the most. I stopped because I was drinking during work hours, and drinking enough that it was affecting my work. (I think my "excessive" 4-5 drinks a day classified me as a French child, but it was more the timing than the quantity.) Yet the craving to drink during work hours is totally gone. It's after a long day of work that it's hard. I think it's the usual -- my brain trying to find an excuse that I'll find acceptable to get alcohol back into my system. But it's interesting (to me at least) that my brain is trying to convince me to find ways to work around my own self-set restrictions.
Stupid brain!
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That why I stopped using mine years ago :-)
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At least for good Mwahahahahaha!!
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Hey!
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Well, Day 50 and it's still an interesting journey. I read somewhere that it takes 6 weeks to turn something from an idea into a habit. That explains why during my last attempt, I tried going 42 days alcohol-free before I allowed myself to drink again. The 42 days didn't help in the least. I've also read that it takes 2-3 years for the neural pathways to realign themselves once you stop drinking (and a matter of days to reset if you start again), so I've got a long trek ahead of me. At least now I recognize how hard it is to stop, and how easy it is to fall into old bad habits.
Perhaps the most fascinating thing to me is WHEN I get the urge to drink the most. I stopped because I was drinking during work hours, and drinking enough that it was affecting my work. (I think my "excessive" 4-5 drinks a day classified me as a French child, but it was more the timing than the quantity.) Yet the craving to drink during work hours is totally gone. It's after a long day of work that it's hard. I think it's the usual -- my brain trying to find an excuse that I'll find acceptable to get alcohol back into my system. But it's interesting (to me at least) that my brain is trying to convince me to find ways to work around my own self-set restrictions.
Stupid brain!
Good work so far. My advice (as a non-drinker) is to NEVER touch any alcohol ever again. The price is too high, despite how hard it will be to keep it up. Good luck!
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Good work so far. My advice (as a non-drinker) is to NEVER touch any alcohol ever again. The price is too high, despite how hard it will be to keep it up. Good luck!
That's my plan on hard alcohol, with firm agreement. And I've never been a beer drinker. But I've always been fond of good red wines, and though some evidence has risen to the contrary, the majority evidence still points to a strong benefit from 1-2 glasses of red a day.
But until at least 3 years have passed, *AND* I'm not feeling any cravings any more, I'm not even going there.
I did go 20 years of drinking reds without a problem. It was the moment I started allowing myself a weekly rum-and-coke that things degenerated very quickly. So hard liquor is a "never". Beer is a "never drank it, and not going to start now". Wine is a "give me a few years".
Time will tell!
EDIT: And yes, those of you counting are going to see 30+ years of drinking. Did I mention I'm old?
EDIT 2: And yeah, I know things are "different" now, and I have a permanent addiction path etched in my brain. Whee? But 3 years is plenty of time to things things over, and see what happens...
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Hello all.
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My advice Nobodyshome, is just do what you're doing, hope no one notices, keep yourself occupied and don't make a big deal of it (even tho it is a big deal:-D)
In all honesty when I quit cigs if I had told anyone except my best friend (and future wife:-D) then I don't know if I could've done it, out of sight out of mind and what not worked best for me, also I have trouble asking for things so even tho I was tempted to mooch one, I never actually was able to, after six months or so it stopped becoming something I thought of, don't even crave one after a good meal :-)
Keep at it, you'll get there :-)
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Also I shall change my avatar once a week from here until whenever, my long winded and thoroughly pointless endeavor you ask?
I want to see how many different avatars have creatures you can use for headgear :-)
So far this guy's my favorite :-)
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OK, personal "confessions of Schadenfreude" time.
When my father was alive, we used to take two major family trips a year: One to Ashland in the summer, and one to the Sierras in the winter. He paid for everything, because he felt family and togetherness was more important than money.
With my friends, we've kept this up in our gaming lives. Shiro's player and I pay for everyone's meals. We can afford it, and we'd rather have the company than the money. We're not very bright.
So to be blunt, my sister-in-law seriously pisses me off. Now that my father's dead, we're divvying up the costs of the trips among the families. Instead of something reasonable ("We're going to split everything evenly," or, "Each person is responsible for all food for a day,"), she demands that we get every receipt from every restaurant, break it down into who ate what (even up to, "Who ate some of this appetizer? Who had wine and who didn't?"), and make everyone pay their "fair share" to the penny. (Fortunately, she was thwarted the first time she asked a restaurant to do 5 separate checks for the table.) She went so far as to throw a 3-hour fit two years ago when we failed to get an itemized receipt from one restaurant.
My brother tried to convince her of the error of her ways, one year divvying things up equally and then comparing it to her labor-and-stress-intensive method, and the difference was... $3. She was adamant. She didn't want to pay for "NobodysHome and NobodysWife's fru-fru drinks". (Yes. She called our drinks 'fru-fru drinks'. Knowing her, I am delighted.)
Anyway, the numbers are in for Ashland, 2015...
...and her family owes over 10% more than the next-highest family.
And NobodysWife and I, with our "spendthrift ways" and "fru-fru drinks" came in 3rd.
Tee hee hee, hee hee hee...
I am a Bad man.
