I found this bouncing around the web and thought I'd share. It perfectly describes everything I hate about game stop.

( The Guide Awaits )

Here's some I know of:

• Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure
• Lock's Quest
• Nostalgia

Know any more? :D

So I have been hearing a lot about Aion since it came out. Thing is, I'm not hearing in-depth opinions on it. I refuse to play WoW because I am a natural obsessor and am too afraid I'll start ignoring my real life to play it. LOL. Not that likely, but I'm not risking it. Hubbs played WoW for less than 6 months before he ran out of stuff to do/obtain and got bored with it and quit.

Hubbs' friend lent us his cd, but we still need to cough up $50 for a cd key and we're not willing to do it without significant understanding of the game [since we can't try it out].

So, here's what I'd like to know from those of you who play/played Aion.

- Pros
- Cons
- Similarities to WoW
- Differences from WoW

Thanks in advance!

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Six was picked up from the Whitechapel Project by Mister Rich, a man who knew Six before his memory loss. Mister Rich confronted Six about his disguise as Dr. Tucci, but after Six told Mister Rich the truth, he decided to trust Six for now. They went to a run-down motel, where Mister Rich revealed that Six was found in London, England, and that his powers are as dangerous to Six as they are to everyone around him. After Mister Rich went to get new clothes for Six, he came back saying he was followed. Six leaves the motel, and notices two police officers asking questions of the other motel patrons.

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"Now I will walk, as if I had an end in view, across the room, to the balcony under the awning. I see the sky, softly feathered with its sudden effulgence of moon. I also see the railings of the square, and two people without faces, leaning like statues against the sky. There is then a world immune from change. When I have passed through this drawing-room flickering with tongues that cut me like knives, making me stammer, making me lie, I find faces rid of features, robed in beauty. The lovers crouch under the plane tree. The policeman stands sentinel at the corner. A man passes. There is then a world immune from change. But I am not composed enough, standing tiptoe on the verge of fire, still scorched by the hot breath, afraid of the door opening and the leap of the tiger, to make even one sentence. What I say is perpetually contradicted. Each time the door opens I am interrupted. I am not yet twenty-one. I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. The waves breaks. I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness;  I am also a girl, here in this room."

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

And now for the recent stats for the fabulous urban fantasy adventure about a neurotic vampire/thief and her wealthy blind client, now with Bonus! Cuban drag queen and military intrigue:

Project: Bloodshot
New Words Written: 2060 (meh)
Present Total Word Count: 70,032 words
Goal: 95,000 words by December 12





Things Accomplished in Fiction: Finally wrapped up that scene. It’s a good scene, and important — but it felt like it took forever to write. I’m sure I’ll get around to the revisions and decide it’s either (a). awesome, or (b). terrible and needs to be cut … but whatever. Sometimes you just have to write through these things, because there’s no pole-vaulting over them or tunneling under them.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Day-job work; housework; important official correspondences exchanged; visited B&N forums to answer questions; did more prep for tomorrow night’s event; went to post office.

Reason for Stopping: Going to grab a bite to eat before Ellen comes over to do (yet more) prep work for tomorrow’s event. Then we’re going to jaunt out to the airport to pick up our friend Avionne and her husband Gordon, for they are flying in from Scotland to stay for a few days. In advance of having these folks in town and/or having other things eating my life, I think I’ll also try to sneak in some more day-job work, to keep my head above water.

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I have a question for those of you who are a part of academia. Which of the following do you prefer:

Jones et al.
Jones and others
Jones and colleagues

Does your answer vary depending on the location of the phrase — in-text reference rather than contained in a footnote, endnote, or reference list?

CMS allows "et al." along with "and others" but I have been seeing more and more of "and colleagues" lately.

Maybe I'm just an old stick in the mud.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

- High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

"She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men say more, swear more, but indeed our shows are more than will; for still we prove much in our vows but little in our love."

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Batman: The Ace of Detectives, Issue 46 - "Appointment in Bludhaven"

A Hush descends on Gotham and ensnares Bruce while fate seizes Oracle!

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( Tears and Team-work )

Changing "Blonde Moment" to 'Dumb Moment'.

Apperently, I offended people. I would like to say that I did not mean to offend anyone by saying this, and that I don't actually think blondes are 'dumb'.

I'm just used to the saying 'blonde moment'. Sorry.

