So far I have only seen proximity chat work once where we convinced another team to just buzz off.  However, that would be fascinating.  A mission where you HAVE to join up with another team (or more!) to get something done.

Counterpoint: my friends and I are in love with DMZ and find that slow and steady progress, snipers and marksman rifles and the right approach will make any fight difficult, but fair. I believe the bigger problem (and immersion breaking issue) is that when you trigger a wave of enemies, like in a SAM site mission, and …

So they paid the full amount of the damages?  Clearly their case was absolutely awful, not one dime was negotiated down.

My wife has been an adjunct at a very large and prestigious private Midwestern university twice.  It was a numbing and awful experience that when they asked her to return she refused.  They never visited her class, provided no feedback (other than the student surveys) gave her no support.  She knew other actual…

I’m an attorney who has hundreds of weekly face to face interactions and the inability to discuss mundane topics would be deadly to my career.  A few other tips, if you can comment on something happening in the moment (i.e. Did you just see that? ) it brings people in.  Since I’m in court where something strange is…

I have represented more than a few elderly men accused of molesting young children (normally within their family).  Suicide among my clients is not uncommon. 

I can tell you as someone who knows people on the assembly side of that show...it’s a disaster that is still in the process of being finished. The fact that any new shows are out at all is a miracle.

I can attest, as a practicing attorney, that being put on the spot by judge while hungover is excruciating.

I may definitely be in the minority on this but I loved the Brothers in Arms series for 1) the squad based tactics and 2) the level of strategy required for shooting. Loved those games with all my heart. And I agree, the M1 Garand is the apotheosis of why we won WWII. That and the Duckboat.

Funnily enough, just from that brief description of the photographer up top, I knew it was Paul Natkin...and looking at the Bleeder’s Facebook page, I was right! He’s a great photographer, does all the rock shows in Chicago.

Found an absolutely enormous one of these fuckers near my house walking along the common driveway into the townhomes I lived in a few years back. First tried to move it along with a stick, which didn’t work. Then, I picked it up, middle of the shell, equidistant from all feet and the head. Now, this thing was…

On my list, I loved his collection of short stories ‘Pump Six and Other Stories’.

Seriously?

New Years Eve in college. A collision of high school friends and new college friends (who in general, all got along). However, old high school friend has brought girl he just broke up with in order to woo her back? She didn’t have other plans? I don’t know what he was thinking.

Anyway, newly unattached girl is getting…

Desthil, in the middle of nowhere Illinois, is pumping four pack cans of sours, including the very good Counter ClockWeisse at only $9 a foursome. Good stuff. You can get it all over Chicago.

This stuff went from the stuff of rumor and legend, available only on tap in a select few northern Illinois bars to being fucking everywhere. It’s stacked in the end caps at Jewel, it’s in every bar, it’s in every liquor store. This isn’t a problem, per se, it’s just remarkable to me how it went from whispered about…

It is truly remarkable. I’ve had the Dorothy’s Lager...and it’s...eh. Nothing special. Their new Tsunami Pale Ale is also decent but unremarkable. But the PseudoSue. Wow. It truly is the only pale ale that has gone toe to toe with Zombie Dust and come away unbruised. Living in Chicago, I’m in a nexus between Three…

And don't forget that Lagunitas just built a monster of a brewery on the south side, although their tap room, while large, is kinda bananas these days and hard to make the trip worth it unless you go early because otherwise you'll wait in line for an hour and they offer nothing they don't already bottle there.

You can make a helluva brewery tour happen these days. Hit up Half Acre on the northside (you ranked their Pony pilsner very highly), mosey over to DryHop where you can take a crowler with you to go, then stop at Piece Pizza for lunch and drink some of their great brewed beer, over to Revolution (get the bacon and…

It's always surprising to me when people hold Zombie Dust in such high regard, which isn't to say I don't love it. Living in Chicago, it's fairly easy to find, and if you can't get in the stores, heading to Lone Wolf, FFF's bar that they opened on Randolph St. in the West Loop (nestled amongst such other great beer…