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  1. majestic
    Sure, but then you realize there are companies shipping pre-built computers with terrible cooling designs or wrongly installed CPU fans, and all of a sudden having a power cable that can end up not being fully secured but looking like it is becomes scary again. Next up on GN, testing the 5000$ pre-built that runs burning hot. Literally.
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    Slave labour worked to death over building new stadiums? Who cares. Repressive society? Who cares. Women's rights? Who cares. Minority's rights? Who cares. Corruption in the FIFA? Part of the game. No beer at the game? GET THE PITCHFORKS! Proper priority setting, amiright?
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    Well, there's not much to say. Crash course in Nietzschean philosophy:
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    Nucular, Lisa. It is pronounced nu-cular.
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    That's like 70% of all MPs.
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    I was going to say that Ritchie Blackmoore looks pretty worn out, but then I realized the guy is 77. Where did all the time go? edit: For clarification, I meant his guest appearance in the above video, not this one from 2006.
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    I watched The Departed because I used to make the effort to watch movies winning best picture, and back in the 90ies that usually meant films that were worthwhile more often than not. Browsing through the list of movies that won best picture, I seem to have stopped after 2007. I wonder, can't quite put my finger on why... Oh, right, because crime dramas were starting to win all the time (yes, yes, an exaggeration), and best picture for Return of the King was a joke - and I say that as someone who enjoyed the trilogy overall. The Departed, to quote the first line that comes from IMDB when googling it: 'And there's not a boring moment in it's two and a half hour running time.' I think I would like to tacitly disagree with the assessment. It's more like not one interesting moment in its runtime...
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    She was convicted of murder once she stopped being happy with killing peasants and moved on to lesser gentry (or, alternatively, she was the victim of a conspiracy by people who wanted her wealth and/or were not happy with a woman being this influencial in the 16th century). Being one of the wealthiest artistocrats of her time, with extensive holdings and the kingdom deeply in her debt, we can speculate what her opinion on letting peasants decide anything would have been, but it is reasonably to assume it would have been a hearty laugh, and whoever came up with the idea would have been named court jester. She also inherited most of her wealth. Take all that the way you want, but:
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    I'm going to let @Make a contract with KP post his trademark David Lynch video reaction in response to that.
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    Some beef: Bone marrow (well, from beef bones ) And getting rid of the leftovers:
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    Sure, like nothing about this first episode was creepy as hell, not sure what I was talking about there. I don't know how well it would work without the first two seasons, but there's a pretty big time skip in between and most exposition in early StrikerS flows pretty organically. The series falls apart in the final five episodes when they either ran out of time or lost track of what they wanted to do and turned the villain into a Bond level numpty in both exposition and behaviour, but until then that was actually a pretty decent watch. The fanservice is just plain bad instead of eye-gougingly bad because they had the common sense to, you know, no longer use nine year olds for most of it. Like, if you want to check out the early seasons and have misgivings about loli-scenes just leave out episode 5 of the first season. It's also a lot slower paced and not as much about awesome battles as the Wikipedia entry makes it look.
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    Well, for that, I have to bring out an old friend...
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    Suddenly, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS doesn't seem so bad, huh?
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    I was serious with the suggestion though. It's hard to find something as well written as the first two CCS seasons. Might not be your cup of tea, but the craftsmanship that went into the series is almost immaculate. The third season/second story arc wasn't as strong, but still pretty good.
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    12 issues with each between 150 and 200 pages, apparently. I am uncertain if that is a commitment I want to make right now. Plus a prologue issue with another 180 pages. Yay...
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    Watch Card Captor Sakura on Netflix, thank me later.
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    The actual term for the genre is ero guro (エログロ) from shortened from erotic grotesque to erogro and mangled through Japanese pronunciation. Guro is just shorthand, but often mistaken to mean gore (but that would be goru, not guro). Guro as a word is part of a phenomenon where vaguely English sounding terms appear in other languages that are however not of English origin, or have vastly different meanings. Since I'm working from home today, I had to put "Home Office" in my calendar so people know I'm not at the office. Sounds like it might be a term taken from English, but hey, it's not. Just like Handy for mobile phone, or a couple of other things. Well, lesson over. Well, in that case, I stand corrected. I'll just read the manga and re-asses then, but the anime part never gave off the feeling of being an NGE wannabe, outside of messed up people controlling starfish alien entities with half a will of their own. Well, putting it that way...
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    Not at all, I don't understand how you got that impression.
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    The nitpicker in me wants to point out that Narutaru isn't guro, just because it contains violence and nudity (none of which is in any way erotic, very, very far from it). Hence anything that character says about it can be dismissed out of hand. Being less nice about it, it's probably someone who enjoyed Rebuild. That seems like a reasonable assessment.
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    Narutaru, the anime is... incomplete. The adaptation only covers half the manga, apparently. Whether nobody watched that psyched out series or if the creators had misgivings about adapting the rest of the material which is apparently even worse than: is up in the air, as there are no real official statements from what I could see. I guess I have to read the manga (and deal with stupid fan translations, while there was a complete run of the manga in German it is simply not easily available, and the English version got canned after issue #6 of 12, which contains the above scene) if I want to know what will happen, on the other hand, I've already read that the ending of the manga is similar to what happens during The End of Evangelion, except Narutaru's ending is supposedly depressing (as opposed to the uplifting way that TEoE ended ). Browsed through the first issues, it's incredible how faithful the anime adaptation is. Too bad it's such low quality animation, the sound effects really enhanced the atmosphere. I also read that in France, the manga was marketed as shounen for a bit because the publisher thought it would be a fun school hijinks story with a cute little monster pet. Yeah. Guess how well that went.
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    Well, Australia's genius loci has been trying to kill you guys off through dangerous wildlife for a while now. Call that an adaptation of means, if you will. You better get out of that alien hellscape while you can.
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    Narutaru: This is sure going places. Well, I'm going to have a field day when the metaphorical school shooting starts in the aftermath of this particular fun episode. edit:
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    It helps to bear in mind that one of the ruling parties at the time was the FPÖ, a party that officially signed a treaty of "cooperation and friendship" with United Russia (which they recently declared to be null and void, for whatever reason, I can't quite figure it out... ). That being said, to borrow something a poster here used to say all the time: "Don't look at me, I voted for the other guy." I can't stand the ÖVP and I never once bought into the Kurz hype, and there are plenty of posts from me where I express my rather low opinion of the party, so I'm probably not the best person to ask what the appeal of that Trump in a slim-fit suit was.
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    Unhealthy takeout day at work: Productivity projection after consumption: uncertain, but tending towards zero. Needless to say, I sorta feel, uhm, sick. Just in case anyone's wondering what the item on the right side really is, that's deep fried chicken with bacon on top of a massive amount of cheese fries. Not sure why that is under 'sides' on the menu, but... I feel like I'm going to explode. In more ways than one.
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