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  2. But I don't have 10k posts on any other school's message board....
  3. So played a bit in the spring, then played with my son in July, and then a little bit over the past few months, on the official UO shards. Impressions. The event they held over the summer was pretty fucking cool, and it was a demonstration of a new quest/event/dungeon system that was just implemented. The "New Legacy" speciality/seasonal shard is cool (the rewards are worth it). It's also the test-bed for new code that's being written to replace the old "spaghetti" code. Atlantic completely, utterly sucks ass. A decent-sized house in a decent location (not even max-storage mind you) runs into the hundreds of millions. With that said, you can place 9x14s and 10x15s here and there when houses fall (Ye Olde IDOC) but there's always a dozen people also trying unless you stay up really late. But Atlantic is over-run with middle-aged 12 year-olds talking shit to each other in general chat, and the best housing plots that are available were placed by scripters who had automated bots place the micro-second an IDOC spot was available for placing. Apparently 1-2 people have placed about 90% of the best spots that have opened up over the past few years. Developers say they are going to deal with them harshly, soon (2 weeks?). Prices also suck on a lot of things, and it seems to be populated by shit-talkers, item collectors, and people trying to sell stuff for real-life money. Lake Superior, Catskills, Chesapeake, Baja, Pacific, and the Japanese shards are the best shards - not as much activity as Atlantic, but not overrun with shit-talking and scripters, and you can place 18x18s (And even towers and keeps). They ran the events this summer just fine (the events required cooperation from several players to even have a shot at making it through all 5 steps). Luna no longer matters as far as housing because we have a shard-wide vendor search system you can access from your home or in a city. People still hang in Luna a bit, because the bank has all of the NPC shops around it, but it's not like it was. According to a friend who has gotten me re-engaged with UO, UO is slowly being rewritten to address various issues (it has 5-6 person team doing coding/design/graphics). This summer, the back-end of the Classic Client was migrated to "modern tools" (guessing the same as the Enhanced Client). Right now they are working on making the Classic Client run at 60fps or more, and with a resizable window.
  4. It actually increases the rate of cuts and abrasions. Many scientists believe it contributes to autism. If you use it on a corpse, the corpse becomes even more dead! I got through three posts. Fuck the South. Let the South rise again and encourage its secession. Then nuke it from space. I hate hating my country and state. Hate it.
  5. That would sound insane if that's what anyone was saying. The Big 12 didn't call holding in 2008 on anyone against anyone (hyperbole of course but the called holding rate was absurdly low compared to other conferences). It was not an anti-Texas conspiracy but more likely a strategy to increase scoring for now excitement. It did affect Texas more because we had the best pass rushers in the conference that year by far. Reading is important, but reading comprehension is critical.
  6. The only dangerous thing about the trail is the heat in the summer LMAO.
  7. I get it that not being on committees greatly reduces the grift opportunities and generally lowers the status of a Rep, but what percentage of the voting public knows what committees their rep sits on? I don't think taking away committees means jack shit in the big picture of bringing in new blood.
  8. Some season 4 teasing from a panel for the season 3 finale: Akiva Goldsman also mentions season 3 struggles with the strike, so they fully acknowledge they had issues outside of their control One Una-focused season 4 episode Growth of the Kirk/Spock relationship in season 4, including them evolving a bit more into their TOS character personalities (through seasons 4 and 5) Some Kirk Bros. character development in season 4 as well
  9. LOL. Ok. Keep those eyes blinded.
  10. I believe this, but there are so many different dynamics going on, I’m not even sure Trump knows what he wants to do next. He is being mocked, and Putin is pissing him off. He said he could solve the problem and doesn’t like being proved wrong. He doesn’t want to be involved in a conflict that he can’t win. He has some of the same escalation concerns that the Biden administration had that lead to early inaction in the conflict. He doesn’t want to spend money on war and wants to be an isolationist. So, there are more data points that would lead Trump towards inaction, but at some point, Russia totally ignoring him and doing what it wants with impunity, is going to push him to his limit.
  11. The aggy bootlicking is nauseating
  12. Ok.. as a father of senior twins (no pics) fighting this.. this made my day..
  13. Derrek Cooper Update from visit to Chaminade-Madonna (Wed. 7:34am CST) - Gerry
  14. If a professor is told to teach evolution and not creation, but says fuck it, I’m teaching creation, then the professor is wrong. If they believe in creation, go find a school that allows that to be the content. This school, in this course, says you can only teach 2 genders. Period. That’s it. Nothing more/less. The professor didn’t like/ageee with it. She can teach it and face consequences or she can find an institution that allows her to teach it. The student, by all accounts, tools this through the appropriate channels. She was offered an A in the class. She didn’t want that. She wanted the content taught. The department continued to teach the content contrary to the school approved curriculum and has been fired.
  15. I really appreciate the publisher's innate understanding of the target audience. "PICTURES INSIDE GUYS"
  16. Speaking of bitches, 57-7. Bitch.
  17. I can find a hundred posters who feel the same way about you, without breaking a sweat, Slorch. You've had to change handles and then come back and get outed for your obvious behavior.
  18. I found a copy of Barry’s book one time in a bookshop in Bellevue, WA. Cost me $3.50. Probably should have spent that on a venti Redeye instead.
  19. I'm fully aware of the non-call vis-a-vis Orakpo and it was bad. I'm not aware of some systemic conspiracy to hold Texas players and get away with it across the board in 2008 or otherwise. Do you guys know how insane you sound?
  20. The Politics Board at Tigerdroppings has people calling for a return to segregation. You have to be fucking kidding me
  21. Wednesday - Talent Max/Injuries: Bobby
  22. Exceptionally well presented, pointed, and based in truth. Every frame is good, this one nicely addresses one of my main disappointments: It's the template for stories about policy. Just change some of the nouns but leave everything else the way it always has been. Somewhere in the article it's reported that this is a "blow to" someone. Fucking write, college boys and girls. Don't parrot.
  23. Disabled vets are as bad as crossfit freaks about making sure you know their status.
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