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I read all of these books over the summer, if you haven't read any of them I give a strong recommendation for them even if you only have a cursory interest in the genre. Hobb creates a world and a cast of characters that you really grow to care for. Especially

Just got a PS4.... last console I owned was a PS1 so it's been a while, but I always loved FF. I loved 1 6 7 and Tactics, and have played 10. I'm way out of date as to what newer FF's are good, and google leads to confusing results. Are there any must have games I need to get since 10?

Read Guns Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond if you haven't already, it's a good way to introduce how a historian thinks/builds on a thesis, and is well reasoned. They also made a documentary about it.

That's pretty sick. Have to say I'm cheering for Crosby to sweep both the Richard and Art Ross.

Saw they issued a new patch and added the Australians as a DLC. Anyone played lately and checked it out

I love sci-fi but this movie looks boring. Not an original concept... from the trailer it looks like it just have could been set in a lab on earth. Hope I'm wrong

Sad to see Burrows and Hansen go as they were amazing Canucks, but glad to see Jimbo finally make a move, realizing the Canucks are bad and should be sellers. Don't know much about Goldobin but he has decent AHL stats.

+1 for Stardew Valley. Definitely worth it to fire through a few seasons.

Habs fire Therrein, hire Julien. Huge upgrade in my opinion. Luckily Price had an awful stretch to "excuse" away dumping Therrein who should have been let go long ago (before they ran Subban out of town).

Rebel Galaxy is on sale for 66% off, any good? Have it on my wishlist but don't remember why

It annoys me how much media seems ready with the pitchforks for Tesla's autopilot system

I am addicted to this game. Can't stop.

GF just bought Quelf. It's a silly game.

Bumping this old thread, doing a similar trip to the OP but also extending our trip by staying with some friends later on. Should I be finding a place to stay near Mission Beach or more in the GasLamp district? Looking for places to stay (specifically), things to do other than the Zoo, places...

I've never read a Star Wars book in my life, but the Thrawn one looks pretty good. Am I going to be able to follow it or should I read other books first?

Canucks are winning and I don't want them to. It's all gonna come crashing down. Unfortunately probably not far enough for a good draft pick.

Bought Pandemic kind of on a whim and brought it to the cabin over the holidays, and was pleasantly surprised when my mostly non gaming friends were really into learning it. We ended up playing 5 times over 2 days and ended up winning our last 2 games as we got the hang of it. I wish I had...

I enjoyed this show a lot, but the escape scene was terribad, the guards were so inept. I would have liked something more like others said, where Ford messed with the GPS, or the robots did more than just stand there and not get hit and then fire one bullet like a 1990's Schwarzenegger movie

Opened 25 packs and only had 2 duplicate rares, 22 duplicate commons. I had a number of 3 rare packs which was nice. I got Inkmaster Solia (mage legendary) and then in a single pack I got a Golden Hobart Grapplehammer (legendary), Fight Promoter (epic), and Grimestreet Pawnbroker (rare) pack...

New patch is good. One question though, have other people found their starting city spots been pretty shitty since the patch? Maybe I'm not used to Civ6 yet, but sometimes I don't even have a luxury.

Doesn't seem sustainable. But Price is still god so you'll get your wins.

Mich Marner looks pretty sick. Toronto might not be good this year but they'll be exciting. I picked up Zaitev and Carrick in my pool, looks like Zaitev is getting fed prime PP time so I hope that works out. Canucks first goal this season was on their own net. Miller had a 100% sv but didn't...

Canucks are going to be so bad. It's ironic that I may only be tuning into the games vs Edmonton to see how McDavid is doing. Otherwise I'll just be watching whatever game is good/whoever I have playing in my pool. Calgary/Edmonton might have a decent rivalry again soon, albeit I don't think...

The Team USA roster decisions and putting Torts in as coach doomed them, imo. Torts is a bad coach and makes bad decisions. Benching Buff the most recent one.

Pulled Al'Akir and King Crush. Still missing a few important classic neutral legendaries but was happy to get these guys all the same.

Hopefully he lines up with McDavid this year and starts playing like a #1 pick.

My real estate friends say the slowdown isn't nearly as pronounced as the articles say. It's slowed down a bit, but August is always the slowest month of the year, and the tax will likely only produce a bit of a lull before things pick up again. All my real estate friends still say its crazy...

This literally happened in Vancouver only a month ago... 15% foreigner's tax, and it's been pretty controversial. I know places like Hong-Kong and Australia have had these in place for years though.

I spent a couple years teaching English in Korea after I finished University, it was a great experience and I loved it. Great way to travel, decent pay, and really interesting to live in a place with such a different culture, where I was a minority.

Civ 5 was really the only clusterfuck base game though right? I love it but it's true, it wasn't good until the first expansion. I'm seriously considering buying this at launch, will have to wait for some more indepth reviews though.

Maybe it's changed since I was there but there were magic show only tickets available when I was there, they had just ran out of them. Even still, it wasn't awful, there are just other places in Lahaina I would have wanted to eat.

The biggest reason against going that route for me is that I realized I wanted to keep learning new history, and teaching the same material every year would suck. I realized History was better as a hobby for me. I would say, focus on a career that gives you what you want. That could be...

Yeah skip the dinner if you can, I think for us the only ticket available was a dinner ticket. Go out in Lahaina first. I think Warren used to be a magician in Vegas. The show was hilarious and great. Just like standup, don't agree to sit in the front row if you wanna stay under the radar.

Hey man, I was in a very similar spot at you at that same age. I was also a History major, and thought I'd do either the teacher route or law. After teaching English overseas for a while and then looking into how teaching here would go (I'm from BC, Canada), and then writing the LSAT (Law...

I don't think those guys were eligible to get NTC's when they signed those. - General Fanager

If you're in Maui the magic show is top notch. I'm not the type to enjoy that kind of stuff usually, but it was amazing and a major highlite of our trip there. I can't remember the name of it, but I believe it was in Lahaina. I did the Road to Hana, the locals terrified me screaming around...

The simple fact is there are very few star player contracts who don't get a NTC, let alone franchise icon types like the Sedins were/are. In fact I can't think of a star player who doesn't have one. If you don't hand them out you're unlikely to retain any of your star guys.

I've never played this franchise, but I just bought Battlefield 4.... can someone explain why this new one coming out is then Battlefield 1?

Pretty surprised Vesey went with the Rangers. AV isn't exactly known for playing rookies and they're pretty deep at wing, unless they plan on moving someone? It's not like they have a couple of star centers to play with either.

Vancouver just started this. Right only it's only in the early stages, so only founding members are riding them ($85 membership for the year I think) but eventually they'll expand into single use purchases I think. It's already working way beyond expectations, west coast hippies love their bikes.