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[King Zultan]

Wicker man goat?

So when do we get goat Nicolas Cage screaming about the bees?

[Yoink]

I honestly can't believe there's people who dislike the smell of coffee. You have to be making this shit up.

Agreed. For several years just a whiff of coffee smell would transport me back to my childhood visits to a certain SE Asian nation where they had their coffee black, sludgy and delicious, with a generous helping of sugar... now those memories have faded for the most part, but I still love the smell. I still drink my coffee black, too.   

The stench is part of what wakes you up.  I assume.  For me, the taste of bitter (unadulterated with sugar and cream) wakes me the heck up.
The caffeine kicks in a few minutes later.

There was a song I wanted to post in response to this, that I distinctly remember discovering and listening to on Spotify years ago, but now I can't seem to find it.    

[Ulfarr]

UwU

Meanwhile at the sexy santa elf costume industry...

[dragdeler]

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[Kagus]

Quick sidenote that while official marriage between homosexual couples is a relatively new thing in Norway, it's not quite as meaningful given that most of the rights associated with marriage in the US are granted by cohabitation/domestic partnership in Norway, which I don't think has ever discriminated against same-sex pairings.

[martinuzz]

Yeah, same here. Same sex-marriages for the church are relatively new, but same-sex marriages / other forms of official partnership which give the same rights as church marriage have been legal for a long time.

It has, for a very long time now, not really been anything about discriminating lgbti, it was more of a clash between constitutional right of freedom of religion and constitutional right to non-discrimination.

Note that the vast majority of marriages over here are for the state, not for the church anyways.

In other words: the question was more 'can we force a religious person to do something that goes against their belief?
For example, can you force a jew/muslim to eat pork / can you force a catholic priest to minister a same-sex wedding ceremony in the church?

[voliol]

The Swedes do burn a goat still, if ”still” is applicable when it hasn’t been burned for the last four years because burning the goat is an act of arson and the municipality will do anything to stop it. It’s a shame.

[MrRoboto75]

can we talk about how the terran music in starcraft 1 absolutely slaps?

[None]

terran theme is BUMPIN man I put on the starcraft soundtrack one day earlier this year and was floored at just how effectively each race's musical themes capture their ideological themes, since I never bothered thinking closely about that while acquiring vespene gas

but if you wanted to just 'listen to a piece of soundtrack' you gotta go terran man

and those sounds are iconic i made a loot filter for path of exile that would play zerg sounds when good loot dropped so high-value objects sound like scourges exploding and high-tier maps are greater spires and all the little goodie jubblies currency that's nice but not valuable was that good good splllllt spllllt splllt sounds the hydralisks make when they shoot.

OGH so satisfying

(I'm thinking about this in context of 2000's starcraft, not the remaster)

[Rolan7]

can we talk about how the terran music in starcraft 1 absolutely slaps?

Omigosh, right?  Starcraft 1 can be hard to play in a lot of ways, but the Terran music lives up to my memory of old LAN parties.

Sure they were copying off Warhammer once the deal fell through...  But making the Space Marines into the Deep South was pretty brilliant.  Every unit has so much character, and works just as well whether they're fighting for the Terran Confederacy or are snarky rebels and freebooters.  The siege tankers have a drawl so deep that even I was misunderstanding them!  And I know it's in my head but you can almost see their glee when you managed to deploy and support them properly, and an enemy force just gets... denied.  Goes hand in hand with those cocky fighter-jocks.  Even the prim battlecruiser captains really just want to fire off their wave-motion-cannons.

The music evokes a lot of that for me.  High stakes, industrial, and very... very frontier.  I'm glad that Earth was basically unmentioned until the expansion.  These frontier Deep-South terrans relied on adaptability and sarcastic grit, and that's a legacy I can be proud of (in this game where it isn't relying on chattel slavery).

[Frumple]

The siege tankers have a drawl so deep that even I was misunderstanding them!

It was years after I played the SC1 campaigns through that I stopped wondering why the blazes those critters were talking about eating roses. Rose eating, rose eating, they kept saying, and I had no idea what they were going on about.

[Rolan7]

The siege tankers have a drawl so deep that even I was misunderstanding them!

It was years after I played the SC1 campaigns through that I stopped wondering why the blazes those critters were talking about eating roses. Rose eating, rose eating, they kept saying, and I had no idea what they were going on about.

Literally same!  I assumed "Rose eaten" was a phrase from Alabama or Florida or something, I'm merely NC.  Nice to hear it confused you too.

Also the Goliaths addressing "Tac-COM" sounded a little bit like my handle at the time, and I briefly thought it was some text-to-speech gimmick.  It was FAR off but close enough for my suspension of disbelief.

The Terran theme, to save people a Google search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4GbGmvNRc
It's fun to check out all the Starcraft 1 unit quotes on Youtube, though.  They say a lot of funny things when you keep clicking them. 

Edit:  As someone who loved Mechwarrior stuff growing up, it was pretty weird/funny for a game to include walkers... And they were essentially mobile SAM batteries!  Technically capable in ground-ground combat but cost-ineffective compared to most other options.  Or maybe it's just that every air unit was incredibly fragile for its cost...  I tended to use Wraith fighters instead.  They were equally fragile, but the invincibility of a cloaking device makes for a devastating attack against enemy fliers.

I assume Blizzard was picturing Imperial Guard Sentinels, basically AT-STs, instead of proper battlemechs.  But their devastating anti-air attacks stuck with me for a unit that was otherwise pretty disappointing.

[Frumple]

The siege tankers have a drawl so deep that even I was misunderstanding them!

It was years after I played the SC1 campaigns through that I stopped wondering why the blazes those critters were talking about eating roses. Rose eating, rose eating, they kept saying, and I had no idea what they were going on about.

Literally same!  I assumed "Rose eaten" was a phrase from Alabama or Florida or something, I'm merely NC.  Nice to hear it confused you too.

Yeah, proceeding is just generally not a word used down here in places with that kind of drawl to begin with. I can comprehend accents thicker than theirs most days, but that particular word just isn't one I've heard much or at all in the wild. Too fancy for general use, heh.

Meanwhile roses are genuinely edible and gardening and junk is fairly common around here, so... that was a comprehensible thing, I just didn't understand why they were talking about it. Answer was they weren't...

[scriver]

The Swedes do burn a goat still, if ”still” is applicable when it hasn’t been burned for the last four years because burning the goat is an act of arson and the municipality will do anything to stop it. It’s a shame.

This is the real war on Christmas

[delphonso]

God listening that Terran theme transported me back in time and halfway across the globe in an instant.

Shit, I bet I can get Starcraft to run in Wine.