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To be technical, they didn't actually lose a single battleship in the Crete operations though a couple were damaged; just cruisers and especially destroyers. There also would have been near open insurrection here if Churchill had sent the NZ Division off to fight in a stupid unwinnable Greek situation, which also lead to disaster on the denuded North African front, and then just abandoned them a few weeks later on Crete. Yeah, nah. Nothing technical about that, only a few hundred ended up in the Cretan Resistance. Most of the rest (10k+) went off to summer camp somewhere in the beautiful German or Greek countryside.

OTOH having seen the R3's info I'm not sure what their point is at all- AMD's APU based options ought to be a far better budget option when they arrive, and their direct Intel equivalents budget wise are the most pointless Intel offerings as well. Much like the i3 they don't bring much to the party, you'd still be better off either getting a lower cost G4560 or spending a bit more for an R5 (or i5 if an Intel loyalist). Seems likely that they're not built from the core Ryzen chip as well due to being 4c/4t and their manufacturing yields being so high, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they actually were APUs minus the integrated graphics component.

Was Nigel Farage a part of the UK government at the time? He was (still is) an MEP. I doubt being an actual member of the government really matters though, if Zhirinovsky or Zyuganov met with Trump it would still 'count' even though they aren't part of the Russian government, one suspects. I do sometimes wonder what the response would have been if old Yanukovich in Ukraine had thrown McCain and Graham into jail for interfering in Ukrainian politics when they were there encouraging the Maidan. Not, one suspects, that they should not have been interfering in another county's politics and deserved everything they got. Lawyer lady has nothing to do with the Russian Gov anyway, she just claimed she did so she could get another subject completely raised with a Trump- adoption; probably some Russian who had been farming out babies for americans splashing cash in an attempt to get the Magnitsky Bill repealed.

Given the rest of British history it seems unlikely the agreements would have been kept long term. In some places agreements tended to be broadly honoured as they needed the ruling elite to control the general populace (eg Raj statelets, Sokot Nigeria) but that seems unlikely to apply there, and when the majority population was not native the agreements tended to be ignored or significantly abrogated. Long term it seems unlikely that natives would have remained the majority in most of North America any more than they did in reality and we can only presume that many of the same drives that happened under the US or somewhere like New Zealand would happen under a British (eastern) North America. There's also France to consider, with no US you're likely to get a continuation of significant wars every 50 years between Britain and France, and as soon as that happens you'll get troops, settlements, support infrastructure etc in native areas and any 'independent' states are likely to get 'protected' from France. I'd also say that the French Revolution still happens even without a US one- it served as inspiration, but the underlying economic and social problems in France would never be fixed under Louis XVI so the effective bankrupcy, punitive specific taxations and the like still would have happened. You might not end up with a democratic France, but then Revolutionary France was actually democratic for approximately a long weekend anyway.

Yep, tens of millions of Indians starved growing opium to sell to the Chinese literally so that Britain could get cheap tea. That's pretty human though, Kongo Free State was probably worse in terms of being inhuman and calculatedly brutal. I bet a billion dollars against 2c there will be a No True Scotsman defence incoming. There's also plenty of example of ideologically driven mass killings in the name of capitalism, Latin America is riven with examples (eg Mayan Genocide in Guatemala, pretty much anything involving UFC/ Chiquita). I highly doubt that killing Indians improves growing opium. If I recall correctly there was a famine, so what? Yeah, but I guess we won't be saying 'so what' to all the communist famines, will we? They'll be Different, Somehow. Raj/ eic prioritised opium over food production and kept exporting food while other Indians starved. That continued right up until Churchill. And it didn't really matter if millions died since they "breed like rabbits". Ah, Winston S, you pithy little racist you. UFC/ Chiquita (where the term 'banana republic' originated), Mayan Genocide, Pinochet etc. I'd provide more examples, but I know I'll get 'that does not count, just because' answers. Let's not change the meaning of words because they hurt our argument. That's ridiculous. In that case communistic regimes didn't "kill" anyone as the "killing" only apply to communistic regime loyal citizens and not "traitors". Who are the "traitors"? Anyone the communistic regime "diversifies". I'm not changing words' meaning, time has. 'Citizen' in the modern sense didn't exist until well into the 20th century, many if not most of the Brits who died in WW1 could not vote in the country they were dying for. Specifying own citizens is specious and circular, precisely because it excludes anyone living in the country who isn't a citizen, and they're always the ones that are most disadvantaged because they lack the rights that make a citizen. You end up with the southern USA being great because slaves weren't citizens and thus don't count against citizens being disadvantaged by capitalism- but the advantages to the slave owning citizens from the slavery still counts as an advantage. Awesome, 4c. I'll try not to spend it all at once. (Reaaly though? Britain hadn't been feudal for literally centuries when Vic was ruling)

