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This game is awesome as shitballs. (okay, more awesome than that, but let's pretend shitballs are awesome)

It's still early access, but the devs are actively working on it and making patches, and the game is great as it is in it's current incarnation, even.

It's on sale right now, not sure for how much, but this game is sweet even for people who are terrified of deep ocean/sea exploration.

When my daughter was born. I literally just thought about it earlier when I was checking LM. So I decided why not? I'll update my little family of gamer's here about my son being born on the 9th. He was born in the same hospital as my daughter. He's also got long fingers and toes like she did, and close to the same height, at 19 inches, her being 19 and a half. He was a much healthier size though, being 6 lbs. 11 oz at birth, with a discharge weight of 6 lbs. 4.4 oz. He's already regained all of his birth weight like a champ. He has dark brown/almost black hair like his mom, and his eyes haven't shown their true color yet. He was born at 04:20 A.M.

My daughter is Auriel Azrael, my son is Ezekiel Alastair. Very happy to have gotten a boy as well, that was my hope.

I also ended up going through a lot of pain during the whole thing due to a tooth ache. No pain killers or relievers worked much or for long, except the shot of toradol the ER gave me. I swelled up pretty bad too and was quite miserable. I ended up getting to squeeze into a dentist's schedule in the same town as the hospital and got five teeth pulled. Literally five. That made all of the difference, I had quite the infection. Now I feel better, but talk kind of funny. Mostly just happy my son is healthy.

The Saints Row franchise and all of it's DLC is available on Steam right now for only $17. This includes all DLC and all games except for Saints Row 1, because that was an Xbox 360 exclusive.

I seriously highly recommend this franchise. Especially to people who enjoy GTA. If you thought GTA V was good and had the best ability to customize you've seen yet... Saints Row did that on game #1, and only got better from there.

Admittedly, Saints Row 3 gets a little over-frivolous, but it's still awesome and a very good game. Saints Row 4 takes it too far. It's still a lot of fun, but, like I said too far. And I haven't tried Gat out of Hell yet, because 4 kind of left a sour taste in my mouth.

But, even getting 3 with all of it's DLC is worth $17. Especially 2 and 3, let alone getting the others on top of that.

This is a great addition to your Steam libraries while it's on sale. I think it's only $6.79 right now.

I've got 86 hours into it so far, and I wasn't even done with it when I stopped playing it. Went somewhere over a weekend and got addicted to something else. lol

This is my Steam review on it:

[h1] Introduction: [/h1]
For anybody considering getting this game... this is a hidden gem.

This War of Mine focuses on what other war games simply do not. The lives of regular people who are affected by the war, civilians. The thing to think about is, what would -you- do if war broke out around you, and you had to struggle to survive? Would you be willing to turn your back on neighbors and friends? Would you risk your own health and safety by sharing supplies with strangers, or leaving your shelter to help others?

[h1] This War of Mine takes on a more personal tone in regards to player experience. If you've ever read any first person war documentaries, this feels like you're playing one. You read the bio entries of your sheltered civilians, and empathize with them and their struggles every step of the way. Survival is really only half of the game, personal comfort and distractions is the other half. [/h1]

This is one of those games that I figured, even if I like it, it won't take long to beat and I won't put a lot of hours into it, but I was wrong. I am over 60 hours right now and still playing it, and the only part of the game I even considered remotely boring was doing a solo Marko run and "playing the squirrel." The Anton and Cveta scenario was just downright frustrating, but I imagine that two older people trying to survive with only eachother in the middle of a war would probably have a hard time making it.

[h1] Pros: [/h1]
+Varied morality based on each citizen's life/lifestyle.

+Scavenging and combat system is well rounded and not entirely unrealistic.

+Excellent crafting system that compliments the games trading system.

+The survival aspect of the game forces you to manage resources and prioritize crafting.

+Addictions require you to consider an added level of comfort for those who have them, as well as an additional way to cope.

+Excellent personal stories and biographies give you an emotional connection to the civilians in your charge.

+Random events that add flavor to the everyday struggle in your shelter.

+Artistic style and game atmosphere.

+Varied survivor personalities and skills.

+Survivors with skills that are useful in real-life, but not-so-useful during a war, gives perspective to how war affects everyone.

+Alcohol can be used to help sad people feel better, but also as a trading item.

[h1] "Everyone should choose one happy memory. And it can't just be good, it has to be grand. When it gets so bad you just want to sit down and cry, when you life seems forfeit, you close your eyes and go back to your happy moment. It's not easy but you have to try." -The Survivor Marko[/h1]

[h1] Cons: [/h1]
-A few minor bugs, most pertaining to the morality system. (Example: Citizens getting sad from "stealing" in a location where there used to be armed thugs. Everyone there is dead, it's not technically stealing anymore, and even if it was, it was from bad guys that one of your civilians already killed. (and were happy about it)

-Some aspects of the game are particularly easy to exploit. (Examples: You can change the random event of that day, or someone getting sick, or a few other aspects, just by leaving the game and restarting that day. Another example is that you can prevent resources from being stolen during a raid by starting a building project, and then canceling the project the next day to get your resources back.)

