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Tintin

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CarolSampaio said:
Brotherhood is AWESOME!!!!!

I'm playing Unity right now... I could not play Rogue... I bought it... but could not play it... :( It was just too much for me... my heart could not handle the stress...
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I love that Kristen Bell (who played Veronica Mars) is still in it. I used to have a huge crush on her (still do). I play the games mostly for the characters and story line. How many games are there now in the series and are all of them one big interconnected story?
 
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Tintin said:
I love that Kristen Bell (who played Veronica Mars) is still in it. I used to have a huge crush on her (still do). I play the games mostly for the characters and story line. How many games are there now in the series and are all of them one big interconnected story?
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The good story line goes until Assassin's Creed 3...

So...

1. Assassin's Creed I
2. Assassin's Creed II
3. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
4. Assassin's Creed Revelations (closing the Ezio trilogy)
5. Assassin's Creed III

Those five close the story line that started in the first game!!

6. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (great game... not the best story, but it's great fun... better than AC III)
7. Assassin's Creed: Rogue (could not play it... you turn on the Assassins... and I just could not do it...)
8. Assassin's Creed: Unity... it's fun until now!! Let's see.. I'm still in the beginning...

And this year it should be released Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (if I'm not mistaken....)

hehehehe
 
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Tintin

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CarolSampaio said:
The good story line goes until Assassin's Creed 3...

So...

1. Assassin's Creed I
2. Assassin's Creed II
3. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
4. Assassin's Creed Revelations (closing the Ezio trilogy)
5. Assassin's Creed III

Those five close the story line that started in the first game!!

6. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (great game... not the best story, but it's great fun... better than AC III)
7. Assassin's Creed: Rogue (could not play it... you turn on the Assassins... and I just could not do it...)
8. Assassin's Creed: Unity... it's fun until now!! Let's see.. I'm still in the beginning...

And this year it should be released Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (if I'm not mistaken....)

hehehehe
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Thanks so much, Carol. I'll get into Brotherhood and see how I go. Maybe this weekend. Thanks again. Goodnight from me, good day to you!
 
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CarolSampaio

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Tintin said:
Thanks so much, Carol. I'll get into Brotherhood and see how I go. Maybe this weekend. Thanks again. Goodnight from me, good day to you!
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At your service, good sir!! ;) Whenever you wanna talk games, I'm game!! hehehehehe

Good night! :)
 
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Currently at the DMV. All dese people -_-

Ain't nobody got time for dis!
 
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MissCris

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So it turns out that the less I post in here, the more I text my husband. While he's working. And while he hasn't exactly asked me to stop, he Did say that texting someone several cat memes within five minutes could be considered "annoying".

So I was all, "Success!!" And he was like, "That will be a lot funnier AFTER this meeting is over", and I texted, "Who replies to stupid texts during a meeting?! Turn your phone off".

I may or may not have been texting his work phone, though.

...and this is why I hang out here and post nonsense. To save my marriage.
 
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VioletReigns said:
Quick story: Due to years of being abused in almost every capacity, my physical body finally broke down. I was losing weight rapidly, my back was crippling up, my heartbeat was erratic and weak and I was in chronic pain. After numerous tests given by my doctor, he diagnosed me with PTSD and summed it up in these words: "Although all your tests came back negative, your body has chosen to give up. Either you change your outlook on life, or you will die."

So I chose not to do the medication route and instead took a hiatus from work, meditated on the Word alive in Christ, while building my body up physically through intense weight training. In three months time of strenuous workouts, running, eating only healthy foods I found myself competing in weight training. By the end of the competition, my trainers told me that my body fat was so low, it was as if I had cellophane over muscle mass. :D ROFL!!!
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A few years back I read a couple of books on PTSD because my wife suffers from it and I wanted to understand what she was going through better. One of the experts that contributed to one of the books hypothesized that large numbers of people who suffer from auto-immune disorders actually have either untreated/undiagnosed PTSD, or other mental/emotional issues including repressed anger and holding hard grudges/hatred that raise their levels of stress (for many they are unaware of the stress because they've become accustomed to it) to intolerable levels. Eventually the body revolts because of the highly elevated levels of cortisol, adrenalin, and epinephrine that it was not designed to handle for extended periods of time.

