J.T.

Not surprised but still sad. Fuck 2015.

Hey, now! I am a 47 year old with a Blue Belt in BJJ. My forward roll in real life is a million times better than my combat roll in video games.

RIP Titans and Shotguns. Today's maintenance was server prep for the Weapon Tuning / Y2 Exotic Expansion / Sunbreaker Nerf patch to go live next Reset Day.

The best thing about the novel, Live And Let Die, is that when you read it, you find out that the whole Felix Leiter being mauled by sharks scene from the License to Kill movie actually comes from this book.

Bond is indeed the hero, but his black adversaries aren't a bunch of inept buffoons or minstrel types; they are serious people. The story of the first act of LALD is all about Bond's jingoist pride getting bruised as he is constantly getting clowned and blundering into traps because he does not take his enemies seriously. The scene where Kananga's men trail Bond to Harlem is priceless. "You can't miss him. It is like following a cue ball, man." As far as the expanse of Kananga's criminal enterprise goes, it's pretty obvious that Kananga's character is a pastiche of Papa Doc Duvalier and Frank Lucas. Kananga has an insular criminal infrastructure similar to Lucas and protects his empire just as much with superstition and subterfuge as he does with muscle and firearms. His master plan seems to take foolish white pride into account as he (successfully) surmises that his enemies will always be a step behind him because: 1. He's got a clairvoyant on the payroll and 2. None of his Caucasian adversaries would ever believe that a bunch of black people could run that sort of expansive criminal enterprise.. And yeah, Yaphett Kotto's Dr. Kananga is one of the great unsung Bond villains, IMO. Dude is brilliant and absolutely fucking ruthless. Bond: My name is... Mr. Big: Names is for tombstones, baby.

Oh, holy shit fuck that fucking First People shaman boss in Dungeon Siege 3 and his fucking damage shield. It took six tries to kill that mother fucker and then the key to victory if you are rolling as Lucas is to use Katarina as your second and free the Royal Soldiers from their cages and have everyone shoot the bastard to death while you deal with the adds and summoned monsters.

The movie adoptation of Live And Let Die doesn't really offend me. It is the most profitable blaxploitation movie ever filmed. I love the notion that Kananga's master plan to flood the world with cheap heroin seems to have has racism built into it. He counts on Bond underestimating him because of jingoist superiority and Kananga routinely makes Bond look like an idiot in the first and second acts of Live And Let Die..

We should take our kids. My daughter would love this. This match was the best thing on MTV since Liquid Television.

Paige and Rose are so cute. Too bad one of them has to die.

I also have the First Curse quest to work on. Was kinda pissed that PvE headshot sprees don't count until after Imprecation is infused so it has above a 270 attack.

Blew two tires on the way to work. Fucking debris in the road. Now I have to burn $400 for a new pair a mere 23 days from Christmas.

Ran the Nightfall and got Coins but the Super Shank had the good taste to drop the Devouring Maw helmet for the future Stormcaller I will build someday. Now I have to invest in a pair of The Impossible Machines when Xur sells them.

She probably declined an extended role because she's high and mighty now and the job probably required her to show her boobs again.

Enjoy your retirement, Act. Here is the DVD cover for the documentary on Act entitled Gamushara. Wow....

I am going to take a pass on the usual Morning Vanguarding since I am working swing shift. I don't have any weapons to level up so there is no sense in running bounties every day. If I need faction with FWC, I just buy Special and Heavy weapon synths when I am at the Glimmer cap and shuttle them to Laskhmi-2. I will hit the Weekly Heroics for the LMs and the LE and do the Nightfall if randoms invite me. I will tackle my PvP stuff on the weekends when I am back at my place and have a stable internet connection. I'll get back to working on my active quests once I am back on dayshift and can roll with the DARPA crew in the evenings. Speaking of active quests, my next First Curse quest step should go live tomorrow on Armsday. I still need to keep building rep with Banshee and Petra. I need to hit Rank 3 with QW before the quest for the Boolean Gemini unlocks for me.

So we're naming heel stables after defunct international organizations now? I await the arrival of the Prince Nana led OAU into Ring of Honor. Now that I think about it, I'd actually like to see that happen in RoH.

Yeah, I am really not giving a shit about her having a bad right eye because of Grave's Disease. I'd totally hit that. .

Someone needs to bang Yoshiko right the fuck out with a baseball bat to her melon sized dome. Enjoy retirement, Akuto. You are a class act, my dear. I have not checked the Documentary thread lately so I found this trailer for a joshi documentary, Gamushara, to post there. Act is the featured worker in the film.

So the secret to not being forced to watch the same things your girlfriend watches is to find something about the program that you like more than she does. I am now off the hook for having to watch any future eps of Born Again Virgin thanks to my well timed "Jesus, why didn't you tell me this show had such hot women in it?" comment. My Tuesday nights are back to being open for me to watch iZombie. Now if I could only find a way out of the iyala: Fix My Life / Welcome to Sweetie Pie's block on OWN Saturday Night.

I have discovered that I do not hate the game so much as I hate the community at the boards. Law of Rippa #1 That is also JT's Law of the Internet #2 aka There will inevitably be occasions when I will totally hate the internet communities that are made up of the fans of stuff that I also like. I love DVDVR but it is not an exception to this law. There are times when this board slowly pushes me towards alcoholism.

I would drive this car as long as Laskhmi-2 is the on-board voice for the computer. There is also a Dead Orbit version. And a New Monarchy version.

I am digging Dungeon Siege 3 so far. Solid story if a tad generic as far as game worlds go. I am very paranoid about missing side quest steps. The separation of the wooded areas freaks me out so I creep through slowly as not to miss any quest markers. Hopefully these quests I picked up in Raven's Rill can be completed while I am on my way to Stonebridge. Fucking Rajani was a handful until I d'oh remembered that I can self-regen with Gentle Repose and build my power stones back by shield butting the shit out of the Archon.

I have discovered that I do not hate the game so much as I hate the community at the boards.

Confirmed. You have to cash them in planetside for the XP to count. Nightfall this week is Fallen SABER with Void Burn, Ironclad, Brawler and Juggler active. Break out your Stillpiercers, Truth rocket launchers and Telestos and get it done. Aaaand the Speaker sells Cult/Trinity Star cloak for the second week in a row. SELL THE VENOM OF IKAHEKA, DAMMIT~!

"They've been de-kaffir-nated." is the best one liner in that movie. FREE SOUTH AFRICA YOU DUMB SON OF A BITCH~!