[JuZ]

At work we were discussing Japan and one colleague didn't know that it's an island... kinda dumb until we started talking about geography and another colleague said "We're the country in the shape of a boot right?"

We live in England.

I despair.

In a recent survey, 1 in 4 Australians said they think dinosaurs and humans coexisted and nearly half didn't know it takes a year for the Earth to go around the sun. What the actual fuck!?

At work we were discussing Japan and one colleague didn't know that it's an island... kinda dumb until we started talking about geography and another colleague said "We're the country in the shape of a boot right?"

We live in England.

I despair.

In a recent survey, 1 in 4 Australians said they think dinosaurs and humans coexisted and nearly half didn't know it takes a year for the Earth to go around the sun. What the actual fuck!?

My time in VCE (my first two years in this country, actually) showed me a wide margin between intelligence and stereotypical bogan fucktards (the high school in question leaned more to the latter). No surprise as Western pop-culture has become increasingly worse in the last decade or so, stupidity is prevailing.

I think it's just easier to say that Western countries all over the world are spiraling into shit with every passing generation.

[EphelDuath666]

well, just look at television and what kids consume these days. The Real World was bad enough back when they started showing that garbage. But Jersey Shore is about 10220292 times worse. I don't want to know what may come next.

[JuZ]

My wife and I are raising little ones in this Idiocracy, but we'll do our best to teach them that life is about more than Kim Kardashian's vagina.

Just gotta find a good school that doesn't also shove religious ideology down their throats!

I bought myself some Dimetapp for my cough yesterday. However, when I asked for the cough syrup, the person at the pharmacy asked me how old the child was. When I said it as for me, she then went on to advise that as per government law, they weren't allowed to sell it for minors under 6, and they also have tablets as an alternative.

Thanks, but I know what I came in here to buy. And it's just for me. Good to know you're following policy, though.

Reminds me of this one time years ago when we stopped at a pharmacy with my dad to get some painkillers. Dad grabbed two packs, but the guy at the cash register said they couldn't sell that much at once to single person, so dad just handed me the second pack and a fiver. Perfectly okay to sell them to me then. I can't think why they couldn't have just sold my dad one pack of the painkillers and then the second to get two separate transactions. Indeed. policies...

Ain't it wonderful? In Finland it's possible to get a shotgun when you're 15, but you have to be 18 to buy sparkling sticks.

Happy birthday to Dan, Stu and everyone else in the list.

Cause you know, birthdays.

[EphelDuath666]

happy birthday, everyone!

Thanks, guys!! It's been a great day so far, it feels awesome to be alive.

[JuZ]

Thanks, guys!! It's been a great day so far, it feels awesome to be alive.

Need a like button.

No wait, I can just tell you using language.

Happy birthday Stu Stu!!!

Thank you so much, Mr. Juz! I also wanna add that your previous picture of Dinklage is way more awesome now that I actually watch Thrones!

Somewhat random thought: why is it that I hear quiet often how the jump mechanics / physics in Super Mario Bros. were supposedly so much perfected and spot on?

While I cope with it pretty fine, I've never regarded the controls to be that great. It feels too of 'sticky' to me, there's too much momentum, you often end up sliding around to your doom, and you have have way too little control in mid-air. If there's a Mario game that first nailed the feel of the controls, it's Super Mario Bros. 3. (Super Mario Bros. 2 aka "Doki Doki Panic w/ Mario & co. in it" doesn't count here)

[JuZ]

Somewhat random thought: why is it that I hear quiet often how the jump mechanics / physics in Super Mario Bros. were supposedly so much perfected and spot on?

While I cope with it pretty fine, I've never regarded the controls to be that great. It feels too of 'sticky' to me, there's too much momentum, you often end up sliding around to your doom, and you have have way too little control in mid-air. If there's a Mario game that first nailed the feel of the controls, it's Super Mario Bros. 3. (Super Mario Bros. 2 aka "Doki Doki Panic w/ Mario & co. in it" doesn't count here)

Y'know that's interesting. Super Mario World on the SNES probably still ranks as my most perfect video game experience. But I fired up Super Mario Bros Wii recently and found it to be very much the way you've described it.

I chalked it up to me being incredibly rusty with platformers, but something about it felt wrong, like I was running in treacle.

[EphelDuath666]

Y'know that's interesting. Super Mario World on the SNES probably still ranks as my most perfect video game experience. But I fired up Super Mario Bros Wii recently and found it to be very much the way you've described it.

I chalked it up to me being incredibly rusty with platformers, but something about it felt wrong, like I was running in treacle.

yeah, in Super Mario Bros Wii, as much fun as it is, it's way too easy to die just because you fall off a cliff or walk into an enemy because Mario doesn't just stop when you want him to but keeps walking a few more steps instead. Which to me was very annoying. Still a really fun game though.


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