Personally I wouldn't go under 16gb ddr4 ram anymore. In fact, I'd rather go with 32gb now... just sucks that ram prices are crazy high right now.

 

Also yes, 250gb alone is not enough at all. I'm using one just for windows alone (and ofc all the temporary and savegame files that games nowadays create on c:/).

 

16GB (even 8GB) is more than enough for most people though

 

Also, Logitech mice over Razer any day. MX518 for life. I believe its current iteration is called G403.

Pretty insane that Icardi isn't even in the squad

I find that Nintendo games age really well, in large part because of the responsive controls. Controlling Mario in Super Mario 64 still feels great, and the old 2d games are also still a joy to play.

 

Heroes 3 is of course an obvious mention.

 

Shoutout to Warcraft 3 (and Starcraft). Some people may not like the graphics, but I like the colorful cartoony look, and the gameplay is still fantastic. You can't really match Blizzard when it comes to the smooth camera movement, the responsive unit and hero controls, and the competetiveness in online play.

Coutinho has scored so many of those the last couple of years. His trademark type of goal.

Probably a bit blashphemous to not have an oldschool crpg on my list, but my three are:

 

1. Witcher 3

2. Morrowind

3. Pokemon Blue

So...Trump doesn't seem interested in killing the conspiracy theories.

 

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/trump-is-fulfilling-russias-dream-of-splitting-the-west.html

 

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-g7-summit-trump-russia/trump-says-russia-should-be-in-g7-meeting-idUKKCN1J41O4?il=0

I love my christian and muslim friends, but I think religion (of any sort) is ridiculous.  I can respect the positive aspects of religion (trying to follow Jesus' teachings etc) - but it's hard to fathom how people I know to be smarter than me can believe in a supreme magical being without any evidence. I'm sure they feel we heathens are ridiculous too though.

Not too into Gin, but tried a relatively new Gin called Bareksten that's supposedly the best in the world (and coincidentally from the city I live in). It's very different from any other Gin I've tasted, with lots of herbs and very concentrated and longlasting taste. (without that lingering taste of alcohol some Gins have). Loved it.

 

 

https://www.masterofmalt.com/gin/bareksten-spirits/bareksten-gin/

With Bioware being irrelevant for some years now, the only thing interesting for me this E3 will be CD Project Red's showing.

 

Thought it was pretty interesting that Norway and Sweden, who are so alike in many ways, have such a different view here. Too bad the study is only for Western-European countries.

 

Pretty interesting survey overall, mostly about religiosity in Western-Europe: http://www.pewforum.org/2018/05/29/nationalism-immigration-and-minorities/

Edit: One last thought. If you don;t like the pay you don't have to take the job. If there were fewer teachers teachers would be paid more. Just sayin'

 

 

 

You kind of want the teacher job to be attractive to ambitious and smart people though. A good teacher can save/earn the country millions of dollars throughout his/her career. Obviously not quantifiable, but there's little doubt that to many kids nowadays the teacher is basically a second parent. At least for the young ones.

https://www.apnews.com/82625458838c4ba39b58affa88473500/Dems-want-to-scrap-tax-cut-for-rich-to-fund-teachers'-raises

 

Sounds good to me.

 

 

There is no extremist Islam, there is just Islam.

 

 

Didn't know this was the Breitbart comments section.

Saudi-Arabia and Israel rejoicing

Everyone can get the utterly fantastic Crusader Kings 2 for free on steam right now

 

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/crusader-kings-ii-is-currently-free-on-steam-and-there-is-a-sale.1086965/

I thought Ready Player One was quite bad. I liked some of the action sequences, but I didn't really get it when it tried to be deep or meaningful. The last 20 minutes were terrible.

La casa de papel (Money Heist)

 

Very entertaining, if a bit far fetched Netflix-series that revolves around a very well planned robbery on the Royal Mint in Spain. I just found out that season 2 is coming in a couple of days, so I'm quite happy with my timing.

 

When one company owns several local news stations

Looking forward to that. We need more films and tv series based on books by Dan Simmons. Give me Hyperion already!!

Yeah so sick of the snow at the moment. We usually have pretty warm winters in Bergen (edit: considering its in Norway that is), but there has been snow here for like two months now. I need my spring!

 

(Going sledding with the kids every day at work is pretty fun though, have to admit).

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World by Frank McLynn - Pretty comprehensive book about Genghis Khan and the mongol world. It almost reads as fiction - recommended!

Annihilation on Netflix was very good!

 

Was surprised to see a Norwegian actress in it (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637259/?ref_=tt_cl_t9). Seen her in lots of Norwegian films and tv-series, a really good actor. Even more surprised to find out she was actually Swedish. Apparently she's just really good with dialects and languages. Does Danish films too.

"270 Million gun owners"

 

kids and babies own guns too?

 

Well...kind of?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/18/toddlers-kill-brady-campaign-video-us-gun-control

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/29/american-toddlers-are-still-shooting-people-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year/?utm_term=.3cb5756b63dd

 

http://www.newsweek.com/guns-kids-third-leading-cause-death-627209

 

I still think the best thing ever on the gun culture in the US was a South park episode, where a "Gun show" was presented as if it was a dog pageant show, with people walking around with their guns in leashes.

 

Kids are awesome. Kids want nothing more than to have fun, explore, play, and learn about the world. That's my experience as a kindergarten teacher.

 

 

hogwash.  w/o constant parental supervision and correction, your kindergarten is  lord o' the flies meets hieronymus bosch painting by the second missed nap time. is a Fact that kids brain develop in stages, albeit some reach stages quicker than others. little kids is not all sunshine and smiles.  got it reversed. adults tend to project goodness onto children, and they do indeed have the potential for goodness, but particular for little crumb snatchers, even the capacity for ethical decision making doesn't develop until teens and even tweenties.

 

we will agree many parents don't know how to parent, but a large part o' that is 'cause the current generation o' parents were themselves raised so fundamental different.  kids ain't born with parenting skills, and the last couple generations has been learning increasing less 'bout parenting for reasons we already identified.  tv and internet is increasing raising kids more than is working moms and absentee dads. 

 

HA! Good Fun!

 

ps edit:  were unfair o' us to claim "most" parents don't know how to parent.  were indulging in the kinda hyperbole we frequent chastise others.  corrected. 

 

? It goes without saying that kids can be hellraisers if the grownups don't do their job. The toddlers need their sleep, structure, lots of love, and limits on their behaviour... My point was that kids are awesome if you give them the chance to be, by being a responsible adult.