Reality vs Adventure

Thanks for that informative video! I haven’t really focused on the abilities of each gear set and the runes you can enhance it with. I usually use gear for visual effect, unless there is a big fight and I’m having a hard time winning, then I’ll go into the abilities details. Interestingly though, when you visit the blacksmith in Ravensthorpe, you actually can change the look of gear, meaning you can choose some gear that you like its abilities, then make it look like a different piece of gear you have in your inventory. So you can actually wear what you want with the abilities you want. But that's something to definitely keep in mind when buying gear or trading your opals for gear, which I'll start paying more attention to.

That's true. What they offer in the store can also be earned by doing weekly quests and getting enough opals. AC Odyssey has a similar system and is more lenient on the amount you can get each week compared to Valhalla. It's a very nice thing that they offer.

This game is looking freakin awesome. I want it.

I know exactly step for step what will happen on our Thanksgiving day. I'd be happy just being alone and grabbing some McDonalds.

In this country there are 10,000 drunk driving related deaths a year. But this technology is only for new vehicles and the majority of drivers aren't gonna have new vehicles. So we won't see an affect for probably 10 years from now.

That's a good point. But to make it less intrusive, I think the new technology may have something like that installed in the steering wheel that detects breath. And I've been wondering about the mask thing and if it really would stop the smell of alcohol. Thinking about it, I don't think a mask will stop the smell of alcohol. Because we also sweat it out and the alcohol fumes are so strong that even with a mask on, the sensor will probably still be able to detect alcohol if installed in the steering wheel. But what you said about breathing into the breathalyzer may be most accurate. And it won't allow you to start the vehicle if detected. If it's in the steering wheel and casually picking up the air in the car, then how far along in the vehicle can you drive before it detects anything? But people will complain about breathing into something to start a car. I had the option to do that one time but I decided I'd rather go to jail than do that. lol

This doesn’t even scratch the surface of the insanity in our country. But we sadly are witnessing the collapse of society. I think a huge part of what we are seeing is a privileged caste system that has ceased to evolve, and has really had no incentive to evolve and compete. This caste privilege, or you can say white privilege, is a caste system that has pampered certain people so much, that they now are falling apart and can no longer cope with an ever changing world and society. Their minds simply cannot function in today’s world anymore. They are falling apart and are a very lost and confused species with really no future or contribution to help societies thrive and progress. These Americans will burn it all down if the circus can’t hold onto to their undeserved privilege and will drag us all down with them into crazyville and turmoil. We all have our problems and we all have our moments of craziness. But this is a new level of craziness that actually is societal and widespread and should be considered a mental health epidemic in this country. But they will destroy such a great country with all its potential before any help gets there to treat this mental health epidemic.

I would ask for a game for Christmas and save my money for FEB 2022 because there are some big hits coming that month.

RDR2 GTA 5 TLOU 2 Those have to be my top 3 that I've seen

Nothing wrong with that. You collect zippos and RDR2 stuff. When you start baking RDR2 cookies with the soundtrack playing, and dress up as one of the characters and talk like them, and draw up train heists, then we need to start thinking of an intervention.

How many times do you wish you can go back and refresh your memory on part of the story or just simply enjoyed a mission/quest so much you wish you can replay it? A lot of times I find myself wanting to start a new save file and new game to run through some earlier quests to get a better grasp on the story. I wish all games had that replay function, where it won't change your status in the game. What are some games you know of where you can replay a mission/quest whenever you want? GTA 5, RDR2, and TLOU2 are like that. The older Assassin's Creed games are like that too. For some reason they did away with it in the newer ones. There are other games that unlock that function after beating the game, but what's the point when you want to refresh your memory before finishing it?

That same red flag can be used scanning ID when buying alcohol because many times when I bought alcohol, some stores actually do scan your DL and swipe it through a machine I guess to see if it's real. Some stores scan everyone's DL as store policy I guess. But who knows, they probably also check for warrants. So why not have all ID's have an alcohol purchase monitoring system. If you think about it, who knows what all the bar codes on our ID's contain. Driving is a privilege and not a right. So checking your DL for alcohol purchase doesn't violate any rights like a facial recognition might cause a lot of controversy.

Those breath tests are always designed to make you fail it and leave it up to the courts and urine sample. States in the U.S. are all different, but in Texas if you go to jail then the urine sample is mandatory. They only check blood sample if you refuse the urine sample. Then you could actually sit in jail for a couple months till you get the blood lab results. But they don't tell you that so you might as well piss in a cup. As you mentioned, there are too many flaws and legal red tape. I would take some serious drastic measures and target alcohol itself instead of vehicle technology.

