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Wait, is that a rhetorical question? As a serb, shouldn't you know the answer?

I can only repeat myself: Fetish Locator is a gem of an adult visual novel. It even has a taboo mode for whoever doesn't want to boff their sister. If that doesn't tell you how much thought went into the game then I don't know what will.

There's plenty to watch even without rentals or buying films, but Amazon is trying really hard to sell their sub-channels/access to other streaming services through Prime Video. Just on my landing page it shows me all the things I could watch if I subscribed to Discovery, MGM+, Paramount+, Apple-TV, and so on and so forth. Plus current rental movies. Takes some scrolling down, and they sneaksily encourage users to click on the pay-to-watch stuff. Free for a week, free for a month, free first episode, kinda like a dealer. We noticed you watch a lot of horror movies, how'd you like to subsribe to Thrillbox, Home of Horror or Bloody Movies? Each one for just 3.99€/month. Free week included, we hope you forget to cancel!

Yeah, don't know. Prime Video bundles a lot of channels and other stuff and is a video rental system, but since this is a Prime Video exclusive title you can only watch it with the Amazon Prime subscription. Can't even rent it without, so it's not an Amazon ad per se, probably just a plug for Prime Air. It helps to bear in mind that it was filmed in 2020 during the lockdowns. I don't know how Prime Air is doing these days, but it sure shows no sign of being available here, and I'd venture there's a ton of troublesome EU regulations preventing an easy rollout. Methinks Mango Mussolini needs to threaten some more tariffs if they don't give Bezos unrestricted access to the airspace.

Yeah, Amazon Prime Air saves the day, basically.

