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I'm watching Community atm, about half way through the first series so far, and doing about 300-450kcal per viewing session (though I guess slightly negated by tea drank during it), which isn't too bad. It's about 2,000-2,500kcal per series, on top of all other stuff during the day. Also it can be quite a funny show. A watercooler one at that too, just got to start on Got n Walking Dead and I'll totally be hip n stuff at work, rather than talking about animes n sci-fis.

Wiki says he's from New Jersey. Now Eddard Stark? There's a northern lad.

Spoilers, though not just got GoT.

Ramuh summon in the new game. Ramuh summon in the best Final Fantasy game:

Ramuh summon in the new game. Ramuh summon in the best Final Fantasy game:

See maybe it's just from being in the UK but I thought it was somewhat obvious of "The Wall" that's keeping out the northern "white walkers" being Hadrians wall keeping out the scots. Much of the story being about the War of the Roses, between the House of Lancaster (Lannister) and House of York (Stark). Since I grew up in Yorkshire, the white rose emblem is nearly everywhere, from council letterheads to names of pubs, as a kid it's not a thing you realise is very specific to your region of England.

I've being playing Pokemon Shuffle, not sure if I'd approve of that being their method going forwards in the F2P dept.

They've updated Civ III (2001) with Steamworks: http://steamcommunity.com/games/3910/announcements That's some long tail support, it pre-dates Steam for one.

Yeah, crazy stuff.

You bought a coffee maker? I've always thought of it as a somewhat american thing. You'd have to be pretty into coffee, or have a decent sized kitchen, to dedicate space alongside a kettle (let alone two, as seems to be your case).

Also

Hmm, well there's different arcs. Colour of Magic is the first one so a natural starting point, but at that point it was very clearly a fantasy parody thing, rather than the full Discworld universe and his writing style hadn't crystallised as much. It's also the start of the Rincewind stuff which is more focused on the wizards, as well as a bit more focus on the fantasy side of things (Cohen the Barbairian, speaking swords, dragons, etc) Guards! Guards! is the first of the Watch books and a fave of mine (the arc). The Watch books are more crime focused and generally set in Ankh-Morpork (Discworld's main city, sort of a parody of London). Vimes is also a favourite character of Pratchett and certainly popped up in more n more books as the series progressed. Mort is the first of the Death books, which mainly focus around Death (the personification), and his granddaughter Susan. However it might be best to start with Hogfather here, if only cos there's the TV film to watch for it. Also I rather like Deaths revelation near the end. Not sure how I'd describe them apart from more abstract (death, time, belief etc). Oh Death appears in all but one book (and I'm not sure which it is). Death is a fan fave, and I really like them alongside the Watch stuff. Death being such a well developed character is part of why Pratchett dying has been taken so well, he has crafted it so that he experiences one of his characters rather than an event. Equal Rites is technically the first of the Witches books, but kinda a nascent idea at the time, so doesn't really start until Wyrd Sisters. They're mainly rifs and parodies of other works, such as Shakespeare and Brothers Grimm and such. Personally I'm not a huge Witches fan but there are folks out there that enjoy them. I imagine if you're into Shakespeare and Brothers Grimm you'll enjoy them but I came to them at a time when I was having to study that stuff for school. Maybe I should give them a fair shake at some point myself. Moist Vin Lipwig stuff is the newer stuff ("industrial" below) and more focused around the development of Ankh Morpork (which does tie in with some of the later Watch novels) as Vetinari brings it kicking and screaming out of the Century of the Fruitbat and into the Century of the Anchovy. It starts a few books before Going Postal (where Moist joins) with The Truth (though chart below adds in Moving Pictures but I've always felt that's somewhat standalone like Small Gods and Pyramids). While I generally like these ones, though unfortunately the more recent "Raising Steam" does show signs of his alzhiemers, they're much further along in the series and do somewhat assume you're familiar with the general concept of the Discworld and its quirks by that point. Personally for myself I started with Sourcery which is like the 8th book, and several books into the Rincewind arc, so don't even need to start reading at the start of an arc to get into them. I lent my colleague a copy of Guards Guards the other day, so I think that might answer my initial suggestion. But some folks might have a mental block around wanting to start right at the beginning, but I think the initial style may turn a few folks away before they've gotten going. Mort is also good to get into the Death stuff, but as I said there's Hogfather which has a bit of the wizards alongside Susan and Death as well as Mr Teatime. Oh yeah, I mentioned the Hogfather TV movie, was the first of the Sky Discworld stuff. There's also Colour of Magic (which covers Light Fantastic too) which has David Jason (who you might not know), Sean Astin (Sam Gamgee), Tim Curry (Frank n Furter), Jeremy Irons (Scar) and Christopher Lee as Death who is a great choice. And also Going Postal, which has a more British known cast, though they swapped out Jeremy Irons for Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister, which I'm to understand is a similar role). They're worth acquiring if you're wanting a bit of a quicker way to get into the series, just be aware might colour your initial imagination of everyone a bit (oh yeah: aim for Josh Kirby covers where possible cos they're really what should paint your initial impressions of the characters) (Paul Kidby is fine, especially his Night Watch cover, though I dislike the more recent trend to swap all out for these unified black and gold covers) I imagine other people would have their own suggestions.

I will note this is a playlist I've linked, so i has several others in it too.

Literally all the script does is wrap it in the html that displays it. There's a few lines to it. There's also only one plugin on the market last I checked since it's not really needing multiple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IaYJZ2Usdk&list=PLbsGxdAPhjv_tgCNWGaGvSnlIMZNkmnrM Open the link on a mobile/tablet. Youtube now supports VR video.

So for all the complaining you have embedded a webm yourself?

D'aww.

Yeah all sounds fun but... PC version.

Reaper Man may be more appropriate?

I dunno, the Doctor Who docudrama was quite well done and nice. A documentary is something someone can do through Kickstarter or whatever I guess. I'm not sure general public wholly cares on how the games were built, also nearly 20 years ago I imagine most folks working on it back in them days aren't around as much.

As part of a "season of coding shows" BBC are to be releasing a drama based on the making of Grand Theft Auto: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/makeitdigital/tv-brands

So it seems to be mixed reports on what action Turkey are taking, but their ministry has found the game to be one "based on violence" which is a bit silly http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31836323 Of all the games on the market aimed at children it's probably one of the better ones out there, certainly not something that should be banned or considered "violent". There is a peaceful mode and creative mode too.

Remove the s in the https. I noticed it doing it earlier, it fucks with the embed. Might be something I can tweak the code to strip out automatically.