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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.

If I end up playing I'll be finishing the stories I haven't played yet (and check out everything after SoR) and shooting down raging boons in GSF. After my brief stint with WoW's Legion expansion a while back I think I'm done with regular MMOs. In a more permanent fashion. Talking about the game made me feel a twinge of nostalgia but the actual thought of playing again is kind of revolting. Thanks, guild drama. Meh.

I'm pretty sure our Sin ran with two alacrity enhancements even back in 2.x. Man, I'm close to installing the game again.

DPS was our raid's weak point, as such we always had to get creative to meet the more stringent damage checks. These were little things like healing through normally unnecessary damage from adds so that DDs don't have to target switch immediately to standing in some of the fires on purpose (or not running far enough with Mini-Kephess' jumps during Brontes on them), DDs not cleansing themselves on Nefra and my favorite one, our team setup during Operator IX which had us solo healing through the yellow and orange phases because otherwise these cores wouldn't go down properly. Sometimes one of us would run with a hybrid damage spec to get bosses down, like Draxus initially. Two of our ranged DPS had issues with keeping their damage up while target switching, so that boss was much more of an issue that it should have been. The most epic moment was during our Brontes attempts where our Mara learned to respec in five seconds in order to get some more burst damage going on the droid phase. It wasn't all bad though, at least we were busy during the fights. Oh, and we spent the entirety of our runs undergeared because as healing "wasn't an issue" all the loot would go to DPS and Tanks first.

That one came out quite recently and was a dumpster fire.

I played an Operative healer from launch to Shadows of Revan. After the first server merges I've been involved in every nightmare and nightmare speedrun first clear on our server (missed our first Styrak kill though). Shortly after SoR was released major guild drama pushed me into reducing my time with the game first and into quitting after scoring a major contract at work. I stopped wanting to babysit colleagues, customers AND the guys* in the game. It was fun for a while, and being one of a handful of people with the fancy titles and mounts that came with being able to clear nightmare operations at the time sure felt good, but being in a guild where everyone hates each other's guts that is only glued together by success is taxing. Especially once you hit a bump in the road like we did at the end of Rise. We used to run a Twin-Sin setup during 1.x and switched to Sin/Jug for 2.x. Never felt the need for a PT tank, but I stopped following the game after BioWare did a Blizzard and cut the talent trees in favor of "meaningful" choices, obviously I have no idea what the meta is right now, but a Sin's ability to cancel game mechanics through cooldowns is so powerful that I doubt anyone can possibly justify not taking at least one if they're serious** about raiding. *At the risk of sounding full of myself, the other healer we had (one of the best players I've ever had the genuine pleasure of playing with) and I pretty much carried our DPS by healing through a lot of mechanics and doing non-trivial dps ourselves while healing. **Serious meaning making optimal choices, obviously, not GhostCrawler's ridiculous notion that Shaman healers sucking during Cataclysm is all right because most guilds don't go for progress and they're good enough to have fun with. Sure dude, but if the top guilds don't take them because they're so inferior that there's no justification for including them even in farm raids - and we're talking about the best players of the game here - why would a group of people who aren't nearly as skilled or dedicated would want to make their life even harder than it already is?

I liked both Alien and Aliens. However after repeatedly seeing both Alien, for me, lost the tension that made it great while Aliens is still a fun action movie at the end of the day. It's a lot like Terminator and Terminator two in that regard - also similar insofar as any sequels after the first are better not talked about. I'm torn between telling you that it's better this way or egging you to check them out purely to admire the train wrecks they are.

Not sure if I should be envious or consoling here. So what are you playing?

Heh. My parents brought me two toy drones in a Star Wars design today. They figured I'd like them and when they told me about it I was looking forward to buzzing around a bit. They also got theam really cheap on a sale so I didn't expect much. Certainly not the two wax sealed limited edition drones I have now and can't play with because who opens limited editions. Seriously. Time to go out and grab some more for the actual fun part.

I guess now he's really 213374 us...

Well that one's clocking in at 45 minutes, not sure that's much better in terms of length. However I think that Hurlshot hasn't watched a Mr. Plinkett review yet if he thinks it's wasting an hour on a two hour movie. They tend to have a similar effect like Summoning Salt's speedrun videos or Joseph Anderson's 3 hour game critiques. From a disbelieving "I'm sure not going to watch a three hour breakdown of why Super Mario Odysee wasn't as good as other Mario games" to watching the first ten minutes to ending up watching a 20 minute documentary about a single Mario Bros. stage: Heh.

Balders Gate, actually, followed closely by Baulders Gate. However, the one people had the most fun with was Thrown of Ball. Seriously.

It would be so easy. Just hire Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz and say "Make a Picard show", then watch the inevitable awesome that's going to happen. Anyhoo, if they really fired Kurtzman then good on them. He's become the Brett Ratnor of Star Trek.

I can save you some time, the game eventually devolves into grinding whatever Greater Rift level you're stuck at until you either gain enough paragon points or the stars align to give you a perfect loot drop to eke out that final smidgeon of more damage to finish it in time - only to get stuck on the next GR level until the very same thing happens. Not saying that it isn't entertainung for a while. It's just... Eh, it got older a lot faster than D2 did for me.

Haven't played D3 in a long time but in the past one got set items for the season journey at some point. And then we're talking about ridiculous things like a 1600% damage buff to abilities.

A perfect match then. Imagine selling the levels of a shooter as DLC. Daikatana would have raked in billions. Billions!