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Mal

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  1. I don't know why but I want to try out a cross country train ride from say LA to NYC.

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    2. deanb

      deanb

      We were discussing concept of a £200 get on a train with nothing trip just other day. Seemed an interesting idea.

    3. Mal

      Mal

      I might use it to get to NY when I go to my brother's wedding next year. By then I might have data for my master thesis so I might be able to hammer it some basic stuff out during the ride.

    4. Mr. GOH!

      Mr. GOH!

      it's a three day trip with a transfer in Chciago, IIRC. Had a friend who was deathly afraid of flying and did not own a car, so she would travel from her home in LA to her parents' in NYC via train every Christmas.

  2. I honestly haven't gotten into this game yet. It's going to be weird to have a Gregor on my team since I only know of one other Gregor.
  3. Mal

    World Politics

    Bus driver strike. Imagine this but 10x worst during the World Cup... So yeah, a good part of me leans with the protesters. Brazil is not ready to host anything.
  4. Congratulations to me. I've made a bread that tastes and smells just like grain alcohol. This is going to be a long two weeks if this happens with the frozen portion. I either jumped the gun on the yeast amount (They're pretty old so I add extra all the time) and/or its the added sugar. One thing I was noticing was that my bread wasn't rising as much as I though it would so this time I added some sugar. The white flour recipe asks for it so I figured it would be fine for a whole wheat bread. I guess not? I'm going to try baking it just a bit longer to see if it helps... worst comes worst I get hard bread to go with my spreads.
  5. You folks and these superheroes movies.
  6. Time to see if I like Park and Rec. I think I should since I love Nick Offerman...

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    2. Mal

      Mal

      Oh good. Since I got bored at the end of the first episode and proceeded to rewatch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

    3. Strangelove

      Strangelove

      It's not terrible, but you could skip the first season and read up what happened on Wikipedia and just go to the second one.

    4. TCP

      TCP

      I'd say just watch season one, it's only 6 episodes, that's just two hours, and it introduces the characters.

      Season 3 gets even better due to the replacement of one character who is pretty forgettable.

  7. Patema Inverted. Interesting concept and yes, anime again. It is no Miyazaki or someone like that however it was a good watch. With that said, I'm not going to say much about the plot but this is something worth going in blind to watch this (I did). It is set in a semi post apocalyptic world after an experiment gone wrong and well, the world is weird. I felt that it could of been done in OVA format though since this world is interesting enough and worth exploring pass the one and a half hour run time. I'm not too sure why the survivors did what they did but it does set up an interesting world. Though I suppose they hit the sweet spot.
  8. Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure That was actually quite short but it seems like I have maybe an hour or three more in the way of side quests. I need to get the different outfits anyways. Isn't Parin cute!? Seriously, more games need better idle and movement animations. Its quite something to see Parin land after a jump. Besides that, gameplay was normal. I like the way they handled the various moves sets but I wished there were quick ways to switch out elements and outfits. Camera work was as expected from a PSP game... aka crappy but it is manageable.
  9. Mal

    KITTEH <3

    http://imgur.com/gallery/LUm4g Awesome cat. Also if you never seen how climbers do their thing, you should. I know some folks who does it and god damn, they can more or less scale something I consider flat with only a ledge 1-2 cm thick.
  10. (Preface: I'm bias as hell here. Only reason I rebelled against the Warriors type games, especially Dynasty Warriors was they changed the characters too much back with... DW6? Otherwise, nice mindless fun. I'll find out with DW8) I share distaste with Team Ninja but lets remember that Omega Force folks are the true guys behind the Warriors games. Tecmo Koei should of keep it to Omega Force and left Team Ninja out of it. It's up in the air on how Team Ninja will influence things but what you've said shouldn't be far off if true... personally I'm leaning towards more Omega Force influence since the Warriors franchise is their turf. Team Ninja can stay with Dead or Alive. And bad music? It might not be your cup of tea but it works (for me). I'm currently going through Dynasty Warriors 8 OST and they still have it. It is odd, judging from the early trailer, to hear Zelda music in that style though... it'll be interesting to see how it pans out. To show my bias even more, I adore Nihon-Falcom. Their music team does stuff similar to how the Omega Force guys does it. Their gameplay mechanics may not be deep but they work. If I were to recommend a Japanese dev to license out Zelda for a spinoff, it would be Nihon-Falcom. Hell, Ys was originally, I think, something to somewhat compete against Zelda back in Japan. To this day, Ys still has a great following. Overall though... yes, Hyrule Warriors is no Zelda game. You'd expect better from Nintendo. (Then again WTF is Smash Bros... it still boggles my mind that it happened)
  11. I honestly forgotten about Hyrule Warriors. So, who's the Lu Bu?
  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrWlvwQ0j-M
  13. Nothing to ruin a nice Memorial Day weekend read like getting a book with cuts on its cover and first few pages. Damn it packer, you just wasted my time and anybody else's time for something you knew was damaged.