-Sometimes during the day you wish you could speed it up a bit while waiting for your civilians to dig through rubble or catch up on sleep, but you can only "end day" which is often more time than you wish to skip. A speed-up/slow-down feature would be nice. Also a "pause" feature that allows you to issue commands to your people at once, without having to try to flip between them as quickly as possible.

-It gets fairly repetitive after a few games, luckily there is an alternative shelter you can play in that helps to combat the repitition a little.

-Could definitely use more survivor options, base options, and customization of both of these things in both the regular game, as well as creating your own story.

-Could do with much more crafting possibilities and game items. Even the couch that you can sit on in some scavenging areas but can't craft for your own shelter is a good example.

-Depending on the length of the game, the construction space of your shelter can be very limited.

-Something like a craftable safe to keep select items more secure during raids would be a helpful concept.

UPDATE: -I almost forgot the most annoying con. "Alt+Tab" or basically any minimizing from full-screen mode will crash the game. The only "fix" I have found for this, is to switch to Windowed mode at the title screen, and then switch back to full-screen. For some reason, "Alt+Tab" works after that!

[h1] "I've been running into either unsufferable rubes or outright criminals. But I feel that you're different. And for a scientist with an established position like me, the company of people of comparable mental capacity is paramount. Besides.. ah, bloody hell, I can't stand faking it anymore! I'm just an old fart who knows nothing. I'm so grateful for your company. I've been out there alone for too long. Way too long." -The Survivor Anton[/h1]

[h1] The Good and Bad: [/h1]
+/-Save Intervals. It would be nice if it saved it at the start of every night, as well as every day, but it also forces you to re-do an entire day, if you decide to exit out of the game when something goes wrong at night.
+/-The rainwater collector can be placed pretty much anywhere. It doesn't make sense to place it anywhere.

[h1] "I used to be an optimist - one of those people who'd have sworn that war wouldn't come. Wars happened far away, in third-world countries. Or so I thought. Even when I was listening to the news getting scarier day by day, I did not believe all that was about to happen." -The Survivor Bruno[/h1]

[h1] RECOMMEDED? [/h1]
Without a doubt. Even if this game costed twice as much, knowing what I do from having played it, I would buy it.

...of 420's back:

I made a new wallpaper a few weeks ago. I typically always make my own wallpapers and whatnot, but it's been awhile since I've been in a creative mood and I realized I hadn't gotten around to creating a wallpaper for my current resolution yet (after a switched monitors quite some time back on my old computer). So I typically make something that usually says "Ama-Gi Society" or "Soul Sojourner" but there are some "character" names I like to use in games a lot and decided I would actually make a wallpaper with the most common one. This also happened to be my main character in Path of Exile, so I themed it accordingly and added a few PoE exclusive elements.

My main character is a Marauder, so if you look you can see text for that as well as the Marauder's head in one of the letters. I typically make an entire image from scratch sometimes employing bits and pieces of other images in it in different ways, but this time the entire background image was found elsewhere. It just looked too good for what I wanted to do to pass up.

The second one is an old one for my old monitor/resolution, it's theme is obvious. The third one is themed similar to the second one, the cuneiform on the wallpaper means "ama-gi." The fourth one is themed as album art for a song I created, the mushroom is a tattoo done by someone not me; it was just a sketch, I did everything else to it.

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Edit: Right Click and view in a different tab to see the whole image if it's cut-off.
Edit: Tried re-uploading the Je'valla one because the quality was lost, still lost. It's now the fourth one, instead of the first one.

Obama won! Everyone rejoice! Four more years having someone good in the whitehouse!

I've been busy taking care of a new addition to my family.

My daughter was just born Sunday night at 8:18 P.M. central time. She weighed a whopping 5 lbs 6 oz. Although for her tiny size she has long legs and arms (and fingers and toes) and measured 19 1/2 inches in length. She has lots of blonde hair and has blue eyes, which we suspect will stay blue as both her mother and I have blonde hair and blue eyes. By the time we left the hospital yesterday she weighted 5 lbs even, as newborns typically lose some weight right away. She's very small but in perfect health and was born only a day after her due date. She was born only 18 miles from where I was born.

We decided to name her Auriel Azrael.

My wife is doing well and we just got home from the hospital yesterday evening. My cat is curious but frightened. Haha. I have returned to the video games and am re-adjusting my sleep schedule back to nights for work Sunday. Woohoo!

