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Well I guess that the show wasn't rigged for Amanda after all. But now who do I root for? The racist redneck? The racist blonde? The pussy whipped idiot? The rat / snake? or The redneck idiot? Think I'll just wait for Survivor at this point.

That's cool if you want to dismiss the advice of one of the few people in this thread who have had clinical depression and managed to beat it. Good luck to you and I hope you do find something that works. I know from experience how much depression sucks and its not something I'd wish on anyone.

Except that there is no physical dependency (or tolerance) which is a primary component of addiction. Most people when they are on antidepressants aren't craving them or wanting to get their next fix. Like I keep saying, they're not Tylenol or Vicodin or anything like that. You don't take 2...

It's an interesting article but I don't think it goes into enough depth. Their premise is that when you stop taking antidepressants you can suffer really nasty side effects. This is true but it's also easy to avoid. The trick is to not go off of them cold turkey. I was on Zoloft for about...

Serious question, why are you opposed to medication? A lot of people have misconceptions regarding them. Is it the side effects? Different medications react to people differently. If one is not working, you tell your doctor about the side effects and see if you can try something else. For...

I think the movie that stuck with me the longest was The Day After (the nuclear war movie, not the shitty ice age movie). It wasn't mind blowing so much as "powerful." I finally saw Fight Club recently. I managed to avoid spoilers all these years too. I wasn't blown away by the twist but...

Vanilla raid challenge was more artificial than actual. Can't find 40 people to fill a raid? Odds are you're going to lose. Don't have enough resists for Ragnaros, Vael, AQ40, etc? Odds are you're going to lose. Don't have enough Ony cloaks for Nef? Odds are you're going to lose. It...

I did Blackrock Depths once at level appropriate (full clear including the Emperor). It took 4 or 5 hours with 2 people who knew the instance. I spent time doing BRD after that but never with the intention of clearing the zone. It was just too long and the rewards weren't that great for a...

WOW was an anomaly. We will, probably, never see another MMO as successful ever again. WOW succeeded by bringing in people who normally wouldn't play MMOs. Lots of these people wanted to play for the lore or because their friends played it. But a sizable chunk of WOW's players never played...

Here's the thing though, Blizzard has made a conscious decision to keep LFR in the game as "casual" content. With LFR, I had 3 months of MOP content to consume as a casual (like I said, my days of hardcore MMOs are over between family, work and my master's degree program). Without LFR I'd have...

My opinion is that the 360 controller has always been superior for FPS games (Call of Duty and the like). However, I prefer the PS3 controller for every other type of game out there. Like Quaid, I got a PSX early in the life cycle so I've been using a Playstation controller for over a decade.

MOP wasn't a bad expansion but it's not the greatest either. My days of hardcore MMOing are pretty much over and when I came back to WOW to play around with the pandas, it took me about 2 and a half months to see everything from a solo perspective (level to 90, finish the reps, dungeons...

I remember one guild on my old server would zone into the Temple of Veeshan, hit Autorun at a certain point and pull the plugs on their modems. Done correctly it would put them right in front of the Plane of Mischief castle clicky thing. I don't think anyone was banned but GMs did get involved.

Personally I'm not a big fan of buffets. They say in Vegas that they're pretty good deals for the money but I'd rather eat at a nice sit down place than a buffet. We did the Wicked Spoon at the Cosmopolitan and it was nice and the food was pretty good (definitely higher quality than the...

Yeah, I'm not disputing your numbers at all. You definitely seem to have done the research. But until your post I had no idea that the console war was as close as it was because, literally, all of my friends had a NES and SNES. So it probably is a demographic thing. I'd have been 12 when the...

I definitely agree with your conclusion that it was poor business decisions that sunk Sega ultimately. Ultimately though, the reality that I lived in back in the late 80's and 90's was that everyone I knew had a NES and, later, a SNES. I knew one person with a Sega Genesis. The rest of us had...

Oh yeah, we also had free tickets to the Dinner Show at Tournament of Kings at the Excalibur. In my older post I said that the food was passable but not great (the chicken was a bit dry). However, you don't go to TOK for the food. You go for the full experience and on that it delivers. It's...

