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And if blades of grass were considered currency then I might be considered a millionaire with my relatively small backyard alone.
Little nuggets of MMO trivia like this sound fun when you say them fast but otherwise are pretty silly.

If I had to guess the only reason things like this are not going on sale during Black Friday is that these things don't -need- to go on sale. Why would Paragon Studios willingly put something on sale when plenty of people are still buying these things at the current prices?

Given the fact that there's no known people on Mars for an ambassador to be appointed to I think the fact that a state Governor doesn't have the authority to do it is safely moot. The Governor of Delaware has as much "authority" to do what he did as I have to appoint you Earth's ambassador to Coruscant.

Yeah the TV show has been fairly vague as far as how much time passes from show to show. Then again the comic (what I've read of it so far) also seems to be pretty vague about that. Sometimes the story seems to go for a day or two then all of a sudden they mention weeks have passed in an instant. I understand that adds to the overall apocalyptic mood of the story but it makes trying to keep things in context for the reader/audience that much harder.
If you allow yourself to get picky then things like how Daryl handles his crossbow bolts could drive you crazy. I try to let as much of that go as possible, except when it's truly unavoidable like how Hershel made such a big deal about the bullet in Carl breaking up into six exact pieces before he was able to barely cut into Carl without killing him to know that. Now the kid, so close to death, is apparently up and about in just a few days. Overt stuff like that is just frustratingly sloppy writing.
Actually the winter weather in a place like Georgia can be worse to deal with than colder places up north. The relative humidity in the air can make all the difference. I've experienced cold winters in both Florida and up-state New York and I can recall having worse times in Florida's 25 degrees than in New York's -25 just because the humidity in Florida's air makes it feel all that much more bone-chilling.

That being said I assume they will "automagically" start wearing heavier clothing if they ever start filming in colder weather. It'd be easy enough for them to raid houses and/or stores for that kind of thing at some point.

I haven't bothered to check eBay for this particular costume code but I have seen some of them sell for over $100 in the past. Basically there -are- people that desperate.

This is why I'm glad the Devs have started selling the older ones in the Paragon Market so people no longer have to be stupid about it if they're willing to wait.

I agree that the INF to PRE conversion ratio is still pretty horrendous.

On the other hand (to use myself as an example) I can fairly reliably generate around 1 billion INF a week via buying, crafting and selling relatively mundane enhancements on the market. I don't do any "ebil marketeering" like flipping rare recipes and I can manage that rate if I spend as little as 15-20 minutes a day every day on it.

What this means is that within roughly a week I can convert around a billion INF into around 2 million PRE.
Presto!... Instant single-player base.

P.S. It's pretty clear to me this is exactly why the INF to PRE conversion ratio has remained at 500:1 since the beginning of the game. Before the market that ratio was basically an impossible joke - now with the market it's merely a minor speedbump. *shrugs*

I really think as far as the whole "Dr. Jenner secret" thing goes we really have to assume it's a pretty major/pivotal plot point. If there was something so secret that the makers of the show didn't even want the audience to know it via the 4th wall then we have to assume it's something far more important than who's pregnant or who has an STD. You have to remember when Jenner whispered to Rick we already knew that he was just about to commit suicide so whatever the whisper was had to be as important as what you'd want to say to someone with your last dying breath. He wasn't going to waste that on anything trivial.

I don't really know exactly what the whisper was about but I'm assuming it was something incredibly important like the source of the zombie plague or the key bit of data that might help some other scientist find a cure. Jenner entrusted that knowledge to Rick because he hoped that Rick would be the right man to know what to do with that awesome responsibility.

That whisper was very likely the key plot point of the entire show. You've got to think "big picture" with this.

Again I could see the argument that Dale has perhaps been too nosey about a few of these issues. But on some level he's just motivated by the desire to keep the group together and focused on survival. One could even make the case that his motivations are in part selfishly driven because he realizes that as an older guy on his own his chances of survival aren't that good. It serves his purpose to keep order in the group because on a primal level he needs the group to stick together in order to survive. On that basis alone that makes it his business to "butt-in" on things like Shane's and Andrea's shenanigans.

Well at least you'd have all the beacons right there so with your base edit access you could just swap in any beacon you needed when you TP'd out. It might not be as fancy as having multiple pads ready to go, but for a one-person SG this would be an easy alternative.

Yes that's always possible, but such a transport point would not serve much benefit being stuck roughly in the middle of the zone. It'd make more sense for some kind of "intra-zone" transport to be linked from the extreme north end to the extreme south end of IP. Of course they might consider IP big enough to warrant a set of 3 points north, middle and south.

