ShadySands

for someone who knows nothing about guns, what am I looking at?

I have a Nexus 7 and it's great for simple games, reading, media consumption but as other have said it's not that great for productivity. My wife has an Asus something or other with a keyboard docking station that basically turns it into a netbook and she manages to do a fair bit of work on it but her work is mostly line sheets and replying to emails.

Civ 5 with the new expansion I really like a lot of the changes that I've seen so far and I think it makes going for a cultural victory a lot more satisfying.

Went to Vail on Sunday for a farmers market Bottom 2 are Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

I don't know what the financial situation is for PE but as far as communication I would say PE has been the best managed of any of the games that I've backed by far. I've been impressed with the amount and quality of the updates and enjoyed the back and forth between the devs and the community. I'm not sure how anyone can think Shadowrun Returns has been well managed though. I'm looking forward to the game but between the "unexpected" licensing issues and the fact that they are way over budget I wouldn't say that they are the best managed.

I can't say I'm surprised about Howard leaving but I wasn't expecting him to end up on the Rockets. I really wished they could have made Kobe, Howard, Gasol, and Nash work but at least it was an interesting trainwreck to watch. I'm a little disappointed to see Iguodala go though as I thought he might have stuck around

They don't all have quotas For instance the department where my cousin (mentioned in the police thread) works only the motorcycle cops have quotas for how many tickets they give because that's pretty much their only function Also, I would say that the war on drugs, three strikes laws, for profit prisons, and a culture that glorifies criminal activity would be much more likely culprits for our ridiculous prison population

I know I'm not the average mmo gamer because I also don't care much for max level play but I'm enjoying it right now because I still have some story left to uncover but I usually lose interest pretty quickly with the end game stuff. I actually enjoy trying to keep my gear up to date as I level so that probably puts me into an even smaller category than the one I'm already in

I may have possibly been a teenager once so I can agree that they are generally ****. Honestly, I think you would see just as much if not more us vs them from the actual police. I'm also willing to concede that maybe the local police that I grew up with are just much worse than your average cops.

I used to have a lot more respect for the police but when my cousin became a cop in my home town and I got more of an insiders point of view of what was going on I quickly lost a lot of that. I know that they aren't all bad and I've actually met some really good ones but now I just assume the worst and hope to be proven wrong

Just finished watching firework shows over Mile High, Coors Field, Elitch Gardens (local amusement park), and the park behind our condo. Also, a bunch of random people and small suburbs out in the distance in every direction. A nice end to a great day

I don't mind it right now since I'm playing my 55 Sorc and can use the legacy XP but this game gives XP way too freely. I wanted to start my new Sniper but I don't want to out level all the content which usually happens anyway even without the boost just by being a semi-completionist. I feel like they are trying to make leveling too fast so they can sell you an item to slow it down like Turbine did with LOTRO

while we're at it

Now I'm trying to imagine Braveheart with Mel Brooks... I think I would like to see that movie. I'm cleaning up and getting ready to start cooking/grilling

I made the switch to a lightning spec and am back to using Xalek again. He still dies pretty fast but I can usually kill things fast enough for that not to be a problem but I'm working on upgrading all his gear with more defense, shield, and absorption.

Krezack, is that you? Happy Independence Day!!!

I just bought my wife one of the new 13" Mac Air doohickeys because she's always complaining about how heavy her 17" Dell is. I'm waiting for Asus to roll out the new Zenbooks before I buy something for myself

Watched a little Wimbeldon, drank a little too much, did a little dance, made a little love, got down tonight Now marinating some meat for tomorrow and drinking some bourbon root beer while watching fireworks from the balcony Happy birthday America!

well that escalated quickly

I've gone back to my 16 lightning 30 madness build after trying some all out lightning builds. The damage was certainly a little better for random PVE questing but I'm so used to a run and gun play style at this point that it's hard for me to just stand there and cast. Not to mention the healing I get from my DoT crits and death field. At the same time I don't like going full madness because I miss chain lightning, lightning storm, and lightning barrage. If I ever start doing group content then I'll probably make the jump to full lightning EDIT: PS thanks again for all the helpful advice. I feel like I've got a better handle on everything now

We've had so many dog shootings here that they've actually passed a law on it.

Speaking of trees, I've been playing around with mine I've been trying to mix in some Corruption into my Madness hybrid but the small amount of extra healing doesn't seem to offset the hit I take on damage in most situations. It worked great for the Archon fight but for the rest of my play session it was just unnecessary healing and prolonged fights. Also, when did they remove the cost of skill resets? I picked up the field respec legacy perk and was just changing everything around on the fly

I didn't back it but it seems like most of the games that I've backed have all gone over budget

Thinking of giving sniper another shot (no pun intended) I haven't been able to get into the shooty classes that much since my wife only wants to play Jedi and I don't like to be bossed around by force users... I get force envy. I do have a mid to high 30 something whatever the tank commando is called but I play him so rarely that I don't even remember the name of class, a low 30's double pew bounty hunter, and I also have a low 20 something operative. I have 2 of each class type (Sith Sorc/Jedi whatever they call assassin, Sith Marauder/Jedi Guardian, etc) except the smuggler/agent and I think I would rather have a sniper than a gunslinger Also, I want to be able to cast all the class buffs instead of just the force ones