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Did final interview, if this place extends me an offer they are devoid of ambition

Hahaha

Well, my example was definitely an example from my country, which economic situation I pretty much know a lot. And believe me it is much different from the US, and how people here are living and spending their money. Some people here are rather tell kids, that they can't play, than skipping their own season... I know it was not expressed properly in my post, but I've seen already so many cases of guys, who rather took loans on new BMW, while they were still living with their kids together with their parents, than to spent it on well-being of their family or education of their kids...

Official list of all destroyed warehouses and command posts since arrival of CEZARs and HIMARSes. Yesterday I counted three more big explosions, and today UA army started to destroy the railway infrastructure in occupied territories, on which is Russian military more dependent for supply logistic, than Germany economy on Russian gas... Also, I found today a very nice and heartwarming interview with female sergeant, who had commanded their troops in Rubizhne, Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, which shares a little bit of insights, of how it looked like on the frontline.

Why would you think that?

There's getting stuck on a zipline too, let's not forget that.

Too true, these days.

But it's not lying if you don't admit that you lied!

Its a quote from a character in one of the Jo-Jo's Bizarre Adventures, hence its use on the anime thread.

Is that because their economy was already crap before? Can't really ruin what's already ruined.

It's super unfair that his own party thinks him lying about stuff in Parliament is somehow disqualifying of him leading the country. I mean he paid a fine at one point... his fellow party members should have just let it go and recognized some of the other stuff that wasn't the lying, including the recent lying thing re: an appointment's history with sexual harassment. WHy is it such a big deal that his first response to something bad to just be to lie about it?

We'll see. The end of the article already states that Germany is upping their efforts to get gas from somewhere else. Also, Slovakia is full of people on social media, who are crying and spelling doom and gloom about how is everything expensive and that the state should care for Slovakia first and forget about Ukraine, but as soon as holidays started, half of the country already left to superexpensive Croatia. The car business (both new and used) is growing day by day, despite gas and diesel prices being double of what it was year and half ago... Not willing to start using trains/buses/bikes, parking lots before supermarkets are as full as before war happened... So it pretty much seems like, that it is still not enough expensive here for people to start rallying to stop supporting Ukraine. Well of course with the exception of few people, for whom would be more appropriate stay in a mental hospital, than in any public places, who still yell, that UA soldiers are killing their own civilians and blowing up their own cities, and Russia is there to save them... That being said, we are one of the biggest ****holes of EU according to our income, so I really have my doubt, if people here do not care about higher prices, that it would move an average German or Briton

The biggest talking point right now in Germany, after the 50% reduction in gas deliveries from Russia, is pretty much local politics. Everyone is blaming Merkel for the situation they are currently in and dreading the recession that is happening (while not being willing to accept that the cheap gas is a big reason of their economic prosperity). All of this is compounded by the fact that Scholz is toothless and not at all in control of the goverment.

tbh I barely read anything about it. It's not big in the news here.

We need to get you a show on the History Channel. Edit: Some context for our non-American forumites: The History Channel is a TV channel whose content is largely comprised of shows talking about crackpot conspiracy theories. I'm not gonna lie, I find some of those shows highly entertaining, but I watch them with a shipping container full of grains of salt.

Well I still think a lot of people in the west (hopefully a lot of politician in charge) can see, that doing nothing would cost the EU much more in the end, than spent few years in recession. And yes NS2 might be opened soon, and I would not object at all to open it. Of course only if some guys would finally fins enough balls to offer some lead treatment to Vladimir... The other thing is, that EU is already in heavy talks with African countries like Senegal, DPR Congo (probably even more), about improving their LNG/gas drilling infrastructure. Which if done correctly and in at least half the amount, which are we now importing from Russia, would be much more benefiting to EU. If for nothing, than at least for it being less of an security issue to us.

Because everything is connected. And flooding every discussion with cries of censorship does function as a distraction from the other things. Don't want this thread to turn political? Maybe get the cute comments crying about censorship every other post to back off. Then this won't be about politics. Or have them do it in an honest way. Because you know very well, censorship is not new or woke.

*slap face* today i learned

Gamers still whinging about SJWs ?

Slow news day at RPS

They can focus the camera anywhere they want on Miranda as long as it's not on her weirdly scanned face.

Yeah, because evil sjw are taking away women's reproductive rights. Good thing you have such a clear moral compass.

