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This is a good series but whatever happened to Part 3 Deprovisioning the user, can't find it anywhere on cool solutions site.
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1Zelda's mythology isn't so expansive and complicated that it necessitates a timeline. All that's important is that there's a sense here that history continually repeats itself.
Nintendo may have somewhere an idea of which games proceed each other in a fictional chronological order, but the notion that there's an actual "timeline" is bullshit. For starters, timelines require time - you know, dates or a rough idea of how much time has passed between events. And there's nothing to suggest there's anything remotely close to that's happening. These games could take place a few generations after each other, or thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years (hell, in Wind Waker, they imply that some of these species of people evolved from older ones, which would take forever). Modern Zelda games purposefully drop hints and connections, not to imply that there's any real meaningful connection between games, but to be like, "hey, remember Ocarina of Time? That game was great, right?" The purposefully vague connections are not meant to be meaningful, but to obfuscate and tantalize gamers without having to provide anything of substance. Arguing about a Zelda timeline is probably the least productive thing you could possibly ever do.
I LOVE San Luis Obispo.  It's a great place to visit for a weekend. And north of the city there's Morro Bay and Cambria that are both very picturesque little towns with amazing beaches, good restaurants, and the surrounding hills/forests are great for fishing or camping or hiking. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself, Adam.
Up until late 2008 the European version of Coke Zero was artifically sweetned with a carcinogen.
I also don't trust artifical sweetners and avoid them. I remember 3 years ago I was in a diner with my dad and while waiting for our food I decided to see what was in all the artifical sugar packets they had at the table. Ended up seeing that the two main ingredients in Sweet'n Low are that same carcinogen (Sodium Cyclamate) and good old sand. (Silicon Dioxide) Which to be fair there is small amounts of silicon dioxide in the plants we eat and small amounts of silicon are normal and good for your health and growth/development, but salts that are known to cause cancer aren't.
Also Sucralose, which is a sweetner found to be very safe in consumtion has me disagree with the use of it due to the very way it works. Namely that your body doesn't actually consume it, so it just goes straight into wastewater treatment, and an increasing number of studies are finding that it is just re-entering into drinking water as is. Which any build up of artificially produced compounds in the natural environment has me uneasy. The increasing number of kids (particularly girls) younger than 10 having precocious puberty and the increasing number of studies linking it to phytoestrogens in the drinking water from all manner of products (makeup, contraceptives, plastics, etc.) is quite disturbing as it is already.
Like any living organism a human is just a collection of chemical compounds that undergo processes that allow what we call life to go and is thus subject to the compounds they ingest for better or worse.
That said I don't drink that much pop anyway, although I'll get down on some Cranberry Canada Dry. It's kind of my festive winter beverage, much like Karen and Master Higgins' adoration for eggnog but quite likely to a lesser extent.
Your opinion on sodas are null and void, because you call them "pop". Cranberry Ginger Ale is pretty tasty though, but then and again, Ginger Ale is the greatest beverage ever crafted by man.
Would you prefer cabonated, flavoured, sugar water? I sometimes also refer to them as soft drinks but mostly pop like everyone else.
I would prefer you call them "soda" like a normal human being.
Adam's at his best this episode.
Also sadness for Gamepro.
Guillermo_DudeL wrote: Adam's at his best this episode.
My friends and family are each getting a can of pop for Xmas this year.
The really good ones will get a six-pack.
Can't believe Adam mentioned Bill Brasky. I just saw that for the first time getting out my girlfriend's Best of Will Ferrell DVD. That is an OLDIE.

That's some great tolerance for cultural differences you got there. Also, can't believe the whole soda/pop/cola debate has been brought up yet again.
R.I.P Gamepro. I was always an EGM kid growing up, but its really sad to see these staples of my childhood going belly up. I'm old enough to remember reading the first issues of both magazines...yeah, I'm old. Hope Karen and Justin find employment soon!
Oh, and on a side note, they forgot to mention Ramen noodles as poor food. When money was tight that's all we would eat. Most times we would just smash the noodles in the bag, pour in the sauce, shake and eat.
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True, but he does tend to ramble. For example, it takes me about 15 minutes to commute to work. In that time span, he did NOT get to the point of his story.
You forgot "Coke" meaning any non-alcoholic carbonated bevereage... instead of Coca-Cola...gotta love the south.

That's some great tolerance of other people's intolerance of your cultural intolerance you got there.
Oh look, it's kenzo who can't detect sarcasm or good-natured ribbing and LiQuid who can't come up with an original or funny response.
*SIGH* I love it here...
I can detect sarcasm and good-natured ribbing - which is why I first gave Konanda a good natured ribbing, then gave you a good-natured ribbing. Maybe I should have appended everything with lil rolly eyes so people know that I'm just joking.

You always claim that's what your venom actually is, so Imma just start playing by your rules and maybe we'll both be on the same page and get along better.
Yeah, that's not what I'm about at all, but nice work at being a hypersensitive baby yet again.
Hey, remember that time you told me you didn't give two shits about my mom being dead? That was so playful and good-natured.
Uh, Jinpei I was kind of establishing "cool story bro" as my thing here. Can you not use it too please?
Sorry, LiQuid, I think the internet beat you to that a few years back.
I understand that, but I was specifically employing it as a counter-trolling measure against you as a direct reference to Ryan Scott messaging it back to gamer kiddies that talk shit to him via private messages.
What's the matter, can't come up with anything original on your own? Give it some thought, I'm sure you'll come up with something good.
Awesome posts everyone.
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