LadyCrimson

So that's why the center barriers always seem to have those consistent black rubber lines at the half-way point! ....hopefully they didn't end up killing anyone.

Woldan gets +3 for the Miami Vice t-shirt. @Ros - I see a lot of people doing that sort of stuff at/around our beaches too...some people, I believe, actually take off in the lightly wooded mts a fair distance from the coast and glide all the way to the beaches. Some summer days it feels like the entire sky is filled with them, now.

Dead Island's durability mechanic was indeed extreme and terrible. But I'd agree with TrashMan that using one of the worst examples as a reason why durability always sucks/should never be used or something is a tad hyperbole-ish. As I've said before, I'm not a big fan of durability in games, but there have been plenty of games I've played that had it, where it bothered me not at all. Which isn't to say I enjoyed that it existed per se ... only that it was implemented in such a way that during actual gameplay, it really had little impact on me, unless I was trying something super duper oddball that sort of forced the issue, and even then it wasn't much of a thing. eg, I didn't feel inconvenienced by its mere existence, so if other players enjoyed having it there...why not.

Back in the late 80's when I partied more, I used to like Pizza Hut's Pepperoni Lovers pizza. But that was probably because I was drunk when we ordered one, and we'd order one because we were too drunk to go anywhere to pick something up. In those situations, sometimes even a microwaved beef/cheese sandwich from 7-11 can taste good.

Tried Pizza Hut's flatbread promo pizza. It was edible, but I won't be getting it again. To be fair, I don't like Pizza Hut much to begin with (or Domino's, or any of those super cheap pizza places). But I was curious about the flatbread part, so I tried it once. Kinda like eating a giant stale cracker, with a bit o' cheese and greasy toppings on top. Almost no sauce. And their black olives are horrible. Only if they read the dailymail to know that. ;)

Never mind the pizza review ... it's the kitten.

Well, when you finish it, let me know the title so I can play it.

Maybe in the long term that couple is less worried about the bullets themselves and more concerned about why they were there in the first place. eg, maybe someone wants them back, haha.

There's not much to spoil. It's just characters much more fleshed out, one character arc/background that was removed (the "wolfman" the group found in a car on the way). It all added up to tons of extra pages, but it wasn't anything vital nor did it change anything. More filler, more character depth.

You have a pool, Keyrock? I didn't care that much about it when we had one, but now that we don't, I miss it.... Thinking about going to Fry's and spending money on some non-virtual things.

I have over a million AD between all my chrs and another 1.1 million AD sitting in the AD exchange waiting for the price to come down so I can get a tiger mount. Bah. If it doesn't come down where I want it in a few weeks, by then I may cancel the exchange offer and put it back up for a bit higher/spend more. The only thing I buy on the AH, most of the time, is blue Leadership workers (when they're 60-65k) to eventually turn into Hero's (the faster to make AD with...) and the occasional profession resource (like ores in bulk, time-saver). The rest is saved for Zen exchange or for when my alts finally reach 60 (highest is only 43 I think) and I feel like buying them some cheap purple gear. I haven't even been doing any dailies. I'm tempted to make another few Leadership alts but was trying to save those slots for the new race/class. Imagine if you had the max 50. A month and you'd have 30million or something.

Sand gets into everything.

I'm back to not having enough of an attention span or the patience to learn anything new/play anything for more than 10-15 minutes in a row. Break time.

Salem's Lot with David Soul was the first King mini-series. And it scared the crap out of me when I was 11. Altho it was originally going to be a movie I think, then they turned it into a short (2-night?) mini-series instead. Then turned it into a movie again with a shortened/edited version. I loved The Langoliers - the story, that is. I've read and re-read it numerous times. The mini-series, not so much. Especially Bronson Pinochet's (or whatever his name is) performance. The Stand - Ray Walston, Rob Lowe, Gary Sinise, Miguel Ferrer, and Bill Fagerbakke were all outstanding. Couldn't stand Molly Ringwold or Corin Nemec...they ruined a lot of scenes for me just by opening their mouths. But it's still one of the best of King's TV adaptions (and the book itself a classic King epic ... both original and extended versions).

This usually occurs whenever my spouse says something about him not porking out on the pizza this time.

