Saw some deer this morning behind Kohl's.

I happened to take the bus in to work this morning because I was running a bit late. As the bus approached my stop, I noticed a couple of deer standing behind Kohl's. After I got off the bus, I took a couple pictures of them with my cellphone.

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I saw quite a few deer during the past couple of weeks that I was in North Carolina while riding in cars and such. I don't think I've seen many while out here in Washington, though, and certainly not from just a few feet away while walking up the sidewalk.

This is the first time I've ever actually used my cellphone camera at all (either on this new phone or the old one), outside of just messing around with it for a bit when I first got the phone to make sure it worked.

"AusGamers The Secret World Developer Video Interview and Transcript"

"At this year's GamesCom, AusGamers caught up with The Secret World Creative Director, Ragnar Tørnquist, to talk to him about how they're shaking up the MMO world."

(This is different from the other GamesCom interview from the other day, though it's repeating some of the same info.)

I don't really have a problem with the "once you pick a faction, you're in it for life" concept*, but I'm not sure how they can enforce something like that. What's to stop someone from wiping their account and restarting in a different faction, or playing as another faction on a different server or whatever? Then again, if it's per account, not many people are probably going to want to pay for three different accounts just to play as each faction. Of course, all of this is me, a MMO neophyte, who is saying these things. Maybe they have it all worked out.

* - Well, aside from the general idea of being locked out of 2/3 of the faction content, which doesn't sound very cool. Maybe they just mean it's per character, and will allow players to have other characters in different factions, even if it has to be on a different server or whatever. Who knows... someday after I've gotten through the Dragon path, I may indeed want to go back and try the Templars and the Illuminati. But if that ends up truly not being possible, I won't lose any sleep over it.