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Ooh, thanks for the recommendation! I also need a new book for the audible hopper, and Ghost is in the right range (12-20 hours for my commute.

I always stick with the old fashioned split sets. Day 1: Chest/Triceps Day 2: Cardio Day 3: Back/Biceps Day 4: Legs/Shoulders Day 5: Cardio The lifting days are complimentary muscle groups where working one doesn't strain the other. I do 3 super sets, and take a break, so X reps of bench, immediately followed by X sets of tricep extension, then a 2 minute break, repeat. I do at least 3 of those super sets per day, and I would recommend always a little focus on core stuff like Deadlifts and Squats. A great resource for individual exercises is http://www.exrx.net/Exercise.html

Haha. Good god!

I'm speaking from a place of ignorance on the specifics of this game but I think trying to place this in some kind of modern context is kind of flawed. There is no justice. Banks are equally criminal enterprises, running a rigged system, literally stealing people's homes with forged documents, laundering drug cartel money, blowing up people's life savings on known flawed instruments, and scamming interest rates. Police in America are increasingly militarized and phenomenal drains on taxpayer resources. Obviously robbing people at gunpoint is wrong, but you're more likely to be a victim of your bank than armed assault. Making a "Serious" game out of it is kind of dopey, but I could enjoy it if it were framed in some kind of ridiculous Hong Kong HARD BOILED light. Though, it would be kind of wild if it approached it from a totally nihilistic point of view like that, every faction plainly stating their "might makes right" grossness.

Luminaries - Eleanor Catton: Great fun! A kind of murder mystery noir set in the New Zealand gold rush. All the characters are representatives of Astrological signs, and the antagonists are heavenly bodies. I don't buy that stuff, but it's a wild structure, and every section is half as long as the previous section. Fairly sumptuous prose that I would recommend to fans of Wolf Hall or Thousand Autumns. My one, plebeian, complaint is that the structure leaves some of the plot threads unfulfilled emotionally, as the narrative ends about 80% through the text, when the cycle renews, as dictated by the name of the town.

I hope/kind of assume they'll do what they did with the Monkey Island HD special editions, which is to try and fix and polish, but let you run the original as well?

he got them in trade with desperate parents for the rarest of pokemons.

the blizzard in house bands is The Level 90 Elite Tauren Warchieftans. They started at "level 10" but have been moved up 10 levels as the game cap increased. When I was playing WoW their avatars could be seen as an NPC band playing in a tavern in Shattrath. http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091012105925/wowwiki/images/5/54/RockOut.jpg

I've only listened to the first 40 minutes of the cast, but I'm digging this E3 trailer for CUPHEAD. I'm sure you guys have been @'d about it a million times, but it intersects E3, Disney, and what I perceive to be Jake's general interests. EXCLSUIVE TO XBONE (and steam).

I agree with Erkki. The game plays weird, but it's kind of worth it for it's weirdness. Ooh, also, if you own both games you get 20% off the 3rd.

If you're not feeling it, you're not feeling it, but I definitely believe that you need to turn up the difficultly (of any game) until the it's is pushing back enough. I see a lot of complaints about a lot of games where people say they're just thoughtlessly clicking through, but in most cases I think that's easy enough to fix.

this sounds like departmental beef, above my pay grade.

The "Riding Dirty" clip is my favorite Luigi the Bastard clip. He's both vengeful, and stunting.

Haha, are those scare quotes teasing me for word choice, or thinking little of Zizek? I don't really know much about the my epoch of philosophy outside the super basics!

I would recommend the recently added to Netflix streaming A Pervert's Guide to Ideology. It's a funny documentary/film essay, where famed philosopher Slavoj Zizek explains why we think what we think as seen through his favorite movies, including Jaws, They Live, The Sound of Music, Taxi Driver and more! The framing is really fun, where they will show a scene from a movie, and cut to a recreation of the scene, but with Zizek in situ. Towdy Roddy Piper "You put on these glasses or you'll be eating that trashcan!" Zizek: "I'm already eating from this trashcan all the time, the name of this trashcan is ideology"

random half ass game idea: Krusader Kongs. a CK2 mod replacing the map with iconic game territories, and a deep dish of characters. archduke abobo with the support of sir kranky from the isle of kong has fabricated a claim of duchy of hyrule!

It was a quick aside, but I've always felt the real best games are "high 7s." Speaking broadly, it's the sweet spot of competent mechanic design, but something a little too specific for what a review might feel would engage a mass audience. I think it's ultimately another marker of the ongoing lack or real critical philosophy. Historically critics in other media have been wary of that perfect corporate gloss, though the universal love of superhero movies seems like an aberration. unrelated: this is that Polygon article about Alice: http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/2/7/3960084/alice-ubisoft-storytelling-video-games-corey-may-assassins-creed-far-cry

To be fair the formative arcade games of my youth were vigilante fantasies, born out of recession nightmares.

I can fully imagine how in the context of shooty fun game, that stuff is totally gross, but I am pretty interested by the specific gut response of "gross" to that expression of data collection (i had it too) when it is the most base statement of our reality.

Haha. Busted! How embarrassing. Yeah, the photos of the event look neat. https://www.flickr.com/photos/littleberlin/sets/72157636220222803/

So I just replayed KRZ Act 1, and Limits & Demonstrations. I somehow missed a TON of stuff my first pass, but the thing that is really blowing my mind is that Lulu Chamberlain, the artist from L&D was a real person (with basically no internet footprint), and the art in the game was also real? There was a gallery showing in Philly last year, that showed game, and the pieces from the game. KRZ is really something magical. http://s21.postimg.org/zfscl1mx3/Screen_Shot_2013_10_01_at_11_04_11_PM.png

Aiden's Symbolic Cap is a different SKU, it's the only pack with meaning.

maybe a news report of that mysterious man with the iconic cap?

Given the financial scale they're looking at, and the hundreds of people who's hands are in this, they're probably just thinking about maximum coverage, and not at all considering political implication. I'm assume the plan was "here is a cool colorful psycho, like our last cool colorful psycho that sold millions of copies." I mean "you're the REAL racist" double whammy isn't exactly valuable marketing, right?

spiritually related sidebar to Sean possibly destroying a hat! Fun popular 80s dance band KLF (KLF gonna rock you) once burned a million pounds, on film, representing their total royalties. sub-sidebar: Another fun surrealist act of theirs was performing 3.A.M Eternal at the British Grammies backed by crustlords Extreme Noise Terror, and at the end fired a machine gun (loaded with blanks) almost fulfilling Andre Breton's statement that the truest surrealist act would be randomly firing a gun into a crowd.