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wowowowow awesome stuff, Long! but there's one thing about the cab I don't like... it doesn't have UBC dust buttons!

I hope that the EVO brackets pit Kayo Police against Ricky Ortiz. WHO IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL? Also I wonder if anybody will try to run a jobber/Ammy/Shuma anti-Phoenix team.

The site is back! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

One of the problems with EDF IA is that they had to dial down a bunch of the effects in order to make the game playable online. In EDF 2017, the explosions were gigantic, corpses lasted for way too long (so that you could punt them around with your guns), and there were generally way too many particles around at once. The real problem for me is that the sound effects in EDF IA seems really weak. I do remember the later guns in EDF series always sounding cooler than the earlier ones, but these early ones just sound TOO WEAK. Like the shotguns are just a poof sound, and the rocket launchers feel like they are the tiny explosives of the cluster bombs in EDF 2017. OTOH the first time you shoot down a flier and its flaming corpse swoops down at you, you will be going EDF! EDF! as usual

Got my copy of EDF IA this morning. EDF! EDF!

True ending in Radiant Historia gotten last night. It's pretty hilarious what one of the bad endings you can get right near the start of the game is.... it's also pretty hilarious what one of the bad endings you can get nearer the end of the game is.

Congrats on getting married! Now Stefan can truly go home and be a family man.

I still haven't played through The Longest Journey after all these years. Also, this is the funniest/most frightening/Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure scary thing since Chun doing Sagat supers with the wrong face bones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EQJgpXcnvPI#t=58s

5 HIT COMBO So here's a fun bug in SSF4AE pc version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcGQT0f7CCs

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF all the gamestops close to me got ONE copy of EDF:IA and they've already been reserved by other customers

OH SHI- GAMESTOP IS SELLING EARTH DEFENSE FORCE INSECT ARMAGEDDON EARLY welcome to EARF

So it turns out that the lousy party member is actually one of the best choices for the final boss once he gets some levels, because he gets a spell that dispels all status effects on all party members. Of course, that didn't help when one time the boss put my entire party to sleep, then dicked around for 10 turns draining mana and trying to turn them into stone, until it eventually did turn them all to stone and I game over'd. Now to get all the sidequests.

So what are the odds that tonight's fight plays out like Apollo Creed vs. Ivan Drago

So the last boss of Radiant Historia is a slow, downward spiral for my party. I look up an FAQ, and the guy says he hit the final boss with his party members at level 52, and using one of the weaker party members, was able to do it. My main character is level 49. My other dudes range from level 40 to level 48. dammit

awesome quote regarding this anime called C that I've watched like 1 episode of: So Japanese economics professors in Tokyo U said, "We're obligated to teach Keynesian and REAL economics, but some students have this crazy idea that Keynes was right. We need to teach them that they're wrong, but lecture just isn't cutting it. We need a new medium for teaching. I know, anime!" And so they got a producer to make an anime where Keynes (Mikuni) tries to save Japan by ruining its future, and the real economists (Yoga) stop him. They even throw in an extreme example of hyperinflation. But ultimately, the real economists beat Keynes and he's never heard from again.

While at Barnes + Noble in Washington DC, I saw a table with the tag "Urban Fiction". Every cover of every book there featured what appeared at a glance to be african americans, and one of the books was titled, "A Pimp's Life". what is the correct response to this

Scheduling hilarity: can't have an inter-studio test with Canada on Friday can't have an inter-studio test with USA on Monday Early celebration fireworks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFQmwD3aXco&feature=player_detailpage#t=416s though Moulin Rouge Dance Attack is an awesome name

It's an ionized air flow device, right? So one of the cheeses I was new to me (in spite of being famous!) is called Mimolette. It is a French cheddar. The thing about it that was immediately interesting is that the crust around this orb-shaped cheese is pitted and earthy-looking; it looks WEATHERED. So searching up google, it is a cheese where part of the process involves introducing mites to it, and having them eat at in and introduce their digestive enzymes (and excrement, that brown/grey dust on it is mite dander + dead mites) to it accounts for its flavour. Mimolette, however, is not the only cheese to use cheese mites. Another one is a German one, and the town where it originates from contains various monuments to the cheese and its makers, including the only monument of a mite I have ever seen: something something Las Plagas

In Radiant Historia, there is a race of gorilla people that, while cultured and noble, live in a zone of the world called the Abyssia Forest. So the game is literally two letters away from saying that Ethiopa is populated by gorilla people.

ok this is so great This is like the easiest to appreciate nice cheese ever, Beemster XO. Other extra-aged goudas might also work, Beemster XO is just good. You can probably get some from Granville Island or certainly from les amis du fromage (across from the Lambo dealership that's behind the brewery, lol). Cut yourself a bit of it. Make sure you don't eat the stuff 1/4 inch in from the rind, because it is hard and tasteless. In one hand have fresh, crunchy apple. In the other hand, have Beemster XO. Take a nip of the cheese. Chew on it and taste the saltiness, the crunch of the grains of amino acid and calcium lactate that have precipitated out of it. Let it melt in your mouth a bit so you can taste the butteryness. Once you start to detect what seems to be notes of toastyness in the flavour, take a bite of apple. It is like the most wonderful caramel apple, except without any caramel or butterscotch. SO GOOD

OH SNAP

why so salty

On the front page of cnnsi.com: "Hot Clicks podcast with Mark-Paul Gosselaar" .... I admit it, I clicked.

EDF EDF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0v_ExhwJfc&t=4m52s EDF Insect Armageddon is two weeks oh yessssssss

So I may have just put my foot into something way too big at work, and gotten myself into a position where I can work on something really significant to the project and graphics related. But right now it's being described as "high risk". So right away part of me inside was going "heavy risk... but the priiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiize" 3 or fewer of you will get that reference.