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The taproom I work in has both the Punkin and Pumking on tap. The punkin is rimmed with brown sugar when it's served, as it is brewed with brown sugar added. The pumking is rimmed with cinnamon, for the same reason. ~Fun Facts~

Today was day 12 of 16 straight days I will be working. The only day I'm not working is specifically a day I requested off because I have two events, and the GM even asked if it was really a day I needed (which is to say I would not have gotten a day through normal scheduling). I worked 55+ hours last week. I made $15 today because it was raining and Columbus day, and the restaurant depends on the business crowd for non-theater performance days. I don't have insurance. People with my qualifications and skill set are making $30+/hr for the jobs I have been applying to, but no one is biting to hire me. I met a girl I really like, though. One day I will have time I might be able to spend to see her.

Excellent, good. The Cheat is still the best, of course.

Yay! #19 is I started expecting this one to show up for a 2002 selection after I thought it was released in 2001 and didn't hear it.

If you did design work at an industrial firm and then on the weekends offered your services as an interior designer, I wouldn't see a problem with it. I suppose I can see your connection between teacher and police as a public to private endeavor, but really the difference between the designer and the cop is the gun. I should point out that on re-reading the person who said he had a sandwich was a family member and not an eyewitness. It's still going to be a long road for me to believe anything STLPD has to say involving fucking shooting people who are not in the act of or fleeing from committing crimes. Or shooting them at all, ever. Ever.

OH MY GOSH OF COURSE IT IS. Which is why I thought it was Mega Man, and also why it's burned into my brain. Wow.

Number 5 is

Did I completely misinterpret this? I was not under the impression that you have any contact with him at the end of the game. Gormongous basically has it spot on. Orcs were bred by evil forces and are essentially "evil" in the throughlines of the main stories. They're bred to hate humans, so they're adversary whether they're evil or not. I disagree with two points you brought up, Chris. One, I don't agree that Talion is presented nobly. He and the wraith are both presented as seeking revenge, and his moments of "humanity" are shown by using trickery, deceit, and stealth rather that brute force to slaughter orcs. Even if their goal is defeating the forces of Mordor and Sauron, neither character is good. It's mentioned by the freed slaves that Talion was hunting THEM before the Orcs overran wherever he was stationed. The next point isn't yours so much as Carolyn's, as you haven't finished the game yet. It's unfortunate that the plot is undercut for the sake of sequelitis, because Celebrimbor is not a good person. He is clearly corrupting Talion. If they could have just ended the game, I can see a fall of those characters like you suggest the corrupting power implies in LoTR. Talion should have died. Celebrimbor should be released or doomed to eternal torment. Instead they have the Middle Earth equivalent of a ghost-dead guy high five to keep kicking ass. It's a damn shame because it was so close.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-officer-fatally-shoots-teenager-in-south-st-louis/article_2d5a8c2a-97db-5cec-a477-1130d7d26f7e.html How's this for conflicting accounts: police say the boy killed had a gun and fired 3 shots. Others are saying he had a sandwich in his hand. The officer was off duty but in uniform, working as a private security guard.

You're branding their mind. What you described as your expanded train of thought is literally what the overarching mission for the second half of the map is.

The mental and emotional stress isn't worth the money. Don't broach your morals for a cruddy paycheck. You'll probably regret it. With regard to unemployment, I feel like if ANY employment was terminated on the part of the employer I would at least attempt to seek unemployment benefits.

I feel like her hair decisions weren't that far away from the costuming choices from the LoTR books for the people from Rohan. I was basically fine with it. The crazy shock blonde was a little stark. There are at least a few contingents of Men that don't really get touched on beyond a mention in LoTR. I also felt fine with the way they set directed the setting. The Sea of Nurnen is way off to the southeast. Mt Doom and Barad Dur are basically snuggle buddles with Minas Tirith by comparison.

Oh man, Frankie is awesome. He tends to be informative while being entertaining, and also he's really good at shooters. I've watched most of his DayZ videos. Crafts a pretty good narrative in a game without one.

That was the omitted second part of the post that I couldn't really phrase - the fact that every place has crazy regional dialects. For example, most French sounds the same to me but French people probably cringe at French accents that are totally inappropriate.

As an East Coaster, someone thinking those accents are the same sounds crazy to me.

Danielle it was really fun to watch you and Patricia stream for a few minutes before I went to bed. It was cool to chat with you. The systems in Shadow of Mordor make it a surprisingly watchable experience because it has (dare I say it) Far Cry 2-esque open world bullshit where you're trying to do one mission and focus on one captain, but then another captain shows up so you let a caragor loose and then someone sounds the alarm and then ghuls appear and then... I feel like it's worth pointing out that you actually learn the stealth kill mechanic from stealth killing an orc about 3 minutes after you sneak up on your wife with a birthday present. I'm surprised that little sequence raised eyebrows, I thought it was kind of sweet. No one seems to mind that you learn how to build a chain combo by hitting your son with a sword right before that.

I actually think the game is fairly well balanced. The first map ramps up until you're fighting guys that are tough, and then you go to the second map and that starts at about 70-80% and then ramps back up. By the time you unlock the 4th tier of skills, fighting captains in the 10-15 range is really not an incredible challenge. Combat branding changes things dramatically. Your experience is almost certainly different than mine, but by the time I moved to the next map I had almost entirely cleared the missions and I had absolutely RUINED the captaincy of that map (like, more than half of them were dead). I think I used the move time forward thing once. Wasn't interested in it.

Yes. You can fast travel between them instantly. In fact, it's probably easier to just fuck around endlessly with the nemesis system on the first map, because everyone's so low level you can just toy with them. I think I have a Power 3 warchief on that map because I was just ruining everyone I saw and it needs to generate SOMEONE to fill the power vacuum.

Just finished it (like 80% of the achievements). I feel mostly the same. I honestly enjoyed the story parts of the game that were about explaining some of the real Middle Earth lore, but the last few missions were definitely in service of ~It's A Video Game~. The mechanics are just phenomenal, though. I'm definitely going to check out the challenge mode or trial mode or whatever it is. It looks like what I want more of with regard to where the game is going. I also like that the non-story achievements encourage you to do wacky shit with the systems they made. Poison a captain at his feast, turn warchiefs against each other, etc.

Out of curiosity, are you still on the first map? If so, I'd encourage you to do the story missions so you can unlock the rest of the systems. They do a surprisingly good job of weaving the open world into the story, but it throws an AC veteran like me off that progressing the story actually increases fun quotient rather than just pushing the game toward its conclusion. The Nemesis dynamic of the second map is surprisingly different than the first due to the brand mechanic showing up.

Right. I wasn't trying to single you out, I have just seen "Ubi" in reference to this game an awful lot and I think it's doing Monolith a disservice to not give them a fucking whale of credit for a rad game.

When people refer to Ubisoft, are you just talking about the style of game they've pigeonholed themselves into making? I've seen this more than a couple places. I know it pulls heavily on some of those game mechanics, but Monolith made this and Time Warner produced.

The strategy of the second half of the game is completely different from the first, holy smokes! I've already put a lot of hours into this game, and it's going to slow way down as I politicize my way through the second set of warchiefs. E: I haven't even mentioned the literal best feature in this video game, which is the implementation of auto-walk during the walk and talks

Literally the only non reprehensible thing any Missouri police have done in an unfortunately long time.

I might be alone in this, but outside of the fact that you have a sword those games couldn't be more different to me. They are certainly a different genre. I wouldn't, for example, recommend Bayonetta to someone who likes Batman. I found something I don't like about the game- the quicktime event is horribly contrived.