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I guess you could instance each combat encounter, like they do with conversations in most MMO's.

I wonder how much that makes up for the epic failure of Russia not even making the semis on home soil in the Olympics? Pretty much not at all, since no one really pays attention to it. Most of the NHL caliber players that even show up are young guys whose teams didn't make the playoffs.

Saw the latest Xmen movie, it was a fun mix of the old with the new. Also a pretty crazy storyline, they really are having fun with the 70's in this one. It could be titled: X-Men: Mad Men Edition or X-Men: White House Down or Oliver Stone's X-Men

Why are you asking here? Oddly enough, I bet someone will have an answer.

The hardest part of teaching is when I have to poop, and I have to wait for the bell to ring so I can go.

My 3 year old son clears levels on Skylanders Giants, so it's definitely not the most challenging game. :D It's a fantastic technology, the idea that you have these figurines and you can then portal them into the game really captures the imagination. I steer them away from the Disney Infinity stuff, I'm sure they are fine, but they aren't the originals and I'm not going to buy two different systems.

You must live in a frightful place.

I've discovered Veronica Mars on Amazon Prime, and it is fantastic. I'm almost done with the first season.

The A's rarely get any attention, but at least they've got a great movie about their GM.

The Taliban are a shadow of what they once were.

Awareness is a pretty important step in rooting out any extremist groups, so I don't really get the cynicism. Boko Haram was hardly on the mainstream radar before all this went down. Now they are likely going to face immense pressure from many different organizations, and their days are pretty much numbered. Let's not forget that the Taliban spent 5 years doing terrible things in Afghanistan before it became a big deal, but once it became an international issue they were out of power relatively quickly, and they now struggle for legitimacy. Al Qaeda has an even bleaker story, these groups aren't growing stronger under international attention. Boko Haram is the new big thing and it will end badly for them.

Thanks guys. I did try to stay calm and cool as Raithe said, and I decided to call because email is a terrible way to communicate this stuff. It didn't go particularly well. One of the reasons she is emailing me now is because an old friend of mine is getting married, and they were invited. I'm in the wedding party, so of course my wife and I will be attending. As the conversation took a turn for the worse, my mother said "well maybe we just shouldn't go to the wedding" and I may have answered with "Yeah, I was surprised you were going." She hung up shortly thereafter. Anyways I'll try to apologize in an email and see where that goes.

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.