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  ******* POSSIBLE BOOK SPOILERS ***********   It's certainly possible. the books mention several times about someone taking over an animal and finding the presence of someone else who had taken it over previously upon their death. In fact, the prologue of a Dance with Dragons is about Varamyr trying to take over Thistles body but she fights him off.

  I didn't play that one. I miss the original Chrono Trigger, Illusion of Gaia, Secret of Mana, Lunar: The Silver Star Story, etc.

  This is why I haven't replayed it. When it came out it was the best looking thing on the market and the story was fantastic. I would rather just have the romanticized memory of it than the sudden realization that it was bad but I was a teenager. They went downhill after this one anyways. 8 was ok, 9 wasn't good, 10 spiked upward but 12 wasn't fun and 13 can die in a fire. I'm not even going to count the X2's etc. I played 11 and 14 though, but I wouldn't count them as "final fantasy".   The best JRPG i've played in the last decade was Lost Odyessy.

just remember......

  So the show and the books are now (for the most part) caught up to each other.  Dani is being surrounded by Dothraki, in fact, in the book she meets face to face with the rider who took off with all of Drogo's men. Leaves us to think that she'll now have a new army to tie with the unsullied.   Tyrion and Jorah are nearby but they're outside the besiged city trying to buy their way in after having been sold into slavery. In fact, Dario isn't even there. Dani got pissed at him and sent him away to do her work elsewhere.   The story in the show and the story in the books varies greatly as far as the Stannis tale. He's still alive in the books. In fact he has Theon and his sister in captivity. Sansa has never been back to winterfell, nor has she met with Ramsay.   Brienne's tale is almost kind of sad. In the books she's on a fools errand quest to find Sansa. They threw her a lot of bones in the show by having her bump into both of the girls. She never saw them at all in the books, nor met Stannis.   John is right where he's supposed to be though, stabbed and presumed dead. But, we've seen Thoros of Myr bring back Dondarrion.. and he's a red priest... so who knows. That would presumably release John from the oath of the black. But if you've read the books at all, as soon as you think you've figured it out, George throws you for a loop.   ****edit**** Also remember, when Dondarrion comes back to life, he's "less of who he was". Wonder what John would lose? Plus, in the show they don't get into it often but the Stark kids have warg abilities. Bran did it more than most, but the books detail Wargs being able to jump into other peoples bodies. Bran did it to Hodor after all. In fact, most of the Stark kids show they have these latent abilities, cept Sansa, she's pretty much worthless in the books.

  She's got it in contract that she wont have to do any more nude scenes for the show.   Early on I was wondering how these later seasons would go. In the books, to be considered "of the people" she had to wear a traditional tocar which had one breast exposed.... She would often complain internally how she struggled with keeping the dress from simply falling apart while she wore it. 

It's the sacrifice made by the soldier that allows the people of this nation that bubble of freedom that they so easily take for granted. Men willing to fight won us this country, helped us sort our differences and kept us safe from tyrants abroad.   But not everyone has forgotten.  :usa:

Received this from a friend today   Filming a scene in Return of the King (seen only in the extended version), when Grima Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) stabs Saruman in the back on top of the tower, Christopher Lee corrected Peter Jackson on the fact that when a person is stabbed in the back of the chest, they do not scream (as the director wanted), in fact the air is pushed out of their lungs and they “groan” with an exhalation of air, very quietly, as their lungs have been punctured. From Peter Jackson’s DVD commentary: “When I was shooting the stabbing shot with Christopher, as a director would, I was explaining to him what he should do… And he says, ‘Peter, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back?’ And I said, 'Um, no.’ And he says 'Well, I have, and I know what to do.’”   Apparently he was SAS in WWII.

Here's my other question. Is he doing this in a towel?

Hey, yall should watch out for others feelings....that lady was mighty brave!

For those at work who could use a good chuckle.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBbpPsJ7U6E

You should check out the range the newer AC routers before buying a boatload of gear. Some of them are pricey but they get great range. Plus with beamforming you get directed signal to your devices. Much cleaner, faster and overall more efficient.    http://www.pcworld.com/article/2082232/revealed-the-best-and-worst-802-11ac-wi-fi-routers-of-2013.html

  Therein lies the catch. They can print it, I can't :D

  That's better but still too much for me. But, money is subjective...

I LOVE that gun.. it's that $1,700 price tag that I can't stomach.

They're sending wolves after sheep. Wolves who've planned out the move and know exactly where the sheep is going to be seated. Of course they're gonna get the drop on them.   Do that same experiment but put that armed person in a random spot in the room....   How would we fair? I'm going to be questioning the fact that they're arming me but noone else.   Also I love that they gave them that style retention holster. It wouldn't have surprised me to see a trigger lock to boot.

man, I gotta be honest. I expected more "I gotta get me some of these!" from the TGO crowd lol.

      So just the two of you? :P

If you don't know how to support them, I don't recommend custom builds. Cookie cutter desktops can be a bit more expensive, but you get a warranty and support with a single call versus calling the mobo manufacturer followed by the cpu manu, followed by....   with that budget you're somewhat limited away from the big players though. But you might be able to get an ibuypower rig or something to that effect 

how many people showed up?

  I can see it now. "Hey boss, i know we just spent 150k on support for the VNX, but i have these magic beans...."

I had a blast last time we did it. Sadly, tonight doesn't work for me. Gotta upgrade a SAN at work.

Now you need to polish up some federal and do it with a set of Bose earbuds :)

  I use this same stuff every year and it works well.   Also the Terro bait does the job over time. It requires patience though because you want the ants to go to it and travel back to the nest.

  yup or when sitting on the toilet is one of the more enjoyable aspects of your day.... "finally, some peace and quiet"