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What are your opinions? The guy has been found not-guilty and it's being blown up like it's OJ Simpson being convicted. Personally from the media circus and what little I've seen I'd say that Zimmerman isn't guilty of killing the kid. Ultimately it was just a bad situation that was made worse and worse and ended in a bad way, and there is certainly a pile of evidence that Zimmerman didn't just run up scream "YAR!" and start shooting. I would say that ultimately there should be some punishment for Zimmerman overstepping his bounds. But realistically when your head is getting repeatedly smashed into the concrete, it's kinda hard to thing straight. I will say that it seems like the State's case was predicated upon "He went after this kid because of racial profiling!" without actually proving beyond a reasonable doubt, that this was the case (which is why the jury came back not-guilty. Anyway, Thoughts?

How do you do a lap around a formless being? With effortless style. Like a bodybuilder directing traffic?

Everything is going wrong at work. We ran out of trip sheets (so we have to remember to record the info by hand and mark it down), and then we ran out of gas on our company credit card. So we've been running the vans until they're almost empty, then swapping to another vehicle. Means that for right now and my next run I'm driving a MINIVAN! Mooshy suspension but it's better than the van who's got steering with more play than a football game and that slides all over the free way as you drive it.

Che Guevara t-shirt and beret? Guy Fawkes mask, che t-shirt, and beret. And a pair of Grocery Bags. Co-op woven hemp bags? Tienamin Square Guy Bags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

How do you do a lap around a formless being?

Does he kill me like everyone else? There are two ways thing work out with you: 1) Player shoots you (perhaps to acquire your stylish glasses because they took the "Four Eyes" trait and haven't found any others), or 2) You run off into the desert and are killed by radscorpions. You just need to accept it, dude. Winning that forum contest did not grant you eternal life. It did make me the savior. Every three days I'd come back to life! I did look at my computer at work, I've not had a true day off since the 26th of last month. And that has been my only day off since I started this job.

Che Guevara t-shirt and beret? Guy Fawkes mask, che t-shirt, and beret. And a pair of Grocery Bags.

Woodcut porn. Gives the historian in me a hard-on. What? You didn't want to go full cheese with "Gives the historian in me wood"? Does he kill me like everyone else?

There has been three replications of the biggest one of the nine studies that Bem published, all three were negative. So, yeah. Not replicated. And Bem by his own admission, manipulated the data aswell, so that it looked better. What else from what I remember hearing about it, the results of Bem's research was something like 53% hits when 50% would be random chance. It's not impressive enough to actually prove something this extraordinary. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan/Marcello Truzzi Or her kids witnessed the crime and told her about it. Good point, I had glossed over the kids and the fact they could have been involved. Would explain why the hell she brought her kids along corpsehunting. At the Dinner Table Mom: Kids? What did you do today? Kids: We found a dead body! And poked it! With a stick! Mom: Kids: >.> Mom: Where's the dead body? Kids: <description of the place> Mom: Ok, we're gonna show this to the police. *dials 911* I'm being shown VISIONS BY GOD! *Glares at the kids to keep quiet*

The most I have ever worked was 21 days straight and the shortest day was 10 hours. Tell your boss either he gives you vacation or he'll have an employee that will soon mess up. Technically it's only about 3 hours a day (for most days), but it's still.... tiring. And tomorrow is about 13 hours or so. Starting in 8 hours. In other news: Tonight I just had that odd feeling of being to alone and unwanted strike. Probably a bipolar reaction.

I'm realizing that I need to ask my boss for at least one day fully off per week (I haven't had a day off since I fully started). Getting kinda tiring.

I think it's easier for the devs to produce a relationship (and get it to work correctly) between parent/child (specifically father daughter) because there's that inherent desire to protect the kid. I'm finding it interesting that most of the examples are Dad/Daughter, but upon ferther thinking, I think it's actually because it makes the connection that much easier due to society's expectation. The player is Dad, he runs around doing his best to protect his child, as is expected by almost everyone on the planet. The child character is almost always a girl because, as much as people protest, the population expects dad to be FAR more protective of his daughter, and the daughter is expected to be more passive than a son would. Consider that in a similar situation to Last of Us, the Son character would probably have been maligned by the players for being to passive in the game, simply because boys are supposed to be the more independant ones that go out and save themselves ("MAN UP BOY! QUIT BEING A WUSSAY!") while girls are generally expected to be taken care of and protected.

