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I genuinely think that in May and early June Victoria / Vancouver / Seattle are the best three cities in the world.

Before living in the Seattle area, Fall. Now that I live in the PNW... Summer all the way xD

Day 0 Recap The US performed extremely well in first three phases of the figure skating team competition. Nathan Chen had a characteristically strong skate, and the US also won the rhythm dance and had a strong showing in the pairs short program. They find themselves slightly ahead of ROC, which...

Day -1 Recap Mikaël Kingsbury won the men's mogul qualifying by a comfortable margin while his biggest competitor. Ikuma Horishima, failed to qualify (he will have a second chance on Saturday). There was also sad news out of hockey, as USA's Brianna Decker is out for the tournament due to an...

Day -2 Recap As is now tradition for the Winter Olympics, competition starts a couple days before opening ceremonies, with four mixed doubles curling matches underway. All four games were close affairs that could have gone either way until the final stone was thrown. The most anticipated game...

Hi y'all. If you know one thing about me is that I love the Olympics way too much. I love the sports, I love the politics, I love hating Thomas Bach (Olympic champion, Fencing, Montreal 1976), I miss when games were awarded with a big vote after a competitive bidding process, I love spending...

Aren't AES and Rijndael essentially the same thing?

Because a lot of PC ports are not very good and because it used to be common to base things like AI and physics simulation on a per-frame basis (luckily this practice is dying out).

I don't know why but Chrono Trigger music always makes me extremely emotional, even though I only played it for the first time recently (the Steam release, post patches). The Tokyo 2020 Olympics used video game music during the parade of nations, and I remember almost chocking up when Frog's...

My 'sona has no specific age and wears diapers because :P

Nintendo 64, first game was Lego Racer. It turned into a Mario Party 2 machine for a long time, Paper Mario also got a lot of playtime.

Closing as this thread was necroed and because it is no longer about incontinence.

See, this exactly the kind of inappropriate comment I made in my first intro post :P

Hi y'all, Twelve years ago a much younger Near, who was quite out of his depth and not known as Near yet, posted a disastrous introduction thread. I'm glad I stuck around, though, because it ended up being somewhat life changing. Twelve years later, I am still here and I have spent almost a...