Queen Vic was Empress of India- they were her subjects every bit as much as the Ockers, Canadians or Brits. At the time most Brits had the exact same voting rights as an Indian, too, ie none. The modern concept of 'citizen' is, well, modern. If we go by citizens then capitalism in the southern US had no victims because the slave owners were citizens while the slaves weren't. Hmm. There are claims coming in that al-Baghdadi was killed in a Russian airstrike 3 weeks ago. There were lots of rumours and circumstantial evidence at the time, but some now claim that ISIS has a statement admitting it.

Yep, tens of millions of Indians starved growing opium to sell to the Chinese literally so that Britain could get cheap tea. That's pretty human though, Kongo Free State was probably worse in terms of being inhuman and calculatedly brutal. I bet a billion dollars against 2c there will be a No True Scotsman defence incoming. There's also plenty of example of ideologically driven mass killings in the name of capitalism, Latin America is riven with examples (eg Mayan Genocide in Guatemala, pretty much anything involving UFC/ Chiquita).

If you want a sense of progression then the low end weapons have to be low end and the G36 you've taken more than half the game to earn has to be better than the L85 you picked up a third of the way in. If your cordon found AKSU hits its reticle centre every shot there's little practical difference between it and an Abakan. Stalker is a fairly 'realistic' fps ('verisimilitude' is as nearly always a better term, since very few games are 'realistic' in the accepted sense) but it certainly isn't a simulation and shouldn't aim to be one. It's been years since I played SOC unmodded*, like most I suspect, so I cannot really comment definitively on how the weapons behave in vanilla but then again iirc vanilla has Vintars/ G37s/ Obokans etc instead of their real names anyway, so some deviation from performance could reasonably be expected. And when it comes right down to it the G36 is objectively better than the L85, it's just in stuff that is hard to simulate accurately in a game unless you want to go full ARMA. The only round I found with really appreciable bullet drop and obvious visible bullets was the 9x39, and it's low velocity in reality. *I've only played CS and CoP with just gun name mods though, and never hit anything I'd consider genuinely odd there.

Really disagree there, though I agree with the cut bit. 'Realistic weapon' mods in Stalker are a misnomer in many ways. If it were 'realistic' to always hit where you aimed at everyone would be White Death and there would be no point having shooting medals at the Olympics or specialist snipers. You miss what you aim at all (well, a lot of) the time in reality despite thinking that you've aimed perfectly. To get an actual realistic result from shooting you need either bullet spray or gun wobble. The sort of thing you sometimes get with bullets going off at 30 degree angles or being unable to fire some guns at all due to skill limitations which come from RPG mechanics in fp perspective is stupid, but that doesn't happen in Stalker anyway.

No I can produce a link anytime if required and applicable. Why do you think I am always correct in our debates and why do I always come across as convincing You need to start learning to create your views based on links....this way you will be comfortable having a debate Everytime someone gives a link you ignore the link. Everytime I saw you made a claim you were 99% time wrong and you convinced no one ever. I ain't going to reply to Bruce unless he puts some genuine effort in. He already admitted to low effort trolling of people who are ignoring him (pointlessly asking for links, deliberately writing wrong stuff to get corrections) to get replies so he won't get anything at all until he's earned it. Fair to say that I will not be holding my breath waiting.

Most of Aleppo's (city) citizens were and are government supporters. The rebels were quite open about 'invading' Aleppo from outside, they were successful initially precisely because there were few troops there as there was little unrest, and much of the city's population fled from rebel areas to government areas during their initial attack (indeed, while there are a lot of refugees from Syria there are far more IDPs and they are almost all in government areas). Most of the urban centres were strongly to moderately pro government, most of the anti areas were rural. The most anti government city (Hama) actually had very little violence because there were most troops there. It's not primarily the US in Syria for sure, Obama was consistently fighting the loony warhawk fringe (Hillary, Power; McCain, Graham), if the US really wanted something to happen it would have irrespective of the UN or the legality of it. They have indirectly armed Al Qaeda and ISIS though (when Al Nusra/ ISIS were the same organisation as they were initially), via the CIA (but not the Pentagon) because they control most of the routes in to rebel territories- and everyone knows they take a share of supplies to other groups that travel their routes. It's no accident that they are the best armed rebel group despite being 'embargoed'. The video is pretty loaded and is itself propaganda, but a lot of it is true. Things like the Al Kindi Hospital being used as an example of a hospital destroyed by the gov happened, when it was blown up by suicide bombers from Al Qaeda/ ISIS, and how the white helmets work and were formed, and the multiple 'last hospital/ doctor bombed' claims are accurate. The MSM is usually completely useless on Syria especially US outlets but that video alternative is most of the way to being biased in an exactly reverse way.

