Gromnir

Might be a bit upsetting for the kid, no ? The kid was 19, I believe. Maybe a bit traumatic, but I'm sure the kid realizes his dad died doing something he loved. not to be too grim, but alan didn't die playing hockey. he died o' a heart attack. weren't as if he were skating and sudden dropped dead with a smile on his face. likely fell to ice clutching chest or arm. unable to breathe. confused and in pain. bystanders feel most helpless as the heart attack victim grimaces and moans and desperate grasps for help which will not come in time. if we were to die o' a heart attack, we wouldn't want family or friends 'round who would likely second guess themselves for not recognizing signs or failing to get help. have watched the final moments o' a heart attack victim... twice. violent. desperate. fearful. am s'posing there is folks who can die o' a massive heart attack like in movies where they just kinda slump to the ground and exhale one final painless breathe. such gentle passings ain't in our experience. now the linda mccartney death sounds a bit more peaceful. she rides horse with family and then s'posed dies... of cancer. got somebody with stage iv cancer who is nevertheless able to enjoy a horse ride is unlikely to die from cancer on the same day. maybe had some assistance getting past the ultimate threshold? even so, sounds relative nice even if a bit contrived. HA! Good Fun!

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am not sure why one would use children's cartoons to highlight ridiculous story. stories used in kids cartoons is frequent better than adult fare, particular in fantasy and scifi context. write for kids means you can't use anime inspired wacky plot nonsense to compensate for poor developed characters. can't trick a kid with fake depth or kewl concept. we will gladly hold up the hobbit, spirited away, the last unicorn, song of the sea and the phantom tollbooth (and a host o' other kids fare) 'gainst storytelling in so-called adult offerings. heck, virtual the entire chuck jones catalog is pretty much a slap in the face to those who would discount kid's cartoons. HA! Good Fun!

so is it ernest borgnine viking or vladimir kulich viking? HA! Good Fun!

has actual been a couple, though call such stuff "scandal" is always debatable. nevertheless, to prevent it from being forgotten, we will once again reference the misadventure regarding josh's wotc criticism. a failed attempt to adopt the monte cook ranger for iwd2 had josh in full vitriol ie message board posting mode. funny stuff. josh were mighty upset with wotc hypocrisy and irrationality. unfortunate, the josh posts were quickly erased. after the board were sanitized, we had folks higher up the ie food chain actual trying to tell us that no such posts ever existed, which were mighty amusing for those o' us who actual read 'em before the board edit. luckily (for josh) the monte cook ranger meltdown happened 'fore the advent o' social media. HA! Good Fun!

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congrats. what does one eat to celebrate us citizenship? barbecue? cheeseburgers, fried chicken and blueberry pie? had a russian friend o' ours from the gym we frequent pass his uscis civics test last year. he bet us $100 we couldn't pass one o' his practice exams. have known the guy for a couple years, but we never mentioned our real job. didn't take his money as it felt like we were conning him. HA! Good Fun! ps in the spirit o' full disclosure, Gromnir typical tells folks we is in "waste management" when asked what we do for a living.

hope you feel better. as an aside... http://www.healthtalk.umn.edu/2013/01/24/stomach-flu-myth/ HA! Good Fun!

no, which is why bt is better than esseles, but our three main on harbinger is pub. got a jugg, powertech and sniper we will eventually get to, but at the moment am kinda locked in on our guardian... and to a lesser degree, our vanguard and sage. still, we feel as if we is leaving +100 cxp and a refined isotope on the ground every time we pass the bonus boss, a boss which we cannot access without a second player simultaneous triggering a console. oh well. HA! Good Fun!

we got quibbles with the story o' kotet, and vaylin in particular, but we enjoyed the story from this most recent expansion more than perhaps any insular tor story thus far. also, while we do not believe bioware necessarily succeeded with all the pilot-a-walker and infiltrate-the-party alternatives to the usual tor gameplay, we gotta give'em credit for doing reasonable well with the new approaches to content. as for bt and esseles companion influence runs, am not surprised 'bout vette or the dashade, but am admitting we were mighty disappointed when we realized our knight, our first kotfe character, couldn't take kotfe t-7 through esseles for influence gains. found out the hard way regarding the limitation o' bt/esseles influence farming-- only works on the starting class companion, and has gotta be done previous to starting kotfe chap 1. still haven't taken an inquisitor, smuggler or bounty hunter through kotfe precise 'cause we spent so much effort getting starting companions to influence 50. HA! Good Fun! ps am also not a fan o' how our light-side guardian finished things with scorpio. gonna need run through with a ds character and see if things end a bit different. 'course all our tor efforts is focused on our guardian's command ranks at the moment... though we got a neck-deep stack o' games we has been meaning to get to, and with the battletech beta just 'round the corner, and possible the torment release not too remote, am plagued by difficult choices.

