Gorth

I can't really claim to know a lot of the movies on that top ten... mostly familiar with what public tv (Danish and German) as well as Danish cinemas showed. Some nostalgia though when checking the top 30. No idea what Porkys is and I don't remember hearing anything bad about best little whorehouse as far as musicals go, but movies like Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Conan the Barbarian and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back are movies my teenage self remembers as "good entertainment" at the time. It probably took an older me to appreciate a number of the other titles, including Chariots of Fire. Edit: Not sure if/how much something like Wrath of Khan even showed in the cinemas locally or only became available a decade or two later on public tv Edit2: Nvm me... just rambling a bit, straining my memory trying to remember what life was like in 1982 (it was *not* entertainment that was a priority at the time)

Just an interesting take on the current entertainment industry (movies/tv). I don't remember giving it much conscious thought, why I don't watch movies or tv these days or if I for some reason do end up starting watching something (mostly by accident), I switch off/lose interest really quickly. While not necessarily 100% correct, I think this guy hit at least a handful of nails on their heads as far as I'm concerned...

As for who the biggest offenders are... (being pre-brexit numbers, the UK is included in the EU figures) While Australia doesn't produce enough atmospheric garbage to figure on a top 5 of overall emissions, I do seem to remember the per capita figure is obscenely high... Oh yeah, and a federal right wing government that is trying to kill off the renewable energy sector, get rid of electric vehicles and hands out permits for drilling and digging for coal and gas like there was no tomorrow. Ironically, some day there might not be a tomorrow exactly because of that I'm too old to care. Survived the cold war. Need some global warming to stay warm these days...

From the days of yore, when Gorth was but a school boy and the radio the only source of music...

A good example of the educational benefits of reading Playboy

I did notice a noticeable (pun unintended) emphasis on names at the end of sentences.... like every second sentence goes something like blah blah blah... (short pause) GORTH! I'm sure there is some kind of language thing that I don't know about as the underlying reason for this way of constructing sentences.

You know the saying, out of sight, out of mind. Australia could just as well have been located in Proxima Centauri

Sounds a bit like the most scary thing I've seen up close and personal (i.e. not war torn ruins and rubble), when visiting Hong Kong and staying there for a short while. I swear those housing units looked like giant ant hills with a tremendous amount of itty bitty holes where some places inside probably got a bit of daylight. Still, those units can't have been more than few square meters each (exaggeration on my part) Edit: Even the old Soviet legacy buildings in Berlin looked like they would have been sheer luxury by comparison when they were built... (and I lived in one of those old former East German residential areas a few hundred meters south of the old Berlin wall)

Noobs like me sometimes need the power of the internet to decode what people are saying... https://geekandsundry.com/your-anime-vocabulary-starter-guide/

About 1/3 (episode 10 iirc) into Claymore. Still liking it. Interesting back and forth a bit on the timeline to give some background info. Of course the shady organisation has to be shady, like real shady. With friends like these... who needs enemies anyway?

Back to basics... Rammstein!

Supporting evidence?...

Reindeer?... Try the Moose!

This is based on memory from 30 years back, so take with a grain of salt, but I remember Denmark having a "property tax" (to discourage all homes ending up in the hands of a few investors) and also a capital gains tax on stocks/shares/bonds etc... IF (big if) you sold them again within a certain time frame of buying them. You buy them and keep them long term, fine. You buy them to speculate in rate changes for the purpose of selling them a week later? Pay up taxes of the gains. As said, was a long time ago and I had neither property nor shares in Denmark.

Started watching something called 'Claymore'. Not bad so far, but only finished watching the first episode. With a total of26 episodes, plenty of time for me to change my mind. But off to a good start at least.

Your own fault for hanging on to CHOAM stock for too long. Should have sold them while they were still worth a fortune

This. What is the distribution across platforms, genres, education levels etc. Also, is it measured in number of hours spent? Amount of money spent? Does the calculation make allowance for maternity leave? Something companies needs to do etc. The only thing I would say is, no matter how large your data set, if you are only measuring a binary outcome, you don't get any averages. If i want to calculate the average bit value in a terabyte it makes no sense telling someone the average value is 1 or 0. Whereas if I want to report on the average byte value, it gets a little bit better. At least if can be a value between 0 and 255 then. Even better for decimal values. Maybe he meant to say the stereotypical gamer is a white male sexist etc. based on his own prejudice.

