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All my bills paid, to include load from my brother, and $300 pet deposit, on time, replacement tablet ordered and I have money left over.  For once it looks like my finances aren't going to be a major issue, given that spent about $540 this month on a one off payments.  Woot!
 

And that is why moderators exist.

Preferably fair and impartial reviewers.

Preferably fair and impartial reviewers.

I have just spent the past week looking into the development of gunpowder and this was the exact mental image I didn't need. Thanks, Critter. I now have new meanings for 'blow job' and 'banging hot' I easily could have done without. 

I kinda realised immediately that with this setup, something was bound to happen.

I can totally see this happening.

I have elected to simplify. I choose to refer to each individual as they prefer and to otherwise avoid employing offensive terms as I am best able. That is the best I can do; if this stance makes me enemies, I regret that but I do not know a better place to work from.

I fail to see why refugees would just come to Australia if they're in New Zealand. They seem to think that the refugees would be determined to get New Zealand citizenship to settle in Australia.
https://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Citizenship-Become-a-New-Zealand-citizen-Part-1?OpenDocument
According to the link, the refugees would need to stay at least 5 years before they have any possibility of gaining New Zealand citizenship. All that just to enter Australia? What precisely were the LNP thinking?

Warning! Rant coming up...
I watched an interview with a man who had been a prisoner of ISIS. I he was kidnapped and held for ransom and it took something like 14 months before he was released. When asked about how he was treated and what kind of people the ISIS soldiers were he said that very few of those he met seemed to care about the religion other than going through the motions. What they did care about was having free access to people to torture and humiliate. He himself had been tortured in many ways and had been through nine mock executions. Usually he was told in the morning that he would be executed as they hadn't got the money, or alternatively they had got the money and had no further use for him. They then left him to stew for a day. When evening or whatever time they claimed he was to be executed at came they put a hood over his head and dragged him outside, got him on his knees, put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Usually it was just a click, a few times they fired a gun just next to him. These mock executions wasn't ordered, it was just the guards having fun.
Nine times he went through this, with some variations thrown in to keep him scared. Nine times different guards got their jollies from playing with mock executions, and that was just one prisoner. These guards came from all over, many from European countries, and they joined ISIS just so they could be assholes and torture people. Now this was a man, what they do to women isn't better in any way.
Having heard that, I'm not surprised that some people might find it fun to join a bunch of misogynistic fascistic sadists in a video game. Hopefully there are very few of those who feels it's OK to do this in the real world. Unfortunately though there are some who do, and organizations like ISIS or Boko Haram and The Lord's Resistance Army in Africa are just too happy to recruit them.
 
Sorry for the rant... I just had to say that there are people out there that are worse than what we like to imagine is possible.
 

Just bought the new Ratchet and Clank game. Loving it so far.

Sometimes we do the most ridiculous things in videogame for the hell of it.

The young Jerry we see now seems nice enough.

Sometimes we do the most ridiculous things in videogame for the hell of it.

I think it would be better to try kind words first before including a gun.

Here's a dream I had back when I was a university student:
I dreamed that I was at an exam for history, and I realised I didn't study. While freaking out, I slowly realised, "Hang on, I'm an accounting student. I don't have history classes in the first place!" It's about then I woke up.

If its regular enough, there could be a certain sense of comfort in its predictability.

It's comparable to Rock-Paper-Scissors.

I dread how the conversation with Edward will go.

"Modern medicine is awesome." -Me

Every time I see a terrorist act committed by people who claim to be of the same religion as me, I die a little bit inside.

Every time I see a terrorist act committed by people who claim to be of the same religion as me, I die a little bit inside.

He wasn't wrong.  He was just putting it off.

Every time I see a terrorist act committed by people who claim to be of the same religion as me, I die a little bit inside.

Every time I see a terrorist act committed by people who claim to be of the same religion as me, I die a little bit inside.