Give the alcohol to the kids? ; )

Choosing extreme left wing policies over extreme right wing policies is like saying you'd prefer to be stabbed to death rather than shot. You get to the same horrible place either way.

And about Stalin and the wonderful things he did, check out the Ukrainian grain famine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Estimates are between 2.5 and 7.5 million dead. Starved to death so Uncle Stalin could feed his armies and factory workers. That's the kind of thing that happens when the State (ANY State) has limitless power.

I'll tell you what made me happy today. Not believing the hype of human politics.

That would be welcome. We're running out of potions, and the temple priests are greedy over here.

That's an accurate description. I find washing my hands frequently helps. Still, when my vector nephews visit, one usually manages to obliviously sneeze or cough right in my face. I did volunteer twice a month at my kid's preschool, and somehow escaped without plague every time. His class was mercifully small, I suppose.

I'll try it and let you know. First, I need a dosage table where the body weight axis includes 23 lbs.

Because young people do stupid things, and once upon a time, i did the STUPIDEST thing ever; which was to join them, their youth, just because a friend of university wanted to enroll me. And i saw first hand and from within, what kind of pests, hypocrites, punks/troublemakers and inconsistent loonies, they are. Allow me to have the right of knowledge, on this one. Not only they wanted to remove me forcibly from spirituality by brainwashing me and preaching stupid things, like: "this bridge was build by human hands and not from god, ergo god does not exist", but they even SPIED on me and my activities for a short while, in my old neighborhood, i might add...

I believe into whatever i want to believe and no motherpreacher has any right to separate me from MY practices. Their atheistic profile is not only theirs, but of their wish to ENFORCE it on others too; doubly so if said others are within their ranks.

Plus *that* friend proved to be another ashole, who not only left me, but harmed me, too.

Lefts are dangerous. They are the *real*, or the *worst*, if you prefer, "fascists". Plus they have fossilized brains of an ages dead system, which cannot exist, because it is completely absurd, in the first place. Hell, even in Cuba it ultimately died, after all. And their opinion on migration, national independency, supremacy, defense and borders, is VERY dangerous, to say the least; it jeopardizes everything out of them and puts people in danger. Also, someone who knows history, knows they have committed the worst atrocities and had attempts at genocide, too. Alas, i never read history lessons well enough, while in school and payed the price in my life, later; "those who do not know history, are doomed to relive it (mistakes mostly)".

Don't you know the Vi and Vi Bro spells? Vi for a healing potion, Vi Bro for a cure poison potion. (Hint: The Vi symbol looks a bit like water.)

Remember to save the empty flasks so that you can refill them with more potions!

Actually, I haven't encountered a case of Atheists enforcing it on other people. I have, however, encountered Christians who act like their beliefs are the only valid beliefs and enforce them on others. In the US, it's even got as far as things like the Pledge of Allegiance (that school children recite every school day) using "god" as a proper noun, a usage that I find offensive because I see it as exclusive and offensive to any other gods that might or might not exist. (Of course, being an Atheist, I believe that such deities don't exist, but that's beside the point.)

Similarly, I find the fact that a certain organization has taken the name ISIS to defile the name of the Egyptian goddess Isis, despite the fact that (according to my beliefs) Isis (the deity) does not actually exist.

As for something that makes me happy, I took a survey last night and felt happy afterwords.

The kNigsBrdGgnEy has already expressed his support for the neonazi golden dawn on these forums (more or less implicitely, because he's too cowardly to do it openly, but it was either golden dawn or the communists and he asked us to "guess" which one). Also, you have his whole posting history if you want to 'get' what sort of person he is, so, your question is a bit moot.

Anyway, the fact that ND lost, and by a wide margin, is what made me happy today. It's still not great news for Greece in the absolute, as the country is still way too divided and polarised for real stable and coherend policies (and the Syriza/ANEL alliance is still as dodgy as ever), and it doesn't seem to head towards any real consensus, which is what the country would require most of all. But still, finances are just one aspect of greek politics, and that country is in dire need to be modernized on a societal plane. A few years under a progressive government is a good thing on that aspect, and an encouraging symptom of a society evolving fast beyond the insulary traditionalism of its past decades.

It's also a nice slap on the idea of a "left parenthesis". Now, let's see if 4 years is enough for Syriza to become a new Pasok/ND in terms of corruption and vengeful clientelism...

My contribution to the Draw and Guess the Game thread, over two years ago:
http://static03.gog.com/upload/forum/2013/07/82ef1d64d3916dcde5b21330b71d2a8c08fa201b.jpg

Got a Vectrex vintage game system for almost nothing at a garage sale today - and the condition is near mint and it is working flawlessly! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex

Congrats! How many games do you have in total on your GOG shelf, if I may ask?

148

25 of those however are ones that I have quit or have no intention of playing. Like the Ultima Games, or a few of my posts in the "Games Quit" thread. FtL is the most recent addition to that list.


Hell of a find, good job!

Reminds me of when I passed up on a Goldstar 3DO at a yard sale in 1999 for like 35$.

Now if I had know it cost 700$ at launch....lol

Today I didn't even have to use my A.K. I got to say it was a good day. :D

Thanks :)

But it is a shame you passed on that one. A rule of thumb is, if you find any computer or console based equipment that is not pc based, then get it - if the price is right.
For starters, i suggest you make a list on all potential stuff you can think of with your 'buy now' bargain prices and with updated nowadays collectors prices for reference.

That'll make it easier for you to find out if that gizmo you saw at the local flea market really is worth getting.

Believe me I've been doing that ever since lol
tinyE, he drowned in pussy.

System Shock on GOG and got my LCR Meter from Japan. Manual is in Japanese only but it was easy to find an English one on the internet. I put a battery in and it powered up fine, I'll check it out some more later today when my brain had finished booting.