Exams, Battlefield: Minecraft and Minecraft

***Update***

Minecraft 1.0.0 released. Oh you, notch!

My server is up to date and yet again the hint:

We are still looking for players!

Check my Minecraft page.

***Update***

This is me

(realising that I have 5 exams ahead this month)

[indeed: bad excuse for a video post]

Battlefield: Minecraft

(Not sure if want...)

Minecraft 1.9 4 preview:

(Strongholds, fuck yeah. Also: Dragons, the end)

Play Minecraft SMP

(5/10 slots filled, forum finally up)

Mass Effect 3 Gameplay

(Alternative title: "No really, just fuck you again, EA")

I... I tried really hard to like it. I fucking love the first one, had tons of fun with the second, although somehow less good game, I almost creamed my pants on the first ME3 trailer but this...

It's just... bad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfz1DppIDC0

(Can't embed video since it's not listed, click it yourself lazy fools!)

So bioware has become so fucking incompetent they can't even make a coherent, unified game anymore?

They have to make "Modes"?

 - Hamburger Helper Mode where you watch the game play itself like it's a movie, really?

-  ACSHUN Mode where you press a button something awesome happens for the call of duty kids.

- And then as an afterthought they put in an "RPG" mode which will sit uncomfortably between the two like a thin man stuffed between two hambeasts on an airplane and even worse dialogues with even less influence on story and gameplay?

I'm not going to buy Mass Effect 3. This is the third preorder I cancled in the second half of this year.

Out of 5 games I was waiting for like a little child waits for christmas.

EA.

Destroyer of worlds.

Ender of all things good.

Well Played EA

(Alternative title: "No really, just fuck you, EA")

First of all I have to admit that I pre-ordered Battlefield 3.

I canceled it after playing the open beta of BF3 and the big disappointment it was.

After hearing that it's single player is about 3 hours of  (maybe even intensive) gameplay and a multiplayer full of bugs, lags and missing big innovative changes to the past 2341089 Battlefield titles, I decided to not buy it at all and instead wait for Moden Samefare 3, which at least never disappointed me in atmospheric and longer singleplayer.

Now I've heard about some unbelievable facts about the TOS from EA's Steam-clone "Origin".

Check this quotation from the TOS you agree after spending 60€ on the described piece of scum and opening it, which means you can't even get your money back if you decline the TOS.

2. Consent to Collection and Use of Data.

You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online services. EA may also use this information combined with personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. We may also share that data with our third party service providers in a form that does not personally identify you. IF YOU DO NOT WANT EA TO COLLECT, USE, STORE, TRANSMIT OR DISPLAY THE DATA DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE APPLICATION. This and all other data provided to EA and/or collected by EA in connection with your installation and use of this Application is collected, used, stored and transmitted in accordance with EA's Privacy Policy located at www.ea.com. To the extent that anything in this section conflicts with the terms of EA's Privacy Policy, the terms of the Privacy Policy shall control.

Basically Origin is a spyware tool which collects all data it wants to know about, even if its far beyond gaming and hardware.

So in other words: You're spreading your legs for EA's giant run-up taking Spywaredick and kindly ask it to do whatever it wants to do with you.

Really?

Makes it way easier for me to not buy yet again another EA game.

No problemo, more money for Modern Warefare 3, Uncharted 3, Skyrim :)))

Minecraft again

(Alternative title: We want YOU!)

I'd like to advertise once again for my own minecraft server.

We - currently 3 reliable players - are looking for 3-6 more players who'd like to join us.

The server is set up to pure survival multiplayer.

We don't cheat and we don't use consolecommands. PvP is disabled.

All we've build so far has been a lot of work from two of us, so you'll find an almost untouched world with plenty of nice places where you can do your thing.

Your thing means that you can build anything anywhere you want, as long as you talked to other players before. 

If this is relevant to your interests, leave me a comment with your registered (legal only!) minecraft nick or PM me to get whitelisted.

The server is available @ 85.214.246.96:25565

So far we've got:

• A large fortress which isn't anywhere near monster-free
• A good working mobgrinder
• 2 awesome houses of awesomeness
• A netherportal
• A couple of not completly discovered mineshafts/caves
• Many more mineshafts/caves
• A pretty nice world which gets even better outside of this map

For more screenshots click on comment or read more.

