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Pretty sure numbersman specifically addressed the Gibraltar threats a few pages back- it's just posturing for domestic consumption since Spain lacks a government and there are elections expected soon and the PP unsurprisingly wants votes. Spain will get Gibraltar when Morocco gets Ceuta back from Spain, ie not in the forseeable future. 'Administrative barriers' at the borders already happen pretty frequently anyway.

In totally unrelated news refugees from Turkey have spiked again in the last week or so. Looks like time for Merkel's Case B: Stalingrad campaign blame Greece for everything.

Apart from being notHillary and notTrump, and every 3rd party candidate brings that. And most of those voting against a candidate will vote for the other mainstream one they hate less, as always, with a few voting for Johnson on the right and Stein on the left. If you want successful 3rd party candidates you need to have at least preferential voting rather than just 50odd fptp delegate races. All that can happen if a 3rd party candidate breaks through is that the Greens become the new Democrats or the Libertarians become the new GOP. Man, Daniel Bryan has really let himself go since retiring from wrestling. Still, he'd get a Yes! Yes! Yes! from me at the ballot box.

It's been quite interesting seeing who has doubled down on Clinton and who seems to be quietly dialling back support. What happens if Clinton gets indicted and how her more vocal supporters will deal (or not, more likely) with it will be decidedly interesting, let alone how they'd deal with her losing to Trump. Some seem to have enough difficulty as it is, and she only has a Sternly Worded Letter equivalent at the moment.

I don't think that restriction had a huge effect on Arrow. They chose to kill off Waller by the showrunner's own admission so it was basically no Deadshot*/ Boomerang/ Deathstroke and perhaps Cupid instead of Harley. They're all losses but shouldn't be that serious- after all, they got Ras al Ghul to use and then monumentally asterisked him up, and had Deathstroke for an ep and did a terrible job there too. It's also a historical policy; Smallville had, what, no flying and no suit restrictions? and that was supposed to be Superman rather than a relative B lister like (Green) Arrow. The current policy is a mess protecting a misfiring cinematic universe to the benefit of neither. Having said that, there have to be some restrictions- Gotham should get 1st dibs on Batman characters etc. *well, non Earth 2 version since Floyd was in Flash.

Can't be Sweden. The women aren't wearing Niqab.

Despite it having the marked benefit of making the Turkish government caterwaul they probably shouldn't wear the YPG badge, while it would not usually be applicable in those circumstances it does open up misidentification or even Perfidy possibilities. There are good reasons why you're expected to wear your own badges and the status/ legality of the YPG is questionable (and I say that as someone who by and large thinks they're the best of the Syrian groups) even if you aren't Erdogan.

It was always a lose-lose for Trump, unless Sanders hated Clinton enough to spike the debate which he clearly wouldn't do, as he still thinks he can win* and probably isn't that vindictive anyway. If Trump went hard at Bernie he'd lose the potential votes from the BernieBros who cannot or might not bring themselves to vote for Hillary but may vote for him- and those votes are effectively double value since they'd be natural democrat voters in theory at least- and if he went soft on Bernie it would not be reciprocated and he'd end up looking weak and give his Repub side denigraters more ammo. Bernie is also consistently the most liked candidate (OK, not much competition there) so Trump going hard at him runs the risk of making Trump even less likeable. In contrast, going hard at Clinton is easier as she's already heavily disliked. *and to be fair, he's got a better chance at the end of the week than at the beginning given the email scandal certainly appears to have real legs now.

Come now, let's not go crazy here. If nothing else there's a possibility that BvS was bad enough to get Snyder removed and improve any following movies- Arrow S5 on the other hand will start filming in a couple of months, with the same show runners. Arrow was also ~17hrs long, BvS was only an eighth of that. I'd bet if I forced you to watch one or the other you'd choose BvS for being shorter. Be thankful for small mercies.

Flash wears red, Arrow wears green. Flash goes fast, Arrow shoots arrows. One of the big complaints about Arrow is that he doesn't shoot arrows much any more. He's far more about getting into (badly choreographed) CQC with mooks which he then loses, requiring him to be rescued by Felicity. Or as in the finale, getting into a WWE/ Rocky V-esque let's just stand still and punch each other repeatedly fight. For that matter, while he is officially the 'Green' Arrow rather than just the Arrow now, despite them not changing the program name, he doesn't actually wear green. For some unknown reason he wears dark grey/ black. They then, inconsistently, add CGI green colour to it in post production! And that pretty much sums up how ill planned and badly implemented the entire season was.

^^^That's Arrow, not Flash. Flash has its problems but people are generally positive about it still, about the only people positive about Arrow are drama queens and shippers. It's crap, rubbish, a steaming gob of sputum on the footpath of fiction; a fitting companion to such recent and glorious televisual masterpieces as Dexter Season 8 or the later seasons of Sons of Anarchy; bereft of logic, sense, charm or purpose it merely exists to troll the people who liked the earlier seasons by gross parody of what it once was.

I thought it was OK. Flash always relies too much on deus ex speedforce resolutions and regularly doesn't make much sense so I expected both to be ratcheted up in the finale. At least the characters are well written, entertaining and consistently so even if the science and plotting is hand wavey and it's referential to the extent that it approaches being masturbatory. I'll certainly watch next year. OTOH, the Arrow finale may well be the last ep of that I ever watch.

It is based on 3 (?) well known comic story lines, so there's definite precedent from the source material- and if they used it to reset Arrow I'd be fine with it. Sadly, I suspect the other shows that could actually use it won't be effected nearly as much except for the big crossover event.

