Calax

It comes tuesday! And right now I'm playing WoW and Age of Mythology.

The only issue with this is that once the student leaves that school environment they'll be ill equipped to work in the current system where you have to regurgitate stuff.

For a mushroom could the reactor would have to loose it's control ability on the reaction happening and then be fed... a lot, which would lead to the uncontrolled reaction you see when nukes go off. A meltdown just means that a part of the reactor melted and is letting the radioactive material escape.

And not blowing out your knees is a good thing too no?

Real ninjas were actually kept as part of the landscaping crew for their bosses and had a lot of their equipment as repurposed farm stuff (thus the scythes etc). You could easily slip in elements of the myths but you could also still keep them as simple pesant farmhands with a secret.

Yeah, it'd need to stick with blades rather than guns. It would be fun to play an ACTUAL HISTORICAL ninja.

Well, it was an 8.7 earthquake, one of the strongest ever seen.

Brotherhood actually reworks the combat so it feels more like AA's with an execution system that lets you start with a counter kill, then just mow through guys by one hit killing and dodging attacks that would normally stagger you or knock you out of the flow. As to the dune thing? I'm not sure, the idea is that the memories of your ancestors are actually built into the genome. So the framing device for all the games is that the player is a guy in the future (Desmond Miles) who's ancestors are involved in this big weird plot having to do with the biblical eden and Illuminati etc, and the people who have him as their prisoner/pet are making him relive the memories to find certain things. Eventually there will be an AC game where Desmond is the main character slashing his way through modern day, but we don't know when that'll be (supposedly it's game 3 but *shrugs*)

I'm just waiting for the inevitable "SF gets 8.4 earthquake!" (Geologists have suspected that San Andreas is gonna blow soon... should have 20 years ago actually)

The entire reason for the dna and future crap is so that the other games can be tied together

Laptop in hand

Abnett is awesome. I think I like his comic book stuff better however. As to Martin, I gotta say I'm not exactly sure I like his work anymore. Sure he's got a good story and characters etc. But it's become to confusing and slow to keep track of (not to mention the speed he writes at). Also I'm a bit frustrated at the way he wrote the books with a the rebellion/succession war being left out of the books in general when it colors basically EVERYTHING in the series. As much as I sort of like the idea, I don't need to know that the Queen Mother is having lesbian intercourse with one of her ladies in waiting... seriously. Oh, and finished "First Man in Rome". It gets a little better but to me it still feels... off. The author doesn't really give you a sense of time (In one chapter the Julius Ceaser family is said to have had 2 daughters... nothing else really marks the passage of time, just the fact that two "Julias" were born). And some of the characterization feels a bit to much like charicature (The girl who only grows up when she has to and ends up being a wino, all the autocrats are basically "marty stu" except for Sulla who ends up becoming an opponent to Marius, all the older politicians don't care about anyone but themselves, all the younger politicians are demagogues who force their will upon the Senate etc). And (this may sound weird overall) it glorifies the stiff formal style that the Ceaser family had (according to the author anyway), where dinner was served just so, nobody really talked, nobody really had fun etc etc. While a life where somebody might actually have a chance to have fun, or enjoys the holidays as they were meant to be is downplayed as "non roman" and thus disgraceful. Ah well, back to Black Company one again while playing through Myth: The Fallen Lords.

And I'm now imagining Christ up on the cross grumbling "And I had just two days till retirement..."

There's something wrong with everyone. Maybe take him under the guise of asking for moral support for YOUR needs at the doc's office. Also the writing thing could be really good.

Take em to a psycologist?

It was ok. Honestly, from what I remember it felt like Deus Ex:IW with only combat and a better ammunition system. Finally went back and finished off my Scipii game. Managed to eek out JUUUUST enough popularity to start the civil war... and promptly started stripping garrisons left and right from my african and island provinces to move them to mainland italy. Took Rome right off, two turns later I had all of the italian peninsula under my control, then just started radiating out. By the time I finished I had Africa (missing parts of egypt), Turkey, the west coast of Greece, Spain, Southern Gaul and all the islands of the Mediterranean. Economically I was going to just overpower my opponents (I was at war with everyone on the earth... Pontus the Brutii and Julii), I was able to produce and deploy a full stacked army in 10 turns or so (usually it'd be from a different city to a different front). Got REALLLY annoyed at the other two roman factions however as they seemed to yank out probably six stacks of Preatorian and Urban cohorts from seemingly nowhere (well, the Julii might have been hiding them in britan) and then expanded that by throwing in archers, a few cav and other weaker legions for me to chug through. Led to several phyrric victories/300 esque battles where I'd have a much smaller force fighting them and either loose (and remove that armies combat effectiveness) or win and be at half strength for the NEXT stupidly large army to leap on me. The Julii and I had a LOOONG string of skirmishes up and down Gaul north of Massila where about 40-50k troops died (for the record, a battle can only have a max of about 10k each fight) probably more. Finally I basically wore down their troops through sheer attrition and managed to make it to the city (I had another pair of armies sneaking from the east into northern gaul through germania... ok, maybe not sneaking so much as slash and burning but you get the idea). Took the city and won. The Brutii in comparison didn't seem to have much military strength (they'd lost one of their peninsular cities early on for example) and yet once the civil war started all of a sudden a whole fleet of ships comes boiling out of the black sea and the greek archipelago, and his armies take about 5 more turns but start showing up in force. Thinking back on it I suppose they'd ended up tying most of their armies up in the far east dealing with Pontus (who was the only military power still around not roman) in my endless war with them (I think when all was said and done I'd been fighting Pontus for close to 60 years or so). Still they managed to start pushing back towards Italy and were getting REALLY close before I managed to stop them by taking two of their greek cities, and then convinced macedonia to rip into them (Macedon only lived because I refused to get in a fight with ANOTHER world power that had phalanxs). At the taking of my final city those two were duking it out just north of Athens while I clung to Thermon and Alexandria (which I had BARELY managed to take)

Watched daily show, saw a segment by John Oliver about finding one of the 14 "missing" democrats from the whole Wisconsin thing. That particular segment feactured Rob Blagoyavic (the disgraced Illinois governor) supporting the senators and the protestors in Wisconsin.

I did the same thing last summer. But just remember: when you're done with Deus Ex, Invisible War is every bit as bad as you remembered. I forgot that part. Honestly, I think Deus Ex could have worked if they hadn't forced on the license and then had changed the ammo system.

Somebody look at the last line in that article and tell me I'm wrong about the news outlet's english language abilities.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science...r-scissors.html Play rock paper scissors against a computer. Currently I'm tying more than I'm winning or losing (I'm at 4-6-4). On the veteran computer.

Generally they're not supposed to be as repetative as Assassins creed.

And filed my taxes. I love being in such a low income bracket this time of year

Worst part about it was that this is the sort of thing where if I livd withing an hour or two of my house I'd expect my mom to show up and start doing it in person. Honestly, I probably won't remember this and I'm gonna make a guess that I'll be frustrated about her constant babying up until the day she dies. And this was because she thought that I was frittering away my money. Never mind that I'd just spent 100 bucks to see her for gas and parking, another hundred or so to hang with friends the week before, plus a few things I'd budgeted in and some food money and that's about it. Ahh well, I get to sit here in Iowa and stare at white out conditions.

Had my mom call... apparently she thinks that I'm going to end up as a bum and was doing the "get a job" lecture while asking me if I worried about becoming a bum myself. I ended up having to hang up because she kept getting more and more shouty.

The Ninja Gaiden series has always been about being really hard, and really combat heavy. Very little in the way of puzzles IIRC But picking up the God of War collection is probably a good idea.