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Watching nuTrek brainwashed me into thoroughly enjoying my current Voyager rewatch. Man, I can't even remember why I complained about it so much. Janeway's bipolar disorder, Chakotay being a racist stereotype the writers never knew what to do with, all of that seems so... irrelevant next to them having some depths as characters. I wonder what's next? Maybe I should check out Enterprise. Next to the cardboard stereotype checkboxes of nuTrek even the token black guy from Enterprise might look like an actual character.

It's funny how many things in Sailor Moon are good because the show only had a shoestring budget and was following a monthly manga. The episodes were pretty streamlined and felt tight because their actual runtime was not that long. Every episode has like 10% stock footage, not counting the opening, so there was much less runtime padding needed in dialogues. The understated and dream-like backdrops were fantastic and the fact that they couldn't follow the harebrained storyline lead to something that came together so nicely. Well, when the show was not revolving around pedophile unicorns with wings. Also, isn't it funny how a pedophile unicorn with wings is the worst thing the anime did, while for the manga that was just Tuesday? CCS on the other hand even had a new outfit for Sakura for each episode. I recall reading an interview where CLAMP stated that they wanted her to have more outfits instead of wearing the same costume for every episode, like in older magical girl animes. That extra production time had to come from somewhere. 's complaining on a very high level though. If all anime would be nearly as well written as CCS was I would be doing a lot less complaining.

Had a couple of things left over from the weekend, from some peppers to tomatoes and a bit of pork as well as various forms of dried noodles. Turned everything into a pasta thingy. Guess Italians would cry foul, but it tasted good. The hot peppers failed to give it the kick I expected it to have, but that's a minor detail - one can always add dried hot peppers later.

So... you played Roblox?

NANI?!

Yeah, sure, fat chance of that.

Was Mami's head bitten off?

Factorio looks like one of these games that I wouldn't like playing, and while they're from a different genre, that is also true for games like Magnum Opus or Human Resource Machine. The former which was recommended to me and sits mostly unplayed in my Steam library (although I finished the achievements for the mini-game in Magnum Opus, which locked me out of a refund by way of playing more than two hours), the latter my boss once showed up with on his tablet at work. I don't mind puzzle games, or games that need serious thinking, but I really don't want my games to be my job with a different UI. HRM was probably the worst offender, it's basically a visual coding platform disguised as a game and has you develop quicksort for its final level, or at least it does so if you want to have a good score for the level. Speaking of games that are like jobs, has anyone ever made a 1st level support simulator game?

I know this was not a serious question, but the answer is that, while seppuku was seen as a sort of socially idealized response to losing one's face, in reality it was not practiced nearly as much as popcultural depiction would suggest. Especially not when looking at its usual depiction as a way to evade the disgrace of defeat. You're not going to win any wars if all your samurai (or even just the officers) ritually kill themselves after losing a battle, after all. Oh, and the practice was limited to the aristocracy (i.e. samurai). The OVA also seems to be an adaptation (of a sort) of an Edo period novel, so that would track. Was my first reaction to seeing the image. "That looks an awful lot like Tsukikage Ran."

I generally go with the Alucard aesthetic. So, like, the boy version of @Bartimaeus' goth girl.

So, do you still like shrimp or has Dennis Quaid managed to turn you off?

There was way too much combat in the game even when there were all these massive bugs making it easier and shorter. I dread to think of playing it now, really. I'm good with my first playthrough, read the other ending slides, that'll suffice. For a long time.

So whatcha all posting this Hamas propaganda garbage for? Clearly all the death and destruction would stop if Hamas just surrendered unconditionally, and they'd all be treated super well by the IDF. Unlike the hostages.

Anyone else get this feeling of "oh, don't worry, he just wants to play" right before a dog bites someone's arm off whenever Bruce tells us to not worry about what Trump says? He just wants to play in the White House, after all. That reminds me of a joke. What's got four legs and an arm?

How does one "accidentially" do the romances when every interaction that leads to a romance has ginormous red heart as interaction symbol? I mean, really, having a negative opinion of video game romances (Iron Bull + male MC is complete hilarity though) is fine, but you can't do them accidentially Inquisition or Veilguard. They're marked with a giant warning symbol reading "don't click if you dislike romances", after all.

I'm pretty sure you're onto something big here, have you considered making YouTube videos for the Manosphere?

's not just that, the Arch-Militant's Versatility should only have stacked up when switching between different attacks, but it did for every attack after using Wildfire. Combine that with stacking extra turns through multiple Officers and the busted damage bonus from being adjacent to your characters, and enemies would be in a world of pain really quickly. Every stack of Versatility improved damage and your weapon skill, which in turn made hitting enemies with bursts from across the screen viable. It was so silly that Argenta's best weapon was the autogun with its insane burst attack - but I kept on using the bolter because it was more appropriate.

Well, look at that. Gains over the 7800X3D look pretty good, but Steve's chart shows that AMD is doing an Intel here now that moving the cache around increased their thermal headroom. Gains in performance of the 9800X3D come from a pretty steep increase in power usage over the 7800X3D: On the flipside that doesn't look like there's a Zen 5 bottleneck. The increase in performance just comes from using more power on a similarily performing architecture. The CPU is, of course, still more efficient than Intel CPUs in gaming due to their much higher framerates at a still lower power budget. Again this is something that will never change for gaming until Intel - or any other competitor - can get a gaming focused CPU with equally large caches out there.

