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  1. When I picked my kids up this morning from their moms', I found out my youngest had Hand, Foot & Mouth disease.

     

    I tend to at times wash my hand a lot. Unless I'm playing sports, I've got to wash them whenever they feel dirty. It's why I always wear doctors gloves when I'm working; even under my other work gloves. Otherwise I'd be in the washroom every 5 minutes washing my hands. I can be up to my elbows and beyond in oil and grease - that's fine. My hands - not so.

     

    I've always taken consolidation in the fact that at least I'm not as bad as Howie Mandel in that sense. However today, I'm getting kinda close.

  2. US spy agency takes sinister space octopus as mascot.

     

    http://rt.com/usa/nro-satellite-octopus-emblem-854/

    I assumed before opening it, that they took on Cthulhu. That looks like every over-the-top evil organization's logo in a movie. Blofeld and Dr. Evil would be proud. Well played supposed model of democracy!

     

    EDIT: Will their great-great-great grandchildren be hanging out in an oil rig?

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  3. When I went to school, it used to be:

    K-6: Elementary

    7-8: Jr. High

    9-OAC (13): High

    Plus, high school had Basic, General and Advanced classes.

     

    Now it's:

    JK (Junior Kindergarten)-7: Elementary

    8-12: High School

     

    They got rid of B/G/A for grade 9 students only(?) by the time I graduated and got my OAC's. I think they became Workplace, College, University (I'm probably wrong. They eventually became that anyways for all 4 HS grades.) Now apparently it's:

    Grade 9-10:

    Academic (D), Applied (P), Open (O)

    Grade 11-12:

    University Prep (U), University/College Prep (M), College Prep ©, Workplace Prep (E), Open (O).

     

    So what used to be ENG2A1 (Grade 10 advanced English - 1 credit) I now assume is ENG2D (they must have gotten rid of 2 credit courses, or they're coded differently. Who knows.)

     

    I assume the initial changes were done for the same reason why government imposes euphemistic language. This current system... I say go back to B/G/A.

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    http://gamingbolt.com/15-role-playing-games-to-look-forward-to-in-2014

     

    Take a look at this list for anticipated RPG's for 2014, wow if this list is accurate then we are REALLY going to spoilt for 2014 :dancing:

     

    I knew about most of them except Darkest Dungeon at the end, that does look interesting

     

    About time.  Because 2013 was utterly pathetic for RPGs.

     

    When I think about it, I think Shadowrun (and possibly Penny Arcade Rainslick 4) is the only one with a budget of more than a few hundred thousand dollars that I played this year.

     

    I'm looking at a list here of nominees for RPG of the Year: 3 are for the 3DS, and 1 is for the PS3. (Fire Emblem:A, Shin Megami 4, Mario & Luigi:DT and Tales of Xillia.)

     

    Wizardry Online, Neverwinter, FF14: Realm Reborn, expansions for SW:TOR and FF11. Solid on the MMO front.

     

    Gothic 4, Etrian Odyssey, Pokemon X/Y, Avadon 2, Aarklash... Man the list is short.

  5. http://www.nottinghampost.com/Warning-student-pays-pound-450-photo-Xbox/story-20263203-detail/story.html

     

     

    A TEENAGER has been left fuming after mistakenly buying a photo of an in-demand computer console online.

    Peter Clatworthy thought he had paid £450 for an XBox One console on eBay, but actually received a picture of one in the post.

    The 19-year-old student, of Bilborough, had saved up in order to buy a limited edition Day One version of the console as a surprise Christmas present for his four-year-old son, McKenzie.

    He has now contested the purchase with eBay, which has investigated and stated he should get a full refund from the seller.

     

    Funny too, guy is 19 and has a 4 year old son.

    Sadly, not that unusual. When my younger brother was in Jr. High when those schools still existed in Ontario, at some party a bunch of them got drunk and decided they would have sex. Something stupid like 4 girls got pregnant that night. My buddy ended up marrying one of 'em. When I was in Jr. high, I was happy with 2nd base.

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    What's up with these stupid Steam-only Humble Bundles? This latest one makes no sense to not offer a DRM-free copy.

     

    https://www.humblebundle.com/

    Several of them are Steam exclusive. Natural Selection won't even run without Steam, it requires the server browser to function.

     

    Surly they could get rid of the Steamworks for this. They can't be that exclusive if they're selling them outside of Steam's marketplace. Natural Selection I guess excluded.

     

    The trouble I'm seeing is, is that getting into a Humble Bundle used to mean offering up a DRM-free version. Some games were for DRM-free for the first time because of it. Someone else pointed out that they used to also have to offer it in multiple platforms. Not anymore. They're turning into just another Steam bundler.

     

    Oh well. More money not spent.

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    And it's finally made its goal! 3rd times a charm!

    (Bloom)

     

    Just the second try, IIRC...

     

    The first time they tried to raise $150K. That was a year ago. It had a few pieces of artwork, 2 very early concept screenshots and no traction and only raised $6,571.

    Then they put some more work into it and had the much better second attempt with a much smaller goal.

    And now it's their 3rd go around.

  8. I love crafting. It's why I had so many toons in WOW when I played it (gear on demand), and why I backed Balrum.

     

    I'm subscribing for the first month, because I bought the discs and they came with a month. Figured that when I'm done here, I could come back to Preferred. For now I'm Art/Arch/Slicing (for the creds - that will be the one I drop when I go down to 2 with preferred.)

     

    I would hate to do flashpoints, because quite frankly, I know I would suck at it at this point. I'd rather just do runs. Quite frankly I would need to mod my quickbar to have 1 visible at all times for attacking, and one for healing. For flashpoints I'd stick to healing, but even then, I don't have the technique down yet, and I'm so used to what I have now, that I would have to retrain myself. 9-8-4-3-8-4-3-8-4-3... with barriers and shields thrown in. Electrocute for the tougher enemies, and the occasional Overload if they get in close.

     

    I decided to take a quick break to go to the auction house, and load up on current level gear for me and A.Revel. Khem has lv 33 gear waiting for him. I'd rather have the tank, plus I can talk more Sithy.

     

    Man, I wish you didn't have to go to the trainer to level up your skills at a new level; just to learn new ones.

  9. The thing about this 2X XP thing is, my gear sucks for my level. My Sith was getting murdered by the Republics on Nar Shadda, despite at the time only a level or 2 difference.

     

    Oh yeah, my friend who hates playing thieves decided he didn't care for the smuggler anymore. At least my sorcerer is more fun to play than my tank knight. Maybe if my Sith was set up under the lightning tree instead of as a healer, I could have done enough damage to negate the difference. Right now I'm starting to get some Tatooine gear. Still well below my level 31. I've got a few Orange items, so they're more or less okay because I've been working on my Artifice training.

     

    I've only done the first Sith flashpoint so far. It was okay.

  10. I broke down and got it.

     

    Yep, it wants to run Steam inside of Uplay. Atleast I've got an extra NV Steam code to give to someone, and I'm only down $5.65.

     

    That sucks. I was hoping for a Steam-free copy.

  11. Ubisoft can be pricks about making sure you are in the right country for buying stuff. That link might only work in Canada.

     

    I know if you buy Ubi games in Steam, you have to run Uplay inside of Steam. I didn't know since Bethesda doesn't have it's own DRM client (hopefully ever) but Steamworks was added to New Vegas from launch (and who knows what they've done with FO3 since what's been going on with GFWL) if they kept it in there or not for the Uplay version.

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