Back to the regular programming. I've met my goal of getting 10,000 Gamerscore within a year of acquiring my Xbox 360 console. I was actually hoping for a bit more of a challenge to hit it, but borrowing BioShock and then getting The Orange Box, Assassin's Creed and now Mass Effect made it easy. I've still got a ton to do on Assassin's Creed, but Mass Effect is so captivating. I've swayed at times since some of Mass Effect's side quests get a little repetitive, but the story really gets involving and the conversation is great. I actually love the combat, too, but I know some people don't like it as much as I do. If you are looking for a 3rd person shooter, it's not Mass Effect. It's an RPG despite how it was hyped. Enough of that, though, I'll finish ...

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This summer I've gotten back into Warhammer 40,000, a table-top science fiction table top soldier game. The game is from Games Workshop, they produce and sell the products. There are two Games Workshop stores in Edmonton, the nearest to where I live is in the West Edmonton Mall. I have basically been going there since I got into the hobby, I first played on a holiday in Calgary and went to the other Edmonton once or twice. This was two or so years ago, but at the time the employees were really annoying and I was basically turned off that store for, well, ever. But now I'm seriously considering going back to it. Over the past year, maybe less, the WEM GW store has started to get really bad. Underestimating how many people who would come to events was common, the good employees started leaving and now the summer events don't look like they'll be going very well. Yesterday I went to Games Workshop to participate in the terribly-renamed event "Quick and Messy." It consists of two 500pt. armies working together against another two 500pt. army team. Last summer I had a ton of fun doing this event, which was organized as a tournament. It went along with a painting contest and, if I remember correctly, a similar event on a different night of the week for Warhammer and Lord of the Rings. (Those are GW's other major games.) This time, however, was significantly different, though I should have been able to figure that out by the new name of the event.

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Zizou blew it. I've always thought he was one of the greatest players ever, but how could he be so stupid as to end his career like that? No matter what he does, now, he'll always be remembered for that incident. Terrible. I'm sure Materazzi said something pretty terrible to make him do that, but seriously, it is extra time in the World Cup finals and the last professional game of your career. How can you go and get a red card? I was really sad to see things end like that, I was only rooting for France because England were out and because I like Zidane. He still managed to win the Golden Ball, he was expected to all along, but how can one of the greatest players in the world do something so stupid? I guess ranting won't change anything, so I'll stop there. What a ...

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