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5-0! LOL!

AHAHAHAHAHAHA! 4-0!

And ze Germans score again just like that. The rout is on.

Klose does as Klose does. Germany 2-0.

Excitement level rising. Rising.

I got my copy of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate today. Oddly enough it's a game about hunting monsters. It definitely shows its age. The game was spiffied up a bit for the Wii U, but there's only so much they could were willing to do with the aging framework. There are some pretty rather angular character models and some shocking low res textures in the game. Still, it's been pretty fun so far. I'm just starting to get the hang of it, but I can see why this series is digital crack in Japan. So far I'm gravitating toward hammers as my favorite weapons. I'm not a big fan of preposterously gigantic weapons, and hammers certainly fit the bill here, but it's a Japanese game and the Japanese love their preposterously gigantic weapons, so what can you do?

Did he pay for Chiellini's rabies shot as a gesture of goodwill, or something?

I'm playing Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U and X3: Albion Prelude on the PC. I started a new game of X3 as a Humble Merchant, which starts you off with a Mercury freighter and a Discoverer scout and enough cash for 3 cups of coffee. I stashed the Discoverer at a trading station and made trade runs using the Mercury funneling profits back into the ship to upgrade the engines, steering, cargo capacity, and add extensions, mainly trading software. The Mercury is a decent starter freighter. It is quite fast for a freighter, but the cargo capacity leaves something to be desired. Eventually I made enough cash to build my first station. I built a flower farm in Blue Profit. I couldn't believe there wasn't one there already. That sector has solar power plants and a sun oil refinery, giving me both suppliers of resources I need (energy cells) and a customer for my product (sunrise flowers) right in the same sector. The nearest other flower farms are 2 sectors away, not really far, but why go there when there's my flower farm right here now. Sure enough, shortly after I got my flower far up and running 2 more sun oil refineries opened up in that same sector. It makes sense since my flower farm is right there and a whole bunch of production facilities that will buy their product (nostrop oil) are just 1 sector away. I think I'm going to build enother flower farm just as soon as I have enough money to do so as my one farm is not enough to keep up with the demand in that sector. In fact, that whole cluster of Teladi sectors has a surplus of sun oil refineries and a lack of flower farms, so there's plenty more profit to be made growing and selling sunrise flowers. In the meantime, I also bought a new freighter, a Teladi Vulture Haulter. It's a pretty slow ship, but it has a ton of cargo space. More cargo space = more profit potential. I assigned my Mercury to my flower farm to keep it supplied with energy cells and to sell off sunrise flowers as needed automatically while I seek profit elsewhere. A few more stations and a few more freighters and the profits will really come rolling in. In the Mario Kart world I finished getting 3 stars on all the 50cc cups and have almost 3 starred all 100cc cups, just 2 more to go. Then onward to 150cc and time trials, and more multiplayer mayhem.

The combat looks about as exciting as watching paint dry.

It has yet to set my cat on fire. In all seriousness, I haven't had a problem with it, granted I don't exactly have a ton of Uplay games. The only hiccup I experienced was the infamous Great Watch_Dogs Uplay Outage of 2014 that, judging by the outrage it created, claimed millions of lives and was the worst thing since Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin all rolled into one. It didn't really bother me since I already had the game downloaded and I just played it in offline mode. No problems other than that, including no problems whatsoever with Might & Magic X. As always, your mileage may vary. Edit: You only need to be online for the initial activation, after that you can play Might & Magic X in Uplay offline mode, which is essentially like Steam offline mode..

I was rather surprised at how well Argentina played defense in the earlier game. It wasn't the most exciting match, but they stayed extremely disciplined. Belgium had basically no chances the entire match.

Van Persie looked very ordinary today. Sneijder, on the other hand, hit a couple cracking strikes and was denied by metal both times. In the end, the right team won. Hats off to Costa Rica for their run, but Holland was clearly superior.

Sure, but the holy hand grenade not only blew the door open, it also sanctified the splintered remains. Could a normal hand grenade do that? Also, what happens if you run into the Rabbit of Caerbannog? Where will you be with your normal hand grenade then?

Today's predictions (Lord knows my batting average hasn't been good lately): Belgium over Argentina Dutch over Costa Rica

That sucks. No Neymar, no Thiago Silva. I don't see how Brazil can beat Germany. I would have picked Germany anyway, even if both squads were at full strength.

Hopefully they have a different officiating crew for the semi against Germany. Because if the refs let the kind of **** that went down in this match go on against Germany, the Germans will gladly oblige them and send several Brazilians off the field on stretchers.

Brazil won, and they probably deserved to, but, I will say this, the referee took about 45 minutes too long to start booking people. Ze Germans are going to take Brazil out in the semis.

James Rodrigues gets Colombia back within 1 on the PK

Wow! What a beautiful freekick goal by David Luiz! That was incredible.

Finally the first yellow of the game, and what a ridiculously boneheaded play by Silva. I mean, even this ref will yellow card you for that. That was crazy.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy there have been no yellows thus far. There should be at least 3 right now. I'm all for letting guys play, but there have been some real late and/or dangerous challenges. Also, Neymar should have gotten a yellow for charging a free kick. He was WAY inside of 10 yards. I'm not talking 8 or 9 yards, I'm talking 4 or 5 yards. It was insanely blatant and not called. I know that's a crappy thing to card a guy for, but when it's that blatant, you gotta do it.

Extremely. I don't know if either team can keep up this pace for 90 minutes. Colombia is lucky to only be down 1-0, they could easily be down 3-0.

I played a friend's copy and although it's fun it has still got that annoying "I have no idea what's road or what the hell is going on" problem when you first run through a track. Also no Diddy or Funky? dafuq!? Also, also, we've had 8 Mario Karts but only 3 F-Zeros. What the hell Nintendo?! Yeah, learning the tracks is part of every racing game, kart racers included, though. Also, this probably doesn't do anything for you, but, while there may not be Diddy or Funky Kong, there are all the Koopalings. I do wish they had some of the Kong clan (maybe also Toadsworth and Kamek) instead of the baby versions of Mario, Luigi, and the princesses, and the Metal Mario and Metal Peach.