Cryptonomicon was pretty much it for me. I loved it, but the Baroque Cycle and Anathem are just too much.
I started to read Anathem, but I have become completely bogged down in it. There's too much there to get away with reading it in spurts. I'll probably put it to one side and come back to it.
I've been thinking that I would really like to re-read the Baroque Cycle, actually, but I lent them to someone.
Rammus is a lot of fun it seems. Really different than Mord as a tank. Mostly since he gets tons of assist not as many kills. That and taunting people near turrets is the best thing.
Rammus is a lot of fun it seems. Really different than Mord as a tank. Mostly since he gets tons of assist not as many kills. That and taunting people near turrets is the best thing.
I need to try him. I've played practice matches with most of this week's heroes... wanted to get through all of them before jumping online.
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Some of the tension was taken out of it since you knew that certain people would need to survive at least long enough to pass on their genes to make Cryptonomicon possible.
And the final act was a bit weak.
But other than that, one of my favorite books.
Also, Roots speach re: Athena in cryptonimicon is pretty much the best thing ever.
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Rammus is a lot of fun it seems. Really different than Mord as a tank. Mostly since he gets tons of assist not as many kills. That and taunting people near turrets is the best thing.
His taunt is great in team fights. Hold them in place and lower all their defenses? SURE!
I want to try a hybrid Yi. I've seen no guides for this, I've only seen AP or AD Yi's. I wonder if I can make it work.
Pizza's here! That was fast and the tracker appeared accurate.
What did you get?
A pepperoni and grated parmesan cheese thin crust medium pizza and another medium pizza. Six bucks for each!
It tasted pretty good. The thin crust was really thin, I'd like to try the hand tossed next time.
Hand Tossed to quote one of my favorite pie eaters "Sooo goood." The garlic crust thing is likely going to kill you, but its like they baked their dough in the papa johns garlic butter sauce.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Haven't read Snow Crash either. Read the beginning of Quicksilver and didn't like it too much.
It seems the further you get into Neal Stephenson's career, the more dense his work becomes. Cryptonomicon was perfect for me, but I'd recommend most people actually go as far back as Snow Crash or The Diamond Age.
Ugh. Snow Crash was quite good but Diamond Age and Crypto are classic Stephenson: total crash and burn at the end. Especially Diamond Age but the ending of Crypto is like at least "the last page of Dune" levels of ah to hell with the last hundred pages I'm just gonna end it now.
About halfway through a book that guy needs to have an editor just sitting behind him with a tazer, ready to strike as soon as he starts to lose it.
Very strange. I started off really liking Burn Notice, now I... I kind of really hate it.
I'm the same way about Chuck.
I wonder what happened?
I don't hate burn notice, but I definately feel like I'm being jerked around a bit. Like Nix doesn't know where he's going with it at all.
I just finished off season 3 and while I still really like the characters and am still not tired of the mystery of the week formula, I am getting fed up with
the endless parade of master manipulators trying to get Michael to work for them. Every time he kills one another shows up and is like "I WAS THE REAL BOSS ALL ALONG" and it's getting into the realm of self-parody.
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also I am going to go eat my leftover veal and read Chaucer so I can shoot mans tonight
I'm pissed off at the huge number of "green tea" beverages that might as well be Mountain Dew for the amount of sugar in them.
I mean I shouldn't have to look at the nutrition labels for four different green tea drinks before I find one that doesn't have 200 calories.
It's funny a sparkling water the wife and I like claims "2 calories", but thats per serving, in the bottle 3 servings. I guess 6 calories is way way too much to advertise on.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Wait you can pay $17 and make headshots impossible?
If you wear the four item set, yes. To be fair, an item of this set also makes it so your sniper rifle can't do headshots, but rather applies the jarate effect when it hits people. But, it still makes you immune to standard countersniping, especially because another item in the set gives you +25 hit points.
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Haven't read Snow Crash either. Read the beginning of Quicksilver and didn't like it too much.
It seems the further you get into Neal Stephenson's career, the more dense his work becomes. Cryptonomicon was perfect for me, but I'd recommend most people actually go as far back as Snow Crash or The Diamond Age.