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I was playing Legend of Zelda Windwaker with my lil bro. I was in some kinda forest-ish island. Well there's this one little island next to that place that makes statues of pictures that you take with your Pictobox.

The only way to get to that island is a long, complicated process of going from one plant to the next and next, going to the edge of the Forest Island, and using a special leaf to float from that island you're on, to there.

That is till you get a ladder right when you first visit.

I, even though I have used this ladder to climb DOWN from the Picto Island, did not think ONCE "Hey, I can use this to go UP the island."

I kept using the long annoying process and take the ladder as an exit, never occuring to me that I can use it as an entrance.

Could of been a real time saver.

So, what was your most dumbest moment while gaming?

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I was wondering why this writer chose to focus on the smell of dead bodies as his angle on an ongoing multiple murder investigation. But then I saw what's so interesting about the 'stench' surrounding the suspect's house: it's 'odourless'. In fact, 'odourless' is a noun in all of its occurrences in this article.

To be fair, many words commonly used as nouns started their careers as modifying adjectives in noun phrases: binocular (spyglasses), bifocal (glasses), etc. I guess I just never heard this one before.

Or maybe someone's too subservient to their spellchecker or autofill, and has a lazy editor, or no editor.

I like you, don't get wrong, although you do have a tendency to annoy me at times.  However,  this is something I've been wanting to bring up for a while and while I can't really call you out to your face, I've finally decided to at least say something because it's been driving me up the wall.  Yes we play some of the same characters and our characterization of them are markedly different and while I may not be perfect, I'm a damn sight more IC than you are.  The characters in question are respectively.
A) emotionally cold and calculating. He doesn't do public displays of affection and he's certainly not going to change his mode of speaking to someone because it /hurts/ their feelings he calls them the same name he has for over a decade.  You have to /read/ between the lines here.  He's never been someone who really deals well with pointless social chatter.

B) reserved as hell. He has occasional lapses but for the most part, he doesn't let himself be swayed by emotion.  He chooses his words and actions carefully and he follows orders,  whether he agrees with said orders or not.  He was trained to do his job by a man who wouldn't tolerate half the outbursts I've seen you make icly. 

I've even shown your profile to people who are in the fandom and don't know you personally and the reactions have pretty much confirmed that you can't handle this character in a remotely ic way,  but you're always right so it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

So glad I'm not playing with you anymore.

I read slush for two magazines and for the anthologies I edit. I've discovered that I read each publication in a very different light. For the Edge of Propinquity, I read it in the vein of "do I like this enough to spend money on it and does it fit what TEoP is all about (as well as the theme)?" This is the easiest publication to read for. It is my publication. I know what I like and what I want and what I am willing to spend money on. I only answer to me.

For every other publication, it is different. For Apex Digest, I read slush looking for stories that fit the theme and genre of the magazine and then, knowing what I know of the guy, Jason Sizemore, who owns the publication, I have to think, "Do I like this story enough to ask him to spend money on it?" There is a real difference between me spending my money on a story and asking him spending his money on a story. Will the story make him smile or cringe (in a good way) or will he roll his eyes at me and wonder why he has me on staff?

When it comes to anthologies, I read those slush piles much more in the vein of Apex Digest with the added complication of "Will this story fit in with every other story I have decided is worth me asking someone else to pay for it?" Anthologies are a huge bundle of complications when it comes to looking at them because you also look at them with the mind that you can have them rewritten just a bit to suit your anthology's needs. Underneath the story cuts, you also have to look at how easy or hard it will be to work with the author for the rewrite requests and what you know of their ability to get a story done on time.

Reading slush, for me, often means I'm willing to put my reputation as a professional editor on the line for the story in question. Yes, it is about the story but it is also about who is buying the story and what you have to do to that story after it is sold.

Can we just get over this mush and on to business? We have a universe to save, an alternate dimension to prevent.

I think there's a reason my possible marysue character is turning evil. Just cause you "good side" people have too many love affairs.

This is just irritating the bejesus out of me, and the fact that the villian character I am supposed to co-conspire with is absent EVERY TIME I have available net.

Doesn't help that my computer crashed this week. Just makes me more mad.

[[duly note: this RP comm IS NOT on LJ - maybe that's why it sucks]]

This one is pretty long. It's about four minutes. I got a little carried away.