Probably the best way to defend yourself against this is masking all your personal information and not showing where you are. It at least shortens the list of people who could have made the 911 call to people who actually know where you live, i.e. people you know in real life. It probably also helps not to use a webcam, because the people who get a kick out of this probably get more of a kick out of it because they can see it happening on the stream and record it.

As far as police brutality goes; it's kind of a fine line. If a guy is surrendering himself so obviously as was the case in the video, there is no need to step on his head once you have guns pointed at him and he's pinned to the ground and surrounded by multiple officers. On the other hand, those SWAT-officers probably have quite some adrenaline rushing through their veins because they are looking for someone who is armed and reportedly firing, so it is sort of understandable that they just instinctively try to dominate their targets for their and others' safety. You can clearly see that their aggression and adrenaline lower as they start realising that there is no threat. However, officers receive training to deal with these situations and they should know exactly how much force to use to be safe without discomforting potentially innocent civilians. I also can't imagine that they haven't encountered someone laughing when they get raided before, because a reaction of utter disbelief is probably quite common.

The "What are you laughing at?" is a typical tense response fuelled by adrenaline, it's more of a challenge than it is an actual request for information. It sounds like Kootra realised what was happening and why it was happening before they even got into the room... I would have chuckled too at such a display if I knew it was all because of some bored/spiteful kid on the Internet reporting a fake shooting incident.

It was casted on TFTV2, I think. It was casted while there were games live on both channels, not sure which of the two, but it definitely was casted.

Strange Stickybomb Launcher: Loose Cannon?

Is that a "come see me so I can beat you up" or a "come see me so I can show you how nice I am"? : >

Thank you for entertaining us, Immunity. Mix^ and especially Harbleu absolutely deserved it though, as much as I wanted to see iM make it a three-way tie. What a milk, what a saw, what a crossbow.

War just seems to be doing all the basic things to perfection, but hitting loads of nice pipes on top of that solid basis. There's no fancy jumping and all that, but the actual damage and positioning are obviously doing much more work than hero plays. He's defending himself and KnOxXx so well, too.

That would mean matches would start at 3 AM British time, seems a bit unlikely.

I still don't know what I watched when I saw that. It's definitely unlike anything else and worth watching if only for that.

So is your shitposting.

I'd second Moon and Jagten(The Hunt).

• 2001: A Space Odyssey is a great film if you have some patience and like quirky science fiction. It premiered in 1968 and it still looks modern and advanced to this day, it's quite something.
  
• 500 Days of Summer is a bit of a different romantic film that had a unique style; not trying to be funny with a bad script like most romantic comedies.
  
• The Machinist is a psychological thriller which is also known for Christian Bale dropping his weight to 54 kg(~120 lbs) to play the main character, after which he then immediately doubled it again through weight training to play Batman.

I recently saw Boyhood, which was filmed over 12 years with the same actors all the way through. I'm not quite sure what I think of it yet, but it was definitely unique and worth watching, in my opinion. Enjoy.

I just hope that they can keep the (environmental) movement mechanics identical if it gets ported to SrcII. Blast jumping and strafing are so good in TF2 compared to other games which try to implement such movement mechanics. A new engine often means new physics, so I'm kind of scared that rocket/sticky jumping etc. will not have the same feeling and/or give the same capabilities they have now.

It is a highly personal thing, especially the finer details that actually make the difference. One thing which really doesn't help is feeling pressured to go to sleep at a certain time because you have to be awake at a certain time, but there is not much you can really do about this because of the way society is currently structured.

The only thing I could think of adding to what has been said above is that with all things that have to do with health which aren't just a case of something being broken - whether that be obesity, depression, poor stamina, anxiety, insomnia, nightmares, substance dependency or whatever - it is most important to make the decision to change your life in order to accommodate for your body being in a healthier state. It's like doing exercise; if you're busy all day and you can't find the time to do some exercise, then you're never going to do exercise. You're going to have to decide to drop some of the things you are doing before you have the chance to choose to do exercise. The problem was not in the exercise, but in another part of your life. The same thing applies to bad sleeping: if you are doing things which you know badly affect your sleep, then you are going to have to make a change to make room for stopping those habits, rather than trying to force your sleeping mechanisms to work within your current lifestyle.

Also if you're in pain(mentally or physically) or your body is "malfunctioning" in any way, go see a doctor, because it might just domino its way through your body and make it nigh impossible for you to fix all of the problems it creates without a little help. Good luck.

To me the worrying part of this is that at this point in time it seems that the flight was brought down by rebels. All instances of civilian planes being taken down in the past were military acts by national forces. That rebels somehow obtained the means to bring down a plane at cruising altitude is disturbing because this would mean that guarding the airspace directly around an airport is no longer enough to guarantee safe flight corridors.

It's also interesting to point out that when civilian jets have been brought down in the past, it was almost always(or even just always) a mistake as well; two examples:

• An American cruiser took down an Iranian jet in the past because they thought it was a missile coming at them due to its flight pattern on their target radar.
  
• A Russian fighter jet was looking for an American radar plane during the Cold War, but he mistakenly took down a Korean civilian jet(this was at night) which happened to be where they were expecting the scout plane to be. The flight had veered off course due to failing to set the correct heading mode on the auto-pilot.

So as you can see, while it is worrying that rebels have such weapons, military forces are known to make these mistakes as well(especially at times of war).

I prefer watching the EU rule set. I also don't see the problem in playing two different maps in a row if you can play three to five different maps in a row when it comes to grand finals time(not to mention you don't even know what the maps are going to be, though you do have a pool to practice in its entirety). I suppose it might be a bit harder for players at lower levels of competition, as they haven't played the maps as many times as invite/professional/premiership level players, not to mention their team might not have been together as long.