Ugh. Snow Crash was quite good but Diamond Age and Crypto are classic Stephenson: total crash and burn at the end. Especially Diamond Age but the ending of Crypto is like at least "the last page of Dune" levels of ah to hell with the last hundred pages I'm just gonna end it now.
About halfway through a book that guy needs to have an editor just sitting behind him with a tazer, ready to strike as soon as he starts to lose it.
I remember that much about Diamond Age. I guess Cryptonomicon was like that a little.
I think mostly these books serve as vehicles for Neal Stephenson to geek out about stuff Neal Stephenson likes. Once he's done geeking out, there probably isn't much interest left for him. Thankfully the bulk of the books I've read were enjoyable enough that I can ignore the rushed endings.
I still haven't managed to get past that one part in The Diamond Age
Which one part?
The part with the gang rape, ritual murder and cannibalism
You haven't missed anything.
Basically once Stephenson completely threw out everything he had built up about his main character and had her move to China for absolutely no fucking reason to take a job she didn't need and generally act in a way that was completely out of character for her just so he could pull a Joss Whedon the book turns to shit.
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Pizza's here! That was fast and the tracker appeared accurate.
What did you get?
A pepperoni and grated parmesan cheese thin crust medium pizza and another medium pizza. Six bucks for each!
It tasted pretty good. The thin crust was really thin, I'd like to try the hand tossed next time.
Hand Tossed to quote one of my favorite pie eaters "Sooo goood." The garlic crust thing is likely going to kill you, but its like they baked their dough in the papa johns garlic butter sauce.
Well, the other medium had hand tossed and I tried some of the crust and it was okay but I've had much better. It was too soft.
My cousin has a nine year old son, and she told me he was playing Halo on XBox Live. I proceeded to tell her about game ratings and parental controls, and taught her about teabagging online as well.
I'm pretty sure her son is going to hate me for a long time now. She also said she thinks she just figured out why her house is so popular among the neighborhood kids.
You should read/watch some guides on jungling. You should be able to out pace the dual laners in leveling. You should also be watching the minimap so you can be aware of when you can jump out of the jungle for some easy ganks. I believe once warwick gets enough gold he can blue pill home, grab madreds and solo dragon.
I just finished off season 3 and while I still really like the characters and am still not tired of the mystery of the week formula, I am getting fed up with
the endless parade of master manipulators trying to get Michael to work for them. Every time he kills one another shows up and is like "I WAS THE REAL BOSS ALL ALONG" and it's getting into the realm of self-parody.
Yeah thats bugging me also the episode of the week is getting too housish for forumla and I don't feel the characters are evolving.
Like supernatural has been on for 5 going on 6 seasons and even bit characters have evolved past their original selves. I mean fucking Law and Order has had more characterization.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
omg, jacob you're gonna have to come here. Now. Well, before Saturday. Because Infernal Affairs is playing here Saturday night. And if you get here by tomorrow night we could also catch a viewing of Big Trouble in Little China.
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My cousin has a nine year old son, and she told me he was playing Halo on XBox Live. I proceeded to tell her about game ratings and parental controls, and taught her about teabagging online as well.
I'm pretty sure her son is going to hate me for a long time now. She also said she thinks she just figured out why her house is so popular among the neighborhood kids.
Well it also helps your cousin has large breasts and her shower has a window... not that'd know or anything...
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A pepperoni and grated parmesan cheese thin crust medium pizza and another medium pizza. Six bucks for each!
It tasted pretty good. The thin crust was really thin, I'd like to try the hand tossed next time.
I started to read Anathem, but I have become completely bogged down in it. There's too much there to get away with reading it in spurts. I'll probably put it to one side and come back to it.
I've been thinking that I would really like to re-read the Baroque Cycle, actually, but I lent them to someone.
I mean I shouldn't have to look at the nutrition labels for four different green tea drinks before I find one that doesn't have 200 calories.
I own all four of the latter in hardcover, and yes, I have read all of the Baroque Cycle. It is really good.
fuck homie i want some pizza but
I need to try him. I've played practice matches with most of this week's heroes... wanted to get through all of them before jumping online.