War of the World (2025) I don't get the reviews. When you're sitting in front of your TV, looking at Ice Cube sitting in front of a green screen that is reflected in his glasses, the correct choice is to review and enjoy the film for what it is. The wrong one is to review it as if it would be a serious work of art, because if there's one thing the reviews are right about, then it is this: War of the Worlds (2025), which was originally filmed during the 2020 lockdown, is an utter disaster. From the terrible cinematography, to the forgettable sound design, to the incredibly bad acting of the entire cast and digital effects on the level of 2003 game cinematics (the arrival of the tripods basically looks like it was copied and pasted from the arrival of the Burning Legion in Warcraft 3), one can only come to the conclusion that even Uwe Boll movies are better. Now, the techincal aspects aren't Neil Breen level terrible, but if you've ever seen a The Asylum film (I would recommend Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies if you haven't and are interested), that's about what you're getting - just that everything looks like found footage because most of the cast filmed their scenes with their phones' selfie cams. With that out of the way, what an enjoyable silly ride this was. The premise, the acting, the cinematography, the editing, the effects - combined everything is so bad it breaks the laws of physics and becomes a stunningly enrapturing mixture. Plus it has Clark Gregg, and let's face it, anything that has Clark Gregg in it automatically gets taken up a notch. If you don't agree, then fine, but know that you're wrong. Spoilers from here on out. I'll not mark them, because, well, what would be the point? The film features, of course, Ice Cube sitting in a chair, cast in the worst role you could think of for him, a high ranking intelligence officer. His daughter Faith, a genius biologist, is dating an Amazon delivery truck driver so Ice Cube can get a thumb drive at the end of the movie. He keeps a really close tab on his family, down to checking what Faith eats during her pregnancy, but he's completely oblivious to the so-obvious-it-hurts fact that his son Dave is the hacker and conspiracy theorist Disruptor that he spends the first fifteen minutes of the film trying to find. Shortly after yet another failed raid, meteors rain from the sky. The Burning Legion tripods arrives on Azeroth Earth. In what is a fun little twist and about the only interesting thing the film really does, the initial counter attack by various militaries around the world is highly successful. These tripods are not invincible, and they're taking down easily by concentrated missile and tank attacks. Ice Cube is swivelling on his chair yelling BOOYAH at the green screen - you know, like any seasoned intelligence officer would. Who could blame the guy. Alas, all that was just a diversion. Some tripods manage to locate data centers, and that is where the film really goes off the rails. See, the tripods in this version grow tentacles and start injecting tiny cybernetic insects into the data centers - insects that feed on data, and the more data they consume, the smarter they get. All the world's data gets eaten from the data centers. Power plants fail everywhere, Facebook pages disappear, the military is now completely incapable of fighting back as fighter jets and commercial airliners just fall from the sky, tanks stop dead in their tracks and not a single digital gizmo keeps working. Except Ice Cube's computer and Faith's, Mark's, Sara's (NASA friend of Ice Cube's) and Dave's smart phones, plus all the apps running on them. The internet is still working fine too, in spite of a global power outage. The tripods also forgot to attack or deactivate all the US drones cruising about. After Ice Cube finally finds out that Dave is DISRUPTOR, Dave's hacking collective develops a computer virus to drop the enemy mothership's shields infect the tripods, but it fails. Why? Well, as Eva Longoria puts it, the insects are part biological and part cyber. A couple of seconds later they got it all figured out, they combine Faith's research into anti-viral agents with their computer virus (DNA is just a sort of code, after all). Now all that is left for Ice Cube is to plug in his thumb drive, download CANNIBAL_CODE.EXE and upload that to the super secret government surveillance programm GOLIATH - which will infect all the aliens once they consume it. Only hitch in that plan? Ice Cube doesn't have a thumb drive. Top secret military installation, he says, ain't allowed to bring one to work. Makes sense. On the other hand, he's using Facebook at work and has Zoom and WhatsApp installed. Well, can't be perfectly secure in all aspects, can we. Anyway, now's Mark's time to shine, because Ice Cube just needs to buy a thumb drive from Amazon - which still works, by the way, even after the world's data was eaten by cybernetic insects - and out comes the Amazon delivery drone. Dave covers Mark with a leftover Predator drone and shoots down some aliens and crashes the drone into a tripod. Meanwhile the tripods are converging on Washington D.C., and a couple of B2s take off to carpet bomb (nuke, maybe, they are talking about a blast radius of five miles) them into oblivion. Well, them, the residential area of D.C., and most importantly, the GOLIATH data center hidden beneath Ice Cube's workplace. Please don't wonder how there's still working military equipment at this point after it all failed without data, and also don't think too hard on how and why the military would not constantly fly sorties against the alien invaders. They just knew they'd need to be on standby to bomb the ultimate goal of the alien invasion. Mark saves the day by successfully delivering the thumbdrive to Ice Cube, who barely makes it down to the server room. He plugs in the thumb drive and poof, alien threat vanquished. Yep. CANNIBAL_CODE.EXE does the trick. While writing this post I've racked my brain trying to find a worse film that I've seen, and somehow I come up short. Not even 80ies B-movies are this bad. Definitely a "so bad it's good" sort of film. A+, a 10/10, five stars. Will be shown at film schools all over the world in the future as an example of how not to make a film.

Scrambled, not whisked is the superior method. Very much am on @ShadySands' daughter's side here. You can vary the degree of doneness until you find one you like, I personally prefer them to not be too dry, but unlike sunny sides up, the yolk isn't supposed to be runny on scrambled eggs. Salt them a little in the pan. Lard makes for the best eggs (guess also the highest cholesterol ), followed by butter. A neutral oil works too if you have nothing else. Season liberally with paprika and add some freshly ground black pepper, but I can see how crunchy garlic with chili oil works perfectly fine too.

Ah, that's the fun little bug where a notification tells you about a like in a thread moved to the moderator forum for moderation. Had that one too, after I replied to a SonicComradYellowMage117 post. God told off for trying to "evade" the word filter by "accidentially" misspelling a common colloquial term for fornication. Edit: Kinda bizarre, that was over five years ago.

Go play SOMA next.

Here's Mekuna's Ice Shard Hydra build if you're interested. There's also a link to the theoretically best build in it too, but that is only interesting after you've found really good Greater Affixes and the appropriate Mythic gear. I didn't like the playstyle with Floaty Bobble and Teleport Enchantment*, so I left those out. I got lucky and had a very early Nagu rune drop, which makes for an infinite summon loop (Nagu + Ceh) always maxing Primordial Binding out. In the highest DPS meta build that is replaced by having Unstable Currents on all the time and proccing Lightning Spears en masse. *General idea is to have enough cooldown reduction on your gear that you can permanently evade between casts. If you're nowhere near that it's just better to use Hydra as enchantment. Can't say no to that extra damage, and handling Teleport and Evade separately gives more controlled mobility without all that CD reduction.

