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Zensurla is replacing Jean-Claude "Backpain" Juncker, not Donald Tusk. Charles Michel is going to be the next president of the European Council, and president of the European Parliament is David Sassoli. I said my piece about her earlier, she's a terrible choice in my opinion, given her track record in the German government.

Not sure how the patches and DLCs changed the games but Orions were pretty much the go-to heavy mech when the game came out. Pack the Vs with missiles and the Ks with AC10/AC20 and you're pretty much set until you need to switch to assault mechs. Focus missiles on one enemy until it topples over and precision one-shot with an AC20. Rinse and repeat with assault mechs as they become available. If it can't serve as either missile boat or ballistic finisher then toss* it. As far as pilot skills go in the campaign I ended up with everyone having Bulwark, Sensor Lock and Master Tactician. Breaching Shot suffers too much from PPCs being from the arse in the game, Ace Pilot looks good on paper but in reality pales compared to being able to weather the missile storm a little while longer and moving earlier in the turn, potentially disabling or even destroying an enemy mech before they can move. *One possible exception being a melee focused build with a lot of support weapons but those got the nerf-hammer pretty bad in the first patch IIRC.

I really want to see a satanic Ewok cult worshipping Palpatine. That sounds awesome. Heh.

So... after having to deal with the incompetent Amazon help desk who so far refuse to cancel the 100 bucks they charged me with that don't belong to them my boiler goes and dies after 35 years of faithful service. Ah, the joy of taking cold showers. Past two weeks in a nutshell: Had a leaky pipe in my apartment that luckily didn't damage anything except for the downstairs neighbor's wall. Still have to live with a hole in the floor right next to my toilet that the owner of the building won't fix until the insurance company assessed the damage. Which they assured me was going to be "really soon" like ten days ago. Had Amazon charge me with twice the amount they should have - or none, in fact, when they should just have cancelled the gift card that I never wanted, had my warm water supply die on me and I got a letter from the church with a friendly reminder that I missed paying my taxes tithe.

Holy hell now my credit card's been charged for what appears to be two times the price of a single Xbone controller.

Absolutely. Mike won't be able to help himself and force Rich into making Re:Views of it.

So awesome then?

I bought an XBone controller from Amazon that came with a faulty A button, so I sent it back and Amazon refunded the controller in advance. I had the refund added as a gift card to my Amazon account because I immediately ordered a second one. That was a month ago. Last Friday I got a friendly reminder that I should send the controller back since Amazon refunded it in good faith. Rifling through my order history I noticed that they received the controller I sent back but refunded the second order. The first order, the one that I actually sent back, reads that they're waiting for the return of the goods. I contacted their customer service and they said they'll look into it. Well... they now mailed me that they've cancelled the refund of the first order and are going to charge my credit card. Le sigh. Just mailed them and asked that they simply remove the second gift card they've given me. I wonder if that will work. So are they sneaky bastards trying to get a free loan worth an XBone controller from me or is it just incompetent help desks being incompetent help desks?

I liked the film but I found Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio a bit distracting. Might just be me but I think I less well known actor (or a less recognizable face perhaps) might have been better.

For the same reason I can watch Discovery on Netflix and our posters from the US can't. Distribution rights - doubly bad in case of shows that come with a necessary secondary license like MST3K, i.e. you need to have the licenses in order for the episodes and the films used. Depending on the episodes that could mean negotiating with dozens of companies.

Just finished watching as well. The premise is a tad... unrealistic. I mean, not that realism per se is necessary, we're talking about a setting with an interdimensional gate, monsters and girls with telekinetic and mind-bending powers after all, but the idea of Still enjoyed it very much.

Amentep is just a cranky old man who is annoyed that MST3K episodes are sometimes the only way to view old B-movies he used to love as a kid. On a less humorous note we really need a better global licensing model that reflects the reality of modern distribution.

The MST3K revival happened as a Kickstarter project that I backed for almost 300$, and now I'm legally not allowed to watch the new episodes, and I most likely never will.

25 years ago was a time when you could go to your favorite game shop, see a box with EA's logo on it and buy it without a second thought. Well, most of the time. I think Shaq Fu came out in 1994 and whilte that was some evil shice EA's bad reputation be tracked to much more recent, ah, incidents, and while it has everything to do with mistakes it isn't exactly about making them as much as it is about how they reacted to them - and repeating the process over and over again. Not that I disagree that EA's bad guy reputation is way overblown. It's not like they're poisoning the environment, absuing child slave labor or bringing out products that actively harm people. Again, except Shaq Fu. Heh.

Started up FTL and noticed that my original save game seems to have been lost. The cloud one is missing my completed Crystal Cruiser quest. Oh well, it's only the most random and annoying thing to do in the game, might as well try to get it again for another 50 hours or so. It's time well (eh, entertainingly?) spent anyway.

Oh, by the way, if anyone is interested in the level of trash that Germany's wont to drop on Brussels, meet long time EU commission member Günter Öttinger: Yay.

Someone's in the business of turning my every joy into ash. After the EU parliamentary elections I figured we'd maybe be spared Manfred Weber as head of the European Commission. Earlier this week when it became clear that Weber is essentially out I was genuinely happy. But as always, Murphy's Law strikes again and we'll be getting... Zensurla, Terror of the Bundeswehr whose major political successes so far where a failed whelping bonus for university graduates, maternity wear for female soldiers (I wish I was making this up, really) and a major bid towards censorship in the name of stopping child pornography. Well will someone think of the children already! Holy hell. Here's to hoping that she won't be accepted by the parliament. For sucks fake.

It's hilarious how much more the two noticed than I did. I wonder if they binged the episodes, because between the weekly release and not paying attention while watching I missed a lot of the dumb. I also had completely forgotten about lines like "That's the power of math people!" and "I like science".

It doesn't seem to be subverting all that much. It just collates data from installed launches and presents them in a single piece of software. Launching a game still starts the approriate launcher anyway, just automatically. If anything, that's more liable to make me install uPlay or EGS.

It's incorrect in the survey ("a") and ktchong pointed that out with a bit of a clumsy, unclear sentence. I read the survey and the post twice because my initial reaction was the same.

People making or looking to make money off of YouTube's ad program, just in case that question wasn't entirery rhetorical (it also immediately answers why similar effort isn't put into reporting on local affairs by small channels).

Sorry but not sorry for the double post: DIO was awesome.