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I'm skipping the last season of House. I have too much anxiety to keep watching medical dramas. x_x I think I might have cancer, neurological issues and other problems. x_x

Oh boy?.... QUANTUM LEAP!

Lol!

I loved a full carrier build with Protoss whenever I used them before. I've done some more missions and the Spear of Adun upgrades make Protoss OP. lol. I pumped all my solarite into the middle upgrades to increase build time and initial supply. And the remaining solarite goes to the vespine gas auto assumulator function. That is the most convenient upgrade ever. Gas in the second prologue mission was a pain and now I never even think about gas again. Along with upgrading all my gateways into warpgates, these Protoss have incredibly fast build rates with crazy power. Warp gates make all the difference. It lowers the build time of all the powerful units to be the same as zealots. Thats nuts. I use the Spear of Adun's pylon deployment and then instant warp in half an army on demand. I've gotten used to making 3 warp gates now and I have a constant flood of new troops. I'll attack some enemy base, drop a pylon at the edge of it, warp in reinforcements and I win every fight with ease now on normal difficulty.

I don't even use stalkers anymore. I go with the dragoons because their upgrade requires no involvement from me and the stalkers need me to blink them around to get their shield regen. I ain't got time to micro manage that. My build order so far as turned into making 2 warp gates as fast as possible and making a bunch of zealots and dragoons and then make a 3rd warp gate and dark templar statue thing and getting some dark templars. I just got the stargate and robotics buildings unlocked so once I get carriers available I'm sure I'll change up some of my strategy.

I'm thinking I'm going to have to ditch Stalkers myself after the mission to obtain the Keystone (yea, I'm just getting to Shakuras to get the Dark Templar (I'm doing a mission a day)). Stalkers are just so freaking weak and hybrids tear through them like they're nothing (then again Dragoons weren't all that powerful either in the original Starcraft). I'm loving Immortals though, anti-hybrid weapons if I've ever seen them. I'm also thinking of going over the the DT version of zealots. I love the new warglaive zealots alot, especially with their whirlwind ability but they just don't seem as fast as their original forms.

The increased build time and increased starting capacity are a necessity and I went straight for them as well (I'm ok with the first two SoA abilities so I see no need to go further for now). Gateways are a god send, without them I'd of gotten my ass handed to me more then once in these beginning missions. The ability to warp in units where ever you have a Pylon is amazing, Blizzard really showed the Toss some love in this game. I'm really liking this games play style so much more then WoL and HoS (both great systems in their own right) but I'm just loving how the Protoss work (and the fact that we get a massive ship to help us out). I just wish they'd of released this earlier but that's just my Protoss Master Race side speaking (they've always been my favorite faction in SC).

I'm also trying to do one mission a night until the weekend, but didn't have the time last night to get my mission in. The Sentinel zealot upgrade seems pretty damn nice. Auto rebuild looks quite effective, but I'm still using the auir zealots with their whirlwind ability. They seem to destroy crap so much faster that I don't have to worry about them dying as often. I'm sticking with them atm because it feels like a berserker strategy, kill the enemies before they kill you and its working out good for me so far.

I upgraded my Immortals to Annihilators and never looked back. Screw having double shields when I can go full offensive. The Annihilator's cannon attack can hit air or ground units and is OP as all hell. It makes terrain tanks look weak in comparison now and these things don't have to go into siege mode. I have to micro manage that cannon, but with the damage those units do, its worth it. A couple of these in my zerg and they take out hybrids in seconds.

I need to re-learn some keyboard shortcuts. I figured out a couple days ago that I can hit tab while commanding a large group to swap between the different units in that group. That makes micro managing so much easier. Now when I go into a fight, I tab over to the sentries and pop their shields, tab over to my templars for their lightning attack, tab over to my annihilators to shadow cannon big targets. I'm going to look up a couple more keyboard techniques on youtube to make my experience more enjoyable. I'm having a blast with this game.

PSN is working for me, just MP is down. It's amazing how these fuckers are going to ruin every major launch just because they can. I hope they all get a terminal disease and die a slow horrible death. They deserve that much for being so petty and childish. 

I'm glad the MP came back online so I could get some rounds in. Damn operations is fun.

I'm looking forward to more. I wonder if the free dlc will have a new one with just 1 map or perhaps it can jut into an old map. Either way premium is worth it to me for Operations. That last one we played was almost on the verge of going to Amiens. 

