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BTGBullseye

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  1. Banned for using a non-word.
  2. 1895 - Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. The lowest ever UK temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record is equalled in 1982 and again in 1995. In Munich, bicyclists have to pass a test and display license plates. Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine in Germany. Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and is sentenced to serve 2 years in prison at Reading. The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0). The first game of what will become known as rugby league football is played in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season. Daniel David Palmer performed the first Chiropractic Adjustment. Palmer's first patient was Harvey Lillard whose complaint was partial deafness after an injury. George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays. Chicago Times-Herald race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. Press coverage first arouses significant American interest in the automobile. At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator. Grace Chisholm Young becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university. W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is saved when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loan $65 million worth of gold to the United States government.
  3. SPOOF - Society for the Protection of Old Fishes
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  5. Getting ready to go to bed... Got to be fresh for the Elder Scrolls Online Beta at noon...
  6. Rust. Pirated. Private server. The server crashes after about an hour, no matter what.
  7. The "My Computer Sucks" solution...
  8. Just thought I'd update this with the info that Steam FINALLY runs perfectly on Fedora 20 after updating, installing RPMfusion as a repository, and installing Steam. Half-life 2 works perfectly, and I get about double the framerates that I did on the same system running a fresh clean (and stripped down) install of Windows 7.
  9. Banned for not capitalizing, or using correct punctuation.
  10. Mmmmm... Cheeseburger...
  11. Then it isn't random, but just a random topic. In other words... A... General Discussion thread...
  12. Spambot.
  13. Star Trek Online. Crashed it too...
  14. You could always record at 720p instead of 1080p... Save about 50% of the space...
  15. Sweet Potato Chips.
  16. I'm thinking a merger would be more logical. *EA goes bankrupt and gets bought by Machinima...
  17. THIS IS NOT THE RANDOM THREAD!!!
  18. Haven't played anything new yet, but I'm about to start Star Trek Online...
  19. They're real... You just have to eat the right mushrooms before they start making sense. 4/10
  20. No, it was crashing because I had a glitch caused by one of my torrent programs that caused significant system instability. Was crashing a lot more than just the game, and after restarting it stopped crashing. On topic: Rage. Finished it again, and deleted it. Now preloading Elder Scrolls Online Beta for the 9th...
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