Calax

Woke up this morning crawled to the edge of my bed... and nearly fell onto the floor/air conditioning unit as I missed a foothold.

Friend of mine was running around as arcane... managed to pull about 20k dps in a random without mirror images popped using only Arcane Blast.

That's the justification given by blizz. I can see both sides of this. One side is that Blizz is trying to keep their program intact, and have the ability to monitor what's going on with their programming at all times, so they use this ability to prevent things like external programs cheating, or possible piracy. On the other side is the "Well, it's mine, and I'm not playing with anyone so WTF MATE!?" Which is understandable. You buy something, you expect that that something is going to stay yours for the duration and you're allowed to modify it without repercussions by the creator. I personally am wondering if there is any precedent for this over at Valve/steam, as they have some pretty interesting measures for cheating (that also are significantly worse than Blizz in some respects as you loose your entire library). If there isn't there may be grounds to justify a "wtf mate" moment, and if you're banned the possibility of lawsuit as you purchased the product, not "forever renting" it (but you'd have to check the EULA). If the EULA doesn't specify otherwise and you got perma-banned for something like this, I think that (in theory) you could sue them for stolen property as they "stole" what you purchased from them by denying you use of it and keeping your money.

Troo dat. Also, the notion that some middle eastern dingbat saying he hates the Great Satan is news is a little alarming in itself. The really alarming tidbit which should be scaring the trousers off us is that around 100,000 young men come of age in Egypt every year (Ok, I don't remember where I heard this, but it was quite reputable. Unless I was drunk.) and there's not nearly enough jobs for them all. It's just not possible to imagine NO political violence with that many unemployed beefers hoofing around. The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood is not just "some middle eastern dingbat" as I thought that article makes clear. But he is a fairly average leader of islamic militants all things considered.

I kinda want a cane simply to have one to play with as I move. While I may not need it it can certainly be useful sometimes.

Played vs left4dead with Ros, which made me realize how much I missed the new infected from L4D2 beacuse only being able to hunter, boomer or smoker was... boring.

Got a little hope back about my grade for midterms, but have been watching a panel of power rangers (what? the cast are fun). And then saw an interview with David Yost where I learned a few things: A) he was a producer for several shows and a couple sci-fi films. And here's the newer info: He's gay and he says that he ended up leaving the show (he was the longest surviving cast member on the show, lasting 5 seasons) because he was harassed by the other members of the cast and production clue. For those who don't know, David Yost is Billy, the blue power ranger . And ironically he "came out" in an interview with a power rangers centric website (nopinkspandex) who uses Youtube to post videos. http://www.youtube.com/user/nopinkspandex (as of this post, the three most recent posts) He, after leaving the show, promptly had a mental breakdown and tried to "pray the gay away" before having to be hospitalized.

As of tomorrow

Hmmmm, that article is almost purely opinion, and the point you're balancing on doesn't seem to be supported by anything I can find except Hosni Mubarak's age (82). Therefore:

For radio sure, but optically space is always better.

I think its not so much the AI as the design of the barbarians. Basically if you spot a barbarian encampment and don't deal with it fairly swiftly, you're boned because that sucker will start spitting out units that will steal your workers and smash anything coming for them. Raging barbs basically requires either a civ based around military (like Japan, or possibly the Aztecs) or forcing you to go Honor policies to get the bonus to your attack against them just so you can hold them off and take their encampment. Honestly, I think they should tone back the Barbs a bit. Given they're changing it so that the world isn't constantly being covered in culture, the barbarians are going to have places to spawn almost at all times, but it feels like they're kinda similar to how they were in Civ IV but instead of just random units appearing, they appear at encampments all over the place.

