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You very seldom follow-up on certain interesting comments you make so I hope you do on this one What is your definition of "Yuroppan countries are outside the EU" Oh Bruce, really, HoonDing is all about shooting one-liners and not following up on anything. Sometimes he has a point, and sometimes, like here, he doesn't. Besides, with a minimal amount of research you'd figure it out: There are only two truly prosperous European nations that are not members of the European Union: Norway and Switzerland (I apologize to any posters from Iceland ). The former draws most of its wealth from natural resources and the latter from all sorts of criminal cash deposits (I'd write no offense meant but that wold be a lie ). While both are not members of the EU they all have a large number of treaties with the EU and enjoy many benefits without the most perceivable downsides like net budget contributions and overbearing EU regulations, but also the downside of being affected by some EU regulations without being able to partake in the decision making process. So far it would seem the, uhm, benefits outweigh the downsides. For populist parties they're also generally the go-to examples of wealthy states that do not need the EU to be prosperous, but it's very problematic to assume a nation could leave the EU and copy either Norway or Switzerland because of their very unique positions. Both could, though, serve as a template for a much needed EU reform by cutting back on the bureaucratic overhead and taking a few steps back to what the EU used to be in the past, a unifying economic pact, not a supra-national entity steeped in indecision and corruption.

Overwatch has terrible voice acting? Heh. Did they get Metzen to record all the characters again, like they always do in World of Warcraft?

So declare your opponents as enemies (=far-right, what's a far-right anyway?) of the EU, threaten with sanctions and refuse to debate them. What a time to be alive in this democraship. Original link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/juncker-vows-to-use-new-powers-to-block-the-far-right-nq5r5tnqq No this is necessary to protect these countries from leaving the EU...I can explain it more detail? But its basically the reality that no country will leave the EU...and this is a good thing Why do you even ask permission? Your opinion does exist on the approval others, doesn't it? Yes I am nearly done....and yes I agree there is no point asking for permission but if no one is interested in me writing a long post I wont bother because what would be the point and its a waste of time But I do want to make this point, so I was looking for someone who would read it because its a few paragraphs And then people read it later and comment I don't think these nations need to be protected from leaving the EU. If they decide to do that, then so be it. They're not children and they don't need an overbearing EU sanction government father to protect them from making what he (or you) thinks are dangerous mistakes. Comments like the one from Juncker are also completely and utterly stupid (voting for right-wing populists now becomes the clearest act of defiance available to the general populace), but hey, what can anyone expect from the EPP these days. *sigh*

So declare your opponents as enemies (=far-right, what's a far-right anyway?) of the EU, threaten with sanctions and refuse to debate them. What a time to be alive in this democraship. Original link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/juncker-vows-to-use-new-powers-to-block-the-far-right-nq5r5tnqq Here's the funny thing: Members of the European Commission are nominated by the national governments, members of the European Parliament are nominated by the parties voted for during the EU parliamentary elections and the European Council is made up by each member nation's head of government or state, whichever is appropriate. Therefore in all nations where the head of state has a largely ceremonial role the prime minister or chancellor is the representative of the government in the European Council. If Hofer had been elected he would have had as much to say in the EU decision making process as Van der Bellen (his opponent) or the King of Spain has now: None, what-so-ever. As for the other dribble written by Pamela Geller, erm, yeah. I'll retreat to my safe space because I feel offended. Reading that article made me dumberer. I can clearly feels it. Me happy.

I'm surprised nobody posted this yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcGVXr4M8T0

No, even on easy you will not be able to beat the games most of the time, but at least it allows you to somewhat consistently reach the final sector. Surviving the final sector is an entirely different matter. In my experience the game difficulties should read: Easy: You need a really good run to win. Normal: You need an almost perfect run to win. Hard: You need a perfect run and a lot of luck to win. May RNGesus be on your side. Oh, and yeah. If you turn on the Advanced Edition features the game just becomes even harder to beat.

No, he didn't, at least not on screen. I'm not really surprised by the Children of the Forest being responsible for the Others seeing how ADWD dropped a few vague hints in that direction already. Enough to give rise to theories that they're still working with them (I guess the episode jossed that idea though). Anyway, the Iron Islands were sort of terrible. That kingsmoot was ridiculous, as is Euron. Meh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b9Pwd-HhbA I saw an old interview with Kurt yesterday where he recapped his '81 tour in South Africa. White guy and his Jamaican wife show up during the Apartheid with a mixed race band with no racial segregation on stage facing death threats from pretty much everyone, going on a tour of 21 concerts and not backing down. "Almost immediately I was approached by four or five underground commandos, armed to the theeth, telling me to pack up and leave or they'll kill me. And I was like 'Yeah, then go ahead and shoot me now, I'm doing this tour.' and they actually backed down and followed us afterwards, trying to protect us." That sure took some serious brass balls.