Not looking forward to work though.

Well, I tried to give you your rant about old people topic, 420, but instead of the "split topic" function making a new topic, it decided it was better to delete them. Either that or I hit the wrong button, it's human nature to blame the machine.

Fucking machine.

If it's any consolation my memory recalls this: 420 Remembers growing up with Throbble and Cuch, and remembers from when he was 13 an old man waving a cane at him which resulted in his asking his mother to pull over so they could settle their differences. He offered to share more of his dealings with old people as they were ever-present while growing up.

Also, Ivon said something about having an old-people toenail clippings collection.

Anybody else here financially dry? Broke as a joke? At the bottom of the barrel and it's lookin' pretty empty?

Shiiit. I checked my bank account online, -$15 and a crap ton of transactions pending, as well as more not yet entered. I had to skimp on the rent... and it still wasn't enough, so I just borrowed $100 from my dad to try and make it through till Wednesday, when I get a half a paycheck from my old job, and have to wait a week+ before I get one from my new job.

Plus almost $10,000 in medical bills! WOOHOO! My favorite. Yay, and now I owe my dad $150 too! YESS!!!

Know what? I blame that FUCKING LEVAQUIN! I spent about $800 on those fucking antibiotics to take the fuckers for a whole fucking month, only to have it NOT solve my problem, and then end up paying more to try steroids and all sorts of other shit which also did NOT solve my problem. That was the result of a $2,500+ medical bill from the doctor visit I got prescribed that shit. Add in the follow up doctor visits where I came in and said shit wasn't working and they gave me other shit, and eventually started treating me like I was making it up. Fucking assholes.

Whatever happened to a money back guarantee? Maybe they would think twice about prescribing you shit that doesn't work if the cost ends up coming back to them when it doesn't.

I also blame my wife a little bit for pulling some shit awhile back, which ended up costing me a few hundred, for basically no good reason at all.

I blame Newegg for advertising that Monitor... Microsoft, for being greedy fucks, my bank which will soon be my "old" bank, cause they're shitheads. And I blame the fucking insurance assholes, for canceling my shit without fucking telling me, so I end up with a fucking dentist bill, and then being stupid fucking asshats and fucking me around as I am trying for over a year to get back on it, only to, in the end, fuck everyone over by changing all of their shit. Fuckheads.

Anybody else feel like bitching about some bullshit expenses, finances, or anything else related to not having money or getting fucked out of it?

P.S. Fuck you Bush, Fuck you Obama, Fuck you fucked up politician cock-sucking motherfuckers raping the economy and the lives of the tax-paying law-abiding citizens. Fuck your corrupted bullshit in the fucking ass. And fuck your fucking $5 gallon of milk. (thought I should add that to my rant)

EDIT: And to add to my rant:

Fuck you credit card issuing bastards for fucking advertising your shit to me everywhere and then when I actually fucking try to get a credit card deny me every fucking time. You fucking shits.

Fuck this fucking forum in the fucking ass.

Kinda shouldn't be spending money right now, but I seen a sweet deal on an Asus Monitor and had to buy it. Currently I have a 21.5 Inch Asus LCD, (recently acquired a dead pixel; not my reason for buying a new one) The one I just bought probably cost me about $80 more than I spent on this one, it's also Asus with a built in Webcam, LED-LCD display and it's a 27 inch. What's not to love? Plus, my wife has been wanting my monitor for a long time now, so now she gets it. lol.

It's almost "too big." Anybody else want one? It's on sale all weekend!

Check it out:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236101&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS082011&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS082011-_-EMC-082011-Index-_-index-_-24236101

Anybody see this?

...Now, nearly 30 years later, the Commodore brand has taken on new management and is re-releasing its flagship computer, this time with all the amenities of a modern-day computer packed inside...

...The new Commodore 64, which will begin shipping at the end of the month, has been souped up for the modern age. It comes with a 1.8 gigahertz dual-core processor, an optional Blu-ray player and built-in ethernet and HDMI ports. It runs the Linux operating system but the company says you can install Windows if you like. The new Commodore is priced between $250 to $900...

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112510/new-commodore-64-nyt

That's actually pretty sweet. I wonder how this is going to go over.

I guess Bioware is trying to get 1 million people to download the Dragon Age II demo before March 1st, and if it is successful, two in-game items that will not otherwise be available will be unlocked for the entire community. Also, for playing and completing the demo you also get a unique weapon in the full game later on. I'm going to be doing it on my 360. I preordered the game so I'm anticipating it's release on March 8th.

Here's more information on the demo and the items.

http://dragonage.bioware.com/da2/demo/

aaxx123 is a bot. I sent it's topic to the trash and deleted it's four other posts which were in random topics.

Kill it.