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It was that time of year again... (dramatic pause) People all over the country putting down there tools and stop working, gathering together in lunch rooms with their beer and snacks. Yes, it was the 156th Melbourne Cup. No, none of the horses I bought in the office sweepstake won anything. Ah well, next year is another race.

I think you nailed it right there: You weirdo, you...

They even know what individual Canadian provinces prefer... Canada Warning NSFW reading.

Made my way to Defiance bay and did a minor side quest picked up in the Inn. Then headed out and explore a bit more of the outdoors before exploring the city. Made a roundabout way over a wilderness area on the way to my keep (to spend my new coins on more upgrades). Ran into a sizeable group of "feral druids". Ouch. They didn't so much rain on my parade as carpet bomb the area with lightning and I was all out of lightning rods Good thing I got a save from just before that encounter.

I was robbed! My keep got attacked by a horde of skeletons led by some bonehead wizard. Winning by the skin of my teeth, the floor was littered with corpses and loot piles (enemy and friendly corpses) and what happens? Before I got a chance to loot the corpses after the fight, the game takes it upon itself to re-load the location and all the wonderful loot piles disappeared Picked up the arctic dwarf girl and companion and listened to her story. Interesting traditions they've got and quite funny reading in places

wait what Your decoding skills could use some work. I automatically read that as emaciated because given the context, that was the only word that worked. If you hadn't told you were a teacher, I think most people would have guessed by now

Of course I had to come down with something and only got hm df done on the weekend. I had some panadols but their best by date was 2014 and unsurprisingly didn't do bugger all. Ah well, will get hm dp done too.

One thing I noticed is, it will never show me a media if using https instead of http. Youtube videos are usually from a belgian domain if you use the share button (giving you something like https://youtu.be/blahblah (with the s in https that prevents it from actually showing)

Finally catching up a bit on ye olde achievement list. Did hm tfb and hm snv the last couple of days and hm df and hm dp planned for this weekend. Always wanted to do those at least once.

16 Personalities I think my current personality is still "Logician"

www.world-of-beercraft.com? True story: a Bing(e) search for www.hurlshot.com came up with a link to the www.beeradvocate.com

Disclaimer: I haven't played Pazaak since the Steam version of Kotor2 got released and I had to play it with the restoration mod, so it's been a while. It looks correct to me? That is of course only the value you are not allowed to exceed is 21. In which case 25 means you lose regardless of what the computer has. Of course, it the auto-lose threshold is 25 or higher, then the game is indeed cheating.

Riot police move in on N Dakota pipeline protesters I don't know about Americans, but I doubt Europeans are the only ones fed up with corporations controlling governments and not the other way around. Edit: Completely off topic, but kudos to the wallonians for poking the Eurocrat leeches in the eye with a stick.

For someone who used to profess undying hatred of MMO's and openly express contempt for swotor, I sure has been playing It (and paying it) for a long time In one of those chance encounters that sometimes happens, I met some new people who do raids regularly. Not a guild, just a group of regulars who gathers for HM ops runs and I got invited to join them. Done a few hm ops now and who knows, with a bit of luck I might actually get to work through my backlog of still to-do's (HM df/dp and Rav/Tos). Not ambitious enough to join them in their NiM runs, HM seems just about what this old brain can handle.

Bleh... here I thought it was about privatizing the Secret Service. I'm sure there are a number of domestic and foreign companies that could do it cheaper and more efficient

Ouch, that sucks. Little comfort that you would have beaten the game if it hadn't decided to cheat Played some more Pillars of Eternity. I'm now the master of a ruin and what I assume is my major domo handed me a long laundry list of repairs and bills to pay for said repairs. Needless to say, east barbican came first and reading through several items, I went for the main keep (trying to gauge how many addons has it as a pre-requisite). Also remembered there was something about a bear in a cave close to the starting point (mauled me badly when I first went there), so took my 5 man strong party and made a nice rug for a fireplace out of it. Picked up one of those nice little mini quests there too. Decided to just get as many coins out of it as possible. Yes, my first inclination was violent, but I figured the kill them all and let the gods sort them out might not works so well in this setting?

...and include a copy of the GNU/GPL license if you want it to be truly free.

Funny English aside, it's a fun game. I've been playing it on and off the last month. Usually in short sessions between other things I need to do. I might just have to get a controller for it though.

Not sure if it makes you feel any better, but the majority of the trash fights are scripted in a way that constantly forces you out of stealth. Can't have people skipping the trash now, can we? Which means as a stealth class you get none of the benefits of your ranged counterpart and none of the benefits of stealth

@Gromnir: Don't know about the burger, but I've yet to come across any sentient being that turns down the fries. Been handfeeding them to everything from Pelicans to giant Lizards and they just can't get enough of that junk. I'll probably get in trouble with PETA now... Edit: Actually, not sure if my examples qualifies as sentient beings, but lets just say I've yet to run across life forms turning them down.

No...

You may not have succeeded, but you gave it a serious try. In case the Universe dishes out Karma points, I would say you earned yours for good intentions backed up by action. Got my new fridge yesterday. One more thing off my chest. Still getting used to sleep on a mattress instead of the floor. Oh the luxury! Next up is a washing machine, should arrive next weekend. Then I just need that container load of stuff (living room, dining room, bedroom furniture etc.) in storage in Europe to get shipped down here. Need to save a bit longer for that.

*Sniff?*... *sniff!* *sniff!*... I smell an Eldar alt

Continuing my POE adventure. Located the blacksmiths wagon and killed the bandits, but failed to find the supplies. Will have to return a do a more thorough search later. Currently just started on Caed Nue. Picked up Kana the Bard Chanter and gave up making head or tail of the chant system. Maybe another nights sleep will help You know this feeling, just explore one more dark corner before resting, even if all your party members are below 50% health and Aloth all out of spells except 1 level two spell? Yeah, that's me. In the very last corner I ran into an oversized tarantula and my party wasn't doing well. My barbarian protagonist was down as was Durance, so as a desperate last ditch attempt at going down in flames, I sent Aloth up next to the spider and cast that bouncing fire thing of his. It worked wonders in that little enclosed corner, bouncing back and forth... back and forth... etc. wiping out the spider and the party minus Kana who had the good sense to sing something in the background. Met the guy I was supposed to meet and got some background info on souls and reincarnation ("awakening"), but not much insight into Watchers. Got a camp set up and prepared for the continuing journey... need to find a way further down and the force field door is still laughing at me.

If they ever start on a single player Pathfinder CRPG, I hope it meets a better fate than the Pathfinder MMO