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I did buy and install extra two 8GB sticks, adding my total RAM to 32. I am kinda glad I did it now.

There are ppl who still think the army, even the country, will revolt when the order comes to invade Canada.

The End of Stranger Things The final season is more forgettable than anything else. I don't want to rehash too much of what's already been said about it, but honestly I remember maybe 15 minutes worth of stuff out of a 2 hour movie.

Try playing Auradin, Lilith pops before she gets any mechanics off.

usa would see the need to take greenland if they are plan to ditch nato they do see nato as deadweight for some reason the fact denmark didn't immediately bow and scrap offering both greenland and their eternal loyalty to usa is also seen as ungrateful

what, there wasn't even a cliffhanger.

Tbf, it's the (still) cheaper DDR4. Bought on a big discount when the news appeared that production would slow down and eventually stop... (Who could have predicted a crisis that makes Asus re-consider AM4 motherboards?)

Stranger Things finale: By the Bookside Up. I'm not sure what to say about the finale. It does not happen often that I watch the final episode of a longer running TV series and think the ending was basically by the book, going through all the motions - but this one sure did. Even the only mystery left about the ending was later just narrated out by Mike, because in this day and age and with what apparently Netflix' customers are these days, it is not possible to just let people figure anything out on their own. Anyway, there really is nothing else to say about the finale as it all happens just the way it... had to. In a sea of terrible TV show finales, that is perhaps a good thing, but memorable, it is not. We're still talking about some series endings to this day, even if the shows ended thirty years ago, but even in three years nobody's going to talk about this episode. Which brings me to the big problem here: on an objective level, this season was not good. It had a runtime of over nine hours with material for perhaps an overly long movie, but not three of them. It is very much like Bilbo Baggins on his 111th birthday. Butter, spread over too much bread. The big moments in the season were more often than not badly paced, the setup after the first episode did not really allow for slow character moments, but they still put them in there. People are really hung up over a certain really, really slow scene with Will, but that is by far not the worst one. Jay Bauman's probably got it right, the thing that is wrong with Will's scene is that it just screams Emmy bait moment. I didn't hate it, and it does have a storyline reason for it being there, but it doesn't have a reason for the entire cast to be around for it. And speaking of the entire cast, it sure looks like the production team was contractually obligated to give everyone screentime. Not that it saved Lucas from being the token black guy in the season - he literally had nothing else to do than stick with Max in the hospital. Instead we added a bunch of new characters, and even though they once again are the highlights of the season (especially Derek), one has to wonder why. The new kids are just a McGuffin for Vecna's plan. The pacing is terrible, the performances of everyone in the US military, acting wise and storywise are just plain bad, if you thought the Russians in season three were dumb, they top it all. And still, you know, at the end of the day, I sat through it all without pausing. Binged the episodes, after the first one, even. That is simply because, while I can see the season being bad when I look at it objectively, my attachment to the series and the characters (and by some extension, the actors too, I suppose) makes it impossible for me to truly dislike it. For now, at least. If I ever rewatch Stranger Things some years down the line, I should probably stop after the first season. Back when the third season of Andromeda first aired, I actually found myself disagreeing with the scathing reviews it (rightfully, mind) got, simply for the same reasons. A couple years of emotional detachment later I can't even finish season three on a rewatch, let alone go on to season four. Christ did that show become terrible under Kevin Sorbo's showrunning. It's a good thing it is over.

A nation run by edgelords. Ah well, shame karma doesn't exist. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/venezuela-maduro-fallout-trump.html Interesting to note, even if is out of date.

This crap is ridiculous. There is absolutely no need for the US to annex Greenland, and yet... the wife of Stephen Miller.

No, I wouldn't cheerlead any stable Democratically elected government being regime changed by the US You clearly haven't been reading any of my posts over the last 15 years

Just encountered this issue myself. This is infuriating, went through all these hours of gsne plsy and now can't progress in this quest because I can't talk to auntie.

so eu are as pathetic as expected maybe usa should have their argentina minion take over falkland would be really good distraction

It'll be hilarious- for a certain definition of hilarious- watching some of the usual suspects contort themselves into justifying the US invading Mexico, or Canada, or Greenland. In particular Kallis/ von der Leyen. I'm not sure even invading Denmark would be enough for them to grow a spine. Giving any sort of justification for invading a country for 'regime change' is incredibly short sighted because even if you say it's a special case every other case is also special, to someone. Recent history is littered with such short sighted stupidities. It's even worse when it's Donald Trump, a man with an enormously fragile ego and an obvious need for a capital L Legacy. You don't need articles like the one above to know that Venezuela will not be a special case. This is how you end up with Iran, Brazil, South Africa and a dozen other countries with nuclear weapons; and they'd be entirely justified in it. You can kind of understand someone like Zelensky cheerleading it despite the potential... implications, for him. A willingness to justify it from Kallis and von der Leyen and other members of the- and it really is a laugh out loud designation at this point- Rules Based Order while not at all surprising is as stupid long term as their abject surrender in the tariff war. Same as for Netanyahu all you're actually saying to them is that you're fine with them doing anything, so long as it's them doing it.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/03/trump-maduro-venezuela-mexico-sheinbaum That's encouraging

Truly worthy of a recipient of the FIFA Piss Prize.

I wonder if anyone has told Trump just how bad Venezuelan oil is? Canada's tar sands aren't great, but they make the vast majority of Venezuela's stuff look like light sweet Brent comparatively.

Not anymore, according to Lavrov anyway

What do Iran, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? Oil production of course. Drugs, dictatorship, and terrorism are most likely a smoke screen.

Isn't she in Russia?

So the Venezuelan VP is willing to work with the US, according to Trump.

How should we protect them? If america is good at one thing, then it's war. Man, Bush still had to invent a lie to get congress to sign off on hostile actions. Trump is just doing it and nobody says anything. The military follows every order, congress isn't even being asked. There's no democracy anymore in america. I'm guessing the midterms will decide the faith of europe as well. If the GOP wins everywhere again, we're in quite some trouble.

eu love to give speech about moral not sure they will actually protect canada or greenland if usa really push on the issue their action in entire 2025 are less than inspiring