That is true, and it won't stop those who plan ahead from drinking and driving if they got some booze stored up for the weekend or some party. But this idea will cut down on those that are a very high risk, the alcoholics, who aren't good at storing alcohol for future planning. And those every day drinkers would be the primary target who pose the greatest danger within that 24 hour period. Not to say the weekend binge drinkers aren't a threat, but there isn't much to do about them except relying on vehicle artificial intelligence that knows their driving patterns. Even then, issue would arise on when the 24 hour cut off begins. It should start 3 hours after purchasing alcohol so there is plenty of time to get home. But the car can malfunction and cut off when you are still in the parking lot. So there really isn't a one solution to prevent drinking and driving except to ban alcohol or tax the hell out of it.

I haven't been gaming for years so I can't say what makes me stick to a series. But in AC Odyssey, when I first played it I fell in love with the flying eagle. Also the abundance of different types of gear and being able to switch it out as much as I want. There is also a feature where each gear has certain abilities so you can wear that gear, but physically choose whatever gear type you want it to look like. So you can look how you want and keep what abilities you want. And being able to tame wild animals to travel and fight with you is awesome. There are many others that I can sit here and go on and on why I love it so much. And GTA 5 is now one of my favorites. I love being able to get whatever vehicle I want, and all the cool shows to watch on tv, and the best radio music. Flying planes is awesome, boating, and I love the director's cut mode where you can gung ho without consequence.

We are getting close to the stage of throwing books into piles and burning them. Greg Abbott is now launching actual criminal investigations of books that have LGBTQ content as 'pornographic' too kids. And who exactly is going to be prosecuted? They say it is anyone who distributed that material. And who is that? Teachers? Why on Earth would they get prosecuted for library books? Authors who wrote the books? School boards that approved the books? Where are the witches to burn at the stake? But not only are LGBTQ books getting vetted, but also all books that have any teachings of racism as they claim part of the critical race theory. So is this now also the 'critical gay vetting?' Seriously, when are we gonna see piles of books getting burned right in the school front yards? https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-gov-launches-criminal-investigation-140100147.html

There are 2 main games to play which are 8 ball and 9 ball. The 8 ball game one player has to knock in all solid color balls in the pocket and the other player has to knock in all striped balls in the pocket and then knock in the 8 ball very last to win. In 9 ball you have to shoot the balls in order from 1-ball to 9-ball and you win once you pocket the 9 ball. This video shows some good shots, but notice sometimes the shot is a safety shot, where they try not to leave the other player with a clear shot on their turn. That's why the crowd cheers when they shoot the ball, but doesn't fall into a pocket.

Plenty of skin here-That's Chloe NOT

Anyone a fan of shooting pool? Ever watch tournaments? Once I turned 18 I spent a lot of time in the pool halls. I love the game and used to have a Mali cue stick. My preferred tables were always the bigger ones in billiards over the smaller bar sized that usually uses quarters. And my preferred game was good ol fashioned 8 ball. I miss it. Anyone else like to shoot pool? What is your preferred game and table size? Thinking back on those days, how I miss it.

Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido has a remarkable history. I'll have to post more info later about him. But we all know of Bruce Lee. So, the match up??? VS

I remember years ago I used to play Age of Empires a lot. I loved the battle simulation. What are some of your favorite military sims? Ace Combat I thought was fun. Are there any good naval sims? I would love to have a sea battle with battleships and aircraft carriers. Would be fun to actually nuke some cities. Are games that real yet? 🤗

Aikido is the martial art of using one's own force against them, while other martial arts actually fight with force. In Aikido, they don't punch or kick but instead use the person's momentum to throw them, pin them, or break their arm/wrist when they swing. Which art would you prefer fighting with? Is force more effective than defense? Back in the day I practiced Aikido for a short period and I highly respect the martial art. There are two completely different mind sets when fighting if you are in Aikido vs any other martial art. Defense vs offense.

Central bankers are careless when it comes to printing money compared to the actual amount of gold in banks. If everyone cashed out their dollars at the same time, there would not be enough gold to claim. So the value of paper currency is almost nothing, and they keep printing it and printing it. The value of paper currency would be a lot stronger if every dollar had gold to match it. But what would be some problems with the gold standard? And which is worse, not having enough gold to back the paper currency or decreasing the print to match the gold?

The infrastructure bill that just passed includes this monitoring system in new cars! But still, how many people are buying new cars? So this won't have much of affect anytime soon as most people are driving used vehicles. But at least something was done. Not sure how it's gonna work yet. But even if they wear masks, there is also technology to detect the blood alcohol through skin in the ignition starter. But then again, gloves can prevent that. So unless a probe is jammed up their asses, people will probably still get away with drunk driving. But at least one thing may have a fail safe, which is the vehicle being able to detect abnormal driving behavior compared to the usual driving behavior stored in the car's artificial intelligence. But I still see there being issues if maybe you are tired while driving, will the vehicle contact police? So maybe this is all gonna be an annoyance. What I would do is have your driver's license barcoded and scanned as you purchase the alcohol, then scan it every time you start up the vehicle. If you've bought more than a set limit, then you can't drive for 24 hours. I don't give a damn about the crying snowflakes. Stay the hell off the road if you bought a bunch of alcohol. Simple as that.