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Nicely done, Gerbil! I love the attention you pay to the fonts. Whenever I hear Danielle's real accent, I can only picture this face:

Hold on, is this a Thing, or are you just a crazy person?

I saw that! Time to go squeezing the bags to find that pointy hat. Then again, most of these are really cool and could be worth owning.

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Jumping back a bit to grab this quote (about the Polygon article), because I had the very same reaction with it and some of the other articles linked in this thread. I think "Ugh, I can't deal with this right now, I'll be so down." But that's when it really sunk in how these people have to deal with this every single day. They can't just close the tab and deal with it later, because it's everywhere, all the time, in your face, in your Twitter that is supposed to be for you to talk to your friends, it's where you work. And I felt so bad just for being able to dismiss it, unlike them.

Oh, my Brazilian girlfriend is full of these. "He woke up with the monkey!" Me: "I'm lazy too." Her: "Yeah, but you're not slimeface like I am." "...What?!" "Ehm... woodface?" "..." I also had a Polish co-worker who taught me the greatest variant of something not being his problem: "Not my monkey, not my circus."

Sounds like you're making positive steps, I hope you continue! I love traveling, especially in central Europe, and you have a lot of cool stuff just a train away.

How come you moved to Netherlands and then never went to Belgium before? It's right next door, and such a nice place. Also, happy belated birthday!

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That is fantastic, Tegan. It deserves to go viral. Thought about submitting it to Reddit?

Oh, are we doing this again? =D

Amiibo isn't working for me, do I need to update first?

Guys, it's great. Crappy phone pic for now, will do a round of proper photos. The model/build is better than the DeLorean, they solve the surfaces a lot better.

Yeah, I think the original Cuusoo project had the building too, but they cut it for the set? It would be cool, but this makes it more affordable/space-efficient, so I don't mind that much. The DeLorean and Ecto-1 now can (and will) race around my living room floor. Now they only need to make the Bluesmobile for a trifecta of iconic 80s movie vehicles.

Ah, I see. I read "rat" as a negative/condescending word, especially compared to the term "split-pushing", which sounds like a word that could be used in Actual Sports.

That's just it, though, it's an angry term. One thing is jerks in random matchmaking yelling about it, but when "professional" players and casters use it, it seeps through to the rest of the community. Sucks about your losing streak, it's so demoralizing.

Guess what I got for my biiiiirthdayyy:

I find it frustrating that the community uses these kind of hyperbolic juvenile terms.Split-pushing is a completely legitimate strategy that Alliance utilized to full effect at TI3, but by referring to it as "rat dota" it makes it sound cheap, sneaky or unfair. By extension the "real" way to play would be to teamfight ("manfight", perhaps), betraying the bullshit alpha male mentality behind this attitude. In the same way, I've seen commenters refer to lords as "trash tier", instead of saying "not viable for competitive play" or something like this. On a similar note, Riot has banned two professional LoL players because of their toxicity when matchmaking. I wonder if Valve would have the stones to do the same? I feel I've watched streams from pro players that behaved like real jerks.

I have one of these Mario Kart machines now. You should add Hermii on yours.

Oof, I feel you Jon. I'm the same way, and sounds like my in-laws (mother, father, sister + husband) were similar to your family. Like I aluded to above, they were also were complainy about a lot of little things, especially when eating or waiting in lines. Luckily for me they speak only (loud) Portuguese, so I got to stare blankly every time there was an argument as I couldn't understand. It put a lot of stress on my girlfriend though, but she grew up fighting back against this. Example: There was a crêpe place that was highly recommended by a friend of the sister (Au P'tit Grec). Everywhere it said the same; the food is delicious, but the line will be long. We had to walk a while to get there, and when we got there, sure enough, the line stretched several car-lengths down the street. Her parents quickly gave up and went to the kebab place next door to have a place to sit. That's okay, they're old (he's 70) and we walked a lot that day. But when they got food, her dad ordered a kebab, not knowing what that actually was. When he got the food, he took one look at it then refused to eat it. :s We ended up carrying the whole thing back to the apartment to eat later. PS: The crêpes were indeed worth the wait.

Yeah, I agree with you, it's much better to be a little flexible, especially when it comes to meals, just be mentally prepared to go through "quality, price, location, pick two". My in-laws weren't, so they were constantly bitching about either the price or the food, even though we warned them when planning the trip.

Grr, I just returned from a similar trip to Paris, Rome and Amsterdam with my girlfriends family, so now I'm reading this thread and ruing that we didn't get to go to any of the cool places listed above. The family is Brazilian and has never been to Europe, so the days we had in Paris was very focused on seeing all the obvious landmarks, but this was the third time for me going to the tower etc. We also ended up with fast food once or twice, because Paris is quite expensive to eat in, and the parents refused to go anywhere the meals were above 10 euro. So we walked a lot searching for restaurants while we were already tired, and then settled. I recommend either researching food in advance or lowering your price standard. We used Tripadvisor/Foursquare/Google Maps a lot, but it's hard to see price levels from them sometimes. I've also used Spotted By Locals before, but didn't on this trip: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/paris/ Oh, we walked by this place on our way to the tower, but of course we couldn't go in: http://www.mcjp.fr/english/exhibitions/evangelion-and-japanese-swords-1022/evangelion-and-japanese-swords Edit: Watch out for kids with petitions they want you to sign. This is either a scam where you agree to give them money, or a distraction so they can pickpocket you. Say no firmly. I even said saw one kid warn a street seller that the cops were coming.

latecomers draft beginning in 4 minutes!

Also a fan of the Steam trading article: Patrick Klepek.

I would love to have Danielle as part of the mane hosts.