Musopticon?

Finish this sociolinguistics essay.

Summoning - Ashen Cold

That internet conversations without arguments are not worth participating in. Right?

I started reading the classics. I've got Oliver Twist, Wuthering Heights and De Bello Gallico done. Only a couple of hundred to go.

I think so.

I saw a couple of hours of FF12 today. The start nearly floored me("That's some major graphics extravaganza"), but the grinding is tiring.

It can be a bit quirky, but I was able to get invisibility, extra laser, probably better mobility and anti-air capabilities with the war mech. If you can conquer GDI war factories and tech centers, it's possible to get railguns to the mech.

Wait, what? This was the Echani thread? Ah, heck.

I got to agree, middens and mayflies.

If what you say is directly from the SW lore, then you are effectively destroying your own argument. Spartan community was anything but family-oriented. Weak and frail babies were discarded from birth, strong young men were taken by the army to train as a soldier for a period lasting almost a decade, never seeing their family until the return - if they survived the strict martial camps and harsh drills. Also, Spartans hardly fought to find glory, not to mention forming a workable state beyond Peloponnesus. The Spartan kleurochy system was a strict military-oriented tolitarian state, ruled by an olicargy. They favored war above everything else. In fact, it was customary for young Spartan males to ravage the countryside, hunt down helots(independent slaves) and practice war - inside their very own land. I don't think those traits resemble Mandalorians at all. I agree that the martial prowess and strict form of Mandos may remind one of Spartans, but that's based on the romanticized image of them - as saviours of all Hellas during the 4th Century BBC. The reality was far more grim. Just from "a historian" to another.

The fighting is fantastic. I've never been so utterly frustrated yet thrilled than when battling Alma for the first time. What a great game!

Yeah.

Edward Scissorhands for the upteenth time. Don't take me wrong, I like the movie. It's a bit soppy and a bit fun, but it's too Burtonish. All the other Burton movies I've seen have almost ruined it. And Elfman's music is really trite. Still, almost got teary-eyed, again, when they showed the dance scene in the end.

No, most normal boy fantasies have something to do with girls and hugely fast, albeit masculine, cars. Not...well, having waxed moustache and leading a hopeless final charge against Austrian mottes while Maschinengewehr blasts overhead.

You say that after you've careened down that section near Mort Homme wood in a testarossa, flinging champagne bottles at pickelhaube wearing types. What are you? A latent telepath?! That is my exact fantasy.

Uhh-yup! I know it's horrible, but I couldn't find a tanning filter with my meager photoediting skills and five minutes. And someone had to do it.

This anime(Pumpkin Scissors) has just become all kinds of awesome.

Thank you.... ...and die.

Summoning - A distant flame before the sun My friend graciously kicked up a custom Summoning Best Of and I'm digging it quite a bit. The Tolkien thing isn't a dealbreaker, but the songs do open better if you are familiar with the lore. That said, it has to be one of the nerdiest metal acts to grace the face of Europe.

I'm fairly hyped now. Anyone know when it's going to hit Europe?

Yeah, but it's doable without powerfist. Like I did. Three hits to the head means: concussion, blindness and death. Alternatively, you could start with a kick to the groin, but that ususally throws the enemy a bit forward, resulting in you having to use more ap. Though a good unarmed build does rack in a lot of hitpoints, losing one hit can mean death if you are fighting against enemies with plasma weaponry or something equally ridiculous like a laser gatling. My build was powerful, but not good enough to survive straight energy fire for long. It's fun to break a deathclaw skull with just a palm attack though.

Unarmed is suprisingly powerful in Fallout 2. The build I made was so powerful I could kill enclaves with three hits.

Woah, that was a great test. I'm curious why that is not a clinical standard, since it was, and I've done a few, very professional.

I was waiting for the whole time that Kane would materialize behind the guy and slit his throat "Our wrath will spread through the desert like a plague" It so felt like a corny C&C debriefing FMV.