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I'm curious how it will continue. I expect Inner Light and Darmok having prominent placements on both lists. Can't have a TNG best of without them, right? I have to admit that I've seen Inner Light so often that I'm almost tempted to skip it whenever it comes up at a rewatch. Used to be that whenever I caught an episode of TNG on TV, it was... Inner Light. The Drumhead and Measure of a Man was already there, also Best of Both Worlds. Hm. I'm almost expecting Mike to troll Rich and put Sub Rosa on the list. edit: I'm curious if one of them has Schisms on their list. I love that episode, probably a bit more than it deserves, but the first time I watched it as a kid it was creepy as hell.

I just found it extremely hilarious when you meet the Jedi that are hunting you as a LS Sith Warrior and you can basically tell them that revenge isn't the Jedi way, then they look dumbfounded and start arguing with each other. Had me rolling on the floor for a bit. That and one piece of voice acting from my Imperial Agent on Taris. My agent was someone who was very much pro Empire but, let's say, sceptical of the Sith, the story starts out with the Sith silliness almost ruining your very first assignment after all, and you'll meet a guano-insane one on Taris who talks about fire and her children - meaning the Rakghouls. One of the reply options to this is "You're insane!", and I of course clicked on it, and the IA says in his incredibly awesome voice in an absolute deadpan: You really are Sith, aren't you?

Like the others said, Imperial Agent is really good. Sith Warrior is a lot of fun if played light side. Stay away from the Consular and Bounty Hunter for the moment. They're among the weaker ones.

I was a bit disappointed that Classic players didn't get the full Paladin package. Having a damage only Holy Shock as Holy ultimate or 5 minute Blessing of Kings as Protection ultimate. Those were the days. *nod* In all seriousness I tried playing Classic for a bit and got my Holy Paladin to like level 56 before I quit. Ain't nobody got time for this. That was fun back in the day* because I was working a brain dead part time job, but now that real life has me firm in its terrible grasp I'll just risk being called a filthy casual (although Classic is easy, just slooooow) but being able to get around the world a lot quicker was sure a blessing of the later expansions. Alas, Andorhal, you won't see me again so quickly. *Gotta admit I played a lot more Everquest 2 than WoW though. I quit early in Classic as most of my friends played EQ2 exclusively. EQ2 used to be the more interesting MMO, imo.

And the bourbon. Beer and vodka is all you ever need.

I still have the second book in the series on my to read list. I began reading it a while ago after finishing the first book in the series and then just stopped. It's one thing to have the books have as little exposition as possible or only where it makes sense to make them more immersive but Malazan takes that to a level where it's bordering on hard work to keep track of everything. Unlike with A Song of Ice and Fire where at least the kids have things explained to them once in a while and you have somewhat interesting allusions to the past (e.g. the tragedy of Summerhall) Malazan feels like you're on the outside of one long ass in-joke.

For me that certainly isn't true, and on a rational level I can understand writers not owing their readers anything (or their publishers, as talked about in the Rothfuss article). But on a somewhat more subjective one I'm not sure that's correct. The writers owe us their livelyhood, and in exchange it's not too unreasonable to ask for some effort, yes? I just would like to have a somewhat timely continuation of series left not just with a cliffhanger but the most unsatisfying ones you can possibly imagine. In the past 15 years we've gotten two books by GRRM, and both were preludes, setups, some more preludes and some more set up and then the last one ends before two pivotal events that were actually already written but moved into the next novel due to space and pacing constraints. A novel that looks more and more like it will never be finished, let alone the entire series which has one more novel. Planned, at least. It already overran from a planned trilogy into having 4, then 5, then 6 and now potentially 7 books. Not that I ever expect 6 and 7 to come out unless George dies and either Sanderson or Brian Herbert finish them (yeah... I went there. :p). There's a bright side, not even these two could come up with something worse than the ending of the HBO adaptation. But who knows, strangers things certainly happened. Stephen King finished The Dark Tower eventually. Although with that ending, I'm not sure people enjoyed it having an end all too much. Heh.

Probably sitting somewhere with GRRM, living the good life and not giving a damn.

's a quick way to tell MMO veterans apart from regular players.

Further proof:

PooZooka sounds like something the Golgothan would use.