FlareX CL14 2x8, posted a couple of pages back. That's meant to be the best and most reliable option for Ryzen so it shouldn't be a RAM compatibility issue. And FlareX is tested pretty thoroughly as well. I can't really suggest anything other than the obvious like swapping the slots the RAM are in over and testing with other RAM if available. I only had one problem with RAM and Ryzen and that was solved by turning off XMP, but I presume that isn't the issue here. Given that ASUS AM4 boards had some teething troubles I'd suspect it's the culprit as well. My old ASUS motherboard also had a bios/ boot failure issue. It had a disappearing RAM issue as well, but that was solved by swapping the sticks around and never recurred.

I'd count cross referencing reddit and facebook as putting in a fair bit of effort, at least considering how little is usually put in. I'd have a lot more satisfaction about a troll type buckling if it weren't CNN doing it and if the guy was more at fault. End of the day it's a wrestling gif that got exposure because Trump posted it, it was not an assault on the 4th estate and it is utterly trivial. Yet CNN is so self important that they had them tracking down its author as their lead item, and were both smug and hypocritical about it. Ultimately I end up preferring that something bad would happen to CNN, rather than some random redditor. Theoretically, if a site doxs or threatens to dox a reddit user by trawling their posts it's a sitewide ban for them from reddit as punishment, theoretically it's about the worst infraction there is. Doesn't have anything to do with quality, it being reddit quality doesn't enter into things. Happened to Gawker, for example. Won't happen to CNN though, as all the CTR Shareblue bots would throw a fit about it. Really? To me CNN is middle of road for mainstream media in the US but Reddit is just a cancer. Didn't know they have an issue with sites doxing their users, kind of rich that they do. But alright. Not quite sure the wrong kind of shills are that much in charge of Reddit. People are constantly doxed in Reddit and they don't seem to care much if they aren't threatened with lawsuit Their dox policy is theoretically very strict, and its inconsistent application is always to favour, well, CNN types on the 'progressive' 'left'- SJWs, Goons (now there's cancer in website form) and the like. Normal people on the other hand get banned for leaving twitter handles in screengrabs and the like. Their major problem isn't doxxing, it's the rampant botting* and hence shilling on pretty much every subject. Meh, people are soft nowadays anyway, they'd melt like the special snowflakes they are if their alternative option was usenet. *I pretty much only use reddit for their Syrian Civil War subreddit (don't post though, and not a member) and whenever anything big happens it gets invaded by US bots from Elgin AFB andor Russian bots andor JIDF, and it's blatantly obvious that it's happening. The infamously tone deaf HClinton linked Correct The Record (now Shareblue) basically runs their politics subreddit as well.

Dunno, seems to me that if you as a media entity whip up a frenzy yourself then throw someone's name out there in full knowledge that those you've whipped up will be out for blood then publishing a name is dox because you're doing it explicitly to threaten/ punish rather than inform. Funnily enough when Breitbart did similar things without the self interest they were gutter press inciting a mob per the usual suspects, but CNN is somehow just doing their job. And it's perfectly obvious that CNN and their defenders are aware that it's dox as well- that, more than anything was what made their implied threat so abjectly moronic rather than merely childish because it takes away the defence of public interest and makes it clear that it was done to threaten or punish with public interest being a fig leaf. When the news organisation is the centre of a news story they have to be extremely careful with how they handle it, CNN's response is a case study on how not to handle it like a real journalism would. Meh, only time 'CNN' and 'ethics' should be near each other is when 'lack of' is in the middle. Ironically, that's one thing they definitely have in common with Breitbart.

I'd count cross referencing reddit and facebook as putting in a fair bit of effort, at least considering how little is usually put in. I'd have a lot more satisfaction about a troll type buckling if it weren't CNN doing it and if the guy was more at fault. End of the day it's a wrestling gif that got exposure because Trump posted it, it was not an assault on the 4th estate and it is utterly trivial. Yet CNN is so self important that they had them tracking down its author as their lead item, and were both smug and hypocritical about it. Ultimately I end up preferring that something bad would happen to CNN, rather than some random redditor. Theoretically, if a site doxs or threatens to dox a reddit user by trawling their posts it's a sitewide ban for them from reddit as punishment, theoretically it's about the worst infraction there is. Doesn't have anything to do with quality, it being reddit quality doesn't enter into things. Happened to Gawker, for example. Won't happen to CNN though, as all the CTR Shareblue bots would throw a fit about it.

