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    There are plenty more at the site he cited. The only two I can adequately remember right now are...

    - Damphair was sexually molested by Euron Crowseye as a child, therefore he keeps thinking of a creaking door when thinking about him and Euron standing in the doorway.

    - That the potion Bran is given to drink contains what is left of Jojen, Bran thinks that the potion tastes of blood and Jojen had been getting more and more weak and depressed the further they came towards the cave. He also states that he knows when he will die and that it is soon.

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    Yeah, it looks like cutting off your arm only makes things harder... He still manages to do everything like a badass. It makes sense... they did cut his arm off quite a while after he was bitten, so why would it stop the infection?

    Well the bite area is still where the infection is by far the most concentrated. It is there your antibodies will largely try to fight off the infection even if bacteria have gotten into the bloodstream and spread. None of them have any medical training but cutting an infected limb off is common if the infection has spread too much. It could have worked even if it was a while since he was bitten. The only extremely unplausable thing is that Lee is up and jumping about what seems to be just some hours after getting his arm sawed off with no antibiotics, painkillers, bloodtransfusion or anything.

    I cut the arm off but from what I can see from some other playthroughs Lee will just not pass out randomely as often.

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    Reading The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe now. Some 100 pages in and liking it alot, you can really see that this is from where the strange fiction of Lovecraft originated. Also I have always loved the setting of Early 1800s, the world is pretty much all but discovered but there is still alot of mystery left, also if you want to travel be prepared that it might take you half a year to get there.

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    Swedish here, they will most likely send a bill with your order. Although I'm not sure if you are able to order directly from them as there is no option to select county/ state etc, they are focusing solely on norwegian customers. You could write some more address information in the big box named "For øvrig vil jeg ha sagt at ..." (moreover, I want to say) or you could probably just call/ email them and they will fix it for you.

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    Got a lot of new books to read! All five A Song of Ice and Fire books, Platos Republic, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Guns, Germs and Steel and lastly The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Gonna be great!

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    To continue on Brendon's point I think what Shac tac is doing with ARMA 2 is absolutely incredible. Mods make it possible for people hear you relative to how close you are to them and the volume of your voice, you will have to shout to make yourself heard long distances. Different radio sequences for if you want to report to command, call your squad, air support etc. By setting high standards for who can join, many in the clan actually have military experience they can create an atmosphere where they can take the game to a way other level in terms of tactics and skill but still have damn fun.

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    Is it worth it slogging through the Hardcore History archives? When I was on the lookout for easy ways to freshen up my knowledge before doctoral exams, I found myself really taken with his series on the fall of the Roman Republic, even if he was a bit too fond of making up analogies on the fly, but his four-hour discussion of the Dark Ages was insufferably bad, packed full of the misleading chestnuts that I spend most of my time with new students disabusing.

    I've been toying with giving his new episodes on the Mongols a listen, but I'd really like someone else's opinion on the quality of his research and presentation.

    Rome is his first love, so it's not surprising to me that those episodes would end up better. I really enjoy the series, but I'm speaking from the perspective of a non-historian.

    I have pretty much listened to every episode of Hardcore History, as I also am not a historian I can't give you any help on how well done the research is. But I could give you some directions to the according to me really great episodes.

    Ghosts of the Ostfront- A multiple episode series about the eastern front of Germany during WW2. This series really chilled me to the bone, even though I live in Sweden the education you receive about atrocities that occurred just a few hours away from me is minimal, the rape of Prussia and the mass killings of russians so that the germans could take the land for themselves after the war for example. Just in general how close it really was that Germany defeated Soviet Russia. And had they done so nothing would have stopped them, 95% of all german casualties happened on the eastern front.

    Fall of Ninevah- An episode about the fall of the Syrian empire and especially the city of Ninevah. Again something that I had no idea about, he does make some good points about how every civilization thinks it's gonna last forever. The Assyrians sure did so.

    Punic Nightmares- A detailed walkthrough of the three punic wars between Carthage and Rome. It was these wars that would cement the rise of the roman empire as the main power of the Mediterranean as after the destruction of Carthage during the third war there was no other power left to really confront them. Follows the same style as the fall of rome series and I would think is as accurate as it needs to be, needs to be taken in account that the people writing this down was probably trying to shine a positive light on Rome, even though the third war was just them mass murdering all remaining citizens of Carthage so that they never would threaten Rome again.

    The new series about the mongols is also definitely worth a shot. Still as I am not an historian but just interested in history I can not tell you anything about the accuracy of facts but nonetheless it has been very interesting so far. Had no idea about the happenings of the mongol invasion of the muslim world for example.

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    Will have a look at those Sherlock Holmes books later, have still only read the first one even though I really liked it. Otherwise I think that Roy Dotrice does an incredible job on the A Song of Ice and Fire books, that guy really knows how to portray a character.

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    He won a Grammy a few years back for an album including this. My cousin's chior sang it for a competition once too. She looked a little horrified when I told her it was from a video game.

    Wow didn't know about the grammy, nice though.

    Anyways remembered these two.

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    Yeah definitely, there were times during the book where I just had to stop and think why the hell I was feeling sympathy for a child molester. He certainly doesn't make it easy for you.

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    Read Albert Camus's "The Stranger" last week, and well I can really recommend it. The main characters way to see the world is just so well introduced in the very first line of the book.

    "Mother died today. Or, yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday."

    Have been trying to get into some of the more "high class" books lately starting with Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" and Nabokov's "Lolita". It has been a great experience so far as it's been a while since I've read anything that really makes you think, even after you put the book down.

  22. Posted

    Such a nice choice with Machinarium.

    I would go with Planescape Torment as I really connected with the music during the game. It just fits the atmosphere perfectly, subdued, mysterious and haunting.

    I'll also throw in this gem. The memories....

    EDIT: I also have no idea how to embed.

    EDIT2: Thank you.