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Not sure if someon else posted this before:

Finished the second season of The Man in the High Castle. Rufus Sewell and Joel de la Fuente continued to nail their role. Rufus Sewell is a tad distracting though. Does anyone else think he looks a bit like JE?

It isn't meaningless though, is it? Otherwise we wouldn't have several degrees of murder and manslaughter that all have one thing in common: Someone ended up dead, but the punishment is based upon intention/motive and culpability. No, degrees of murder are not differentiated by motive but by aggravating factors and the details of the crime. My wife dies under suspicious circumstances. I collect a $1M insurance payout. That is a potential motive IF there is evidence I committed the crime. If I have an alibi and no evidence links me to the crime it is STILL a motive but it can't be used against me alone. If it's proven I hired a hitman to take her out that is 1st degree murder. Not because I had a motive but because i had malice aforethought and planed the crime in advance. Once it's established I DID do it the deed motive is irrelevant. It's still 1st deg murder. If I shoved her down the stairs at home that is second degree murder. I didn't plan it ahead of time (or at least it couldn't be proven). Again, if there is proof I did the deed, motive is irrelevant. If I shove her and she trips over the table and cracks her head on the floor then it's manslaughter. You can't prove intent if I had a reasonable expectation my action would not lead to her death (lack of intent). Now take any of those examples and remove conclusive proof I did the deed. There is circumstantial evidence or incomplete evidence NOW my motive fo committing a crime becomes an issue. If I had a reason to do it coupled with some evidence I might have done it then it meets the standard for a criminal charge. To be perfectly honest I'm not sure one can untangle intent and reason for a crime this strictly but I do see you point.

It isn't meaningless though, is it? Otherwise we wouldn't have several degrees of murder and manslaughter that all have one thing in common: Someone ended up dead, but the punishment is based upon intention/motive and culpability.

Ever since it came out I tried - often and hard - to like Rebellion. The last time I tried was when it was released at GOG not too long ago. I... just can't get into it. There's something entirely off-putting in the game mechanics for me that I can't quite put my finger on, and this is coming from someone who actually enjoyed Master of Orion 3.

Just had some cream of pumpkin soup followed by toasted baguette and my mother's home-made chicken and goose liver spread with some figs and dates filled with cream cheese and red onions. Quite the, uh, hearty treat. I didn't even eat that much and feel like an overstuffed plush toy.

Sure, and the invasion of Iraq was because Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and he wanted to hurt muh daddy, right? Putin certainly isn't an angel but he is no worse than our NATO-buddy Erdogan and those nice Saudi royalty guys who regularily decapitate more people than the Islamic State.

Republicans don't seem to be fans of Russia (well or brown people either ). But Saudi is useful to them in some way in the game, maybe less going forward. Lies by the mainstream media. Lies, I tells you. LIES. "LMFAO R00fles"

There is only one Matrix movie, hence there is no way anyone has been recast. Anything else is a lie told by the machines.

But... but... X-Com: Apocalypse had a real time combat option, and it was significantly easier to win the game with it. Not to mention a truckload faster. Enemy amounts near the end really got ludicrous.

It did, with some parts of season 5 (Stannis' Battle of Winterfell hasn't happened in the book version yet but is very close) and much of season 6. It also confirmed one of the oldest fan theories.

You're awfully optimistic there with 2020.

I probably read the old Star Craft manual more often than I actually played the game. Wings of Liberty was really bad with messing up the story but Heart of the Swarm went wild with the reconning, what with a new home world for the Zerg, "primordial" Zerg versions of the units we have now (who were in the old manual lovingly described with their freaking place of origin and what they were before the Overmind assimilated them) and ehm... lots of other stuff I already repressed.

It was deer. Well, deer calf and to be perfectly specific saddle and tenderloin. Young venison runs a much smaller risk of being gamey and tough so the extra money is well spent - assuming one likes venison and has no problems with eating cute little baby deers.