The Founder's Edition may well have been released just to make the deadline AMD set for itself in its investor statements, but they cannot delay Vega much more than they have. If it's a fundamentally poor architecture then they're unlikely to find a silver bullet this far down the line to suddenly make it better, and at some point they have to start getting Navi ready. FE release has been very odd though, it's clearly in some respects a very good value professional card, but in others it's seen genuinely baffling choices and drivers etc are obviously underdone. Mainly it seems like a really odd choice for a first release since at least if you release a fully pro card or a fully consumer card you can focus on getting one type of driver polished up, a prosumer card needs both to be decent since it will be tested for games and professional tasks, and it seems neither really are.

There's a fair bit of amusement to be had, starting with CNN having that as their lead story over DPRK's ICBM launch. Also, CNN's actions are potentially at least illegal and it ought to get CNN banned from reddit as well. Neither of which will actually happen, of course, but still. Indeed, it's a both hilarious and yet oh so depressing thought that CNN may actually have spent more time and effort trying to dox someone who posted a satirical wrestling gif of them than they put into fact checking the entire lead up to the 2003 Iraq War.

But what logo will Accordion Man's head be replaced with? I do have to admit to being highly amused by descriptions of Trump clothesling Vince McMahon as showing him 'assaulting' someone and inciting violence. Much of the point is that CNN's 'news' is as fake as wrestling, and it's doubly fake violence as well. Pearl Clutching MSM, Sad! After all, the guy being 'assaulted' put Trump in the wrestling hall of fame and Trump employs his wife as Secretary for Small Business or whatever.

Risen had mages, thieves (at the ruin/ swamp, with Gimli) and soldiers. Risen 2 had pirates, colonists and natives. G3 had a quasi 'full' faction system, so doesn't fit the pattern*. G2 had mages, mercs, soldiers. G1 had mages, and the two different prison camps. Pretty sure that all of those are joinable- though obviously I haven't played all of them as I need to do things like eat and sleep occasionally. Apart from G3 they all have three archetypal factions; and they're all essentially mages, warriors and thief/ ranger variants. How that works with post apoc will be interesting, but I'd be surprised if the template doesn't remain. *I rather liked the G3 system, though it was rather gamey since you could skirt the trigger reputation levels and the factions wouldn't care until you crossed the limit.

Meh, all those features are about lock in primarily, and Greenlight doesn't exist any more having been replaced by Steam Direct. Plus it was near universally disliked. The monetisation attempt made it clear why Workshop was established, and it wasn't to benefit modders nor mod users but to monetise something which was previously free- Valve even wanted a cut larger than the modders themselves would get. The stuff which would really benefit customers as opposed to Valve always gets short shrift, hence the mess that is their support, curation etc. It's outsourced to the community or woefully under resourced. (As long as you keep the client optional you can do DRM free and a client fine, you just choose to run the game through the client or direct from the exe. Multiplayer and DRM free, that's more difficult though) HOTU? I mean, it and similar were where everyone used to get their old abandoned game fix before GOG. I like GOG, but a lot of their old games are just DOSBOX bundles. You do realize that you just contradicted yourself in the same sentence? Steam isn't Valve and I never said that Valve saved PC gaming so no, I didn't. However, PC gaming is where it's at because of Steam, whether people want to admit that or not, that's up to them. The difference in meaning between 'Valve not saving PC gaming' and 'PC gaming not being anywhere if Valve weren't involved' is minimal. It's also incorrect, Valve did nothing unique except force people to use steam if they wanted to play HL2, and that's the sum total of it. I bought my first download game 4 years before HL2, and download Doom and the like were even older. Starting off with 4 million forced subscriptions gave Steam critical mass. Per top, everything since then has been Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, just as Gabe learned at MS.

GOG actively supports/ curates stuff that they sell, while Steam doesn't. That's the basic reason why stuff off GOG works most of the time, they literally won't sell it if it doesn't while Steam tends to only remove the most egregious stuff and rely on 'the community' and refunds. GOG's approach can have some problems as well though, eg they have removed explicit WindowsXP compatibility listings from a number of games since XP is not supported any more (plus Galaxy doesn't work on XP, so any game using it for MP etc won't have those features work), but they almost certainly still actually work with XP. As for digital distribution itself, I must have games on about ten? different platforms. Don't use any of the console ones, don't use Steam either since it's a software console, don't mind using uplay/ origin etc as single vendor platforms but wouldn't buy 3rd party from them.