Well to explain that, this was lunch: While tasty that wasn't very, say, satisfying. Dinner wasn't much different either (well less tomatoes and more picked peppers with sauerkraut and some bread with ham). Plus an awful lot of stress at work right now. Yeah...

It's a highlight of many reaction video channels. Heh.

Me hungry. Me HANGRY. Hulk smash! No, really. I feel like I'm digesting myself. Like Pizza the Hut in Spaceballs.

I can empathize. My father had one of those machines from hell at work and most of his colleagues and partners had them too. At work... and at home. I spent hundres of hours (not exaggerating here) supporting these abominations. Nothing worked the way it should*, especially when you had one of them VIA mainboards that came with driver installers that potentially just killed your Windows. *Not even talking about gaming here. Those were work computers where the serial ports randomly stopped working until you manually (re)assigned port numbers, for instance. This was particularily fun with telephone systems or people who just wouldn't get any readouts from their manufacturing, laboratory or meteorological equipment. Getting games to run with some stability was a different kind of hell. Bonus points for having ATi cards.

That Nazis on Twitter latch onto anything that supports for their point of view? Possibly. But two videos and a handful of posters on a message board sure make for a terrible sample size.

In Greece? Just more likely he forgot to file attachment "C" as in "cash" with the tax papers. Kidding...

Can we have a "facepalm" reaction to posts? Please? Pretty please?

Yeah, you missed the video Volo linked a while back where a pack of Blacks started kicking the living daylights out of some innocent white girl waiting for her public transportation? Because that one was treated all the same by everyone else here. No, wait, with even more scrutiny because the guy on Twitter gave his location as occupied Ireland.

You people, Trump can't even post his lunch on Instagram now? Really? Just leave him alone already.

Trump doesn't lie. A lie requires... intent, doesn't it? Most of the time he just doesn't know any better and in the cases where he potentially would his personalilty traits substitute an alternative reality. It's not that uncommon. We had a guy like that at work, he secretly worked for a different company for a year, then switched and later blamed our managers for ruining his carreer after getting fired from his new job because, to quote, they "actively prevented him from poaching customers" and that's why he failed at his new job and got fired. In no objective reality this could be considered the truth, but for him it sure is. He's just incapable of conceiving anything else. Trump's the same. He looks at the pictures of his inauguration and he really sees bigger crowds than at Kenyian Muslim president's. Whether or not that makes him fit to be president is something else entirely. Objectively that's a no. He's like a post-brain fever Caligula with less proscriptions (probably because the US doesn't have prosciption lists, not because he would find the concept repugnant). He even had a fake victory over Britannia Syria. Go there, lob a few missiles, pretend like Oboma failed to deal as decisively with Assad as he did and leave.

I've started reading The Old Republic Star Wars EU (well, Legends) books. Already done with Revan, now reading Deceived. Eh, for all the dismay these books have caused in the KotOR fandom they're not half bad so far. But I also liked SW:TOR and as "real" fan of KotOR I or II I'm not supposed to, so what do I know. Heh. It's a refreshing break from Hyperion, which I read before Revan: Hard to believe Hölderlin was only 22 when he began to write the novel. Guard Dog might feel right at home with the hermit and his weariness of the world... and people. Very well worth the read, although I can't vouch for the quality of the translation.

Yep. I'll be watching Star Trek: Lower Decks the moment I can. The I will most likely come here to complain about it. Le sigh.

For the love of Trek, please, make it go away.

Good coffee is exquisite. If you find yourself drinking a vanilla pumpkin latte with a shot of caramel and wondering why it isn't good keep in mind you're not drinking coffee but reprocessed, overpriced sewage. If you drink coffee and you find it tasting like water that ran through rusty pipes, then, regardless of what you're been told, you drinking reprocessed sewage, not coffee. Good coffee will never taste like ash or burnt or rusty pipes. If it does, the water used was too hot or the coffee of inferior quality. Getting good coffee is a bit like getting good beer or bread. Depending on your location it can turn out ot be really difficult and you might have to look way off the beaten path. I don't really subsribe to the ideological wars fought over how to prepare coffee. Filtered/drip, Espresso, Arabic? Doesn't matter, they can all be good.