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My advice Nobodyshome, is just do what you're doing, hope no one notices, keep yourself occupied and don't make a big deal of it (even tho it is a big deal:-D)
In all honesty when I quit cigs if I had told anyone except my best friend (and future wife:-D) then I don't know if I could've done it, out of sight out of mind and what not worked best for me, also I have trouble asking for things so even tho I was tempted to mooch one, I never actually was able to, after six months or so it stopped becoming something I thought of, don't even crave one after a good meal :-)
Keep at it, you'll get there :-)
Well, I like to compare it to martial arts. I took enough Tae Kwon Do to be able to punch a brick in half. It took perhaps 18 months for me to reach this point. If I were to attempt to punch a brick in half today, I would hurt myself.
But if I decided I needed to punch bricks, it would be only 4-6 weeks to re-train my body to do it. The "muscle memory" is there, so I don't need to re-train all the "little stuff". I basically just have to get them back in shape.Addiction is the opposite side of what should be a positive. I trained my body to crave alcohol. It took a couple of years. But it got to the point that I felt I needed a shot of rum by 9:30 in the morning to get through the day. I've quit, and my brain is getting, "out of shape". But if I start drinking again, it's only going to be a couple of weeks to re-train it, rather than a couple of years.
Your body is like Microsoft. Many times, it does amazing things for you. Unfortunately, many times, it does them amazingly wrong. Windows 8 anyone?
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Windows 8 is overmaligned due to dumb idea of forcing touch screen interface on everyone and overstressing (cr)apps. It works quite decent in other areas (especially when you take steps to turn interface into something normal, yeah, you shouldn't need to do anything more than pick a single option during installation for that in the first place, though). Not as good when it comes backward compatibility as Windows 7 but growing lack of backward compatibility will be a constant issue and was expected anyway.
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OK, personal "confessions of Schadenfreude" time.
When my father was alive, we used to take two major family trips a year: One to Ashland in the summer, and one to the Sierras in the winter. He paid for everything, because he felt family and togetherness was more important than money.
With my friends, we've kept this up in our gaming lives. Shiro's player and I pay for everyone's meals. We can afford it, and we'd rather have the company than the money. We're not very bright.
So to be blunt, my sister-in-law seriously pisses me off. Now that my father's dead, we're divvying up the costs of the trips among the families. Instead of something reasonable ("We're going to split everything evenly," or, "Each person is responsible for all food for a day,"), she demands that we get every receipt from every restaurant, break it down into who ate what (even up to, "Who ate some of this appetizer? Who had wine and who didn't?"), and make everyone pay their "fair share" to the penny. (Fortunately, she was thwarted the first time she asked a restaurant to do 5 separate checks for the table.) She went so far as to throw a 3-hour fit two years ago when we failed to get an itemized receipt from one restaurant.
My brother tried to convince her of the error of her ways, one year divvying things up equally and then comparing it to her labor-and-stress-intensive method, and the difference was... $3. She was adamant. She didn't want to pay for "NobodysHome and NobodysWife's fru-fru drinks". (Yes. She called our drinks 'fru-fru drinks'. Knowing her, I am delighted.)
Anyway, the numbers are in for Ashland, 2015...
...and her family owes over 10% more than the next-highest family.
And NobodysWife and I, with our "spendthrift ways" and "fru-fru drinks" came in 3rd.Tee hee hee, hee hee hee...
I am a Bad man.
I'll never complain about my vacations with extended family.
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I may need assistance later this year with purchasing a new desktop.
I never vacation with my extended family, at least in my case, it defeats the purpose of a vacation.
I never vacation with my extended family, at least in my case, it defeats the purpose of a vacation.
Disneyland is vacation and friends. We were up to 8 people this year, and keep inviting more. And... wait! OMG! No! We never once argued about paying for meals!
Ashland is familial duty, and even other family members are strongly in favor of reducing it to once per two years.
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This year I got out of the family shindig by the most elusive of all mulligans, Tornadoes were destroying the interstate by the time we were ready to go :-)
I have a strict don't get stuck in a basement with my brothers during a Tornado policy, for some reason stress makes then even bigger d~*%#eads then they normally are, which is already, on average pretty impressive:-D
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Interesting. I don't remember if that function came in the previous editions, but in W8 in the task manager I have tab "start-up" which shows me what programs insinuates itself into the system during the start up and allows me to disable them. Of course, badly preinstalled system can be messed up, specially if you don't want to risk return to initial settings and the system fails to show what is wrong.
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I may need assistance later this year with purchasing a new desktop.
First question is "How much are you willing to spend?" Second question is "What are you wanting to do with it?" Third question is "Will you be wanting a laptop or a desktop?" Forth question is "Are you willing to "build" it yourself?" There are other questions beyond that, but those are the biggies.
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I may need assistance later this year with purchasing a new desktop.
Alienware Area 51
Oh yeah.
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Playthrough #3 of the Mass Effect trilogy has just been completed. I should probably take a break for a while.of course. Play again only when you are ready.
I should probably put some effort into making actual human connections and getting a real girlfriend (sorry, Liara, you're not actually real).
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In other news, I just found out that there's a good chance that there won't be a job waiting for me at the end of my (unpaid) internship. Awesome.
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that sucks, if it helps you feel better i left one cow untipped:-p
I might just tip it anyway, i haven't had the best day either:-(
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I should probably put some effort into making actual human connections and getting a real girlfriend (sorry, Liara, you're not actually real).Playthrough #3 of the Mass Effect trilogy has just been completed. I should probably take a break for a while.of course. Play again only when you are ready.
that's not true....that's IMPOSSIBLE!
In other news, I just found out that there's a good chance that there won't be a job waiting for me at the end of my (unpaid) internship. Awesome.
well. F$$*.