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Spam fried rice since I am at the point in the quarter where I am reduced to depleting my stores due to low funds and FIFO. Non-clumpy fried rice is pretty damn good and mixing sweet and regular soy sauce makes the rice slightly sweet and salty without one flavor dominating the other. Edit 05/27: Leftover fried rice is still really good. Nuking it didn't make it soggy or super dry. I am surprised.

I won't lie, the art style is kinda creepy for the ponies. Kind of reminds me of the earlier generations of ponies.

Too much grinding with no decent award for my taste. The closest I got to MMOs were Maple Story and Mabigoni or whatever it was called. Ah... my animu years.

Cock sauce is good for most things but I never heard it for wings. And eating healthy with a grapefruit/pomello. I've been having one for lunch for two weeks now.

A certain song by The National. Spoilers because its quite an important song. I love this rendition. Anybody can sing along with it... if they wanted to. Edit: http://filmmusicrepo...dtrack-details/ It is an official song.

http://www.fastcoexi...ketchup-flowing Its non toxic since the team worked with a list of FDA approved materials. They are currently trying to market it to companies. I wish them best of luck since if I call anything magic, this is indeed one of them. I would look at a company in a better light if they used something like this. Also, my avatar is my reaction to seeing the videos.

I'm all for playing it as vanilla as possible but how dark it is is just too much. I like the idea of 24 hours days but if that is the case, the nights should be brighter. Like full moon bright. You should be impaired but not completely blinded. Well, time to turn up the gamma. Edit- Tips: It seems zombies only spawn around loot or places that can have loot. Use this to travel safely in the dark. No compass? Find the north star. Seriously. I haven't tried it but it seems to be built into Arma 2 --- WINCHESTER, FUCK YEAR! They're not kidding when they said it can decimate a horde. It takes out people really quick too. FYI, if we're not running for our lives, I will shoot bandits if given a good enough chance.

I don't know how I feel about them... and I guess he (PHO) is confirmed as a brony too eh? I remember this artist from my active dA days. Wonderful artist.

They're also bright as hell so if you carry them on you, you're more or less blind in first person mode. Its tough at night for sure. On my second go, I spawned by a squad who got wiped out* since I saw a few bodies which means with my flare on, I attracted pretty much every zed head that killed that group to me when I had to defend myself. While running around to stay alive, I was shot at while a horde was chasing after me. I suppose someone from that group survived and now want to kill me for amassing the horde. I eventually gave up after much blood lost so I just walked into a dining room and waited as they walked into the doors. At least I died from blood lost instead of zed getting me personally. *Visual representation of what I walked into

So I manage to finally get the mod running. Since this mod run on a 24 hour cycle, I started in the dark. Needless to say that I died a horrible death. Its just so hilarious on HOW it started. I was running around with a flare on so I can see where I was going. I more or less cleared a town, with no zombies in sight so I figured I was safe until that single flare I was using ran out. No problem I thought, I'll just light another. Straight out from a horror flick, as I lit the new flare I see two zeds 25 meters ahead of me. No problem, I'll just turn arou- three more on the other side of the fence that I JUST came from. I had the reaction to take a step back, they growled and I ran. I had a mob of at least 5 chasing after me as I ran straight out of town, undoubtedly attracting more. I threw a flare or two so I could engage, which allowed me to eventually take out 8 out of geez, 30, as I ran back to town for a final stand. I ran into a house that I knew had some more weapons and I barred the door and I waited as I was bleeding out... I say, this is a fine introduction to ARMA 2 and Day Z. Edit: Note. If you get the game from Amazon install in the following order: Arma 2 Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead Version 1.60 (http://www.arma2.com/supply/game-updates) Install mod with Day Z Updater (http://www.worrom.com/) [You can do it however you like though] When you first run the Arma 2, you must go to the expansions tab to select Day Z once or two then you're pretty much good to go. If you get the Steam version, it should be easier since it seems the updater auto patch the Steam launcher.

Not too bad.

