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You can also assume quite a few people are staying off the streets and in their homes. I thought the high society party was suitably populated.

I am making that into my desktop wallpaper Monte, too awesome.

Why? I don't know. I'm just the messenger. I reported it without comment because I really don't know what to say about it. I'm not too surprised. Or rather I've already been surprised at how marketable Minecraft has been, it's pretty much everywhere. So it is not shocking that they will try and cash in on a movie.

Huh, I bought an Alienware desktop about 6 years ago, and its run like a dream. Paid about $2,500 for it. The only thing I've done to it is upgrade the RAM and video card, and it still plays everything on the high settings. Granted I'd never pay that much again, it was kind of like buying a new car instead of used. It is nice to do it the one time, but financially it doesn't make much sense. How the heck do you spend $8k on a computer? Was it lined with gold?

Well if you count all the corpses, it's a decently populated city. I thought they did a pretty good job of portraying a city decimated by a plague.

Whenever I play basketball, people tell me to stick to hockey.

Hot damn this game sucked me in quick. I was all "Oh, I'll just play a bit and then set it aside for ESO this weekend." Now I'm up way past bedtime and itching to play more.

I'm not going to lie, I clicked on that a couple times expecting it to be a link to some man/machine lovin' action.

I've been playing Skyrim off and on, and I think the one really grating thing for me is the voice acting. I feel like there are three voices for everyone in the game, and they all sound like they are faking a deep voice. Thankfully ESO seems more varied in voices.

The Gilroy Garlic Festival is one of the largest food festivals in the country. Fun fact, my wife is a former Garlic Queen, her picture is up in The Stinking Rose. I actually miss the smell of garlic in the early morning air in Gilroy. I live in Morgan Hill now, which is famous for mushrooms, and that is not quite the aroma you want first thing in the morning.

Do tell, who is the real power-structure in the US? Special interest groups. Lobbies. The military-industrial complex. Banks. Peopel with lots of $$$ run the US in all but name. Presidents change, but they are all their b***es. What a revelation! People with lots of money run lots of things! You just listed a ton of different groups that all have different priorities, which basically supports an idea of a balanced power structure in the US.

The thing is you cannot selectively justify the encroachment on civil liberties. For all I know, Uganda is a tyranny in the same sense Germany is one, even if functionally they are not the same. You do need to pick your battles though, you can find civil rights issues everywhere. Nobody is saying that it is fine in one country but not another, it's simply a matter of time, resources, and prioritizing.

I know perfectly well why Uganda and Russia are being targeted now, I was pointing out that other places with worse, long standing laws, aren't. They're Low Hanging Fruit in terms of being something that is easy to get outraged about because it has zero practical impact on their life beyond the visceral thrill of moral outrage. The people calling for sanctions and boycotts over those two countries- and I can pull up recent threads on Russia very easily to prove the point- are going for an easy target because going after the hard and worse targets is, well, hard. Doing without vodka is a far, far different beast from doing without the oil you'd be missing if you went after the hard, worse, targets. I completely disagree. Arizona has been all over the news because they had passed discriminatory legislation. California was all over the news with Prop 8. It isn't about low hanging fruit, it's about responding to legislation. Russia got pressure because of laws passed recently, Uganda is getting the same.

what? Seconded. what?

Cook meth? ...Wait, are you a chemistry teacher, or...? I wish. I've been wracking my brain about how I can take my knowledge of history and use it to be the best at an illegal trade, but I've come up with nothing so far. The closest would be running for office, but I'm not sure I could stomach that. I do have a nice RV though.

Using a word like purge is typically the clue that a post is in jest. You don't always need to rely on smilies.

You know you miss the garlic.

I'm bummed that they didn't manage to do what they did with Deus Ex. But I wasn't that attached to the Thief series either.

Oh that is just the 10% deposit that will get me a cheap single family home. I might be able to qualify at 5%, or I might be able to find a decent foreclosure in the $300,000 range. But $40,000 is probably a pretty good guess at what I need.

I was very unimpressed by the videos I watched of ESO, but I actually thought it played better than it looked. That being said, it is still very much an Elder Scrolls game. I've never been that impressed by the combat animations.

I need to come up with a plan to raise $40,000 so I can buy a house, I'm tired of renting.

Bleh, it's still in SoCal.

Yeah, they are having an 'invite a friend' weekend, so I have an extra key as well. Anybody who wants to test it out, now is the time.

He said $6. I assume he was referring to the first game.

I don't speak much on how things work in Russia because I would be speaking from a place of ignorance. But I suppose everyone needs a hobby.