rank 25 and still not set bonus. on the positive side, we got a couple 230 schematics and they is proving to be extreme lucrative. after all the esseles runs, we get loads o' the refined isotope stabilizer. with right crafting choices, Gromnir is receiving 'bout 1 million per isotope stabilizer. HA! Good Fun!

standing on fleet also kinda spoils it as you can't turn around w/o bumping into a clay-faced arcann. the companion-who-will-not-be-named has a war cry o' "ready to fight." to which we reflexive respond: "boom boom. out go the lights." is mildly annoying. HA! Good Fun!

the only counter argument we would offer to plausibility o' plot is a rogue russian military operation woulda' seemed less far-fetched to a movie audience in 1995. there were more than one movie which played on widespread fears o' chaos in russia and the former soviet union during the early-to-mid 90s. at least one o' the bond movies had some kinda failure of russian military command and control, yes? oh, and just 'cause HA! Good Fun! ps added a second video.

mirror is smart? so it tells her she most certainly does not look fat in those jeans and that yes, her favorite dress from college still looks Fabulous on her? perhaps give it a harvey fierstein accent? HA! Good Fun!

round 7? the sith guy and the female melee combatant who rages once the sith dies? raven and nocturne... or somesuch? we can do it with a burst sage in 208 gear, but our comp is 50 influence. qyzen. can't do it with a heals comp. have to make our comp do damage for his role. we also do damage and kinda spot heal and make liberal use o' the heal pylons. key for us is killing the sith asap and making sure the one controller bot dies instantly when the bots spawn. otherwise, it is a matter o' staying focused on where the melee girl is in relation to the sith. gotta make sure those stun circles pop up between darth and her. burst sage in 216 or better with pretty much all alacrity enhancements is how we were rolling right 'fore 5.0. haven't tried since the expansion. (edit: is actual a smidge easier for us to do as a heal sage for eternal championship and switch our companions 'tween tank and damage.) for Gromnir, the final battle with zoltar results in the most frequent deaths, but only cause t-7/aric jorgan is our typical companion(s) for our knight/trooper characters... level 50 influence from grinding esseles. the entire battle is relative ez, save for the end and only 'cause ranged healers need be teased back into the center o' the arena every time the boss knocks 'em back into the electric field o' death. zoltar is a battle where we need a melee range healer who we can have attack the boss so as to stay in the center o' the arena. we use blizz on more than a few characters, but as he is ranged, he tends to get dead too frequent. oh, and not that anybody cares, but am rank 18 for command thingie and still not set bonus piece. we do have one purple 230 implant, and two pieces o' moddable blue 230 gear. regardless, is gonna be a slow grind. we like doing esseles runs for the refined isotope drops and the speed with which we can finish solo, but is soul numbing and we can't do more than 'bout three or four runs in a row without going robin williams nightmare mode HA! Good Fun!

am admitting that we haven't been grinding all that hard, but am at command rank 12 and we ain't even got a single piece o' gear with a set bonus. two pieces o' blue 230, a bunch o' green 228 (which is worse than our current gear) and then scrap and schematics and ugly shells. am knowing rng can be a fickle mistress, but this is exact why we don't bother with those cartel market crates. the grind is bad enough, but when rng is working 'gainst us, it makes things double frustrating. HA! Good Fun! ps am gonna go crafting route and not sweat the 230 stuff, but is gonna kinda suck if we gotta fight rng all the way to command rank 300.

wine tasters with more expertise tend to take more time than does the n00b. the practiced wine taster realizes a fine vintage will often bloom on the palate whereas the weekend wine aficionado who hits a half dozen napa wineries on a weekend will gargle and spit... or maybe not spit. regardless, is not analogous. saw the opening credits o' a movie and realized it weren't your thing 'cause you is a seasoned film critic? yeah, am baffled by the folks who claim you need play an entire game before judging. is asinine to invest hours, or dozens of hours, into a pursuit one is clear not enjoying. that being said, tutorials is often providing near 0 useful gameplay from which to judge a game. many good games with rudimentary or terrible tutorials. 'course if issues is controls and interface, then tutorial is likely more than enough from which to judge. regardless, a real wine-taster would gargle and spit 'pon gorgon for his temerity. HA! Good Fun!

is kinda on the cheap end, and is maybe too small, but looks ez to clean. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00NQ7QFGM?ref=emc_b_5_t 'cause all women love getting kitchen appliances and deep-fried food. ... maybe this is why Gromnir is still single. HA! Good Fun!

