Necromagus

Not really like Zelda either, it still has a pretty rigid system for levelling up, whereas in the Zelda games you mostly just collect new weapons and heart containers. Basically you have eight different weapon types in which your character can gain levels, as well as eight different types of magic. The weapons can also be upgraded, but the effectiveness of a weapon depends mostly on experience. For example, if a character used a chakram for half the game, that character would be more effective with a level 3 chakram than with a level 6 sword.

No actually, the Secret of Mana and Secret of Evermore games are more action oriented, in stead of a turn-based combat system it has a direct combat system where you can see enemies walking around. No random encounters, barely any menus.

I overestimated the abilities of my camera too... still it was a cloudless sky so at least I got to see it properly.

Tonight at 9.30 PM GMT, the earth shall move directly between the moon and the sun, causing a full lunar eclipse that'll be visible in most of Europe. The moon will be fully eclipsed at 10.45 PM, and will remain fully eclipsed for approximately one hour and fifteen minutes. Pictures soon :)

There actually was an article in the newspaper today about using genetic engineering for pest control. Basically, they rig the fruitfly with a rewired gene that blocks development of female eggs, with male eggs still developing normally to spread that gene. Within a few generation the population completely dies out. This is probably one of the safest forms of pest control available, and definiately one of the most effective. There's basically zero risk of getting negative side effects for consumers and people that handle the produce.

This statement intrigues me. Does not the EU champion many socialist ideals? Such as minimum wages, maximum working days, limitations on the power of businesses, etc.?On paper, yes, but in the end the only true winners are the big business lobyists who shove stuff like the euro down our throats.

Meh, Turkey is decades away. I'm not too scared of them, but they do need to sort out quite a lot of their countrey before they're ready to join.

The EU is a nice idea on paper, but its execution is terrible. Just to satisfy French pride, every two weeks all the employees and pretty much all the office equipment gets sent from Brussels to Straatsburg, and the Union is ruled from there for a while before everybody gets flown back again. I don't have the exact numbers, but you don't have to be a math wizard to figure out that moving 1000+ employees plus their documents and office supplies back and forth between two locations hundreds of miles apart thirteen times a year is a terrible waste of money. French pride is the only reason the system remains intact. The decision process is based around a paradox. Either you follow the system where all 25 member have to agree, meaning that you have to base your decision on 25 different agendas, meaning that nothing will ever get done properly. The alternative is just following the majority vote, but then the smaller states will lose so much power that they'll just pull out of the EU alltogether.

Meh, shows he has a better sense of humour than 99% of all clergymen. I never understood what the big fuss about that movie was anyway. Not like there weren't dozens of messiahs walking around during those times.

The Director from Manhunt. The way he'd continously taunt you over your earpiece... when you finally make him eat chainsaw is one of the most satisfying moments in video game history.

Running up the Hill. Original by Kate Bush and the Within Temptation cover. Probably the last good song Within Temptation produced :(

Hmn.

Oh, I almost forgot about the one hiking competition I participated in. We were with a team of four, and it was in the middle of the winter. We were judged both on time and on assignments completed along the way. The first day was 17 km, the second day was 22. The roads were fairly flat (they all are in Holland), but there were a few inches of snow that weren't really helping. Still, we managed to win in our age category (12-15 years) :)

I've had three major hiking trips with friends. Once to Wales, once to the Schwarzwald, once to the Swiss Alps. We had two surreal experiences in Switzerland. Once we took a day off from hiking to rent mountainbikes and do a few downhill runs. We were walking up the hill with our bikes in hand (no way to get up at any decent speed if we were actually riding them), and we were overtaken by a pregnant woman pushing a baby carriage. The other time we left a cottage where we had spent the night. We were five minutes under way when the woman who ran the cottage past us with an empty tank on her back. About halfway down the mountain (800 meters vertical), she's already back on her way up with 20 litres of diesel on her back, not even breaking a sweat. I guess that kind of stamina is pretty normal when you live in the mountains all your life, but those two women put some pretty big dents in our egos :P I've also walked the four days of Nijmegen once, 30 kilometres for four days. It's basically the biggest walking event in the world, with 40.000+ participants each year walking 30, 40 or 50 kilometer routes.

Meh, it's not really an issue here. South Park is shown at 5pm.

Here we have MG6, 12 and 16. The MG6 rating is mostly for children's cartoons, basically means parent supervision advised for children under 6. The rest are just 12 and 16, with movies and shows rated 12 not being allowed to be shown before 8pm and stuff rated 16 not being allowed to be shown before 10pm. South Park is rated MG6, softcore porn is rated 12. Violence is the main standard by which movies and shows are judged.

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Pfft, warning labels. They take all the healthy fun of Darwinism out of our lives :-s

What an idiot he is.... has he not found out the whole reason we went to war in the first place? Yeah let's let the whole world die, typical Democrat.... Yeah, just what we need, a nation ruled by Democrap idiots... :roll: Wow, that properly thought out and structured wordplay is certainly not a flame at all... Let's keep this one on topic, m'kay?

...what? It keeps my hair soft, dammit!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6349081.stm Well, rather him than Hillary I suppose...

I take my bike to class. That's about 30 minutes of excercise each day. Don't need much more than that to stay in shape.

Except that you'd have to be well into swipe range to get a headshot. I'd rather take my chances from a distance.

I have a sword hanging on my wall, maybe a broomstick I can use, but other than that no weapons. As for the car question, I'd take the car and run over the guy to put him out of his misery.