asmo917

@sexytoad: Not yet. down to 67 after today's noon price update.

If my prices have been 81, 77, and now 73, am I totally boned on getting a good price in my own town? This was the one week I invested heavily in turnips. Got them at 90.

Really enjoying it. Feel like I'm about to end Act I. Without spoiling anything, the last conversation and splash screen STRONGLY urged me to get some decking gear, if that tells you where I am.

Apart from the pretty crummy save system, I think I hit one frustrating bug, but I can't be sure. In the first mission where you can hire other runners, I was 100% positive I had picked a mage with healing abilities and a melee focused adept to round out my team. I got into combat...and had two melee focused adepts with identical skills. I was even about 85% sure the portrait for one of them matched the portrait for the healing mage I had selected. I wouldn't have noticed otherwise, but that mage had a band over her eyes like the other NPC, Shannon, that was part of the team. I tried to make a go of it, but combat with that team was brutal.

The good news from all this was I discovered that all those autosaves stack, they don't overwrite each other, so you can roll back to an earlier point. I had to repeat some conversations and redo some shopping, but my second run with the healing mage/melee adept combo worked as expected. Like I said, I don't know if it was a bug or user error, but I'm really glad I only had to replay 20-30 minutes, not three hours.

It's not Shadowrun lore, but Mr Kluwe at the Seamtress's Union is an homage to Chris Kluwe, the Raider's punter and vocal gamer and equality enthusiast. He was with the Vikings during development of the game, and the horns and purple shirt are from their logo and color scheme. Just another nice touch and shows some attention to detail.

Apparently there's already some user made content out that clocks in around 12 hours. I saw the start of an LP on it, but didn't watch much because I really want to see it for myself.

Based on early impressions of the content creation tools, I'm really excited to play around with them. They're supposedly a little clunky, but I like messing around with obtuse systems.

@animasta: "pissing our dollars away...pissing our dollars awaaaaaaaaaaaay!"

I'm in. PSN ID is Asmo917.

It's interesting seeing the old Joystiq articles. I don't remember for sure where I heard this - it may have been when Sessler was on the Bombcast after his departure from G4 - but I think I heard them telling stories about the Joystiq staffers walking down to the Gamespot building and essentially having a little protest after word broke about Jeff's firing. Seems like they looked at what was happening as a bad thing for the industry; they weren't just reveling in the mismanagement of a competitor.

Good evening with a good group of guys. I'll post the few pics I took in the morning. I think it's fair to say a good time was had by all, and we need to get together (along with anyone who couldn't make it) again.

Summer between my senior year in high school and freshman year at college, I was working two jobs. One was a factory job, deburring small parts for a machine manufacturer. This was purely a summer job available to kids of the company's employees and it was pretty competitive to get a job. The other was working in a music store, something I'd been doing for a few years already. I hated one of these jobs - guess which one.

One afternoon, I drove home from the factory in incredible pain. I told my mom when she got home that my mouth hurt a lot, and I wanted to go tot he dentist, thinking it might be my wisdom teeth. She told me "You've got an appointment next week, we're not moving it up so you can get out of a morning of work a week earlier." After looking in my mouth with a flashlight, she added "You're fine."

I had a shift at the record store that night, and I was miserable. I was just a clerk, but the store manager and AM were really cool, I'd been working with them since I started, and both were also working that night. After 45 minutes to an hour, the pain got so bad I had to sit down behind the counter. Shannon, the manager, said they had coverage, I should go home. I hadn't driven, so I called home to ask for someone to pick me up right then. Mom answered and said "I'll be there, and I'm calling Hoyda's [the dentist] office to get you in tomorrow." She knew if I was calling off from the store, something was very wrong.

The next morning, x-rays showed I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth, all coming in at about a 90 degree angle. They came out a few days later, at the next available appointment with the oral surgeon.