# Random Musings (and associated non sequiturs) v. 3.0
**URL:** https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478
**Category:** general
**Created:** [October 10, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478 "2013-10-10T00:21:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 61
### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1258 "2015-10-19T12:55:30Z")
> [@CaffeinatedNoms](#):
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> Wasteland 2 Directors Cut
Wait…what? Wasteland 2 came out? The successor to [this game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_(video_game)) (which I haven’t replayed since I was a kid despite having bought it on Steam over a year ago)?
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### Author:  [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1259 "2015-10-19T23:06:34Z")
> [@dakboy](#):
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> > [@CaffeinatedNoms](#):
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> > Wasteland 2 Directors Cut
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> Wait…what? Wasteland 2 came out? The successor to [this game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_(video_game)) (which I haven’t replayed since I was a kid despite having bought it on Steam over a year ago)?
Yup. And now it has a free upgrade to Directors Edition 😛
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### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1260 "2015-10-20T01:18:49Z")
I watched a YouTube review of the game this morning. I think I’m going to pass on it.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1261 "2015-10-21T02:21:42Z")
I hope nobody in the Bay Area has been eating in San Jose lately.
> **[Shigella Bacteria Infections From San Jose Seafood Restaurant Rise](https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/10/20/over-40-sick-with-shigella-bacteria-after-eating-at-san-jose-restaurant/)**
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> At least 80 people have been sickened with an infectious diarrhoeal disease after eating at a Mexican seafood restaurant in San Jose, Santa Clara County public health officials announced Tuesday.
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### Author:  [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1262 "2015-10-22T14:45:18Z")
> [@](#):
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> The disease is spread when people eat or drink something that came to
> contact with the stool of a person with Shigella, public health
> officials said.
Ugh, that’s soo awful. Some nasty bastard in the kitchen failed to maintain basic sanitary standards. Just ewwww.
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### Author:  [@PadrinoFive7](https://cog.discourse.group/u/PadrinoFive7)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1263 "2015-10-22T15:19:00Z")
> [@RoadRunner](#):
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> Ugh, that’s soo awful. Some nasty bastard in the kitchen failed to maintain basic sanitary standards. Just ewwww.
You’d be surprised how often this really happens in California.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1264 "2015-10-22T15:57:35Z")
We have to have a sign on the swimming pool here, that no-one who has diarrhea or has had it in the previous 2 weeks is allowed in the pool.
From what I am told, a few of the kids wound up with some parasite a couple years ago.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1265 "2015-10-27T05:22:39Z")
I think we can successfully say that global warming is the truth: Arizona just beat Toronto in ice hockey, 4-3.
> **[Domi, Coyotes down Maple Leafs](https://www.reuters.com/article/hkn-coyotes-mapleleafs-writethru/domi-coyotes-down-maple-leafs-idUSMTZEBARUXJ4FC20151027)**
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> Domi, Coyotes down Maple Leafs
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### Author:  [@Darktan](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Darktan)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1266 "2015-10-27T12:55:31Z")
If you can snag it cheap, I recommend Wasteland 2. I played during the beta so my copy was buggy but still enjoyable. It plays a lot like the original. I’ve been meaning to start a new game on the Director’s Cut as my toons stats are all over the place but haven’t been motivated enough. I want to play it on my Surface but I need to create a game overlay for the game or my phone. One of these days.
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### Author:  [@balance](https://cog.discourse.group/u/balance)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1267 "2015-10-27T13:23:35Z")
My one concern with _Wasteland 2_ is I’ve heard there’s some good writing, balanced by some very silly writing at times. One review I heard recently was that it didn’t do a very good job of making you feel like you were controlling a party, but more a single character that was an amalgam of the party members.
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### Author:  [@Darktan](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Darktan)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1268 "2015-10-27T14:29:06Z")
I could see both of those. Granted this is from me playing early release versions so it may be wildly different. I did have issues with the group. I tend to be a jack of all trades as my main but with the addition of the other members, it was tough trying to balance everyone. Picking out one person as bomb/heavy and another as sniper/lockpick and so on. And once you get a member, at least I had problems replacing them only because they had been with me for a while. I know I goofed up at the start. We’ll see if it’s better on the 2nd play.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1269 "2015-10-27T21:01:00Z")
What is the purpose of putting all of this hype on the outside of the pizza box? The only ones who are going to see it are me, who already paid for it, and the (possibly) the guys at the landfill. And I doubt the guys at the landfill are going to find anything they see at work even remotely appetizing.
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### Author:  [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1270 "2015-10-27T23:44:50Z")
I’m not sure what it says about my fellow citizens that in the motorway service station, the condom machine was in stock of regular condoms, “enhancement” tablets, breath mints, and condoms for the insecure gentleman, but it was out of stock of “naughty apricot flavoured massage oil and lubricant”.
I guess someone was hungry and the snack machine was out of order?
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1271 "2015-10-28T00:21:04Z")
Or some kids thought it was hilarious and bought them all. Happens a lot in the US.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1272 "2015-10-28T00:32:58Z")
I now know what I want for Christmas.
[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-10-25](http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-10-25)
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### Author:  [@MikeP](https://cog.discourse.group/u/MikeP)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1273 "2015-10-28T20:32:53Z")
Why does everything have to be “Extreme”?
Sign on a vacant hardware store:
> Coming soon: **EXTREME DANCE** November 2015
What exactly is extreme dance? Do they do all their dances on a balance beam suspended 10 meters above the ground?
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### Author:  [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1274 "2015-10-28T23:13:38Z")
It’s great when the QVC guy selling laptops knows absolutely nothing about the laptops he’s selling.
Apparently the 10" screen means it has room for vinyl speakers. I mean, what? WHAT!?
Oh, and a year’s subscription to Office 365 means that for a whole year you’ll be able to write all your documents and spreadsheets… he says, holding up a box that clearly says Office:Mac on the front ~.~ yeah, that’ll work fine on that laptop running Windows 10, and _doesn’t have a DVD drive you cretin_.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1275 "2015-10-28T23:33:27Z")
> [@CaffeinatedNoms](#):
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> Apparently the 10" screen means it has room for vinyl speakers.
What are “vinyl speakers”? And who the hell is selling a 10" screen? My screen is 17". The idea that anyone would use a 10" screen that is not a tablet is bizarre.
I nearly went insane trying to get back my Office 2015, rather than get ripped off for Office 365.
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### Author:  [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1276 "2015-10-28T23:36:04Z")
> [@ClockWorkXon](#):
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> > [@CaffeinatedNoms](#):
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> > Apparently the 10" screen means it has room for vinyl speakers.
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> What are “vinyl speakers”? And who the hell is selling a 10" screen? My screen is 17". The idea that anyone would use a 10" screen that is not a tablet is bizarre.
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> I nearly went insane trying to get back my Office 2015, rather than get ripped off for Office 365.
The vinyl speakers were never explained. Also, the product _was_ a tablet, but apparently nobody had realised this at all. They were selling it as a laptop. I just… I… _how do these people have jobs_?
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1277 "2015-10-29T00:01:02Z")
> [@CaffeinatedNoms](#):
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> how do these people have jobs?
Nepotism would explain the in-breeding.
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