Just what it says. I've been playing the demo for the past 2 days, and I dig it.
Far Cry was the epitome of awesome. But it looked cartoony. And a lot of the action was cartoony. It was fun as all get-out, but it wasn't realistic.
Crysis is like Far Cry crossed with Half-Life 2. You get Far Cry with realism.
The environment is beautiful, the day-change is subtle but amazing. I love the draw-distance, and being able to shred trees is fun. Reloading an empty rifle nets you a mag's worth of ammo, but reload halfway through a mag, and you get a mag+1, just like in real life. Using a vehicle as a bomb is cool, and the ability to destroy your enviroment is quite unique.
I've got 2 complaints only.
1.I realize it forces me to go for the headshot, but nobody's body armor stands up to 10 7.62x39 slugs. My bullets should do more damage.
2.The powersuit (or whatever) feels like a gimmick. And unless it's upgradable, it is. Cloak and speed don't last for nothing, and I can't detect anything that armor does. Strength is useful only for mega jumps, and the incredibly satisflying upclose enemy grab.
Other than those 2 points, the game is perfect. Congrats, Crytek, you just got $60 of mine.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
House Passes Thought-Crime Bill
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-1955
Scary. Just plain scary. We now know for absolutely-damn-certain that the Founding Fathers would be rotting in gaol were they here today.
And then people wonder why I want an arsenal to match Venezuala's, and cash & handguns buried around the nation...
Scary. Just plain scary. We now know for absolutely-damn-certain that the Founding Fathers would be rotting in gaol were they here today.
And then people wonder why I want an arsenal to match Venezuala's, and cash & handguns buried around the nation...
House Passes Thought-Crime Bill
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-1955
Scary. Just plain scary. We now know for absolutely-damn-certain that the Founding Fathers would be rotting in gaol were they here today.
And then people wonder why I want an arsenal to match Venezuala's, and cash & handguns buried around the nation...
Scary. Just plain scary. We now know for absolutely-damn-certain that the Founding Fathers would be rotting in gaol were they here today.
And then people wonder why I want an arsenal to match Venezuala's, and cash & handguns buried around the nation...
USPC Update
I've been carrying my USPC in an Uncle Mike's Sidekick since Sunday (I think). Carries beautifully, and I don't have to worry about the darn thing falling down my pants leg. I'd tell y'all where I've gone with it, but that'd be copping to a misdemeanor. :-)
Friday, October 19, 2007
Rod Stewart - No Holding Back
I'm probably dating myself here, but I VIVIDLY remember when the album this next song is from (Vagabond Heart) came out. That were a LONG time ago.
A friend of mine called up
Said "I finally had some luck
Could I have a minute of your time
I met a girl last night
And try as I might
I can't get her off of my mind
She walked through the room and right then I knew
I finally found somebody for me
But to tell you the trut
I don't know what to do
Should I go ahead or wait and see"
I said "Give it all you got
No Holding Back
Let a light in your soul
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Than to never love at all"
Now I'm the kind of guy
Who's normally quite shy
On romance I don't know a thing
But when she led me to the floor
I'd never danced before
Suddenly my feet had wings
I know that she wants me
I want her too
But I'm so confused I can't think straight
I feel so alive but on the other side
Should I go ahead or should I wait
I said "Give it all you got
No Holding Back
Let a light in your soul
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Than to never love at all"
So when the music starts to flow from your hearts
Like the coming of an early spring
When the river starts to flow
Between you soul to soul
May no man ever come between
Die in her arms if she wants you to
Be thankful for each passing day
When your eyes collide
Let your spirits fly
And pray to God it's here to stay
And I said "Give it all you got
No Holding Back
Let a light in your soul
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Give it all you got
No Holding Back
Let a light in your soul
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Than to never love at all
Than to never, never love at all
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than never love at all
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Short answer is no. Looks like we've got time for the long answer. Hell no.
