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The Books We Call Baen

And for the other dissonance.. the Westboro Baptist Church are also joining in on the hate of said clerk.. They're hammering her for not having repented adultery and that she should get back to her first husband because if she was a good and devout Christian she wouldn't be living in sin with another man..since a true Christian wouldn't recognise divorce or remarriage while the first husband is alive.

And as we take that turn in our amusement...

Mancy means divination by means of something. So, can you tell the future from corpses? If I recall well enough, it was originally nigromancy, and was more on the art of communication and divination using the deceased. The zombies and animating the dead came later...

For the fun ending to my weekend, I went online to check my bank stuff and deal with monthly bills.. and found out that despite being repeatedly told that I would get 8 weeks of the Carers Allowance paid following the death of the person I cared for (thus giving me some time to reorganise my life) in fact they stopped paying it the moment I told them my mother had died. So I have three weeks of missing funds. So I'm foreseeing the joys of starting my week tomorrow with government bureaucracy and phone calls....

Drone flyby of the new Apple Campus 2 under construction... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FqH02gN29o

Now, did I glance at a wrong headline or has the clerk now claimed they shouldn't be able to send her to an all woman jail because "they" are trying to break her will, because those jails are full of lesbians? The things that social media newsfeeds stream across that you really try to avoid paying attention to.....

The atmosphere for the most captures the movies quite well, it's got that bleakness with very strange people who have stripped to the bone morality due to survival ethics in a post-apocalyptic world. I will say after reading a bunch of the "historical objects" you find (pictures, letters, blah-de-blah) that pretty much every reason for an apocalypse seems to have happened. Plagues, Government restrictions turned tyranny turned popular uprisings, war, global warming, seas disappearing... It wasn't just one or a couple, it was pretty much every way and the kitchen sink for the world to disintegrate. I have to admit, I let my gaming OCD take over a bit, and I ended up doing all the possible side-stuff in the first two regions and reduced the Scrotus levels to 0 in both Jeet's and Guturash's territories.. which seemed to give me all the tokens I needed to max legendary status and the upgrades you get from those griffa tokens before I was even halfway through the story-side of things. From the time you get past the barrier wall it seems you spend most of the time doing that side stuff just to give the game time to award you scrap from allied camps so you can upgrade the car.... Also, one slight contrast to the movies after finishing the game..

Okay, this io9 article makes me want to watch this Dragon Blade even more then I expected from the so-bad-its-good feeling it was generating.. io9 - That ancient romans vs Chinese movie is a total so bad its good-gasm

To truly run with the internet on this even more...

Technically, if you're driving the right faction, you're "disguised" from that faction and they won't randomly attack you. But yes, it's still no reason to drive them. Also, it opens up some extra options with the Death Races. On which note, some of the Death Races are quite...irritating to get right. They slap you in a car you aren't used to that always has worst handling characteristics then the Magnum Opus, and it seems all the moves you're used to doing as you drive around.. now send you spinning out, fishtailing, or some such which wastes huge chunks of time on your run. The story side of the game seems to push you on from region to region without really giving you any reason to stay in a reason to clear it up. I think they rely on gamer's OCD to wrap up all the assorted challenges and clear up the territories rather than story. The other thing that I've noticed, is that by (what I'm guessing the half way point), going to the scrap locations seems very...drawn out. You keep stumbling on this places that have 2 pieces of scrap to find, each one containing 2-6 items of scrap metal... SInce by that point all the upgrades tend to require 300-900 items of scrap metal, and the collection of Ally Camps will be sending you 300-500 items of scrap metal every x amount of game turn, it does seem more of a time waste to find the scrap locations in game. Note - this might sound like a lot of griping, but I'm still having fun driving around getting into bouts of fisticuffs with bizarre bdsm themed post-apocalypse bandits and jumping sand dunes in my custom car.

And for some of that gag reel goodness... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_8Bs0iuw9c

So the internet strikes with...

The Scottish Gaming Rig.. Irn-Bru Cooled...

Mad Max. As expected, it's got some of the control issues similar to the Just Cause games on pc. I was slightly annoyed that I had to set the Invert Y on mouse manually in the config settings. For some reason the in-game Invert Y only works for controllers... Nice and sprawling game with lots of running around to find scrap metal. Lots of scrap metal needed. Seriously. The atmosphere is good, but the steering on the vehicles seems slightly heavy, but still fun.

It seems my clutch is broken on this Monday. I'm feeling bleh and can't get my ass in gear.