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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOvjqVY9lE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBIOfx4wYBU

This show had a different theme every year. They were all good, but this one rocked the most imo. My favorite police show to this day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqZuhrDM5vE

I like this thread theme. Used to watch many of these shows regularly. TV overall just isn't as good as it used to be. I shall contribute. Starting with the show that gave us the show in the OP.

You gotta make sure you have 'www.youtube.com/watch......' link for the video to show. the 'youtu.be' links will just show up as regular links as yours does. Basically, don't use the link that appears when you click on the 'share' button, use the page url as it appears in your browser. Here's your video:

There's a little Dana Barrett in all of us today.

Jeremiah and his mighty fine wine rarely ceases to lift me up. Words of mighty wisdom to live by in this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf-d-Ka30EY Freddie and the boys also have a great song to put it all in the right perspective:

Game reviewers are not generally known for being observant or insightful. It's been almost a decade since I've seen or read a good 'professional' review of a game. And I mean good as in the quality of the review, not the quality of the game. Most reviewers are as objective and insightful as the magazine Consumer Reports is.

What a level-headed and fair-minded statement. Totally doesn't make you come across as a fanatic who has fallen in with a bigoted hate movement. Very leveled headed and extremely fair. Netanyahu has earned his spot as evil leader #1. However, he is not worthy of hate, and there's no bigotry here. Bibi is indeed a fear monger as well as a warmonger, and expressing my disgust for such an individual /= bigotry nor does it equate to hate. Attempting to say such things belies just how weak your own thoughts and arguments are. If you choose to interpret what I said the way you do, so be it. Your interpretation of things as I've read them make many of the adolescently minded trolls on this forum look like very insightful and astute individuals. You, perhaps more than anyone else that's read this thread should watch the video I linked above, as well as this one, and this one.

While I agree with pretty much everything else you said, I disagree with this. I loved Battlestar Galactica but every time I heard the word 'frak' it threw me right out of the show. Sounded way too forced and contrived to me. I feel they should have just gone with the real thing and just toned down the amount of times they used it. Obviously, this whole discussion is totally subjective though. Oh, I thoroughly agree they overused the word, and that it was forced and contrived much of the time. BSG's writing was not near as consistently good as it could and should have been.

I generally agree. I drop F bombs in the real world all the time. I spent too much time working in bars and truck stops when I was younger. There's a time and a place though. I've no problem with adult themes, or even some cussing in the game. However, the F word generally feels way out of place when I see it in games, especially fantasy games (or fantasy books), and it's usually bad writing when I see it. I hope it's used well when it's used, and sparingly. Otherwise it's effect is just blah, rather than anything that adds to the experience. A good example of effective writing with profanity was Breaking Bad. They used the F word once per season, and with great effect. I hope the writers of PoE took some lessons from Breaking Bad (all writers should, as it was an amazingly well written show). Another good lesson in writing (in particular fantasy writing) in regards to profanity was the Battlestar Gallactica reboot. Where they made up their own word, Frak, used in place of the F word. It was used to great effect.

I think helicopters shouldn't be flying over people's homes taking pictures, unless asked by those living there to do so.

The following is a speech given in 2012 by Miko Peled, who was born in Jerusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, in which Miko also served time. Even if you know the history of the region well, this presentation is very much worth watching all the way through.

Saw Billy Joel this last week, and for the first time since the Stormfront tour. At 65 he still puts on an absolutely amazing show. Was one of the best concerts I'd seen in a very long time. Pretty sure I'm going to be swinging down the MSG to catch another one of his shows later this year. Might even see if I can get my ass out to Bonaroo this year, where he's headlining. Here's two of my faves:

One has a better chance of being struck by lightning, killed by a cop, or winning a million dollars than meeting one of the people behind the 444 twitter accounts that said something that could be construed as supporting ISIS. Lion and Tigers and ISIS oh my! More importantly:

I would be awesome if people actually read the thread before they posted...

This is a cRPG that is supposed to be based on the IE games. All of which awarded XP for killing. XP for killing in an RPG is fundamental to most PnP RPGs, not just AD&D, which the IE games were based on, and very arguably the vast majority of all cRPGs ever made to a degree. No one is forcing you to 'search for every skeleton', etc. Being a completionist or an XP farmer is one's prerogative. For those that are the latter, they're just going to go about it a different way in a game without combat XP. A good GM (the game acts as a GM) awards quest XP, RP XP, combat XP, and so on. There's many things that can earn one XP in a well run campaign. Not having combat XP in a game that is supposed to be based on the IE games, and have a great amount of combat as those games did, is one of the a fundamental divergences that Obsidian has taken, to the dismay of many, if not most of the people that backed the game because Obsidian primarily invoked the IE games in their pitch.