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Hm, bought Cuphead Contra with better animations. The sale's as good a reason as any to finally try it.

Man, every time I read Roy Moore my brain makes Rudy Ray Moore out of it. Bitch, are you for real?

Did you actually find players to complete the group missions with or are they soloable by now? I finished them when they launched and everyone was doing them, but getting a group together must be hell these days.

Nah, Yoda Luke will die of old age in the next movie. Eh, at any rate, going to see it on Wednesday. Or rather, very early Thursday.

Eh, so I battled through the entire game but the trench run is glitchy on Canoe. TIE attacks coming from the sides are overlayed by the Death Star trench, rendering them invisible until they smash into my shields. Guess that means as far as I'm concerned I managed to finish the game, the trench run was always only more of a formality anyway. Ah well.

Since I saw the Picard video in the Christmas thread... #IncrediblyUnbrokenSentence

3 is a disappointment, but 2 is great. Finished the second one. I have fond memories of all three, but yes, the third is probably the worst of the bunch. Guess they spent too many resources on the improved overworld that nobody asked for. Anyway, playing Super Star Wars now. It's just as torturous as I remember.

Nah, Humberto Cabbagepatch wasn't the problem of the film. None of the actors were. It was everything else that was bad.

I love Best of the Worst and the Wheel in particular. Too bad Mike broke the old one though.

Can't go wrong with a punk rock version of The Little Drummer Boy. edit: That really highlights how rhythmically strong the drum line of TLDB is.

Finished Donkey Kong Country on my SNES Classic Mini. That made me, uhm, "install" DKC 2 and 3 to continue the series. <3 DKC.

Cowboys and Aliens. In all seriousness though, a forum full of edgelords and afficionados and no mention of Once Upon A Time In The West yet?

oby was the Russian oby. Ben is the Western oby. And Qis was the Malaysian muslim oby. And they all loved Bruce, and Bruce loved them. Alas, oby and Qis disappeared and so there's no happily ever after for him. edit: Well it is one of those stories. Kind of like why the love-emoticon is called wub, not wuv like one would expect. That dates back 17 or so years. Speaking of wub, does anyone know where 'Tess is up to these days?

Anyone else remember Yrkoon vs. Crucis from ye olde days?

Soldier is by far and large the best class in the game. High damage mitigation, self-sustain and massive damage output, great passives. What's not to like?

Got myself AI War: Fleet Collection. Not sure why. I don't really like 4X games all that much, let alone real time ones. Played the tutorials so far, seems interesting enough.

Thread needs more Marco Hietala:

Level 6, in theory. In practice it's more like an Anakin Skywalker situation. It just means my qualification level can be expected to equal a bachelor's, but I have no access to studies or other activities that specifically require being an actual BSc (e.g. Master courses or jobs that specifically require a university degree). Still not too shabby considering I was done with it when I was 19.

There are a number of reasons - adults may find it difficult to find an apprenticeship outside of fields that experience a lack of applications. There are, however, government subsidies for companies that train adult apprentices. It's basically a win-win situation: Apprentices are paid peantus and the adult gets a decent education and possibly a better perspective (well unless you're apprenticing as coiffeur or retailer, the pay is... terrible). The apprenticeship replaces what you would know as senior high school and with an exam or two also allowes to studying in your field. Evening/night schools are hard. Doubly so because you can't spend your day studying when you have to work to pay the bills, but it's doable. They're the adult education offshoots of a type of school that would also replace senior high in the course of a regular education. That's what I did (the regular way though, started at 14) - a five year course on IT and economics. To put that into perspective, combined with some experience in the field those courses net you at first a level 5 and later a level 6 on the EQF. Educational leave is fairly new and well received. It's more specialized than the other options because it usually doesn't end with a formal educational status or rank but with specialized qualifications that the company you work at needs from you right now (say, to replace someone retiring). It's part of an ongoing effort to incentivize skill enhancement. You just might not get the opportunity to do it. Especially if you part-time in retail, that's a dead end job if there ever was one.

Privatinsolvenz is not an option? It sucks for a while and is humiliating but certainly better than having no perspective, no?

Would you like an answer based on the currently available options or would you like to know how that situation could be resolved in our socialist pinko commie paradise states in Yurop? Edit: To elaborate, it would be doable here assuming the both of them aren't unskilled labor because they're mentally challenged. In which case there's a number of engineering or business night schools available for free to proceed from unskilled to skilled labour and the option of negotiating for educational leave with your employer. Which would be a government handout: You retain your job on a certain amount of unpaid leave while the government picks up your expenses, within reasonable limits. In return you need to bring proof of successful course work and can then proceed to better paying job opportunities (with your old employer, assuming they exist). Granted both require a period a couple of years of intensive studying and working at the same time, but that's doable. 's not easy, but doable. There's also the option of picking up an apprenticeship which would come with three or four years of reduced pay and the humiliation of doing work with 14 to 18 year olds for a while but the end result would be skilled labour in your chosen field just as well.

I do have question - what would you consider a handout, or having "success" handed to someone (let's assume by the government)?

That reminds me a bit of the arguments for alternative medicine. Here's some anecdotal evidence that there are people who got better after eating sugar globules or fondling a gemstone so it is proven to work. And if it doesn't work for someone he either not put enough effort in or did it wrong.

Haven't seen Justice League yet but... I lolled. "I hate Marvel movies but I love this now that it's like one!" -- Mike Stoklasa, probably talking about Volo.

Why I consider it double taxation is; lets say a relative has a pile of loot sitting in a bank account and they die. First of all, they already paid the initial income tax. Then they paid taxes on any interest these monies have accrued over time (which is rightfully considered "new income"). Now they pass this on to their child, and for no other reason other than passage of ownership, the monies are taxed again? Just because? Mind I'm referring to cash money. Physical goods, such as inheriting a house and then selling it, should be taxed as new income, I suppose. Let me give you an example from the ondoing debate here. The current situation is that there is no direct inheritance tax here. However, when you're growing old and infirm and for some reason need care (e.g. like my father's aunt who needed 24 hour care for the last few years of her life) the cost is paid out of your pension and if that doesn't cover the cost, which is very likely, your estate. Which means in order to pay for your care the nursing home is legally allowed to tap into your life savings, your house, your car, well, let's make it short: literally everything you own. In other words if you're infirm and in a nursing home for more than a year and a half it's very likely that the actual estate tax you'll be paying is 100%. Everything's gone. Bye bye. That actually amounts to real theft because it hits those with little to inherit. The more money you have the less indirect estate tax you pay. The proposed solution a 25% inheritance tax after a million per inheritor, so if there's a three million inheritance for three people none of them would pay taxes. In exchange the state (or rather the state owned insurance companies) would use the money gained to pay for all nursing costs. The idea was shot down something fierce. Mostly because the government wants to tap into poor grandma's savings. It still does, even harder than the inheritance tax would have - for 95% of us. Granted not everyone becomes old and infirm in a way that requires nursing, but the amount of money funneled into the econonmy by allowing families with little income to a) actually inherit something and b) afford nursing would have easily outdone the taxation. But nah, we'll just wait until that money trickles down. As if that ever worked.