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That's awful. Hate seeing injured/dead animals, especially when there's nothing you can do. I saw a Jackdaw with an injured wing once. Me and a lady from the volunteer "animal ambulance" spent around 40 minutes trying to capture it so it could be taken to a vet. A friend asked me why I had spent so much time (I had stayed in that spot for around an hour before the lady had turned up to help) on what he saw as vermin, but I just couldn't walk away from an injured animal when I potentially had a chance to help. The depressing part is that wing damage on birds usually mean euthanasia anyway, but you can always hope the little bugger is out there somewhere flapping around. Speaking of depressing, I turn 25 tomorrow! Yaaay!

Hmm, possibly. Will need to check rates here in Sweden. Otherwise I'll just try to convince my parents to pack it into their trunk next time they drive up here

Reading this thread and having watched the Lego movie this weekend has made me so excited for Lego... Unfortunately all my Legos are back at my parents place and transporting it with me on a train is not very optimal :/ Sometimes I wish I had bothered getting a driver's license.

Oh, now I know what I'm writing into our design doc come Monday!

Super HotS?

I so hope all of those are trolls. But even if that were true... Yeah, fuck everything basically.

So, the European elections were over the weekend and the results were pretty horrible. Anti-EU, anti-immigrant, homophobic and anti-equality parties got a large piece of the seats available in the parliament. Voting participation was disgustingly low in some places with an estimated 13% participation in Slovakia, 30-ish% in France. I don't know if any country got over 50% participation. Edit: 8/28 Countries got over 50% participation. Denmark at 56,4%, Belgium at 90%, Italy at 60%, Luxembourg at 90%, Ireland at 51%, Malta at 74% and Greece at 58%. Overall participation for the elections were 43%.

I just realized the other day while crossing the road that I most often will look at the front of cars rather than the actual drivers. My theory for this is that my brain subconsciously recognizes the front of the car as the face of the beast that's currently running down the road. Any passengers are just that. It's the car itself that decides whether it will let me cross the road or not. Basically my brain is going "Hello Carbeast! Will you slow down for me? Ah! You will! Thank you carbeast! Who's a good carbeast? You are! You are!" Additionally I just realized that in a couple of years my brain will be completely right once all non-self driving cars will be outlawed.

This. I've seen a few videos (and heard of a ton more) where crossfit participants perform exercises completely incorrectly in such a fashion that there certainly is a risk of injury. However, that's the same with any type of work out regimen. As long as the instructors know what they're doing and make sure that all participants are performing their exercises with correct form CF is just fine. Sure, the fact that CF is based around group training introduces a certain risk for peer pressure that solitary training might not have, but that's also something that the instructors should keep in mind. I've previously done some p90X which was quite nice (Yoga ftw), but ultimately proved too reliant on me owning certain pieces of equipment for me to make any progress at all.

Huh. Interesting.

Yeah, shit. I had a feeling this would happen ever since the Kings won the first of their games. Still, I'm more impressed by the Kings than I am upset at the Sharks. Maybe I should stop rooting for my favorite teams, both of them were ousted in the first round of the playoffs and whenever I've watched them play they seem to lose

Same here, haven't had much time to frequent even more forums. I'd much rather just get a condensed newsletter every few months or so telling me what's up. Preferably written by an ombudsman!

When was the Idle VIce expected to be ready for delivery?

Viscera Clean Up Detail sounds a lot like a student project me and my classmates did back in 2010: You were the people who cleaned up the city after all the superheroes and supervillains had finished all their fighting. To do this you were equipped with gravity guns with which you could lift the heavy debris and place it back where it belonged. Had both co-op and competitive modes!

I need to play this game again. I remember loving it. The world, the characters, the fauna, the music, the text input system.

Similar story for me. Didn't realize I had any "real" issues before I started studying psychology and found out there was such a thing as social anxiety. Made me realize why I was the way I was and prompted me to seek help rather than just accepting that "it just how I am". It's scary to show yourself as vulnerable, especially since society generally encourages us to keep those kinds of things to ourselves. Even more so when it's psychological issues. Then people get all kinds of weird. For me, asking for proffesional help was not that hard. I was nervous and hung up a couple of times before they could answer but it was still manageable. Therapists are proffesionals whose jobs are to help after all. The hard part for me is talking about it to "normal" people, friends and family. It's kind of a bomb shell that I'm not entirely sure how people would take.

Wow! Those are really great!

Wow, some amazing stuff in here! My bookmarks just doubled

My parents' cats are pretty fierce when it comes to other felines and insects, but they seem fairly confused/apprehensive about other animals. They make a big deal about how interesting the birds in the tree outside the front window are, but on the day a bird actually flew into the house they were completely dumbstruck. Now that they actually had access to a bird, they had no idea of what actually to do with it. They followed it around the house, staring silently at it. It was only once we had managed to let the bird out that one of them mustered up the courage to jump up on and sniff the coat hanger the bird had perched on. But mostly it comes down to familiarity. If a cat (or a dog) grows up around other animals they seem to be able to become very friendly. Being an indoor pet probably helps a bunch as well as the need to feed(EA trademark) isn't a motivator. Edit: That gif is ridiculously cute.

Oh dear.

Garden Gnome Carnage is an old favorite of mine. We had an arcade machine with it installed in our college. It was the best.

Between reading the new 52 Batgirl comics and watching Arrow I'm becoming more and more interested in DC, but I've heard some concerns as to how good the rest of the new 52 line-up is. Has anyone here read any of the other titles in that line-up? Anything worth checking out?

Copper theft is very common in Sweden as well. This is an extra bummer as some of the older buildings have these great looking green copper roofs which are apparently targeted. Also causes quite a grief for our public transport as people break into the train yards to steal wiring, which of course causes delays and brings doubt to the viability of public transport as an alternative to cars.

Well, the article from Edge that compared the game's character development to that of The Last of Us certainly didn't harm my expectations of this game http://www.edge-online.com/features/machinegames-wolfenstein-the-new-order-is-as-surprising-as-it-is-bombastic/