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I assume those icons are going to be changed, then.

Happy birthdays Malc and Sarex. Here's something slightly bizarre from my day. Found out my inlaws' cat died yesterday morning. His name was Mork, named after the Robin Williams character.

It being a co-op is the only way it would interest me. Too bad, the trailers looked interesting.

Adam is the best player ever.

You can hide the twitch chat by pressing the little arrow in the top corner seperating the stream and chat. That's what I do.

Haha, developer got owned by his own game so bad. On easy!

In the backer beta you start at 5th level and can go up to 8th level.

PoE started, Josh said they're showing the backer beta.

So shouldn't it have started by now? EDIT: Nevermind, there it is. 10 minutes late, but fair enough.

Warning: Huge internet overshare coming up. I used to feel just as you do, Rostere, until I dealt with the effects of clinical depression first hand. This is a disease that pervades every single emotion, sabotages everything from the inside out. A lot of people think that if they're sad, they're being depressed, but this could not be further from the truth. Clinical depression makes it hard to feel any emotion - you don't feel sad, you just feel empty and worthless, you consider everything to be pointless to the point that you begin telling yourself that you are burden on others. Most suicides by people suffering from clinical depression are not because they feel bad about themselves. A long while back, when I was suffering from clinical depression (before I got put on heavy medication) I would often think that I made life worse for everyone around me and that everyone would be better off if I was dead - I felt that killing myself would have been the ultimate kindness for my loved ones and definitely not something that I would have done for myself. What stopped me was that I felt worthless enough to decide that I deserved everything and that the act of ending it all would have been been too kind for the worthless **** that I considered myself to be. It is stupid circular logic but that is what depression does to you. I think if it had lasted any longer, there is a good chance that the other argument would have eventually won out. I've closed the door on that period of my life since then, but it has very seriously altered my outlook on depression and suicide. People who haven't gone through it just don't seem understand. They will say things like "just be positive" and "appreciate what you have" when you no longer possess the ability to do those things. Depression does not work through the same set of rational and emotional logic you use. This is also why ridiculous claims that Robin Williams was killed by feminism are the worst misinformation, because they work through other people's emotional logic (as stupid as that logic may be) and that logic does not exist for people with depression. In the end, Robin Williams was killed by depression, a stupid and pointless chemical imbalance that altered his state of mind and made him think this was his best course of action.

What's the sample audience there, Bester? There's going to be more standouts in a larger group, and much more men play competetive chess than women. That question is horribly oversimplified, not to mention leading. Even if it wasn't, what does it matter? ELO rating is about win/loss ratio, anything else people would derive from it is projection.

Nature Godlike Chanter named Mr. Tumnus.

He did once make a joke about "divorce" coming from the Latin, meaning "ripping a man's genitals out via his wallet".

I like the Strain. It's old school vampires as monsters stuff. The only thing that bothers me is that the leads are boring as heck. Whenver they're on screen I want to go back to Van Helsing and the Rat Catcher. Since I was the ripe age of 3 when that series ended, I decided to finally take a look at Twin Peaks to see what the fuzz is about. Two episodes in, I'm thinking I may not have the proper zeitgeist for this boring, terribly acted soap opera. Can anyone tell me if it's worth it to keep watching? Does it get better?

Well, water polo is an exception I would think. If I put the three water polo players I know in a room with the six* body builders I know, the water polo players would kick their asses to hell and back twice over without breaking a sweat. Those dudes are monsters. *Well, I only really know 4 now. I stopped hanging out with two of them because they were super boring and talked about nothing else but muscle groups and diet. Quickest way to get rid of all possibility of making friends is to talk non-stop about bodybuilding. Or cycle racing.

Bruce, I think you of all people should understand the nature of roleplaying. I have played both good characters who would balk at such an act and evil characters who reveled in it.

There are two: Not curing what 99% of the western civilization suffers from: bad posture. Muscular imbalances on your body that lead to bad posture which later down the road leads to a back so screwed up that it looks like it had been used as an unsuspended bridge on a busy highway. Huh, my physical therapist said that bad posture causes the muscular imbalances, not the other way around.

R.I.P. Robin Williams. I'll watch your stand-up routine on YouTube in your memory. A huge filmography and you pick the ****ty, unneccesary cash-grab remake as the one that mattered?

Dota 2 characters have the advantage that the game has zero significant shadows. All those extra details are painted on because the texture artist can just paint the shadows and highlights in. PoE doesn't have that advantage - if you'd do that in PoE you'd get double shadows everywhere and it would look messed up, as if the engine was bugging out. A huge immersion breaker.

Maybe she figured braving the underdark by herself would be less hurtful than braving it with you? Plus, you can totally kill leaving party members. I've done it more often than I can count. You just have to be quick about it, before they run into a door or out of your sight.

Then your character will stomp the ground like a rhinocerus. Man, that is some old, old, oooold school internet humor.

Hrm, I'd say Mal from the show would have done the same thing. He made it abundantly clear that River and Simon were now part of his crew and if you recall Mal didn't decide to take on the bad guys in any other capacity than "run as long as we can stay ahead" until the alliance decided to take it out on Shepherd Book, who Mal also considers part of his crew. By this point there wasn't really anything left to do - all he had to go on was River's implanted memories. And it's not like Mal didn't already take an obsessive amount of pleasure in messing with the alliance, going so far as to raid alliance hospitals and actively seeking out alliance friendly people to pick fights with. Didn't seem like a stretch to me. Not a big fan of River either though, but for different reasons. I didn't mind her being able to kick ass, I just hated that she was the only character on the ship who was a plot device instead of a person.

To be fair, I was never influenced by expectations because Serenity was my first introduction to that universe - Firefly has never aired here so I did not come into contact with it until I saw Serenity reviews everywhere that told me to check it out. Because of that I was never under the impression that their derring-do "universe saving" (if you can call it that) was anything out of the ordinary. Broadcasting a terrorist signal against the Alliance seemed perfectly in Mal's character for me. To me, Serenity was a breath of fresh air and a fun adventure that saved the day in a year where the only other space adventure was the abysmal Revenge of the Sith. Even when I saw Firefly afterwards, I didn't feel as if it was wrong for the universe - although in retrospect it had a disconnect in that it had very little western elements.

Are you implying Serenity is not a good Firefly movie? Because I will cut you.

How is this related to D:OS? Back on topic with you lot before I get out my pruning guillotine.