Ah, Skyrim. Steam sez I'm at 1450 hours and counting... and now my son's playing. :/

This from the Independent across the pond: "Bakersfield police said the attacking dog, identified as an 8-month-old Labrador-Chow mix, had been surrendered by its owner's family after the Tuesday afternoon attack and was in quarantine and would ultimately be euthanized..."

My arcane reply? additem F 10000 and player.modav carryweight 1000

The Smartwool Luv4Mom code doesn't work :(

How oh how did you guys miss project totem? it was co-op puzzle side scrolling goodness with nifty retro-mesoamerica graphix! my son and I ran amuk in-game ...!

So simple, so elegant. Yet a few hours later, you're strangely dissatisfied. If only it was semiautomatic. Or... fully automatic. Yeah, and it fired rubber bands.

Is it me or is that a bottle of Alto Wine in your gif?

That's principally a matter for the Afghan government and military command to address, isn't it?

Awesome. Especially the hikers at 1:19 TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS TO THE RAPTOR BLASTING PAST THEIR HEADS! I was screaming "LOOK UP! IT'S AN EAGLE!!!"

Funny - I watched without the sound. Nothing lost. Those headflops were hilarious.

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite mod on the Citadel.

Spoilerish question - Wouldn't it be great if the sequel picked up Corvo's and Emily's stories in 10 years - and gave you a chance to play either? Emily, no dumb bunny having seen her mother's fate, will have ordered Corvo to train her. She'd be less skilled but more athletic than an older but more skilled Corvo. …

System Shock 2 for $2.49 — 'nuff said.

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"FREEEEEEEEEE-DOMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!"

I love how we all, yes all, revert to that Shirow throwaway lez orgy- cause its hawt but also because it's a touchstone! Shirow and Kamiyama (SAC and SAC:2) did such a great job of turning identity into a jump ball of choices and blurred boundaries. Tech, wetware and bodymods, are all tools everyone uses with aplomb…

It's GITS, Shirow-inspired... but what a shame Kamiyama (SAC and SAC:2Gig) didn't return to direct. And they didn't get Yoko Kanno to do the music. :(

:laughing so hard my eyes tear up and stomach hurts:

You're quite mistaken, and missed the point. Set aside any talk of differences in lab or researcher quality- irrelevant. The point is that hybridizing these influenza strains is :not: necessary for vaccine research. It is not useful nor meaningful to the ends of developing efficacious strain-specific vaccines (the…