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The problem with having kids is that they suck away any time you'd have for video games. I don't recommend.

Hmm, I forgot who originally said this but what are the statistics and how is it being measured? Buying free range eggs isn't much of an upcharge at our local grocery store but a regular sized chicken can almost double in price when buying the organic version. On the other hand, it seems to me that vegetables are much cheaper to buy on what you get per pound than most meat in the store and the organic versions are always much less of an upcharge. If I factor in the tasteless packs of frozen vegetables, it seems cheaper still than buying some meat. Maybe this is just Texas though? This is all solely going by the HEB chain in both Austin and Houston, so there could be a major difference with other bigger chain grocery stores. I don't think we've ever been through a full grocery run at any other store chain since 2007. Yeah, I feel the same. Even though I very rarely ever buy a new model I often feel very guilty about the electronics I buy, especially after a lot of the documented cases in China this year and last. I have an early Nokia smartphone that's running symbian and everyone assumes it's ancient. I can fuck around a bit on the internet, it has wifi and 3G (if I wanted to pay for that), makes calls, and plays some games. I'm not sure what value I'd get over a new model. I guess I just completely miss the notion that you need to always rebuy something expensive that you just purchasd just so you can be up to date, whether it be cars, consoles, phones, TVs, etc. If anything, if I buy some electronic widget and two months later a newer model comes out with one or two improvements, I just tend to get super annoyed with the company doing so.

The only problem I have with the redacted bars being gone is that you have to separate your spoilers into cohesive paragraphs instead of subtracted a couple of words from something that could possibly spoil.

Texas loves a good fryin'!

I saw that this topic suddenly made it to three pages overnight and I was hoping it would be a lot of debate on performing dolphins and whales and how to best get them back into the wild and give them the quality of life they need, but instead it's completely derailed. What do you all have to say for yourself?

The landlord sited the continued noise as the final reason, however I'm sure as Subbes said, the prostitution was probably the major motivator. But the "massage" thing probably wouldn't hold up if he were to have to take them to court if they refuse to leave or something.

After hearing many reports the past few years about performing dolphins in captivity and not even seeing the documentary, The Cove, I'm convinced these animals should be left alone in the wild. I feel like if any animal is intelligent enough to realize their captivity and have biological needs to have large amounts of open space, we need to leave them out of zoos and funparks unless there is endangerment to their habitat.

Not so far, but I might have up to a month before they are completely out, so it's very possible.

Gosh, I've never had any car that long. I'm on my 6th now. It's a combo of lemons, bad drivers, and of course me being a bad driver (not so much these days). I could understand an attachment to things that have done you so well for so long. Also in neighbors updates, I have now gotten them evicted. Woohoo! Hopefully they don't try to fuck up our place or act like major assholes before they leave.

Well after I was up last night since they decided to have a party in the backyard from 3-7 AM, I'm just forwarding everything to the landlord. This is fucked up. We confirmed looking out the window that the woman in the ad is definitely the same woman there now. My girlfriend got more recordings this time, one where her and the multiple guys out back decided to have a "spanking party" where they all took turns spanking her ass while she moaned. Seriously?! Seriously?! FUCKING SLEEP I WANT SOME FUCKING SLEEP

Whoops, I guess I read it wrong So in the ongoing saga of the noisy obnoxious neighbors on the other side of our duplex, the landlord ended up threatening their eviction last month after my girlfriend had the idea of recording them when they were loud in their backyard (which we can hear easily from our bedroom or office window) during the early AMs. He said he needed proof and he could not get any, so he got it about three times, the last being a recording of the lease owner's roommate shouting obscenities at our bedroom window at 7 AM on purpose to be obnoxious. After that, the roommate was promised to be gone by out landlord and that the "good" tenant would stay. Needless to say I know this guy is not the good tenant because half of the times I've talked to them, called, looked out the window, etc. it's been him as causing noise. So yeah, they've finally been quiet for the most part during the last month since, no more loud parties during Tuesday at 4 AM and no more loud bass playing from either the inside of the house or their big trucks all ours of the day. However I know from being compulsive Google for information type that last February the guy had changed roommates because I searched his phone number and found a want ad looking for a new roommate quickly so he could pay next month's rent and bills. This means he can't really afford the place on his own and I was hoping he'd just have to leave. Also, I have his phone number because he gave me it in person from one chat I had with him the noise, saying I could call him any time he was loud. Of course calling him only worked about six times and then he stopped answering and loudness continued, well until recently. So here's the twist. Recently I've been kind of hearing a drunken sounding warbly lady in their backyard yelling at the dog or babbling at, once again, 4 AM and waking me up. It hasn't been anywhere as obnoxious because it's no longer parties in the backyard for hours on end and she doesn't talk for long, so I haven't bothered caring. But the other day I thought of Googling the guy's cell phone number again because I was curious if he put up a new ad for a roommate. Instead what I find is about four ads on multiple sites with some pictures of a trashy looking lady in her panties advertising $200 massages in South Austin (where we are) with his phone number. Backpage.com and Adultsearch.com are probably not good places where you find legitimate massages and I don't know if usual massage therapists advertise wearing their underwear on sites with porn ads. When my girlfriend looked at the pictures she noticed the layout of the room matches a reverse version of our office room. She also goes by Bella, which is the dude's dog's name. So what I did yesterday is use my Google Voice number (which I haven't used ever with anyone nor published on the internet) and called the phone number. The same lady I've heard outside with the warbly drunken voice answered, I said nothing, and she said hello multiple times and then asked me to call her back. I was kind of hoping to confirm the phone number still belonged to my neighbor for sure, but no dice. I just kind of want this dude gone already. After dealing with just noise almost ever other night and many rude awakenings for almost a year, I just kind of hate his guts and don't even want to see him anymore, so I'd like to see if I can go somewhere with this and just get him kicked out for good. I'm considering forwarding it to the landlord, but all I've found out so far is completely circumstantial. I haven't gotten a good look at the new person around their house so I can't confirm if it is the same woman. My girlfriend is not sure either. Plus she is only offering massages, right? But I guess I'm trying to think if it would be a good idea to tell the landlord anyway with what I have just because it's probably his business if prostitution is happening on his property. I just want a nice neighbor that is quiet and smokes a pipe next to the fire place with a nice book. We used to have one but they unfortunately left to their own house. My girlfriend and I love our place and it's very preferable to all of the apartments we have lived in the past (although none have been as noisy as management usually took care of that pronto), but we have considered moving a few times. So I might be getting too spiteful here since they are quiet now, but I really am having a hard time letting this go. Plus I don't want Johns coming around our house late at night.

