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Iirc, re: coke, so long as you're also drinking something like... six times? That in water you'll be alright. If you're not, you're screwing yourself over a bit. Something along those lines. Most carbonated drinks are actually pretty nasty for you, especially the sweet ones.

Also something along those lines is a fair major cause of why I personally have pretty terrible reflux these days and have largely stopped being able to drink anything carbonated or caffeinated without having to deal with acid bile from hell. Some people don't have that problem, but some do. Genetic coinflip(s) and all that. Maybe you're lucky. Maybe you're looking at having to go cold turkey or pain in another five or six years.

And yeah, tea, iced tea in particular (if by iced tea you mean something approaching the standard US southern iced tea) is a good way to induce kidney stones, apparently. So I was told by the doctors, anyway. Don't even drink the stuff, but it was noted as a potential causal factor for certain sorts of 'em.

Russia wants a non-anti-Russian Ukraine.

Sweet zeus, if that was the goal someone in russia was not just holding the idiot ball, they were vigorously molesting it to the point of further distraction.

... wait, which solar? I thought the reflect-y version actually did pretty good?

... yeah, I've occasionally heard tale -- and by hearing tale, I mean talked to actual tax assessor-type people having witnessed it -- of folks more or less getting away with criminal enterprise because they properly listed their illegal income for taxation purposes. It was usually some of the lesser crime stuff (operating without licenses, dealing in stolen goods, etc.), obviously, but still. And beyond that, it definitely entails a lesser sentence if you do get caught. Really, the last thing you need on top of a criminal conviction is tax evasion >_>

Sometimes the government doesn't care so long as you're giving back your due...

Kishi was a pretty terrible writer with a fairly interesting premise, yes. This is one of the reasons why we have fanfiction

In other news, TGWP. Since I seriously CBA to register on spacebattles, I'll say it here:

Eesh, no love for fallout tactics?

... yeah, FO:T gets no love. FO1 & 2 were both pretty nice. Can't recall if I finished either, but they get kicked on every once in a long while and mucked with a bit before being forgotten again. I still haven't played the FO3 related stuff -- yet to have managed to get my hands on a computer that can really run 'em. Skyrim's more or less in the same position, unfortunately. I'd kinda' like to, one of these days, though. TES's strength has always been environment and whatnot, substantially over gameplay and mechanics, and what I've seen of Skyrim via video and such definitely has it as a decent successor of the earlier games in that realm.

Anywaaay. I loved morrowind's aesthetics more than just about every other aspect of it, and doubly so once you mod out several of the annoyances (like the leveling system -- fuck the vanilla leveling system -- and the lack of passive magicka regen) so you can just seamlessly explore around, talk to people, explore ruins, caves, etc., etc. And mod in more junk, of course. Still, dem mushrooms and mushroom towers. The towers were hell to navigate due to the small corridors, but so uniquely pretty :3

Oblivion... every once in a while I kick oblivion back on and try to mod it into something I want to play, partially succeed, and then get bored with it usually about two seconds later -- by the time the mods are half working, interest has waned

With that said, though, Nehrim was kinda' freaking awesome (and considerably easier to get to just run) and for that alone Oblivion largely ties with morrowind for me in terms of overall enjoyment, even if the TES folks can't claim too terribly much credit for it. It's just... very very. Beautiful landscapes, really interesting bunches of stuff, lots of lots of things. Really draws me in much more quickly than Oblivion itself. Pretty sure it's because of the giant trees. Gotta' love dem giant trees.

Well, that's interest raising. Worrisome the only thing of note I can recall from the devs is a space-based AoS-knockoff, though. Supposedly a relatively interesting one, but still...

Also vaguely obligatory commentary of it being too pretty to play, but eh. Space dakka is good too, and the at-least initial apparent promise of orkz is pleasing as all hell. Smashing a rok into something could be a glorious experience.

Bit of a necro, but I care little.

I just experienced that it's entirely possible to one-shot the final boss's final form on highest difficulty >_>

Command mode is ridiculous. Two hundred crowbars. Also the barbed wire aura goes off screen somewhere a bit over 100. 30 something goat hooves is just silly. More would be sillier. Chest-generating use item asap, get your 8 clovers, run an extra lap or two around the levels... things get entirely silly. At one point I one-shot an overloading magma worm... had to have been something over 100k damage in one go. Utterly insane.