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I feel like IJ would be a rough listen! I wanted to check out the audiobook of Pikety's Capital, but it has a 100 page PDF of graphs, which doesn't work for my commuter listen. This might be a little crass, because it's from an IT Commercial, but over the last 2 years or so I've really come to love audiobooks. I started using Audible because of the IT sponsorship. Stuff I would most highly recommend, both as being nourishing and fun literature, but also good audio performances: Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell The Flamethrowers: A Novel - Rachel Kushner A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon Perdido Street Station - China Mieville

Good luck Tegan! Something will pop up if you just keep plugging away at it!

How large are people's main guilds? I'm in a decently sized one that prefers members rep 75% of the time, we have all the perks/guild missions. I'd also love to help people run some stuff, whether it's Silverwastes, or dungeons. I'm still a few paths short of Dungeon Master. I don't have a strong opinion about guild management stuff, but I'm inclined towards passive bonus like Magic Find and Karma boosting. The guild logo stuff is totally fun, but I always wind up using seasonal/ascended backs.

I think this is a fair take, and I don't think progressives/democrats should be seriously hammering him on this as a genuine reason he couldn't be president, but I think he should be asked to address it in comparison to his rhetoric on citizenship. There are less-white families that are being ripped apart by INS for this same issue. The right is currently trying to eliminate "birthright citizenship."

Sorry, yeah, I was using it as an example of rank hypocrisy, as in one case it was pure false (and irrelevant) speculation, but in their case (the people making an issue of it) the exact situation they're theorizing about is stated fact. Plus, everything Tegan and Jennegatron said, like saying your primary concern is ethics while stalking a person and having police invade their home.

Like the general acceptance that Ted Cruz can run for president of the U.S. despite being undisputedly born in Canada with a Canadian citizen (at the time) father.

Who is that poor guy Slade is tormenting now? He's not even a game designer is he?

http://www.cnet.com/news/a-handheld-flamethrower-why-certainly-sir/ IndieGoGo campaign submitted, and pending for this personal flamethrower.

I loved this episode. It put a little meat back on the bone. If Twin Peaks is some kind of post-modern take on a soap operas this back half is basically the soap opera-ness totally unhinging and it somehow really works for me. The circular plot lines devouring themselves in what might take a traditional soap opera thousands of episodes happening in a handful. It might not serve its core mystery with dignity but I feel like it serves one of its original concepts. And while I couldn't say it was a conscious choice or even in the text, I feel like their own ambivalence about it being UFOs or Woods Ghosts is straight out of classic soap opera lore, where people are killed then return mysteriously alive a year later with a different actor. Not as though they weren't killed, or survived, just like "Oh, hi Bob!" Again, the sort of thing that used to play out over long periods.

There must be something wrong with me, as I didn't notice a significant difference. I kind of liked Caithe's descent better than the stuff that came before it. Also, kind of hard to make an announcement like that with all the stuff in game that requires you to complete all the parts at least TWICE.

"ok, but it needs a part where i dunk on ghengis kahn"

It's just idiotic. My brain just keeps sputtering "but The Time Machine?!"

So, beyond strategizing for maximum trading post yield, does anybody want to try and get together as a FORUM GUILD and run some stuff on a consistent basis? Like Wednesday nights or something? Would it be possible to organize something, or are our time zones too wacky? like 10 PM EST? what is that? like next thursday morning for Merus?

i love this post, and the idea of SoM as inadvertent erotic gay dating sim. I want to hear about some board meeting "what they're thinking what?" Is SoM modable?

That chart is neat. It's not huge, but Sigil's of Strength has a little bit better margin than just the lode. That chart would be like 44 for the 2 lodes, but I can do almost 1g profit in the sigil, and if I'm actively playing I can unload 40 of them slowly. Is the margin better on Zojja than just unloading the damask? I think I tried doing insigs, but I get impatient if things don't move quick. The heat lamps were sweet! I still do a piquant plate, because it's a free ~50+s every day and it always sells in seconds.

despite being a backer i didn't realize Satellite Reign was actually playable now. haha. Forget Kickstarter games never finishing, the problem is more me never remembering to play them.

for skill point conversions, I've made some respectable if a little slow coin upgrading T5 to T6 though that is a bit more gamble, and upgrading to lodestones for the purpose of rune crafting. i never quite figured out the flipping market.

i have my own computer question! I've been thinking about upgrading my speakers. i was thinking 5.1 for the games, but it seems like that has fallen out of favor? is there some new standard deal i'm not aware of? do i get some kind of DAC and plug my PC into a regular receiver now? PC Magazine gave top marks a stereo pair of KEF desktops, which is my brand for my main stereo, but their PC model is stereo only.

probably not buying, no. i figured like me, all modern folk have slowly accrued like 10 extra power cables.

Yeah, it seems like newer mobos don't have them, but PSUs do. Sorry man, that top level unfathomable computer trouble is the worst. Can you also eliminate the most obvious/dumb stuff like swapping out the cord in case there is some short in it.

Does your mobo have a fuse? I don't know how you'd tell if it was blown though.

I'm in favor of anything that gives people reason to revisit any open world content, and those unlocked traits were in addition to the old top tier traits. Which for almost every class is still the best, I guess Turret engis use that turret boon one. I think that considered reuse of the world is a core success of GW2, how well they considered that stuff. The skill point thing is going away at 80? I guess for new stuff? Urgh. Most of the cooler weapon skins (that aren't Black Lion items) require skill point items though, same with the legendaries. I was planning on wrapping up Fortune & Mastery so I would only needing to focus on the specific gift and new precursor track. Fortune requires 200 sps. Ack! Do I buy the shard now? If the new legendaries require all new gift parts I will feel dumb. The stability thing seems like a boon to PvP stability, but if they haven't changed times I guess it's a paper nerf? Like 5 stacks of stability for 3 seconds vs what amounts to unlimited stability for 3 seconds? I couldn't get a win on my Guard last night, but that was me more getting bit by the daily thing. almost every team I was on was a 2 necro team. I like Meta as a "common wisdom" tool, which is kind of what I want. I agree with the Metabattle assessment of the Turreteer. I run Cele Rifle.

There was a lot I liked about Arrest Development Season 4, like the slow season long burn to make a name pun joke referencing a news story from the 70s. Also, The long awaited return of Tommy Wisseau! http://www.hulu.com/the-neighbors-2015 Good for him. Is it totally self aware? It's too raw to be totally self aware right? It's way too bad not to be right?

Isn't the average SC backer like $1,000 deep on the game already? I bet they assume with people ready to spend that kind of money on a game they have some powerful pixel pushing rigs.

i was on a deep GW2 binge, and i'm trying to scale back to focus on some other games, so i've been mostly playing for about 30-40 minutes a night, usually around reset which is now 8PM east coast american time. i really like the idea of unlocking the top tier traits with world events, though of my alts, only the ranger seems to use those (RtW). have you guys seen this? i like this site for easy build answers. they have stuff for every area of the game(dungeon, open world, wvw, pvp, world bosses): http://metabattle.com/