nm,ng 2: God of war.

 I hate puzzles, did I ever mention that?

Insert the light, go above and stand on the light-ray, such that A+B+C Squiddy tentacles line up (I don't have any math terms although I'd love to) CoLinear
Get your spoiled-brat-kid to climb through a hole leading to a sand pit you cannot see (so how in hell do you know it's a sandpit?) to solve a riddle whose answer is proudly displayed in Hieroglyphics.

You need to google all this of course, relying on the kindness of strangers.

That google part I mentioned is because you can't swing a zombie rat without having to do a damn puzzle.

Google tells you how things are meant to be run, but I just feel stupid and slow for having to google (or reddit or x or meta) for a solution.
Any solution you can't figure out on your own (first playthrough, first hour) is cheating and what's the point

Fight random monsters who paid the director for a walk-on part, or google puzzles.

Styx (the Goddess)
married to Pallas (The guy-God)
(cuz there is "Pallas Athena" also, "the bust")

*I* totally forgot why I am writing about Mrs. Styx.
Kratos (Player) is the son of Pallas and Styx (I think)
and they meet a witch in the woods (Glinda the Good?)

Well, anyway, after this, the player gets a compass (I've been told.)

The black guy whose most famous line is "Indeed" is the voice actor for Kratos (Player) and...and... They fill your head with Lore and mysterioso shit so the story is more interesting. I have to go pick some flowers now.

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I need a quote, hang on, about nitrites, nitrates, photosynthesis and evil niteriosos.

First, the english, non scientific version

The takeaway from the scientific version (below and TBA) is, conversion from nitrates to nitrites (or vice versa) is normal, except when you have an acid stomach, because THEN mysterioso stuff builds up giving you cancer and death.

hot dogs get nitrates (I think it's "Nitrites") from Curing.
Ergo, stay away from cured hot dogs!
I just can't tell you *why*, it's way too complicated.

Medical expenditures could be decreased Precipitously if 
(they just talked plain English)

A too-good-to-be-true hotdog spice, 

Mustard, 

is causing my eternal heartburn and sleepless nights.

OK I submit, the mustard goes in the trash, and it comes in such a pretty bottle, lasts forever, and it was on sale.
Lettuce morn Mustard's passing.

I oughtta start my own council and call it

"The Bland food society"

Acid No dream

 I didn't have time to dream, I was too busy choking. 
I am looking for a non-acidic fruit drink, like "orangeade" or something with 80% water...

One of those hyper-processed drinks that make you curl up and die after you lose your mind (Who writes this stuff)
We're gonna find out a smoking man is behind all the horror stories about food.

https://www.shefinds.com/collections/surprising-healthy-beverages-bad-for-brain/#slide-4 

Anyway...Distilled tap-water, with flavoring, that's for me. FU and your horse.
I still gotta find it though, and I was kidding about the flavored water.

They forgot Kale Arugula juice. barley juice.

I should restate: something palatable having little to do with health (That doesn't taste like Pee)

Beeeecause, Sure as shit, buy something healthy and it'll get recalled for listeria, or some incredibly bad thing (lead, dengue)

y....yeah, OK.
well except for the 100% juice part.
The ingredients list "Filtered water"

I can't add a caption, which should read, "whut"?

grape? Pineapple?

See, they got these enormous frozen barrels (I call them "Trash cans") and I suppose this drink mixes whatever's in the barrel.
But I digress.

 Remember when I remarked, half-joking, that it didn't have Barley?
So they made a drink with Barley.
I had one of these in my refrigerator for a year, too gross to drink. It was from a health-food-nut who bought it but did not want it!!
It screams "Laxative"

My  eyes tell me repeatedly, "Bathhouse Farms green goddess"
which, of course, it doesn't come close to saying.
But it explains why old fogies in your life can get stuff so totally wrong.

My "old reliable" is Tampico, or the curse of diabetics everywhere.
But Tampico is literally the best. Seriously.
Only it prolly kills ya.

I'll drink what my rich grandparents ate when I was four, and they lived to be 67.

13.98, 24 cans beats pretentious juice and upper-crusty water.
24@14, 24/14, uh well anyway.
Scratch the Tide.
60-cents a can?

High-Horse guy vs Ad Agency, I choose the Ad Agency,
FURIO, High-Horse-guy

OTOH Google gives typical politician-answers.
Ginger is not ginger-ale, even I know that.

But ginger is good for you and therefore extremely expensive, and you can't just eat it like a carrot.

The CAN is my family's time-honored venerable solution.

New month, New game

 Here's the time and place where I wish people could comment. OK forget that,

"God of War" is on my very very short list of games to buy.
A big burly guy and his kid fight the very powerful buttmunches and he'll get a bigger house (prolly) and a new mate maybe.
Sounds depressing as hell.

Assassin's Creed prolly has a version too, I...just...um, don't really care.
Then there's that lady who goes spelunking through tunnels, "Laura Croft"

We (I) don't know why "God of War" has high reviews.
Maybe the player finally gets to live out his fantasy of being master of their universe, and get a big-ass sword.

Submarine warfare games never interested me, I'm either a hero or an "arrogant ass" or was that from a movie. 
OK prehistoric it is then, fighting giant dinosaurs with an ice pick and a bow+arrow.

"Quake" was good. 
We had very low-res and the sound effects were stellar.
"Doom Eternal" is out there...I'm creeped out by the "Eternal" part. 
Have I reviewed enough games?

There's a game (times ten) where you're in a very filthy sink circling the drain of Doom where you either kill the big man or go down the drain.
Dark-elden-soul-something.

If a game is huge, it cannot be sexy, that's a rule. No hanky nor panky, women behemoths warriors with painted faces and a butt to watch in 3rd-person mode.
My train of thought was, tiny sex-games on steam need to meet games with a plot and a biggie landscape.
"Cyberpunk 2077"-style, hmm.

This underutilized guest-star in my game was prolly directed to keep it low-key.

That is why She reads her lines like they came from Wikipedia.

So what makes her interesting?
Her clothes, her very slight form, and especially her defense shield.

Her middle-parts have extra protection

So I'm watching one of those PBS shows about talking heads discussing war crimes.
I hope to find a reference or two in the Bible about Moses (one of those guys)

telling the soldiers to kill the enemy, and their wives and kids.
Yeah um, try telling people with the legitimacy of that engraved into their memories, that what they're doing is wrong.

War crime?
Mission from God

Kill the kids, kill the women (keep the virgins)

a Commentary (actually, a really cool painting was what I was looking for)
a Commentary (slightly more relevant)

Another Commentary (reading from the bottom line) Blame Moses, not God

Lousy paintings (apologies)

Controversial Picture-book (Unsafe! Flee! says windows)

This very dry document exists to show how scriptures are used in wars (I'm being vague, but you haven't seen the document yet)

https://en.idi.org.il/articles/52324
(What is their opinion? Not sure. They quote scripture and talk about the war.)

I'm not asking you to watch the video, I'm only pointing out how people wield scripture these days.