He just needs to offer Trump a better deal than Hunter Biden, and things will work out just peachy. Like y'all already forgot the time when Trump wanted to attack the Russians with US jets flying Chinese colours?

Says the guy from AfDmany. Don't misunderestimate (sic, best Bushism ) me, my own reaction to this quagmire mirrors yours, but it is problematic to cast stones while sitting in the proverbial glass house. More so for me than you, because technically the AfD isn't the strongest party in the Bundestag just yet, but you'll get there. Eventually. Just like we did. We don't need to look that far away and try to understand this Trump victory. We have Orban, Wilders, Kickl, Höcke, Weidel, Le Pen and Kaczynski as well as Wagenknecht from the other side of the spectrum (sort of). The Brits had their funny Trump copy, there's on the other side of the planet, even when not looking at the US, there's the Argentinian nutjob Milei, there was the Brazilian nutjob Bolsonaro. Not like our population is any smarter, we just have other parties people can funnel their frustration with the establishment into, as you can see with the meteoric rise of the BSW in Germany's eastern federal states. The biggest advantage we have over the US is that our voting systems usually do not have a "the winner takes it all" feature, but even in Europe you can point at the nations that do and their weird election results. Like, well, the Brits, where Keir Starmer's Labour won almost two thirds of the seats with 33% in the popular vote. Keir Starmer of course immediately proceeded to be just another establishment politician. Or France, where candidates were forced to not run to produce a win for everyone who was not in the Front Rassemblement National.

Thanks guys. We got him as a puppy. He was the runt of the litter and nobody wanted him, so he was all alone in the pet shop. My wife immediately fell in love with him (although, yeah, back then she was not my wife yet ). It was a gamble, because we didn't know how the cat would take to him. Pretty well, as it turns out, so a couple of months later we had a young Westie with all the fun mannerisms of his breed who was mostly socialized by a cat who adopted him. It made him borderline untrainable and no matter how hard we tried and added some cat mannerisms added into the mix. They're already a notoriously stubborn breed, and since the cat never once did what we told her to do, neither did he. He peed like the cat, and after he was done, he would take a step or two forward and start scratching the ground with his hind legs. You know, to cover it like the cat does in her litterbox. It was adorable. He eventually started to leave his marks here and there (even though we had him neutered, no idea where he picked that up, but he only ever did that outside) in the normal way male dogs do their business, but that was only for marking. Yeah, he did, tumors aside, he was in really good shape for his age. We only needed the vet a handful of times. The funniest one was when he was lying in a corner, whining and being miserable. That was a Sunday evening and we called the emergency vet hotline, brought him to the vet, the vet pressed a little on his abdomen to see what might be the cause for his discomfort, and then he farted loudly and everything was fine again. 300€ for flatulence. The other stuff were vaccinations and a minor injury from an ill-fated attempt at playing with another dog, and one time he ate dark chocolate that fell out of a bag. That one was a close call, but we noticed it early enough. Vet gave him something to throw up, and Simon then proceeded to take a giant dump right in the waiting area as a thank you. Like I said, he hated being at the vet. Heh. Yeah, can't imagine ever not missing him. He was a happy and super cute little dog who tried his best to be a cat. Speaking of the cat, she's been nervous for a while now. She used to play with the dog and they'd chase each other, and recently always went to check on him. She misses him and is constantly chasing my wife for attention at the moment. Back when they were both a lot younger, she'd sometimes jump on the table to steal some food and throw it down to him.

Guess the nerfs killed the ludicrous damage numbers you could put out with flat bonus damage stacking on Arch-Militants and all the extra turns. By the time it was Argenta's proper turn, she could one-shot all mook level enemies (which was pretty good with the Blessed Bolter Casing and feeding into AP resurgence through kills on her Ultimate) and kill bosses with a single burst. You're not supposed to leave home without your mutant waifu.

Here in Commie-Land, you're automatically added to the electoral roll based on your primary residence. You only need to register to vote if you're living abroad. Whenever there's an election, your local municipal government sends you the necessary information via mail, i.e. when the election is held, where to go to vote and the slip of paper with your electoral roll number on it that @Lexx mentioned. You just show up to vote, hand over your slip, are handed your ballot paper in return and off to vote you go. These people also check your ID in case they don't know you - so when you're living in one of the larger cities, for instance, you'll probably need an ID on you. As I am from the suburbs I never had to show my ID to vote. Kinda pointless when you're on a first name basis with the guys checking the ID. Then again... we also usually have enough votes counted to call the elections a couple of hours after the polling stations close in most cases (i.e. a confidence interval of < 0.5% which is enough for most elections - except maybe the presidential one in a really close race), and only need a couple of days for an official final result. Quite baffling how long some nations need to get their votes counted.

Up to 12$ for a chemical factory pizza with "tomatoes" and "cheese", and here I am not having bought any frozen Pizza Spinaci (they're fairly decent, as far as hyperprocessed foods go) because they're like 3.99€ nowadays.