Truth hurts

So does this picture.

I mean, seriously,  this is most likely the exact 100% expiration of every god damn "argument" my gf and I have had in the past 2 years. Thank god that I found this picture. Now I know that I'm not totally retarded and/or the only one thinking about how meaningless it is, to argue with women in a relationship.

Share your love stories with me brothers in the comments. Free yourself from the madness!

iOS 5 Released

(Alternative title: ffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuu-)

iOS 5 just got released a couple of hours ago as intended.

My first impressions are OH WAIT I JUST TRIED TO UPDATE IT FOR 5 FUCKING TIMES NOW AND IT STILL FAILS WITH ERROR 3200.

So, this post is dedicated to Error 3200 which you get after watching the status bar slowly backing up your iPad/iPhone/iPod and updating it, just to fail in the end.

The reason and "workaround" is as stupid as obvious:
The Apple servers are currently at their limit and when finalizing the updateprocess, iTunes tries to verify data with Apple servers. If this fails, you get Error 3200.

Workaround: Try it again. (and again [and again])


UPDATE: Retrying is indeed the only way to bypass it. Took me 9 tries to finally get it updated.

"Apple - it just works"

Further impressions in the upcoming days.

iPhone 5 revealed

This evenings most important news for me first:

iOS 5 is going to be released on wednesday next week, 12th of october.


This is a great news for me as I had great doubts that it would be released this month or even next because of the still missing gold-beta for developers and absolutly no estimated time ahead from apple regarding its release. It's also the most important news for me, since the presentation and stats of the new iPhone are "slightly" disappointing to me. Since I won't switch to the new iPhone, which I wanted to, the iCloud is suddenly no longer that interesting to me, too.

iPhone 5 - or as it will be called: iPhone 4S:
The iPhone 4S will be, as expected, way faster than the iPhone 4, thanks to the A5 dualcoreprocessor which is already known from the iPad 2.
This boost in performance will be noticeable in games - I don't think it's that much needed for normal usage in smartphone at the moment to be honest.

Furthermore the camera received an update from former 5 megapixels to now 8 megapixels and is now capable of recording 1080p movies. The iPhone 4S antenna has been improved, too. Kind reminder on the iPhone 4 launch at Steve Jobs comment: "If you're experiencing problems witch your radio during calls, don't hold it the way you do."

With Samsungs lately released top smartphone the Galaxy S2 and my own, still awesome, HTC HD2 running ported Android in mind, I really have to say as already mentioned, there are no stunning news at all this evening and my euphoria of getting myself an iPhone 5 (4S) next to my iPad 2, which I bought after years of apple hating, has grounded again.
Last summers WWDC presentation has been way more impressive than this hyped "Let's talk iPhone" event.

Your opinion? Comment!

Minecraft Realism Mods

Hallo tharr!

As promised in my last post I'd like to introduce to you my modded minecraft.

It looks realistic at fuck.

Ok not really, but still far beyond what normal minecraft looks like and with some 2011 water shaders, high res textures and bumpmapping (coming soon) it at least looks like a game from 2011.

Although the videoquallity sucks (Sony Vegas 8 Trial can't even 720p, lol), it still gives a good impression of what is possible in minecraft. As soon as I get my bumpmapping mod to work with the other two, I'll update the post and video.

Installation is pretty easy and it's all explained in the links as well.


Used mods:
LB Photorealism x256
Watershader v4d

Download sources:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/127377-16x-32x-64x-128x-256x18-lb-photo-r...
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/542215-181-water-shader-alpha-v4d/


If you need any help installing them, feel free to ask for it in the comments.

Best of Ragequit

I recently stumbled upon Rage Quit's Videos on youtube and achievementhunter.com.

Well, I guess we all rage on videogames from time to time, but watching this dude failing all over again on mindfucking games is just so damn delicious. I cried as many tears from laughing my ass of as he has failattempts on the first video.

These are my three favorites so far, I'm sure you'll get into it, too. Feel free to contribute your favs as well.

Also: Stay tuned for my upcoming Minecraft modding tutorial, I'm currently working on the video.

