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Man, thanks for all the kind words. But yeah, these past few months have been crazy. People are now resorting to hit and run tactics. Stab a security guard to death and run away... Of course, the government caught up with two of them and executed them. The current government ain't gonna last till spring though. I think in about a month or so they(probably Israel or the U.S) are gonna declare a 'no fly zone' over Iran...that's when things will get interesting because a lot of the officials where booking flights for Venezuela. Heads will start rolling on the streets in a few weeks, hopefully not mine... I check the boards every three weeks or so, so don't feel worried if you get delayed replies folks. It's just that there is so much to do and to know right now, message boards aren't exactly a priority but you folks know how much I love you. Also, what's up with Guard Dog? Whatever it is I hope he is still in one piece. Once this whole mess is over with the Islamic Republic of Iran, I will invite all of you folks to my place for some nice homemade beer. Cheers.

Only other version that I know of lol

the late 80s were not a time when we were listening to pop music, but we do recall caribbean queen by billy ocean. how many variations did he do? is there also a bolivian queen? maybe an unreleased bootleg ulaanbaatar queen? HA! Good Fun!

The original is fine Eurodance/Europop, so of course it is great. And Little V is hilarious. I think I linked his Venga Boys cover a while back.

Caramelldansen is a Swedish treasure, it is glorious and I will defend it until my dying breath. Well. The original, Caramell, not the travesty that is Caramella girls. And to prove my point, that EVERYTHING is better in metal; 😄

Hey @Azdeus, you know, I thought Dr. Bombay was hilarious even if 'slightly' racist. Smile was just offensive, but since I've browsed through the comments and that seems to have been a huge hit in one of the Dance Dance Revolution games who I am to be offended when those that it should offend be are not? Basshunter is just an embarassment. However, I have just discovered something that is so far beyond everything that I can only compare it with a train wreck. I know I should not, but I just cannot stop watching. They also have a 'live' performance of this travesty on their channel, which is even worse, in spite of being 100% playback. How, you ask? Well, you could put actual women on stage and give them highly uncanny, super creepy anime costumes with masks that look like they were left over from a Japanese remake of Saw. I WANT TO PLAY A GAME. I am going to quote Rainbow's Stargazer here:

Space Dandy 5 The Aloha Oe is towed away and Dandy becomes a babysitter.

While I am of the opinion that me enjoying film and TV is simply incidental and never really intended (following CLAMP around and watching Tamako Market just further compounded that), that is not entirely the case with Violet Evergarden's recap. The episodes contained in the recap are pretty good, the recap just makes no sense when it omits most of Violet's struggles and instead focuses on the - important, to be sure - standalone story episodes that were the most liked by fans. Of course it would contain most of the tenth episode. Violet Evergarden's "Loved Ones Will Always Watch Over You" sits at an impressive 9.8/10 on IMDB. It is a great episode, and it contains a couple of really important scenes of Violet's post low point recovery, but most of the episode is spent on Anne. Well, the entire episode is from her point of view. The problem is that the recap begins as showing Violet's journey and then simply ends without showing the end of it. It's just one more point of proof that everything I really enjoyed is just a creative accident, huh? It's unfuriating. Someone at the studio thought making this was a good idea. What the hell?

This is your short post? Embrace the low effort and stop making us (by which I mean me) look bad. Now this I can relate to. And I had mother****ers bothering me on both holidays when I'd normally be off.

Not just ammo, there were military vehicles and other equipment parked there too. Really thougthful of Z-head brass to pack them all in all place, I hear that Himars rockets are quite costly. Shame about the cat that died in explosion, though; poor bastard definitely wasn't there to rape and torture people. 😿

Not a very pleasant report on how the Russian army treats its own personnel. A Twitter thread made more readable by an app: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1609535843391377408.html

I've scripted Aloth to do Infuse With Vital Essence-->Spirit Shield--->Deletrious Alacrity--->Blackbow and that works pretty well. After he summons the bow I manually have him cast phantom and then I can pretty much ignore him unless I need to reposition him or unless I want to cast other spells. With my scripts he won't cast any of those spells unless he's missing concentration or the relevant inspirations (or is missing a summoned weapon) so it works out well enough.

As far as I know, some characters may cause errors. In particular, parentheses and quotation marks.