I just saw someone on my FB friends list post about how their Fed Ex man leaves their dogs treats and how great he is.

That would be the one and only fedex man that could use the hashtag: #notallfedexmen

Either one of my neighbors dropped off my package this evening or fedex finally found my house. Whoever it was, was like a ninja. I'm glad I have it now so I can put this fedex bullshit behind me now. Tomorrow I'll hook up my new hard drive and see if SSD speed really is a huge improvement.

I bet if I'd have read the book years ago before seeing the recent movies I'd have liked the book more because it would have been established for me. I got the entire hobbit/LoTR book collection during an amazon sale a year ago. I've just recently started reading them all. I'm on book one of LoTR now.

Good luck with that, out of all the LOTR books Fellowship is an extremely boring read (even though it has one of my favorite characters in it). It has it's high points but it drags on for what feels like forever (Moria is about the only high point of the whole book).

Honestly if I'd of seen the movies first I'd probably be looking at it the same way as you. I power read the LOTR books a month before the first movie came out and then read The Hobbit about a month after said movie came out (that was back when I was reading a new book like ever other week (I miss those days when I had the free time to read, now books just pile up and I never seem to get around to reading them)).

I hear that about free time. Most of my reading takes place in the bathroom. Or when the power is out or I'm stuck in some waiting room and I remembered to bring my book. I used to read on every one of my lunch breaks but I haven't done that in over a year, so it takes me quite a bit longer to read a book now. Took me about a month to read the Hobbit.

My PS4 has never downloaded a single update while in rest mode. Its been years now and I'm mostly used to it, but its annoying as hell when I actually want to play a game and I have to wait for a damn update with their dial up speed download rates. My PS3 perfectly turns itself on around 6am (I don't know if it does it every day or not), downloads any updates and shuts itself back off. But my PS4 can't do this in rest mode. wtf. The only time I have to do an update on my ps3 is on the rare time a download fails or an update happens after it does it's daily or twice a week check. I had to download a netflix update a couple days ago, first time I've had to run a manual update on the system in over a year.

For me it's not the download speed. It was the preparing to download part. I'd have to wait 30 min to an hour for 20 seconds of download. Someone said it has to do with the PS4 checking for the updates you already have and trying to decide the least amount it needs to download. Thry really just need to scrap it and just replace the files. The thought is nice to save people bandwidth, but it's not practical if your system never updates in rest. 

Omg yes. I hate that preparing to download crap. I included that into the 3 hour download the other day. It was about 20 minutes of uncharted 4 "preparing to download". That crap makes no sense to me. I can turn on steam and updates will just auto download instantly. No other platform or system will "prepare to download" anything.

ROTFLMAO!  Oh screw that. Contacts and allergies would never work for me.  

God I'd love to have a cat/kitten but like both of you I'm allergic (and not mildly, I've almost been run to the hospital more than once due to an allergic reaction brought on by a cat). It fucking sucks because cats adore me and always come near me (and I have to pet them because KITTY!). I am thinking of getting a Siberian in the future though pending on whether I can handle their fur or not (they're one of the 5 breeds that don't set off most people allergies that are allergic to cats. Sadly they're also $1200 for a kitten from a breeder).

I can handle dogs fine (though I am mildly allergic). It's a good thing because I get stuck watching my parents dog quite a bit (cute little scamp but annoying as all hell).

That's one expensive cat breed.

We got the phone call earlier today... We get to pick up our kitty some time tomorrow.

Yeah screw that. I need that internet the day I move in. Its aggravating how the housing market is right now. Everyone thinks that have a golden turd. I've looked at houses that look great in pictures and in person are dilapidated disasters that need major rehab work and are listed 40k more than they should be. The other houses that are listed for the right prices sell so damn quick they're on the market for 2 days to a week tops. There were 2 houses last year that would have worked for us but we hesitated thinking we'd find something better and a year later we're still looking. We won't hesitate again.

I really want to find a house and move at this point just to get it all over with. Its so time consuming looking constantly online and going to a potential house just to find out its a dump.

That seems to be the way it is. You either get privacy or internet. I think I even had a friend that offered to pay for the cables to be ran to his house because it was one of those awkward situations where the street across from him had good internet but his street didn't. They still turned him down. Its pretty amazing how terrible our internet structure still is. And with city codes and what not I bet it's too much of a hassle to go through the process to run cables to a single house just to give someone access to your service.

