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Fake. the earth is flat. Don't believe the lies! Eh, pretty impressive picture there tho.

Messing around with The Bard's Tale remaster. No, scratch that. I intended to mess around a bit, rolled up a party and started to slowly make my way through Skara Brae. And lo and behold, 15 hours later I'm trudging through dungeons and grinding levels. Currently grinding my spellcasters up a bit after the first round of class changes. The automapping is a great addition, as is being able to save without going back to the Adventurer's Guild, and the lessened XP curve for all classes is a godsend too. All in all well worth its money. Well, it would have been, had I not gotten it through backing BT4.

Finished watching the first season of Disenchantment. I'm not sure what I expected but this is eight episodes of boredom with a semi-parodical outlook on medieval swords and sorcery fantasy where every last joke falls completely flat. The show got one very short laugh out of me during the Hansel and Gretel bit - and that was making fun of Germans which is very much not a fantasy thing. There's some nice meta irony in the final two episodes. The show becomes interesting the moment it stops trying to be funny and starts playing its setting completely straight, down to an incredibly obvious plot twist. On the technical side the animation and art style is very Matt Groening (and thus also something I don't care for much, but at least it is servicable) and the voice cast does a top notch job. Except for Merkimer maybe. I'm not sure casting Matt Berry was such a good idea. I kept switching back to IT Crowd - something that's actually funny - every time he appeared. In all fairness that's more of my own personal problem though.

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.