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yeah the tsunami warnings are still on for pretty much the entire coastline of Japan.

gabe: not underwater monsters, but radioactive leaks.

finally it's stopped shaking here. well, there was one small quake within the last hour, but "that's it" lol.

strangely enough, from my point of view, looking towards Mt. Fuji, there's been a column of black smoke rising off to the side of Mt. Fuji for the past couple of hours. no idea if it's a distress smoke signal or if it's a fire in a city on the other side of the hills from here.

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Not being able to equip armour onto companions in DA2 is fucking retarded.

Well duh, it'd totally get in the way of your ability to admire Varric's chest hair.

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Not being able to equip armour onto companions in DA2 is fucking retarded.

i haven't played the game, so i can't really say, but it sounds like the way armour worked in ME2.

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just watching the news right now

the Japan Meteorological Agency is saying that there's a high probability that there will be aftershocks of magnitude ~6 for the next week, and aftershocks will last in total for up to a month.

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well, there were a couple of earthquakes a few hours ago, and there were maybe a few during the day, but it's quiet now, so hopefully I'll get a full night's rest tonight.

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i haven't played the game, so i can't really say, but it sounds like the way armour worked in ME2.

From time to time characters get visual updates, but generally speaking equipping stuff on your teammates has no effect on their appearance.

Ironically, you can equip them with accessories (amulet, belt, rings), but doing this results in no cosmetic change.

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Random thoughts on DA2:

- The way enemies explode all the time when dying to things ranging from certain spells to critical hits is far more entertaining than I expected. There's nothing quite like seeing a character stand there and kick some mook and then seeing the mook blow up. You can pretend that it's Fist of the North Star, especially considering how darned many bandits there are. Too bad I have yet to see anybody lick a knife. If you get a piece of gear that has the "Messy Kills" trait, it means that pretty much everything you kill with that will blow up, no matter what the killing blow was... and thankfully, it doesn't cause you to sift through every dropped item like Bloody Mess did in the old Fallout games.

- The party banter is really good, and it is probably the biggest thing I think about when deciding who to put in my party. Being able to call on party members during conversations (e.g. Varric can BS your way out of all kinds of situations, Aveline will just strongarm people into seeing things your way) is nice.

- I don't remember if this was such a problem in DA:O, but it does seem like from time to time I will click on a dude and... my character doesn't attack. There's no visible "attack" icon issued, so I have to pause the game and do it again. Hmm.

- Female Hawk having wispy hair is kind of funny... literally nobody else in the game seems to have it, and how on earth you maintain anime-pretty wispy hair in GRIMDARK BLOODSOAKED FANTASY WORLD EVERYBODY IS COVERED IN BLOOD OMG BLOOD EVERYWHERE probably requires more suspension of disbelief than anything else in the game.

- In spite of the smaller scope of the game, I find myself enjoying it more than DA:O. After a few hours of DA:O, I didn't feel terribly compelled to continue. DA2 I'm sure I will finish, which is something I can't say for many RPGs.

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Rogues also often like to do butterfly kicks to when hitting an enemy that is not so far that they'd do a leaping stab, but not so close that they'd just hack away.

As a result, one enemy that was running away from the rogues towards another party member was getting chased by two rogues in my party, who were doing synchronised butterfly kicks on him all the way down the length of a hallway.

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apparently they upgraded the magnitude to 9.0, although idk if that's only inside Japan? like up until an hour ago, NHK was saying it was 8.8, but then it was changed to 9.0.

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CNN's been saying it's 8.9 for awhile... I guess when the number is already that high, rounding up by .1 or .2 doesn't make a big difference.

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east japan is now officially short on electricity due to the incident at the Fukushima reactors. my area is going to have a planned power outage in 12 hours (9am), for about 3.5 hours, but they're already asking people to seriously cut down on electricity use as of now, so i won't be online much until we get more electricity.

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NO ! rumor spreads as suspicion of 波多野結衣 death in tsunami is still not verified. I hope it's positive. Many of her works are great downloads, great loads, and unloads.

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NO ! rumor spreads as suspicion of 波多野結衣 death in tsunami is still not verified. I hope it's positive. Many of her works are great downloads, great loads, and unloads.

yo hook up with d/ls man

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