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I just got finished going through all of Twin Peaks for the first time about two months ago. Major Briggs is definitely the best part of the show post-murder.

Click the link that says "Rayman Origins" instead of the one that says "Trine 2".

Yeah, I feel the same way (finished it on Wednesday). Glad I picked it up when I saw it at the university bookstore picking up other stuff. Heck of a book.

"Septic Shock", the affable, dapper gent?

Man, that's fantastic. Congrats, Remo! I remember the forum being all faux-angry/dejected when you first went off to Shacknews. Ah, the old days. How far we've come.

Hell yes! I've been waiting for this for 3 years!

Happy birthday, Nach!

I just finished three weeks of teaching the fifth grade as part of the first year of my education degree. It was fucking awesome and I can't wait to go back. I miss the kids already, but happily I was invited back as they're always short of volunteers for field trips. I get to take a bunch of 10 year olds to a weather monitoring station next week! Finishing those weeks means that I have completed my school year with great marks and am now halfway to being an honest-to-god teacher. Only one more year of uni (my seventh. Really ready to be done) and I can spend the rest of my life in elementary school. Whoo!

Welcome back Ben! Haven't seen you on Steam for a while (Australian/Canadian time difference too much to overcome, I guess), but wanted to say that I finally finished and very much enjoyed MC during the week I had between classes ending and practicum starting! Cheers to you, sir!

If it's YOUR WOLD why are you able to catch robo-crabs from the hookerbot?

My Shepards are, creatively, called "Lady" and "Dude". At least it's a step above "John/Jane".

I was approached by Ben last year to be in the beta for this and have played the game to completion. I can vouch for its quality. It is a fun little puzzle game that, in kind of a Layton-esque way, manages to weave a dialogue system, branching quests, and home decoration into a game that is actually mostly about pushing blocks. Some of the puzzles can be a bit tedious in a "I've figured it out but actually moving everything into place is taking WAY too long" kind of way, but on the whole it was really worth my time. Check it out!

OH MY GOD WHY IS THE OFFICIANT NOT A HORSE?

Fucking awesome!

Your friends don't enjoy being with their friends? What?

I would treasure that card forever if I'd found it. I'm gutted on your behalf on hearing that you lost it.

I stopped playing when school started and took over my life. I don't think I played much of ANYTHING from September through November. I do still intend to go back to my save one day...

Bonjour.

Doesn't it just mean that "Wizard", "Wizzard", "Wezard", "Wezzard", and Wiizard" were already taken?

You could always be doing something more fulfilling. If he wants to say to me "why are you reading the Hunger Games when you could be reading something better?" (better being, as you say, an extremely difficult case to make and problematic term to use even if he had read the books.) I could just as simplistically reply "why are you reading at all when there are soup kitchens desperately in need of volunteers?" It's a cheap shot, I know, but it's not invalid. To judge me based on how I choose to spend a few hours of my life (that's all that reading one of these books ever take) is goddamned ridiculous. Yeah, I could be reading/doing something more fulfilling, but I'm happy with what I'm doing thanks and he can fuck right off with his judgements. It's not like someone reading the Hunger Games means that they aren't also reading something "more substantial". The two are not mutually exclusive. All that seeing person P at time t reading The Hunger Games tells you about them is that at time t, person P was reading The Hunger Games. To judge that a person does not read adult fiction because there is evidence that they read young adult fiction sounds to me like saying that I must never drink water because you have a video of me drinking a can of coke. For all I know, there is a trend of people forgoing adult fiction because of the emerging popularity of YA fiction. That's not really for any of us to say without evidence. Anecdotally though, of all the adults I know who have read the books, one is my girlfriend who reads absolutely everything, and the others are former English majors who do not lack for appreciation of good literature.

To expand upon my 140 character reply to Chris' post: I am in the process of becoming a teacher of young adults. Specifically, English. I felt that it was important for me, in this position, to be up on what "the kids these days" are reading, so I picked up and read the Hunger Games trilogy. Hey, surprise, I really liked it. That's not to say I don't read "real" things either (though I will say that my intake of fiction is surprisingly low compared to my intake of philosophy, sociology, and historical books), but to in any way claim that those books weren't worth my time is ridiculous and I can only say that this columnist is talking out of his ass. I am now happy to recommend the series to friends of mine who are outside of teaching, as I think they do, as circadian wolf pointed out in the movies/tv thread, do a fantastic job of drawing attention to the way in which a media-obsessed culture uses heteronormative love stories to manipulate its populace regardless of whether there is any truth to it. The actual composition can be lacking, sure, but it is written to be comprehended by tweens. That said, the underlying premise is a good one, the story is powerful enough to pull you through (despite the obvious names of the characters), and if you're looking for a good introduction to dystopia, there are far worse places to go. If you're looking for a light read, why the hell not read that? My girlfriend read them before me, and was talking a lot about how much she would have loved to have had something like that when she was growing up. Nancy Drew this ain't. In closing, unless you work with kids, I'm not sure if I could give you a list of reasons that you should read the books (though those who do work with kids definitely should), but I feel fairly confident that I could shoot down a list of reasons why you shouldn't.

If I can find a copy of Forza 4 cheap, I'd be down. I still haven't upgraded.

Yeah, the theatre I was in was definitely going "oooooooh!" really loudly every time romance was implied. I was wondering how much of it would come across to someone who hadn't read it as a result, actually. Glad to hear you got it and liked it.

Actually, it's moreso in the books. The relationship seems to be allowed to stand at the end of the film, in the books they get home and . In fact, the first half of the second book revolves around . It was one of the things I liked most about the books, and I'm glad that they (mostly) kept to it in the film.

My main question about people who have problems with the Thief: How often did you use her in the first game? I played through (almost) ALL of Trine 1 as the thief, so if your experiences were similar, I'm now super sad. Thanks for sorta pre-answering this, Malice Song.