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Minecraft smp

I just set up my own minecraft server and I'd like to play survival multiplayer with some reliable bros.

No cheats, no hacks, no /give - just pure minecraft.

Fort buildan!

Creepers slayan!

minean!

If you're interessted leave me a comment with your nick to get whitelisted.

Server IP 85.214.246.96:25565 - hediditforthe.blogspot.com

Also: See full post for whats done yet.

League of Legends ultimate tankguide

Some clarifications on LoLs "tanks". 

Credits to whom deserves, found it on the interwebs.

All new and shiny

Some time has passed since my last post, plenty of stuff changed and/or became new.
Today has been my first school day, just 12 years ahead and I'm allowed to drink! Jk.
I've been working in my jobtraining for about 5 months now, today was my first day at university.
Same uptime by the way for my blog, almost half a year and amazing 75k hits, I hope I didn't lose too many of you due to 2 weeks of no posts at all.

Why didn't I post for such long time?
Well, pictures are saying more than a thousand words or something like that, so see yourself!
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Deus EX: Human Revolution

Thoughts on the upcoming release of Deus Ex: Human Revolustion

I never played one of the two games, although many of my friends told me to at least play the very first Deus Ex, due to it's amazing replayabilty and different ways of playing through it - things which new games btw lag of for many years now. After watching this E3 trailer I suddenly became really interessted in the upcoming Deus Ex. I mean I do know that this is pre-redenred stuff, but it looks damn amazing. After the trauma named Duke Nukem Forever, which was super hyped and preordered by me, I decided to not preorder this game before watching some gameplay. I didn't want to get trapped by "good" marketing again. 

Now, that  I've watched several videos like this one to the right, I really got doubts about the games quallity. It just smells like yet another game, where the developers spent $ 2 mio on a good hollywood animation studio to produce an awesome trailer like the one on the left, to get more preorders and first day buyers, but than cut the costs of the actual game development by $ 20 mio. "nevermind, these retards will buy everything. Anyone else got that special feeling of yet another ruined former awesome game title?

Best regards,

Duke

Battlefield 3: Caspian Border Gameplay Preview released.

Alternative Title: Dem Dockfights. Dat graphix. Dat Ambience.

Be right back, just changing my pants.

(I ran out of sperm, sorry babe)

When I clicked this I was like:

"uhm, oh, yeah, well, another BF3 video, it's been about time to release some new footage, let's check this"

119 seconds later:

"MOTHER OF GOD THIS SHIT IS INSTANTLY PREORDERED PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY AND MY SOUL EA"

(I hate EA)

I didn't play any Battlefield for more than five hours, I always was more the CoD guy. After the big disappointing which CoD: Black ops was and after watching this video, it looks like this will change.

Enjoy

App review: Teamspeak 3 & some paintings for your entertaiment

Yesterday I found something new on the apple appstore I've been looking for since my first windows mobile 6.5 and android divice:

A full working Teamspeak 3 app for iOS, made by the teamspeak crew themself.


I could hardly care less about the 3,99€ and instantly downloaded it like some small child waiting for christmas. When using the app you will notice pretty fast that this app is made by the same guys who made teamspeak for PC. It's design is well thought and arranged, it's fast and intuitively controllable. On good 3G or HSDPA mobile internet you can talk without any lags.

Life significantly improved.

Also, since I just raged on full retard lol players again, enjoy these comics if you like.
(open the full article to view them)

HoN, Mac and I

HoN

Refering to my post from the beginng of this month HoN is finally free to play.
Who would have expected that S2 Games won't increase their servers capacity? I guess everybody. Therefor the game is almost as unplayable as LoL a few weeks ago. When you finally get into a match, it's full of full retards failing beyond believe. In my first game ever today I played a 28-2 Fayde, followed by my second game righter after with a 35-3 Bloodhunter (not in my team). So, to cut a long story short: Screw this bullshit, I'll stick with LoL now untill DotA 2 comes out.

