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It's a little exaggerated for effect, but it is not wrong.

Well, your mileage may vary, but I find it rather unnerving.

I had no idea Tarantino makes animated films too.

Rewatched a couple of the early season one Cardcaptor Sakura episodes due to a colleague now watching the series. Episode seven remains a fantastic piece that showed how great the resolutions of the magical 'fights' can be and just how well everything is set up. Such an impeccable, low stakes show - at least, until the point where they tried their hand at being more epic near the end of the series and failed a little, even if the second arc / third 'season' contain the two strongest episodes of the series. Sailor Mercury is a hoot as Kero too. In the end, aside from having a unique approach to the fighting in magical girl shows, the series stays close to genre convetions and standard tropes, including an incredibly obvious future boyfriend setup, but it does trod off the beaten path every now and then, and it does everything so incredibly well it is barely believable at times, and it will only get better from this episode on, until the end of the first arc.

Particularily that part in the negative universe that looked worse than ReBoot did in 1994.

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Well, that's even dumber...er then.

I fail to see how that can be. This sounds nothing like the production of St. Anger, which was an incredibly lame sounding attempt at making a 'garage' album. As if being from Metallica wasn't bad enough.

Hey, some of us haven't seen that movie yet, thanks for nothing, you asshat!

Telling image from yesterday's special session of parliament: Captions from right to left: "I need a bigger jacket, I can barely suck in my stomach and talk at the same time." - Chancellor "I should not have had that bottle of wine for breakfast, it is too difficult to sit here without falling off my chair." - Vice chancellor "How did I get here? What is that strange, black contraption the old man is speaking into?" - Minister of Defense *snore* - Minister of Health "I cannot believe that dolt is my superior." - Undersecretary to the Chancellor's Office If democracy makes sure that we're no better governed than we deserve, how much negative Karma have my previous incarnations accrued that I am stuck with these people (I did not vote for them, for the record )?

How about a German Eurodance cover of a beloved rock classic? (This is borderline heresy!)

If unclear from the preview image: disturbing content warning.

I do not know if any Obsidian officials ever stated it directly, but it is standard procedure in the entertainment industry, not just for game developers. Here is Neil Gaiman's explanation on why he does not read unsolicited pitches (public pitches make the situation worse) and blocks people who repeatedly send him any. It includes an anecdote from the Babylon 5 production too, and with intellectual property rights being what they are, this is no different for game pitches. Pitching games to studios is barely possible (in general) without being part of the industry yourself. The only way to get your game idea made is to either do it yourself, or start working in the industry to a point where you can pitch your ideas to either studios or game designers directly on a trusted basis. Royalty lawsuits happen all the time, and even if the sued party can believable demonstrate to not have copied ideas from (unsolicited) pitches, it usually is not pretty.

Well, not a Nordic country here, but a similar concept to what we employ here I'd wager. Owning non-controlling minority shares (sometimes known as blocking minorty) in companies that serve public interests (education, energy supply, healthcare, infrastructure, etc.) allows the state to block any actions taken by the majority of shareholders that it perceives as against public interest. One of the reasons, amongst others (dividends), why Austria is holding more than 30% shares of the OMV concern.

My customers are always very impressed by showing them the hackers with netstat. I mean... uhm... nothing to see here!

Time for something else than Eurodance trash. Have some 80ies music! Edit: Maybe I should add a disclaimer, this is safe to click on. Really. No hidden silly hardstyle remix and no Scooter or anything.

Fun fact: Fact or Fiction was so much more popular in Germany than in the US that some seasons actually premiered in Germany. In spite of being dubbed.

That's fine, the thread moved beyond prebuilts already as @Hurlshort is going to build a new PC with his son. As for using Linux, wow, I haven't used Linux since installing it on an old machine to use it as software router. I actually had to fix the code of a network card driver because kernel compilation did not go through. It was one of those cheap cards where changing the interrupt settings required DOS software. I plugged it into the old computer only to find out I had to change the configuration of the card from IRQ 7 back to IRQ 5 (I used the card in my regular computer and while it was IRQ 5 by default, that's where my Sound Blaster Pro lived), then was left with compile errors, fixed those, and I got lucky that it worked, because I had no real idea what I was doing. That was before 2.2 came out, or perhaps close to the actual 2.2 release, and a couple of years after my first attempts to get the system to work like I wanted it to. Good old times. Nothing beats that lovely KERNEL PANIC prompt after you've successfully ruined your installation by going through an insane configuration file (or an even worse guided text prompt where you had to go through the 500 options every time you wanted to change something) to add a driver you wanted. The most fun thing I managed was to make IE 4.0 run with Wine, then I had to run away from the Linux missionaries because they kept yelling BURN THE HERETIC.

At first I had a large reply in mind, but then I did not write it, and now it'll be a lot shorter. I agree with the observations, not really with the conclusion. I wouldn't call the the first season a strong start, at least not compared to Game of Throne's, which is what this ought to be compared to. House of the Dragon had, warts and all, certainly a better first season than much of the other series I've watched recently (particularily a certain Tolkien fanfiction that turned out to be a complete travesty), and with that as a point of comparison, then yes, the first season was mostly good. It had some really strong moments, but overall, everything is just a tad less good than early Game of Thrones was, and outside of Matt Smith, who really grew on me after the first episode (which was, stupidity from Cole and that ludicrous Stepstones battle aside, probably the worst episode of the season), there's not really any character that is even close to being a break out, while GoT had more than one, even. I also disliked the uncanny feel much of the CGI left. I also felt like the actresses for Rhaenyra and Alicent got worse with the time skips, but it at least removed the 'just look and act like Emilia Clarke so we can bank on similarities' problem early Rhaenyra had (pretty much a subjective issue). I appreciated that the series eventually stopped yelling 'this is a GoT spinoff' at me. Still don't like the looks of the dragons, Caraxes most of all. Fitting for Daemon, perhaps, but that dragon looked as if it was perpetually inebriated - or maybe the animators were.

If only Microsoft would own Github, then they could just... wait a minute...