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Wow, the world's ending outside at the moment. Or at least it sure sounds like it. Massive rain, storms, good old hail. Damn. edit: Nope, cancel the apocalyptic suicides guys. It only lasted for four minutes.

Well apparently Sanchez free style wrestling Kane in the box should not have been a penalty. Why? Well, because. Whatever. Diego says so too. Speaking of Rollmar: Made me laugh.

Diego, is that you?

It's not only politicians. Not that long ago our content mafia sued local ISPs and demanded that they block the larger sites known for copyright infringement. The courts eventually ruled in favor of the copyright holders. In a hilarious motion all of the ISPs agreed to implement the filtering on a DNS level which is really cheap to do, fulfills the terms set by the court and is utterly ineffective - because elderly judges in the high courts have no idea how the internet works either.

**** off, that ref was ****ing awful. England spend the whole match mucking about and dropping at the slightest breeze and he just went with it. Eh, cause Colombia was any better? If the referee had really favored England he would have sent off half their team with red cards for their constant complaining and overall conduct. That entire game was dreck.

Yeah, thanks for the reminder. I mean I don't have a Humble subscription but I still had an active SWTOR subscription even though I haven't played since defeating Revan in SoR. Every time I saw that the payment was due I figured "ah hell, now I have 6 months left, I'll surely play again!" and never did.

It's not about copyrighting memes. Most memes are actually violations of European copyright laws because many (if not all of them, but I don't really know for sure) of them lack a fair use clause. This is one area where the US copyright is superior. So while you creating a meme from an image of a source that falls under copyright protection (say a shot of DiCaprio from the Great Gatsby) is fair game because of fair use it would violate our copyright laws and would have to be filtered out. That's why people call it the meme-killer law. It's not actually about memes but it easily illustrates the downsides of the proposed legislation. In reality it's about large online services (e.g. YouTube) cutting into traditional content mafia revenue streams. It's not much of a surprise that this regulation was spearheaded by Germany - seat of some of the largest newspaper and book publishers on the planet.

It's difficult because it has a major psychological component and a "time" component. I spent my first PoE run with a character that got worse with every patch through no fault of my own. If I had picked a rogue my experience would have been different - they just got better with patches because they were in a really rough place to begin with. Even if it was objectively the right thing to somewhat equalize power levels between classes it certainly didn't feel good, and as far as the timing component goes none of that would have happened if I had picked the game up a couple of months after the launch. Playing a balanced game doesn't reduce enjoyment - getting the nerfhammer every time for your choice of character does.

And even then Sweden's goal was more of an own goal by Switzerland than something they've managed through decent play.

Oi.

I actually fell asleep on the couch for a good chunk of this. I think it was time well napped.

Sub to Everquest for a while or find a private EQ2 server with a game version that's before LU24. Then come back and talk about classic WoW.

Heh, that reminded me of the Black Jeopardy sketch with Tom Hanks:

I snickered but the nerd in me can't get over the fact that Red Ralloo isn't a D&D deity.

Finished the Path of Pain and the White Palace in Hollow Knight. The second run through was actually fun... it takes a while to figure out the details and learn to deal with the silly design decisions (double jump dipping you down a bit before going up, the shade cloak needing 2 frames to actually make the character invincible and, oh yeah, that unskippable nail animation, grrr) but then it's pretty much a blast. Ended up doing the Path a third time just for fun. Took me something like 6 minutes. Speedruns clock in at an insane 2:20 or so.

Heh, that 2:1 looked a lot like the exploity shots from just outside the box one could do in the International Superstar Soccer Deluxe on the SNES.

Japan's killing it. Well maybe I was wrong. Japan for world champion!

Man, what the hell. We need Belgium to stop Brazil. Go go red devulz!

What makes that any different from being able to spam as many high resolution images as you want?

Managed to get to the end of the Path of Pain in Hollow Knight only to not pay attention and die fighting the final two enemies. Words cannot express just how much I hate myself right now.

Well... almost two months left until the next supposed release date. It was supposed to be out half a year ago. Well, and a lot earlier as well. Delays, delays... At any rate, Dinosaurs, Hitler and the Hollow Earth theory. Color me excited, the first one was a hoot and a half.

We can only hope.

Not that I mind the discussion but how did we end up talking about Cyberpunk films? That kind of came out of the blue there.

Fair warning, Dark Matter ends on an unresolved cliffhanger. It's three seasons of good fun at a breakneck pace with hilariously tropey characters though. Loved every second of it.

A fitting end for an unwatchable game.