@cooldud_21:

How callous can you be, mate? 30 people are reportedly dead in Pakistan alone, along with God knows how many in Iran.
Offices were evacuated as far afield as Delhi. But as far as I know, no casualties in India.
Apparently, a bullet was dodged with this one as it was a very deep quake. I shudder to think what might have happened with a shallow earthquake of that magnitude in that area.

I read the headline, not the article. The earthquake has already caused shallow tremors as far as Oklahoma, although that specific one could be a coincidence.

Looking at the time stamp I'm not sure there was even a report of death total as of then, or it didn't grab my attention.

…HEY GUYS, you know what I feel like? SNORTING A CONDOM. But first let me drink a beer out of this fleshlight.

@Al!naJames:

I've seen all of DB Scultues in person since my friend owes a collection (well, maybe not ALL, but most of them).

How can you judge OP ones if you haven't seen them? If you want, I can take pictures of my favorite figures from the line (Wiper, Jango, Drake) which will look not a bit less amazing than official shots.

I would actually love that if you have the time. I heard the problem with Wiper was his head had a huge slit under it's chin.

@Medical:

So, if the chapter's not coming out today, what's the reason for the early spoilers?

I'm sure this has been answered in the spoiler thread, but I'm not going in there. Spoilers make the actual chapter less enjoyable for me (and in the past I always just happened to read spoilers where the chapter had some kind of big reveal).

My interpretation is that it's a just a lucky fluke.

@Nex:

Nothing solid. What as been confirmed is this:
-Only 2 bombs. Thus the bomber hit everything they wanted.
-No C4 or other high grade explosives.
-The home in question belonged to a Saudi student here on visa. No connections have been made. They searched with consent.
-A wounded Saudi man is under armed guard at a hospital, but no one's commenting on that.
-A Saudi Doctor was questioned. -It's the most complex crime scene Boston has ever seen.

Those are pretty must just bullet points from this article: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-investigation/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

The fact that "Saudi" is clearly a main point in all of this, has me extremely concerned but it's too soon to comment on any of that yet.

Edit: Good read; http://www.allegiancemusical.com/blog-entry/keep-running-boston

Also there seemed to be an earthquake that reached like 7.8 in Iran. I'm hoping we don't see any additional ones over here on the east coast like last time :s

@black-leg:

is there a lot to do after the story? I managed to max every character in sacred stones and so i'm wondering if it's possible to do the same in this one. Seeing as there's so many characters i'd like to use them all

The post story is really just the DLC. And maxing out all the characters is completely possible, in fact you can reclass your units as many times as you want. However after about 2 reclassing, you're going to get a minimum of about 8 exp per kill. Save for higher level enemies/bosses. Also, don't bother max leveling them, just get to level 10, master seal (unless there are other skills within the first branch you want) then get to level 15 and reclass again to get the skills.

As for me doing redoing a lunatic+ run with a male avatar Wish me luck. Third time I had to do this lol.

To put it in perspective, they are really fodder. Although they are great for the beginning of the game, giving you a close to end game character for, what I find is cheap. But those spotpass characters fall short quickly, for example, Chrom, your main character, with a full support character (For argument sake, let's say lucina who has 10% attack/10% defend and support stat increase), your chrome will have up to 9+ stats on certain attributes depending on Lucina's class. (For example, a lord adds stats to Speed/Luk, while a General add's 5 str and 7 defense). In addition to that, every 10 stat's increases the support stat by 1 point.

So although most classes cap at the highest is mid 50's in some stats, those support bonus' plus skill's which can even increase that, could end up with 70-80+ caps. Which is essentially adding up to 30 damage, 30 less damage, or a 30% increase in proc rate (which can be as high, in my experience, 80% frekin %. While your spotpass character is stuck at it's caps.

However there advantage is, they are pretty much fodder. Sure you lose the weapons/levels you gained with them, but if it's between them and a story character, you're going to throw them under the bus. They are also great for short term use, (depending on the mode, I mean normal and hard you could probably use them throughout the whole story with minimal effort).

@black-leg:

can someone explain to me how the spotpass battles work?

You defeat them and recruit the character. The character has a small personal army for you to essentially defeat in order to recruit. Or you can buy them, or just purchase the weapons the army has.

@black-leg:

I get that armies from previous games just show off but how do you get the characters.

When you select spotpass, you select an army and ask for it to be summoned. Go to where they were summoned, battle them, buy them, or buy their items.

@black-leg:

Do you only get 1 per battle? Can they appear again after you beat them the first time?

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Yes one per battle and they are resummonable, even if they die while they are recruited by you.

I use domino's for big parties because 3 pizzas for 20 bucks is nothing to sneeze at, especially with 2 toppings each, though pizza hut's new box meal is nothing to sneeze at either. For my personal "i don't feel like cooking" is papajohns, they have better dough, I think they put more sugar in it. But when I feel like spending a little more, I go to Bella Italia who make authentic italian pizza and pasta. There's also this food chain that makes really good pizza, the name escapes me though.

@Monkey:

I don't think it's foreign terrorists due to the target. It's such a strange target for their usual MO.
Even a domestic AQ inspired terrorist would seemingly bother with planes, or monuments in NYC or something.

A Boston marathon run? huh? It seems more like what some local nut would do.

That's exactly what I was getting at, and even then it's even stranger and scarier that no one has claimed responsibility. To me, that screams just unpredictability. They aren't looking for acknowledgement, they did it just to show they could do it. Which is even more fucked up. Even if it is some insane terrorist group, at least they have a point, no matter how irrational it is.