A friend of mine called up
Said "I finally had some luck
Could I have a minute of your time
I met a girl last night
And try as I might
I can't get her off of my mind
She walked through the room and right then I knew
I finally found somebody for me
But to tell you the trut
I don't know what to do
Should I go ahead or wait and see"
I said "Give it all you got
No Holding Back
Let a light in your soul
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Than to never love at all"
Now I'm the kind of guy
Who's normally quite shy
On romance I don't know a thing
But when she led me to the floor
I'd never danced before
Suddenly my feet had wings
I know that she wants me
I want her too
But I'm so confused I can't think straight
I feel so alive but on the other side
Should I go ahead or should I wait
I said "Give it all you got
No Holding Back
Let a light in your soul
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Than to never love at all"
So when the music starts to flow from your hearts
Like the coming of an early spring
When the river starts to flow
Between you soul to soul
May no man ever come between
Die in her arms if she wants you to
Be thankful for each passing day
When your eyes collide
Let your spirits fly
And pray to God it's here to stay
And I said "Give it all you got
No Holding Back
Let a light in your soul
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Give it all you got
No Holding Back
Let a light in your soul
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than to never love at all
Than to never love at all
Than to never, never love at all
Ain't it better to lose in love
Than never love at all
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Short answer is no. Looks like we've got time for the long answer. Hell no.
My State Surrenders To Socialism
Late this evening, after a partisan battle over the state budget that lasted more than a third of a year, my state inched ever closer to socialism.
The tax on cigarettes got bumped up an extra buck, and we've now got socialized medicine for all children and disadvantaged people. Plus 30mil for anti-smoking programs.
No idea how we're going to pay for a billion plus dollar socialist medical program. No damn clue.
And people think I'm joking when I say that I'm not going to get out of this state ASAP.
The tax on cigarettes got bumped up an extra buck, and we've now got socialized medicine for all children and disadvantaged people. Plus 30mil for anti-smoking programs.
No idea how we're going to pay for a billion plus dollar socialist medical program. No damn clue.
And people think I'm joking when I say that I'm not going to get out of this state ASAP.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
North American Currency
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/08/lkl.01.html
I won't fisk it, but the transcript says that the Mexican President and our President consider the "Amero" (a unified North American Currency) to be a long term goal.
I'm starting to think that the Second Amendment isn't the most trampled part of the Constitution. It's A1S8. We get to own some guns, but they ignore that sucker completely.
I won't fisk it, but the transcript says that the Mexican President and our President consider the "Amero" (a unified North American Currency) to be a long term goal.
I'm starting to think that the Second Amendment isn't the most trampled part of the Constitution. It's A1S8. We get to own some guns, but they ignore that sucker completely.
Clinton Proposes 401(k)s, Matching Funds
Clinton Proposes 401(k)s, Matching Funds Oct 9 12:49 PM US/Eastern
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) - Every citizen could get a 401(k) retirement account and up to $1,000 in annual matching funds from the government under a plan offered Tuesday by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Article 1, Section 8 lists all the things government can spend money on. Passing this would be felony treason.
At a cost of $20 billion-$25 billion a year, the plan is Clinton's largest domestic proposal other than her plan for universal health insurance. The New York senator said it would be paid for by taxing estates worth more than $7 million per couple and would help narrow the gap between the rich and those who don't have enough savings for retirement. More "punish the rich" economics. $25 billion a year, paid for by taxing people who make more than $7 million. Income tax was only supposed to be paid for by 1% of the population, remember? This is yet another reason to die penniless...having spent all your money on gold, the hiding place of which is known to your children.
At the same time, Clinton said she has given up another idea for a savings incentive—giving every baby born in the United States a $5,000 account to one day pay for college or a first home. Stake out one vampire, and another one rises. This is like playing Whackamole with dumb*ss legislation.
She made that suggestion last month before the Congressional Black Caucus, saying it was just an idea and not a policy proposal. The idea was criticized by Republicans, and she told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Tuesday that it's off the table.
The campaign of her Democratic rival John Edwards suggested it was an example of Clinton setting her positions by polls. "Apparently, new polling data seems to have pressured the Clinton campaign to throw out the baby bond with the bathwater," said Edwards spokesman Chris Kofinis. John Edwards seems to think that printing up money to issue every child in this country roughly $19 grand at age 18 is a good idea. Brilliant idea, you moron. Ever hear of the national debt? Devaluing currency?
As for the retirement accounts, Clinton said during a campaign stop in small-town central Iowa, "They will begin to bring down this inequality that is eating away at our social contract." She said, "This is a major commitment to how I believe we can begin to right the balance again."
She said that for every $7 million estate that gets taxed, at least 5,000 families would receive the matching funds. There isn't supposed to BE a "balance." Nothing's promised here. You work for success, for prosperity, it isn't handed to you.
