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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.

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?