Immawildthing said:
I actually pointed out that I noticed her hint dropping, to my husband, and he actually said, "I know, it bugs me too. Maybe next time, don't acknowledge her until she actually asks. It shouldn't bug her too much, if she catches on fast enough". So there was a little bit of support from my hubby, thank goodness.
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At least you and your husband see eye to eye on it. IMO it is his responsibility to sit down with his mother and work it out. If I recall correctly, my BIL had to have a similar conversation with his mother about her forcing her child rearing ideologies down my sister's throat.

Tintin said:
Lovely little Aussie town. Would you just look at all that snow...

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EDIT: Oh, my goodness, Carol! That's not snow. Those are spiderwebs!
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At least those areas aren't having problems with overpopulation of other insects ;)
 
lil_christian

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MissCris said:
So it turns out that the less I post in here, the more I text my husband. While he's working. And while he hasn't exactly asked me to stop, he Did say that texting someone several cat memes within five minutes could be considered "annoying".

So I was all, "Success!!" And he was like, "That will be a lot funnier AFTER this meeting is over", and I texted, "Who replies to stupid texts during a meeting?! Turn your phone off".

I may or may not have been texting his work phone, though.

...and this is why I hang out here and post nonsense. To save my marriage.
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Blah, blah blah....Ephesians 5...blah blah respect your husband... blah blah blah, cat memes are a sin, blah blah blah. ;) :p

haha I feel like if/when I get married I'd do the same thing. XD
 
Oncefallen

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Stravinsk said:
Ok. There is something I really like about this chat. No ads. And direct appeals for funding. That is awesome.
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It's sad the number of users that actually complain about the monthly funding letter.

MissCris said:
They've tried having ads on this site a few times...I assume it didn't work out well? I'm not sure. But I certainly like it better this way. Anyway, hope you decide to stay!
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RoboOp (the founding Administrator) has tried ads a few times over the years to try to help fund the site.

Google ads in years past did not allow sites to filter the ads for content in which case users were seeing ads that were completely inappropriate for a Christian site. In more recent years they have allowed sites to filter by category of ad but by the time you filter any category that might possibly pop up an inappropriate pic or subject there's so little left, and so many users use pop-up blockers that the revenue is negligible.

At one time he tried a Christian based ad company and even they ran ads that would be questionable.
 
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ServantStrike

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Oncefallen said:
It's sad the number of users that actually complain about the monthly funding letter.



RoboOp (the founding Administrator) has tried ads a few times over the years to try to help fund the site.

Google ads in years past did not allow sites to filter the ads for content in which case users were seeing ads that were completely inappropriate for a Christian site. In more recent years they have allowed sites to filter by category of ad but by the time you filter any category that might possibly pop up an inappropriate pic or subject there's so little left, and so many users use pop-up blockers that the revenue is negligible.

At one time he tried a Christian based ad company and even they ran ads that would be questionable.
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I'm reminded of Jesus selling laundry soap in Fahrenheit 451.

Kind of random but there you have it.


Christianmingle actually ran an ad that redirected me to something pretty dirty.... I was shocked for a nanosecond, but then I remembered that advertisers are simply out to make money.
 
maxwel

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Oncefallen said:
It's sad the number of users that actually complain about the monthly funding letter.

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I agree.
No one has much right to complain.

CC is not a non-profit ministry; it is a privately held corporation, and Robo, the owner, has every right to manage this business however he sees fit.
 
Lynx

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Actually this is more true than most "our rights" whiners realize. If Robo wanted to ban discussion of the color chartreuse on this forum it would be his right.
 
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Tintin

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Lynx said:
Actually this is more true than most "our rights" whiners realize. If Robo wanted to ban discussion of the color chartreuse on this forum it would be his right.
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Chartreuse? You just made that one up! :p
 
Oncefallen

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maxwel said:
I agree.
No one has much right to complain.

CC is not a non-profit ministry; it is a privately held corporation, and Robo, the owner, has every right to manage this business however he sees fit.
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Actually Christian Chat is a duly registered religious non-profit in the Philippines (where RoboOp lives).

That being said, even the founder of a non-profit has the right to solicit donations from those who utilize it's services. The last time I checked just about every non-profit solicits donations in some way or another for one purpose; to cover the costs of the services they provide. In the case of CC this would include server bills (one for the forums, one for the chat rooms) and what is left over is RoboOp's salary. In most months what is left over is a pittance even without considering the number of hours that RoboOp puts into feature development (predominantly for chat since the forum is commercially available software).
 
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