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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.

It's not even that far fetched. Some time back Steyr came up with a prototype AMR that actually used a couple of features usually found in artillery.

Who says they don't get them? Might depend on the location but a quick googling reveals that e.g. Greece and Austria let refugees participate in their vaccination programmes as long as they want to (vaccinations not being mandatory and all), and there are vaccination and health recommendations by the WHO for the ongoing refugee/migration crisis. So, in other words, can't say that there are no medical professionals that aren't concerned with such things. They just write papers and deal with real life issues instead of making videos on YT... Still apples and oranges, especially when the topic was an Australian anti-vaxx rally.

Not that I want to drag politics into the comedy thread but the people triggered here are clearly not "SJW liberals" (can't be because all SNL writers ARE obviously liberals and SJWs). It's mostly our heroic defenders of free speech that are triggered and outraged here, going by the comments.

Watched War Machine. Was pretty bored, the film isn't bad but it's nothing special. The biggest disappointment was that one can easily see the movie it could have been lurking behind a screenplay revision or two (and maybe a different lead actor). *sigh*

Muahahaha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi06BRTBc7Y

Bruce is just unhappy that oby stole his Qis right from under him.

Finally found an Okkar Frigate in Everspace for that final achievement. Done with the game now except for a few locked perks on the gunship (and no desire to play that thing).

Those are all good points but if you're living in a society that corrupt then they don't need your DNA to "get you". Also, the pattern of your DNA existing in a database does not provide anyone with the actual physical DNA.@ Sharp_one I can understand your concern but dont confuse corruption and incompetence that exists within the police force where you live as a global standard. This wont be used to frame innocent people I can assure you I side with Sharp. Brucie, it doesn't even have to never illegal or attached to corruption if people buy your data. Remember the NSA spying on you? Remember that law that your browsing history can now be bought and sold? Same thing, Brucie. Would you be comfortable with that? That people can essentially buy who you are? "This won't be used to frame innocents"... how can you possibly ensure that? Bennie the NSA is our friend, they are an invaluable instrument in the war against extremism There decisions need to be accepted in the interests of the greater good, Here's the ultimate truth of this forum: When Ben agrees with Sharp (and/or Guard Dog) on that your position is wrong... you're dead wrong and should stop immediately.

Hey, the game is still around and playable. The playerbase is spread a bit thin across all the servers and free shards, but otherwise it is servicable enough for an MMORGP that's going to have its 20th anniversary this year.

MMORPG gaming communities got demonstrably worse in recent years. This is a real case of the past being much better: In EQ there was nothing to do without a group and being a punk landed you on the server's blacklist so quickly the only recourse was to quit or straighten up fast, and the type that would needlessly berate others in a game was more likely to beat you up at the school yard for playing games (let alone MMORPGs) in the first place.

Finished an Everspace run on hard. Took some doing but hey, well, it isn't called hard for no reason. Almost messed up the run when the sector 5 jumpgate ended up being inside a minefield covered by a frigate. What a rush.