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I would like to congratulate @hckosice and @phelps with ice hockey's 100th Olympic anniversary today

How is it so terribly sad if someone who has been dominating everything for 13 years loses? I'd say that's generally pretty awesome actually, upsets are often some of the best things in sports Also for the general public, there's not much to make out of "athlete X was unbeaten for 13 years, and then won again" against "athlete X was unbeaten for 13 years, but athlete Y did the impossible!".

I'd just type in Stephen King, hit a 'randomize' button and go

Yes and yes, depending on which game(s) is/are used and the availability of said games. I'd like everything that has a competitive feel to it where you can sort of control something

I watched it on a streaming platform, also week to week - often my favourite way to watch a show, I can get a much better feeling for the characters when watching it over a longer period of time. Besides, of course I don't always have time to watch an episode every day, so even when a full season is available at once, I generally take a few weeks.

Yeah, 'hard to keep track of' is also very much an opinion: I found it rather easy actually I often like series that are sort of post-apocalyptic or give that kind of feel

Meanwhile Astrid Jacobsen has retired. https://www.nrk.no/sport/astrid-uhrenholdt-jacobsen-legger-opp-1.14990526

I live in the Netherlands and still that has to be the most random place for a bike I've ever seen. I like it

Did they also write 'Marcus et Cornelia in horto ambulant'?

Well yeah, understandable. Badum tss. And I'm just saying what Belgian media is saying, don't shoot the messenger

SAIL Amsterdam has been cancelled, which is a shame for people who like these big boats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIL_Amsterdam Since events until 1 September can't happen, and this was planned in August, it would of course not go on this year, but moving it up one year turned out not to be an option neither: most of these international tall ships apparently have their schedules made up for a few years already. It's an event that's supposed to happen once every five years, so the next one will only be in 2025.

Is Dr Tedros the next person we all have to hate?

Belgians are mad at some Italian newspaper, because they described the absolutely huge Belgian health minister Maggie de Block as someone who is 140kg "Belgium changes how they'll count dead, decides Maggie: minister of 140kg" Belgians shouldn't be so sensitive about that, since half the Belgian internet is full with De Block memes often focusing on her saying of "Stay in your house" combined with 'or else I'll eat you'

I can't even remember having to write opinions other than "I liked it because I thought it was nice"

Wait, that average guy is playing fatty Kim?

It was his own decicison to not to it though. He was allowed to do so, but decided not to and he is indeed allowed to decide that. If you have a bit of a sense of the popularity of cycling, Evenepoel and De Muur in Belgium, you'll know it was a well-meant, but just not very well thought-out idea from him at the moment. He'll come up with something else I guess, since it was meant to show some support for the healthcare workers (a few days ago he already did a solo 300km ride).

There used to be a great downhill skiing game (yeah, downhill only) but that's discontinued sadly and I can't find it anymore. Since there's snow in South America and Oceania, it'd be possible

Can one play Minecraft for free? Some kids at the place where I study and work (there are students aged roughly between 15 and 30, so yeah ) keep pushing it all the time, but most people - including me - haven't started with it because we just don't really get what one can do apart from building stuff At least a shooter or strategy game or whatnot has the feel of some sort of competitiveness.

I am now happy I didn't go to school there, that sounds even worse than maths and more senseless than the 'art classes' we had

And most of them think that they've grown up in hard times, and when the others say they had hard times too, every generation counts with "no but for us it was real!".

Because they make it sound like it is an American crisis. It is a worldwide crisis, they make it sound like "sure the world is having a tough time, but for us it's even harder!" They are like those people to whom you say something and they answer by taking your situation, turning it to theirs and increase how bad it is so they can still get enough attention. - "My friend died." - "Oh that sucks, only a month ago I had a friend die and my grandma and sister too."

And what's with this Z? What comes next? What are media and generation-thinking people going to call the people born a year later? Gen AA, followed by AB and those born this year are roughly called Gen AP or something?

Yeah there they go, thinking the world revolves around them and them only (as far as there is a 'they' when it's about these age-based samples they call 'generations').

This sounds pretty interesting actually, I can't really think of much to add (for now).

All I know about Minecraft apart from how to get wood is that you can dangle a carrot on a stick in front of a pig to make it run while you're on it. Is that an event?