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And a pretty strong testimonial about him from a former teammate is two posts above here. Very open and honest, both about the highs and the lows.

There you go. Too bad some game developer doesn't agree, but I am now curious to see if I can get the real Commandos game somewhere.

I like games to have a bit of a realistic feel in terms of overall atmosphere, which is what was one of the strong points of Commandos. Now it's just any random game in any random context with random enemies. Like playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault without any Nazi on the beaches of Normandy, 'because we shouldn't accept they actually existed'

This is so sad. The 'remaster' of a pretty legendary game turns out to be rather mediocre: they removed stuff like Nazi and Imperial Japan symbols (despite that being exactly the setting) https://nichegamer.com/2020/01/28/commandos-2-hd-remaster-censors-nazi-and-japanese-imperial-symbols-kalypso-media-we-do-not-want-to-encourage-racism/ I wonder what's next, a World War 2 game where you can only shoot with water pistols?

Oh well, from what I've been hearing, things aren't different than normal anyway in terms of people taking care and places being busy...(at least in the place I'm hearing about, where @brunamoura lives). I was mostly intrigued by the TV/government/etc making it very clear to not go to the bank, because you wouldn't get your 600 reais there, it would be done online, followed by......thousands and thousands of people all over the country standing in long lines in front of the banks

By the way, in the 80's and 90's there was a Dutch amateur cycling team sponsored by a sex club, Sauna Diana. They got sort of famous for their bus which appeared in the Tour de France, and the team competed among other things in the Trump Tour. Yes, that's the Trump Famous story here, but apart from 'hey a team sponsored by a sex club', it did actually have influence: in that time, even pro riders had nothing more than a wet towel to clean themselves up a little in their team manager's car after a race, but thanks to Sauna Diana, the normal thing quickly became for teams to have a full-blown bus with more and more luxuries on board - going from simply some private space, to showers, massages, beds etc and the semi-hotels we know now.

At least, unlike cigarettes, Durex is a smart instead of dumb thing to use

You are not seriously comparing Peter Velits* with someone who's beating the very top of the world at and even before age 20 right? *despite two decent performances, in one of which he was at the finish - according to the commentator - 'a Slovenian, or either a Slovak or a Czech' Which has nothing to do with him of course, but I found it funny to hear that when searching for it just now

Yep, not a bad thing they aren't around anymore. Even though the JPS colors were beautiful and I even have a drinking cup in those colors, a combination of Coritinthians (football) and Ayrton Senna, present from my dad in law

I'm not, this is the 2020 thread so I assumed you guys were talking about the main alternative for ESC2020, the big online Eurostream event

American bobsledder Pavle Jovanovic - who was succesful as part of Steven Holcomb's crew, and at the end had a few less succesfull appearances for Serbia as well - has ended his life at the age of only 43, as announced by his former teammate Steven Mesler.

I haven't really gotten into the Eurostream thing, but who is winning?

The only reason I got Evenepoel is because it was the world championships (as shown by the little rainbow in the graphics) and I couldn't remember Ilan van Wilder or Mauri Vansevenant winning a world title (which I assume is why the pictured rider was celebrating) and Evenepoel most definitely did

I'm requesting a permanent ban for you if you had Sagan wrong

'Recognize the cyclist by their celebration'. It's in Dutch, but you see a photo and three names so that doesn't matter I had 6 out of 10 https://sporza.be/nl/2020/05/08/quiz-herken-jij-de-renner-aan-de-hand-van-zijn-zegegebaar~1588954222066/

Right, for a moment I thought there was something I didn't know

Why does it feel like Minsk always steps in for every postponed event ever?

We have a featured section?

Best ESC winner instead of specifically best song, to be precise, but yeah Too bad Lordi wasn't in the past 10 years.

A factor in that is the way of counting. Many or most countries count deaths who have been tested positive, whereas Belgium counts everyone who died and had symptoms, tested or not. A majority of counted deaths comes from places like nursing homes, where 96%* of the deaths were suspected, but unconfirmed cases. They were however counted as COVID-19 deaths. *this was two weeks ago or so, but I doubt it changed significantly

Who?

Meanwhile a bit of alcohol last night worked miracles in finishing one of the MW2 Spec Ops on the highest difficulty Couldn't do it for the life of me, until apparently with a tiny bit of help I thought "fuck it" at some hard points and just went for it, with success Nine stars to go, three of which have to be done in co-op mode only (probably with my dad, although being an actual life-long military man makes him play a little too realistic (as in, slow) for these things on higher difficulties ).

Toxic communities, people playing in bullshit ways, singleplayer simply being more fun, etc

Yeah, fun to look back at but luckily things are different now indeed. People who are supposed to be role models (whether they want it or not) smoking away, not a damn thing in terms of safety and so on.

Those sweet, sweet cars really get the heart pumping