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Nothing, of course. Only way to avoid it is to not say anything. And by far the best way to deal with being wrong is to just admit it. lol. Toodles then. Yeah, I got it wrong --> twisting in knots. Whereas blaming someone else for your mistake is... straight line thinking? Plus of course complaining about whataboutism while bringing up totally relevant things like, uh, Uvalde, Wisconsin and Jussie fricking Smollet. Who even is Jussie Smollet? Yeah man, no one really cares if you're pathetic or not on the internet. Fortunate for you, eh.

The numbers at Borodino were near perfectly balanced, it's just that Boneyboos leave out the 20k French who Napoleon never committed- while including the Russians who didn't fight, of course. And, of course, people tend to leave out the times when the Russians won well, like Kunersdorf. Do I need to quote your own posts to you, again? That would be, to quote the great philosopher Edmund Blackadder, like a broken pencil. After all I don't really care what people got wrong 11 months ago because everyone got things wrong. The only way to not do so was to, well, not post at all. Then you can safely swoop in and laugh at the Chilloutmans of the world who made bad predictions. Though, of course, Mark Milley made exactly the same prediction, reportedly, so he's in jolly good company in the manner of being wrong. And fricking lol at hiding behind a Harvard economist. Yeah, you didn't get it wrong, the person you quoted and defended (ad nauseum) did. If only I'd thought to, well, hide my opinion behind someone else's I could have escaped the ignominy of being wrong about the invasion. Sadly, I lack that particular kind of... sophistry. As I consider it, well, utterly pathetic and would be embarrassed by blaming someone else for something I got wrong. And that's reinforced by Milley getting something wrong, anyway, not countered.

Sheesh, that's basically the old 'do your own research' canard and staple of losing positions in internet discussions since fricking usenet. If you're going to claim something back it up with specifics, if you can't it's gaslighting, to whit: repeating something as so obviously true it needs no evidence. Make sure to include Mark Milley and the US intelligence apparatus as doozies and chuckleworthy though, their expertise is far greater than anyone's on this boards. Only way not to get things wrong is not to have an opinion, or lack the courage to state one. Haha lol. To remind you, since it's been all of 12 hours: Goalposts shifted to something far safer when you were asked to name names- and not, if you've already forgotten that too, by me. Classic Gromnir. So, did you indulge in a bit of classic re-imagining over the 2014 bankruptcy, or not? Don't blame me, you brought up gaslighting and reimagining posts.

Shrug. Not the only one who got that wrong. Only way not to be wrong occasionally is not to have an opinion on something. Guess you get to dine out on actually being right about something, for once. But then, also specifically not what you were talking about so nice goal post shift, as always. Can you find a post where I said Ukraine would lose in days? No, because my position was the complete reverse- and specifically that they'd likely need the entire invasion force to take Kiev alone. I don't doubt you've looked though, hence the goal post shift above. If you're going to claim that more than a few board pundits said something better be able to name names if challenged, otherwise that's gaslighting- to whit, repeating something as obviously true and so obvious no evidence is needed. Which is, of course, exactly what you accuse others of doing. But then, self awareness has never been your strong point. Russia will be bankrupt in 6 months in 2014 --> you just bringing it up for scholarly discussion, when it didn't happen. Can't get more of a reimagined position than that, eh. And now the forum software hates parentheses and quotes again. How will I cope when half the volume of my posts are ellipses?

The main source for things like Kiev falling inside a week was... well, that old chestnut "unnamed US official" and his close cousin "western intelligence officials" (including, apparently, Mark Milley). And why do I get the feeling the forum software is going to hate a line with parentheses and quote marks in it? Let's see shall we? um, handles it fine apparently, well done there and sorry for ever doubting you. Classic Gromnir though, throwing out accusations without naming names. Funnily enough (not really), he's also using one of the absolute classic gaslighting techniques there.

Vince McMahon has reportedly sold WWE to the Saudis.

Certainly propaganda, but the recent pictures of Prigozhin in the Salt Mines are pretty conclusive since they're west of Soledar. And since he's there they're likely to consider it to be relatively safe too. Even Zelensky implied it would fall imminently yesterday. lol at the tank in the background. On a more personal note, one of my best friends from primary school is missing there, though I would not have seen him for upwards of 30 years. Moral of the story: don't be best friends with me in primary school since my other best friend had a building fall on him in the Christchurch earthquake. On the positive side there has been almost no coverage here of it, which makes me think he may have been captured instead. Would mirror the case of the idiot influencers who went to Iran and photographed themselves outside a military base who had complete radio silence in the media. There is a Beeb article about it, but he's specifically described as British in that.

Watched the first episode of the final season of Happy Valley. After seeing dozens of proudly made in Vancouver/ Georgia type messages- or, for that matter, made in New Zealand- it's nice to see a series that really upsells its setting. Can't wait to visit disused quarry with mud, broken appliances and dumped car plus obligatory dead body in blue 40 gallon drum, or random pile of rubbish #8 by side of rural road next time I'm in the UK. Makes The Wire look like it was written by the Baltimore Tourist Board. Shame it's going to be 18 episodes over the course of basically ten years, but then I guess that's ultimately how it ends up being memorable.