I don't know if some people can be immune to it or they can build up a resistance to it. All I know is I never had an issue before. Maybe my entire life I've just been lucky that the rash causing oils that touched me were low potency or something. But I'm taking this way more serious now. I had gloves on and a loose fitting long sleeve shirt on when I was doing yard work that day. I'm guessing the loose shirt sleeve rubbed up against the glove that touched the plant and when I pulled my sleeves up at some point to wash my hands it helped spreed the oil on my forearm. I'm glad I had gloves on or it'd have screwed me for work. Its been 6 days now and my right arm is still swelled up and looking nasty. I only have one bump on my left arm but its still swelled like I got stung by a giant wasp. And those spots are starting to get scaly looking. Its like I got that greyscale disease from game of thrones.  I see why adults warn their kids about never touching poison ivy/oak/sumac. Now that I've experienced this I'll warn everyone the rest of my life too. x_x

There are so many myths about poison ivy that I looked into over the last week. As long as the affected area has been washed it to remove the plant oils the rash cannot spread from person to person, any puss blisters does not spread the rash. Any clothes that did touch the oils can still spread a new rash on whoever touches it until those clothes are washed. And sometimes the rash looks like its spreading, but its just a delayed reaction of the skin where the plant oil already touched but had a delayed rash response.

I did most my growing up in Virginia, and I remember how I was told hundreds of times about poison ivy, It was made out to be as dangerous as a snake basically even though I knew I couldn't die.. I guess it was more like getting skunked. There was some nursery rhyme about its 3 leaf appearance... something like 123 don't touch me!. They also made it out like as soon as you touched it, you instantly broke out in disgusting hives like something out of a horror movie. I mean it was overly dramatic but hey, it worked.

Lmao. now there is giant hog weed that is even worse, will burn your skin on contact with sunlight and can cause blindness. I wonder what nursery rhyme it will get.

https://www.today.com/health/giant-hogweed-toxic-plant-sap-causes-burns-blindness-appears-virginia-t131355

Here's my poison ivy rash if you dare to look. Lol.

And now to top it all off I got bit by a tick in my sleep. Went to the dr today because it already looks infected and I'm on antibiotics for 21 days. Wtf. I f*cking hate ticks. 

Turns out it was a combo of things. I tested all hardware again. Ran a 5 hour scan on the hard drive, 5 hour scan again on the memory, all good. I learned a valuable lesson yesterday. Don't trust hardware tests. The second memory stick was bad. After pulling it the PC didn't crash the rest of the day. A solid 14 hours with no crash. It was the first day I worked a solid shift without a crash in just over a month. Wtf.

Since its actually working I've noticed that doing a windows reset has actually improved performance quite a bit. Some crashes may have been initially a windows 10 issue with an bad update seeing as the crashes started right after a windows update a month ago. The reset option keeps all personal files, but wipes all programs including browsers and bookmarks. I had to reinstall nvidia geforce experience, avast, etc. One thing I thought was causing the crash before I pulled the memory was avast. After the reset and the crashing still happening I focused on avast thinking programs I was installing was causing conflicts. If I disabled all shields the PC wouldn't crash immediately. So I uninstalled it and installed panda antivirus. That didn't fix the crash obviously since it was the memory, but I left panda on there and I noticed it has less strain on my PC. I'll leave it installed for now because it's kind of nice not getting popups from avast. I reinstalled gw2 and I'll get on the this weekend. My parents are visiting from out of state so i might not have much time to do much with it over the next couple days.

SSDs have gone down alot in price. I'll be watching black Friday sales. If I see a 1 tb for a real good price I'll upgrade my PC to it and take the existing 1 tb in it and buy an external enclosure for it and have a new external for backups. Upgrading to SSD is easy since I learned what to do when I upgraded my laptop years ago. All I needed was 1 usb3 hard drive cable and free cloning software on download.com. I need to check what software I used to see if it's still free. Cloning the hard drive took less time than the windows reset I did the other day. But if you only have usb2 it'll take a lot longer depending on the size of the hard drive. The only catch to cloning a hard drive is the new SSD has to be at least the same size of the existing hard drive or bigger.

I wouldn't mind upgrading my ps4 to SSD like my older brother did. Only problem with that is it's impossible to clone a ps4 hard drive because it's encrypted. Just put the hard drive in, turn it on and the ps4 will have to format and install OS from a usb drive if I remember right.

