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Crap, so I returned but instead of getting out to sea I managed to find myself in an English blockade. Great moment I picked to stop playing it before...

Is my crew ready to have me back? I might give this game another go. A lot has changed, as I've now swam in the real Carribean sea.

It's not like it's a bad game - I finished it and even played a lot of the side content. I really think if the series dropped the ridiculous homestead/trading/fleet/assassin management mini games it would improve by 23%. And I actually enjoyed the part of building the homestead, just not the part where I had to navigate layers of menus to send out carts. I also think the wilderness was kind of cool, even though RDR did it much better.

I already wear too many idle thumbs shirts but now I want that one too.

Just watched Battle Royale. Interesting to see that after the hunger games hype, especially how the latter is basically trying to take Battle Royale and turn it into something serious or at least less over the top and that that seems to sell.

The worst thing about all of the recent Assassin's Creed games is not the sci-fi backstory, but the stupid minigames they cram in there, especially the "strategic" ones like fleet missions in IV, the trading thing in III and the assassination contracts in the ones before. These things are just a waste of time, making a long game even longer, with no real tie-in to the rest of things, just a way to earn money while there are other more effective ways. Yet some why I keep engaging with that part, as if wanting to experience the game as designed. Maybe I'll try to resume playing IV without doing that shit.

The woman is probably Ciri, whom Geralt has not remembered a lot about in the first games. The books are all about her, Yennefer and the wild hunt, but I don't want to spoil much.

Went running the same route again, just before bedtime. This time 7min run + 2min walk. Was easier now already, feet didn't hurt much at all during the run. Next time (tomorrow) I'll try 8+2, then 9+2 and so on. One thing I noticed about running with music that may be dangerous: just one time I raised my tempo way high due to the right music coming up, kept it up for half a minute and then had to struggle for breath for the next 5 minutes. Thankfully it was almost at the end so didn't affect the entire run.

The mod did not make an improvement IMHO, but then I did not have many problems in the first place. About the books -- they have actually all been translated to English by fans (if you have some tolerance for typos, bad translations, grammar errors).

I dunno, if you got to a tower it sounds like you played for quite a long time to see what most of the game is like. Unless you mean something else, not THE tower. You've already been in Vizima? The sex thing is dumb, but if you manage to ignore it, it doesn't really tie into anything else much.

I think I've established that even doing a lot of workouts is useless for weight loss when combined with shit eating habits. After 2+ months of working out almost daily, sometimes up to 9 times a week, I still haven't lost a kilogram (may have lost 1-2 cm from waist, though). Meanwhile I basically dropped my low-carb diet as I couldn't focus on the diet any more with other stuff going on. I also drank a beer almost daily, due to various reasons, sometimes just due to having some excellent beers in the fridge. But I got totally addicted to working out daily and now I feel bad when I miss a day. I may go back to the low-carb diet, but have to gather some willpower...

That was the best scene!

Spark of electro flesh

I watched Zardoz after it was first mentioned here (a week ago?). I guess it's kind of funny in a way, but I didn't really love it.

Just realized there wasn't a thread for this game and it was occupying the Roguelike(-likes) thread. Anyway, HEEEELP!

Went running again today -- same route but had more regular walking sections: 6min run + 1.5min walk, repeat 6 times. I guess I might want to keep going with this, looks like I'm at about Fri/Sat of Week 3 of this 8 week program (http://www.runnersworld.com/getting-started/the-8-week-beginners-program?page=single) but I have to juggle this with other exercise.

Went running today! At first it seemed impossible, like I would not be able to run more than 2-3km and it was really hard. I tried some tips a colleague gave me: keep cadence at 180bpm, change speed by changing length of steps, look straight ahead. I used a metronome so no music at first. Then I got to a place where I could do some stretches and decided to go for a bit longer run instead of turning back. I put on music and that made such a difference -- through the metronome I could hear my breath too much and it really bothered me, so I think the biggest effect of the music was to not make me hear how wrong my breathing was Ran about 6,6km, but I lost feeling in my feet for the last 2km. I think I should probably take it slower...

How do "picky eater" and "McDonalds" go together?

I should listen to Dire Straits, I've probably heard a few songs, but never knowingly listened to them. Anyone like Swans? I've been trying to like them, but at least the last two albums are so hard to listen to -- there seems to some cacophony element there. I usually fall asleep easily with any kind of music, but found it impossible with Swans.

I just did some kind of foot test at a sports store and bought running shoes for my foot type (flattish). They were also offering custom-made soles, which I think I will also get -- I found out my Achilles heel is bent a lot inwards while standing, but it should be straight above the base of the heel.

Anyone played Innovation: Echoes or whatever the expansion is called? From the one or two games I've played with the expansion, it doesn't really improve the game: the original game is messy enough (usually I play where there's at least one newbie playing) and more complexity doesn't help, IMHO. I like some of the new cards, though.

Crazy people! Maybe you could get an Estonian ID-card (end of this year). http://taavikotka.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/10-million-e-estonians-by-2025/

I don't know much about running, but maybe shoes aren't meant to be great on a treadmill? Your body weight probably moves differently on a treadmill than on still ground. If I were you, I would try them out outside. That said, I've been wondering if some of the problems I had with running were also wrong shoes. Some years ago I ran pretty long barefoot on a beach, later I've always tried with shoes on forest tracks and couldn't run for very long. I heard there's a shop nearby that can measure one's feet and recommend specific shoes for them -- I might try that.

I've recently been too busy to spend much time on forums, so I have a lot of unread posts in some threads. I often start catching up but then only read a couple of pages to come back later. Which makes me wish that something in a forum page showed how many unread posts there still are in a thread before I click the "Go to first unread post" thingie -- that would let me decide whether I want to go into that thread now or later.