TobiasFunke

About 6 to 7 hour drive with no traffic. It's not far for a 3 day weekend.

Halfway from Tahoe to Santa Cruz will land you right in Sacramento. You can tour the state capital, go to old town Sacto, and the big train museum is right next to old town. Pretty cool things to do for a day to break up the drive.

It's not shady if that's what you're asking. Right off the freeway, continental breakfast, about 10 minutes from downtown Santa Cruz. Good spot. Aptos is beautiful. I have family that lives there. About 20 minutes south on your way to Monterrey is a shit load of fruit stands. You can get pretty much fresh picked anything you can think of for dirt cheap.

Just stayed at the Best Western Seacliff Inn in Aptos a few months ago. Any chance you're staying there?

Halfway from Tahoe to Santa Cruz will land you right in Sacramento. You can tour the state capital, go to old town Sacto, and the big train museum is right next to old town. Pretty cool things to do for a day to break up the drive.

I remember the original Double Dragon game and the platforming was so hard I would spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to time the jump on those stupid ass blocks that would pop in and out of the wall. When I finally did it I felt like I just won the World Series.

Kind of on that note, I saw a hilarious meme the other day with the "back in my day" old man that said something along the lines of, "back in my day we didn't get video game demos to play before the game came out, we just bought the game, played it, and liked it."
I laughed

That's why games like Dark Souls are such a good throwback. Unfortunately I can't dedicate time to playing the Souls games like I could have when I was younger. It's much easier to sit for hours and hours to play a game like Dark Souls or games like Mega Man. If you can only play them for like 30 minutes to an hour at a time you might as well not even start.
I wish I had the time still like I did when I was a kid to play video games.

@Blarg Luckily, I'm still walking but with a slight limp.  I did yell at a passing cloud though...
 
 

Even worse remember games like Mega Man 3 which was incredibly difficult, where you would spend hours to get to the last level and if you died that was it, had to start all over from the first level.
Or when the NES would just freeze up two hours into the game.

True story...the other day my 9 year old son was complaining about the load time after his character got killed in his game and I actually said something to the effect of:
"When I was your age, we couldn't just save when we wanted.  When we died, we had to go back to the beginning of the level and work our way back to the boss."
I caught myself and walked away after that...

Kind of on that note, I saw a hilarious meme the other day with the "back in my day" old man that said something along the lines of, "back in my day we didn't get video game demos to play before the game came out, we just bought the game, played it, and liked it."
I laughed

Kind of on that note, I saw a hilarious meme the other day with the "back in my day" old man that said something along the lines of, "back in my day we didn't get video game demos to play before the game came out, we just bought the game, played it, and liked it."
I laughed

I'd tune in just to see Megyn Kelly on the sybian.

Thanks brotha. I knew you'd know something.

@TobiasFunke My understanding in piecing together the announcement trailer, tweets from BioWare's producers/writers, the main BioWare message board, and a marketing survey than revealed some potential plot elements, is the story is set during the events between Mass Effect 2 and 3.  With the imminent arrival of the Reapers to the Milky Way Galaxy, a contingency plan is developed to preserve the races ( Humans, Asari, Salarian, Krogan, etc) in the event Commander Shepard's efforts fail to defeat the Reapers and Space Traveling civilizations are wiped out.  They develop an "Arc" survival vessel that journeys to the Andromeda Galaxy to explore and establish a colony for the Citadel Counsel races.  Obviously, that's just the premise and the habitable planets will more than likely be occupied or, at the very least, challenged by whatever races currently exist in the galaxy.  The implied twist is now humanity and company are considered the "aliens" and "invaders" from another world. The story begins concurrent with the events the original Mass Effect and then branches off once they enter the new galaxy - supposedly sometime in the future due to traveling required. 

Hey Mul, do you know any speculations on the Andromeda story?

My grandfather spent most of the war on the Indianapolis before being transferred off in March 1945 while it as being repaired for damage. Close call.
 
Having said that, I'll see this but knowing Cage is in this makes me already think it could be lame.

yeah...you would think they could come up with something family and wholesome...like auditioning a harem of women to try and find true love in televised increments over 3 months.

If anyone knew who Jon Snow really was (assuming he's a Targaryen) then Robert and countless others would have wanted him dead and nothing Ned could have done would have prevented it so he did the only thing he could to save his life.  When Robert died his bastard had to be snuck out of King's Landing as the Lannister's wanted him dead and the hate for the the mad King and his kin was much greater.  Everything Ned did in life was out of duty - promise made to his sister, became lord of Winterfell and married Caetlyin both of which were meant for his brother, went to King's landing to help Robert and then he lost his head because he believed others were as honorable as him.  He was way out of his element trying to play the game in King's Landing and was much better suited to life in the North.     

I don't think Ned was willing to risk letting info out about Jon Snow (if the theory is right which looks like it's heading that way). If for some reason that got back to Robert, he would have had Jon Snow killed. Ned was against Roberts purging of the Targaryen children. Didn't he bring that up back on season 1 when Robert found out about Daenrys and wanted her dead?

The roose thing is strange IMO. He's the most calculating character, along with littlefinger, yet he let Ramsey get that close to him when walda was giving birth. Too out of character.

That's a popular theory floating around the interwebs right now.  3 Targaryens for 3 dragons