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Still digging through my old dvd collection now that I got most of the boxes shipped from Europe opened... ended up watching Sam Raimi's "Drag me to Hell" tonight. Good fun. Sort of comedy, sort of horror, sort of something else. A bit over the top humor like Evil Dead III

An interesting report from PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) on the world in 2050: Top 10 economies in 2050, according to PwC’s The World in 2050 report 1. China 2. India 3. US 4. Indonesia 5. Brazil 6. Russia 7. Mexico 8. Japan 9. Germany 10. UK Key findings from PwC website: https://www.pwc.com/world2050 I would have loved some estimated figures in an easy to view place though. The figures are there in graphs, but... meh, I'm not an economist. When the trillions are flying around, it becomes too abstract for me to comprehend. How many Big Macs was that again?

You seem to have experienced this differently from Jessie Pridemoor, you claim to know the events better than her? “He was fired from Obsidian shortly after. I only told a few people. He would message me periodically to tell be my new photos were sexy or whatever. I blocked him from everything,” Closing this thread here, but I would recommend reading EveryThorn's link for the details.

Not quite hardcore, but I did play a *lot* of SSI's "Battlecruiser" (C64 version) in 2020

But... but... how can you be a real American if you can't eat peanut butter?

I would seriously need someone to translate the "me now:" part to understand it. It's worse than Aussie slang

Old thread https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/119968-politics-us-edition-volume-ii/

I'm sure Dr. Mengele would disagree. The Swedish government sort of tried the herd immunity approach. It failed miserably and they ended up becoming the pariahs of the Nordic countries with the highest infection rates and number of deaths (with nothing to show for it other than their neighbors closing their borders to them)

Moving to Grounded discussions

Antibiotics have saved my life twice so far. Literally. Pretty good invention if you ask me. Toilet paper... more of a nice to have thing

He did try to buy Greenland... of course they laughed in his face at the idea. But maybe with a bit of international pressure on Greenland? Offer a corner of Alaska in exchange?

A shame. I would have loved some opinions on X4 (I played X2, but just couldn't get into X3, now gathering dust on my Steam account) My most negative surprise this year? Borderlands 3. Four attempts to start up a game. Never made it past level 2 on any toon. It just feel dead and soulless My most positive surprise this year? Xenonauts. Succeeding on a budget where Firaxis for me failed badly, catching the atmosphere of the original X-Com: UFO enemy unknown The game I played the most and probably overall enjoyed the most (i.e. no surprises) was Nier: Automata Honourable mention: Overcooked 2 (in coop mode) Played other games, but they are either multi year spanning mmo or so old that some of them runs on Commodore 64 emulators

As mentioned above, the goal is to have fun. If you like hard challenges, by all means seek out hard challenges. if you want to experience an adventure, adjust the difficulty (if possible) to suit your skill level on the particular day (I know I've rushed through fights that would in later playthroughs stop me dead in my tracks). If you want to show off your leet skills to ohers, join a hard core mmo raiding group

Is 'child support' included in those 7 supporting stats?

Till Lindemann - Knebel ("Gag" in English). Yes, this *is* the censored version. I've seen the uncensored one. Not going to link it here. Edit: Lindemann is the lead singer in Rammstein, from his solo project Incidental nudity (I think/hope you need to have a verified youtube account to watch it)

I wonder if this family is going to the suspect in every criminal case where there are "no fingerprints"? "The men in Apu's family appear to share a genetic mutation so rare it is thought to affect only a small handful of families in the world: they have no fingerprints." ... "n 2008, when Apu was still a boy, Bangladesh introduced National ID cards for all adults, and the database required a thumbprint. The baffled employees did not know how to issue a card to Apu's father, Amal Sarker. Finally, he received a card with "NO FINGERPRINT" stamped on it." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55301200

Teenage nostalgia... the perm was *real* in those days!

In your head mate... in your head And don't you go all χαίρετε on us here, you are as much part of this forums history as anyone. As for 2020 being "a bit rough", I think people have either forgotten or don't know what it was like living during the height of the cold war and imminent death always looming over year head, probably overnight and you wouldn't wake up in the morning again. The world just seems to have gotten a bit soft the last 30 years Merry Christmas old friend

I look forward to a future where cat images can be shared faster than light!

Nothing planned for Christmas (it's a "non event" for me), but I will go out and watch the river fire works and get drunk on New Years eve here in Brisbane.

Still in a bit of a "feral" mood...

Bought a Christmas present for myself this evening. A boxed set with the 8 seasons of Games of Thrones. I guess I'll be binge watching it when it arrives (probably just after New Year)

Just some history bits... "Yule or Jol (pronunciation: Yoh-l) was the time between the Winter Solstice and the "Yule sacrifice" Jolablot. So this celebration was likely to last from the Winter Solstice to the 12th day of January. Generally, this celebration included drinking feasting, songs, games, banquets, and sacrifices for the gods and the ancestor spirits. There are similarities between the Viking Yule Celebration and the modern Christmast celebration The Vikings had their Yule tree which inspired the later Christmas tree. The green tree was often decorated with small statues of their Norse gods, food, and clothes. They attempted to call for the spirit of the forests." Merry Yuletide

Never really cared much for Christmas to be honest. Last time I truly celebrated it was when I was 18, last winter before moving out and into my own place. Sort of saying goodbye to a part of my life back then I guess. I have on rare occasion felt compelled to join friends for the Christmas celebrations, but honestly, it was because I couldn't find a plausible way of weaseling out The only thing I've associated with Christmas the last 35 (give or take a year) is... yay! Days off from work (or uni, or whatever). New Years eve is where it happens and where I go out and get get drunk. So not much chance of Christmas blues here. A doctor once said I had bipolar disorder, but what does he know? He wasn't a psychiatrist (and the chances of a down period hitting Christmas is probably low anyway) Getting the hang of getting to bed late and sleeping in late in the mornings again, and it's only 4 days since last work day. I can see where it's leading, come mid January, I'll have to start getting day and night turned around again.

They should have done with the new UK strain what they did with the new "mink" strain in Denmark, cull the entire population Just kidding of course, but there are some interesting questions around the new strain. Not just does it seem a lot more contagious, but will it be affected by the vaccines that has currently been developed? Or are we back to square one with a virus that beat the scientist by six months?