Clinton said she wants to create "American Retirement Accounts" in which everyone could put up to $5,000 annually in a 401(k) plan. The federal government would provide a tax cut to match 100 percent of the first $1,000 for anyone who makes less than $60,000 a year and 50 percent of the first $1,000 for those who make $60,000-$100,000. So despite this plan to give everyone retirement accounts, those who take care of themselves shoulder even more of a tax burden. What happens to those making more than $100k? They get nothing?
She said she would encourage employers to have direct deposit from paychecks into the accounts.
The federal and state governments already reach into my paycheck before I even get it and take about 20-30%. Then in April, I have to pay in even more. The thought of an employer being forced to take even more is simply repulsive.
Clinton said less than half the families in the United States have retirement savings accounts and those who have them aren't saving enough. She said she often meets people working even into their early 80s because they don't have enough savings.
"We don't have much of a nest egg to fall back on," she said.
Who is this "WE." She does, and I sure will. It is NOT the job of the government to redistribute the wealth of the industrious or the just plain lucky to take care of others.
Although the money would be intended mainly for retirement, she said people should also be able to use the savings to buy a house or pay for college and the government should consider letting workers use a portion for hard times like an illness or accident. So...people will be able to get this money prior to retirement? Will government have to approve each and every use for it? If not, how do we keep people from using it to buy platinum grills and coke?
Clinton said the accounts should not be used to replace any part of Social Security and that she is committed to addressing the long-term challenges of that program. Social Security payouts on a 1=1 scale AND government mandated 401ks. And somewhere I got the silly notion that buying votes was illegal...
"We have to fight and finally bury the idea of privatizing Social Security," she said. Let's not privatise it. Let's stake the damn thing out like a vampire. The system is completely untenable.
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) - Every citizen could get a 401(k) retirement account and up to $1,000 in annual matching funds from the government under a plan offered Tuesday by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Article 1, Section 8 lists all the things government can spend money on. Passing this would be felony treason.
At a cost of $20 billion-$25 billion a year, the plan is Clinton's largest domestic proposal other than her plan for universal health insurance. The New York senator said it would be paid for by taxing estates worth more than $7 million per couple and would help narrow the gap between the rich and those who don't have enough savings for retirement. More "punish the rich" economics. $25 billion a year, paid for by taxing people who make more than $7 million. Income tax was only supposed to be paid for by 1% of the population, remember? This is yet another reason to die penniless...having spent all your money on gold, the hiding place of which is known to your children.
At the same time, Clinton said she has given up another idea for a savings incentive—giving every baby born in the United States a $5,000 account to one day pay for college or a first home. Stake out one vampire, and another one rises. This is like playing Whackamole with dumb*ss legislation.
She made that suggestion last month before the Congressional Black Caucus, saying it was just an idea and not a policy proposal. The idea was criticized by Republicans, and she told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Tuesday that it's off the table.
The campaign of her Democratic rival John Edwards suggested it was an example of Clinton setting her positions by polls. "Apparently, new polling data seems to have pressured the Clinton campaign to throw out the baby bond with the bathwater," said Edwards spokesman Chris Kofinis. John Edwards seems to think that printing up money to issue every child in this country roughly $19 grand at age 18 is a good idea. Brilliant idea, you moron. Ever hear of the national debt? Devaluing currency?
As for the retirement accounts, Clinton said during a campaign stop in small-town central Iowa, "They will begin to bring down this inequality that is eating away at our social contract." She said, "This is a major commitment to how I believe we can begin to right the balance again."
She said that for every $7 million estate that gets taxed, at least 5,000 families would receive the matching funds. There isn't supposed to BE a "balance." Nothing's promised here. You work for success, for prosperity, it isn't handed to you.
Clinton said she wants to create "American Retirement Accounts" in which everyone could put up to $5,000 annually in a 401(k) plan. The federal government would provide a tax cut to match 100 percent of the first $1,000 for anyone who makes less than $60,000 a year and 50 percent of the first $1,000 for those who make $60,000-$100,000. So despite this plan to give everyone retirement accounts, those who take care of themselves shoulder even more of a tax burden. What happens to those making more than $100k? They get nothing?
She said she would encourage employers to have direct deposit from paychecks into the accounts.
The federal and state governments already reach into my paycheck before I even get it and take about 20-30%. Then in April, I have to pay in even more. The thought of an employer being forced to take even more is simply repulsive.
