Primal Phoenix

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B061Rs4gw4zkCec35Q5v2r576e_Jd6pJfrT_5_GZ74I/preview
 
Sheds a lot more light on the issue, if you're invested enough to read 17 pages.
 
tl;dr
 
James was hired, and told to 'be himself' by none other than Icefrog. Valve decided they didn't like James' on camera persona, and fired him, there may or may not have been some personal vendetta's/past grudges involved with a Valve employee named Ali. As far as James is aware there was no off camera incident that could have caused him to be fired, most likely it was because he was taking shots at players, (Waga/Singsing for the final session, both of whom James claims to be good friends with). Either way I would argue it's not what he gets for "being a douche" as Valve knew who they were hiring, and what his particular hosting style is, not to mention the extreme unprofessionalism of Valve asking James to hold off on his statement until the morning, while in the meantime Gabe Newell issues his own statement during the period they asked James to cool off for outright calling James "an ass". 
 
Coupled with the fact that he was carrying the shit out of the entire panel, and managed to come up with hours of content while dealing with the shitshow that was the production of this event and the endless delays it caused, as well as the fact that he is extremely popular among fans I'd say Valve seriously dropped the ball on this one, and for a company that is notorious for their bad PR it's sure something to fuck up beyond what anyone expected.
 
I'm sure Tobias will probably write up something later that puts my short shitty rundown of events to shame, but I'm about to go out so I've rushed this a bit, and I cba to check over what I've written.
 
tl;dr;tl;dr
 
The only thing Major about this event is how much of a Major fuckup it is.

Recently been experimenting with fresh pasta, can't be denied that it takes a lot more effort than dried pasta, but I figure if you make it up in a reasonably large batch and refrigerate it, it won't work out that much harder if you're just making basic types of pasta.
 
I made a spinach and ricotta ravioli with a Parmesan white sauce for dinner last night, and cut out some tagliatelle for breakfast this morning, and just tossed it in a little butter and salt then grated some Parmesan on top. I've gotta say fresh pasta easily beats the dried stuff. 

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Obviously.

In my trousers
 

In my trousers
 

In my trousers
 

In my trousers
 

In my trousers
 

Thanks man, it turned out really well, was pretty overwhelming to try and cook that many dishes at once though.
 
As I said I'd do, I got a couple pictures of the meal.
 
Starting with the jelly, which my brother who can actually take pictures took a picture of:
 

 
and my grainy-ass picture of the rest of it:
 

Thanks man, it turned out really well, was pretty overwhelming to try and cook that many dishes at once though.
 
As I said I'd do, I got a couple pictures of the meal.
 
Starting with the jelly, which my brother who can actually take pictures took a picture of:
 

 
and my grainy-ass picture of the rest of it:
 

Holy shit, that's insane. The most I can do is boil pasta and dunk stuff in it.
 
Your family sounds incredibly lucky to have you, that all really does sound amazing.

Necroing this thread to post about what I'm cooking my family for new years dinner.
 
I'm going to be cooking fried potato and soybean cakes with tofu stuffed shiitake mushrooms fried in a soy sauce and mirin mixture, boiled soybean pods with sea salt seasoning and a miso soup.
 
For pudding I'm making a maple sauce milk jelly with a strawberry lemon and maple syrup sauce.
 
 
Will probably post pictures of it when I've got it served. Can also provide a recipe if anyone is interested in any of the stuff.

Necroing this thread to post about what I'm cooking my family for new years dinner.
 
I'm going to be cooking fried potato and soybean cakes with tofu stuffed shiitake mushrooms fried in a soy sauce and mirin mixture, boiled soybean pods with sea salt seasoning and a miso soup.
 
For pudding I'm making a maple sauce milk jelly with a strawberry lemon and maple syrup sauce.
 
 
Will probably post pictures of it when I've got it served. Can also provide a recipe if anyone is interested in any of the stuff.

I wish you all a very merry Christmas even though I hate most of you.

Literally cannot stand using membrane keyboards anymore, mechanical is just so much better.

I wish you all a very merry Christmas even though I hate most of you.

Went to London today with Silent, Astridax and Bloom (the latter two being MLM people).
 
Picked up some cool shit, the highlight of which was a Nendo Kongou.
 
Picture is shitty and grainy because I can't fucking into cameras.
 

Went to London today with Silent, Astridax and Bloom (the latter two being MLM people).
 
Picked up some cool shit, the highlight of which was a Nendo Kongou.
 
Picture is shitty and grainy because I can't fucking into cameras.
 

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What do you want from Lina exactly, would you prefer her balancing on a ball throwing trumpets instead of auto-attacks and honking her nose at CM? Maybe instead of souls, Shadow Fiend's Arcana could have him accept FIEND REQUESTS on Steam and his aghs ulti could have him shoot out up-votes and bring back downvotes
 
It's almost like these heroes have themes or something, what CAN you do with an entirely Fire based hero other than go all Human Torch.

So a game my brother is a dev for is currently top seller on steam. Gotta say I'm pretty proud of him right now.

So a game my brother is a dev for is currently top seller on steam. Gotta say I'm pretty proud of him right now.

Good luck hitting me I'm behind 17 guardian angels.

Good luck hitting me I'm behind 17 guardian angels.

Made this for the old MLM Dota scoreshots thread. Good friend Courtney finished a game as Gyro with 4 (or maybe 5 I dont remember) rapiers and destroyed the other teams void.