Every shot I take is a tremendous flick - usually they miss, but the 5% of shots I hit keep me entertained enough to keep at it.

If I have time to switch to shotgun though, I'm definitely going with the shotgun, because nothing brings me as much joy as watching somebody crater due to 12 damage shotgun shots.

I worked in a factory for 4 1/2 years through college. Here were a few of my tricks (many of them have already been mentioned).

1. Sing songs you know, either aloud or in your head. You'll have some pop into your head randomly, because your brain will be very bored, so just let it happen lol.
2. any sort of memory task - I used to try and recall the birth and death dates of various historical figures within a certain category, ie, the kings of France.
3. Talk to people, if you can talk to people, hope they're not an anti-social loon, and talk to them - it will make time go much faster.

Once you get settled though, it will go a lot faster than you'd imagine - it has its own sort of rhythm to it and once you get into said rhythm time will pass quickly enough.

Also, I would strongly advise you, if possible, to completely blow your first pay check on something stupid - remembering how good that feels is a good self-motivator to not wuss out and do something more "kid" friendly so to speak.

Basically all you do as a coach is watch the noobies play and try to keep it 1/2 way organized.

I've basically made a script lol

1. Introduction - who I am, why you should care, and why I know more about tf2 than you do (sometimes the noobies think they know things).

2. Can everybody get in the server and/or know how to get in the server?

3. Look at the pings of people in the server, maybe 1 in 10 noobie mixes you'll have some unfortunate noobie join who
is playing on a toaster or with 250 ping and you'll need to get a sub for them.

4. Go over the mid, what things are called, etc

5. Go over what people do at mid point by point, class by class.

6. Go over some basic "how to hold" stuff - you'll really struggle to keep some people in line (lots of players just want to wander around the map).

Then I pretty much just let them start and ask questions about random stuff, and go over when and how to hold when we actually get there. Lots of coaches like to go over holds for each point - but that makes the start up take too long, and generally people can't remember that much information anyways in a single sitting. I also don't like it because some noobie mixes are going to end up being rolls, and so you would have wasted all of that pre-game time lol.

If they have a person that *wants* to main-call, I'll main-call and micro everybody for the first round or two, to provide them with an example, and then let them take over (providing help from time to time). It helps me because I can spend some time watching the flank players - who often go ignored.

Then once it's over I let them stick around and ask questions, and I try to remember 3 things to talk about that happened to lecture anybody who wants to hang around. Then it's all over lol. All told it takes ~45 minutes to an hour depending on how long they want to talk to me once everything is over.

Fallout 3 was abysmal in comparison to its predecessors. Some fans of the series have a bit of loyalty to the original designers and their intentions.

Bethesda games are generally pretty, perhaps interesting visually, but that's *generally* all they've had going for them - the content is really watered down and often recycled both from previous bethesda titles and within the game itself, the stories are disjointed to allow for maximum sandbox, meanwhile the actual game systems are often fairly clunky or downright embarrassing - it's what happens when you have a company that makes games based on metrics and is run by a cabal of 10 or so lawyers.

Unfortunately most younger gamers didn't really get to experience RPGs in their heyday, so they think they're getting something good - when they're simply getting very safe, very recycled, pretty looking, content.

The trailer had a more consistent and convincing narrative than fallout 3 :/

Well, I guess I can mark that as an improvement.

I play a lot, it depends on my mood as to what sort of game mode, generally not tanks, but sometimes tanks - it's better now than it was.

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Some of the Kurdish groups are officially considered, by the US, to be terrorist groups. So we use third parties to provide them with aid, since it'd technically be illegal to give direct aid to groups the US has declared to be terroristic, but giving support to their *friends* who would then give support to them, that's not illegal :D

I got a pretty good laugh out of the "join hamas" story lol. There *are* ways to get into Gaza, but it's pretty difficult to do - basically if you don't have family living there (and sometimes that's even an impossibility if you don't carry the right kind of passports) unless you're from a religious organization, charity, or a journalist. It *is* possible, but it takes a lot of work. It's also not hard to join "hamas" if you can vote for them (ie be Palestinian) - I assume he meant to join the Al Qassam which is the military wing of Hamas - but they don't even have weapons or supplies for all of their own members (being as unemployment in Gaza is so high tons of people have the spare time to join a militia and march around).

The problem is certainly *not* Islam in an of itself, because most of the "bad stuff" that people point out as being present in the Qur'ran *are also* present in some form in the Old Testament (and in some cases the new if you'll review Timothy). It's simply that the whole region has had to find some outlet for its dissatisfaction. In the 30's many of the nationalist groups, or pan-Arab groups toyed with the idea of joining the Axis or sent feelers to Hitler to see if there was any potential for them to gain independence from French and British hegemony with the aid of the Axis. Of course, that route didn't turn out so well, and a lot of people got shot.