Clinton said less than half the families in the United States have retirement savings accounts and those who have them aren't saving enough. She said she often meets people working even into their early 80s because they don't have enough savings.
"We don't have much of a nest egg to fall back on," she said.
Who is this "WE." She does, and I sure will. It is NOT the job of the government to redistribute the wealth of the industrious or the just plain lucky to take care of others.
Although the money would be intended mainly for retirement, she said people should also be able to use the savings to buy a house or pay for college and the government should consider letting workers use a portion for hard times like an illness or accident. So...people will be able to get this money prior to retirement? Will government have to approve each and every use for it? If not, how do we keep people from using it to buy platinum grills and coke?
Clinton said the accounts should not be used to replace any part of Social Security and that she is committed to addressing the long-term challenges of that program. Social Security payouts on a 1=1 scale AND government mandated 401ks. And somewhere I got the silly notion that buying votes was illegal...
"We have to fight and finally bury the idea of privatizing Social Security," she said. Let's not privatise it. Let's stake the damn thing out like a vampire. The system is completely untenable.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Life Of Vincent
Last night was Homecoming Night for the majority of local schools. As such, we had a groups of people moving the store in funny clothes. The guys are dressed like crap mostly, the girls to the nines.
Last night across this city, hundreds if not thousands of kids around my age were out celebrating. Opposite genders on each others arm, if not in love with each other, then very much in like, dressed in expensive finery, partying, enjoying being alive young animals.
Kinda gnaws on me. Not only did I never do that, I'm out of school now and not in a school where such things occur. I'm not ever gonna know what that's like.
Instead of being "out" I sat in the basement and loaded rifle rounds (1500 of them, to be precise) into 30cal spam cans from 11pm til 1am, while watching Saving Private Ryan.
If I hadn't been melancholy enough, my funk only deepened around 1am when I'm stacking the boxes in the workroom. I look at this big pile of boxes, 45ACP on the left, thousands upon thousands of rifle rounds on the right, and the thought flashes through my head: "Who will I be when I open these boxes?"
I buy what I shoot. I've got 2000rds per rifle right now, soon to be decreased to 1000 per with the addition of 3 new rifles. This is purely backstock. I have no intention of shooting any of it. It's there just to have. From now on, I'll buy a K or 2 per year, shoot that. I have no plans for shooting any of the stuff I have packed away.
Which means those boxes won't be opened for years.
Who will I be when I open those boxes and load up guns from the contents?
Will I be moving them into a house of my own? Will I be selling off that ammuntion for extra money? God forbid, will I be handing it over to someone? The next time I open those boxes, will it be under duress?
Each and every round is packed by hand, alternating every other round, stacked one upon another. The pile of boxes in the workroom is representative of hours and hours of my time. I'm 21 now. When will I be handling those rounds next?
Why will I be handling those rounds next?
Last night across this city, hundreds if not thousands of kids around my age were out celebrating. Opposite genders on each others arm, if not in love with each other, then very much in like, dressed in expensive finery, partying, enjoying being alive young animals.
Kinda gnaws on me. Not only did I never do that, I'm out of school now and not in a school where such things occur. I'm not ever gonna know what that's like.
Instead of being "out" I sat in the basement and loaded rifle rounds (1500 of them, to be precise) into 30cal spam cans from 11pm til 1am, while watching Saving Private Ryan.
If I hadn't been melancholy enough, my funk only deepened around 1am when I'm stacking the boxes in the workroom. I look at this big pile of boxes, 45ACP on the left, thousands upon thousands of rifle rounds on the right, and the thought flashes through my head: "Who will I be when I open these boxes?"
I buy what I shoot. I've got 2000rds per rifle right now, soon to be decreased to 1000 per with the addition of 3 new rifles. This is purely backstock. I have no intention of shooting any of it. It's there just to have. From now on, I'll buy a K or 2 per year, shoot that. I have no plans for shooting any of the stuff I have packed away.
Which means those boxes won't be opened for years.
Who will I be when I open those boxes and load up guns from the contents?
Will I be moving them into a house of my own? Will I be selling off that ammuntion for extra money? God forbid, will I be handing it over to someone? The next time I open those boxes, will it be under duress?
Each and every round is packed by hand, alternating every other round, stacked one upon another. The pile of boxes in the workroom is representative of hours and hours of my time. I'm 21 now. When will I be handling those rounds next?
Why will I be handling those rounds next?
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