Leferd

Old high school nickname. Used this avatar for nine years now. No point in changing it now. It's the old logo of the Nippon Ham Fighters.

Being a connoisseur of the 4x400, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that this was actually one hell of a great race! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f324aAjGZP4

It isn't necessary that simple as many of the athletes get most of their income from sponsorship contracts and positive media attention, at least in EU and US, usually gurantees you much better contracts, so it wouldn't necessary in bussinesswise be good idea to say anything that contradict that media attention. And one could think that there is no heavy demand in Russia to get any statement from those athletes as now it lessens Western media's scrutiny against Russia, and it can be used against Western media as Russians can say that Western media don't understand Russian culture. So being silent is in my opinion best course of action that they could take towards that kiss, because saying it was only congrarulator kiss don't win them anything and saying that it was political statement would bring them problems in Russia and maybe also with IAAF that don't allow political statement in its championships. Yup.

1) I've lived 5 years abroad in a culture that is neither Western, liberal, or predominantly christian. 2) I currently live in an area where there is no ethnicity that is in the majority. 3) To be specific, my neighbors to the right, left, front, front right, and front left, are all of different ethnicity/cultures. 4) I am not part of the ethnic majority in my country. Can you say the same about yourself?

They've kept silent. Gay propaganda laws and all. I expect there will be some sort of PR "statement" made eventually, but I would find it disingenuous that they are not aware of the controversy surrounding the laws and the perception that their actions may have on the debate.

I read this comment and I can vouch for the first three sentences. I don't know of the rest (I haven't looked at her hand). I'm not sure who you are quoting, I'm assuming someone posted and deleted their comments? How is it a lie? Obviously these athletes are showing some public display of solidarity. Their ummm...politics are only a matter of interpretation.

This is how Russians celebrate winning the gold medal in the 4x400m relay. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/russian-gold-medalists-kiss-medal-stand-world-championships-132337366.html

Would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids...

So sad. I wasn't too frequent poster back in the old days at Interplay and BIS but I remember he was always very helpful with the odd question or two. Maybe a cameo in PE with a mace wielding priestess, as daughter of Tarna?

This is some serious necroposting. Good nostalgia though.

That would be from the cancelled Aliens pg.

Objectively speaking, It's a decent enough game - good but not great...but something about it just makes me smile all throughout the playthrough. I really had a lot of old school fun.

That was classic. And if memory serves, it actually looked like Pedro was trying his best to not hurt Zimmerman. Haha!

Question: Do attributes directly affect the skills that are under its tree? i.e. does quickness directly impact gun skills and accuracy and dodge, or is it only used to unlock the next tier level?

Lols. Ya think? Could almost go up there with George Brett's pine tar incident. We'll see if it has enough legs.

To be fair...the pitch was a ball.

Ok. Started playing and I'm immediately noticing the drain on my H20, food, and sleep meters. I played hardcore mode before but Sawyer's mod is taking it to another step. Already thinking of bumping up my survival skills. Any pack mule mods out there??

Danke. Sawyer's mod looks to be a hardcore roolz overhaul. Impressive. Other than making the game tougher, what makes it more enjoyable/better when compared to vanilla hardcore rules?

Bought the Ultimate Edition a few days go. Originally had the 360 version when it first came out but never tried any of the DLCs. Any recommended mods?

Bo Jackson was the greatest video game character of all time. Re: Jordan. That's my conspiracy theory and I'm sticking with it.

Blurred Lines. Because.

Those two books were my favorite assigned reading in English class from high school.

There's been some talk that HBO is talking with GRRM about adapting the Dunk and Egg stories. The comics are pretty good too.

XCOM 75% off for the next two hours. Easily the best game of 2012.

Jordan and Pippin were jerks anyway. Kukoc handled himself very well in those Olympics and the Croatians won silver in those Olympics (Lithuania bronze), I remember the hype that Kukoc had. Comparisons to Magic Johnson tend to do that. But this guy was 6-11 and had handles and uncanny passing ability. He could literally play all five positions and play them well. Pippin was so butthurt in the 94 playoffs (after Jordan's first -ahem- retirement*) against the Knicks when Phil Jackson drew up a play with one second left for Kukoc. Pippin refused to leave the bench in protest. Kukoc made the shot anyway. *retirement/sabbatical to play baseball. Really it was the NBA's (David Stern) way of gracefully suspending Jordan for gambling.