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I'm not a huge fan of crab (although I would probably dig it in curry) but my wife loves the stuff. If we go to a crab place, I usually get up and take the kids away for awhile so she can just enjoy cracking shells and removing the meat. It takes forever, and I don't think she is eating all that much for the work she does to get at it, but whatever makes her happy.

Fantastic comparison!

Actually I didn't think about it from the safe sex angle at all, I'm glad you pointed it out! I am pretty naive about this stuff.

Eh, I think Calax is already too far gone. He might as well learn from a master like Wals if he is going down the crazy path

Uh, that seems pretty reasonable. I doubt that is their only evidence, but I don't think I know any woman that carries around a bunch of condoms. Of course maybe I'm just not meeting the right girls

It's by the Blood Bowl creator, so it might not be a total disaster. Apparently there is an RPG in the works too.

I've gotten a few cool CE's over the years, GTA4 came with a functioning lockbox, Saint's Row 2 had a tin box with some decent swag, my WoW and LotRO boxes look good on a book shelf. But they used to be just a bit of extra swag, now they are getting insane, and I get the feeling that they are really trying to milk as much profit as they can here. It used to be more of a nice thing for really big fans who wanted to put in a little bit extra.

I miss the days when CE's were $10-$20 more. I can't believe I got a lunchbox and a bobble head for Fallout 3 and it only cost an extra $10. It's getting insane. Also, the extra digital content is ridiculous. I'm already paying to play the game, we have a set price point for those digital goods, don't try and sell me an extra fake weapon or fake hat for more money.

I'm up to level 27 in Age of Conan. I'm still struggling a bit with my character build and skills, but I don't feel completely helpless out there. Although it really requires some concentration to not get torn up when fighting more than one mob. Most MMO's are pretty slow, meaning if my kids are distracting me and I get attacked, I have time to saunter back to the computer and get going. in AoC is I don't start out well I'm dead. I haven't actually gone through the Great Wall, I'm just doing stuff on the outskirts.

It sounds like Russia lost an entire KHL team and staff in a plane crash. It's been a horrible summer for hockey players.

Or you knock out some old lady in the mall, and buy it with money from her purse. Now now that would be illegal, don't you think? No, it's ok because she wasn't going to spend that money anyway, so it's not a lost sale or something. So, it's perfectly ok as long as you don't talk to steam support about it? Kind of like mugging the old lady is ok if you don't get caught? :D No no no, you just make sure you don't mug the same lady twice. You also need to make sure no one else mugs her. Maybe you can take her home and put her on a shelf, that will keep it legal.

Yeah, I increasingly feel like that, too, but if i feel like playing the game multiple times, I'll generally start bumping the difficulty. I switched a few years back to easy and I find I finish a lot more games now. I just don't have the time to grind through the hard parts of games and get better at them. I play for the story, and once it stops moving, I go on to the next game.

Yeah, that really isn't trading. It's gift exchanging.

Morgoth is negative about everything, so his comment is actually a badge of honor.

You probably have a lot of RAM. Mine were fairly annoying on the PC.

Or you knock out some old lady in the mall, and buy it with money from her purse. Now now that would be illegal, don't you think? No, it's ok because she wasn't going to spend that money anyway, so it's not a lost sale or something.

Are you playing AA on easy? I play everything on easy now, I'm too old and crotchety to worry about being challenged enough.

After finishing Deus Ex, I got back into Age of Conan. This game is unbelievable looking. It might beone of the best looking games I've ever played, and for an MMO that is really saying something. I've reached the lands of the Kithai, which is basically China. They have a Great Wall and I'm doing quests for a bunch of Mongols at this point. They have other names, but all the areas are pretty much based on real stuff. I just left Egypt, which was pretty amazing as well. My character was a level 21 Aquilonian Conquerer I made back when the game came out 3 years ago. I played around with some new characters until I remembered how to play, and then started in on him again. He's up to level 25 now, it seems to have a pretty quick leveling pace. I'm still a bit confused about some of my abilities, but it's coming to me. The gameplay is pretty quick and definitely requires a bit of concentration, which is a change from most MMO's.

I enjoyed the Panchea section, I thought it was suitably creepy at first. The zombies were pretty easy to get around too.

That's good to hear GD, and fantastic news about Tarna. It was a pretty good Labor Day weekend. Saturday my wife and I went out with another couple, and we ended up at a bar with over 100 beers on tap, it was awesome. Then yesterday I played a round of golf with my dad, and today I went on a bike ride and had a nice brunch with some friends. I also ran a ton of errands with the extra day off, so I'm feeling good about starting the work week.

I just had a brief twinge of concern that Volourn hasn't been posting in awhile. Weird.

That wouldn't even cover the cost of the trailers. It would be a huge failure if the game doesn't do really really well, especially if their decide to build a franchise on the IP is true. I doubt they are counting the Steam numbers in those figures, and I think that is a large chunk of PC sales at this point.

See, I negated that entire thing and got him with the typhoon. I can't believe everyone didn't see the a mile off. You know, I saw it, but I decided to do it anyways. It still worked out, made for an interesting fight. Same here actually. It was one of those things that I knew was going to come back and bite me in the ass later, but I still did it just to see what would happen. Boss fight was trivial. I stunlocked the boss in his little corner with frag mines. Took about 4 or 5 before he went down for good. See, I think we are just used to doing stupid things in games to further the plot. It happens all the time in other games. Heck, it happens in the cut scenes in Deus Ex. Sure, my alarm bells went off when it was put in my quest log, but the shiny arrow was pointing at that LIMB clinic and I can't just ignore that.

See, I negated that entire thing and got him with the typhoon. I can't believe everyone didn't see the a mile off. You know, I saw it, but I decided to do it anyways. It still worked out, made for an interesting fight.

For the boss where your brain is scrambled, I just unloaded with a huge laser for awhile. He was still a pain though. I think I'm close to the end of the game.