Being capable of self-depreciating humor is usually taken as a sign of wisdom and maturity. I suppose it's a bit cliche to have the "outwardly unsophisticated brute" be one of the most intelligent and thoughtful men of the show but I still like him anyway.
Dale always seemed like he was one of those people who was a little too nosey for his own good. On the other hand he knows Shane is at best "unstable" and suspects (rightly so) that sooner or later the group is going to have to deal with him one way or the other. People don't just point guns at other people for fun like Shane did at Rick. I think Dale was being a little stupid confronting Shane alone, but I just saw it as an escalation of the final showdown that'll determine Shane's fate with the group.
For what it's worth I never really believed that any part of Dr. Jenner's secret to Rick had anything to do with Lori being pregnant. That just never seemed to be a "big" enough secret to tease the audience like that. *shrugs*
Well I finally broke down and bought the Volume 1 compendium of the Walking Dead comic book this weekend. It collects the first 48 issues together in one phone-book sized book. I figure since people here were going to keep throwing around references to the comic I might as well spoil myself completely. Based on that I already know what you're talking about here.

It's hard enough to accept when a loved one is suddenly killed but it'd probably be even harder to accept that death if that loved one was still sort of shuffling around apparently "almost" alive. *shrugs*

I feel sorry for Hershel because he's (at the very least) going to have his tragic denial broken by Rick or, more than likely, going to be outright killed by his irrational belief that the Walkers are cureable.

I actually thought it was a good episode because many of the "brewing secrets" were finally revealed to key people, but it still sort of amazes me they managed to drag the Sophia arc on yet -another- episode. I really thought this would've been the episode they finally make some definite progress on that.

Well at least we saw how Maggie was probably "convinced" of the error of thinking the Walkers are still people after Glenn saved her. I suspect she's going to be pivotal during the confrontation with Hershel because she'll now question his decision to keep them penned up in the barn. It'll be interesting to see if her feelings for Glenn will be enough for her to effectively turn against her father on this.

Yeah it was horribly stereotypical when you consider it was Daryl (the supposed "backward Georgia redneck") who was the one who was -reading- the book in this episode.

I take it that Rick still wants to trust and believe in both Lori and Shane because he still loves them both. That's why he wants to believe Lori and Shane only did what they did because they genuinely believed he was dead. But Rick is not a stupid man and he'll eventually have to get "mad" about it one way or another.

I'm quite sure Rick will confront Shane fairly directly, and given that Shane and Dale butted heads too I suspect there's going to have to be a general confrontation about it. I honestly don't think Shane's long for the group - one way or the other he's leaving the group.

Yeah they might have mentioned somebody going out to make the "daily check" at some point, but I only consider this to be a minor plot oversight.

It only sucks as far as I see no practical reason for it to ever be "running in the background". Except for a huge Issue patch it never takes me more than a couple of minutes to update the game so I just let that happen when I sit down to play. After that I have the Launcher set to close as soon as the game starts. Problem effectively solved. *shrugs*

Well they've got to save something for the actual movie. I'm quite sure they'll have her do some "eye-candy" acrobatics that'll show off everything from every angle at some point.

I actually said myself its syncs MANY times, not EVERY time. Obviously something like this will never be perfect because it's someone's attempt to fit a piece of music to something it wasn't made for. There are a lot of DJs out there who make a great living manipulating music into things it wasn't made for either.

Sure this kind of thing is not going to be "enjoyable" to everyone and even I didn't think this example was the greatest thing since sliced bread but I did think it was mildly amusing for what it was worth. Some people are just way too critical about these kinds of things. *shrugs*

There was more syncing than just that. Many times when the music started into the chorus of "listing" the women in his life Neo was pulling out a new weapon.
It was as if all his various weapons were the "women is his life". Fairly clever.

P.S. Also at one point when he sings "one step left, one step right" it's perfectly synced to when Trinity kicks first with her left leg then with her right.

I don't really have a dog in this fight because I've been able to make all the Incarnate progress I've wanted with the current league-centric system. But for what it's worth I hope any "solo Incarnate" content added to the game will be fun/useful enough to -everyone- that even I'll be able to get some enjoyment out of it regardless.

The Shadow Shards were effectively the original "Incarnate zones" long before the Devs even dreamt up the Incarnate system. They were always meant to be this game's concept of the 'multiverse' where the gods themselves roam. I think it would make total sense to revamp at least some part of the current Shadow Shards into some kind of co-op Incarnate area.

Well at least Scarlett's simply showing off an "asset" that she already possesses in real life.
We could've gotten another variation of Batman-esque rubber nipples out of this.

Whenever I hear someone mention the Kardashians I always think of the Cardassians myself. Besides the Kardashians are so unlike "normal" humans anyway they might as well be from outer space.