Are you playing the Unstable Currents version of the Hydra build? That one has just way too much visual clutter, the Ice Shards variant is more than good enough damage if you just want to finish the season journey and much less chaotic. Actually, don't really need Ice Shards/Hail of Verglas. You can make do with just using Ice Blades, Lightning Spear and Hydra all the time. 's an uncharacteristicly low APM sorc build that's viable in this season.

Hey, some of these are real gems. Fetish Locator in particular.

That's a glazed pear.

Oh, look, AI bots trying to talk about food. That's new. How are your tastebuds, buddy? To post something on topic, work cantina makes pretty good food, all in all:

Tired of winning all the time yet?

Maybe they're allergic to water?

OH MY GOD BRO THIS IS SO FIRE. 32% of YouTube is screaming idiots these days. 67% is AI generated slop, and there's 1% of decent content.

That's the point @uuuhhii was making. People just promise Trump eleventy billion billion dollars in investments that will never materialize and he agrees to screw over the local automobile companies to sell a quick win now that his base is falling apart over electing a pdf file. Personally I find that rather hilarious - I mean cognitive dissonance or not, people knew who and what Trump is. It is bewildering to see even the QAnon Shaman being weirded out by Trump's handling of the Epstein list and its implications. You're too hung up on the word bribe. Yes, relenting and giving the US meaningless wins so Trump agrees to lower tariffs isn't bribery in the legal sense. Not that anyone in the Trump administration would be stopped by doing something illegal, but one can dream of a world where actions being illegal isn't the stopping point for politicians. There's still an ethical layer that used to sit well above the legal one. Alas, o tempora, o mores.

No, not no. Yes. Trump doesn't even notice that the EU just "agreed" to buy more energy from them in the next three years than US companies could feasibly supply, even if there was enough transportation capacity. If US based companies would ramp up oil and gas extraction to meet the demand and transportation capacity would be redirected entirely to trading with the EU, the energy market would collapse. That's not going to happen. The bridge offer's still on the table, by the way. I can see you're interested. C'mon. I know you always wanted a bridge. Obviously that is what Trump thinks he is doing, but nation after nation says these trade "deals" are more like frameworks. Point being, they get a reduction in tariffs - for car imports the EU now joins Japan in having US dealerships pay less tariffs for imports than domestic car manufactures because they still have to pay the regular tariffs on Canda and Mexico. Look at Australia, they "opened" their markets for American beef. Australia doesn't import beef beyond wagyu from Japan. They export beef worth billions and import beef worth millions. Do you really think anyone is going to sell US beef on the Australian market? It's more expensive and of lesser quality than locally sourced beef. Besides, the beef population in the US is at an all-time low, similar to the current situation in the EU where beef prices are exploding due to a lack of cattle. Trump can go home and tell people that he now opened up formerly closed markets for the ranchers and farmers suffering under his killing of USAID to placate them. Markets that aren't going to buy. Just like the Japanese aren't going to buy cars larger than their roads from US companies.

YouTube comment of the decade:

Japanese car company stocks exploded while GM's dropped. Fairly easy to see who "won" the deal. US car makers aren't going to sell a single car more in Japan while their cars now have an advantage over others, and Japan can really use rice imports at the moment, rice prices are becoming a huge problem for the government. Not that the US is exporting or even producing a whole lot of rice anyway. Trump's really a master of negotiation and deal making. His tarrifs are now screwing over GM more than Mazda, Toyota & comapny.

Comin' in about, uh... two weeks.

edit: also, if anyone really believes Japan or Japanese companies are going to invest a single yen more in the United States than they would have anyway thanks to this agreement, I have this here slightly used bridge to sell you for cheap. It's a great deal. A fantastic deal. The best deal ever. The bigliest biggest deal ever. Don't miss out!

Don't know why people are so soft on Picard season three. Yes, it as massively better than the turd that season one was, and it would probably break the laws of physics to make a season worse than two, but that just made season three less bad. It wasn't good, most of the time, and the cringe factor of the Millennium Enterprise attacking the Death Cube reactor was over nine thousand. But yes, I am definitely one of those who wanted nothing more than TNG Season 8 out of the series after the Discovery debacle... and all we got was more yum yum.