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I'm glad I live somewhere where that isn't really an issue as long as I avoid Coffee Franchises™. Though I did have an experience like a year ago when I was in California when I went into a shop. The normal way I order coffee tends to be just "Coffee, light and sweet." To me, and apparently every other barista in existence here gets it. I went in for coffee in California, "Coffee, light and sweet," and the reply was "Would you like cream and sugar?" I might have been a little rude afterwards, along the lines of "What the @#%^ do you think 'light and sweet' means?" but I think I was reasonable. I chalked it up to cultural differences; My being a New Yorker and them being idiots. And the coffee sucked anyway.

Oh, and Denis Leary is right.

Thought I'd offer this up to the AC fans. AC4 sounds so. @#%^ing. Awesome.

Oh, and in case you missed the trailer:



Edited, Mar 7th 2013 11:06am by Theophany

I had the exact opposite reaction. AC is not a hack n' slash game, and someone needs to remind the developers of that. The recent games are really, really uninteresting to me because of it.

Fancy wine is nice. Although I'm still kinda rubbish at tasting wines.

I had an appellation Margaux contrôlée from 2005. It was really nice, I don't know enough about wine yet to make a more educated comment though.

It's fun to geek out about beer or wine a little though, especially when combining with food.
If you get the pairing right, both the booze and the food will taste better.

I have no idea who that is. I just found the kickstarter on reddit and it looked pretty neat to me but I also remembered how much of a hardon you have for stories in games (because you just won't shut up about it) so I figured you'd like it even more.

Remind me of this post when there's less alcohol in my system.

I wasn't planning to choke on my own vomit tonight.

And I can still type properly. (with a bit lots of help from the nice red squiggly lines).

I would, but people are not posting sh*t I can reply to in my cutrent state.

NO U

See, that's how gays are ruining marriage.

Shoes are really @#%^ing important. Good shoes make such a big difference.

You poor thing.



On a sidenote, you know when you notice a guy wearing really good looking shoes? that's about a 90% chance he's gay.

I KNOW, RIGHT?!


BUT IT HAS PIRATES. AND FREE ROAM SHIP STUFF. HOLY sh*t.


Yeah, and you don't even have to get it perfect. I'm amazed that more people don't do this (my best friend's mom will drink expensive chardonnay with an expensive steak. WHO THE @#%^ DOES THAT?!)


This is why you do what I do: be so loud and obnoxious about your tastes that all of your friends come to you for recommendations.

That's what my friends do with wine and watches.


You'll only be disappointed when it ends.

Seriously, all of my friends that read a fantasy book in the last 5 years I've told to go read The Name of the Wind. They all universally call it great.

My brother and I read a lot, and we both agree that it's easily in our top 10 of all time.




I'd argue that the characters are pretty unique, or at least Kvothe is, the way he's portrayed. It's not very often that you're hearing a fantasy story told how NOTW and WMF are. It takes the idea of noble hero and turns it on it's head, as Kvothe does some pretty selfish and messed up stuff.

I can't wait for the third book.


Yes, yes they are. I've learned that in the past year.


I guess I'm the 10%.

Eh, whatever. I'm too lazy. I just go through hitting the quote buttons and then on the last one I hit reply.

Also, the producers of King of the Nerds were lazy as hell for the finale. I'm severely disappointed. The final three contests were a segway race through a very basic maze, a jeopardy style quiz, and then the King was decided via popular vote from all the nerds who were not in the final two. How freaking lame is that?

I don't mind who won, but I really think they should have done something far more epic for the final two. hell, pretty much anything would have been more epic than a freaking popularity vote.

Yeah, I thought it was stupid even before I started working there. That said, Starbucks is an awesome company in a lot of other ways. I think it's really awesome how much they're pushing for the majority of their beans to be fair trade and organic. Plus they offer really awesome benefits to employees as long as they work 20 hours a week. Kroger/Fred Meyer is pretty awesome too though, although you have to work 25 hours a week to maintain your benefits. Technically I am a Kroger/Fred Meyer employee, as Starbucks inside grocery stores are licensed.

I kind of expectede you to comment on the actual wine though.

Oh and about the food pairing thing, Chardonnay is white, right? (cause I know jack sh*t about wine...)

I just drink one cup of cappuccino in the morning and no coffee after that so I never a.have a reason to go to any coffee shop. Well that and of all the times I have bought coffee at starbucks or whatever like it it's been equal to or worse than the coffee from my own sh*tty senseo machine.

We don't have those over here. We do have Beans & Bagels though. Were it not for the fact that I'm not particularly interested in drinking coffee aside from my 1 cup in the morning I'd check it out.

Maybe I should see if they have tea as well.

Oh and also, I've been living off of seriously sh*tty internet (100Kb/s on a good day, a tenth of that on a bad day) for the past almost 2 years now. I just got proper internet (20Mb/s) and HOLY@#%^INGsh*t. How did I survive the past 2 years?

I've spent most of the day dealing with ROTC students. I could use a drink. It's really hard to describe since I'm severely mentally drained at the moment, but it's like their ROTC training makes them prepared for military life like how a first year typing class prepares you to be a video game programmer.

Let me clarify quickly, it's high school ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps). The normal one is basically a little military training during college. High school version is ... just bad.

Edited, Mar 8th 2013 12:27pm by lolgaxe

I mean, I would understand outsiders not getting it, but the first thing they did when I walked into the classroom was saluted me. You don't salute NCOs.

In the same sense that we train kids to cook, how to draw pictures and to speak publicly, sure. Elective course, to teach about rank structure and basic military history and procedures like how to salute and march and such. And considering some countries have mandatory enlistments it's really not much of anything.