Mac

I've always been Apple-hater. I hate all those Apple hipsters and fanboys, queuing 12 hours for iPad and about 2 weeks later queuing again 24 hours for iPad 2, which has a better CPU and two cameras!!!!!
Typical conversation with my friends when they are dreaming about getting an iMac, iPhone, Mac Book air and what so ever:

"Why do you want a Mac?"
"Awww they look so awesome and Apple is sooo much better than M$ and I'm a huge faggot xDxDxD"
"Why is Apple so much better than Microsoft? What programs do you want to use? Because you won't play your games anymore."
"-silence-"

Two weeks ago I sold my notebook to my sister. Last thursday, when my paycheck arrived and after hours spending on iPad, Mac and the WWDC 2011 stream and work, I thought to myself:

"Ok, whatever, let's get myself an iPad 2"

 After 3 days with my iPad 2 I'd like to review the following: It's better than any other tablet, Apple software and ideas realized in that software are at least two years away from Microsoft and Android.
There are great games and their Officeversion is fine too. It has instantly become my favorite peace of Hi-Fi I own and replaced any wish for a new notebook. Am I a huge faggot now too? :(

I

Ten weeks have passed since I started as apprentice on my new job earlier than planned. Last Friday was my last day as apprentice.

 On Monday the first of august my actual job training starts for the upcoming three years. After that time I will dare to call my self "Information Technology Officer" and my Boss already told me that he wants to keep me afterwards. Yay!

So three months of boredom end today. There was no boredom at all. Still I found great pleasure in writing my thoughts on this blog and I'd like to thank you for reading it so far and hope you will continue doing so for the upcoming

Three years of boredom

(with no boredom at all)

Wtf is wrong with people

 I really wanted to avoid and displace this freaking sick topic, but with the media reporting new facts about what happened in Norway 24/7 and stumbling upon pictures like these two I finally decided to write my hate down.
What the fuck is wrong with this guy? He's used to be a fucked up christian racist who's mad at the government and therefore shoots children?

"Before we can start our crusade we must do our duty by decimating cultural marxism," said a caption under the video called "Knights Templar 2083" on the YouTube website

Wait, wat? In my humble opinion he's just a sick psychopathic mofo, attention whoring around on our beloved communication platform called the internet before getting to the "peak" of his life. Wouldn't be the first one.
What shall happen with him now after his insulting confession?
Death penalty? Principled discussion? Generally: I'm against it.
But what if the whole damn world agrees on the judgement?
I for my part would vote for yes.
What's your opinion on this?

Polandball can not...

I'd just like to cover a bro's latest blogpost today. You all now them. You all love them. He got dat Polandball comics, lots of them. Picture related.

How the EU-Aidpackage is actually working

It's a cloudy day in a small Irish village, it's raining and all streets are as empty as my refrigerator.
Dark times and everyone is living in deep depts.
On this day a rich German tourist is driving through our Irish village and stops at a small hotel.
He is talking to the owner about looking at his rooms and maybe take one for the night.
After giving 100€ to the owner, our German tourist gets some keys and heads upstairs.

• The hotel owner takes all the money and runs to his neighbor the butcher to repay him his depts.
• The butcher takes the 100€ and walks down the street to repay the farmer
• The farmer takes his money and repays the bartender for a couple of unpayed drinks
• The bartender quietly pushes the banknote to a prostitute sitting at the bar. She had hard times too and she gave the bartender some "favors"
• The whore runs to the hotel and pays her open bill for a room
• The hotel owner puts the 100€ back to the counter

In that very moment our German tourist returns, takes his money and claims that he didn't like any room and that he's about to leave the village again.

Nobody produced anything.

Nobody earned anything.

All participants are free of their depts now and are looking way more optimistic into the future.
Now you know how the EU is helping Irland, Greece and co.

Stories from girls bedrooms on universities

That title has won your attention, admit it. On the occasion of the upcoming end of my first three months of boredom (which actually weren't anything near boring) and also 50.000 visitors of my blog (thank you very much!) I'd like to recommend a short, god damn scary, story I've read today. Oh the irony. No, still it was a nice read which I'd like to share with you.

THE HARVARD COLLEGE GHOST.

