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Bleh, I got an email from my mother about our estrangement. Trying to figure out a way to respond. We are estranged because my family said terrible things about my wife, and yet she makes no mention of my wife in her email. Get a fricken clue.

I cook the bleu cheese inside the burger. Delicious.

Their cut scenes are cutting edge though, so it's not like they disregard graphics.

Huh, I figured this was just vaporware

I also don't cook meat all that often, and the gas grill is very easy to do veggies on. But yeah, I've heard that meat tastes better over charcoal.

I think mine is like a $500 version. I got it cheap off a friend for $100, and it has been well worth that. Not to knock charcoal, I'm just too lazy.

I love my gas grill. It's a pretty nice Weber, and it's so fast to heat up. It grills fairly evenly too, although one side is faster than the other. That works fine since I just put the veggies on the fast side and the meat on the slower side. It really makes BBQing quick.

Yeah I'm up to 36 and it has been flying by. Although apparently once you hit 50 you still level quite a bit, they just call them Veteran Ranks.

The Spurs as the White Walkers was inspired.

Law & Order: Red Streak Edition It does look very good.

Yeah I wouldn't try to cheat it, you don't want to do anything that might make you have to restart it. It is supposed to be a bit punitive, although as Labadal said, go do something else while it is running. I did it a few years back, it's better than the class, that's for sure.

Best walkup song ever?

Clearly we need to have a Crocodile Dundee thread about knife sizes.

Heh, you do reach an age where coasters are no longer fun.

It's just a label folks, it doesn't have to mean something bigger. My baseball game lets me play the role of a minor league ballplayer trying to break into the bigs, and it has an amazing amount of statistical detail and freedom of character. But we call it a sports game because that's the easy thing to do.

How many of those are just handling localization? It was something stated in a marketing presentation for investors, so I wouldn't read much into it. We've seen plenty of patchwork games in the past, but non of the AC games have seemed anything like that. The worst I ever saw was Everquest 2, they had like 4 different art teams and no real cohesion.

Most kids are smart enough to delineate between playful teasing and cruelty. Although everybody is different, I have students I know I can banter back and forth with and those I wouldn't dare. That one boy who started hitting and then chucked the water bottle at the parent would be in huge trouble, for example. It's an inappropriate reaction to the situation. It's also about establishing perspective. I don't want my children taking their hoard of candy too seriously. They are going to look back on their reaction and see that it was silly, that candy is not something you should become overly attached to. And again, it's about letting off some steam. My children torture me on a daily basis. They are wonderful and amazing, but they are also a huge pain in the rear. If I took this job seriously all the time, I would not survive it. This morning I asked my son if he wanted juice or chocolate milk, and he said juice. I went and made it. He took one sip, then handed it back to me and said he wanted a chocolate milk instead. I was exasperated, and he just shrugged and smiled. I go through things like that about a dozen times a day. It adds up.

If time means nothing, constructing infinite complexity would also mean nothing. At least I think so. Easy come, easy go, right. Yeah, let me just tell you that 7th graders have a ridiculous concept of time. If it didn't happen in the last month, it might as well have been forever ago.

I don't get how making children cry equals funny. Oh look, the kids are miserable and crying, ha ha. To me that's mean, not funny. Maybe I'm weird like that. It's probably more funny if you are a parent. Teasing your kids is a huge help in not going crazy, it's a tough job. For the most part, they deserve it. I think I'd feel worse if my kid was all ok about it. I get in trouble on a regular basis for eating my kids candy though. My wife and daughter have some pretty elaborate hiding spots.

It took me awhile, but I found it streaming on Hulu. I'm watching it now.

Heh, you more of just a relentless skeptic.

Nationality, political affiliation, and religion have nothing to do with how horrible this situation is, and we should all have great empathy for the girls and families involved. #bringbackourgirls applies to anyone who is not a monster.

Hah, that's awesome, we need to make sure everyone calls him Brayko when this game comes out. It looks like a cool setting, Far Cry 3 was pretty great, so I'll pick this one up.

Turns out the Americas were settled originally only once, through the northwest from Asia. There was some debate, but this is quite a discovery, particularly for those of us who were told unequivocally indigenous Americans originated from the east, specifically the Middle East, micro-specifically Israel. The foundation of mormonism rests entirely on this belief, that a small family sailed west across the Atlantic, a few thousand years ago, originally settling and populating the continent--including a westward migration to Polynesia. This was literally the Word of God, and therefore true. The church recently amended the implication by saying Native Americans are among the descendants of this family. But, of course, now we know they are not. They were never "they." The Nephites never existed, nor did the Lamanites. Gandalf is arguably more realistic than Nephi, sorry. Whoa, that's some crazy right there. I've never heard anything but the Asian land bridge explanation. Edit: This discovery sounds a lot like the plot of the Ice Age movies, they just need a mammoth in that cave and they have the whole cast.

Well, they got a nice narrator for the video. That being said, I'm still very skeptical of JA:Flashback. I kicked in $50 for the kickstarter, but my expectations are still low. Does it look horrible to anyone else? I know graphics aren't everything, but yeesh.