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I wonder if we'll see more of that group inside the house. I recognized the guy who was sitting outside eating the can of food. He's done a ton of shows, so it seems like it would be an awfully small role for someone like that. Maybe he'll make it out of the house and show up later.

The raccoon is voiced by Bradley Cooper so I'm surprised he didn't get a line or two in the trailer.

I think they've done enough with all of their movies to earn the attention from the audience. I personally have never heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy but the other movies have convinced me to check this one out.

I get the feeling that the sanctuary down the train tracks is some sort of trap

Maggie and Glenn have definitely been handicapped a bit by the flu storyline this year. I think it pretty much had to happen though. They had to have at least one of the original characters catch the bug and Glenn was really the only one who made any sense. If it was nothing but the newbies, no one would have cared and sidelining either Rick or Daryl for a few episodes would have brought on a ton of complaints.

What if he retires? What does that do to his cap hit?

The larger ones probably have a much harder time finding shelter in the winter than the little ones.

I'm glad they showed the Governor with a bullet hole in his head in the opening. Some people were dumb enough to think he somehow survived, which takes stupidity to a whole new level. And the zombie Hershel head? That was a good hard kick to the nuts to open the show. I do like that we are going to see a couple separate groups work their way back together. It will be that much more effective if a couple people actually die here and there. Unfortunately, that will just end up being a few of the red shirts on the bus instead of someone significant.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned in the last thread that my father-in-law was in the middle of a battle with pancreatic cancer. My wife and I got married this past August and that and the birth of his first grand-daughter in October (not ours, my brother-in-law's daughter) were two major milestones that he wanted to reach. He made it to those and looked great. My family who had never met him would never have guessed he was sick at the wedding. He began his downward spiral at the end of October though. By Thanksgiving he was very noticeably sick He was struggling at Christmas but seemed to be in good spirits when family and friends were visiting for the festivities. The day after Christmas, my wife and I left to spend about a week in Buffalo (the in-laws live in NH). Once we left things took a turn for the worst. We were driving back on 12/30 when my wife got the call from her mother, telling her that he was given 1-3 weeks, and was going on hospice care that night. It was one miserable drive as my wife was dead silent for about 3 hours straight. We headed up to NH the next morning, but he was pretty much gone already at that point. He made it 3 more days and then it was over. The thing that bugs me the most about the whole thing is that by making that trip to Buffalo, my wife wound up missing out on the last couple days where she could have been able to talk and interact with her father. We had no idea how quickly things were about to happen, but I think I'm going to feel guilty about that one for a while. As far as advice is concerned, I would say to not let anyone tell you what you are and aren't supposed to do while dealing with this. There is no right or wrong way to deal with this, so just do what you feel is right. Everyone copes differently. Yes, like people are saying, don't go through this alone, but at the same time, don't be afraid to ask people for some alone time as well. Family and friends are going to want to visit you and your wife, but you also need some down time.

I've got a stack of pre-paid movie tickets burning a hole in my pocket, but nothing is catching my eye lately. The cast of Monuments Men might be a bit persuasive, but otherwise I don't see much potential this month.

I'm pretty sure it is still out there. People just aren't clicking on tiles right now because of the valentines. Also, I don't think anything shows up right now other that the hearts, no buildings at all. The tiles will return after this event.

That zirconia looks so pointless. I saw it in another town once and it was tiny. It takes up maybe 4 squares and all it does is fall to the ground if you tap it.

I was in a store in New Orleans this summer and they had this contest to see if people could tolerate a sauce made from ghost pepper extract. You had to stand there for a couple minutes without eating/drinking anything else after trying the sauce. They required you to sign a waiver in order to do it. Some idiot woman actually let her ~10 year old kid try it. It should have qualified as child abuse. Anyway, my wife was nagging me to try the sauce after watching two other people do it. I wanted no part in it because I was well aware of what I would have been getting myself into. After the two idiots and the kid left the store, the guy behind the counter, who I had been joking with the whole time handed me a tortilla chip with a tiny pinhead sized drop on it. That single drop took over about half of my tongue. It was crazy how strong that stuff was. I can't even imagine the hell that anyone went through after eating a chip soaked in it. Oh, and my wife had no idea what she was trying to get me to do. This was the last night of our honeymoon. That would have been the end of that vacation.

I've seen this glitch a million times and it never gets old. I find Rex Banner interrogating Ned Flanders and then I see Flanders walking one street over. Two Flanders in one town, I love it! Now if only I could send that extra Flanders on a separate quest.

They really are idiots. I can't count the number of times I've seen a biker make some sort of crazy move right in front of me and you can tell that they're thinking "don't worry, the car will swerve or stop". Even if by some chance they are in the right with one of these moves, how on earth is it worth the risk? I've got a crosswalk in front of my office where cars routinely run red lights (and not just a light that just turned from yellow to red, they just flat out ignore a light that has been red for 40 seconds). Even though I have the right of way as a pedestrian when that walk signal is blinking, I'm ridiculously cautious on that crosswalk each day. The driver may be wrong, but I still lose that collision badly any time it happens.

You'll occasionally get prompted for a quest to grow stuff but it's not manditory. You can just ignore them and it won't stop the game from progressing. If you do want to cancel the corn though you can place the farm in storage (click the move button, select the farm, then tap the button that looks like a box). When you pull the farm back out of storage, the corn will not be growing anymore. Leave the corn though. It won't hurt you and you spent a good chunk of money to start it.

The little animated clips they had early in the game. They looked like they were straight from the show.

I wish they would put more cut scenes in. I don't think there's been one since level 20. That's the best return you'll ever get on a Buddah. Moleman goes for what, 60 donuts? That's 15 well spent. I'm not so sure I'd run that risk again though. You'll likely wind up with some white fences or an orange tree next time. As for donuts, cash is just about the only other way. They'll give a few away in some of the holiday updates, but usually not much, 10-15 at most. They did screw up with last year's Christmas event which landed me probably about 200 donuts, but that won't happen again. They know better now.

It might not always work though. Some of them could be up to the 100 friend limit. I had to drop a few people to add Fergy's family. They've made removing friends very difficult now. I actually had to download another EA game with better controls just to do that.

I still have not been able to get them to stack beyond 2. I always click once I see an extra handshake though.

Fergy, I just remembered a little trick for you and your family. Tap on Homer. When the window with his tasks pops up, keep clicking on Homer 10 times. You'll eventually get a statue of Jebidiah Springfield and 10 donuts.

I started corn this week. See you in three months

I also read that it is a little tricky to get more than two stacked handshakes. You can only get one new handshake each time you log in to your town. So if you and Fergy were to tap my squidport right now, the next time I check in, I'll only have one new handshake. In order to get the third handshake, I would have had to connect to my town and clear out other buildings. People can still tap the tile at will and get the big XP though. So I guess this means the more frequently you check your town, the more likely you are to get a few extra tiles.

As long as you tell them to click on my squidport tile.

That's an interesting thought. If there ever was a Pixar movie made for a sequel, it is The Incredibles, especially with the boom in super hero stuff now. They could easily make a franchise out of that movie if they wanted to.