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Oh, I see. You're literally every microbrewery! No, no. I'm not bitter. Like every IPA.

Counterpoint: no, watch the last 5 turns do not watch all of fucking Mario Party. Cackle in glee at the word "kingmaker".

Porters and stouts are the best! I wish there were more porters and stouts and less goddamn IPAs. It's just always IPAs all the time. Boo. I don't find dark beers to be bitter at all!

Yes! Hooray!

Yep, that sounds about right. :[ Life, man. I think you made the right decision, too.

You'll lose weight!

Working out is absolutely good for weight loss! It's not how you lose weight, though. Diet is much more important. In my personal experience, I'd put it at about 70/30 Diet/Exercise, but exercising is still very important to me in the whole process. Weight change = Calories In - Calories Out. That's it. That's how you lose weight. That's the entire thing. If your entire caloric intake is cookies but you're burning more calories, you're going to lose weight. It'll be horribly unhealthy, but effective! Running 2 miles and then saying "I exercised today, SMOOTHIE TIME!" is not a winning formula. If you're doing resistance training and you're eating around your BMR in calories you're potentially going to gain weight, because you're likely going to be replacing lost fat with added muscle. Exercising without proper diet first is going to get you frustrated if the goal is losing weight, even if you are doing it properly and getting healthier. There are lots and lots of strong, fat weightlifters.

The Blue Jays hit a lot of home runs. Someone made a video supercut of all their home runs to Cash's God's Gonna Cut You Down. It is delicious.

Literally listening to Reply All as I read the post about Reply All. It's the Exit & Return episode about outcasts from Hasidic communities. Completely fascinating. Yes, I think some of the episodes are up and down as well, but the topics are up and down. Since they comment on it, I am going to throw my voice behind the fact that I really like the Yes, Yes, No segment.

Yep, right! And then the Torchlight wizard was the Shitty Wizard. "5 kills in a row?! I am suspicious of myself."

Oh man, I listened to some of the announcer pack. One of the Tower Attack quotes is just amazing. "Hey Rick, my bottom tower's looking pretty good right now." 'M-Morty, your bottom tower's under attack." "My tower's under attack?! Oh god. Oh, oh jeez. Oh JESUS!" The fact that it would be so conversational is awesome. For some reason I was thinking that Trine Wizard was one of the original Wizards, but I think the original Trine came out long enough after Idle Thumbs started that it referenced itself as a meme. I know that "Talking about Trine every episode" became a refrain.

My one weakness.

Thank goodness! I don't have time for compatibility issues.

My headphones are starting to go, so I was browsing headphones, which led to me browsing mice, which led to me browsing mouse pads. I haven't had a mouse pad in years, but maybe I should get one, I was thinking. I know computers are complicated. I understand this. But enough people on Amazon asked "Will this work with Windows 10/Windows 8/A Mac" that it can't just be everyone joking, can it? It's some combination of people being that naive about computers or me being that gullible, and either way it upsets me. This was a very helpful review when I was choosing a mouse pad. http://www.amazon.com/review/RBNNUCKOQMAP1/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000UEZ36W&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=172282&store=electronics

I know! That's why I made a 2015 thread.

Those things are almost 100% overlapped. To answer your question of "should" there be a thread about it, I think that ideally there shouldn't need to be! To not be pie sky eyed, does our community need one? In my eyes, news is news regardless of gender. We've talked about Froskurinn and Maria Creveling in other threads.

I agree with basically all the YMBAB thoughts as well, and yet I'm up to literally the last quest on my 7th or 8th run through. I finally looked up how to get the secret characters, and honestly a lot of them are really neat. There's one it seemed like I was doing that didn't work, though. The whole "collect an item" as your final goal is somewhat frustrating. I have literally been sliding the last tile to do an unlock when it times me off the screen, and it's infuriating. Rather than just matching whatever will move you forward, it will give you specific matches, and that changes the game dramatically. There's no way to prepare other than matching everything at the same rate and hoping your board is populated evenly.

Well I certainly hope it was a Freudian slip, because Froskurinn is a lady. Here's her answers for the pertinent part of that question. Part of that is a very Korean-style meta (Heavy Sivir emphasis, objective rotation). Part of that is certainly not. Emphasizing skirmishing to win objectives is a very Chinese meta. The last line is very telling. If you want to watch virtual hero persons stab each other early and often, Chinese League is still the league you want to watch.

