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Listening to it right now. There's something 48 hours mystery/investigates about the subject matter which is vaguely icky feeling, but it is certainly compelling and well produced. Edit: Oh and on the gifted front, just anecdotally, I was able to mostly coast through college as well. I never did super well (high B+, knocking on the door of an A-) but I also didn't work as half as hard as any of my peers either. I did this twice in different disciplines (English and Comp Sci) although I'm pretty sure my brand of bullshit would not have cut it in grad school if I had ever tried.

Re: Sherlock Holmes consulting detective, I'm not sure how related they are, but there was an fmv game by a similar title: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes:_Consulting_Detective which was remastered for ios and pc: http://www.zojoi.com/sherlock/ Also, regarding Joseph Bell, there was a bbc series in which he and Conan Doyle solve mysteries: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Rooms:_The_Dark_Beginnings_of_Sherlock_Holmes

pretty sure it's just vanity, although maybe class items and emblems count toward the "have all legendaries equipped" cheevo? I have no idea.

Naw the easiest/quickest to do by far are the punch 30 guys to death and kill 20 guys without getting hurt by them.

If reddit can't or won't ban/delete/nuke that shit from orbit the instant it goes up and people continue to support reddit by using the site, I'm going to say there is a degree of complicity there. Besides which, that has hardly been the only gross thing to come out of reddit.

That brings to mind the John Oliver bit on global warming: http://commodifiedsouls.tumblr.com/post/86307896054/itscarororo-teesa-the-only-accurate-way-to a middle ground stance seems to me about the same as saying 15 and 5 are equal in value?

Holy crap wat?!?

ack! i just got back from dinner and psn down those aliens aren't just going to shoot themselves, sony/bungie edit: oh wait nevermind looks like I'm in.

Well for memory reasons it probably makes sense for there to be some limit. Thing with these limits is they're so tiny.

If y'all are into incremental games, I quite like the kitten one: http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/# There's a pretty deep crafting system as the game unfolds where it's not just a case of waiting for numbers to increase. Protip: there is starvation in the winter so at the very beginning it's best not to go beyond 2 kittens until you have a fairly robust agricultural infrastructure in place. Other protip if you have things that require resources you can't produce: if you've unlocked trade, sometimes resources will be produced randomly as incidental benefits to trade (i.e. not listed as one of the things you get from the trade). This applies for blueprints and titanium. Trading with anyone has a chance to produce blueprints, titanium is trickier:

I had just enough for the rifle so went with that and took my chances with the exotic engram, also ended up with a hunter helmet. It's rigged I tells ya!

I agree that scale is a problem for any moderation that requires people to hands-on review stuff (and you absolutely need hands-on review otherwise you'll have abuse of the flagging/reporting stuff to get people banned or whatever), BUT: for one thing Twitter does not allow you to flag something as abusive unless you are personally the target of the abuse (or, maybe they do allow it but they have explicitly stated that they will not look at any such reports, so near enough as makes no difference). This is hugely problematic because it forces the victim to be on twitter and potentially have to face more abuse when what they maybe should be doing for self care reasons is stepping away.

It's super rough/buggy. Mostly I'm there to squat the username in case it takes off as a better alternative to twitter, but it isn't there at the moment. As for censorship, well there's this, if no one has mentioned it: http://betabeat.com/2014/09/ello-has-not-been-banning-gamergate-posts-that-screen-grab-is-a-fake/ That said, even if it were real, at some point you have to draw a line about what is and isn't allowed: doxxing, rape/death threats, child pornography, whatever. Some stuff IMO very much should be considered over the line. A potential user is just going to have to decide for themselves whether they agree with where the moderation staff has chosen to draw that line.

re: japanese i die games, in addition to the seminal cave story by pixel, there is also the stuff by ABA games/Kenta Cho whose earlier stuff, especially, should be of interest to bullet hell shmup fans. http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/games/ rrootage, in particular, is super good

Oh I'd probably be down for that. Got a couple of legendary pieces of hunter gear that have been sitting around gathering dust.

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That's not really a punishment, it's tons of fun and there's no penalty for dying, but they apparently did just nerf the cave: http://www.bungie.net/7_Hot-Fix---09252014/en/News/News?aid=12190

The run to 20 probably goes a lot quicker having been through it once and knowing what to do. I mean I'm really close to maxxing out the abilities on my other subclass, so in effect it's like I did the run to 20 again, right? And it doesn't feel like it's taken the same amount of time. One thing you could do to speed it up is save a set of level 16 blue weapons that your main would otherwise junk. That would give your alt a nice boost once they hit 16. Also, from a purely time invested to xp gained standpoint, I feel like the easy vanguard bounties are better efficiency than just running (non-daily/weekly at least) story missions or raids. In particular: punch 30 dudes, kill 20 dudes without getting hurt, gain 9000xp without dying, collect x resources, and do 6 patrol missions are all pretty quick to knock off (well maybe the 9000xp one less so, but if you do it on earth/cosmodrone it's at least easy once you're leveled enough for the enemies there).

I think we are. I'm dc_juv3nal on psn.

If anyone is going to be on from say 9pm pacific or later, I could use a hand with the queen's wrath stuff also. I think I have 3 of the queen's bounties collected.

fyi queen's bounty stuff is up. do a queen's bounty (available through regular bounty dude) and get access to a random mission at lvl24 with guaranteed legendary reward (accessible throught the column of missions where the daily mission shows up). Also rank up in the queen's bounty faction (?) and there are some new shop (at the new unlocked tower location) items available. Disappointingly, it looks like those are mostly rares, but there are new shaders at rank 3.

Ooh Kirk Hamilton's review is up. He actually did the raid before filing it!

So Sunsinger in pve can be played kinda melee tanky if you take the radiance mode that reduces incoming damage and the punch mode that gives you 10 seconds of shields when you hit something. Great for punching the heck out of a thrall swarm (you can accidentally punch the explody thralls with impunity if you have those protective buffs up).

I'm 25. I think I have the gear I need to hit 26 but I'm behind on crafting materials, ascendant shards in particular (there are others I'm missing but they're the ones relatively easily farmed in patrol mode.

I think I might get more excited if Vancouver actually shows up as Vancouver, but so often it's a standin for something else. The most egregious example I recall was when a shot showed our skytrain which had the provincial flag emblazoned across the side: (and visible in the shot) when it was supposed to be Seattle or something. A+ for not even trying.