The JTAG-out: Make your JTAG stop chewing on the christmas tree.

[Elin]

And don't forget, "don't touch me, I'm trying to sleep."

"But you said you were playing a ga-"
"THAT WAS THEN AND THIS IS NOW."

[Ivolt]

Time zones- the only way to (time) travel.

[Elin]

Time zones- the only way to (time) travel.

A certain plutonium-powered automobile wants a word with you.

[Mistral]

Sounds very important. And simultaneously not important at all.

I don't have any tax pounds. My student loan and scholarship are non-taxable. :'D But still!

Oh, yes. I expect absolutely nothing to come of my part in this, though I'm sure "networking" is a very...significant goal. Or something.
Pfft, networking. Give me a router and some LAN cables, and we can do some proper networking.

Time zones- the only way to (time) travel.

Technically, if you take a flight from Australia to Honolulu, you can relive the same day twice. Clearly, we must orchestrate a cunning plan to take advantage of this.

[Elin]

Technically, if you take a flight from Australia to Honolulu, you can relive the same day twice. Clearly, we must orchestrate a cunning plan to take advantage of this.

I forsee a future filled with double birthday cake.

I actually remember wondering if there were any timezone gaps that would make such a feat possible on an eleven hour flight to Japan. Inbetween bouts of wondering how I was going to wake my legs up when the plane landed.

[Milady]

Find and open gate, providing shortcut to bonfire.
Run to bonfire to heal and refresh spell capacity.
Return to gate, find undead NPC has closed it again.
Cry.

[Elin]

Oh, yes. I expect absolutely nothing to come of my part in this, though I'm sure "networking" is a very...significant goal. Or something.
Pfft, networking. Give me a router and some LAN cables, and we can do some proper networking.

By the end of the trip you might have ten new contacts on Facebook. Perhaps even - dare I say it? - twenty!

[Elin]

Find and open gate, providing shortcut to bonfire.
Run to bonfire to heal and refresh spell capacity.
Return to gate, find undead NPC has closed it again.
Cry.

Oddly the more I hear of the Souls games reducing people to tears, the more interested I am in them. I don't know what that says about me.

[Ivolt]

Find and open gate, providing shortcut to bonfire.
Run to bonfire to heal and refresh spell capacity.
Return to gate, find undead NPC has closed it again.
Cry.

Its funny because there is one really close to the church.

Among another funny thing you'll find out soon.

[Milady]

Oddly the more I hear of the Souls games reducing people to tears, the more interested I am in them. I don't know what that says about me.

I even had a small feeling of satisfaction and relief. I'd finally passed the point where I had kept dying previously, but I had found new enemies that I was going to need some fireballs for.

I figured recharging them wouldn't be an issue, since I'd just opened a new shortcut.

Obviously, I forgot these games might as well have a trollface.jpg on the cover when you first pick them up. (At least for me, Ray over there apparently breezed through it. )

[Mistral]

Find and open gate, providing shortcut to bonfire.
Run to bonfire to heal and refresh spell capacity.
Return to gate, find undead NPC has closed it again.
Cry.

Oh, I remember that. So hilarious. Oh, how we all, Hollow, Undead, and Human all came together and laughed, and laughed, and laughed. Then I smacked them all upside the head with a longsword for slamming the gate in my face.

By the end of the trip you might have ten new contacts on Facebook. Perhaps even - dare I say it? - twenty!

My gods, coworkers on Facebook. That is all kinds of horrifying, but I think the scariest thing about that idea is that they might meet my younger sister. Thankfully, I don't think she's commented on Gare's appearance on my friend's list, probably because she's pretty well convinced that I don't even use Facebook anymore.
To be fair, I don't, but...

[Ivolt]

I should start playing again.

And I will, once I finish all this paperwork.

But on a positive, it looks like I'll learn to drive before the end of the world. Again.

[Elin]

My gods, coworkers on Facebook. That is all kinds of horrifying, but I think the scariest thing about that idea is that they might meet my younger sister. Thankfully, I don't think she's commented on Gare's appearance on my friend's list, probably because she's pretty well convinced that I don't even use Facebook anymore.
To be fair, I don't, but...

But that's the cutest thing! Seeing people from different areas of your life crossing paths and realising that they're all part of the same funny old world.

I'm surprised she hasn't commented on his dashing resemblance to Miles Edgeworth, myself.

We both know that's a lie. You do not close the door on Facebook. You merely leave it slightly ajar and keep an eye tightly pressed to the crack.

[Nemkoon]

Hello Ms Bus.

[Drageuth]

You mean you didn't play it on hard mode with the enemy level scaling and the huge damage?

Lightweight.

I generally make the assumption that whatever the defaults are is how the game is "meant" to be played the first time through. Usually I don't change anything for the first playthrough ('cept for perhaps difficulty, if I feel like getting the high difficulty trophies out of the way right away).

Otherwise, I leave it alone until I go back to it later to try other stuff. I find I enjoy more games that way.

Oh, not only am I off this Sunday, but we also get to change the clocks.

One more hour away from work for me.

I love daylight savings time.

Speaking of Uncharted. I'm fed and it appears my only alternative plans for the evening has fallen asleep.

TO THE GAMEZ!

About to start Crushing mode. T-minus five minutes.
Here's hoping it's as easy as what I've been hearing. Although know that the ability to switch sides while aiming is turned on, it shouldn't be quite as frustrating in some parts.

The merry mountains of Colorado. Apparently, I'm needed in Denver to sit around and do nothing in particular while feigning interest in some big meeting with something like a dozen states (as in, US states) and associated other states (as in, nominally sovereign states). It's not like I'm really needed, considering my boss can and will be handing the presentation on our latest project himself. I could be doing real work here, or I could be sightseeing there, but I don't even have enough time for the latter to make it somewhat worthwhile. Your tax dollars, hard at work.
Well, not your tax dollars, since you're in merry Britain, but the principle stands.

I... I really want to know what you do, but I'm afraid to ask.

But at least it's not my tax dollars. Government already fucks with my tax dollars enough.