"I'm not putting my lips on that." I swear not a week goes by without me hearing this in my head.

If you're friend is leaving early, isn't it still his responsibility to pay the end of his month's rent up until the lease is over? I mean even if his name is not on it, it's only fair if he agreed to live there until the end of the contract. I mean if you skipped out on your lease, that's what you'd owe.

I sort of finished Mighty Milky Way last week on my 3DS. It's a one note game, but I had fun until this ridiculously obnoxious second to last level. It's usually a nice little one note game but the last level has about seven sections in a row depending on your speed, accuracy, and the boss' targeting in order to win. I swear it took me 100 tries. And if I'm not masochistic enough, the reason I said "sort of finished" is because you unlike time trials for every level at the end. So far, I finished about half within the time limit, but I'm worried some might get crazy later on. So far it seems to do what most time trials in games do: be intentionally cruel on early levels yet discover on harder levels you were already doing it the correct and quickest way. I might end up putting it down if I get something else with bite size chunks to play on handheld and carry around, but so far this is it. I haven't played such a light game based on one mechanic for a long time while still being fun. Kind of reminds me of random puzzlers your have lying around your DOS folders and would just chip chunks of level away when winding down.

I heard from some job seminar thing once that you should ask for the reasons you did not get the job so that you can patch the mistake (if there are any). Unfortunately this has worked for me only a handful of times because most people just don't ever e-mail back if you do get a rejection notice.

Is it at all possible to save up and coast out there just in case? Unfortunately sometimes with the game (and maybe technology?) jobs you have to know someone no matter how eager or skilled you are unless there's like hiring boom. But I am probably saying stuff you already know, Subbes and I bet even with savings San Francisco is still stupid expensive in comparison to Tallahassee, giving you like a month or two window. But the only way I got a job in a city 160 miles over in Texas was by coasting on my savings and eventually my girlfriend's money for months and in the meantime going to IGDA meetings and game developer get togethers that I found out about, then working at home on stuff jobs might want. Just bugging enough people led to someone actually considering opening an e-mail with my resume, but cold calling game studios for months was useless and no one would get back to me. Maybe if you just e-mail little comic strips drawn in the margins of your resume over to Tim Schafer everyday they'll hire?

This is by far the worst Kickstarter yet: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575109064/penny-arcade-sells-out The rewards are only the icing on the cake, how condescending. These two are my favorites: "Pledge $500 or more Within reason, Gabe and Tycho will retweet one of your tweets." "Pledge $1,000 or more Get added to Tycho's XBOX Live friends list for a year. You'll be one of the 100 that MS allocates to each account, playing and setting up games throughout the year."

She's credited for additional dialogue so that's why I guessed she only worked on the aside stuff with Elika. I should say the sarcastic dialogue wasn't awful, it's just the whole time I was playing 2008, I wanted some kind of sincerity balanced out between both of the bickering characters in a way similar to Sands of Time. I did love the concubine part in the game you are speaking of though, but my hunch is that was probably the main writer, Andrew Walsh.

http://www.gamesindu...=european-daily So it is now revealed Rhianna Pratchett was/is lead writer on the game. No direct quotes from here of any meat on this article but I find it interesting. Makes me think maybe the game has been portrayed in a poor light and won't really end up the way the hype make it to be. But I haven't played any game Rhianna has written for outside of Prince of Persia 2008 where I'm assuming she only handled the side dialogue you could have with Elika. It wasn't that good or interesting, just a ton of sarcasm, so I don't know if I like her writing.

You do realize once the game is released, the Kickstarter thread for the game will be mostly likely be resurrected by the players. If someone creates a new one, I'll definitely complain that they should be merged. For instance, on the long Double Fine Adventure thread, I don't personally see any problem to continue discussing the game in the thread once it's released, since it is already a discussion for preproduction work at this point and no longer the Kickstarter itself. Also Pendulo Studios sucks and does not know how to design good adventure games.

I was very curious about this myself, but if they are joking around, doing it on an actual Kickstarter with rewards they have to fulfill seems like a bad idea. Unlocking achievements on a chart through throwing money at them is even more obnoxious. I just don't feel like Kickstarter as a site needs fluff projects like this when it is traditionally a site to get something off the ground. Why don't they just have a pledge drive every year like Maximum Fun or This American Life?

Because I think of Kickstarter as a place where you get funds to make something, not use it to fund something you already have, especially for something like stripping ads. They're going to make their goal though, so it's kind of a moot point on how sleazy I find it. Althought yeah, Your World, yesh, that's a contender.

I didn't feel like reading everything, but can I buy this instead of fucking around with an iPad? Will it do the big iOS games?

I'll never tire of this Youtube meme where you remix the Space Jam thing with everything. These are my top favorites. Listen when you have had very little sleep for best results!