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    2. TheFlyingGerbil

      TheFlyingGerbil

      eReaders are great for novels but for textbooks or things you just want to flick through out of order. I don't think they're as good as a physical book yet.

    3. Mr. GOH!

      Mr. GOH!

      I have not bought a single physical book since law school, aside from a handful at author friends' book release parties. I still read the ebook versions of those, however.

    4. TheMightyEthan

      TheMightyEthan

      Yeah, me either, though I agree with TFG that if it's something you're going to want to be flipping back and forth a lot then a physical book is better.

  14. The real Souls starts here. Praise the sun.
  15. We must teach this little bird to fly. Most of us may be twice your age or more but welcome aboard zeck!
  16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlZ4DycmqRQ I dare you to gather a line of OSTs as good as this.
  17. Waiting for bread to cool down so I can sleep... mouse only. Now that I think about it, I totally should have done Gaffgarion. And Strangelove's titties shooting ass is too obscene. For now.
  18. Pretty much what you're planning. SSD is for OS, programs, browser downloads and anything else that I want to come up fast or survive a HDD failure since I don't expect my SDD to randomly die anytime soon. My storage drive is everything else.
  19. http://news.xbox.com/2014/05/games-halo-journey-announcement Halo 5: Guardians is revealed. It'll be out Fall 2015. Honestly it should of been this fall but maybe there is some killer game coming out this fall that I'm forgetting about.
  20. Mal

    Alcohol

    After going dry for almost two months due to being not able to afford beer, the weather decided to turn hot (100 degree Fahrenheit) and I got stabbed by broken glass. Incredibly annoyed, I said fuck it and bought some beers. I'm trying out Firestone Walker's Easy Jack. A session style IPA. Going by flavors and mouth feel, yup, it's a Jack alright and it's all in a 4.5% abv package. I can't say I care for IPAs enough to warrant them to be session beers. Soon I'll try FW's Opal. God damn, I could use their DBA on tap. It's isn't as sharp as Jacks.
  21. The demo has you at level 10 at part 4 of the game. It all ends right before you fight the boss. Overall I got to say that the battle system is pretty cool. You can either slow down an enemy or heal/protect one of your guys during battle. During the action portion of the bar, you can get interrupted but so can the enemies. If you time it right, you could just slaughter the enemies by not allowing them to have a turn. It's a nice twist on the turn based RPG. Combined with the awesome soundtrack and I can see why people like this. I was super pumped to fight the boss but then the demo cockblocked me. I'm going to hold for a bit till I buy it though since I don't have the time until next weekend to play it well. Besides, I still have Gurumin and ZoE to play.
  22. Child of Light demo. I wonder if it is meaty enough to give me a good sense of the game. If I like it enough, I'll buy it since I came upon some extra dough.
  23. Once Dynasty Warriors 8 drops to say $20, I'm so jumping on it, for the novelty of it being on PC...

  24. Mal

    Xbox One

    To follow the train of things Microsoft is doing... you can get a refund on Xbox Live now. Main reason is for those who got Live just for applications like Netflix and Hulu. So the applications that are going out of the paywall. Next thing you know, they'll silence everybody with free multiplayer.
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