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Thanks for the heads up. This makes me wanna continue this Canadian desolation bonanza some day. I just recall that I almost died to a wolf straight away, I had to bolt back into that car. It's really quite good. I'm playing on the easy difficulty, so wolves are pretty easy to scare away. But the narrative is very compelling. I'm in the town of Milton dealing with the first NPC I've met, and it seems like they've really created a good campaign to go with the survival sim aspect.

At first I was like, "How can they remake Mary Poppins?" and I went into the trailer super skeptical. By they end I was teary-eyed and giggly, so I think I'm on board.

Somehow I missed out on the fact that The Long Dark has a nice story campaign now. I'm playing through it and it is a really nice experience. I enjoyed it as a little survival sim back when I bought it, but having a reason to live is nice.

Not sure about Carr being 13 or 14. He had a down year last season, but he's still relatively young and has a pretty solid resume already. Most of the guys I'd rank ahead of him are in their mid-30's, so who knows what he will become in the next couple seasons? Yeah, I don't think Carr is the problem with the Raiders.

Got a pretty nice swim in this early AM after a fairly rough week of feeling worn out. Clearly I need to make sure I'm getting some recovery time in, since I've basically spent 9 months ramping up the exercise regimen. But it's nice to be able to lean on the swim when the biking and the running get tough. Also I've been working on the RV to get it read for another rental. I had to replace a leaky waste valve. I'm super excited I was able to do it myself, but it was also really gross and I was worried I got pink eye. It's working great now, so yay. I don't believe I will let anyone take it to Burning Man next year, but it was good money.

I think it's funny that you guys act like colleges haven't always been breeding grounds for strange social experiments. Terminology changes doesn't mean college campuses are much different than they were in the 60's. It's also good to keep some perspective. Even the most liberal college in the world, UC Berkeley, is still going to have a ton of students, departments, and professors working on more practical academics than these stories would have you believe.

Ok, I do think it is a bit silly to clap for myself, but airline pilots are in charge of a massive piece of metal filled with hundreds of people flying through the air at a high rate of speed. Every time they gently glide it down to the ground and we don't all die, they deserve some applause.

Which would be a reasonable assumption. I don't think anyone would have predicted how well The Witcher series has done. The first game had a troubled development and as using an already outdated Aurora engine. CD Projekt seems to be using real witchcraft.

I suppose I misspoke. Yes, it is more the Bay Area than California as a whole.

Luckily I don't really get many of them out here in California. Not ideal that we really only have one party in California, but it does keep the ads simple. I mean half of our election are between two democrats instead of one from each party.

I am soooo sunburned.

It's pretty funny to think that someone with more grand slam titles than any player in history is entitled. You don't need the 'en' there. She is fully titled.

I finished my first 70.3 Ironman today in Santa Cruz. It was a huge event, almost 2000 competitors and some of best pros in the country. I felt great on the swim. It is 1.2 miles around the pier and it was beautiful. I finished about 3 minutes faster than I expected. Then you run up the beach and it is about a half mile to the transition. I was pretty slow in the transition area, wanted to take my time to make sure I was warm and comfortable before hitting the bike. The first ten miles were chilly in fog, but then as we got further along, it warmed up. The climbs helped. I felt very good about my bike time, getting the 56 miles done in just under 3 hours. Again, beautiful ride along the coast. I got onto the run with a goal of keeping the half marathon under two hours. I started strong, but it got hard from about mile 3 until 9. Then it kicked in that I was going to make it, and I got faster enough to finish in 1:58. Total time was 5:49. I spent about an hour afterwards shaking and struggling with nausea, but a couple trips to the bathroom and some time made that go away. Now I'm sore and sunburned, but feeling pretty good about my race.

It isn't? I've never paid more than the initial cost of the game, and still play a round or two. My son plays it too.

This is remarkably optimistic of you. It's sports, don't expect people to be reasonable.

Not too surprising. I support the protest, but Kap himself isn't really some role model. He could find a job in football if he accepted backup pay, but he wants starter money. I am sure the protest is limiting his options, but his salary expectation is also a factor.

I'm guessing not too many Obama voters voted for Trump. Based on the numbers, it seems more like they simply didn't vote at all.

I think I got about a dozen hours into Amalur. It was kind of weird that when they went bankrupt, I was like, 'well no reason to get invested in this universe'.

Source? Google turns up nothing. Yeah, I tried to find it too. Doesn't sound like anything I remember being said.

Possibly the lowest bar in history.

Huh, thought that was one of the better things it had going. As an aside, apparently Salavatore didn't get paid for his work on the game. He was owed 2 million and they went belly up before that was paid. He decided not to sue. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/editorials/interviews/12450-Curt-Schilling-Did-Nothing-Wrong-at-38-Studios-Salvatore-Says Edit: I haven't read Salvatore in 20 years, but I remember his books being fun and easy adventures to read. Seems perfect for a video game writer.

Huh, well it was a neat universe, so I'd play another Amular game. As for the new Tolkien MMO, I won't hold my breath. LoTRO was released at the height of the MMO genre by a studio that was at the top of its game. I doubt a f2p attempt by an unknown studio in Hong Kong is going to get anywhere near the original. edit: Also must be cured, the TOR video did nothing for me.

EVE was doing ok under CCP in my opinion, maybe even because their monetasitation scheme, don't see need to change it The game was 15 years old, and they've failed to launch anything else of note during that time. My guess is their money is slowly running out and they needed to do something.

You guys are making me nervous. I'm biking up highway 1 this weekend, so let's hope this conversation isn't prophetic.

I've heard good things about Black Desert Online though. I didn't dig the style, but maybe they'll do right by EVE.