Old Harvard, in our time, though frequently troubled with spirits, suffered no annoyance whatever with ghosts. Science and unbelief had frightened them all away, and the increase of population had left no secluded spot in all Cambridge suitable for a ghost's promenade. Still, however, there lingered some old traditions of ghosts, in former times, who had made these classic shades their haunt- ghosts real and fictitious. Among those of the latter description, one has still dwelt in our memory from the narrative of the lamented artist, Washington Allston. The story is in substance as follows:

I'll just leave this here

Alternative Title: Session closed general

No, seriously: It's been more than two weeks now, where you actually can't play at all. Log in, to get session closed, log in to lag out of game and get a leave, don't login at all because servers are busy, wait in queue for 30 mins, go afk, return 30 mins later, time left: 50 mins.
It's not that I payed for the game, even though I just spend some money on riotpoints, but this is a fucking joke. How can you play with your community like that.
Now would be the best time for S2 Games to make HoN free to play, but even those guys with their mad dota 1:1 clone don't get anything.
Please kind RTS God, let Dota 2 be awesome with some clever matchmaking system for individual players and some descent servers, capable of serving more than 2 people at the same time. Let me return to the game I started with.

I'm a small, yet entertaining post

While waiting for an idea to come up, something to write about, just take this and think about it. Made me rage pretty hard until I opened it in paint and compared both colors on a white background.

Epic Meal Time

Inspired by several mega-burger pictures I saw on TV, I just decided to make my very own, delicious mega-super burger. Ingredients and "cooking process" itself are both pretty easy: 500g Meat, 2x Salami Pizza, 2x Tomatos, One Onion, BBB-Bacon, Cheeese, Gerkins and of course: Beer.

Result:

Actually I did something wrong when I grilled the meat:

A real burger obviously does not include single pieces of meat scattered over the bread, but a complete - wait for it - burger. Anyway it really tasted (suprisinly) good and was totally worth it.

5€, 30 minutes, ~1900 kcal. Fuuuuuck yeah.

Homemade air conditioner

Since I'm so damn tired of getting no sleep before midnight these days (and getting up 6 hours later), I investigated the interwebz and found what the topic says.

Basically it's just a fan, some liters of water which you can improve with ice and salt and some meters of copper and plastic. My idea is to use a pump from my old tank to transfer the hot water into a second can which can cool down over night and be used again on the following day. Setting up ~50 liters of water every day isn't really economic in any way and I think that's the idea of building your own ac ... Talking about that: Making sure that both cans are closed is important in my opinion, since a warm (or hot, in my case) room will likely evaporate all water and I have to refill it every day.

As soon as I find the time to get the missing materials I'll provide pictures of my construction, so long please feel pleased by a picture of my tank :3

This and that...

My third week in my new job just started and I went from 16 hours a day to 3 hours a day I can spend my time on things to blog about. I lost two hours of sleep every day, too...
Still it feels daaaamn good man.

Also it's been a bit over 4 weeks now since I started my blog and even though I had spare time to blog in the past weeks, my blog just reached 20.000 visits - thank you guys!

In return I give you the ultimate way for infinite money.

Back from Berlin

 I just came back from one of or maybe even the most amazing, entertaining and atmospheric event of my life.

In Berlin, where the "DFB Pokalfinale" took place this weekend, my hometown's soccerteam played again after 13 years of semi-interesting idling in the 2nd german soccerleague. 

To cut a long story short: It was my team, 2nd german Bundesliga, vs a team from the first Bundesliga. 

We just lost 0:5.

Still my team did a good job getting there, pwning two other 1st Bundesliga teams and it still was so damn worth all the money and the 16 hours to berlin and back. Pictures can't describe (not at all, but it's everything I've got to share) how awesome it was to stand between 75.000 people, almost half of them knowing and seeing we'll lose, but still singing and crying in their loudest tones with all their passion for our team and just having amazing ~90 minutes.

Also: My new job is awesome, but leaving my house at 06:56 am and coming back at 06:30 pm is pretty hard and leaves spare time for blogging ;_;

Three Days Of Boredom

It looks like my three months of boredom will come to a way earlier end than expected.
My future boss just called me today and asked me if I'd like to start working in some kind of pre-intership until my actual job-training for the next three years starts in August the 1st (translating was damn hard here, I hope you don't get to confused ._.)
Is the pope catholic? Of course I accepted and can't wait to start next monday.
Now my plan to blog about the upcoming months of boredom obviously needs to be changed a bit. But I definitely know that this blog will go on and get a facelift to sth. like "three years of awesomeness".