Some of the tension was taken out of it since you knew that certain people would need to survive at least long enough to pass on their genes to make Cryptonomicon possible.
And the final act was a bit weak.
But other than that, one of my favorite books.
Also, Roots speach re: Athena in cryptonimicon is pretty much the best thing ever.
The part with the gang rape, ritual murder and cannibalism
His taunt is great in team fights. Hold them in place and lower all their defenses? SURE!
I want to try a hybrid Yi. I've seen no guides for this, I've only seen AP or AD Yi's. I wonder if I can make it work.
Hand Tossed to quote one of my favorite pie eaters "Sooo goood." The garlic crust thing is likely going to kill you, but its like they baked their dough in the papa johns garlic butter sauce.
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Ugh. Snow Crash was quite good but Diamond Age and Crypto are classic Stephenson: total crash and burn at the end. Especially Diamond Age but the ending of Crypto is like at least "the last page of Dune" levels of ah to hell with the last hundred pages I'm just gonna end it now.
About halfway through a book that guy needs to have an editor just sitting behind him with a tazer, ready to strike as soon as he starts to lose it.
Hi5 for good taste.
I just finished off season 3 and while I still really like the characters and am still not tired of the mystery of the week formula, I am getting fed up with
see you later, folks
no
there is a new item set for the sniper
this set includes a hat, a sniper rifle, and a shield
if you wear all three, you can't be headshot
the sniper rifle apparently really sucks and can't headshot
you can get all these items without paying for them, the hat is just rare
It's funny a sparkling water the wife and I like claims "2 calories", but thats per serving, in the bottle 3 servings. I guess 6 calories is way way too much to advertise on.
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If you wear the four item set, yes. To be fair, an item of this set also makes it so your sniper rifle can't do headshots, but rather applies the jarate effect when it hits people. But, it still makes you immune to standard countersniping, especially because another item in the set gives you +25 hit points.
ditto
I need to talk to Zen about learning Warwick
I remember that much about Diamond Age. I guess Cryptonomicon was like that a little.
I think mostly these books serve as vehicles for Neal Stephenson to geek out about stuff Neal Stephenson likes. Once he's done geeking out, there probably isn't much interest left for him. Thankfully the bulk of the books I've read were enjoyable enough that I can ignore the rushed endings.
You haven't missed anything.
Basically once Stephenson completely threw out everything he had built up about his main character and had her move to China for absolutely no fucking reason to take a job she didn't need and generally act in a way that was completely out of character for her just so he could pull a Joss Whedon the book turns to shit.
everyone laughed at me when I got TF2 for the 360 instead of PC
now who is laughing
HOMING STICKIES
Well, the other medium had hand tossed and I tried some of the crust and it was okay but I've had much better. It was too soft.
I'm pretty sure her son is going to hate me for a long time now. She also said she thinks she just figured out why her house is so popular among the neighborhood kids.
No one, since no one plays 360 TF2 at all?
PSN: Corbius
You should read/watch some guides on jungling. You should be able to out pace the dual laners in leveling. You should also be watching the minimap so you can be aware of when you can jump out of the jungle for some easy ganks. I believe once warwick gets enough gold he can blue pill home, grab madreds and solo dragon.
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You silly fool
I mean at least we have other people to not play the game with
that's not very comparable
Yeah thats bugging me also the episode of the week is getting too housish for forumla and I don't feel the characters are evolving.
Like supernatural has been on for 5 going on 6 seasons and even bit characters have evolved past their original selves. I mean fucking Law and Order has had more characterization.
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Not me.
TF2 got better and better with every patch for a while, I think it has sailed past its sweet spot, however.
you almost make me want dominos delivery now when i could walk 1 block and get better pizza
but there is something about dominos... despite its low quality... something
Walk the block.
Well it also helps your cousin has large breasts and her shower has a window... not that'd know or anything...
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I can still find games.
I mean, it doesn't really matter to me if 800 or 800,000 people play a game as long as I can find fifteen who aren't me.