The practice is from way back to make books cheaper by cutting lines of code samples while retaining at least some readability. It's outdated, much like Cap is in the movies. No way Tony would do that. Well unless it is JavaScript where you sometimes have to so the JavaScript engine doesn't get confused and assumes a semicolon where there should be none. Stupid JavaScript, really.

InfoWars? Like, really? I love the part where Gysi's comments are mistranslated on purpose (and the rest is, I guess, hobbled together and quoted out of context, but seeing how I don't know the full source material it is hard to say, of course) and then it talks about big government, a boogeyman that is much more at home in the US than it is in Germany. While it is undeniable that there ARE many and massive issues with the current migration crisis and even more problems with second generation immigrants this is... classic truther stuff. Pass me some chemtrails, mon.

Buy him an upgrade so he doesn't fall off any more, at least until such a time when you no longer need zip lines and simply blast your way through everything.

Isn't 10$ in Canada like 7$ in real money? /scnr

Big Brother would be proud of you Bruce. You're the king of sheep.

Proscription worked for the Roman Empire and we've already established that the Roman Empire was kind of the pinnacle of "western" civilisation, so what worked for them should work for us as well.

The video is hilarious. On the one hand it is about an absolutely retarded news story about people who pretend to be liberal and progressive but being regressive arseholes and on the other hand you have a regressive butthole pretending to be progressive (he slips near the end) talking ranting about it. Sprinkled with a helping of supressed rage and making himself feel better: The pot is calling the kettle black.

Our dear friends of the Turkish government once again prove just how much of an ally they really are. Because true allies blackmail each other whenever possible. It just shows how much you care.

No, the game just ends there seemingly out of nowhere. Now you obviously missed some shrines but which ones is kind of hard to tell. There is one gated behind a quest you can only do with high Rover reputation and one hidden behind a secret passage in the Queen's Lair, those are kind of easy to miss...

So this is the second episode in a row without bewbs. What gives?

The Lord Executioner Alkamos is the final boss of the Steps of Torment, and he is very aptly named. It gets a bit easier if you have high levels of cold resistance but otherwise expect to be killed in a hit or two, so... run.

The people here have nothing on posters like Karzak or Caelis who had the unique ability to enrage even the most gentle souls. Actually Caelis was the only one who ever made it on my ignore list, because unlike Karzak his silly trolling wasn't even on topic.

Now that almost everyone in here is armchair moderating I might as well join. I have a question for the moderators, does this forum have a thread splitting function? Since we already had Amentep doing his old man routine and talked about ye old age, back when I was a moderator on the Interplay board we had this nifty little tool that would solve a problem with THIS thread as well as Barti's general problem with him thinking that Bruce derails discussions whenever he posts. Let me elaborate a little, back on Interplay we had two kinds of moderators. Those who would simply go and lock a thread when it drifted off-topic and those who actually bothered to split and merge threads where it was appropriate. I always disliked it when a thread that spawned an interesting discussion was locked with the comment "if you want to talk about this, make a new thread" and thought it was unfair to the original thread starters that often due to no fault of their own the threads they made got killed. Those moderators where well within their rights and only enforced Interplay's community ruleset. Here it seems that neither happens, threads get only locked once they get out of hand pages wise for some reason or another (if it really is performance, well, welcome to 2016, take the person responsible to the lobby and make them the new concierge). So to be honest I can kind of understand Barti when he complains about thread derailing, but I also believe that harsher moderation he demands isn't the solution. So back to the point, obviously I was a moderator of the other group. I don't think I ever locked a topic unless it was complete garbage from the get go. Sure it was more work for me (the IPLY forum also was much, much larger than this one) but I'd like to think that "my" posters appreciated the effort. Interplay certainly did because we once got a free game of our choice from their library for all the work we were doing. That we kind of unanimously picked Lionheart out of all things is probably worthy of a topic of its own. Of course if this forum can't split threads the point is moot. If it can however then as I said before, this thread might be a great example. This discussion about moderation has absolutely nothing to do with the original topic even if everyone inlcuding the original poster is participating and it kind of deserves its own thread, and in my experience a split thread is kind of like the worm myth that both sides live on. Except for real, obviously. Worms just every now and then survive having half their body cut in half. Errr...

Spent a bunch of time with the Everspace alpha version. It is already good fun even though it really only has the core gameplay implemented yet. Lots of potential I would say. Just hope the developers don't listen too much to the whining about the difficulty level on the alpha board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv9L4QmaD74

So GOG released Shadows of the Empire. It's been a long while since I played that...

That would be very... odd, to say the least.

This is the "cuckold-meme" part of the novella (so if this quote does not fall under fair use feel free to remove it): Yeah. This is totally related to the meme in a deliberate attempt by the author to include it. Oh for crying out loud. Seeing how it is appropriate to the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUh7sb4c-M I'm guessing there too much muave around right now. Color me (un)impressed.