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Are you applying 21st century morals to a War of the Roses era medieval fantasy TV show? What are you, a libtard?

Moffat just loved his wibbly wobbly timey wimey balls a bit too much while Davis generally had more technobabble in his episodes. I don't think it helped that Moffat took over after Tennant. As much as I liked Matt Smith's tenure he had some big shoes to fill.

The Doctor can literally go to any place at any time in the entire universe and yet most episodes still play in London or some other English city. Gee...

'Twould be a vaild complaint if the Doctor were a man in the first place. Not that the last couple of Doctor Who (*cough* Clara *cough*) seasons didn't have issues, but the Doctor who is a time travelling alien able to change appearances and escape death whenever the showrunners need to regenerating into a woman (which even has in-canon prededence, so whatever) sure as hell isn't one of them. The rest of your points I can get behind. Although I can see Idris Elba being a better Bond than Craig could ever be. At least he isn't blonde.

Started reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen series: Only about 3.2 million words left to read. Bit daunting with the thousands of characters and all, but at least the series finished. Unlike someone else's whose TV adaptation is the only closure we'll ever get. /bitter

Somehow missed that Dark Matter's third season is up so I've been doing come catching up. What can I say, I absolutely love how that show plays every cliché damn straight without ever apologizing for it.

It's been a busy few weeks at work including the odd business trip. Our colleagues in Budapest have been rather gracious hosts and this is one of the meals we had. Bad lighting and a company iPhone make for terrible pictures but it's recognizable enough.

Peter Pan will make your worries go away: Or he might induce suicidal tendencies. Not sure yet.

I'm pretty positive I've posted this before but seeing how the opportunity presents itself (sorta), the only thing you need is the language of love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxDJnHiLqs

Oi, that's an idea socialists came up with in the late 70ies and eartly 80ies when this whole labour outsorcing and automation process started to take off, essentially taxing the increased profit generated by outsourcing or automation in order to make up for the loss of the workforce's (income) tax revenue. Although before resurrecting the commie ghosts of the 70ies it might just do to stop silly offshore tax dodging in a coordinated effort.

Not very enthusiastic about that.

Oh boy, that just gave me a flashback. Early basic training, standing attention at -20°C, sniffling somewhere behind me. A sneeze. The following exchange, imagine it with the appropriate amount of yelling and all (paraphrased and loosely translated and all): "No moving while standing at attention! I don't care if you have to sneeze or if a hornet flies right up your nostrils and screws your nose." "Okay." "No talking either idiot, and even if you were allowed to address me right now that would be 'Yes, sir!' and not 'okay' dammit!" "Oh, okay." Cue push ups for everyone. Eh, when I first saw Full Metal Jacket I laughed at Gomer Pyle. Actually having one as your bunkmate is much less fun.

No He is Canadian but he thinks the EU is a failure and a Nazi organisation Wrong Bruce, Volo is Kanadian, get your facts straight. Also, the UK is a Nazi nation too, following a Nazi queen.

He's a talentless hack ?. Silent bob and what's the one where Alan Rickman is a fallen angel - long time ago now and he's past it. Dogma, but Alan Rickman wasn't a fallen angel he played the Metatron. The fallen angels were played by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Yeah I've not really enjoyed their movies since No Contry for Old Men, although I haven't seen Hail Caesar! yet. They're great directors though, but maybe they've run out of good stories to tell may seem like a quibble, but am gonna note true grit were released three years after no country for old men. true grit is not only excellent and vintage coen, but roger deakins were also clear at the top o' his game. fantastic storytelling. beautiful film. deserves to be on any top 10 modern western list. in the spirit o' full disclosure, Gromnir and cassidy is in full agreement regarding the big lebowski. HA! Good Fun! Yeah well, nobody's perfect and you'll have to own up to not liking The Big Lebowski when you meet your maker. I just hope for your soul that your good deeds outweigh that. Edit: Although, I guess we all have one of these. For me it's Kill Bill, I absolutely don't get the fawning over that pointless collection of homage - and I generally enjoy such movies (loved Turbo Kid for instance).

