Malcador

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/31/england-boycott-2018-world-cup-andy-burnham?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 That'd suck to deny teams those 3 points.

Yep, it's not really a subsidy in terms of money - they get to use personnel and equipment to add to authenticity, or what have you and get back PR and recruiting benefits. "Military Entertainment Complex" is a good one from these articles. Thought everyone knew it worked that way since Top Gun - in our time, at least.

http://www.defense.gov/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=516 Pretty easy search, even if you get a litany of blog articles on the matter. Not really subsidy but still a degree of influence.

Well, I suppose US military members do like the series so it's an indirect funding path. In movies they do tend to state terms for the use of their equipment, which makes some degree of sense, but I doubt the same is for games. In MW3, I am wondering if Remington paid Activision to have their logo displayed so prominently on some guns

Hah, got a master crafted sword from that elf guy...and got a better version right after. I guess I should go finish the game, am nearly lvl 21.

That was pretty enjoyable for a side quest. Heh, was running around with the damn blunt sword from Dandelion's quest - those guards seemed awful tough.

Was a good day, Arsenal winning the FA Cup easily, then our garage door opener broke. New one on Tuesday, now to improve a lock so no one can open it from the outside

The corrupt standing against the corrupt there

Well Blatter won. Good comedy watching Euros and Americans sneering at his backing from the smaller confederations.

About as boring as expected. Someone should make a third Crusader game.

Well might as well read it now, hopefully it won't defeat me like Anna Karenina

To beat you with

Trying to finish this book on Russian history but am fighting fatigue (some joke about Russian defensive strategies there), so maybe I will do the unprecedented and leave a book unfinished for a while without disgust for it. Got Lock In by Scalzi, he lost me as Old Man's War wore on, but shouldn't be too unpleasant. Also have the latest book by Kloos to read, Angles of Attack, that's pretty fun pulpy mil-scifi series.

Don't think they can be played against a male team

No way, Nazis were much better dressers.

Wonder what their stats will be.

The top bun being out of alignment is unforgivable.

Yes, you realize this is a forum and not court, right ? But anyway, the amount of gifts and offers of favours that goes on to get the privilege of hosting these events is sort of an open secret by now, no (Olympics as well). Think they tried handbags and sucking up to Warner (amazing how he pops up whenever there's crookedness about).

Well, the UK's been pretty butthurt about losing to Russia - their bribery wasn't good enough - but then they are pretty sore about everything. As for the USA, well, there must be some reason they care about this (other than being concerned with Justice, heh). FIFA being investigated is fine, but a WC in Russia would be nice, change from Western EU (the funny thing when reading discussion about this is the idea UEFA should dictate the way things go, so small confeds' votes shouldn't have the same weight, heh).

Well, it happened with Colombia, but that's Colombia and not Russia. I still hope the WC is there though, because f**k the English if they want it instead. If they do take it away from Qatar, hopefully they put it someplace that inconveniences EU audiences watching on TV (also I'd want Australia to host it). I suppose that is a problem with trying to be fair and letting each confederation have a turn hosting, the ME really lacks suitable hosts either for practical reasons or just the place being too risky.

KISS sucks, man.

Good luck with the degree, all one can do is press onward.

Rather amused at people outraged over corruption in Qatar when probably every country's WC involved bribery. But I suppose this is a good thing. I think they should give it to Australia instead.

Someone must pay Fishburne to say those words