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19th century centurion by RevoltingFriendship

Tagging GrandAdmiralJello

 

I now possess two beta keys to TESO if anyone is interested. The beta weekend starts noon eastern on Friday and ends at midnight on Sunday night/Monday morning eastern.

 

No, I enjoyed them, but thought it was a touch long. Three books was unnecessary, and yeah, I just wanted to get to Zonama Sekot.

 

My sightings of the Third Fleet continued yesterday and this morning. The USS Milius and an additional Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that I missed the hull number on came by, as well as an Oliver Harzard Perry-class frigate that I missed the name on as well. The coolest thing I saw/heard yesterday was a group of Osprey tilt roter aircraft zooming overhead. I also saw the USNS Rainer, a fast transport. All in all, San Diego wasn't half bad!

This admiral was very happy to conduct a fleet review from the shore. If only they sent over a launch and invited me onboard...

--Adm. Nick

 

Seeing a pair of Nimitz-class carriers from a distance of less than half a mile is still incredibly impressive. THOSE are capital ships.

--Adm. Nick

 

Wow. The last six hours went quickly. A long time ago I started a game of CKII as a low count who went into the crusading Finland business when it was still in fashion, and the thing kept escalating...



To be fair I used the reload button a lot, I wanted to see how far I could get now when I now the game. Pretty far I'd say. And the Byzantine Empire and England are not in my control but a member of the family. Good old "Kill the foreign ruler's spouse and kids, kill your kid's spouse if they have any, have a happy wedding day, when their kids are old enough kill the ruler" routine.

 

Do you have someone who writes you these?

And I have red my guides.

 

Kharkanas Trilogy: Book 2: Fall of Light blurb / info:

Spoiler

Agh! Due February 2015!

 

What I'm looking forward to the most is the Silchas Ruin/Scara Bandaris dynamic. Old Scabbie was probably the most pleasantly surprising part of Forge of Darkness, and a new dimension was definitely added to the prologue of Midnight Tides.

At least, unlike Martin, we can A) expect that Erikson will actually keep to this timetable and B) he's working on other stuff that should be out this year.

 

Speaking of Pokemon. Bulbasaur anyone?
(cosplayed by Jessica Nigri)

 

You mean Blastoise.

 

so my current obsession is The Secret World which it turns out is really a pretty amazing game. Like, I never saw myself getting into an MMO but I am totally digging this one. Anyone here play it? Or heard of it? It doesn't seem to be talked about all that much compared to other MMOs...

 

I've thought about it. But I will probably wait for it to go on a steam sale or something.

 

That's the one with Marxist-Leninist gnomes who look like Dobby, right?

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I've no idea.

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It seems like it is the horror themed MMO I dreamed about a decade ago when I was into Resident Evil and Silent Hill.

 

yeah, it goes on a sale for $15 pretty regularly, that's how much I paid for it. I was kind of hesitant too since, like I said, I don't generally like MMOs. So worth it though.

yep.

Uli! You got a smartphone congratulations!!! =D

from what I have heard ESO sounds terrible and you will regret it so you should def play TSW instead.

 

Would that be the sci-fi series? If so, I didn't realize that was due so soon. It sounds incredibly interesting.

I'm personally hoping that Andarist gets some screen time in the Kharkhanas Trilogy. I loved what little we saw of him. Of course, it helps that he's Christopher Lee in my mind. I take any opportunity I can get to imagine Christopher Lee.

That may have come out wrong.