I have done many similar things in my youth. I cannot reiterate how important it is to say: Life is not like the movies. This should be drilled into young men the world over, so that we never have to build horrible memories of this nature ever again.

In a college extension class I took, my group and I used Google docs to collaboratively create our documents. It worked about 99% of the time, with one of us doing final edits after everyone had their stuff completed. It's actually kinda fun, especially when someone interjects their actual thought comments (putting…

Speaking as an objective reader who straddles both ends of this issue (I am Asian, one of the "model minority" yet still old enough to remember Asian bashing during the auto rivalries of the 1980's), I did not find sadsweatowners' reply to be insulting in the least.

I understand that you want to help people for the…

It might be a joke but it's one of the reasons why I left it all behind. Taking that amount of time to fully gear/learn the raid was already taxing when you were already in your mid-thirties and working a 9-6 job. My thought is that WoW is trying to make the game friendly to those "adult types" who have played the…

Yow. That's really depressing (I'm old enough to remember the original when it first came out). Age is a helluva downer.

Later on, though, this technological anarchy becomes a bit of a problem, because BE has a number of different ways you can win the game. There are a couple that all players can push towards, then there are more that are available only if you've chosen to head down a certain path in the game. You reach those victories…

This is something I wish Tribes Ascend implemented. =(

WoW is a cold, dead thing to me, but that doesn't stop me from reading the patch notes and imagining what it would be like to still be playing.

A shaman, huh? I have fond memories of my Orcish Shaman— I leveled him purely due to the fact that no one else in my guild had one. He became my second favorite character…

Hah, I just finished that quest last night and got the gun. I tried firing it in Concordia and couldn't figure out who was saying those lines for a solid minute or two, then I realized it was the gun! Definitely one of the more favorite weapons found so far.

Just when I thought the video was over, it kept going! That was absolutely fantastic!

Ah, my bad. He uses a company that's more local (I think, at least according to the website): It's called ArtsCow. Website specifically to card creation is here:
http://www.artscow.com/photo-gifts/pl…

There's actually a Chinese company that specializes in printing up custom playing cards for you (with "playing card" quality— think a deck of cards you could play poker with). A buddy of mine makes table games and uses them to print up test pieces for his concepts. I think it's a cost of around $16 USD for a pack of…

Damn. Now I miss my Tauren Druid too. Good times.

By the way, D:OS tends to be one of those Old School RPG's in the sense that it is *very* unforgiving at the early levels. There are no random encounters, so you have to build up XP and your levels by encountering what is "intended" for you— going outside the first city, for example, is tantamount to suicide unless…

I'm guessing whale spunk.

If it's any consolation, that's the same experience I had while working as an professional model maker for a couple of years...

I recommend this book : http://www.amazon.com/Empress-Dowage…

While it doesn't cover the opium wars specifically, you get to see that these opium dens were a result of foreign colonialism forced upon China.

When you look at China's history with drugs (specifically, opium), you begin to understand why the government looks down on any sort of drug that can enslave its populace. China closed its borders to opium before, and foreign powers fought to keep their trade rights open. The result? China losing a bunch of its…

Damn, didn't realize someone else beat me to the punch. +1 to you and let's see if I can delete my observation... =P

That's no Portuguese, that's MC Hammer!