Picture related: It's me right after I was called.

Well played Sony

My tl;dr version of the events so far:

• More than two weeks ago PSN and SOE got hacked, nobody gets told, it's just a maintenance.
• Four days later they admit they got hacked. And oh, we're talking about 77 mio + 25 mio Accounts containing E-Mails, passwords, addresses, creditcard information etc. nvm guys ^_^
• USA congress writes a letter to Sony asking for some statement, the answer is a bad joke, trying to blame anonymous. Still no usefull information.
• PSN should be online again on May the 3rd. That was 6 days ago, no information since that announcement. (Edit: see edit below!)

At first I was just really pissed that I bought the PS3 version of Portal 2 (awesome game, check my first blogentry) which comes with a Steamkey for the PC version which I really wanted to play in coop.
I can't even play the PS3 coop at the moment.
Now I'm more like "fuck you Sony. No really, please, just fuck you" and thinking about selling my PS3 for a Shitbox 360. I mean, seriously, is this their definition of quallity costumer service?
I hope that Sony suffers the biggest lost of finances and reputation they ever made.
The only company I'd like to see suffer more is Apple.


Any former PS3-bro feeling with me?


Edit/update:
"The company is in the process of adopting an improved security system and its plan to restart the services fully by May 31 is unchanged" (source)
Six weeks of no information politics to get their shit running again. Just... no comment.

My Little Oasis

See the kids, influenced by badass boredom...
I just had the idea of getting my family and me a nice place to relax and improve the overall look of our garden.
After one day of hard work and some euros it's now finally done.
Just as I'm writing these lines I'm enjoying the sound of a small waterfall, the warm sun and some mediterranean view. Totally worth it.

I'm still thinking about a small area of pebbles around the water...
Any other critique or suggestions?

BBQ and other stuff

Just a tribute to the "great success" as it's called by the news all over the world:

• Thousands of deads, billion dollars for war in afghanistan. No running health system in USA. Fuck yeah.
• Stealing oil from every country they move to. Fuck yeah.
• Declining Kyotoprotocol because it would affect US economy in a negative way. Nvm future. Fuck yeah.
• Cry and freak out about pictures and videos of tortured US soldiers on islamic TV. Show dead prisoners and Bin Laden 24/7. Fuck yeah.
• Show retarded marines on TV who call this shit a big victory and "USA ending what they start, I'm so proud right now for being Marine and American": Vietnam, fuck yeah. Iraq 1+2, fuck yeah. Hiroshima, fuck yeah. Not akward at all. Fuck yeah.

• About 3000 people died on 9/11, followed by a shitstorm for the next 10 years. Fuck yeah
• About 100000++ people in africa get raped, mutilated, murdred. No single fuck is given. Fuck yeah.
• Whole country celebrates a headshot. Fuck yeah.

America, fuck yeah.

Picture unrelated: My first BBQ this year, fuck yeah.


Edit: Don't get me wrong: Another sick terrordude less is fine, but western worlds reaction is fucking akward imo. And who know's what their reaction will be...

It's Friday

I I so exited when I was going to finish Mass Effect 2 today after I had a break for some weeks.

Throughout the whole game my meta-achievement was to get female barbie-Shepard laid by Miranda, I did everything possible to get there.

When I started the final mission actually nothing happend, nobody got laid, except Jack: She died instantly.

Anyway a ittle consolation here - I hated that bitch even more than Ashley from ME 1.

So no review about an rpg without rp, just a short story from some heart broken guy :'-(

Oh, and  a nice guide I used for the last mission, fuck, that shit was confusing.

Awesome game is fkin awesome

Credits to Sony and the PSN, I bought the PS3 version of Portal 2 because of the Steam key in it - thank's for no coop so far.
Anyway I started the SP and after an 8 hours marathon filled up with lots of lulz I ended up with my stomache crying for food and a feeling of having finished a game worth the money. That doesn't happen that often these days (best regards, Crysis 2...)

Video is the very last scene of Portal 2, isn't that spoily but damn, I lol so hard every time I watch it.