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Feb 6, 2012, 12:54 pm
I saw a banner ad about the new National Geographic show Doomsday Preppers and I felt enough robble robble to write something.
This show reminds me of the Robin Williams/Walther Matthau comedy The Survivors (1983) in which Robin Williams becomes a gun nut survivalist loony while dragging Walther alo... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 5:09 pm
More like adventures in scavenging scrap metal. I joke...sort of...let me fill you in on my recent escapades:
I got bored with my Imperial Agent, correction - I got bored with getting my ass kicked because my gear is shite and Agent is just kind of boring to play. Run into cover, charge shot, sh... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 4:04 pm
Disclaimer: I'm going to do my best to avoid spoilers for the Imperial Agent story arc.
I used my natural 20 willpower to avoid downloading SWTOR...wait, I have no willpower and purchased SWTOR after work on Saturday. It was a 25GB download which by the time I could actually play I was pretty drun... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 5:23 pm
Peeps Plays with His Controller - How to use a controller in SWTOR: Playing a MMO with a CONTROLLER?!?! Are You Effing...: No. Well, I may be a little effing nuts, but that has nothing to do with playing with a controller. There's this stigma about controller... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 12:14 am
I've had quite a few cues from Williams' Star Wars scores running through my head for the past few days while I was debating about getting into Star Wars: The Old Republic. For some reason, yesterday or the day before, my brain shifted over to Indiana Jones and I found myself whistling a mash-up ... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2012, 1:35 pm
I normally don't use perk calculators on my first play through for different reason than I don't use a guide or FAQs. I shy away from calculators because I want to avoid spoilers and the like. However, this time around I want to min/max my character and I also know what skills I need and what I ... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2012, 12:04 pm
NOTE: You might want to skip this post if you haven't gone through the game once. Possible spoilers.
Yeah I know, I know. I thought I was done with the Skyrim posts too but I started a secondary character I might have fun sticking with: a Nord mage/tank I named Panzerbjorn. So far it's been wo... Comment - Like
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Dec 15, 2011, 11:46 am
I'm not sure what I did to anger Zardoz this time but my PC went derp last night. In more coherent terms, the power comes but nothing shows up on the monitor. The strange thing is everything was working fine until the last month or so when the machine would just switch off and then on (with no i... Comment - Like
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Dec 14, 2011, 3:45 pm
Yup, I finished the main story arc of Skyrim last night along with a vast number of side and misc quests. Kind of anti-climatic frankly, though the end of the story arc was pretty awesome (no spoilers). Then everything just kind of wraps up and now I'm left kind of scratching my head. Was I su... Comment - Like
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Dec 12, 2011, 7:54 pm
... console fixes. Ultimately, in regards to gameplay, these glitches aren't important and only give shite rewards. By the by, fuck the Stones of Barenziah sub-quest. For all the leg work and searching (sans guides or cheats) the reward is worth fuck all by the time you turn the quest in.
I... Comment - Like
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Dec 10, 2011, 2:11 pm
by watching documentaries and a gem from 1953. Werner Herzog's documentary about Chauvet Cave, Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) was particularly good, though a bit slow at time with some heavy handed scoring. Herzog wrote, directed, and produced this film exploring and documenting the paleolithic ... Comment - Like
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Dec 9, 2011, 2:29 pm
Still from Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels a brilliant film that holds as much relevance today as it did in 1941.
She was 4'11" of va-va-voom. Comment - Like
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Dec 9, 2011, 1:00 pm
I love his expression because sometimes that the only way you can deal with how fucked up life is. Also known as "Don't make eye contact with crazy person on the bus" face. Comment - Like
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Dec 8, 2011, 5:48 pm
if you want me to post about something else give me some money so I can indulge in some other form of distraction.
I've been meaning to put down a few thoughts I've been having on the skill/perk system and how I think it's working in the modern RPG.