I'm pretty excited to see what PS5 games will look like a year or two after launch. I was reading yesterday how developers are excited for SSD consoles because they can program with less repetitive coding that was necessary for optimal texture loading and what not. Hopefully that means not only less repetitive environments, but way less reskinned enemies that are harder but just red instead of blue with a few more horns and eyes.

I watched a youtube video about that last night. I had no idea that was a thing.  

and my PC is heart attacking again. Maybe that one stick of ram I removed was a fluke because its crashing again.  I'm trying a different memory stick again. wtf.

ive seen youtube videos where tree cutters get killed when a tree branch snaps and somehow tangled rope drags the cutter down with it. very dangerous but they do make good money it seems, my ex coworker’s husband is a tree cutter and during summer one job earns him $500-$800 average, thats after giving his workers their share. in winter he sells firewood from trees he had cut down

Oh yeah, I've seen alot of failed tree felling videos. I'm pretty sure most of them where people getting killed, but the video just shows the tree whacking them or the person falling from a distance, not what they look like in a mess on the ground. One of my mom's friends has a son in law that was trimming a tree over the weekend. He fell 30 feet, broke 2 ribs and collapsed a lung. I think hes still in the hospital. Screw that. Thats why I paid a guy. He was here 2 hours. First he climbed the tree next to the tree he was going to cut, trimmed like 15 branches off the good tree and attached a safety line to it. He had to trim those branches because in case something happened with the dead tree he was cutting, he'd be able to do a quick latch release and swing off the dead tree over to the good tree and those branches had to be cut so he wouldn't impale himself on them in case that situation happened.

The rest of my wood is all cut up as of this last weekend. A friend came over with his chainsaw and worked his ass off for me. He did an amazing job. We had a hell of a bonfire. Lol.

I'm going to get another Toyota corolla. This one will be a 2022 model and cost a little over $21,000.

good choice. 👍 my brother’s toyota corolla 1999 lasted me until 2013 without any major probs. my current toyota yaris 2013 is ok but back when i was purchasing it, a car salesman warned me that its a hybrid so it would be hard to get parts if it needed. over the years, getting a new tire was a pain bc it took 2 weeks to order it. but now with all these shortages idk. i do have some old spare tires in my garage though..patched up after hitting nails and stuff like that.

My 2010 Toyota Corolla has been very reliable and has lasted me 11 years now. It's definitely showing its age now and it's been having a few issues. The only major problem my car had was 4 years ago when the cars computer screwed up and started messing up the idle and thermostat. Ended up being $1,000 to fix at the time but aside from that I've only had to do regular maintenance and brakes. The yaris is a nice ride but they stopped making them in 2020.

yeah their burgers are awesome their fries are great too

Not to mention you get a big ass paper bag full of fries... and they bury your burger in scalding hot fries so you burn your fingers off trying to get to the damn burger

lmao! Yep.

I can download that in only a couple minutes, but uploading is pure crap. If it was only 1 file it would have probably uploaded faster, but it was almost 6,000 files.

Change that router

Nah.. The router is ok.. My upload is only 1.0 Mbit/s and with 2 cell phones and a couple computers accessing the internet all the time, my upload was even worse than that. \

I loved it. I think its one of the best single player games I've played in years. GW2 looks like it has good potential.. but the controls are drastically different from GW1. I got into a demo during a free weekend, impressive looking game, but I think it'd probably play better with a controller considering the amount of moving and dodging involved.

My FFXI guild pretty much all moved to GW2, and I really want to play with them again. One of them said that the PC controls are not that hard to get the hang of if you're used to playing on PC, so that's a good sign. Just need to find the money for it. ><

Ah. Thats cool then. I miss the click to move options of Guild Wars 1. \

I finally beat Saints Row the Third. Excellent game. I still have to get the alternate ending tho.

continuing your game should you should be able to pick that mission again and it will only give you the choice that you didn't pick the previous time... I was disappointed with the final missions considering how bad ass the opening mission was with the falling from the jumbo jet. The game was a blast though. I picked Burt Reynolds.. how can you not pick that?

That opening mission was awesome. The final mission was more about being rushed by everyone, it could have been better with some more crazy scenes.. although I was able to take advantage of my homies. I called someone at each of the three locations I had to clear. SWAT, Burt Reynolds Me and Nyte Blade were kicking some ass.

