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Guild Wars 2... having an "alt account". I've since completed the quest for getting for Skyscalle mount for this account too. I thought it was a nice little touch, that the little critter grows when you feed it and gets happy when you play with it.

A friend and I went and saw Lion King (the new one). It's not that it is painfully bad or anything, it just doesn't hold a candle to the original, animated movie. The CGI offers the worst of both worlds. Not realistic enough to be convincing and not "cute" enough to compete with the old animations. Story was sort of Ok'ish, the songs.... not particularly memorable. The food at the restaurant outside the cinema was good though

Hey, we're talking about a guy with several high profile bankruptcies behind him. Not sure how anyone expected him to manage a national economy any better Anyone wanna bet it's why he's trying everything short of just ordering airstrikes on Tehran, casus belli be damned, to start the war he wants so badly. Hard to impeach a president in the middle of a war, so he need it badly. Maybe he's waiting for Boris Johnson to take over in London, because that guy has shown beyond any doubt that he has neither shame nor spine. He'll be busy wiggling his little bottom in the air, spreading his butt cheeks with his hands, trying to appear as appealing to Trump as possible. Once he's secure in the role as Ttrumps inflatable doll, the UK will jump and lead the charge wherever Trumps points them, because they (the UK) need whatever scraps of trade agreements they can get.

Oh, you mean all 3 countries have oil reserves, but not under control of western powers? EDIT: Disclaimer. I haven't watched the video

A brilliant take on Brexit. Personally, I liked the chapter on Bigfoot Erotica better than Theresa May's Chapter 12

A shame nobody had any feedback for you on Surviving Mars (not familiar with the game), but I recognize the use of Steam sales as a way to try out games I wouldn't normally buy

Consider myself recommended and warned No idea where it came from, but Steam asked me if I wanted to apply a voucher at checkout, reducing the cost from $20 to $12 AUD. That's about $8.5 USD. That's what I spend on two Cappucino's across the street, so, not really any risk involved in that purchase. Bought the base game. I'll give it a try over the weekend

I haven't tried the Battletech game currently on a sale on Steam, but it's kind of sad that the best version of it that I've played so far is an old Amiga shareware game (Called 'Mechforce iirc', runs fine on WinUAE). Complete with clan mechs, drop pods, destructible terrain (set the forest on fire and watch the fire spread depending on wind direction, mechs that suffers reactor explosions creates depressions in the ground etc.) and a computer AI that plays a very competent game. Turn based goodness I would love to see in a post 1990 version

Sorry @LittleArmadillo0 I removed the last post of yours. The profanity in the image featured a little too prominently to ignore

Reading that whole thread....

Oh, I'm such a bad subject of Her Majesty's I'm sure the outback is large enough to hide in. On a serious note, you know I couldn't care less about countries and nationalism. It's some perverted idea that was introduced in 1648 that you should die for a country. Ideas and values? Maybe. Nation states? Never.

Hehe... someone leaked memos from the UK Ambassador in Washington intended for London. He had some interesting things to say about Trump. No surprises though, more like stating the obvious: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48898231 "We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept." He questioned whether this White House "will ever look competent". A bit rich from a government that haven't worked out how to exit the EU yet

I'm not a shrink, but I could easily imagine Trump on the podium at the Nuremberg Rally in 1933, enjoying the adulation of the masses, he would fit the profile like a hand in a glove. I dismissed his initial lies as the typical election lies that all politicians give the voters. Not sure anybody really believe election promises (although I'll make allowances for the Fox News audience, but I don't exactly hold them in high regard, unless you read/watch it for the giggles). What made me start thinking this guy has a serious problem with truth and the real world was the lies and exaggerations around his inauguration and the crowd sizes. Hence my comment above about his envy of totalitarian rulers, which can just order a sizeable crowd out on the streets. Edited for weird Friday afternoon spelling techniques applied

I always wondered if Trump suffers from some kind of small **** complex, envying people like Kim, Xi, Putin etc. for the power they wield over their subjects.

