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yeah but you're old
car insurance for young people costs $Texas
deservedly so
I drove the car off the road yesterday
ugh
It was a dammed good one though!
M240B all up ins!
I guess he broke the camel's back?
Ahhh memories.
Hrmm. In that case it's probably a combination of me being a new customer (so I don't have a renewal quote to use as leverage) and not having any No Claims Discount (because the last time I held insurance in my own name was about four years ago and they won't accept a proof of no claims issued that long ago).
Urgh.
I fucking hate when politicians decide they need to make statements addressing "the [ethnic or religious group] community".
It's like they don't realise it makes them look like massive bigots.
Look like? O_o
Can’t say I know the case, or areas involved enough to make a judgement either way, but I’ve seen rampant patriarchal cultures misogyny brushed under the carpet that way before. Happens all the time in national media tbh.
The differences are pretty big tbh. One of them is an engaging, tense, game set in a very interesting world with really fun action.
The other is Half-Life.
PAX 2013 STATUS - Badges: PURCHASED Hotel: RESERVED Vacation: Awaiting approval Plane Tickets: Waiting on vacation approval.
Holy shit did the go out on a limb with that last trilogy. Tycho is letting his word obsession show pretty strongly.
last time I ever drink homemade alcohol though
First work day of the year (tomorrow) will be a tired one.
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NEW! >< Four!
(Never ride the white lightning)
I don't get the euphemism...?
My friend's family make their own brandy since it's a Hungarian tradition. It was raaaaaather strong. I had like, two cups of that and coke and afterwards I just had to swap to cans because I would have been sick from it.
This leads me to believe she still has decent cognitive functions.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Metro 2033 is many things to me, but it's not engaging, nor is the world overly interesting. The action is about as fun as getting repeatedly stabbed through the chest by a massive, deformed rat-monkey-thing.
It's tense. Except where the tension gets bled away by the checkpoint system until the game is just a monotonous grey-white / brown-red blur.
Metro fails on nearly every level
1) having multiple varieties of weapons, and then not letting the player tactically choose between them
2) having a psuedo-RPG feel, but stopping just before it gets interesting
3) having checkpoints that were, to all appearances, designed by massive, deformed rat-monkey-things.
It's not a bad game, but Half Life (especially 2, which would be the metric used above) is easily the better game.
I like equal parts "story of what happened behind scenes during specific scene on screen" and talking about the entire experience.
I also prefer actor/director commentaries for that reason.
Single commentaries with just actors or just producers/directors tend to be one-sided and boring.
(The commentary on Big Trouble in Little China is funny, because Carpenter and Russell talk about random shit and not about the movie at all)
Big Trouble is one of my favorite commentaries. Actually I think all Carpenter/Russell commentaries are pretty much like that - it sounds like they just get some booze and let 'er rip. The one for Conan the Barbarian is pretty awesome in a similar way.
I guess the other kind I really like are the ones that are really technical/informative, like the ones for the Batman animated series - you'll hear the producers and writers talking all about key frames and "off-model" and all this other stuff and it's kind of a neat insight into this really complicated world.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
They do stay on point during The Thing commentary, though.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Holy fuck. What was he on?
Rhetorical question of course, from baffled me.
Carpenter is a really awesome dude and I wish he would make better movies, although I've heard good things about Pro-Life or whatever it is.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
His new movie...what is it called...The Ward! It looks decent. Sadly, he is not doing the music for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWrnTbLRmMA