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Given that list refers to Murdock as Marduk, I'd be a bit skeptical about it having a lot of effort and thought put into it unless they're actually trying to change his already-established official English name.

but then we've have had to come up with a different acronym! you traitor that's it you're no longer admin

Russia's move is rather heavy handed but Crimea never should have been part of Ukraine in the first place and Ukraine's government was not going to voluntarily accept Crimea's return to Russia. Full incorporation of Crimea into Russia is imminent and given the region's demographics it will be pretty hard to argue afterwards for it to return to Ukraine. And NATO countries in particular have no real grounds for criticism here given Kosovo. Sanctions will be worthless in constructively altering Russia's behavior and only further provide ammunition for the argument that the west is out to get Russia. Said argument is not entirely wrong, either. Only thing that should be done here is congratulate the people of Crimea and wish them the best in their new country.

Referendum on whether Crimea wants to join Russia is scheduled for March 16th. It's going to be pretty awkward for Russia if it doesn't pass so I'm guessing one way or another it's going to succeed and Crimea rejoins Mother Russia.

massive continuity error spotted "revives Gheb" implies that Gheb was dead after FE8.

Ha. What happened?

Looking good gringe. That's about it. Got nothing else in particular to add!

By number of votes, it's possible there's been a larger one. But in comparison to the thing you came back against, I don't think anything can come close to recovering from being doubled for the first three hours or so.

Well, Draven probably just pulled the largest comeback in gamefaqs history thanks to the LoL community rallying for him off-site. For most of the first 3 hours he was getting doubled by Jak. Now he's winning easily. Huh.

Crono has to face Pikachu in a day match in Round 2, and he's likely going to have Magus as the third character there weighing him down. Even if Crono hasn't dropped off at all in 5 years, he could still plausibly lose that match. And if Magus isn't there to weigh Crono down because he loses to Otacon, that doesn't say good things about Crono having retained his strength. Mega Man is likely looking at a Mega Man/Zero/Charizard division final. Charizard outperformed Mega Man on Mario in 2010. While there are good reasons to think those results are misleading, the Zard probably isn't much weaker than MM on his own. And with Zero splitting the Mega Man fanbase Zard has a pretty good chance of winning the match. Especially considering the Weighted Companion Cube disaster of 2008, when Zero being in the match with him caused MM to lose to the Cube. Vincent may or may not be able to pull off the win against Sonic 1-on-1 but Bowser is in that match too, is pretty strong, and we've seen indication of Nintendo and Sonic sharing voters before. And hell, in the fourway contests Sonic lost to Auron once, lost to Kirby once, and came close to losing to Squall twice, so it's not like Sonic bombing in polls that aren't 1-on-1 is unprecedented! And yeah, Jak isn't strong at all, Draven appears to be just really that bad.

Crono, Sonic, and Mega Man all have a pretty good chance of not winning their divisions, actually!

I follow these contets pretty closely and see some confusion here so I'll break the FE characters' paths down for everyone: Tharja won her Round 1 match, yeah, but her opponents were likely weak as hell, and being seriously threatened made her look pretty bad. She was never going to beat Aeris and Shepard in Round 2, of course, but her performance here probably isn't encouraging for Chrom and Lucina winning their Round 1 matches, as they have better competition. Lucina likely gets second in Round 1, beating Caim and losing to Dracula. We only saw Dracula previously in that dumb Rivalry Rumble contest but the Alucard/Dracula rivalry did okay there. ALSO HE'S NAMED DRACULA AND IS CLEARLY THAT DRACULA. And Symphony of the Night is the stronger game and Castlevania is probably still the stronger series. Lucina would likely need to be announced for the new Smash game to stand a chance. If she pulls if off, she still loses in Round 2 to Sonic and extremely likely Barret as well. Marth/Phoenix in Round 1 could be pretty close. Even Nightmare may end up not far behind them but I doubt he wins. Personally I'm rooting for Phoenix here. Whoever wins dies to Vincent in Round 2 though. It may sound strange if you're not familiar with these contests, but Vincent is consistently one of the top 15 strength characters in these things. It is true but entirely irrelevant that nobody cares about Dirge of Cerebus. And even if Vincent wasn't there it's not like Marth wins the Nintendo vs. Nintendo battle against Mewtwo. Chrom probably loses to The Boss in Round 1 and might even lose to Heavy. Heavy certainly has better rallying potential if it's close. However, an announcement for the new Smash game would again be a game-changer here. Though if he wins, Chrom gets last place to Sub-Zero and Bowser in Round 2 regardless. Ike probably beats Protoman and Robotnik in Round 1. Robotnik hasn't been very good in these contests in the few glimpses we've gotten of him. Protoman might give a respectable performance but shouldn't threaten to win. Round 2 is tougher. Epona is untested but should be pretty decent. GlaDOS used to be weak but that was before Portal was given away for free and Portal 2 came out, plus she's looking at a Nintendo-fanbase split. Ike could win but I think he's the underdog here. If he pulls it off, he definitely loses to Solid Snake in Round 3. He loses to Zack too if Zack gets there but if someone else makes it into the match because of a fanbase split he could get second. Lyndis is a newcomer but she's not beating Rikku in Round 1. She could easily get last place if ? Block is able to attract the joke vote crowd. If she was strong she probably wouldn't have taken a decade after FE7 to get into a contest. Even if Lyn is unexpectedly decent she still almost certainly loses this match. Like, I'm not sure Ike would win this, much less someone not playable in Smash.