So, having finished Fallout 3, I downloaded and installed the Left 4 Dead demo.

It's very much a fast-zombie movie in atmosphere. I also suck bad at it.

(FYI, if your PC can manage Portal, you're fine on this.)

Up to 90% off (yes, 90% off, although some discounts are closer to 10%) selected collectables - anything from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

character keyrings to NERV parkas to Ikki Tousen figures to SOS-Dan tote bags to stuff I'm not going to mention - while quantities last. Details

and list here.

While you're there, get your 500 yen coupon at the same time.

All you have to give them is your e-mail address, and you're going to give them that when you place your order anyway...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I did some poking and found out that alot of the states that Pres. Elect Obama carried

he did by winning a few counties in the state only. hardly a 'mandate'.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/

Well, unless one of these is an alt I don't know about, it
appears that none of us won. *sigh*

...And, honestly, even without that disappointment? I don't think I really like any of them enough to vote for one over another. YMMV.

--Sam

"Remember: denouement."

How the hell did I never notice this before?

Let me back up a moment and explain. In our bathroom, the clothes hamper is right across from the toilet. So when you're sitting there, you are facing what
amounts to a low shelf. Perfect to leave magazines on and such. Easy to reach and convenient. I leave books in there sometimes that I figure will help pass the
time while other things are attended to.

Just now I walked in there, sat down, and nearly busted a gut laughing, and I have no one to blame but myself, because I left this damn thing in there earlier.
And ONLY JUST NOW did it occur to me...

...that THIS BOOK is absolutely the WRONG thing to have staring you in the face in a
bathroom! (Safe for work though. Really!)

One step forward, two steps back. Why does it have to be this way?

Why the hell does anybody think that taking away human rights from other beings is ever a good thing? Fuck all you bastards who believe that gays do not have
the right to marriage. Fuck all you bigots.

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Epsilon

For my fellow conservatives (on this particular board? Maybe all 2 of you, but still) the incredible Bill Whittle.

Quote: So consider this, my fellows in arms:




On Tuesday, the Left - armed with the most attractive, eloquent, young, hip and charismatic candidate I have seen with my adult eyes, a candidate shielded by
a media so overtly that it can never be such a shield again, who appeared after eight years of a historically unpopular President, in the midst of two
undefended wars and at the time of the worst financial crisis since the Depression and whose praises were sung by every movie, television and musical icon
without pause or challenge for 20 months… who ran against the oldest nominee in the country's history, against a campaign rent with internal disarray and
determined not to attack in the one area where attack could have succeeded and who was out-spent no less than seven-to-one in a cycle where not a single
debate question was unfavorable to his opponent - that historic victory, that perfect storm of opportunity…




Yielded a result of 53%




Folks, we are going to lick these people out of their boots.




There is much to do. That a man with such overt Marxist ideas and such a history of association with virulent anti-Americans can be elected President should
make it crystal clear to each of us just how far we have let fall the moral tone of this Republic. The great lesson from Ronald Reagan was simply that we can
and must gently educate as well as campaign, and explain our ideas with smiles on our faces and real joy in our hearts, for unlike the far-left radical who
gained the Presidency on Tuesday, we start with 150 million of the most free and intelligent and hard-working people in the history of the Earth at our
backs, with a philosophy that -- unlike theirs, which has resulted in 100 million dead in unmarked graves -- has liberated and enriched more people and
created more joy than any nation or combination of nations in our history.




How can we lose this greater fight, my friends? How can we lose, unless we give up?

Rann says about what I was thinking on this. (Not surprisingly, since he, Forge and myself discuss politics regularly in-person)

Quote:It's kind of funny to see that a lot of Dems are still majorly butthurt
and bitching about Palin, even at this point. McCain gets a pass, his
concession speech made him "good" again, but they're still simmering
over it.
forgemccain has
said he thinks a lot of it is because they're scared, they know they're
going to be seeing her again in four years, and if Obama doesn't wave a
magic wand and fix everything like a lot of people seemed to think he
would during his campaign, she's prolly gonna win.
I don't think
most people think that deeply about it. I think it's probably more the
visceral gut reaction of "Traitor!" Since anyone seen as oppressed is
supposed to be a Democrat, and anything else causes anger. Kind of like
how the only thing a lot of Democrats seem to hate worse than
Republicans is Libertarians. "People that agree with us on some things
but not all things, and aren't completely on our
side? GRRAAAAARRRR ARGLE BLARGLE FUCK!"
Fact of the matter is,
I'd bet money that 99% of these people, who are still claiming they
would have supported McCain (because that was the mantra before he
actually got nominated, "I'm not partisan! I'd vote for McCain!") if
only he hadn't picked the Wicked Witch of the North as his running
mate, had never even heard of her until McCain picked her and pretty
much the entirety of the Left crammed itself up her ass looking for
anything it could to smear her with, no matter if it made "Obama is a
secret Muslim" look like saying "Hm, little chilly today" in comparison.
I
mean, srsly. You've got people acting like they've been following her
political career ever since she started it and have been deathly
worried that she might escape her arctic prison, and that they were
with McCain up until the pick of this horrible, evil woman with her
massive conspiracy to commit "Troopergate". Worse than forty Hitlers,
she is, that's as many as four tens, and that's terrible.
Everyone
still griping about her, learn to 1) be gracious and 2) hold your
piddle. The first because she's gone back to Alaska, and without even
trying to fuck Obama over by stirring up her base against him, as
anything less than a saint would be horrendously tempted to do after
the guy's supporters claimed her husband fucked her daughter and made a
special retard baby. The second because, again, you'll probably see her
in four years, and I'm sure you'll be able to come up with all sorts of
classy things to say about her then, may as well save them for then
instead of blowing your load the week after she lost.

About three hours ago, I was in an auto accident. I'm not hurt, but the front bumper of my car is almost entirely torn off. (The other guy got part of
his front fender stoved in, but it's not really bad compared to our car.) Fortunately it's still drivable.

Right now I am still coming down off of post-adrenaline shakes, and I've done everything I can with my insurance company. I'm annoyed at myself,
I'm annoyed that I won't be able to see a claims adjuster until Monday, and I'm just generally emotionally unsettled.

I feel like going into City of Heroes and shooting something. Lots of somethings. With full auto.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Spotted on The Register: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/06/darth_toaster/]the Darth Vader toaster.

Because what the world really needs is some sort of Star Wars merchandise, right?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012