Someone should institute a Diversity Score. I'll start with the game I'm playing...
former Dark Lord of the Sith (+1 Sith, +1 Evil)
Jedi Princess (+1 woman)
Republic solider (-1 white male)
Jedi Cathar (+1 woman, +2 non-human)
Gray Jedi (+1 black, +2 old)
Wookiee (+2 non-human)
droid (+2 non-human)
evil droid (+2 non-human, +1 Evil)
Mandalorian soldier (-1 white male)
Twi'lek (+1 woman, +1 child, +2 non-human)
+18... do I win anything?:)
Especially for flight sims... thinking back to X-Wing and TIE Fighter, I don't think I could have survived all those dogfights with either a keyboard/mouse or a console controller...
There's always eBay.
I got my KOTOR from a local Half-Price Bookstore for $5 a month ago, and now I'm kicking myself for not having gotten this years earlier. I'm just thankful at this point that I never stumbled upon story spoilers before!
I'd imagine that the difficulties in designing a shield/screen to continually withstand the forces wanting to pull it into the engine more than offset any advantage it'd provide in screening any foreign objects out.
I'd second this notion. I used to do this in college, where I found
that blasting New Order through my headphones did more for my
concentration than the quietest library ever could. Nowadays, I've got
80+ hours of random MP3s at work to zone out to.
I've had multiple (at least 8) MRSA infections in the last half year, but nowhere near as serious as the parent post. Don't know where I got it from... haven't been in the hospital since mid-2004 when my babies were born, and I haven't visited a gym in a decade. I was just at the doctor last Friday for my physical, and then that night an MRSA boil swelled up out of nowhere on the back of my thigh, and I was back at that same doctor's office on Monday after suffering through the weekend.
If you can catch them early, and they cooperate by being in an easily accessible place, it's possible to lance them yourself and relieve the pressure by squeezing the pus out (lots of fun, let me tell you). But my last three have been in hard-to-reach places (2 back of thigh, one back of neck), so I've become easily recognizable at the doctor's office.:) So far, it's been bactrim orally, mupirocin in the nose, and hibiclens in the shower... I dread if/when the treatment will need to escalate.
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Someone should institute a Diversity Score. I'll start with the game I'm playing... former Dark Lord of the Sith (+1 Sith, +1 Evil) Jedi Princess (+1 woman) Republic solider (-1 white male) Jedi Cathar (+1 woman, +2 non-human) Gray Jedi (+1 black, +2 old) Wookiee (+2 non-human) droid (+2 non-human) evil droid (+2 non-human, +1 Evil) Mandalorian soldier (-1 white male) Twi'lek (+1 woman, +1 child, +2 non-human) +18... do I win anything? :)
Especially for flight sims... thinking back to X-Wing and TIE Fighter, I don't think I could have survived all those dogfights with either a keyboard/mouse or a console controller...
There's always eBay. I got my KOTOR from a local Half-Price Bookstore for $5 a month ago, and now I'm kicking myself for not having gotten this years earlier. I'm just thankful at this point that I never stumbled upon story spoilers before!
I'd imagine that the difficulties in designing a shield/screen to continually withstand the forces wanting to pull it into the engine more than offset any advantage it'd provide in screening any foreign objects out.
I still remember the music to this one. And it somehow managed to sneak in some economics lessons, too!
Huh?
I'd second this notion. I used to do this in college, where I found that blasting New Order through my headphones did more for my concentration than the quietest library ever could. Nowadays, I've got 80+ hours of random MP3s at work to zone out to.
The age of ship-to-ship combat is over.
:)
Tell that to all the ships off the coast of Somalia.
I've had multiple (at least 8) MRSA infections in the
:) So far, it's been bactrim orally, mupirocin in
last half year, but nowhere near as serious as the parent
post. Don't know where I got it from... haven't been
in the hospital since mid-2004 when my babies were born,
and I haven't visited a gym in a decade. I was just at the
doctor last Friday for my physical, and then that night an
MRSA boil swelled up out of nowhere on the back of my thigh,
and I was back at that same doctor's office on Monday after
suffering through the weekend.
If you can catch them early, and they cooperate by being in
an easily accessible place, it's possible to lance them
yourself and relieve the pressure by squeezing the pus out
(lots of fun, let me tell you). But my last three have
been in hard-to-reach places (2 back of thigh, one back of
neck), so I've become easily recognizable at the doctor's
office.
the nose, and hibiclens in the shower... I dread if/when the
treatment will need to escalate.