*sigh* black talon tactical is, once again, gonna be our grind. get something close to 700 cxp in 20 minutes and can be done solo and need not wait for uprisings. have had terrible luck with crates thus far, but have only reached rank 7 with limited play. a significant portion o' time on-server were nothing other than giving gifts to the new comp on two characters. we kinda hate bt and esseles, but bt, in particular, looks like a good option for pre rank 31 cxp. rush through and kill as little as possible other than champs and bosses. 1800(esseles) to 2100 (bt) cxp in an hour ain't bad. HA! Good Fun!

am disliking baby groot the same way car commercials with puppies and babies annoy us. writer/producer/director is trying to massage our cute reflex and it comes off as contrived and cheap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgP0aUKlmNw converse, am feeling sympatico with drax. gonna need see how it all balances, but we did like the first iteration. HA! Good Fun! ps is now the season when we can post grinch videos w/o folks raging over out-of-season christmas content.

Barring mental issues, evil kids are the direct result of parenting. Imo. our time working in a juvenile detention facility convinced us otherwise. yeah, most o' the evil kids had terrible parents. and a fair number o' the broken kids were also nuttier than a fruitcake. even so, we met more than a few bad kids in the hall, and we had a chance to meet their parents and lawyers and psychiatrists. before working at juvenile hall, we believed as did gifted-- bad kids is the result o' crazy or bad parenting. experience taught us there is actual bad kids. yeah, previous to a certain age a child's brain hasn't developed the connections to makes good v. bad a fair question. tn is at least partial correct. young kids ain't capable o' being good as they can't genuine understand the concept... regardless o' parents tendency to be projecting qualities onto their issue. as such, early childhood development and kiddie psychology is kinda scary when viewed objective. even so, when we speak o' monsters, am not talking 'bout the broken kids or the young kids who cannot distinguish right from wrong. there is fundamental flawed kids, and those children can come from homes with loving parents who is diligent and conscientious 'bout raising their kids. sure, it ain't common or ordinary, but it does happen. HA! Good Fun!

our main criticisms o' bvs weren't actual batfleck. sure, we were surprised by batman bloodshed, but batman were ok... other than the fact the world's greatest detective were portrayed as kinda dimwitted and suffering from impulse control issues. nope, our issues were with superman and lex luthor. the choice to make lex manic/twitchy were bad. crazy is always a terrible motivation in books and movies. is cheap. "it doesn't need to make sense, because ________ is crazy." supergenius creates doomsday? am thinking even if doomsday had killed supes, lex and lexcorp is gonna have some s'plaining to do insofar as doomsday were concerned. and cavill superman were making us regret a few o' our keanu reeves and jason patric criticisms over the years. mopey and dour superman slouches his way through the film making us wish he had genuine died, but much earlier. but for all our dislike o' supes and lex, we didn't hate the movie. our first viewing were extended cut, and the movie, in spite o' its length, were watchable and moderate entertaining. wonder woman and the other justice leaguers were an utterly pointless addition save for promoting future movies, but such wasted screen time didn't actual hurt the film. we managed to enjoy film a bit even for all its many flaws. HA! Good Fun!

so, knowing how dangerous the edges o' the map in our own galaxy is, a plan to travel for 300 years to a distant galaxy is devised, perhaps to procure unobtanium or somesuch? and considering any intel on andromeda is likely gonna be 600 years old... am not doubting a hidden agenda, 'cause what we know so far would result in only morons or condemned criminals being part o' the operation. HA! Good Fun!

our understanding is batman, the original detective comics character, were unapologetically homicidal. more than one nogoodnik were tossed off a building by old skool batman without a cushy landing spot to break their fall. even so, am admitting we were a bit surprised by batfleck's willingness to violent break from more recent traditions. HA! Good Fun!

dunno. am imagining that being on fire is worse than divorce. choose a) being set ablaze or b) discover your spouse wants a divorce had a doctor friend o' ours once explain to us that burning isn't the worst way to die as such folks invariably go into shock rather quick, but am not certain we believe her. regardless, we didn't suggest death in option (a). cook for a fair bit w/o death strikes us as worse than divorce. ... am also gonna posit having a nightmare child is worse than divorce. we has met parents who got genuine monsters for kids. is hard for us to comprehend the pain o' a loving parent who nevertheless must care for and raise a monster. having to watch most woody allen films? clear am missing woody allen "genius" 'cause his films is kinda the mental equivalent o' chewing aluminum foil for ninety minutes to two hours. arguable worse than divorce. 'course we ain't never been divorced, so... we has drowned. had to be resuscitated and everything. trapped under ice o' a frozen lake and drowned. not a fond memory. *shrug* just giving you a hard time. even as an outside observer, Gromnir is recognizing how bad divorce can be... particularly if kids is involved and custody issues is contentious. is precisely why we would Never do family law. HA! Good Fun! ps but yeah, having an evil kid still has gotta be worse than divorce. *shudder*