Come on guys: be a rainbow, not a painbow. The Macron circlejerk really is laughable. Historically low turnout at the presidential election and he could only beat Le Pen, an awful candidate, by a decent rather than comprehensive margin. And 1/8 of the people who did turn up voted for the unofficial 3rd candidate, Monsieur Blanc, so even the low turnout was misleading. Le Pen getting a third of the vote is hardly a resounding victory for anyone, it only looks like one when she was polling 40% instead of 33%. At least he could beat his awful opponent though, unlike Clinton, so there is that as a positive. As for the parliamentary elections, the turnout was utterly dreadful- 42%. Previous one was hardly great at ~55%, except comparatively. Still, hardly fits the storyline when the great inspiration Macron's party actually got fewer votes than the Socialists got last election and only got 200,000 more actual votes than the 2nd placed UMP got last time. The rampant embiggening of Macron is simply a sign of exactly how establishment a candidate he is. You'd think he won with a massive turnout, inspiring millions to re-engage in politics. Instead it was the exact opposite, the Ne Voté Pas Party won a pretty comprehensive majority.

I don't think there are any turkeys left in the SSD field, so they're all generally reliable. The main choice is whether to go with a SATA based m2 or NVME m2. Most people will not see the speed benefits of NVME, there is a big improvement from platter to SSD but the extra speed from NVME is unnecessary for most. I personally went with a 525GB Crucial MX (SATA m2) as the NVME options were near twice the price, but given your parts list I'd have to second the Samsung 960. It is a pricey option though.

Thus cementing his popularity amongst half the UK's population. Marx, Engles, Lenin, Bakunin and Clinton. Hmm. To quote Sesame Street (or The Electric Company, I forget) "one of these things is not like the other".

So the US shot down a Syrian Su 22 yesterday. Most of the articles on it are a load of old bollocks, of course. eg from the Beeb Nope, the supposed bombing happened at 430pm the shootdown occurred at 630pm from OIR's own timeline. Practically this makes it definite it wasn't the same jet, as it would need to be unarmed to have 2 hours flight time in the area; plus time distance to and from, heh, ShayratAB is a third of its loaded range. There were two separate jets, the one which was shot down dropped no bombs. Also, the actual Pentagon/ OIR statement said the first jet dropped bombs "near" SDF troops, not on or at them. There was a bombing incident a week earlier, but that was a one off, about 20km away, almost certainly accidental and didn't result in any US action. The Su22 is not a fighter bomber by any meaningful definition of the term. It couldn't meaningfully defend itself against even contemporary fighters and wasn't ever intended to be used as a fighter. Best evidence is that this never happened and it was ISIS driven out by the government. SDF never claimed to hold Jadin and there were no reports of clashes between the SDF and SAA either prior to the shootdown. There have been some post facto claims of 'heavy ongoing clashes' from twitter (lol) but these have been contradicted by others and are highly unlikely for other reasons- primarily, SDF Afrin canton and Sheikh Maqsud rely on government territories for supplies plus there are Russian/ Syrian troops discouraging Turkey from attacking therm; and on the government side Hasaka and Qamishli are in a similar situation. It's in neither side's interest to fight each other, at least yet. The US definitely wanted SDF to grab Jadin and especially nearby Resafa though, as it's a critical road junction and would make it a lot harder for the government to get to the Euphrates' south bank, close off Raqqa and eventually get to Deir Ez Zor city and the Iraqi border. Is comically out of date and shows the government as being nearly 100km away from Jadin/ Resafa. Whether it's incompetence or deliberate that it was used who knows... It does however illustrate that the claim that the SDF were trying to surround Raqqa- subsequently edited out- is rubbish, as their frontline around Tabqa hasn't moved in a month, which is how it's known that they didn't hold Jadin. They don't want to surround Raqqa, if every ISIS guy left Raqqa through the gap they've left they would be literally ecstatic (note: that's the exact same tactic the SAA and Russia use repeatedly as well, it's perfectly sensible but isn't the story of ISIS obliteration the coalition wants out there). Plus of course the US bombed militia in southern Syria. Funny though, the legal justification for US presence is that Syria cannot control its borders, yet when they try to the US bombs them for violating an entirely self declared 'deconfliction zone'. And of course, no news on the chemical weapon attack in Khan Sheikhoun either.