Please let us host our own servers! Currently my multiplayer experience is frequently interruptted by network disconnections and my friends are getting bored they don't want to play together any more.

That's the basic recipe I use as well but I don't add the juice from the pepperoncini. Though I do add more than 6 ounces of peppers. Just throw in a small handful of prunes, I haven't tried dates.

We had company over and my wife tried a new recipe (to us), Mississippi pot roast, and it turned out fantastic. Its our new favorite. Home made mashed potatoes and oven roasted asparagus in olive oil w/ shredded parmesan over the top for the sides. Then we all got hit by an Epsolon tequila truck.

Funny part is, if 'west' wanted to ever invade Russia, there were plenty of good opportunities after soviet collapse, why it waited until Ukraine found gas deposits is baffling...

Arrests for beer smuggling

I am much more worried about @Katphood and the protests in Iran.

For something close to two years now Neflix has tried to get me to watch 天気の子. It stopped for a bit when Netflix lost the rights (and around that time, Amazon Prime Video began to tell me that I would probably like watching it), then they apparently got them back, the shilling resumed, and now it basically begged me to. With their sort of 'new' system of marking something as a favorite instead of just liking it, the algorithm proudly declared that I should really, really, really enjoy watching Weathering With You. Plus, it said, the rights to the film will go away in January. So, I finally relented. Normally I'd do a longer post, but I'm not exactly in the mood to find more posting bugs. The forum almost killed a post of of mine earlier today where I found out that simply quoting already existing text is enough to cause it to spaz out again, however, it's not entirely reproducable. I've tried quoting the affected passages again, and it worked. It's taking the fun out of posting, and it is a pretty bad show that it takes so long to even address the issue - never mind fixing it. Looks like Obsidian gave their entire staff off for Christmas. Well, perhaps I'm just bitter because I did not get any time off. Oh, right, the film. I do not entirely understand why all the character models in modern anime films are looking so similar to each other. Hello, I am Hina from Weathering With You! I am too! Well, no, not really, I am Tamako from Tamako Love Story! I don't know what My Name is, but is it Your Name? Also, you're reaching, my eyes a brown! Hey come on, don't be unfair, I don't have pig tails! It's classic anime to distinguish characters based mostly on their hair, that's the reason they often have physics defying hairdo and vastly different colors - but that is within a series or a film, not a common theme between many of them. Certainly not between films that look like they have a decent budget. What, why am I complaining about modern anime aesthetics again? Poor horsie, I know you died 17 years ago. So, anyway, the film was fine, I guess. I did not hate it, at least, which is more than can be said about a lot of stuff I've watched recently. I'll also award it some extra points for addressing a glaring anime issue, how's every teenager living alone and nobody finds it weird? Indeed, the police comes knocking and is looking for the little runaway protagonist Hodoka, who is waffling between being endearing and being stupidly shounenesque. They also swoop up Hina, the titular Weather Child, who has faked her age on a resume and should not be living with her little brother alone, without legal guardian. Well, that's certainly something, eh? Hodoka also happens to find a loaded gun he discharges when he has his biggest shounen-moment and thinks he needs to rescue a girl in distress. It later comes back to haunt him because a camera caught him shooting. Oh my. That said, the film also has the usual trope in full force, any metropolitan area is always as busy or as empty as the story demands it to be. Not that this is anime-specific, this is common in any film or series set in giant cities, like Vanilla Sky's New York that was devoid of people when it was necessary for the story. So what is the story? The weather is weird, and Tokyo is locked in a never ending rain. Will the Weather Girl be able to control it? Are there going to be any repercussions for randomly discharching weapons found on the street? Do you even care? Do you want to find out? If yes, then you're in luck, because the film explains the entire plot within the first twenty or so minutes, and you can fast forward to the final 15 minutes. Good job, Honoka. At least now I'm fairly certain that I don't want to watch Your Name. After all, Weathering With You was criticized for being too similar. Probably not with the plot, but themes and whatnot. Anyway Netflix, it was a decent attempt, but really, really, really liking this? Nope. Maybe if you don't flat out tell me the plot right from the start, make the characters a little more likable, not use distracting CGI for camera pans outside of the one big scene you apparently wanted to look great. Maybe. But then you'd not be the film I just watched. Well, it was at least better than watching Noir was, although Noir was 26 episodes, and this thankfully less than two hours.