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I know it's not a race between countries, who can stick a needle in as many people in as short as time as possible, but some interesting trends still showing up. I guess it shows which countries has its citizens as its first priority? Also, seriously, wth France? this is inefficiency at its worst or what??? "In the first three days of its vaccination campaign, which launched on 27 December, France inoculated fewer than 100 people. In comparison, Germany had given more than 130,000 vaccines by the end of December. " https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55514243

Some of it. Hard to avoid when watching related/suggested youtube videos. I know that Daenerys, Cersei and most others will be dead at the end of season 8. But much of the detail is still for me to explore between the beginning and the end. Almost done with episode 8 now. Two more episodes left of first season and I really like it so far. Favourite character at the moment? Probably a toss up between Arya and Eddard Stark. The first for being a spirited character and the latter for at least trying to do "the right thing". Honourable mention to Petyr Baelish and Varys for being some very, very interesting characters.

Since I bought that big box of Game of Thrones, i suppose I better get started watching it... Episode 3 so far (first season) 😛

Other people's mileage may vary (and probably does), but apart from a family members failing health (non covid related), 2020 was actually a damn good year for me. So no complaints about the old year from here. Happy New Year everyone. May 2021 be a good year 🥳

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...