I did a bit of Civ V with some friends who (in their infinite wisdom of "it's fun for me, it's fun for everyone!") set it to raging barbarians. I start out and do some exploration, and then loose my warrior to a barbarian and spend basically the rest of the game just with a single unimproved city producing military units while they expanded because I had two barb camps attacking me constantly. Any time I got close to them they'd spawn a single unit and stomp all over any unit I had that was about to smash one of their camps. I (not having fun) quit (and they kinda... boggled at that) and am generally pissed at them for A) Setting it to raging barbarians without saying a word B) acting as if I would have fun with a total of 2 units for the entire game (my city and a solitary archer) and C) when I bitched basically just told me "go honor". I wasn't wanting to do a military civ. I wanted a culture civ, but obviously that doesn't matter because I'm supposed to metagame the hell out of everything and go for military ALL THE TIME.

Holy crap that looks awesome!

That doesn't look like Anything that tony stark designed dude... It's from Alien!

You know, watching the anime on the 'net, I find it interesting how in the story Yukimura is basically sidelined until the climactic final battle, Keji Maeda is running around looking listless and trying to talk to people but keeps getting shut down, And for the most part the antagonist is kept to a very small number of scenes while the rest of the series focuses on Masamune Date's awesomeness...

Biggest thing about the infamous choice is that it attached good and evil points to the different sides, I would be ok with it if it was a neutral choice, but adding in that value points thing just makes it turn to crap.

Isn't the point of games to give you a happy escape from reality? Giving a complete crotch shot to the player like done in infamous is just evil. I can understand "we wanna have an impact on the main character!" but don't tie it into a choice the player makes.

PIP BOYS ARE REAL!

Heh. One of R:TW's biggest balance issues is that sea trade-- and sea trade in the Aegean in particular-- is so freakin' profitable that the whichever faction manages to unite Greece and the surrounding area (which is usually the Brutii) becomes redonkulusly rich. I'm earning around 100k denarii per turn controlling gaul, and spain. Germania is mostly mine. Well, as I attacked rome, britannia decided to stab me in the back, then egypt attacked me. I've been causing massive losses to the Scipii and Brutii on the peninsula and holding off the brutii in northern europe (basically the russian frontier areas). I also took a full army I had standing around in Rhodes and landed it in greece getting ready to GUT the Brutii while my 4 huge cities pump out urban cohorts and everyone else either pops out with archers or cavalry. Although oddly enough, when I took a britan settlement the game CTD'd on me >.<. Now I'm debating going back to a previous save that was JUST before I attacked rome, and wiping out the brits so I don't have to deal with that, while strengthening my attack forces in greece to punch out brutii territories and rome at the same time.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/vie...Kinect-and-Move Kinect and Move. Includes the Augustus Sutter brand (for those who don't know he basically made Sacramento what it is with the positioning of his fort that was used to start the cali-mexico war, and was part of the triggering of the gold rush).

My roman game is about to pick up... right now the only factions in existance are me, the Brutii, Scipii, SQPR, Egypt and Brittania (because I never wanted to break that alliance... probably won't either, it's not fun fighting friggin barbarians), and I JUST got the "you're popular enough to march on rome" message which I'd been waiting for (with three full armies at the borders with Urban Cohorts and supporting units. What worries me is that the Scipii have about 6 full armies parked in their homeland on italy just waiting for SOMETHING to happen. Although some of them are outdated (Saw some Hastati in there, almost 70 years after the marian reforms, if not more) and the Brutii are having full armies roaming around to my west. I'll probably be winning battles by virtue of having stupid amounts of Preatorian and Urban Cohorts back up by auxilia and cav but still, I don't pleasure the idea of having to deal with 10000 troops slamming into one target.

The whole "oh I can just hide behind the cover and I'm invincible" is blown out of proprotions too. Maybe Calax is a superstar too, but I died a ****ton in COD2 too. Modern Warfare is one hell of a tough game on the hardest difficulties as far as I'm concerned. If I'm not careful and strategic, I'm dead in an instant. I wasn't saying that I didn't die, but in CoD2's last level alone I took about 4 tons of lead plus 2 tank cannon blasts and survived while completing objectives.

Tig hit it on the head. HP regen levels can be wayyy to high (the highest I've seen was CoD2 where I felt like I wasn't even human anymore because of the amount of punishment i took in one section of one level).

Well, there goes my chances at passing calc... I KNOW I bombed that exam, and I can only blame myself for acting like an idiot freshmen.