Calax

Well, I was just wondering if the other nations even really payed attention. The way my history teachers have discussed it sounds like it was a big thing in the world because it had the first use of gatling guns etc.

Anyone else miss the feel of being a part of an organization as an assassin? I donno, but in the first one because all of the missions were assigned by Am'ualim (or whatever) it felt like I wasn't just an assassins, I was part of an organization and thus more faceless. In AC2 the ONLY assassin in the world seems to be Ezio and everyone knows who and what he is after one of your first kills.

We just did a small civil war unit in my history class (mostly glossed over because the teacher figures we've already gotten enough of that in our middle and high school years), and I was wondering, was the american civil war a big deal over all or is america just huffing itself up as the best nation and everything we do has massive impact on everything everyone else does?

There were two new factions (Brits and Panzer elite) in the first expansion, in the second expansion you just had a few reskins that do slightly different things (like germans (the elite faction) could replace their tanks with a version that could have a calliope barrage attached.)

*mumbles* :calax:

I did like the "we're happy she decided to keep the child" and then said that she didn't want to give anyone the choice to make that decision. of course, the only soundbites of her I've heard are the ones where she sounds like somebody jammed a talking points memo into her back and every question she gets not on that memo makes her brain crash in a thousand pieces. Reading Tyrrany of the Night from Glenn Cook. It's a fiction novel that follows a soldier on a personal mission that turns into something much more, more political and spy style than soldiery. Set in a 3rd crusade era world analogue, it's kind of interesting. They have gunpowder, swords, and a bit of magic, but the interesting thing is the political landscape. Cook put in analogues for the Roman Cathoics, Muslims, Jews, Church of England, and a few other cute things for social commentary on how the world is/was in relation to the church and politics.

*looks at kennedy and bush dynasties* I see more parallels to the US than the USSR. Of course, I don't exactly know how the USSR worked.

infantry can be handled by almost the same tactics as any other infantry grouping. However you just can't use tanks so your counter is going to require you to have a hardpoint with an MG (a pair of buildings would probably be best) or just have a small unit hide in a building and fight and drop a arty strike on them. Just fyi, Stormtroopers are the german equiv to he Rangers.

... The alt of the former mod authority?

Interestingly I just noticed in the bioshock review that when he mentions steam powered turrets, he shows a gun turret with the steam logo on it

eh, I figured something mentioned in the first 5 minutes didn't need tags. Well, you mentioned 7 hours, so I assumed it was important. Well, I'm pretty deep overall in the game, but the reason you're playing as Ezio is given in the very start of the game. The future part of the story is actually building (supposedly anyway) to the culmination that is in the third game where you play as desmond in the future, probably hunting for the pieces of eden.

eh, I figured something mentioned in the first 5 minutes didn't need tags.

Actually they made it so that the counters you pull off can be dodged, you can be countered, and there are uncounterable opponents (the weapon used is so friggin big you couldn't counter it effectively). I finally got to the first major Desmond bit, took me quite a while (7 hours IIRC) as I had Ezio running to Venice. Basically you're in the Animus this time because the assassins are trying to get desmond back up to "I can kill any man" levels of skill and are using ezios experience to do it.

There better be A LOT of sexy Kristen Bell then... not really, there was only ONE section of the future that I've seen thus far.

I think I'm 7-8 hours into it now. There's only one future part so far, otherwise the story is more linear within the game and yes, desmond does fight. One thing I've noticed is that they REALLY amped up the sexuality. You learn how to be invisible from prostitutes, one of the first things you do is get ezio laid, and you can hire prostitutes to distract guards. also there is a LOT more complexity in leveling your character and how things work, they actually incorporated a lot of GTA stuff (earning money, improving property, buying weapons and armor)

I'll just stay with me thanks

Finished Uncharted 2... the ending didn't seem like a very good climax, but it worked. Also the characters do grow on you, unlike what some people say. As to the L4D thing, I found that it's good in short bursts with friends but otherwise it's just annoying to do it again and again because of the sameness of each map and the ability to predict the ai. Also found this in WoW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98uDkyzVvSc...player_embedded and yes... it actually has an effect in game... makes your head into Mr. T's nightelf mowhawk

Loaded up the PTR of WoW. Looks like they're gonna have one heck of a confrontation with Arthas Also Uncharted 2 is friggin awesome on so many levels it's deadly.

spent some time with uncharted 2 (good game) and had one of my cats (the a social one) on my lap and clawing my chest and nipple (ow). Then went to bed and woke up this morning to both my cats attacking the carpet outside my door trying to get in and wake me up so that I could feed them and let them out. Only one can save me!

the map takes quite a bit of getting used to but once you're used to it it's crazy fun.

Ok, I'm now on a "I wanna relive my childhood" trip and found a guy on youtube who's uploaded ALL of the power rangers episodes from the first six seasons. ... I love the guitar theme... In somewhat related news, Power Rangers from 1993 is being remastered and rerun by Disney starting next year.

Except that rather than me actually learning the information I'm merely examining it to find obvious bias after what happened previously, thus she's not doing her job of keeping me engaged and learning the information.

*sigh* class with the preacher today... and now we're discussing the evils that corporations and the mass media are (showed us a documentary "Corporation" that only showed the bad sides of corporations).

Oh, in other news, I found my new favorite animal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_bear suckers more unkillable than the ****roach

you know who thinks that violent games aren't violent? >.> sorry, I had to do it