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Metal Gear Solid 4 is a ridiculously good game.

Even by itself, it’s an awesome experience just previously unseen in video games. Global conflict has become the sole economic pillar. You play as Old Snake, a grizzled battlefield veteran with one final mission: assassinate the leader of the world’s private military corporations (i.e., mercenaries), who happens to be your genetic twin brother. Nuclear deterrence, nano-machines technology, genetic manipulation, and world superpower conspiracies, they all weave into an alternate universe with events drawn from the annals of modern history.

Forget the princess in the other castle.

Zeon and Sam dragged us this past Saturday to Mama’s in San Francisco, one of the best places for breakfast and brunch around the Bay Area and in retrospect worth visiting despite the long line and drizzly weather.

The rest of the day was spent at the Exploratorium, a kid-friendly science exhibit showcasing rudimentary physics and biology; our highlight was a romp through the Tactile Dome, an obstacle course shrouded in complete darkness which actually takes a little effort to navigate through (not recommended is ramming your face into the walls). More pictures found here.