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For some reason sleeping more often makes my eyes even more tired.

Sleep is overrated but I can't help it.

... yeah, I hear you on that one. Sleep for the last few years has had something like a 50/50 chance of me waking up feeling like clawing my eyes (or at least the left one) out would be an improvement on the situation. Dryness, pain, fairly extreme exhaustion, rather disturbing redness... kiiiinda' sucks. Probably need to bug a doctor about it, but the last eye check I had, I asked, and the doc just kinda' shrugged and mumbled something about possibly allergies and eyedrops (which did jack all when I tried 'em).

It's interesting to notice that in all this back & forth about whether the US caused the problem or not, & whether it's someone else's turn to f' up the middle east, that no-one mentions the UK/Australian involvement (albeit on a smaller scale). We had our own share in messing things up.

Presumably because they didn't really do much. UK apparently had nearly a third the soldiers on the ground the US did (austrailia had something like 1 soldier for every 23 the UK sent, so... yeah), but soaked something like 1 death for every 25 the US ate, and the overall expenditure from the UK was something like a percent of the US's, if the wiki summation of the costs is anything even remotely approaching accurate.

Who knows, maybe if they'd actually got up and sunk a third the money the US did into the fiasco we wouldn't be having this conversation at all. Doubtful, but who can say? I've kinda' gotten the point that Europe in general gives as much a damn about Iraq as I do, though, beyond using it as a point to gripe at the US. I mean, the latter bit is okay, US has plenty to be griped about at, but the whole complete unwillingness to meaningfully contribute to improving the situation really shows how much effort is willing to be expended. I say the states should match that level of effort, ha.

So... not going to do anything about it. Okay. I guess contributing to the reconstruction and stabilization of an unjustly invaded nation isn't reason enough to get anyone off their arse. Fair enough! I can appreciate that kind of vicious apathy, and have largely reached the point I recommend my own country adopt it.

Hey, it was a lot more than the US that made that mess. There's the former soviet states (Russia seems to want to be that again, they can have the position of clusterfuck wrangler), the brits, the colonial powers in general, the natives, all the jackwads that have been sitting around with their thumbs up their arse not meaningfully contributing to fixing the problems... plenty of blame to spread around for that clusterfuck, if you're looking to assign it.

And if the brits can bugger off across the water and leave it to burn, so can we

Also, runepages. Buying stuff that affects you in-game... ehhh.

... I think your lack of actually having played the game betrays you again. Extra rune pages have no in-game effect, just saves a little bit of time in the pre-game. If that. There's literally nothing in LoL with an in-game effect that can only be accessed by paying, last I checked.

It seems fine as-is, really, unless shifting around similarly categorized things (such as TF2, and presumably DotA2, were it on the list. DotA2 should probably be added, at some point.) occurs alongside a shift to LoL. Would probably switch freemium to free-to-play in the process, I'd imagine. Maybe get fancy and call 'em monetized, ha. Likely add a column regarding monetization scheme, too, since that is the general difference between strictly free and free-with-some-sort-of-monetization, heh. Right now that's generally just shoved in with the description or any notes that might be included, looking at it.

Silly LW, pirates of the future will only accept bribes in wenches of appropriately varied gender. Sterling will mean nothing to them.

Oh, it's not just the legal system. There's an entire industry (more than one, really) surrounding the legal side (prosecution, investigation, enforcement, etc.) of crime, and a lot of people involved with it have a very vested interest in making sure "business is good". Even if it means hurting the nation as a whole or causing a lot of unnecessary misery for a lot of people.

Summer's too hot, anyway. The rest of the seasons are for socialization and whatever. Summer is for suffering and staying in the shade.