Because she's a 'bit' of a non-character, I'd guess. The Last Unicorn and Valhalla (a film that for some reason features Christopher Lee as Thor in the German dub, but not in the English one) were animated movies I had on VHS a long, long time ago. It's entirely possible that they're not nearly as good as nostalgia makes them out to be. I rewatched The Last Unicorn at some point and still enjoyed it, I think it was on Netflix for a while. Both films are examples of what I mean when I say I sometimes enjoy films based entirely on their atmosphere. My biggest problem is quite frankly the plot and how what should be major points aren't, and what becomes a major point at the end is quite... stupid. Well, and the character development of Arren is unfocused, waffles around and eventually ends with him becoming a generic fantasy hero. There, I just fixed the film. It would still have pacing issues and be a bit on the generic fantasy side, but it could lose half an hour of runtime that way and keep everything much more focused. Eh. Hayao Miyazaki was right, this is a matter of experience, although... he himself doesn't come up with the best endings either, but they're not as... well, dumb as this one. So, what's next?

Unfortunate order number XD

Well, I would say, that the statement of the Russian economy doing good is a little bit more than overstatement. I have found a twitter account from some guy from German Institute for International and Security Affairs, who has some words on the situation. You remember the doom and gloom how the high cost of oil would destroy the west? Here is the prediction from Citigroup. (we are almost at the level of pre-war prices and it is going just downward.) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/citi-warns-oil-may-collapse-to-65-by-the-year-end-on-recession-l57ro9of The funny thing is, that Russia is already selling their Ural oil for these prices, and is trending downwards further... And guess what happens to the country who is completely dependant on their fossil fuel exports? Well, just look at Venezuela, and you can see, where the Russian economy is slowly heading... It is little bit different with Gas export, but you can clearly see, how much they are losing in every other industry and export. So if the west hold tight and does everything to solve their Gas issue, Putin's Russia will be in pretty deep troubles... IMHO even such big tariffs can not substitute the losses in everything else in the longterm. And here is the effect of the invasion on Russia's heavy industry... And here is his analysis on the Russian economy as a whole published on June 30. If you decide to read it, just do not stop reading after the first paragraph, the most interesting stuff follows .

I haven't even thought about Yu-Gi_oh! for years, but it was a huge part of my childhood along with Digimon and DBZ.

It was a lot easier to adjust finances in my 20's than it is in my 40's while supporting a household with kids and a wife. For example, skipping a season of hockey for myself as an adult is fine, but it is a lot harder to tell my kids you can't play because we don't have the money. I'll be managing debt until they are grown up, most likely.

If he had a devoted enough cult, maybe he would've tried to hang on a little harder.

IBM’s 3D chip stacking process could revive a famous rule on computing power (interestingengineering.com)

That is pretty much possible, but the credit or debt for non-rational people starts to bite them in the ass maybe in a year or two I've already lived through periods, where I quit my coding job, to being voluntarily unemployed for half year, just to get rid of my burnout, with my income dropping to 15-20%, of what I have used to get. I managed to overcome it, without need of any loan, because I adjusted my lifestyle to the current situation... And it was in middle of my twenties... So, I am sorry, but I do not have a sympathy for people, living on a high horse, when they are not able to afford it in current circumstances

I'm level 10-ish heading in to Act 3 in my latest Triple Crown attempt. I have a DPS rogue main character with a party of Eder, a custom barbarian (high INT fire godlike using Durance's staff), Durance, Pallegina, and whoever else I feel like in the sixth slot (usually Grieving Mother). It's a durable party that's well-equipped for most encounters but I'm not confident it could take out a dragon without some heavy scrolls, which I don't really have the lore skill for. I don't run a duplicate party on non-ironman mode to work out strategies and I try to avoid the wikis because that's how I interpret the spirit of the challenge. I think I could actually finally beat the game with this party but maybe not the White March, but if i fail i won't be mad. It's the most fun I've had in gaming for a long time just making decisions about whether to attempt one quest or another for fear of losing the entire run. There's so much talk these days about the difficulty of From Software games and I had some fun learning what's involved with those but I think Pillars I and II high-level achievements are really working on another level of masochism and one that's both more enjoyable and less repetitive in my opinion, especially when it comes to the fundamental gamelplay aspect of designing effective character builds.

It'd be awesome if we could unlock a device that would allow us to travel both ways on a zipline, regardless of angle!

All Johnson will be remembered for, is tackling a Japanese school boy oh, and the break-up of the UK

True. That's what makes me like it even more. That sort of setting has more potential since post apoc has been done to death at this point.

ゲド戦記 I already used this in a prior post, although translated at the time. The original feels strangely appropriate here. I'm honestly uncertain what to think of the film. As a preface, it stands to necessity that I shall proclaim to be unfamiliar with its source material, and any value - or lack thereof, as seems to be the case here - as an adaptation, as such, shall remain undiscussed herein. I could of course simply take a quote or two from the author of the original, who was unhappy with the adaptation, but that would be disingenuous. I have no emotional or any other connection to the books this film is based on. Famously, the making of this film lead to a bit of a spat between Hayao and Goro Miyazaki, when his father felt that he lacked the experience to direct such a film. Indeed, prior to this, Goro Miyazaki (wisely, probably) kept his distance from animation. What else could he do, as son of Hayao Miyazaki, no matter how good you eventually might end up being, you'll never be able to step out of your father's shadow. But, well, what is done is done. I usually don't do this, but I've browsed through a couple of critiques on the internet (I also am fairly I certain I posted this exact sentence before while talking about other movies and series, so perhaps I am more liable to browse critiques of something prior to posting than I think), there seems to be about an even split between favorable and critical reviews, with a slight tilt towards the critical, perhaps. The film has negatively been called everything I've called Memoria in a recent post in the film thread, which I find rather strange, because the slow and meandering parts of the film were clearly the best, and indeed, for the first almost an hour of watching it, I've wondered why the critical reviews came from, outside of the really strange looking two action scenes taking place in said first hour. Then the plot unfolds, and it becomes a little clearer. The film is a mess, but just not for reasons critics call it so. It promises more than it can keep, it is curiously black and white in its good vs. evil epic fantasy story it tries to tell, and it tells it in a rather unsatisfying manner. These are all things that were the main reason for me liking anime more than Western (and American in particular) cartoons as a kid. From what I read, the source material eschews this approach, which makes it doubly strange, but perhaps this is what Hayao Miyazaki meant when he talked about his son's lack of experience and how he '[was] not an adult yet' after a screening of the film, which seems a little strange to say about an almost fourty year old man at the time. With translations from Japanese one never really knows, they sometimes are really not good. There's the opening which then has nothing to do with the film for the next 90 minutes, for instance, for both the mythical creatures that show up and a major event that separates the main character from his family, something that looks an awful lot like it should become a major focus at some point in the film, but it never does. The biggest crime the film is guilty of is that it promises to be a fantasy epic with a slowly unfolding plot about light and dark, the dual nature of life and death and how one cannot exist without the other, and it ultimately doesn't deliver this on the scale necessary to have any impact. Thematically it is still there, but it's mired in rote fantasy storytelling and a hackneyed, way too quick resolution for a film that otherwise meanders about. This, too, is something that comes from a lack of experience, I think. It reminds me a little of the stories I wrote when we had writing assignments in German at school and we'd have an hour to come up with a certain amount of words or pages written, and I would always begin to spin a slowly unfolding epic that eventually just has the most cursory resolution because there was simply no time to resolve it properly before the assignment needed to be turned in. In a way, this is exactly what happens here. There's this really wonderful film that's slow but appealing when it really is just the main characters wandering through the world and later plowing their field, with a promise of a resolution to the mysteries to come, only for the filmmakers to realize that they're out of time and something needs to happen - and what happens is, as already stated, rote and hackneyed and curiously lacking in nuance for a Studio Ghibli. In terms of tone and atmosphere, the final sequence of the film reminded me a little of The Last Unicorn, a 1982 film animated by essentially the team that later went on to make Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and formed Studio Ghibli. A film that has, however, an unbelievably good voice cast and is elevated simply by that alone. Yeah, I guess, what I'm saying is, go watch The Last Unicorn instead if you haven't. I remain, however, torn. On the one hand, there are flaws in this, on the other hand, I found myself enjoying this film more than I expected to. This is a strange quandary, and one of the instances where I probably would have liked the film a lot less if I went in with different expectations. Would that I could turn back time and check that. So, ultimately, I don't regret spending the time watching it, but I also wouldn't want to watch it again.

I want to do this/have a car set-up like this. Hubby can just sit in the back.

Isn't that just the "export/import character" UI or something?

Fireworks noise doesnt have any affect on my wife, I, or the cats. We sleep like the dead. Which is a good thing for us because my down-the-street-and-around-the-corner neighbor must get his fireworks from the nearest warzone. I must have counted ~30 of those huge mortar launched ones going off over the neighborhood.

As the number of Ammunition Depots and Command Centers of Russian army is growing thinner, someone made a thread of pretty much confirmed kabooms deep in occupied territories.