I thought my car tags expired tomorrow, meaning I would have to spend this morning at the DMV (and everyone knows the last day of the month is the best one to spend there).
Turns out they actually expire at the end of April. So I can just have them mail me the sticker.
So it's half an hour to midnight, I'm still at uni, because I got distracted detailing and calibrating an Eppendorf pipette. In my defense, this thing I blindly used was about 100 uL shifted off and had a pretty big random error.
Rolled into EB yesterday for one of those Pelican system selectors, the one you could comfortably live inside of, and situated myself in line behind four young men dressed from head to daemonic cloven hoof in black. I mentally flipped through the recent releases, seeking a series venerated enough to warrant this sort of adolescent congestion.
When I saw one of them proudly brandish a black San Andreas bandana, it suddenly became clear.
Like Halo, Grand Theft Auto's foul-mouthed, amoral sagas have an appeal inside and outside of our core community. Repelling alien invaders has always had a universal, indeed, a nearly patriotic quality, but purely terrestrial concerns magnified to epic volume are not without their cinematic power. The games submerge the player in content of various kinds and challenge them to come out of the experience with the game they're interested in the most. Speaking from personal experience, my interest in the actual missions wanes almost immediately. That's absolutely been the case with San Andreas. I still find the camera, controls, and combat of the console versions to fall short of the series' promise - a promise manifested most surely in their impeccable knack for creating cities which feel real. That the series has been able to succeed almost purely on the personality of its presentation for as long as it has is a either a credit to its manufacture or an indictment of our collective intellect, and you're welcome to believe whichever one you want to.
I won't deny that the game has a real shine to it when you start playing, that shine carried me almost entirely through the first two. I wish I weren't saying this, I wish I was just giving it a 9.9 and clicking okay on the upload script. No-one would disagree. There are many ways to play the game, and as I've suggested the personality it projects positively gleams. The voice work is excellent, and some of the best writing in games today can be heard on the many remarkable radio stations. With friends over, it's almost like a performance art. But I don't particularly enjoy playing it, as a game you understand. I fully expect to be in the minority on this.
You might recall that the Fruit Fucker ultimately escaped from his island prison, a fact revealed in our crossover with Elf Only Inn. Things might not have worked out with Megan, but it would appear that he eventually found a stable peer group in Los Santos. Gabe also worked up a wallpaper real quick for today's strip, if you're interested.
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Chess.
Edit: I am a white knight talking backwards. If you don't get it your mother and I will be very disappointed in you.
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Aren't you the guy who spends a quarter of his life playing WOW? Isn't more time off just translated into WOW-time?
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I thought my car tags expired tomorrow, meaning I would have to spend this morning at the DMV (and everyone knows the last day of the month is the best one to spend there).
Turns out they actually expire at the end of April. So I can just have them mail me the sticker.
GLEEEEEEEEE
He makes dancing look effortless.
No? I moved, today is clean up day.
Street Fighter, Metal Gear, Contra, Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Phantasy Star, 1987.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
If a can of tuna, like this:
Says on the bottom "Best by March 16 2009"
What are the odds it will kill me or make me vomit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1upZz3a-7iM
100%.
Nah, it'll probably be fine. Throw it away if it smells funny though.
But how do I know if it smells fishy?
Heh.
I wouldn't eat fish that has gone past it's use by date myself, just to be sure.
I think I bought it like two years ago.
Almost.
Edit: MEDIC [CHAT]!