I don't think 'average' means what you think it means... Edit: Better use of the word 'average'... The average age of game players is 31 years old. Sadly no median values to be found anywhere. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/08/report-adult-women-gamers-now-double-the-number-of-under-18-boys/

Something less virtual and closer to home... Australia at COP26 I know I've made the joke before, but Scott Morrison is literally fighting wind mills Don Quixote style, going to great length to sabotage any and all initiative that could lead Australians to turn to renewable energy, including wind, solar and similar energy sources. As for the why doing such a stupid thing, because the fossil fuel industry is one of the three main interest groups currently keeping the Liberal Party afloat (the other two being the mining industry and the church)

I'm perfectly happy here in Queensland. Sure it's halfway like living in the Outback, at the edge of civilization and the population has a disproportionate number of Bogans... but the weather? 10-20C in the winter and 20-30C (night and day) in the summer. I can relate to lizards and how wonderful it is to just bask in the sun on a rock.

The only "important" multiple choice tests I've ever done (4 of them) were Microsoft certifications. Usually of the get 80 out of 100 questions right within 2 hours to pass kind of tests. They were Ok I suppose. They did cover most of the areas you were tested in. Obvious pitfalls and trick questions included for good measure. Also some bugged questions that had no right answers, so that went into the feedback forms before logging off the PC at the test center. I remember it felt odd having this test center employee constantly hovering behind my back, staring at what I was doing, making sure I wasn't sneaking in any notes (for those tests, you were only allowed to use the information provided by the test software and what's inside your head)

I hear it was shot in Wisconsin...

That reminds me I have ME4 on my Origin platform. Never got around to try launching it The trilogy was a mixed bag. All IMHO, but first game had the most fun combat, second game had the most fun party members (and party, with the DLC) and third game had... no mini games! My biggest two beefs with ME3 was Kai Leng (which completely killed any enjoyment I might have felt playing the game up to that point) and the pointless ending that killed any enjoyment I might have felt playing the game up the that point... A bit of a weird thing about Bioware games when I look at it in retrospective. Dragon Age 1 and Mass Effect 1 both had some very promising and interesting game mechanics and combat systems. The sequels in both series tossed it all out and featured what I see as comparably dumb, mindless systems. Was it really too challenging? Dang it, I really loved discovering new, fun (and sometimes completely suicidal) outcomes when mixing various spell effects in the original Dragon Age

I bought Fallout 4 GOTY edition, if nothing else, just to satisfy my curiosity. Still have a very bad taste in my mouth after dropping Fallout 3 halfway through with no intention of going back to it. I made it to some camp with a bunch of kids that screamed 'kill me', but the game wouldn't let me kill them, uninstalled and never looked back. Oh yeah, the requirement for a non existing Microsoft Live service was another reason. It was $13, so I just think of that as the price of satisfying my curiosity and see what this game is about. I don't know what it is about Bethesda, but they sure as heck can't start stories in any way that I find motivating. In Fallout 3, they threw this old guy at me all the time, called him my 'Dad' and I was supposed to care somehow. Well, I couldn't care less I suppose. In Fallout 4, they have weighed me down with some brat, i suddenly have to find. Problem is just... I... don't... give... a... ****... about the baby. Hope the rad scorpions made a nice meal out of him. Double fail Bethesda, people don't care about characters because YOU TELL THEM TO, dammit. They just don't. Found my old home and Codsworth being way more interesting than my now dead partner and irrelevant spawn. Not sure if I'm actually going to progress from this point onward to be honest or just write off the $13 and cut my losses (time is a valuable commodity for me these days)

I guess that makes the Nordic people part of the 1%... our bronze age ancestors were cannibals and practiced ritual human sacrifice, our iron age ancestors (vikings) were raiders, pillagers and rapists. Our medieval ancestors were feudal lords, effectively slave holders and greedy as ****. Having turned to Christianity added an extra element of brutality and heartlessness that even our bronze and iron age ancestors didn't know. Our renaissance ancestors were imperialist, land grabbing scum. Just a few centuries ago, German was the de facto language of the nobility, because it was thought of as being sophisticated. Yet, the only thing they all remember these days is that the Swedish sucks... Edit: Granted, Denmark never had much in the way of prolonged civil wars, leadership disputes were usually settled quite quickly, first with regicides and later with economic blackmail.