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Honestly I think it might be better if the legs weren't twigs. His arms are way way thicker than his legs. Has anyone seen the initial Eggman designs? It could be so much worse.

Something the AV Club pointed out to me - the way the Emmys are judged involves taking three episodes from a television show and presenting them as being representative of the show. This means that the judging of the Emmys is really different to the experience of watching a television series, and why a show like The Wire, which builds and builds, isn't capable of demonstrating why it is excellent to the Emmy judges.

I thought we were saying the game wasn't easy, because it was hard.

So something fun happened in Australia recently, which is good because we also have the G20 going and that's just been embarrassing because 18 out of 20 countries want to talk about climate change and Australia is petulantly stamping its foot. ANYWAY One of our morning presenters, Karl Stefanovic, is basically paid to be a dipstick, and has achieved a small amount of fame because of how naturally he embodies that role, starting from the time he did the entire show drunk because he'd had too much to drink at the local TV awards ceremony and it hadn't actually left his system by 6am. Certain sections of the internet have discovered that there's this TV presenter that -- --that's him. Of course, he's a dipstick, not a douchebag. His co-anchor there is Lisa Wilkinson, and because she is female she gets critical comments from viewers and fashion commentators every time she wears the same clothes twice. Now Karl thought this was bizarre, and decided he'd deliberately start wearing the same clothes every day to see when he starts getting the same viewer comments. It's been a year and the only people who've noticed are in the studio with him and can smell a suit that hasn't been washed in a year. So he decided to tell people about how people keep picking on his mates for wearing clothes too often when he wore the same suit for a year without comment, and how that wasn't fair. Good on ya, Karl.

I feel like reporters should get the idea that when a junta closes off the country to the rest of the world, that includes journalists. Edit: this is a fun episode! It's also really hot here and I was still enjoying myself. Although I kind of like the idea of fixing Knuckles' silhouette, I kind of miss that he looks even less like an echidna than he used to, unless it's the mythological creature.

I find it fascinating that Kowloon is such a singular place and yet it's kind of a touchstone for slums in fantasy and science fiction. Anywhere where you see slums, you see something that's taking cues from Kowloon, despite the unique circumstances that birthed it and the sheer unlikeliness of it happening elsewhere.

Or I could just make a mod for TF2 where you get money for weapons by furthering the agenda of corporate interests, and then there's like environmental groups and ordinary citizens who want agendas you kinda have to go out of your way for and they don't give you nearly as much money.

Dare someone to register hongkong.democrat Also I might have to register presidentialdeathmatch2064americadecides.democrat and .republican for my American politics themed team-based shooter

Holy shit, the last episode of Last Week Tonight. I mean, it was already a great episode in a series that has been mostly pretty great, but I have no idea how they managed this:

I had the same experience except I played the N64 version and am just that great. Also I got to the end of the treasure chest game without the Lens of Truth once. Didn't get the prize, though.

Oh, if we start Nov. 28, that'll be great. This Saturday was going to be tricky for me, and I might be able to spend the time acquiring some gear for a costume party I was otherwise going to half-ass. I'd like to do a tech test at some point, though.

I don't know what it was, but I found this episode fairly irritating! Maybe it was that it was hot and I didn't have much patience for anything, let alone four grown men arguing over whether a fixed version of a game should be allowed to exist and whether or not movie marketers are doing their jobs properly. The episode ended just as I took a break and went to Messina to get some really good gelato so I don't know whether that fixed it.

I've had the opposite of this experience! I had my first white Christmas a few years ago, in Switzerland. I flew into London a couple of weeks before, and it was already snowing, which was very novel for me. I went outside to get some supplies for a full day of touristing the next day, and went into the park to enjoy the snow falling. Turns out snow is really cold water and you end up mostly soaked and freezing. Also I slipped on an ice puddle.

So you prepare your fruit, nuts and glacé cherries just like a regular Christmas pudding, soak the fruit in brandy overnight and roast the nuts, but then instead of baking them in a fruitcake, you mix them in with several litres of nutmeg-dusted vanilla ice cream and freeze it. The taste of Christmas, but suitable for one of the hottest days in the year.

It's having opinions gone mad!

I've mentioned this before, but I find it fascinating how much effort the UK goes to for Christmas. Usually we're all 'bust out all the Christmas stuff from last year, we'll have like three increasingly gross versions of Carols by Candlelight that get progressively less like a shared experience singing Christmas songs, and put some pointless crap on the TV that no-one's going to watch anyway'. My sentiment about Christmas is a lot like Tim Minchin's - I get to define what Christmas means to me, and to me it means the family, or at least the extended family we've built for ourselves, having a lovely lunch over summer, and ice-cream pudding and probably a trip with friends up the coast for New Years', and maybe at some point I'll brave the Boxing Day sales, but mostly it's friends and family and not doing very much.

I'm almost certainly not going to buy new Monument Valley chapters because the previous chapters were so limited and obvious. I liked the flavour but I can't say I really felt good about the purchase.

No, guys, it's "game-chum". The word is now "game-chum".

Wouldn't it make sense that Neil deGrasse Tyson would be playing his cards a little differently this time? The headline ended up being 'famous TV astronomer hates movie about going into space' and not 'guys why haven't we been going into space Gravity was pretty cool'.

I lost fucking weeks to The Kitten Game.

I don't know if positive portrayals of nerds are really relevant given that nerds run the Internet and pop culture these days. Nerds have power.

Only after she got some laptops while overseas. It was a bit weird, would have thought she'd buy new ones.

Trying to claim 'gamer' as a gender is really the climax of this thing, isn't it. It can't get any more entertaining from here.

That's weird, I make gingerbread houses just like that every year, although mine tend to have more spearmint leaves on them. I shall be sure to get a photo to reap the sweet sweet internet points. But what's weird is that my mum has also made gingerbread houses like that and also has that plate. (And has, for the record, never made reindeer cupcakes.) Oh, it's getting really close to ice-cream Christmas pudding season, I need to make room in the freezer.