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Ever since I watched this video in 2010 I've thought of it at least once a year since. This is peak gaming.

Stellaris seems pretty cool but I refuse to give Paradox any more money until they remove the cancer that is killing EU4. Or my will fails.

Back from Iowa. Almost fell on my ass several times because of the snow and ice but it was a nice enough place, even if we were almost killed twice in car crashes because of Dubuque drivers. Grandpa is going to die in a couple days most likely, but that's what we thought and that's why we went: the main reason was to say hi (goodbye?) to grandpa and clean out his apartment. Which despite being relatively small (one combined kitchen and living room with a small bedroom, a closet, and a kitchen) took about 4 hours each day for 4 days. I learned a lot about him and his life doing that at least. I knew barely anything about him before then, since he was thousands of miles away and family rarely comes up in conversation. He was one hell of a guy. A medic in the Korean War, an English teacher, a provost at a community college, hell he was even the "Masked Marvel" on his basketball team in the 50s. He used to write poems and send them off to greeting card companies for a few bucks each, and he'd write a lot about a lot of things in general. He researched his ancestry; nothing really noteworthy (mom's side was Germano-Nebraskan farmers, dad's side was French-Canadian later Iowan tailors and farmers, and apparently one of the earliest settlers of Montreal was one of them). If I can do even half of what he's done I'll die happy. Which seems to be the way he's doing it, he's at peace with it all. As he said he's 91 and not really dying of anything in particular, and my dad and I think he's just ready to go on. In less intimate vacation news I went to my first casino, which sucked. I don't know why old people love these things, and I'm not even adverse to gambling. Saw Eagle Point Park and Mississippi Lock and Dam #11, whose tourist placard said it was the only major lock and dam that had not yet undergone maintenance and restoration! Wowwee. Also saw the world-famous Dubuque shot tower which opened in the 1850s and closed within 3 years because the St. Louis shot tower undercut its prices and drove Dubuque's tower into bankruptcy. It's so world famous that I decided that even though I wasn't going to take any pictures during the trip I would make an exception for this tourist hotspot. Don't be too jealous now, it'll still be there if you wanna book a flight to see it yourself. The casinos are only a couple of blocks away.

I'll be flying on a plane for the first time since the 2nd millennium this Friday, on my way to the infamously sunny Iowa to meet my dad's dad. If I never post again the Children of the Corn took me.

I had a dream about my friends and I playing Minecraft (since we did recently) but I only remembered about 5 seconds of it. I hit my friend with my diamond sword for some reason and he said "OW WHAT THE FUCK WHY DOES THAT DO SO MUCH DAMAGE DOES IT HAVE SHARPNESS IV ON IT?" and I just said "No, it has Bane of Anthropods III (which is what my actual sword had), you must be a spider. Die you spider bitch." All throughout this I was whacking him with it. I really wish I remembered what happened before or after.

Stay Woke

Talk of distinction between what the meme word of the month actually means is usually pointless because the people who use those meme words because they are meme words don't really care anyway and they'll use it as often as they encounter a situation even slightly relevant to the meme word. If all you have is a hammer... I suppose I can't hate them too much since sometimes I get words in my mind I really want to use somewhere too but man does it get annoying. Like "yikes" which I guess replaced "cringe" which kinda-sorta I think replaced "edgy". And I know it's not a word but the stupid meme text that iS lIkE tHiS is fucking retarded and why the fuck is it still going on it's just >implying but you don't even have to even reword it you just type it like a retard. I'd post the only cursed video but I don't think hotlinking Mr. Hands would be appreciated.

Where? I don't doubt you I just seem to live under an internet rock nowadays.

Cursed image/video/x has been kinda big the past year or so that I know of but it's been used a while before that. I can't say I've seen any big uptick in its usage lately though.

I think we can all agree, though, Ugandan knuckles was the meme that burned twice as bright and lasted half as long. A week or so ago one of my friends reposted an image he made earlier this year and we all agreed that the Ugandan Knuckles instantly dated that fucking thing to early 2018. Anyway, even though I still have 2018 for another hour and a half, happy New Year's.

2018's about to end, and it's time to choose the best meme of the year. For me it's gotta be 30 year old boomer.

Don't forget that the map's gotta be huge and unoptimized because of all the shit in it so it's gotta run like shit too, especially so the day its released... which is weeks away from the next patch because everyone at Valve is on vacation. Merry Smissmas!

RIP the Kid from Brooklyn.

That's the Christmas skeleton. He gives all the good kids toys like stuffing from the seat cushions of his beater 68 Impala or half a lincoln log.

That poem alone has more effort than everything Valve did for yesterday's update.

Can't wait for the 2 achievements that are "reflect an elf arrow into the enemy carrying the intelligence" and "win the map 146 times".

Eh, John Oliver's a TV guy first and foremost and Fortnite is more intertwined with Twitch than Youtube in my opinion. Now The Young Turks battling armenians Boogie2988 with Minecraft swords? That's Youtube.

Just got around to watching Youtube Rewind This Year. I really think they missed an opportunity to have the chick who shot up Youtube HQ do the Childish Gambino gun thing instead of lame shit that had nothing to do with Youtube like John Oliver fortnite dancing.

I always thought Smash was the fighting game you put on when you had some friends coming over but you don't know them super well so you put on a good game that nobody can complain about (along with cheese pizzas from Little Caesar's and Pepsi) but now my view has been demolished since you guys are talking about fuckin' Oblivion with Mario or something.

Of course... it all comes together now. A WW2-themed Battle Royale game where 15 different classes (one of whom is a space marine time traveler from 2232) compete in an open world with hunger/thirst mechanics and MOBA towers you can spawn in via killstreak. The top 3 winners get 3/2/1 lootboxes that they can open for cards to play in the minigame that awards crafting materials they use to build new guns and cosmetics to customize their loadout. And the battle royale "bomb" zone or whatever its called will turn you into a zombie if it kills you. I mean you of course die but your corpse becomes a computer-controlled zombie at which point it hunts down other players and it does like 5 damage and dies in one headshot it's really shitty but you get an achievement if it kills someone. Why contain it?

Someone should make a WW2-themed Battle Royale game in an open world with hunger/thirst mechanics and MOBA towers you can spawn in via killstreak. Put it on Steam for 20 dollars call it like "The meme game for fuckers" or something I don't know it can be shit it doesn't matter it will make money. If I missed a fad of the past 20 years let me know cause I know I did.