Out of the Blue

[Oct 08, 2012, 09:31 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Happy Columbus Day to all who are celebrating the occasion, which seems to be a smaller group every year. I saw an interesting suggestion over the weekend for how to make this controversial holiday an occasion more people could support by rebooting it as "explorer's day." I think that would be a good idea because it might help reinvigorate the idea of exploring space, since it seems obvious that this is vital to the long-term survival of humanity.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 9, 2012, 09:03

nin

Oct 9, all platforms. Woo!

Fuck...no time for all these games...




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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 9, 2012, 07:28

Dades

I don't even play Borderlands 2 and that whole class looks really stupid based on the skill tree calculator. Borderlands doesn't exactly strike me as the thinking mans game where you want that sort of complexity and have the time to even process it all. Her abilities probably won't even be powerful enough to justify all of that and doesn't the game have a melee guy already? - DADES - This is a signature of my name, enjoy!

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 9, 2012, 06:51

Bhruic

nin wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 17:52: xXBatmanXx wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 17:45: Mechromancer SkillTree is up! http://www.borderlands2.com/us/skilltree/mechromancer.html Saw that as well, excellent! edit: Hell, even the BFF tree looks fun...but not diggin the ordered chaos tree. Wow, I'm surprised at how crappy some of the Ordered Chaos tree skills are. Sure there were some useless skills for the other characters (+1 grenades anyone?), but I can't think of any skills that came with such penalties.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 9, 2012, 02:33

Retired

nin wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 17:52: xXBatmanXx wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 17:45: Mechromancer SkillTree is up! http://www.borderlands2.com/us/skilltree/mechromancer.html Saw that as well, excellent! edit: Hell, even the BFF tree looks fun...but not diggin the ordered chaos tree. WOOOOO! Randy Pitchford ‏@DuvalMagic So - here's the surprise, Mechromancer for Borderlands 2 is ready about a week earlier than I promised. Oct 9, all platforms. Woo!

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 17:52

nin

xXBatmanXx wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 17:45:
Mechromancer SkillTree is up!

http://www.borderlands2.com/us/skilltree/mechromancer.html

Saw that as well, excellent!

edit: Hell, even the BFF tree looks fun...but not diggin the ordered chaos tree.

This comment was edited on Oct 8, 2012, 18:01.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 17:45

Retired

Mechromancer SkillTree is up! http://www.borderlands2.com/us/skilltree/mechromancer.html

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 16:32

Cutter

Happy Thanksgiving, eh!




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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 16:24

Agent.X7

Given our predilection for breeding like rabbits - especially in underdeveloped countries that can least afford to do so - and our piss-poor management of resources, not to mention our seeming inability to get along with each other, it doesn't seem like the sun is going to be a problem.

If anything, we need some people off-world just in case those of us remaining decide to do something extraordinarily stupid.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 15:40

jdreyer

it might help reinvigorate the idea of exploring space, since it seems obvious that this is vital to the long-term survival of humanity.

Heh, you have a pretty long view. Given that the sun has five billion or so years of fuel left, we have a while to get off this rock, as long as we manage our resources here (which we're not doing a very good job of doing actually). But we have to manager them right to get a viable population into space anyway, so either way we need to manage things on Earth better.

Also, I thought they already renamed Columbus Day to Discovery Day? Explorers Day is more encompassing I'll admit, but isn't it already renamed something generic?




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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 15:13

Agent.X7

Creston wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 13:52:
Best Guild Wars 2 Death Ever

That is just tooooo fucking cruel. The guy spends like an hour getting up there, and then BAM. Trebuchet Denial.

Creston

Hehe, that was awesome. Not so awesome when it happens to you, but funny to see that others have the same issues.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 15:01

Retired

Sounds like Sprint had a major fiber cut in Seattle area? Anyone have issues? Think it is Sprint customers only. Also, anyone see the Stan Lee cartoon shorts? I think it started today. The guy still puts out great stuff. World of Heroes http://www.youtube.com/user/worldofheroes Aaaaand, is anyone getting or did you get Retro City Rampage? http://www.retrocityrampage.com/ Game is going to be a blast! This comment was edited on Oct 8, 2012, 15:08.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 13:52

Creston

Best Guild Wars 2 Death Ever That is just tooooo fucking cruel. The guy spends like an hour getting up there, and then BAM. Trebuchet Denial. Creston

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 13:43

Bet

xXBatmanXx wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 12:58: Rally Car Downs An Electrical Pole. Thanks nin. holy balls! Petter nooo

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 13:17

Creston

xXBatmanXx wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 12:43: rubs eyes HOLY CRAP THAT WAS A GREAT VIKINGS GAME@!! Lots of fun: Not a bad view from our seats.... DAT AZZ!!!! You bugger. You don't deserve those seats! Creston

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 12:58

Retired

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 12:45: Wow, are you seats that close to the field Bats? Or did you walk down just to take the picture? 3rd row, I just stood up. Rally Car Downs An Electrical Pole. Thanks nin. holy balls!

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 12:45

Mr. Tact

Wow, are you seats that close to the field Bats? Or did you walk down just to take the picture?




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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 12:43

Retired

rubs eyes HOLY CRAP THAT WAS A GREAT VIKINGS GAME@!! Lots of fun: Not a bad view from our seats....

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Re: Robot Chicken

Oct 8, 2012, 12:01

Killer Kane

Love the Robot Chicken...best 15 minute animated show ever!

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Re: Off-topic: Paypal

Oct 8, 2012, 12:00

Mr. Tact

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 11:46:
nin wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 11:44:
Tried a different browser?
Oh, good idea... I'll try that.

Nope. No change. Only browser add-on I'm running is AdBlock, and I've always run it, I doubt it's that.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 8, 2012, 11:54

Creston

Sepharo wrote on Oct 8, 2012, 10:39: Is today the day I spend $100 on just two games? Been a while since I wanted two full priced games so badly. Yeah, yeah I missed some discounts somewhere along the line. Yeah, I'm in the same boat. And I'm really nowhere near done playing GW2, so I'm having to fight hard to resist buying both... Creston

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