Nebula from Guardians of the Galaxy. That's the blue one. Eh... and she was the Doctor's companion for a while.

Lil' Trump playing MOBAs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfzyjS9ET8M

Lyrics not really safe for work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQVpOFXO6bo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUh7sb4c-M

You do realize that you just contradicted yourself in the same sentence?

Eh, GoG has a unique approach and offers services that are not really found elsewhere - most notably they untangle distribution right knots and write wrappers and fixes for old games, and according to interviews with CDPR the platform has been profitable since its launch. Unless something happens to CDPR I don't see GoG failing. Sure they have been expanding and trying to get market shares from other platforms by introducing Galaxy and inDev but that really isn't their core appeal, at least not for me and I suppose a lot of players like me. I signed up for GoG for the awesome nostalgia trips they offer and they keep on doing that. Where else would I get a replacement for my Eye of the Beholder 2 disks?

Indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYl4RliDtI

Did people actually consider the eu anything other than fanfiction? Maybe very early on but at some point, given the volume, I'd expect people to wise up. Lucasarts merely opened the flood gates to rack in licensing revenues. Lucas Arts had an entire department dedicated to nothing but keeping the EU in "check" and to develop storylines with the publishers and authors. I suppose they still do, considering that current Star Wars novels are once again considered canon. Officially sancitoned fan fiction, in other words, like Rogue One. Considering that there are Star Wars novels by respected (and popular, although that says little about quality) fantasy/science fantasy authors like Michael Stackpole I'd also argue against it all being awful. Of course Stackpole isn't in the same ballpark as Clarke or the aforementioned Jules Verne but he's a far cry from being a terrible writer and far away from fan-fiction level of awful. If you want awful check out E. L. James or Anna Todd.

Well that didn't happen in the Netherlands, at least not from an outside point of view. Do you have many heroin or coke addled junkies in the streets that started out with a hash brown from one of your shops*?

Last year around this time I started my Star Wars Expanded Universe (formerly "canon" now shat on by Disney) project. I figured I could read all the novels that ever came out, not counting the young adult entertainment ones, now that there are no new EU novels coming out. Oh boy. In terms of the old SW timeline I'm done with everything from the New Jedi Order series onwards to the end (up to and including Troy Denning's Crucible) and I have, in the past, read the more popular entries like the Solo trilogy and Timothy Zahn's books. Most of the books are surprisingly entertaining, obviously not high-brow literature but not nearly as pulpy as I expected them to be. I figured I'd simply roll around and start with the books on the other end of the timeline, but Into the Void was such a chore to go through and after 52 different Star Wars novels I think I... uhm... need a break. Thought it would be a good time to try and finally get through Ulysses. I don't like leaving books unfinished, even if it takes me years, but I'm really close to giving up. Ugh.

The way I see it legalizing drugs would have a host of positive effects. Enforced quality standards, new sources of taxable income and hey, the DEA could stop spending all your money on an unwinnable War on Drugs . The police would no longer have to deal with small time drug runners and the courts would have much less work and could focus on more pressing issues. Even the cartels would profit, assuming that the taxation doesn't exceed the current money spent on palm greasing. *shrug* Sure its not healthy, but neither are cancer sticks or drinking yourself to death - and people who really want to do drugs get them anyway. People drink perfume and die if they have no other access to alcohol, so really, any point by the "pro-control" faction about the dangers of drugs seems... ridiculous. The same applies to prostitution. As long as everyone involved is a consenting adult, what's the harm? Disclaimer: Obviously even legal drugs have smuggling problems, there is a lot of sub-par alcohol floating around and I've seen people buy cheap cigarettes from shady people just because they're half as much as regular ones, but the dimension of the problem is not nearly the same.

Yeah, indeed. The article focuses on the most basic and most readily available form of consuming cannabis, and of course smoking weed has the same issues that smoking regular cancer sticks has. Well, duh. As for its medical properties I always thought it would be prescribed in lieu of other medication for the same purpose that is potentially even more harmful, like morphine for pain. But good to know that BioWare has another agenda, besides enforcing social justice by making all women look like men.