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After watching the Sharks last night, I found myself wishing the lockout had not ended.

Can we go outside now? That's really all I want out of that game, a frickin' sky.

Played an MMO called Age of Wushu. Looks interesting, it was recommended by a friend. It's pretty dang complicated, but I'll give it a bit more time. I think it is still in beta, I'm playing for free now.

Men in Black 3 - I watched it in the RV with my kids crawling all over me, but I thought it had some great moments. It was a very good addition to the franchise. Lockout - Think Escape from New York but on a space station. Guy Pearce was pretty entertaining. Not a great film but a pretty watchable B action movie.

The bigger concern is how alcohol and tobacco negatively affect those who come in contact with you. But the warning labels don't really help with that.

I've never understood the need for your games to last forever. The way technology moves, most of my old crap is simply that, crap. The good stuff tends to be preserved by people and made playable on new devices.

Really? I thought it was a solid addition to the universe. Jason's story is clearly finished, so it is good to move on and Jeremy Renner is a compelling choice. I thought it was incomplete, as in the ending left too many things undone, but I assume that will be addressed in future films.

Equal but different sounds a heck of a lot like segregation. With that type of approach we'd still have separate bathrooms and schools for white people and 'colored'. Many of you want to get government out of marriage altogether. I can agree to that. There really isn't a strong movement to do this though, so it's a bit unrealistic to keep bringing it up unless you folks want to get involved in politics and start campaigning for it. Also, the government does make revenue off these things, and I think a lot of you are overestimating what the tax benefits are. So in essence it may impact your personal taxes in a negative way.

You know the Catholic church is pretty strict about not marrying people that haven't undergone certain parts of the catholic faith, so I'm pretty sure a church would win a legal battle if a gay couple tried to force them to perform a marriage. Also that Ocean Grove situation isn't about whether the church should be compelled to run the ceremony. They had a piece of property that they rented out to couples for weddings. Unless they had already established a situation where only members of their parish can be married at that location, it would be discrimination to target a couple specifically for being gay. It's all about the way the church approaches things. If a church has a playground, and they tell my child they are not allowed to play there because it is private property and only open to parishioners, that is legal. If they tell me my child cannot play there because they are black, that is discrimination.

I thought LoF was amazing. The new guy is just lazy.

I did a tour at a Budweiser plant today and they talked about prohibition for awhile. So even though the skull and crossbones might seem silly or downright intrusive, it could be a heck of a lot worse!

Guys, we need to pace ourselves. We had this debate a month ago, you are supposed to wait at least 6 months before starting anew.

Given that there is evidence that suggests the used games market actually supports the new games market, I doubt MS/Sony will come out against it in this generation.

We are kind of reaching the point of diminishing returns too. Crysis still looks fantastic today, that's why Crysis 3 doesn't look that much better.

HAHAHAHAHAHAOh, you. *fey handswipe* Sorry but the truth is PC graphics are indeed being held back by current gen consoles. It is why Crysis 3 looks no better than Crysis 1 (which is a 6 year old game now) because they wanted to make sure they can port it to 360 and PS3 easily. When devs forget about PS3 and 360 and start focusing on PS4 and 720, the standard goes up for PC as well, and we will leave this 7 year limbo that saw no substantial visual improvements in games since 2006 Thank goodness for that, my PC is 5 years old and can still run everything that comes out today pretty well. In the past that would not be the case.

Oh, so he much worse (in the eyes of the law) than someone has manslaughter and rape a hobby of theirs? No wonder people lack confidence in their governments. You are comparing bad apples to bad oranges.

Yeah, and why is he in this thread? Did he hack into businesses to leak the information about the consoles? If he did, I have no sympathy for him. That's highly illegal for good reason.

Ok, so my RV trip didn't quite go as well as expected. We hit about 2,000 feet and encountered a heck of a snow storm. We pulled off and bought chains, we only had about 20 miles to go to reach our park. We put on the chains, but on the freeway one of them snapped off. I pulled over on the shoulder, but from there I got stuck and started sliding towards the guard rail whenever I accelerated. We called the highway patrol and my insurance company, and they said it was going to take 4 hours to get to us because of all the accidents on the roads from the storm. We were not in a good spot, someone could slide and hit us easily, so we were not happy. Thankfully a tow truck came by after about 30 minutes and pulled us out of the snow. We were able to get off the freeway and wait out the storm. Rather than pushing on, we headed back down the hill to a nearby park and now we are resting comfortably. Phew!

That might be where the failure of Colonial Marines benefits us, as it would drive the price down of the material. But unfortunately I think the Aliens property is still too massive to go cheap enough to make it worth it for Obsidian.

The nice thing would be if they could release the property and resources and let Obsidian finish it independently. Sega is probably focused on the new consoles and isn't going to put resources into an older project which still needs considerable work. Plus I'm sure the lousy reviews aren't endearing them to the franchise anyways. Obsidian, on the other hand, could probably crowdfund enough to get it finished and out the door on the PC.

Heading out in the RV today for a couple days near the snow. I'm a bit nervous, I've never taken the RV to the snow, but we are only supposed to get about half a foot so it should be fine.

Played a game of FTL, and my crew suffocated to death while trying to fix the O2 system. Lovely.

So I'm a big fan of their comics, but I watched the cartoons, and they just didn't do it for me. Some stuff just doesn't need to cross over.

It's kind of a Navy tribute film, so if you like the Navy then it is definitely worth a watch.

Battleship - More fun than I expected. It was silly, but the cast seemed to be having a good time, and there was some cool ship stuff. I went in expecting little and that's what I got, just a fun action flick.