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Speaking of ring worlds. Did you notice that Elysium, in the movie of the same name, is a ring world? Also, I thought the story shared some simularities to the John 117 story in Halo. Replace Max Da Costa (Matt Damon) with John 117 and Kruger with a Brute or Elite and it all starts looking like a variation on a theme. It must still be the back of Neil Blomkamp's mind since the Halo movie fell through and he did District 9 and Elysium instead.

I really enjoyed District 9 but I haven't seen Elysium yet, it sounds pretty cool the way you describe it. I didn't know that there was a ringworld in that one, I have to see it now.

Yea and spot Sharlto Copley as Agent Kruger. I didn't even reckonize him in this villain's role that is one of best I've seen in a while. He is amazing! He was the lead in District 9 and he played a great Howling Mad Murdock in the A-Team movie  (2010). All totally different roles done to perfection!

thriftbooks.com looks like an amzing resource.  I will have to keep that in mind next time i need a book.

I already finished Mirror's Edge, I had a craving to play it and I grew impatient for the podcast to come out.  I am glad that I played it, such an amazing experience. 

That's pretty cool, glad you liked the game. Did you try to play it without using guns? Was their any particular way you preferred to play the game?

I had to use the guns, I cannot believe that anybody finished the final level without one.  I though that the pacing in mirror's edge was perfect.  You had the tense, run for your life moments with short breathers sprinkled throughout.  I loved the feeling of being chased and not wanting to look behind for fear of dying.

Oh, hey, I got a mention . I'm about to head into Venice for the first time, I can't wait!!!

And curse you, young Michael! I now have a thriftbooks.com account and ordered a book and it's all your fault!

Venice is really cool, you can hop right onto gondalas and use your push-pole thing to go around the waters of the city anytime you'd like.

That's cool you found a book you like, thriftbooks seems pretty neat! I'm not sure exactly how it works, if people sell their books to the place and then they get shipped from a warehouse or if it's like amazon or ebay with lots of sellers all over the place. All I know is that my book was in very good condition, decently priced, their appears to be no shipping for people in the USA, and it's coming from Seattle lol. When you search for books though it comes up with lots of different locations. Maybe they sell both first party and third parties or something like amazon.

Your so lucky i have never been outside the US so im jelouse.

Not going to Venice physically, just in Assassin's Creed 2. I did live overseas for three years when I was a kid, though.

Oh lol!! Dont i feel stupid lol

You're not alone Rodney, I've never been outside the US either lol. I've been to Indiana and Nebraska though and that was a lot of fun. We have family in Indiana and went to tour Notre Dame, went to something called the Blueberry Festival where I found some great Greek food and blueberry pies to boot. In Nebraska we like to go camping and fishing.

Farcry 3 is a awesome game i had stopped playing cause i played for 2 weeks straight and took a break and started playing Record of Argarest now i want to play Farcry 3 again since i read your game moment ha ha thanks now im switching games again lol!!!

Sorry I made you switch games lol, but at least Far Cry 3 is a pretty good game to switch too, you should have lots of fun. You said you played for 2 weeks straight, do you have any favorite aspects of the gameplay?

Lol like you im obsessed with liberating outpost i like the ones on the shore so i can sit in my boat with the machine gun and mowe them down till they stop coming and then break out the sniper rifle lol!! My favorite thing to do is explore and find hidden places etc im also obsessed with the towers lol!!

That sounds awesome, I've never actually liberated an outpost via a seaborn attack. I always come from the hills around the camps. I sneak in the bushes outside the walls marking all the targets with the camera, then I throw rocks to bring them to me one by one and kill them, using the bow and silenced sniper and knife.

Do you like to hunt down the collectibles like the relics or letters of the lost? It's cool how collecting those things gives you XP and also helps you unlock signature weapons. There's cool unlockables in the game I think. If you activate all the radio towers on both major islands you unlock the Bushman assault rifle which has a silencer, extended magazine, and scope. The signature weapons you can unlock are all pretty neat.

Yes i do like the relics and lost notes oh and by the way they have a dlc pack that unlocks new guns and animals and you can also go to the Play U store ingame and get wallpaper and guns for acheivements which is really cool.

I never heard you could buy new guns and animals, have you bought any of those? I wonder if they're cool?

The dlc is called the deluxe bundle this is what it has in it.

An awful lot of content's packed into Far Cry 3's bullet-riddled open world, but we're sure many of you are hungry for more. Unlocking all of the game's preorder bonuses, the Deluxe Bundle DLC is more substantial than it sounds, adding six single-player missions, a few new weapons and multiplayer features, and four new animals to hunt in the wild.

Meet Hurk, the affable redneck monkey trainer/ explosives expert who wants an “in” with the Rakyat rebels.

The new missions are the highlight here, especially the two "Lost Expedition" levels, which toss you into secret Japanese World War II facilities (one in the process of self-destructing) filled with retro sci-fi tech and abandoned except for hordes of pirates. The other four missions revolve around a monkey-training good ol' boy named Hurk. At first, his assignments are straightforward combat missions - one set in a crumbling temple complex and the other at a dockside facility - and while they're fun, they'd be forgettable without Hurk's bumbling presence. Things heat up, however, when Hurk moves to the second island, at which point you'll have to defend his boat as it chugs down a river, before jumping into shark-infested waters to sabotage a hidden submarine base.

The rest of the offerings are less impressive. The new animals, which show up randomly in the wild, are essentially re-skins of existing critters (mountain lions are brown leopards, for example), and while the new weapons can give you an edge early on, they're not game-changers for experienced players. Still, this $10 pack is an excellent excuse to sink a few more hours into Far Cry 3.

I still hadn't picked up Mirror's Edge.  It's on my list to get.

Mirror's Edge can be found for good $10-$20 on amazon for PS3, it's $20 on Steam. I looked on amazon and for 360 it's crazy expensive though, for a new copy at least they're going from full price $60, up to $150! Used copies are normal though, mostly $20 and below.

What you said about Far Cry 3 made my urge to play the game even bigger, but i'll wait for that. Right now, I have my Steam collection left in dust.

On my reading, i've been empty since I finished A Clash of Kings. Sure, I have books I want to continue, but right now the book left me a gap that other books can't really fill.

It's probably pretty easier for Steam collections to get neglected since people tend to have so many games. Did you get some games during the Steam summer sale or anything? There's a ton of games I want to get on Steam, I'd be set for months and months if I bought all the games I wanted on Steam. There's so much great content there.

Yes, I did got some games during the sale. I've been meaning to do a blog about that.

"I died, but I could not have been more satisfied or entertained by it."

Y'know, I hope I say that about my real death. Maybe it'll involve a clown. Makes sense, given my fear of them. 

Clowns are awful, I'd be terrified. I'd want to die fast and with the shortest period of pain possible, like from a nuclear explosion or a laser beam from a giant alien dreadnaut as they glass the planet from orbit lol. That'd be a decent way to go out.