I had to get the controller that came with the USB transceiver. Its actually a regular wireless xbox 360 controller, but the usb adapter it comes with is what makes it work for pc. They sell the adapters separately too for ppl that already have the controllers.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Wireless-Controller-Windows/dp/B004QRKWKQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374712003&sr=8-1&keywords=wireless+xbox+360+controller+for+pc

I really like the trigger buttons. The shoulder and trigger buttons are much smaller in profile compared to the PS3's and it just makes more sense. However, the controller is bigger than the ps3, which is ok for me, but for ladys's smaller hands she prefers the ps3 controller. The PS4 controller will be the best of both worlds.

We went for a wireless controller so if we wanted to game on the big tv, we can have a laptop sitting near the tv hooked up with HDMI, set steam for big picture mode and sit back on the couch and enjoy the surround sound. It basically makes my laptop act like a console.

Got the front brakes done. I've never had difficulty taking tires off a car until today. I'm tempted to leave a rubber mallet in my trunk in case I ever need to change a flat.

lol I don't mind doing the front brakes, it's the back one's I can't stand doing. Before you changed them, did you have the highest quality of brakes? I went almost 3 year without changing them on my Chevy Cav, but now I travel a lot more with my job. Around 500 miles a month just for work so I suspect I'll be changing them a lot more.

The original brake pads the corolla had was ceramics and thats what I bought to replace them. The exact same OEM pads from the dealership's parts department. They cost roughly $30 but thats about how much I'd have paid for the duralast gold ceramics that I kept buying for my previous cars. Whats surprising is that the Duralast only have a 30,000 mile life to them.. these toyota pads must be perfectly molded for the model of car considering they lasted 51,000.

io0 and gizmodo are great.. but kotaku has been having more articles lately that don't seem that interesting. Maybe its their writing staff. polygon has been pretty good lately too. I've browsed giantbomb a few times, because it comes up in so many search results, but the site doesn't seem as impressive as kotaku.

IGN used to be the shit. lol. They're really dropped the ball on their game coverage compared to other sites. Its probably because they've been bought and sold a couple times and the higher ups lays off the staff to get better profits for shareholders. Earlier this year IGN went mostly to news delivered via their own embedded video and I stopped caring for it altogether.

I used IGN for the PS4 event and E3 this year because they had a better camera angel than GameTrailers and they didn't keep cutting out from direct feed to the stage.

Let me know if it's fixed. The first time I tried, I got ripped off, last time ps4 was darkened out and you couldn't pick it. I have 3 points waiting to be redeemed.

It was working fine for me 2 days ago when I claimed a bronze battlepack. Thats where I saw I needed 3 points for a gold. I'd have bought more over the past couple months, but I could only find the bf4 codes on the boxes of mini slim jims until now. I'd rather spend $3 for 3 regular sticks and get 3 codes instead of buying a box for $3 and getting only one. But yeah, try it again. I got my ps4 code, redeemed it in the psn store and then I got nothing.. I had the game on when...

... I claimed the code. So I rebooted and it gave me a notification that I had a battlepack to open after the game reloaded.

That was the first thing I cooked with it.. well, only thing I've cooked on it so far. I seared both sides of some rib steaks and then finished them in the oven. The cast iron transfers the heat so much better than a regular pan.

Once it is seasoned, it will be even better. I like my steak medium rare... so searing a ribeye on the pan only does the trick for me.

Thats how I'll be eating mine next time. Everything turned out a perfect well done. Now I have a good feeling for how fast it cooks.

At the bottom of that page is version 1. Thats what I was using. Now I'm using version 5.0 at the top of the page.

Those images look complicated x_x

They kind of do.. but after about 5 minutes of using it, it functions alot like the old outlook express program I used to use many years ago.

, was a blast. Too bad we lost, especially after you guys spent all that time moving over to my side. Pfft, we spent more time trying to figure out moving between teams. I hardly noticed him talking between my "oh shit, there's a tank right there" moments. I'll be on again tonight if you're on, I'm off so I can play longer.

Cool. I'll try to get on a round or two later.

Well, I won't be getting on tonight after all. I'll be on sometime later this week tho. I'll look for you online.

lmao. It would work too. I haven't had any time to check my internet stuff.

How is the poisoned water treating you?

Hahaha. No poison water for me. I was in the central ohio area. That poison water sounded horrible. I'm glad I'm back home now.

Thats awesome, I'll try that. WvW will scale me up, but what about my armor? Won't ppl still kill me in a matter of a few hits?

My level 80 can die in the matter of a few hits . Just stay ranged at all times, and get in the capture circles and you get 1/6th-1/5th of your xp bar filled every time.

Nice. I'll set my guy for ranged attacks and try it later.