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Burn the heathen. Grab yor pitchforks and torches!

Some of the Soviet campaign videos were pretty cheesy in Red Alert, but yes, compared to Red Alert 2 and 3 it's really down to earth.

So +1 for the wedding band theory.

Well color me orange and call me sunkist, I find myself agreeing. edit: Edit to clarify I'm not agreeing with our pre-moderated Polish lovebunny.

Been listening a bit to Peter Cornelius - good vocalist, gifted guitar player (with a grammy nomniation to his name) and the heart of a poet.

Not really, the implication being that 70+% of all sexual assaults that actually happen aren't reported by the victim, not that 70+% of all women experience sexual assault. Unless we apply #metoo standards, in which case everyone in the history of ever was at some point a victim of sexual assault. Even I as the evil white cis male hetero guy that I am. I'm really hoping serious studies don't do that - because, let's face it, being whistled after is not the same as being dragged into a dark alley, beaten and violated no matter how much the Twatteria wants to show empathy and compassion by pretending their experiences were as harrowing.

Sure, I'm totally into lifting a block of Leberkäse whenever possible.

Semantics. SM made it sound like the accuser/victim has no credibility because they are prostitutes (because it is impossible to sexually assault a sex worker, right?) which is the point Tagaziel was making. You took it an ran with it to rant about Hillary in a bizarre show of irrelevant whataboutism. The entire debate is a fun excursion in false balance and false equivalence, and suddenly we're at a point where sex workes aren't allowed to be sexually assaulted because they give it up for cash, Stormy Daniels wants to make a quick buck that she apparently already got and paying 130 grand in hush money is the same as lying about getting a blowie from an intern. But it's the left that's triggered and hypocritical while the same evangelicals that were morally outraged by Clinton's affair now give The Donald a carte blanche because he's about to usher in the biblical apocalypse. I'd laugh my ass off if all that weren't actually happening right now. Played completely straight and taken seriously. Who knows, maybe the apocalypse is nigh and by the looks of it most of mankind actually deserves it.

Nah, MCA said Feargus twirled his moustache at Paradox, so that's pretty much out of the window.

Lay off the Mortal Kombat. Or are you going to pretend that's the arabic spelling?

You know, I wanna say it can't be any worse than Star Trek Nemesis but... recently I learned that it can always get much, much worse.

X-COM: Apocalypse is a nice game. And a great study in how you can tune combat for turn based or real time, and not both. Someone playing it in turn based mode is not going to have a lot of fun. It turns the weakest enemies into horrifying deathbringers and later on when you face a hundred enemies with your miniature squad you'll be pulling your hair out. I initially was disappointed with the game. Then I tried RT and everything went from there. Loved the fact that my end-game fleet could fly around trashing the city. :D

Covfefe!

Got around to playing and finishing Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. I'll admit to cheesing Shadow Link, after that harrowing journey I just sat in the corner and kicked him in the head 'til he was dead. I also spent three hours grinding myself to max level in the experience frontloaded island dungeon (there's up to 270 easy experience in the first two screens) after getting my ass handed to myself by the first Blue Ironknuckle (funny how the boss version is easier than the normal ones). That made the rest of the game relatively smooth sailing. Except for excrutiatingly weird things like having to use the hammer on a forest tile to reveal a town and that final dungeon.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Running Obsidian wasn't smooth sailing at the best of times. I can imagine that it's been a harrowing decade and a half for all the owners. I don't blame any of them for wanting to cash out and retire.

I guess what I am looking for a flick that is little outdated with content that hasn't aged well, in hilarious or awful ways. I am sorry if I wasn't clear. I'd recommend Army of Darkness. It's intentionally campy and has a lot of comedy though. Evil Dead hasn't aged that well, even with the remaster, but that was shot on a zero budget (it looks cheesy but is still a good horror film). So I'll go and, uhm, blaspheme a bit: Try the original Poltergeist. The special effects aren't great any more and those actors, decorations and the hairdos? Oh boy. That's almost enough to kill any 80ies nostalgia. And finally, as an avid RedLetterMedia fan, try anything by Len Kabasinksi. Except Horse Ninja, that bootleg is just awful.

I'm really worried about that. The captain himself said that he was changed by events in the past 20 years (seems like the show is set roughly 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis) and that the ideas they have are different - and not nearly as talky. In other words, bad news for people who thought First Contact's Picard was way out of character (it was - still liked the film though, it's pretty much my Star Trek guilty pleasure).

No, not even with very long cables. At the speed the network components can operate (the best a TL-SG1016 does is 1000Base-T) the current Cat 5e/6 cables will do just fine. You'd only neet Cat 6a or better to guarantee 10 GbE with long cables. It is - 100 meters to be exact. That's as far as the specifications guarantee full bandwith for individual segments.

I never sold any consoles or games. I do regret not getting all my games back before losing contact to people. We used to swap games all the time, but eventually school ends and someone has my original Secret of Mana cartridge. In turn, I have someone's Drakkhen. Such a poor exchange, really.

This is clearly the best Picard song:

Nah. Finland's famous for their terribly expensive booze.

T'Kuvma approves.

I finished a quest in Octopath Traveler without even knowing there was one. I just randomly challenged townsfolk to duels and after one my characters gave a verbal smackdown to someone and cashed in 20k. I'm a bit confused now, but that's okay, I'll just be looking up what the quest was about.

I had like 15 or so flies yesterday. Opened the window and let them all out... that was hard work, because they are dumb as a brick. Went to work and when I came back, there had been another 10 to 20 flies. Thing is, all windows were closed, so they must have come from inside. I've let them out again and then started looking for a source, but couldn't find anything at all. There was no old leftover food, nothing that would smell, or a ventilation or whatever... I really have no clue where they came from. I'm hoping that I just missed something and they got inside over the other day when I had everything open for hours..... I'm living in a small town right next to a major floodplain so all my windows have a finely meshed insect screen. Otherwise various stinging insects would murder me in my sleep. Which means the fly came through the door and it is still sitting somewhere and not moving much. I swear it only comes out to mock me when I walk out of the room. We also once had a fly infestation with no apparent entry point. It turned out they were coming through the chimney cleanout door. A small rodent had died inside the chimney somewhere and the freshly eclosed flies squeezed through the small slit between the door and the wall. It was pretty impressive to see. And also pretty annoying. Not only where the flies everywhere they also were all sooty.

To be honest I think that Baldur's Gate 2 is a much better game than Baldur's Gate, but I recognize that the reason I have an issue with the empty areas is because I just can't leave them be. The obsessive having to look everywhere problem is also ruining most (semi-)open world games for me. Especially those where most of what you do is busywork. There's a reason I spent 160 hours on Dragon Age: Inquisition and it wasn't because the game was so great it warranted the time invested. I'd still rather replay BG than D:OS. I get bored in the first area already, and I've only seen it once. Even Bioware's dreaded first level offerings were more interesting. It took me longer to get sick of Taris or Chataeu Irenicus than Cyceal...