Let's see, we ate at the following (and ended up having a lot of burgers while we were there): BLT Burger at the Mirage: Only reason we ate here is because we had just got off the plane, got to our resort and needed to eat something NOW. Despite that it was actually really good. Gordon...

I remember the Genesis coming out LONG before the Super Nintendo which meant that the 8 bit NES system was going head to head with the Sega Genesis. Despite that I feel that Nintendo still did better during that era because they had so many third party licensed games for the system that were...

Personally I'm of the opinion that this season is rigged for Amanda to win (there's some suggestions that Amanda is friend's with Alison Grodner and was pre-selected to win). I can't stand any of the players though and I've stopped watching. Yeah I know that "reality" TV is still heavily...

David Weber is a guilty pleasure of mine. His writing and dialogue can be terrible at times but I still enjoy the books. The Honorverse books aren't bad but I really like his Safehold series. Another Sci-Fi writer I like is Ian Douglas. The Star Carrier books are pretty decent for fleet...

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is one of the best RPGs to date. The sequel isn't bad but not nearly as good as the first. And they regularly go on sale on Steam for around $2.49 each. I'm not sure I'd want to play Dark Souls on the PC. It definitely seems that it was designed with...

We really wanted to eat there but was a bit too pricey for us. We settled for BurgR at Planet Hollywood and Pub and Grill at Caesars. We were very happy with the compromise but next time we get back we're definitely going to splurge for his Steak restaurant.

This is true. But at the Aria we didn't even get small wins to offset our losses. At other casinos you'd get the occasional win to keep you playing but at the Aria we never saw that. It's a higher end resort though and that might have something to do with it.

My wife and I spent about 4 or 5 days in Vegas back in May. We stayed at the Mirage. Rooms were decent but nothing special. We pulled the "it's our anniversary and our first time in Vegas" line out and it got us upgraded to Strip view rooms. We had a spectacular view of the Mirage Volcano...

I've got a launch day edition PS4 on preorder with Amazon. Getting an XBone sometime down the line is 100% dependent on the exclusive games released for the system. I don't give a rat's behind about any streaming or other entertainment features of the system. If I buy it or not will be...

Agreed 100 fucking percent. I refused to do mine until they made Ragefire a triggered spawn. Luckily my guild was awesome and valued me as a player and not a walking rez stick so it wasn't a big issue. Besides we had a bunch of clerics that actually did the camp. I loved EQ to death but EQ...

Exactly. Depression is a disease where you need to do SOMETHING. Sitting back and waiting for it to go away will not work. Not everything you try will work but if you sit back and do nothing, the depression will not get better. Groups are a good idea. When I was working through my...

You can buy 1 - 6 over at gog.com (good old games). 1 and 2 are VERY dated and pretty much impossible to complete without a step by step walkthru. 3 - 5 are still as awesome today as they were in the 90s. The only annoying thing with 3 is that you can enter the final area before collecting...

On his blog, Sanderson mentioned that the main reason he was able to get so many books out so quickly was because most of the ones released had already been written in some form. A lot of his books just needed some revisions, editing and polishing to finish up. Finishing up the Wheel of Time...

I like Abnett's books but I always feel that he needs another 100 pages to finish up his stories. Every single one feels rushed at the end. The Eisenhorn books are great. Not by Abnett but the first two Last Chancers are also really good but the third (and last one) was pretty much garbage...

Nice. I've played all the old Might & Magic games and loved them. Never got into the Heroes of M&M myself (which makes me one of five people in the world) but I loved all the traditional ones.

I'm about halfway into Xillia. It's not a bad game but it's very much a JRPG (with emphasis on the J). Only other Tales game I played was Vesperia but it's been a few years and don't really remember it. The thing with Xillia is that on Normal it's stupidly easy. On Hard, random fights take...

This is my experience so keep in mind that what worked for me may not work for you and what works for you might not work for me. I've had depression off and on since high school. I had a bad round of it my senior year and again in college (I consider a bad round anything that lasts more than...