Posts posted by ManifestedISO
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Watched the latest episode of Table Top, with the lovely Jeri Ryan, the fantastic Kari Wahlgren, and the awesome Wil Wheaton. Jeri and Wil are from Voyager and The Next Generation, of course, but it wasn't until I looked her up, that I realized where I have heard Kari's amazing voice. Here's a clue:
"One of the quickest ways to make some coin in Skyrim is to clear out some of the wealthier homes of their valuables. If you're interested, I could point out a good place that could use a little housecleaning. What do you say?"
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New word: underailment. Means two things, one, you're feeling sick, or two, the act of returning a thread to its OP.
I have not played Dishonored, but I have played the balls out of Skyrim, and there is a new nexus mod that gives your Skyrim character the powers from Dishonored, including teleportation and slowing time. And the army of rats thing, too. Can be done by quest or console command. Now I kinda regret not buying DH for $10 on Steam ...
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As for the Mormon comparison, not sure how well it stacks up. For some reason I always compared Mormons and Sikhs, finding they had more in common.I think it's based more on how at the time the Mormon Prophet "discovered" those extra Commandments under his field and formed his wacky cult. That's how it was generally perceived by a lot of people of the time. One of those crazy nutjob things. Just like Scientology gets viewed by a lot of folks now. Not to have a crack at Mormons. I've known a few and they're quite devout and sincere in their belief and they generally don't try brainwashing and abusing folks in that manner.
It's just that shift brought about by time. What society at large in one time frame perceives as a crazy, minor cult... Come back a few decades/centuries on and it's an expansive and non-crazy world religion. Just like Christianity after Constantine decided to back it... If it hadn't expanded into the Roman Empire's state religion and sank hooks into the political movers and shakers, would it have become what it has?
One of the reasons its always hard to split religion and politics. Where influence and power goes...
You are amazingly astute, for not having grown up in mormonism, unfortunately as I did. The power of money and politics is quite far-reaching in Salt Lake City, measured in millions and even billions, when considering all of their "holdings." The real tragedy, however, is the vast gulf between how the church actually started, and the history it tells the members. Oh, and the disintegration of families, from within and without, due to an unreal foundation.
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Picked up a few bottles of local brewery Stone's collaboration with the awesome Wil Wheaton: Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout
Sounds like an intriguing concoction: "an imperial stout brewed with pecans, wheat and rye, partially aged in bourbon barrels."
I'm not much of a hops addict, but this might be how it starts, at 13% ABV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=axoBntixfm0
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Civ5, CK2 co-op, and LOL.
Also, acronyms.
Ooh, may I slip in a slightly pedantic post-it here that makes no difference to anyone, anywhere. I didn't realize this until I read through that epic NSX forum thread a few years ago, but words like NASA are acronyms, where something like NWN is an initialism.
Still waiting on Far Cry 3 to hit bottom price, so I loaded up my Xbox copy ... oh, man, is it muddy and weird. A 256MB frame buffer vs. 2GB is massive. Feeling pretty chuffed at the moment for putting together this PC just for P:E.

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Oh man, it's anything but boring. A modern U.S. Navy aircraft carrier back in time at Pearl Harbor!? With Kirk Douglas? Awesome.
No, I think time-travel as a device is uniquely interesting. Because it is practically impossible. the audience has to suspend more than disbelief. In fact, it's fun and easy to accept alternate laws of physics, where the arrow of time has two points and paradoxes are the phenomena that become impossible. Redundancy works beautifully, too, just as Spock and young Spock have discovered recently, so to speak.
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So, uh, back to random news: Deus Ex iOS deliberately crippled if run on a jailbroken device. Still happy to take your money though.
In this summer of reversals, Square Enix just said they were wrong and will update the game.

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Yes! Awesome.
Stand back, you mewling quim! Tom is fantastic. Chris Hardwick played the part of quim very well.
Now I know why the Instagram video he tweeted stops where it does. lol