So, West Asia, and its independence movements, turned broadly left, and started to court aid from the Soviet Union, or in many cases, both sides, with aid from the Soviet Union serving to ignite fear in the West and to cause them to give aid as well in increasing quantites. Ultimately, this didn't turn out well either - because Western nations generally stepped in and had all of the more pro-Soviet elements shot to re-secure economic hegemony. But they came back, so the "West" broadly speaking, chose to back Islamic radicals *and* traditional power bases willy-nilly.

Just for some examples. Iraq had a royal family, they were exceedingly corrupt and were overthrown by a series of military governments who purported to be broadly "Marxist" in approach, we fixed that problem by backing the "socialist" ba'ath party of Saddam Hussein. He was wildly popular and the US is still rightly regarded as having made an excellent decision here.

The US didn't like Nasser in Egypt because he was heavily courting aid from the USSR, so initially we backed Islamic "radicals" called the muslim brotherhood to get rid of him, but eventually he died of his own accord, and the guy after him ended up being a little bit more pro-US, and then he was shot by our *original* friends the Muslim Brotherhood and replaced by an exclusively pro-US guy Mubarak, our support for whom still makes us incredibly popular and well liked in the region. He was generally considered a great guy.

Afghanistan was once one of the most progressive countries in the whole of Western Asia, women didn't wear traditional "religious" head-gear, held prominent positions in government, and several government initiatives had aimed to make Afghanistan a viable agricultural exporter by constructing one of the largest dams and irrigation works in the region. But they were just a bit too far left, and when "radicals" started to rebel against the progressive policies of the government, who outwardly declared that it was Communist and pro-Soviet. The US chose to back this organization, I don't know if you've heard of it, called Al-Queda, lead by a really nice guy called Osama Bin Laden. Luckily for us, he won, and the Soviets chose to withdraw. Then that big farm project was switched over to opium production to make *real* money too, so it was really a win win for everybody involved, and we're still hugely popular for this decision, because like I said, they were such great guys who also happened to love freedom.

Basically *any* country you pick in the whole of Western Asia has a narrative that could loosely fit this form, but I'll present those cases alone with a heavy dose of sarcasm to help get my point across.

The point is, the reason "Islam" is so bound up with "terrorism" that is to say that those who feel that the best political tactics they have in hand are terroristic ones, tend to use Islam as a justification for those tactics, is because everybody else who mayhaps wouldn't have used Islam as a justification for their political acts, have already been killed, and their organizations completely destroyed. There simply are no organized liberals, or socialists, or social-democrats, their organizations have all been shattered time and again, and the only groups that are sufficiently organized to carry out political actions with clear goals in mind, are the radical religious groups that the "West' made such a habit of backing for years and years.

I also wouldn't be inclined to jump to conclusions about going to Turkey - of course the US government will because they're incredibly afraid that somebody would come back from there with ill intentions, but he could also have been meaning to join the US backed FSA or one of its subsidiaries, which does take foreign fighters, or perhaps the PKK (Communist Party of Kurdistan) who also takes foreign volunteers (a group of German bikers recently joined them and they've been blogging about their experiences lol) or the Kurdish Democratic Party (the nominal governing party of the Kurdish Regional Government) who also takes on foreign fighters. Or maybe he just really wanted to smoke some shisha and look at some old buildings like most people who go to Turkey before this all started lol.

I pay 35$ a month for this. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4399267336

I don't know what 720p video looks like because it takes too long to buffer.

This is the best internet available in my area. Welcome to the USA #1 country in the world. However, this is decidedly faster internet than I've ever had (outside of when I was at university) so I'm actually pretty happy with it.

I have an especial love of Kung Fu - there are so many good ones on YT :D

The main reason I don't particularly care for it, is that in an ideal world, your very best scout slayer should be the pocket. Obviously, that's not always the case, so giving up the shotgun isn't that big of a deal. It also chains one of your scouts to the combo - otherwise you'll always be behind in uber so your flank players have to manage themselves more carefully on holds. Above, there are several notable positives pointed out, but I would also bring up, that if you're a team that opts to take lots of non-uber fights, a gunboat pocket can get back to their team with a relatively higher amount of health than normal (due to the reduced damage they'll take rocket jumping). So if you're a pocket who tends to die a lot during ubers, and your team has lots of drawn out fights, gunboats may be quite beneficial.

It also simplifies your life if you're one of the myriad of pockets who doesn't have a particularly good shotgun, because it will draw a scout into your combo, and thus reduce the likelihood that your medic will get ganked by every scout in the world.

It was there on start up, but I closed it... and it seems to be no longer on lol. So did they just make it a start up application that you can close (it's no longer in my task manager... so maybe it's hiding itself now or is indeed closed).

I told fappin' that it was his job to cap all the points, and by God he's doing quite the job.

I funded my drinking habits and TF2 premium by selling my blood plasma.

I would've had this as the music instead, because at least then the music would've been good:

https://youtu.be/CKhSca8CS1c?t=1459