Hurlshort

I'm not sure if my ideal woman would really have a big tattoo on her face.

After trying to work through a new campaign, I've decided I am going to just rewind my original game to the Landsmeet, save Loghain, and then let him kill the dragon. Bit shorter than replaying, and it will let me use my warden for the expansion.

Your best bet is to expect a sequel to DX2, which was a fairly average game. That way you have a slight chance of being blown away, and a lot less chance of disappointment.

I think the suspension is about right. It wasn't a particularly bad hit, but guys need to be more careful around the boards. About a week ago another player got a 3 game suspension for a very similar hit, so they are being consistent whether it is a superstar or a grinder.

As a long term investment, possibly. You are going to have to put some money into it and then wait and hope the area recovers a little bit. It is like buying those empty lots out in Nevada, sure they might turn into something someday, but it's a gamble. This has a better chance of becoming a decent property, given that there is infrastructure already, but there are more costs involved. What they need is some company to come in and buy up a bunch of land for a factory or something, then that will create jobs, which will create a need for the homes and everything else. But that may be 5, 10, 20 years away. Maybe it can be marketed as some modern age Ghost Town, and tourism will drive up the property values.

Blizzard did the same thing with Starcraft: Ghost. They just don't want to release anything that isn't going to be huge.

Actually there are probably just a bunch of other costs, the ten bucks is just covering the change of ownership. The amount you would be paying in property taxes and everything else would not cover what you might salvage from the house itself. These houses are likely already fairly stripped down, as well.

I'm thinking about picking it up, the reviews have been solid and I enjoyed the demo of the first one.

I've been trying a second play through of Dragon Age, but it's just too combat heavy. I'm barely through the intro and I'm already dreading the grind.

You're playing with a broken leg? The bone has healed at this point. The Xray is pretty wicked, in between the tibula and fibula is a huge metal rod from my knee to my ankle, with screws holding it in place. Here's an example I fond online, it looks a lot like this, except the breaks have healed: They can take the rod out in a few months, apparently it's only about a two week recovery for that. The biggest problem is my muscles atrophied in my left leg, and my ankle still has some swelling and circulation problems. I can't run yet, but skating is actually low impact (unless I hit the boards again) so it isn't too uncomfortable. I just won't be able to pivot or pull up on my left leg fully, it's at about 75%.

If there was going to be a fight between the sequel to WoW and Modern Warfare 3, I'd put my money on MW3.

I'm pretty excited for the weekend, I get to play my first Hockey game since breaking my leg on Sunday. I'm still not 100%, but I can hang back and play defense well enough to help my team. They've lost seven games straight since I went down, so I definitely can't hurt them too much.

The big issue I had with Waterworld was I went in with high expectations. It was supposed to be an epic and he spent a ton of money on it. I saw it in the theatre on opening weekend and it disappointed me. Now I catch it on TV every once in awhile and it is pretty watch-able. So I'd say expectations play a big part. The Postman is the opposite for me, I had no expectations going into the first viewing of that one, and I found it wonderfully entertaining. In fact it is high up on my Post Apoc. movie list, probably in the top 3.

Is that the new trend? To be honest, I thought we were in the 'bash MW2' stage, but perhaps we've moved on with the recent FF release. Isn't it almost 'bash ME2' time though? It's been a couple months since release.

Bashing WoW is so 2 years ago, Purkake. Get with the times!

If you are concerned about immersion, maybe you should make the logical choice and not take a Geth into the Citadel in the first place. You are the one making the dumb choice there, don't blame the developers for not being able to create new content for every lamebrain scenario.

Yes, but MW2 sold a huge amount based on the merits of the original MW.

I'm fairly excited about the Giants this season. Hopefully they will be able to come up with a bit more power to go along with the stellar pitching. I also think the Dodgers might take a step back, which will give them a better chance at the division.

I believe my favorite one was FFIV on the SNES. It's been a long time. I think you start in a mine, and there is an Opera at one point. It was pretty epic.

I really enjoyed Fallout 3 as well. In fact, when it was released, most of the regulars here were very happy with how it turned out. Over time some have become bitter, and then there are the new folks that came over with the FO:NV announcement. Pretty standard reaction to anything that is popular. Next up on the cool to bash list is Avatar.

That's a bit harsh. It is a very strong multiplayer shooter that has introduced a leveling system to keep people interested longer than a few rounds. It might not be the best shooter out there, but it was the first to really capture the treadmill design of an MMO in a FPS game, and they reaped the rewards from that.

Thanks to JA2, the Dragunov is easily my favorite gun ever.

I thought the scanning game was meh. It was fairly fast to build up enough resources to get the main upgrades, so I don't see why there is much fuss about it. The Mako took a lot more time, although there were some cool Mako moments, where the scanner is never really exciting.

Did you happen to read that in "A History of Warfare" by John Keegan?

Think not? The Kelo case it was litigated for five years before the court awarded the property to the city. During the time the city was injoined from developing the property, the houses still stood, the people still lived in them. After the decision the City evicted the people, bulldozed the houses and then sued to homeowners for five years of back rent. Not only did they lose everything, they founf themselves tens of thousands of dallars in debt, to say nothing of swamped in legal bills from the fight. Some mercy huh. You ever had to deal with the IRS Hurlie? You are utterly at their mercy and you would find their mercy lacking. Right now out in Wyoming and Colorado the US Government is using Emminent Domain to seize privately owned ranchlands and add to a federal WMA. I am watching that one very closely because my home borders the Anderson Tully WMA on the entire southern property line. If they try to seize my home they had best be prepared to kill me for it. Because, by God in heaven, I will fight to keep it. Oh, you never should fight to keep the land, that will almost always be a loss. You can fight to get a decent value for the property, however.