Hahaha, Ok. I just seemed to remember you had a fondness for Bourbon, not the specifics of the brands

My condolences @Guard Dog https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-48862621/jim-beam-warehouse-fire-destroys-45000-barrels-of-bourbon

I'm pretty sure too he can recommission some old Sherman M4's from somewhere. They can be sent to the Mexican border afterwards to help the locals against the invasion.

I remember years ago, going to Copenhagen and browse through the comics at Fantask was awesome. Wonder if it still exists...

Oh Ehh... Ooops? Apologies Hurlshot. Child abuse a subject I feel strongly about. Time to roll down the sleeves again

Even the old nethack didn't go that far... it deleted your save when you loaded it and created a new save when you exited the game. If you died while playing (and RNG could be brutal) it was back to rolling a new level 1 Edit: Spent the weekend with friends, enjoying food, drinks and live music. Locals in a small town, rural Victoria, but some of it was pretty good. All of them talented with good voices etc., just different levels of experience. Hard to not feel sorry for a duo that were obviously very shy and insecure, but the singer? She had a fantastic voice, just need to learn to let go of herself in front of an audience, even a small one

Ok, now I'm seriously curious. Exactly what am I manipulating here? As for scoring points, I know as well as the next even remotely sentient being, that there are no winners in internet debates, only losers. Some people just get a kick out of attention, I guess you call them "winners" if you pay them attention. But but yeah, to repeat the question, manipulating exactly what? On a tangent not related to the doings of the Cristian churches here, how would you, generic you, not Hurlshot you, measure most persecuted anyway? Number of individuals? Degree of persecution (i.e. being fed to lions or just not being allowed to stone women who get raped or by duration? In which case the Jews probably wins). Most persecution of Christians these days is done by other Christian denominations. Notable exceptions being places like Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt and Nigeria where the persecution is done by Muslims.

Maybe I should have been more specific and generalized a bit more The guy is just waste of oxygen, trying to blackmail a sports organization. That bit was more an observation of Australian society in general, that religious groups like the ACF not only exists, but wield as much power as they do. Christian churches here in general, seems to consider themselves above the law and don't have to answer to secular legislation, to the point of actively trying to dismantle or obstruct legislation that makes it illegal to cover up their crimes. The hypocrisy remark was aimed at the attitude, homosexuality is bad unless you're just raping little boys, in which case it's perfectly fine and nobody else business. Yeah, stop discriminating us indeed, just because we're "Christians" and so go pester someone else. That was also the point of my remark about maybe just allow the Muslims to enforce Shari'a law too, if heading down that pathway. Insert Monty Python skit with stoning of people he say 'Jehova' here.

I have a lot of faith in 'self-styled "Christian" groups' to be completely devoid of morals and ethics. It's the hypocrisy and lack of balls of the guy that bothers me. If he had been a Christian, he should have been familiar with the idea of do onto others what you wish them to do to you. You are a discriminating bigot, expect people to take offense at it. I doubt the guy is more Christian than my little toe though, and Zoraptor hit the nail in the head. It's all about money and how he could get out of his current arrangement with his wallet lined with a new shiny layer of dollar bills while looking for more profitable organizations. He just isn't man enough to say so and get off the Island, the sooner the better really.

Double posting... because the quote function is just being obnoxious, sorry guys. I got an email a few months ago on a yahoo mail address that I have, with an old password of mine in the subject line. Somebody claiming to have hacked my pc, huh, you recognize this password, right? rather smug sounding. We have had control of your pc and web cam for a while and filmed you and what you were doing while watching porn sites. Pay $1800 to this bit coin recipient (some info) or we'll share the videos with all your friends Yeah, laughing, because one, the password hadn't been used for 6-7 years and second, I don't really waste time on porn sites, so I knew right away it was all made up. Probably based on some probability stuff that x percent of the population does what they claim and somebody might feel it applied to them specifically. Email lasted for about 60 seconds while I pondered if it was worth handing out to the police, but I decided that would be a waste of both my time and their time (they would most likely just tell me to delete it and forget it). The scary bit is, I can see how someone could fall for a scammer like that in a moment of panic. Also worrying that some old website/webstore somewhere lost it's user data somehow (which is why I use disposable email addresses and passwords these days for stuff that is requiring an address to sign up).