I hit level sixty and have my primary skills at 10... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2011, 5:24 pm
Was browsing an online friend's food site shizzling.com and saw this awesome recipe for smoked pheasant tacos. He also has a recipe for smoked rabbit tacos. What the fucksicle? Who let the Englishman have good food? Joking aside he's got a good site and some excellent recipes and ideas (York... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2011, 4:44 pm
As we all know Skyrim has dominated the conversations and posts on my end for the past couple of weeks here. I've blown past the jumping up and down and weeing on myself stage many many many hours ago. I passed the 150 hours mark last week (yeah I know, my school work is seriously suffering as... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 4:28 pm
A blast from the past from TSONALR a brilliant webcomic focused on 40K exploits and hilarity. Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 11:41 am
One of our favorite scream queens here at HYR, Jamie Lee Curtis. Still one hell of a good looking woman, must be all that activia she eats. Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2011, 11:42 am
I had never seen or heard of Nomads, McTiernan's first feature film - written and directed by him. In all honesty I'm not surprised, it's kind of awful. However, it's one of those 80s movies that is so bizarre and original that the awfulness is outweighed by the originality and imagery - example... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2011, 3:15 pm
Skullvane Manse Lair of the Astromancer. Fuck, I remember when a release like this would make me crap my pants in anticipation. Now I just crap my pants. Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 11:45 am
As many of you long time HYR readers and friends of mine I put John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) in my nebulous top five favorite horror movies. I also really enjoy The Thing From Another World (1951) . I genuinely love that movie and though it's turned into a movie I throw on in tandem with ano... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 5:00 pm
Truthfully the boss fights and end(s) of Deus Ex: Human Revolution sucked. The three boss fights weren't simply difficult (which they were), annoying (which they were) the main problem was - and I've read this in other eviews - the boss fights come out of left field and consist of the tactic: hoa... Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2011, 5:19 pm
Finally I am one day away from getting into the Ishtar! From what I read on EVE-fail and Memoirs of a Carebear I should be in for a good time. Happy fat kid hand clap glee. I'll post pics when I finally take it for a spin. Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2011, 1:54 pm
I love cyberpunk (except for the piece of shit Shadowrun FPS) in fact I think it's been my favorite genre since forever. Unfortuantely it's a genre that is drawn upon but otherwise marginalized. Hell, it's been nigh over a decade since Eidos Interactive released Ion Storm's Deus Ex for the PC -... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2011, 11:23 am
I decided to try to the chile paste I made over the weekend in my ramen. How is it? Delicious. Smoky, fruity, there's that bhut flavor and some garlic. The heat? I only used a bump (is a bump a reasonable unit of measure?) and the heat is pretty intense but I can still taste what I am eati... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2011, 6:50 pm
The Trinidad/Bhut blend is on the left. The other is a blend of Santaka and Ring of Fire
I got my chores done and the kitchen clean so of course I had to make a mess of my kitchen again. The pile of Trinidads and bhuts on the counter were half dried. I fired up the oven to 450, tossed the chil... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2011, 12:19 pm
Been watching a shit-ton of movies lately so here's a quick run down:
13 Assassins dir Takahashi Miike. I wasn't particularly hyped to see this movie until I heard some good things about it from friends. For one I figured it was a Seven Samurai knock-off and for another Miike directed it. Don'... Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2011, 9:44 pm
I just made my first fried chile paste. My entire apartment reeks in such a good way. Thank god the weather is good so I can have all my windows open. Instead of crafting a sambal or a nam prik I decided to go for a foundation - pure chiles with only adding oil and a splash of lemon juice. S... Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2011, 4:33 pm
a crew of folks, RAGE Team, are making a mod to turn GTA IV into GTA IV: VC.
I hope this is real because I think I just pooped a little. Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2011, 4:16 pm
I downloaded Crimson Alliance last night and gave it a couple of run throughs. It's a dungeon crawler that is pretty straight forward. Three character classes to choose from: wizard, fighter, rogue. I had the best luck with the wizard's combo of ranged attacks. Combat is pretty straight for... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2011, 2:32 pm
This might be old news for some but i just found out. Julia Child is a badass. follow the link to the article. Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2011, 7:59 pm
an armchair food historian and epicure I find joy in reading about the uses of chiles across the globe. One of the things I truly love is browsing recipes from dissimilar cultures and regions containing chiles and realizing that the similarity of basic chile paste is the same. Certainly in some ... Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2011, 7:17 pm
A) Kill me.
B) Make me see beyond time and space.
As some of you might have noticed my old friend has posted on HYR and has been sending me some of his latest chile crop. Today I received in the post a slew of Santakas (my current favorite chile) which I will definitely make into a fried chile... Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2011, 4:10 pm
"FOR THE EMPEROR!" is one the phrases that makes me giggle with girlish glee. Ever since 1988 I've been a fan of Warhammer 40,000. As far as the digital incarnations, though I haven't played the Dawn of War series (I will once I get my new vid card) I have played Space Hulk, Warhammer 40K: Squa... Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2011, 12:16 pm
I spent the better part of yesterday cooking and I have to say that I might have learned something very obvious that I hadn't considered before. Beef is not pork. Beef is made from cows. Beef also cooks very differently than piggy. I also had forgotten that beef will retain it's beefy flavou... Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2011, 10:38 am
I'm not sure where to start on this review. John Landis hasn't made a movie that I enjoyed watching since his comedic masterpieces of the early 80s. Okay, Family for Masters of Horror was pretty enjoyable. I'm also suffering from a mild case of Simon Pegg overexposure. Frankly I wasn't expe... Comment - Like
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