**insert conspiracy theory** Which brings me into this point: The government is the law. Things can turn really sour if they misstep or get manipulated. A group or company misstepping or being manipulative? You smack them. You can do the same with the government but the damage can be so much more severe. With this in mind, I can see why some folks want a more hands off government. Personally, I am wary of big government (Gift from my family who came from China) but I can see its uses and important role. I also see how groups and companies can do good and be of use for the people since they can be quite powerful and they can have more leeway to do things than the government can. Some off the top of my head is Virgin, perhaps Redbull and David Cameron. This is will be hard to think about and put into words if I go on further so I'm just going to cut it short: Balance is my point and goal. I like to make choices that can bring balance to things so at times I will do a thing one way one time and the opposite another time. Balance can be hard (Look at this thread, yeesh.) and tough choices will be made. It also fucking hard to keep to. And yeah, what FDS said. Its tiring to even read some of the stuff in this thread. Go out and have a smoke or something.

The government can also serve their own interests or the interests of others that may not be positive to individuals and/or groups. The government isn't immune to being heavily flawed, as everybody knows. People are people.

$15 I could swallow. However, I should be watching my cash. Especially with the end of the quarter period where cash is getting tighter...

Reading you guys' arguments, it almost seems like it arises from a pretty dumb thing. I'm not calling any one of you guys ideals and beliefs wrong or right but... There is no way to present a standard of living data without skewing it to any one side of a linear plot or even a non-linear plot. People lives can be and are vastly different so its terrible to present it as high or low, which is linear in nature. However, its the easiest way to present data since it is simple to understand. High and low? Easy but skewed. So it make it non-skewed, context should be provided. It is up to the provider of the data to give context or for the viewers to seek it out if not provided. Going with Yant's examples: We got context of whatever standard of living data we have. With this context, I can pretty much pull out City A from my analysis. I should also make a note of why I did as well which would be: City A is wealthy enough and well off that I can ignore them. City B on the other hand is on the other side of the spectrum. It seems pretty damn good but its poor as hell. Since it is poor as hell, I should take a closer look at this city. So yeah. CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT. What you got, where you got it and how you got it. Data without context is useless data. Now you guys can now continue at going at each other. How I fit in the current debate... having options is great. Rarely does life not give you options. If not provided with some, make some. Society is just that, a society. Its just not me and my family. So I'll help out society but don't expect me to bend the knee. Don't overreach and overstay. I'll help other people stand but they got to do their own walking. If they are just pleased with just standing, fine by me. They just got to remember to not come to me if they want to walk.

I found the Ygritte parts to be funny. She's just toying with Jon. The part that got me to raise an eye brow is when Edit: Wait...

Case in point: Factor in how many people live in or around urban areas. For the United States, about 3/4 of the population is in or around urban areas. Urban could mean anything from NYC to some place like where I live, San Luis Obispo. Ignoring NYC for now... The local, regional and state public transportation for sure raise the standard of living of the SLO area. We got a bus system (SLO Transit) that cover more or less the whole city/town. We also got buses (RTA) that go in between towns that a good deal of folks use. Lastly, Amtrak trains shoot up to the Bay Area and down to the LA/San Diego. There is also a decent bike infrastructure in place in SLO that I use daily. That to me is a good mix of public and personal transportation systems. It also makes clear to me why public transportation is factored. Does it scale well into a city like NYC? Maybe not but the infrastructures there are in piss poor condition but still it somehow works. It still improves living standards no matter how shitty it is. Disclosure: I currently am living in SLO so what I said about it is from my observation and first hand experience. I also lived in NYC, Denver/Littleton and San Francisco. Denver/Littleton is a urban and suburban sprawl with a budding public transportation system. You're more or less trapped without a car there. When I left, the light rail system use was growing. They sure come in handy for sporting events downtown. Still need to drive a car to the stations though...

You'll walk right into that despair all by yourself in about a week. A deal or two appear out of nowhere...

They sort of reminds me of that violin girl that cosplay the game theme she's playing and dance and shit while she does it. Its kind of annoying actually... Edit: Lindsey Stirling is her name. The girl in this Skyrim video I'm sure everyone seen.