Under the Dome, the first two episodes. I loved Steven King's early/middle career but haven't really kept up with his later career, so hadn't heard of either the book or that they were turning it into a long mini-series/maybe series. Just ran across it by accident in the VoD menu. The pilot was very fun for the first half, then all those Stephen King staple stock chrs/situations started popping out in force... which in a novel can still be awesome but in a show with no inner-voice narrative often results in a B-movie cheesecake feeling. --small 1-sherrif town that seems to consist of about 30 houses and one church, in a crisis that brings out the worst in most people --obsession with birds as a symbolic death theme or whatever it is --obsession with people spouting nonsense or rhymes or something while in a trance/seizure/rapture... --the reluctant stranger/outsider --the crazy nut teen who's angry/rejected and violent (and a source for major cheese lines) --the town mayor/council/whatever with a secret and who maybe isn't so nice after all --the fallen/corrupt priest type of chr. ...anyway, the pacing of the show is very fast-food edible, but the 2nd episode became pretty silly in that King mini-series way. I'll probably still watch it, tho, to see how it all goes. The fact that the actor who plays Walter White's brother-in-law in Breaking Bad has a major role in it is major attraction for me. He's fun to watch, even when doing cheese. ...I should buy the book, too. I'm sure I'd enjoy it a lot more than the TV series.

Dear SF Giants: So, guys, what's upppppppp? Can we do a little better than last place? Dear Red Sox: Even if it falls apart at the end, it's still overall far more than I was expecting from the year. Which of course, makes it more interesting.

that's a cash shop item for trolling other players :D Well, that's just rude ...but funny.

Dear Diary: outside achieved (it's cooled off today and late afternoon feels good instead of "I'm mellltingggg"), a little color in the face, a little exercise, blah blah ... I'm ready to be a couch potato for the evening. If it stays this temp, might try a long hike tomorrow morning. Just not too steep. The downhill would kill me. I'm not a huge exercise sort these days but this knee stuff has even me feeling like more of a log than I want to be. Or maybe the beach...walking a few miles on sand might be good.

That's how I'm interpreting it, based on Sawyer's wanting opinions and various other things. I'm still a bit sad I won't get to see how it would've worked ... unless they put it in as a hardcore/expert/whatever mode option or something ... but seems to be a case of wanting input, input given/mulled over, decision made. I'm fine with that happening here and there and for ideas they're bandying about and are curious what the players might think. Sometimes the players have awesome ideas and input. I just don't want to see it happen constantly to the point where I start to feel like their own vision might get lost a bit too much. I'm pretty sure that won't happen, but it does cross my mind once in a while.

Kids have it/will have it so easy now/future. I didn't have any video games to teach me/make math fun. We had...paper flash cards and chalkboards and sometimes even drew figures in the dirt! So boring. If I had had something else, maybe I wouldn't have flunked math all the time ... wait...nah, I still would have had to show up to class. nvm. ...seriously tho, I'm all for having as many teaching tools as possible, games or otherwise. The better to have a chance of accommodating multiple learning styles. We don't all learn (the fastest/the easiest) the same way.

I've wanted a high life steal (mine's still sitting at around 11% I think) and a shorter cycle time on Sunburst (Recovery). eg, I'd love to be able to spam Sunburst...not as much dmg of course, but with its own skill-healing effect + lifesteal, it might be...fun. ...still need lots more AD's to really experiment with that sort of thing tho - it's never enough since I buy everything on the AH at this point. At least I have a good chunk of time before the expansion (which I think will have new soloable campaign areas?) to stock up. ...I didn't realize/notice that dye pack was Zen-shop available, either. I just noticed it in the lockbox merchant.

Well, on the one hand, I'm kinda sad I won't ever get to see the original vision they came up with, to see how it truly worked/felt first-hand instead of just assuming it would suck. But on the other hand, I never cry over the lack of a durability mechanic.

Google/YouTube's forced me into their new menu/interface now. All I have to say is ... YUCK. Tired of being inside today...time to go outside for a bit.

I am so lost in this game, it's like everything's in a foreign language and I'm supposed to know it already. Do I need this? Do I already have that? Am I wasting XP points? What is that/why do I need it? I'm supposed to go where? Eh? What? Who? lol Also ... why am I/others dancing when I just want to build stuff? Because I got some achievement unlock at the building station?