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We watch Robot Chicken Star Wars it once a year at the office. My face is a big letter T! Trust me, I drunk better when I drive. :D

Speaking of Discovery, they're still not fact checking their Treknobabble when it is based on real life scientific concepts. Sure, build an impromptu lightning rod to dissipate a charge of hundreds of GeV. Nevermind that an electronvolt isn't a unit of measurement for the electrical charge and even if tit was, hundreds of billions of electronvolts would still be ridiculously small. And they fight a computer virus by developing digital antibodies. The episode tried to be Star Trek and it felt off. There's something - perhaps inherently - wrong with taking a concept that would have fit nicely into The Next Generation and overlay it with this need for frantic action that permeates all of Nu Trek. It's almost Bayesque at this point. Cut, spark, action, lightning rod, useless Treknobabble, omg suspense someone's in danger, cut, cut, cut, RED ALTERT, cut, cut, stupid jokes about Saurian colds, cut, cut, cut, Tilly babble, cut cut, OH DO YOU REMEMBER DAVID BOWIE'S SPACE ODDITY? cut cut sparks cut explosion cut cut cut cut WE FAIL TO TRACK SPOCK IN 6 MINUTES PEOPLE cut cut OMG SUSPENSE cut cut cut sparks cut LET'S DRILL A HOLE IN SOMEONE'S SKULL WITH A STUPID DRILL, cut, cut, AAAACTION BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. Set to the theme of an episode that's about learning to communicate and interpret the intentions of something alien in both the A and one of the B plots. And yes, this is pretty much hyperbole. It also doesn't help that the entire dialogue is ridiculous. I can't recall a Trek episode that made me facepalm this much just by having people talk to each other, and that includes an episode of Enterprise where Trip gets pregnant by fondling crystals with an alien girl. "I had a cold last week. It sucked!" Yeah, what are you, five years old? Do you need mommy to help blow your nose? There's one good thing about this episode, it showed that Sonequa Martin-Green is a good actress. Her scenes with Saru were the high point of the episode, but they were in service of I guess that's what you'll get if you let a writer from Desperate Housewives come up with a story and have the writer of story driven films like Resident Evil and Tekken adapt it into a screenplay. And the episode title spoils the A-plot unless you know nothing about Greek mythology.

The first Commandos is definitely worth checking out, should be cheap enough on GOG. It also is, uhm, kinda hard and unforgiving.

Understandable. There are also a lot of economic concerns and realpolitik alone demands that the UK gets a workable deal out of leaving - with potentially getting an easy way back if they wish. A lot of euroskepticism comes from the people being fed up with the EU catering to the economic interests of those seen to run it. Never mind that this is technically not correct because everything needs to be unanimous and pass the parliament (both of which are elected either directly or indirectly) but the people would never blame their local governments for what are apparently issues of the European Union - even though they actually cause them. One needs to look no further than the fact that the EU keeps being called undemocratic in spite of the fact that the leadership is made up entirely by the elected governments of the member nations.

Not that I like to invoke the slippery slope argument because more often that not it's just a load of manure but I'd say giving the UK a charitable deal that maybe even makes it too easy to come back (maybe even with the special snowflake status) would lend more credence to the euroskeptics and cause other nations to go for a painless exit the moment they see an advantage in it. The UK needs to have their cake and eat it and the EU needs to look at this as an opportunity for reform. That would be painful so it's not going to happen anyway. The EU will do what it always does, subject everything to the economic needs of a few and generate more anti-EU sentiment. Fitting that it would culminate where it began with the Wicked Witch a long time ago.

There's a lot of anti-EU sentiment coming from the big players getting a pass on issues smaller countries wouldn't. Like France not conforming to the Maastricht convergence criteria without repercussions or Germany being allowed to discriminated against foreigners using the Autobahn. The absolute worst of these was the UK with their special snowflake status. So yeah, Volo, but... no. The EU was willing to cut the UK a deal far better than anything they deserve because they're all spineless chumps. If the EU and its officials had as much as an ounce of self respect they'd have sent them packing with a no deal, hard Brexit right from the start. Y'know, in order to make an actual example of the UK and brng back some of the trust lost, if that is even possible. That doesn't mean that Germany isn't abusing their power and influence for every advantage they can get of course and with the UK gone our butt budies France and Germany are going to dominate even harder, but that's a different topic entirely.

Technically it's just a sunny side up but Lord Zipacna offers eggs on Lost: Zipacna definitely makes good eggs, ey?

I'm pretty sure Jeri Ryan takes the cake though, she had to wear outfit so tight on Voyager that it interfered with her circulation and she once even passed out from it. Although speaking strictly from my teenage toxic male gaze the results were... impressive at the time.

Season 5 was the high point of the show. Get ready for a lot of James Darren singing from now on.

Speaking of braised meat... ^^

As far as I know that was a byproduct of Aspyr's Android port.

I use STD mainly because I'm a manchild and a neckbeard. But as Sikso said so well In The Pale Moonlight: I can live with it.

Had blood drawn for a full workup. Figured now that I'm in my mid 30ies I better start o make use of our commie health care.

I just tried the GOG version on Windows 10 with a GTX 970. Worked without a hitch. Saw Taris and quit though, so that's one issue that's not ever going away...

KOTOR's PC version was always pretty broken and the issues got worse over time. It's possible to get it running when installing from the original discs but it often requires the use of third party patches and even then usually ends in the player having to turn off the cutscenes and certain dialogues skipping right to the end. In my experience the best bet to get a decent out of the box experience is to go with the GOG version.

Yup, their breakthrough is pretty amazing and awesome. I wonder if all the people in the world who are Israel-haters and/or are antisemetic will stand by their 'principles' and disavow the cure for themselves. Nah. The joos already have a cure for cancer and are killing everyone else with chemotherapy and implanted kill switches.

Yeah. I've seen a lot of people say they think S2 is a big improvement but to me both have been pretty much run of the mill Voyager/ TNG S1 level, which isn't great.

Watched STD S02E02. Well that turned back to being disappointing very quickly.

Here's the time stamp for Hell March, which I know is what we all want to hear.

Cuz they liek, own Obz.

Be sure to find the Path of Pain. It's... yeah, behind a breakable wall. Heh.

Dream Evil has achieved quite a feat: They've out-ridiculoused (is that even a word? ) Manowar.

I can't take them seriously, they made Bard's Tale win "best remake" award. What the hell is Kenshi doing there :D The Bard's Tale remake is easily the best remake/remaster I've ever played and the best game in InXile's entire catalogue. Best joke I've heard all week. A ton of glitches, completely broken pathing, crashes that corrupt save files, terrible optimalization, combat that is basically rocket tag and very easy to exploit... do I need to go on? The game is 6/10 on Steam atm and that's pretty generous for this piece of crap. You do know that the The Bard's Tale Trilogy is not The Bard's Tale IV, right?

Oh you guys, he's just gone gray. Look at him, he doesn't look that old.