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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

Awfully precarious bridge to the castle, there. If those big dragon things drop out of the sky, like in the trailer, I fear it will be impossible to reach the mutton and ale waiting in the grand hall beyond, to say nothing of the ravenous harem. Bring on the Inquisition!!

Oh balls, okay, thank you. Shoulda signed up for a text alert.

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.

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.

Marines! OOH RAH! Full bayonet, too, man, what a show.

I weep for unloved manuals, languishing at retail stores, piled haphazardly and smash-stacked on top of each other with ripped sleeves, dog-eared corners, and no respect for the art.

No, you can play Tomb Raider in offline mode.

Use a controller, you'll be less frustrated, IMO. Or not. I enjoyed the cutscenes, mostly thanks to Camilla Luddington's impeccable voice.

Missed the low price for Far Cry, hopefully it gets pounded out onto a daily deal like Tomb Raider is now. It's hard work upgrading all my Xbox games.

In this summer of reversals, Square Enix just said they were wrong and will update the game.

^^ It says the PC would be 90% human ... I don't know what the proper ratio must be to qualify for cyborg-ness. The whole game concept sounds pretty solid, though, I like it. Well, except for the title. Who is Jason Schreier and how does he have access to design documents from inside Obsidian ...

I agree, this has turned into a top-shelf thread. Great to see interesting people behind the game I'm waiting desperately patiently for.

$17.49 on Amazon for the next three days, if you're a Yankee. I assume it's for a Steam download.

Just finished a novel by Alan Furst titled Dark Voyage ... historical fiction about a Dutch sailing captain in WW2. Well-written, but low on emotional payoff considering the setting and characters. Now I've gone back to the beginning of everything, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I'll never not enjoy getting to know Tas, and Raistlin, and everyone in the Dragonlance universe. I'm hoping Sony's teaser announcement today has something to do with Dragonlance, 'cause I am a well of enthusiasm for things that will never be:

There is no better title in the world than Nightmare Engineer.

I've always wanted to know how video game software uses the architecture of different hardware systems ... How Video Games Use Architecture

What the ... not in 600 hours have I seen that character. I just had to look her up on the wiki and now I'm gonna go find her in real life. Or, I mean, the game. How cool, thanks.

Indeed, now I feel encouraged to buy a 3DS XL.

^^ No, not a fact.

And paying the meter before getting to play anything. Evidently initial system startup requires a one-time credit card verification.

So I went to a home in Rancho Santa Fe, here in San Diego County, walked through the doorway, looked left and saw a gold flagpole trophy. Turns out, it belongs to a Giant named Aubrey Huff. I was suitably impressed to see it in person, as well as with Aubrey's personality--he gave me a fist-bump, and I'm a nobody.

Oh, yes, I see it now. I opted to add-on a black Obsidian T-shirt, instead of the expansion pack. Probably because I knew I could always download the latter, but may never get a chance to own the former. See ... forgetting things can be like a free bonus when you remember them!

^^ No, you didn't read what actually happened.

I second this request. Very well, thirded.