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Just because Bioware makes games you don't enjoy, doesn't mean they make terrible games. I don't have any interest in playing Call of Duty games, I tried a couple of them years ago and didn't find them enjoyable. I don't blame the company for that, and I don't feel the need to judge the games when they come out as terrible because they don't appeal to me. I am certainly not going to say they look terrible, because by all obvious accounts they are high quality products that looks great, run well, and meet the interests of a large audience. They clearly aren't crap games, just like DA:I is clearly not a crap game. So yeah, I'm going to belittle your opinion when it is not really based on evidence. The funny thing is I have plenty of complaints about DA:I, and I found DA2 barely tolerable.

Agreed, that is a little disappointing The game looks like crap, that's different from hating Bioware. Hardly, the game is graphically stunning. The waves on the Storm Coast are one of the most amazing visuals I've ever seen in a game. It's not rational to rate it that low. It is clearly guided by some misplaced emotional butthurt about Bioware. And really, that's fine, it's what I expect from RPGCodex, just like I expect the major publications to be way too flattering about it. In reality it's a decent RPG that lacks the imagination of games like Divinity, Shadowrun, and even NEO Scavenger.

Backed.

I forgot to pick up my sleeping bag a few times, it was frustrating and led to disaster. But hey, life is tough.

I enjoyed Neo Scavenger tremendously. Really I agree with the list as a whole, it's a pretty good indication how lucky we are with our RPG crop lately when the big AAA titles are way down the list. I'm curious about Heroine's Quest. I'm guessing it's not about finding drugs?

So I am exactly 10 years older than Woldan, fascinating. I wager I am healthier than he will be when he hits my age.

I'm looking forward to Woldan reaching the age of 30. Everything changes then. EVERYTHING.

Uh, the ball is in mid air at the end of that clip. He definitely bobbled it. That being said, he regained full control quickly and I still think the rule is stupid. Amazing catches should be encouraged, not overturned on every small movement of the ball.

I did just pay $65 for half a unit the other day, which seemed pricey. But hey, I'm only a half unit away from the final step on my salary schedule, so it will be worth it.

I sent that dirty rotten scoundrel a message as well.

While checking on this, I noticed that we have over 9,000 troops in Kuwait. Wow! We also have 11k in Italy.

Glad you are doing alright Ros, that is terribly scary stuff. Sending my best wishes to you.

I'm no expert on community colleges, other than poaching a few classes from them to round out my degree and credentials, I spent most of my time at a state university, and there is little similarity between K-12 public schools and them. I assume they all run like they do in the TV documentary Community. I do agree this is more of a PR stunt than anything substantial, they are already very affordable. As I said originally, I'll perk up when they figure out how to lower tuition at 4 year schools. In terms of quality, I have a ton of Community Colleges around me and they vary dramatically in what they offer. De Anza sits next to the Apple campus and is immensely popular and highly regarded, while a few are run down and shoddy. But with education I keep saying it is more what the student does with it than anything else. A motivated student can turn that community college experience into a marketable skillset, but a slacker is simply going to get a few more years of carrying around a backpack and playing hackey sack in a quad.

I remember the last textbook adoption I went through (10 years ago!) California could only get three publishers to meet their standards. So our choices were slim. We actually ended up going with a small publisher that was based in California instead of one of the other two big ones.

I remember being surprised that I liked the first film as much as I did. Not that it was awesome, but it was sorta cute in places and a bit less of that certain humor style I dislike than I thought it have. I never really watched the show (maybe saw a few episodes), but I remember when it was a thing ... all the ads, all the Depp swooning. But the first one was enough. Not interested in a 2nd movie. But this one brings back Richard Grieco!

I'd really like them to expand on the whole map, really. It's pretty small in scope.

I loved Banner Saga, but I do need to try Consortium.

Massive Chalice is pretty great. Not really much in terms of strategic fighting, but the lineage stuff is perfect. It does seem like a pretty small game in scope, I wonder if they will expand it?

It was so bad it got funny. Huh? Actually I do wonder if these movies would really have the same impact with people who didn't grow up watching the TV show. The best bits are the lampooning of the classic stuff from the show.

I finally broke down and bought a new laptop after fighting my old one for the last couple months. The power jack is not working well. I've replaced it once before, two years ago, and now it is bad again. I already opened it up to see if there was anything I could do, but it doesn't have any loose wires or anything obvious. Most likely the whole port needs to be replaced, and I'm not comfortable removing it and welding on a new one. I could take it back to a shop, but they'll charge me at least $100 for that. Given that it is already struggling to meet the requirements of new games, I figure it isn't worth putting more money into it. I got an MSI laptop that looks decent, has the GTX870M in it so it should get me through a few more years.

Please show me a textbook from the 50s that says Africa never had it's own civilizations. I've got an encyclopedia from the 50s sitting a room away that's got all sorts of information on African civilizations. Vals stop nitpicking, he isn't being literal I was being a bit glib, but I am curious what your encyclopedia says about Great Zimbabwe. I have a few older encyclopedias at work, I'll check them on Monday.

I'm pretty sure we have a racoon under the house too, he's been driving the dog nuts. I know we had a cat under there for awhile, and before that we had a short stay from a skunk. Yay for crawl spaces.

Wow, Africa not having their own civilizations is like something out of a textbook from the 50's. It's incredibly false.

22 Jump Street - I was laughing so hard I could hardly breathe. They somehow went above the hilarious original.

I just picked up Massive Chalice, it was 25% off on Steam. It sounds like a great concept, it will be interesting if they can pull it off. I'm still a bit sore about Spacebase, but I'll give Double Fine another chance since they've done some good stuff.