Sitriel

If you mean what I think you mean that sounds perfectly right to me. And do not worry: I have only a grasp of the most basic of rugby rules, but it sure is a fun game. It is like the lovechild of football and handball with a healthy amount of shopping during a seasonal sale on a Saturday afternoon thrown in.

Nope. The opposing player has to have played the ball in order to put the attacker onside, so "glancing blows" or a goalie merely deflecting a kick do not count.
Especially the latter case leads quite often to cases of passive offsides becoming active offsides when the formerly passively offsides player decides to go for the deflected ball, but that is already higher offsides science.

Agreed on all accounts.
I was very relieved to see Germany win it decisively. Otherwise this mistake could have awakened more bad blood than it is worth.
I have seen most of the matches of this World Cup and have to say that there are some referees who are not even fit to run a game on any international level let alone a World Cup match. And it is not only FIFA regulations that are to blame: yes, the FIFA has some strange views about how the rules are to be interpreted, and yes, drawing referees from states that hardly have a football league to speak of and thus letting clear amateurs referee matches on an international level is incredibly stupid. But what bugs me most are the grave mistakes made drawing referees from countries that should have something better to offer.
From a German point of view the best (or rather worst) example is a certain Mr Undiano from Spain, a beautiful European country with really great football clubs that should have one or two decent referees. And which one gets sent to the World Cup? The one who was allegedly involved in betting scandals and who is known to confuse authority and narcissism on a regular basis. If you saw the match Germany vs. Serbia you have my compassion for waiting 90 minutes for something akin to a football match to happen which was successfully prevented by Alberto Undiano's one-man show. Every physical contact was considered a foul and every actual foul was considered worthy of a yellow card. Fortunately it was a very fair game (no wonder given the fact that the time between free kicks was almost too short for actual fouls) so the players got off easy with "only" eight yellow cards in one case culminating in a yellow-red.
And although that was (in my view) the worst case there are others not too far behind. It goes so far that I am actually happy for every match that is refereed by an apparently sapient person. I only wish there were more of them.

Actually it is not only goal kicks. A fumbled throw or a bad back pass serve the same purpose. The important part is that the ball has to come from a member of the opposing team.

Nah, it does not exactly classify as revenge. It is more like justice that took a bit longer to be served.
Unknown to the general public the involved parties actually practiced this very event in secret to awaken a bit of Wembley nostalgia during the old classic (or rather the newest WWII reenactment according to the ever demure English tabloids). Sure enough it worked perfectly during the actual match.

That could have something to do with Heal Other being a power and not an emote.
I do not know any emote that works with a space in the middle and I am not too new either (57 months).

My guess: He has just recently discovered the "Q_Q" or rather its meaning and now has to use it in every other thread because it makes him feel leet.
The fact that its use is hardly appropriate when somebody is just asking a question out of interest or voicing mild concern about something is inconsequential when faced with an opportunity to demonstrate his vast leetness.

On a more serious note: CB is indeed in a quite early stage, so the time for those who want to explore Praetoria to the fullest is yet to come... at least that is what my own completely unreliable sources say.

That would be noon over here. So it is Middle European Hotel Standard Time according to what I read earlier in this thread.

Specifically to me of course.

You could make them more productive (and, well, stressful) by simply posting more codes.

Grats! You probably profited from the short irritation people suffered seeing the "Code Claimed" message.