Silus - Shard of Flame

The truck went Have to upvote ice cream.

If you're going to watch any episodes, make sure they're the ones written by Steven Moffat. Those are the best. And now he's running the show, which fills my heart with so much joy.

I love Somewhere Only We Know. Such a cool song. Right now?

Ooh, love that game! I play that from time to time. I've already beaten it but I'm trying to max out my characters cuz there's an achievement for that and that's my outlet for whorish tendencies. Other than pimping Brandon's books of course. XP Finished Darksiders. The final boss was ridiculously easy despite his ability to take out a whole pip of my health in one attack. The ending was pretty good. The climax wasn't as good as it could have been but it was better than some games. My guy FINALLY got to beat the crap out of the totally useless jerk of an Exposition Fairy (played by Mark Hamill, which surprised me, but I liked listening to him despite how much of a tool his character was). And it had a cool hook for a sequel, teasing at the inclusion of the other three Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Oh, and it ripped off the Portal gun near the end. I really wasn't surprised by that point, though, so I just shrugged and kept going. Now I'm back to Mass Effect. Every so often I'll consider just how I'm going to kill off the other female characters. It's tricky because I did Kasumi's loyalty mission before I thought to do this, so I have to figure that in. I'll make it work though. *evil grin* (there should be a smiley for that, jus' sayin')

Well, the Elantrians have a good dose of power, yeah? Well, the Dakhor magic could be using the pieces of Shard power in people to accomplish something similar, using symbols for magic. But it also seems that the sacrifices accomplish a lot more than what Elantrians can do, just requiring enormous sacrifice. I'm also putting forward Sacrifice as Skai's Shard name if it hasn't already been mentioned.

really grumpy due Zas gets a cookie!

due to explodium

Explosion Wednesday material. Name that reference and you get a cookie.

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He was interrupted He closed the quote. XP

Veronica Mars and Psych are awesome, and Doctor Who is pretty much my favorite show ever.

When the Day Met the Night by Panic at the Disco. They've got some good stuff.

Me too! If I'm in the right mindset I can go on for quite a while pulling things off the top of my head, but if I need to conform to a specific script I fall apart. I lose my flow!

What? We've agreed on stuff before! I'm currently on chapter seven of LotR, and it's kinda weird, this Tom Bombadil guy seems totally out of left field, I really have no idea what to make of him. I think he's a cliche being subverted until I remember that this book wrote most of the cliches and I just keep going in circles in my head. I started reading Servant of a Dark God and pretty awesome so far. It keeps teasing me with little tidbits of worldbuilding and some interesting character interactions that have really grabbed my attention. I don't like that he ends EVERY CHAPTER on a cliffhanger of some kind. I'm a little scared to reread Eragon actually. I read the prologue a week or two ago and noticed a bunch of holes, and I don't want to ruin it for myself.

My brother got Darksiders a few days ago so I've been playing that nigh constantly. The gameplay is pretty blatantly a Zelda clone in terms of structure of world, challenges and puzzles, but the combat looks like God of War (as far as I can tell, having never played it). It has a few interesting worldbuilding aspects to it regarding Heaven and Hell, angels and demons, a concept I find myself drawn to in my writing. And despite being pretty unoriginal in, well, everything, it's pretty good.

The note reads: Spheremorphs, It has come to my attention that you are interested in my tournament. Now I've hopefully gotten yours. Rest assured that I do not intend to kill you. I want to see what you're capable of, and I can hardly see that from a corpse. But know that I can kill you at any time. Though I believe that our interests are similar enough for us to get along. Cross the river to the east into the Western Plain, find the hill with cross marker on it and be there by midnight tomorrow. We will be introduced, and you will discover quite the opportunity. Hope to meet you soon. -A benefactor The page hasn't been up very long, barely any of the grime persistent around you is on it. The handwriting is neat and uniform. And Doc's face is blank.

Sorry I haven't posted anything yet. I've been trying to get caught up on various things after changing computers. Trust me, Nexus I definitely up there on my list of priorities, but Google Reader was bugging my slightly OCD self. XP Post upcoming. EDIT: Post now up!

I've already got all three, and I do intend to buy the last one whenever the heck he ends up releasing it. It was the first set of books to really introduce me to the fantasy genre. You guys have mentioned Servant of a Dark God. Would you recommend it? My mom's got it from the library and I'm considering it. It really does look good. What about Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld? They talked about it on WE and it sounds AWESOME.

Actually, it would be more accurate to describe it as Gundam with little girls rather than giant robots, as I have heard it described. It's only kinda a Magical Girl show in the first season and is much closer to military drama by season three.

"If it works then it works." Which is my favorite (slightly paraphrased) Dan Wells quote after "I'm allowed two F-words under the PG-13 rule." (said at LTUE, at BYU) I'd like to announce that we have gotten a new computer! Once we've downloaded our backups from the old computer things will be even better than before! And a Nexus post after that will be forthcoming. I just have to decide something for that.

Verb Removal Machine. It's already struck!

I have started rewatching Heroes. I'm two episodes short of the end and it is SO FREAKING GOOOOD. And then I have to watch it slowly die for four more seasons. X( EDIT: And I mean two short of the end of season 1.

My reading is two fold right now, and in a decidedly non-comedic direction. I'm reading the War of Souls by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis and, finally, the Lord of the Rings. I'm going a chapter a day on each of them. I'm finding that LotR is the harder one to read. It's the pacing. It's not that it's off, it's just in SLOOOW MOOOOOTIOOON. But it's interesting so far. I like how subtly he creates an atmosphere in a scene, using established things to make you tense. Like how when the Black Rider is nearby Frodo scrambles for the Ring even though Gandalf TOLD HIM NOT TO! Very nice. I'm thinking of putting Eragon into the mix, just for some variety and I've been meaning to reread that. I also picked up a copy of Analog at the library and I've read a couple of stories. Good stuff I must say.

"Innocent Starter", the opener for the first season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. (which is a show you should go watch because it's GREAT)

Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, which is actually pretty dang hard, the difficulty curve for the enemies is MUCH steeper than the first game. They let you buy a couple of weapons from the first game, one of which could take down a gunship in the final level in one hit. It takes about three shots to take down a late game FOOTSOLDIER in this one. I'm also running through as an Engineer in Mass Effect 2. I'm playing a girl and intend to have all the other female characters die in the end, leaving all the men for her. And she's supposedly a Paragon, hah!