First I hear that Baldur's Gate was tactical and now that Wings of Liberty had good dialogue. Does Western world consider Czech Republic inferior and we therefore get inferior versions of games or something? What is happening? No, there's just a difference between good dialogue and a good story - or good characters for that matter. In terms of storytelling Wings of Liberty was a disaster written by someone with the attention span of a mayfly: A convoluted patchwork of storylines barely two missions long stichted together with no regard for consistency, established lore or sense and a retroactively patched in lovestory that turned the badass marshall Jim Raynor into the hard drinking wild west emo pining after his lost love we got in Star Craft II (fun fact, the last time Raynor saw Kerrigan in Star Craft: Brood War he promised to kill her, not being beaten up about it at all). It also doesn't help that every, and really every decision you can make in Wings of Liberty is right. Some nice settler genocide? Yeah, sure, they all were infected anyway (and what the hell, Raynor fought that very thing in the first Star Craft, how would he every agree to the Protoss here, ah hell, never mind). Attacking your old protoss buddies? Sure, Dr. Feelgood came up with the cure in time. Buying Nova's Dominion propaganda? Yeah, Tosh really is a bastard, and so on and so forth. The presentation of the Wings of Liberty campaign and the dialogue itself were pretty good - and much better than what we got in Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void. Legacy in particular was terrible, not only did we get fanfiction level storytelling but also ridiculous dialogue and terrible characters.

I played the game in the same way and the only thing I can tell you: Ditch the Hinterlands as soon as possible. Fight the urge to complete the map. The rest of the game isn't paced as terribly. Just... come back later to finish the collections (shards and all that jazz). Every time you harvest a resource or some crafting material drops it can be a fade-touched version. Part of the problem is that the better stuff has a terrible drop chance and there are fade-touched materials that can have different bonuses. There's nothing like farming your arse off to find that fade-touched snofleur skin for the Horn of Valor buff and then notice it dropped with the freaking 1% health on hit bonus. Fade-touched material boni of the same tear don't stack by the way, but different tiers do. So wearing mastercrafted items with both fade-touched silverite and fade-touched obsidian will net you a +8 guard on hit. Of course the funnest way to utilize that would be having Varric (or a player character artificer) field some items with the tier 2 and 3 materials for the Hidden Blades procc and the Horn of Valor buff and some nice crit chance. There's quite nothing like killing dragons in three or four hits on nightmare with chained leaping shots. 12 projectiles per shot with cooldown reduction and stamina on hit/crit and 12 chances pro procc Hidden Blades and Horn of Valor with each shot.

It comes up in the middle of the tweets there when they start talking about a forced labor draft. That's when it turned to slavery and KP just picked it up and ran with it.

Well, 'twas yesterday but anyway: A fine roast of young venison with a nice sauce made of root vegetables. Sides were red cabbage with chestnuts, potato and bred dumplings and finally canned peaches and pears with (wild) lingonberry jam.

Dafuq, can't this bitch of a year finally die as well? To quote Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It works for Germany. They came up with an awesome really German name for it too: Hartz IV (Schröder's "Agenda 2010"). The irony of it being introduced by a social democrats/green government knows barely any bounds. *laff* Anyway Bruce, in case you really didn't get it and aren't trolling: I do see a way around this, just declare being unemployed as illegal with the punishment being indentured servitude or some such.

Merry Christmas. \o/

For a moment I thought you were serious and I had this long-arse reply typed up and ready to go. Well played sir, well played. I would think that statement is true and very applicable ?

Reminds me a bit of the case where some nutjob blew up the Boston marathon. Wait, where was that? Somewhere where the government run by Obola isn't as bad in these things as Germany's. Ah right, got it, must be France. Cuz cheese. Unless one has a cozy plaze in Cuba to put people there without due process or having commited a crime. Or in case that gets too unpopular just blow them away with a drone attack or two without any sort of process, due, short or kangaroo.

He was not deported because Tunisia initially denied that he was a citizen. His asylum application had been rejected. Apparently, papers that would have allowed for his deportation have arrived... today. Psht, don't you let facts and pesky international law get in the way of a sensationalist headline.

For a moment I thought you were serious and I had this long-arse reply typed up and ready to go. Well played sir, well played.