Rob I'm taking you to task about League of Legends! I'm not, just sharing stuff. Enjoyed the podcast this week as always. Dragon is strategically much different than it's been in previous seasons, because it's not worth that big chunk of gold anymore. It gives almost no gold and only grants local experience. Killing the dragon provides two things. One, it gives you permanent passive stat increases. Two, it provides a path to victory through killing the dragon 5 times, which doubles all the previous stat bonuses AND provides on-attack true damage to everyone who is alive at the time the buff is granted for three minutes. If you can't force objectives or win fights at that point, the game might never end. "Team wipe"? I think you mean "Ace". You mentioned regional stylistic play differences, which could possibly explain how LGD and QG were approaching things so meticulously and cautiously. The historical view of the Chinese meta is fight. Fight all the time. Get kills for the sake of getting kills, dive two towers, dive towers in two different lanes at the same time. I haven't watched too much LPL this season, so I don't know how the influx of Korean talent has changed the strategic level of play, but the traditional view is the Chinese teams were much more raw at the strategic, objective-focused level than Korea (for sure) and even teams in the West. They made up for it by being so overwhelmingly aggressive that if you couldn't extricate yourself from unheard of ganks in other regions, they would just kill you and snowball off the back of their superior team fighting coordination where their map coordination might be lacking. The fact that the engages were so cautious marks an interesting departure from the Chinese meta more so than an indicator of it. Which is cool!

Anything with Vinny is automatically the best.

Well color me disappointed with the NA result. I can't say it was unwarranted or unexpected, though. CLG did what they've done in most of the TSM matchups over the last year and a half - dominate early with superior rotations and map play. They just didn't make the fatal mistake they always do, and it turns out that when you keep building advantages without giving them away you do alright! I totally believe Fnatic was experimenting, but the difference between winning the split and not winning it is pretty important. Winning the split gives you the first seed out of the region at worlds, which gives you the opportunity to do things like not be put in group stages with the #1 seeds from other regions. So the lineup for Worlds is halfway locked in! http://lol.esportspedia.com/wiki/2015_Season_World_Championship 4 seeds from NA & EU are determined. Once Korea has their finals we'll know two seeds as well (SKT & either KT or Koo). Each of those regions has a Regional Final to determine the 3rd seed, similar to the Korean playoffs gauntlet. Seeding is determined by total yearly circuit points. Team Liquid, UOL, and again either KT or Koo will be seeded directly to the finals of the gauntlet and only have to win a best of 5. China's an insane place where there's only one auto qualifier and everyone else has to run the gauntlet. The two finalists both earn seeds, with the winner getting the higher seed. After that there's international wild card qualifiers and we're all set for Worlds!

Why would I ever ask a chiropractor anything about physiology or medicine? The human walking feedback model is actually pretty amazing, which is why we do it so easily and robots can't yet.

Holy smokes, what a series.

That's backwards. They've won 3 out of 5 world series, SO they can sell themselves on a friendly manager and fun personalities. They've made some savvy veteran pickups for not a lot of money, and gotten the most out of some objectively poor contracts. Their manager is good behind the scenes, and he doesn't actively harm them in-game. They're also the beneficiaries of Even Year Bullshit. Right? You win because you spend the right amounts of money in the best ways. You don't win because the manager is kind of adorable. That's why it's worth it for your team to have AUI, because even though I think he's a surly, boring 20 year old, he's a good DOTA player. After you win, you can jettison him, or you can go back around and paint him as having been a friendly, likable guy.

My dad's 65. He'll have no trouble upgrading his machine when he gets rolled in. If he has to do it for someone else, he's totally going to ask questions. It's just the nature of the beast. I know basic shit about computer hardware and software, but I never change my own oil for the car. I think it's a combination. 1) OS X has been out since 2001. They've been doing this soft upgrade path for over a decade now, so the time when they first started it is a distant memory. At this point it pops up and if you want it you pay $20 and it's like updating apps in the App Store. That's Microsoft's vision for Windows 10 as I understand it, but they need to do the painful migration first. 2) Windows XP has more than twice the market share of computers running OS X, and it's the 4th most popular version of Windows. It feels like everyone has a Mac Book, but Windows dominates the computing OS market. Source: everyone's favorite, Wikipedia. 3) Macs aren't configurable. I mean, you can buy the one with the bigger screen or more RAM, but you can't build a Mac. You buy an Apple computer and it comes with the Apple OS and the Apple App Store and you get your Mountains Lion right through it. They control every level, which means there aren't weird configuration quirks because you're running two GTX 260s in SLI on a 16:10 screen and have 4 hard drives.