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Damn, that's highway robbery for David Price. To steal some Simmons terminology, they traded a dollar for a quarter and a bunch of nickles. At least the Sawx got a power hitting outfielder for their ace. Cespedes, by all rights, should hit an ungodly amount of doubles off the Green Monster, plus he's got a cannon for an arm. On the other hand... /looks at current Sawx rotation //cries

That's why I sleep on memory foam... ... Memory foam... ... Memory... ****, they know my thoughts, they know everything!

More Pirate Creed 4. Did some out of Animus stuff and it's basically exactly the same thing and snooping around the Sarif Industries building in DX:HR. The audio logs and images and stuff you get are okay, but this whole present day stuff doesn't add anything to the game, in my opinion. If anything, it takes away from it.

It's definitely interesting. "You've Been Chosen" better not actually wind up being the title of the game, though, because that is corny as ****.

Are you sure?

More Pirate Creed 4. I'm very slowly progressing through the story as I'm spending more time finding all the chests, idols, treasure maps, messages in bottles, and such, than I am doing the main story. I'll say this about Ubisoft, they make some of the loveliest water in all of gaming. So far, this one is barely an AssCreed game at all. I mean, the parkour and insultingly easy combat are all still there, but the story is a lot more coherent since the whole Templar/Assassin BS has barely been touched upon. Maybe that changes later on, I hope it doesn't. I'd love to see Ubi make another Piratey game like this, but go full on Piratey and just drop any pretense that it's an AssCreed game at all.

I imagine there will be puzzles of one sort or another.

Having fun with Pirate Creed 4. I'm playing the game as much like Thief as the game will allow. I try to avoid combat whenever possible and prefer to go barehanded to avoid killing. Ideally, nobody ever sees me and combat never comes into play, though some missions will have to involve bloodshed, obviously. Havana is a pretty lovely place to play sneaky sneaky in.

A 404 Not Found Error? I dunno, I never thought they were all that special. I'm more partial to Google Chrome's Aw, Snap! Something Went Wrong Error.

Damn. I know latitude isn't the only determining factor for an area's climate, but that has to be very unusually hot for a country as far north as Finland.

No. I will accept no substitutes. Your Hanar bribe will not work on me.

I played me a bit of FlatOut 2. Hot dang dem Bugbear folks know how to make a smash em up racing game. It's so ridiculously fun.

You're just trying to get Brucie to get punched by a townie, aren't you?

I certainly don't expect this to wind up being Road Warrior good. But heck, if this winds up being Beyond Thunderdome good I'll happily watch the bejesus out of it.

I wonder if Charlize Theron went method and actually had her arm amputated for the movie? Now that would be commitment to your role.

I take what I can get. Connecticut doesn't have much in the way of mountains, certainly not sizable ones. If I want mountains, then I can drive 4 hours north to Vermont or New Hampshire. Not this year, though, as I'm not doing any real vacation this year and don't want to pay travel expenses. I'm in super tighten the belt mode for the next year, maybe 2, trying to save up enough to comfortably move a couple years down the line. It will suck in the short term, but will hopefully be worth it in the long term. I haven't solidly decided where to move to yet, but I'm thinking around Virginia, North Carolina, or Tennessee. I'm wussing out. I'm tired of harsh winters (you live in Austria, so you'd probably laugh at my concept of "harsh winter"). I don't ski or snowboard, nor do I have any desire to, so winter does little for me, except piss me off. I'm tired of shoveling snow, I've done it all my life, having lived in Poland, (West) Germany, and Connecticut. I want to go somewhere that still has some winter, but a pretty mild winter. The areas I mentioned would seem to fit the bill with average highs during the dead of winter in the mid to upper 40s (Farenheit) and lows in the upper 20s. I don't want to go too far south like Georgia or Florida, where winter doesn't exist and summers are flat out brutal.

I facepalmed when he went into dark, brooding, gruff voice in the beginning. The rest of the trailer was pretty badass, though. Plus it's got Charlize Theron with a mechanical arm, which is a plus. I hope this turns out well.

Yeah, I can't believe I'm going to agree with Volo also, but I'm not sure how righteous it is for a Paladin to kill a couple of people, unprovoked, without ever witnessing them commit or attempt an act of evil, even if a spell tells you they are indeed evil. I've been playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. I played the game before, years ago, but it never grabbed me and I wound up losing interest and abandoning after a few hours. I've done about 10 hours so far, which is an improvement already. I find it's definitely more interesting to go with a slow weapon (I went with a hammer this time) than a fast weapon (I did daggers the last time I played), since you can't just button mash your way to glory, not as much, anyway. Since hammers are so slow, you have to pay attention to timing to keep from getting constantly interrupted. I'm not sure how long I'll keep playing since I should get my copy of AssCreed4: Live Free or AssCreed tomorrow. I found a copy for Wii U dirt cheap, and I read it's the least AssCreed of all the AssCreeds, plus it's got sea shanties, and sea shanties rock. I imagine the combat is still insultingly easy, right?

I'm in the metropolitan area of Hartford (the capital of Connecticut), but not in the very center. Regardless of which direction I go, I have to bike at least 4 miles before I get to less congested roads and don't have to deal with traffic lights that much. I did a shorter, distance and duration wise, ride today, just under 2 hours, but it was more intense. I did the Avon Mountain climb today, but from a different side than I usually do it. There are (at least) 3 different sides to go up Avon Mountain. The West Hartford side (the way I go most often), the Farmington side (the way I went today), and the Avon side (the side furthest away from where I live). Both the West Hartford and Farmington sides are about 2 1/2 miles of climbing. The West Hartford side is mostly at a 7 to 8% incline with one section of respite, conveniently placed a little over halfway through the climb, that flattens out to about 3% for a couple hundred yards. The Farmington side starts out brutal, with about 200 yards at about 12% right off the bat, but the rest of the climb is on average about 6, maybe 6.5%, and there are a couple of sections where it flattens out completely for a while, letting you get your legs back a bit. The Avon side, which I've yet to do this year (I will), is the shortest, but probably most difficult of the climbs. It's only a little over a mile, 1.2, I think, but it's 10% the entire time, no relief whatsoever until you reach the top.

Question: Is she inside a volcano? A foundry?

Well, Mother Nature cooperated after all. The rains stopped about an hour and a half ago and the sun came out. More rain is on the way, but it's several hours away. The roads are mostly dry now. I just ate a sammich and I'm going to hit the bike in about 20 minutes or so. I should have no problems getting in a good ride and getting back before the next round of thundershowers.

You killed Xzar and Montaron? You're going to miss out on some pretty fun dialogue.

Xena's reaction to the costume:

I have no problem with riding when it's raining, in fact it rained when I rode yesterday. I don't ride when there are large standing puddles, though, or when it's downpouring. I live in the city. Not only does it suck to ride through a standing puddle (with tons of traffic I can't very well pull out into the middle of the road to go around the puddle), it's quite dangerous when there are cars all around you. When I write "large standing puddles" here's an example of what I mean: