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Never forget: Trail of Tears. I won't have anyone here giving lip to Thomas Paine, though.

Had my fingers crossed for Icewind Dale II In other news: Had basically zero interest in Ghost Recon: Wildlands until the Giant Bombcast put it to me like this: The parts of "Clear and Present Danger" with the illegal special ops teams tear-assing in the jungles of Colombia:

Well there were plenty of WWII assault guns and tank destroyers (most famous of which being the StuG) which could only really engage anything in a ~15 degree arc in front of the vehicle, though that was mostly for cost reasons since a turret would have at minimum increased the cost by 50%. That said, we really don't see those types of vehicles anymore. Infantry fire support has been taken up by turreted lightly armoured, wheeled vehicles like the MGS Stryker and the Centauro for the 105mm class and up or autocannons on the Bradleys, and for anti-tank that's been fulfilled with ATGM launchers on a swivel mounted on Humvees, jeeps, and the like.

Mostly for just casual (not necessarily when on my bike) and for going to bars and shows at the House of Blues. Top aircraft for me: 1.) F-15E Strike Eagle "Mudhen". Black, beefy-looking (thanks to its CFTs), and forboding: Face it, it just looks _MEAN_ 2.) Dassault Rafale: I'm a great lover of all things French and beautiful (a list that includes Nice, French bande dessinée, and Eva Green), so the French multi-service, multi-role is a definite shoe-in. 3.) F/A-18E/F Superhornet. Just like the old PS3 slogan: "It only does everything." Air superiority, strike, close air support, BDA, electronic attack (in the form of the EA-18G Growler), you name it. Honourable mention goes to the Tomcat, thanks to Super Dimension Fortress Macross (of which the Variable Fighters are a dead-ringer for) and of course Top Gun. Postscript: This documentary has one of my favourite tributes to the Eagle: https://youtu.be/gJU5DDh0DEc?t=31m39s

Well this is awkward... A contract gig I was working last year finally got back in touch with me asking if I was still looking for something permanent... just as I was promoted in my current full-time job. I find myself at a crossroad; I imagine I would get paid roughly the same at both gigs, but I fought tooth and nail not only just to get to where I am at the company I'm at now, but just to get hired there in the first place. I'm working at a much bigger company right now, but I still enjoy the atmosphere of where I work nonetheless. On the other hand, the other job was in Calabasas/Woodland Hills area where I could still rent a room from my parents, whereas now I have to commute from a crappy apartment in Downtown LA to Culver City.

When do you think is the best time to buy a leather jacket if I was concerned with saving money? Right now? When we're coming up on the summer when the demand isn't as hot? Or wait 'till after the holiday season when all the retailers are clearancing their stuff?

Ahhh... the Rhino. Proof that in lieu of sound aerodynamic design any problem can be overcome with pure thrust. And the world's leading distributor of MiG parts

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The Division beta sign-ups are up. If you haven't pre-ordered (like me), you'll have to put yourself on a waiting list. I was signing up when it asked me for my Uplay log-in info and I said to myself: "Oh yeah... this f***ing bulls***." I swear, I go for such long spells without having to deal with it I have to use the "forgot my password" option whenever I get a new Ubisoft game.

I believe you also have a sniper at your disposal for that mission. The campaign missions tend to allow you more dudes per mission on average compared to the single missions.

For me... XCOM 2 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided The Division Total War: Warhammer Cautiously watching Hitman Interest piqued by Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, but because it stands a real chance of really 'effing up, handling it with a pair of tongs like it was a uranium rod.

Full 25-minute E3 demo of Deus Ex now available: As someone who actually preferred Human Revolution over the original (for pretty much the same reasons Tom Chick does), this looks pretty exciting. The initial portion of the demo also sort of allays most of my fears that the game will become too "action-y".

Probably a good idea, whatever that flag stood for in the past, it just stands for racism. Not for it, though people (like me) are free to think that the guys who have it emblazoned on the hoods of their cars or flying by the antenna are huge pricks. The issue I take with it is more even absent the connotations of racism, it's a flag celebrating treason.

I give (most of) the NMA crowd a lot more credit than the folks at, say, the Codex, even if I'm not _as_ hard on Bethesda as they are. They do good work for the Fallout wiki at the very least. If Bethesda is improving the shooting, then I don't suppose they were going to finally make a game with decent AI.

I'll bet you that they're 10 foot tall, subterranean Jewish Freemason bankers too.

I was going to see Le Petit Prince instead of Inside Out anyways.

Danish Leo 2A5DK filling up at the pumps. Well, self-propelled guns more like rather than tanks for this one, but you get the idea.

Cradle, a Myst-like game made by some former STALKER devs, is coming out July 25th after a long and arduous development period. Yeeeeeeaaahhhh!

Reminds me of the "Boobquake" thing a couple of years back in response to an Iranian cleric saying indecent women's dress was responsible for earthquakes. I think that's feminism everyone here can get behind.

No one at all has ever doubted that it is possible to increase employment and the minimum wage at the same time. The impact of the general economy is usually going to be larger than the impact of the minimum wage. The impact of that general economy could mean that employment rises, stays the same or falls, whatever happens to the minimum wage. But that’s not the interesting thing we’d like to know. Which is, what is the effect of raising the minimum wage on unemployment? Freed from the impacts of everything else happening in the economy? And there the standard answer is that it will raise unemployment and no, no one has managed to come up with a convincing case against this standard wisdom. Do note what actually happened in that general economy over that same time period. The US unemployment rate fell, over that year, from 6.6% to 5.6%. Seatac’s performance is, including the usual boundaries for error, actually the same as the US economy’s. Which isn’t all that surprising really as the minimum wage rise at Seatac affected 1,500 people (yes, that’s all) and we’d not expect to see any effect at all in macroeconomic figures from so trivial a change. However, we are seeing changes in the rather larger case of Seattle itself, as I predicted we would: Restaurants are closing at higher than normal rates. And Seattle is already a fairly high wage place: As Don Boudreaux likes to point out one of the reasons we don’t see large job losses (as opposed to small ones) from rises in the minimum wage is because we’ve had a minimum wage for a long time and have already lost a lot of jobs as a result. And there’s more such reporting going on too: Human labor really is an economic good like pretty much all of the others. Raise the price and the demand for it will drop (another way of putting this is that human labor is not a Giffen Good). Please do note though what is the prediction. Not that there’s going to be a wiping out of employment opportunities, nor that the economy of Seattle is going to become a howling wasteland. Rather, that less human labor will be employed at $15 an hour than would have been employed if the minimum wage had not risen to that amount. And for people who would like to have a job but now cannot find one that’s bad news. Kind of wonder what that means for recent grads going into entry-level but college diploma-required positions in fields like creative services and IT and nurses. Fresh out of college I made $16/hr with medical, vision, dental, and massage and chiropractor with it. But now people are speaking of $15/hr minimum wage in LA, so the person with that job would make only marginally more per hour than a burger flipper still in high school Hopefully "a rising tide raises all ships" comes into play for those positions and they get a corresponding pay increase as well.

I went on the New Vegas Nexus this week and I found this: http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/58606/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fnewvegas%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D58606%26preview%3D&pUp=1 Now the maker of this mod was an enterprising fellow.

Even if quite a few people reacted poorly to the android questline in Fallout 3, I find the idea of the remnants of MIT still kicking around in the post-apoc interesting. If Obsidian makes another West-coast Fallout game, they should respond with implementing the remnants of Caltech in it, with a few references to the pranks they'd pull on MIT in there.

No, no, no. "Robits."