It won't be as clear cut as she makes it sound- after all, she has to make her case as strong as possible. But I do find the idea that transgender people complain essentially for the sake of it to be very hard to credit as they instantly set themselves up for abuse. Frankly, they probably do complain more but then there can hardly be any doubt that they also do genuinely face more discrimination than the average Joe or even Josephine. Dunno, sounds like at least some capital-ism is involved. Hmm, I thought that Valve had flat management, after all that's what that 'leaked' handbook said. So they shouldn't have managers to offer them money or be transphobic... Still, ex employees getting the same sort of non support 'support' emails as everyone else is vaguely amusing. (ceterum censeo Valve delendam esse etcetera etcetera)

The Night Manager is pretty good, so it's probably worth it having a second plug. Though I find Hugh Laurie a little disconcerting in drama as I'll always associate him with Prince/ Lt George, Bertie Wooster, Bit of Fry and Laurie etc.

I swear, some folks are just obsessed with everything being isometric. Most don't even know what isometric actually is, either, it's just associated with classic games like Fallout so gets bundled along as a buzz word. If you're making Bloodlines 2 then it should really be... well, Bloodlines 1 was a bit clunky with its mix of 3p and fp, but there may not be a more elegant solution and something 3p or fp would be expected. A tactical/ 'isometric' style game would be better as a (party based) spin off/ alternative because it implies a different gameplay experience.

Don't think the show has mentioned that at all. In the books the letter was definitely more than alluded to, as Catelyn objected to it in POV and a Glover and a Mormont were sent off to find Reed senior and then get it to The Wall. If they did want to legitimise Jon it would be easy enough to do so- have Robb lodge the letter with someone like the Blackfish. Book version smacks of red herring in any case though, since he may be legitimate already given polygamy and Targaryens go hand in hand.

Mongols were Tengri when they founded their empire, and it was reasonably important for them- can't remember the exact detail but it was a sky god and there was lots of horse related stuff which still persists on the steppe to this day. China is reasonably close to an empire with no founding religion, though from the little that is known it may have been because Qin wouldn't brook any challenge from anyone.

I wouldn't blame Dahrk per se- after all, he can only be as compelling as he is written and Neal McDonough has done a pretty good job with what he's been given. To me the main problem is that the writing is just plain poor, not in its entirety but it feels like different sections of even the same episode were written by different people communicating by carrier pigeon. The result of that is that it just ain't good, everything specific is just detail. The storyline makes little consistent sense (why reassemble Dahrk's totem at all once it was smashed let alone keep it in the least secure place in TV history, just about anything Malcolm Merlyn related), uses deus ex machina (chips that make people walk again, ICBM control wotsit that might as well be magic (plus russian icbms using US military run GPS for guidance and Kaliningrad being in far Siberia), anything related to hacking/ magic/ or how well or poorly people fight, for someone who feeds on death Dahrk seems awfully reticent to kill the good guys exc Laurel and that really was them writing themselves into a corner) and has far too much patented CW Emo Drama. Up until 3 (?) episodes ago we didn't really have a clue what Dahrk's plan was then it was all kind of spewed out in one ep. Having said that, S2 of arrow had quite a OUaT type structure- Slade didn't show up in present time until around the half way point of the season. Thing is though, Flash actually has a lot of those problems too, as did Arrow S2. Speedforce is basically a giant deus ex machina, Barry often acts like an idiot, the whole telling Patty he's the flash or not Drama. But it manages to get away with it by being compelling and charming enough otherwise that you're willing to forgive the problems as being minor, because they are. Arrow though is a sea of niggles at this point with very little either compelling or charming to balance it.

Which politician could possibly be against freedom? And that's why you have right wing types who think freedom is the government (who they purportedly hate) reading everything from everyone and left wing types who think freedom is corporations (who they purportedly hate) using social engineering, self interest and personal bias to decide what can and can not be debated. There's probably no less worthwhile term than 'freedom' in the entire political lexicon, and the political lexicon is replete with utterly devalued terms.

Yeah, they're its three highest rated shows, and Flash usually beats its Fox/ ABC competitors too which is pretty much unprecedented. Having said that, LoT probably didn't do as well as they hoped since it must be pretty expensive to make, and Arrow's ratings have declined markedly.

Eh? Angry Joe is the original angry video game reviewer- I remember him reviewing some of the earliest RPGs ever released, like Fallout 3. I really doubt there was anyone doing that prior to him.

A look inside the Mass Effect theme park ride. Now open at the Great America park near San Fran.

That's for New Zealand, we have a big excess of humanities teachers and a major shortage of science and technology teachers. Don't know how it is elsewhere but you'd certainly know the US situation better than I. There's also a shortage of rural teachers and teachers for remote areas but that's more of a fundamental problem (housing available, reduced social aspects etc) than BA grads deciding to go for teaching as there aren't jobs in anything else then finding there aren't jobs there either.

Will the Renegade Party put Commander Shepard up as its candidate and will s/he then go the debates and summarily execute Hillary then kick Trump out of window then be mildly sarcastic to the debate moderator? Will s/he send his SoS to meet Kim Jong Un then nuke the meeting site for the greater good? Will s/he then get impeached for giving multiple competing endorsements to companies in return for a discount? Will aliens s/he's been warning about invade during the impeachment proceedings? Bioware don't even think of stealing this for ME5, or I'll sue.