Back in Iowa State. Finally

The only on that is slightly attracting my attention is Scribblenats

Am not sure if I'm doing a good or bad thing, but my interim boss (she hired me, but isn't keeping the position because of school taking priority) is going through a bad break up, and I'm basically poking her every so often via phone to make sure she's doing ok. From what I can tell we have similar psych profiles so we know how each other work. And for the record she classifies herself as 70/30 Lesbian/Straight so no, this probably won't turn into a relationship. Also, saturday has a new "first" for work. I'm driving the minibus to the airport because if I took one of our vans, I'd have exactly 0 room in the back and everyone'd be uncomfortable. And I'm really happy because we're getting a brand new bus to replace the old E250 in the garage that has 600k miles, has INCREDIBLY loose steering, and once you start going over 55 the engine shakes the Chassis so much that any girl would have a FUN time if she was sitting on a hard object.

How many armies have you lost to a single spearman?

ALso in that report A pakistani cop pulled Osama and his bodyguards over for speeding and didn't recognize (or was paid off) Osama.

I do think that it should noted that the abuses of power by the police can be NOTHING compared to other civil servants who (technically) should have less overal power. Be they TSA, DMV, or just some beauracrat in a department somewhere, it seems like half the people who have those sorts of jobs revel in making your life miserable. Especially those like the TSA who control just a tiny aspect of your life.

You couldn't just say 10 cm?

Submitted my petition for reinstatement.

Too much sightseeing not enough gameplay? That's exactly what thought when playing through Uncharted 3 and then have not been able to go back to TLOU yet. To be fair, Uncharted 3 was a mess of cobbled together gameplay with a plot that was obviously more "Lets connect this spot to that one" rather than an actual story.

Don't get me wrong, Last of us is a FANTASTIC game, but it has issues (like any great game). If you gave it a bit more varied gameplay, and adjusted the mechanics to be more shooter friendly (look, if there's a guy within reach that I'm shooting at, I don't think my character would make an outline of that guy on the other wall!) You'd have a much better game. As it is, the shooting mechanics get really old really fast, and you're left with basically "shoot/stealth through everything, solve a 2 bit puzzle, cutscene, repeat"

Finished last of us. They need to work on pacing a bit.

I've been playing it on and off for a while now, and I think it's mostly about atmosphere. It's probably the best "survival HOrror" game in recent memory, with survival being the key. That and some pretty good characterization of Ellie and Joel. Yeah but was it horror? The only time were I was remotely tense was during the spore set pieces. As for the survival part, stealth was so powerful, that it completely nullified the limited ammunition. (Which was probably a good thing, since I can no longer aim with a controller) Also the fact that you can choke stealth infected is just so stupid. 'Oh look an infected, I will sneak behind them and choke them, even though one bite and I'm gone.' It's more survival horror than Deadspace or Resident Evil. Neither of which has the atmosphere. And I think the reason I consider it more Horror is because I'd always find some way to muck up the stealthing, so I'd end up fighting off the infected. Made me HATE "Bloaters" given that I couldn't see them then just get oneshot. Made me hate the devs for seemingly not even putting in a modicum of auto-aim (spend four shots around your target because it adjusts itself ever so slightly...) And don't get me started on the ending. That had me scratching my head too. How did they survive? If they were alive how did they stay alive without food or water? Given there main purpose was to find new hosts. My guess is the parasite somehow sustained them, with there only need being air.(Given you can choke them ) Also if the spores were air borne, how come winds didn't carry it across quarantine zones? Or why didn't the spore attach to skin or opened wounds? In the end, I came to the conclusion it's best not to think so hard about it, as thinking will bring up more questions instead of answers. (But that's the same with all zombie movies) Well, given how they mutate I'm pretty sure they start becoming plants. But the odd part is it seemed like "runners" were only for the first few weeks/months of the infection, but were by FAR the most popular zombie type. In theory most of the zombie population should have been at least Clickers during the game, rather than runners. Unless there was a small troupe of magical women constantly having kids who grow up and are immediately infected.

... You've got me with an image of Lex Luthor with hayseed in his mouth.