Not Intel level confusing at least as their numbering seemed to have literally no bearing on how the chip performs last time I checked. That naming scheme makes general sense with higher being 'better'. Otherwise... yeah, a bit of a mess. How much cache does the 7940 have? Because AMD itself doesn't actually seem to know. It's either 16MB L3 or 24MB total per that link depending on whether you combine L2 and L3 or not or 20 per the slide above. Or 32MB per some media, though that is media rather than AMD of course. The 7030 has 12CU of (presumably) Vega, not 8. Indeed, the 7x30 models have 12, 6 or 4CU listed on the website, none has 8. The Extreme Gaming laptop having a princely 2CU of RDNA2 also looks funny, though I guess they'll be sold with discrete graphics cards rather than relying on the iGPU. I will laugh if someone (probably Acer) tries to sell them for gaming using just the integrated chip.

Wonder who actually made/ designed the reference card cooler this time around. Coolermaster used to make (may still make, though they're down to... the Stealth only now? bundled in a few SKUs) the CPU coolers and Sapphire the reference coolers for GPUs, but last time out it was someone else. Don't know what the situation is internationally but the price difference here between AIB and reference is so small the reference cards really ought to be ignored as an option anyway.

Ah, ok. We'd have done it at pretty much exactly the same time (think I was slightly behind you at that point, but only slightly), so unlikely there would be any difference. Most of the earlier information I saw said initially you could change your mind about the impromptu assault even after Galfrey had been summoned, for about a week, but at some point that got changed to what it is now.

You now only get the one option to preempt Galfrey's arrival. If you missed it then you can't talk to the Hand of the Inheritor later and choose to do it even if she is yet to turn up, you have to choose in the initial conversation about it. That is, I believe, a change from initial versions of how it worked.

No, I most definitely mean Gregorian. Not many people know this, but Julius Caesar was actually G. Iulius Caesar. With the G standing for... Gregorius, obviously. The Julian calendar was actually invented by catholics in the 16th century which is why Orthodox christians hated it (Pope Julius II, hence the name of the calendar. One of the more memorable characters in 'The Borgias' TV show and nicely played by Colm Feore too) Both the countries relevant to this thread, and the one actually specified, celebrate on January 7th though. Not really necessary to specify which branch of the Orthodox church in those circumstances unless you're really being picky about things. Yeah, Romania/ Bulgaria/ Greece and some others celebrate on Dec 25th, but then your argument is "but what about Greece, Romania or Bulgaria?" and, well, we all know what happens then.

hah, serves me right for being a smart arse while not checking. To be finicky, not much Ukrainian Orthodox presence at Christmas time, in Russia, though. Both the Ukrainian Orthodox churches still use Gregorian, at the moment. UOC allows services on Dec 25th though, as of this year.

The oligarchs got stomped twenty years ago though. Pretty much literally the first thing Putin did (see Berezovksy and Khodokovsky for the most prominent examples). And, of course, Christmastime in Russia is still nearly two weeks away (January 8th) since they're Orthodox.

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The price difference here is now ~250USD (probably close to what it ought to be officially) and 7900XTs are selling under MSRP for AIBs already. XTXs are back in stock too, so it seems that AMDs claims of decent availability at least were right. At that price the XT is decent value, at least comparatively. Still not great value when you take the generational shift into account.

Tanks certainly still have a role to play. ATGMs were going to make the tank obsolete after Israel got most of their ones facing the Egyptians toasted by Saggers/ Malyutkas in 1973 as well. OTOH Bayraktars... lol. Certainly the worst hype to achievement ratio in the war, quite possibly the worst performing system outright; though there's a lot of competition for that title. Perhaps the most damning indictment is that they've been outperformed massively by diy quadcopters costing at very most 1% of a TB2. Even in Artsakh they needed ~100 An-2s to run interference for them against 1990s systems.

Mark Milley also used the 100k casualties figure 6 weeks ago for Ukraine. Doesn't really say much in terms of the accuracy of the figure itself since it's likely sourced recursively, ie the figure comes from the same estimate Milley made rather than being an independent source arriving at a similar figure.

Unlike Europe our prices aren't bad at all. Take off sales tax and do the currency conversion and the xtx is ~1100USD, and for a pretty decent AIB instead of a reference card (Powercolor Hellhound). For a small market with high transport costs that's about as good as it can get.

There's a $500 (300US) dollar difference here which is spot on the difference in MSRPs. ~1800 for the cheapest XT, ~2000 for the (only in stock) XTX, 2300 for the cheapest 4080. And of course, as is their wont, a handful of retailers trying to sell 6950s for 2300. You'd think AMD had bought out a bunch of random NZ (r)etailers to make the 7900XT look good value or something. Euro prices seem to be a bit weird since covid.

"But what about..." I mean I was going to let the whole thing drop but on the good for goose, good for gander principle per above; are you going to admit that your statement "That is absolute bull**** Russian propaganda. Russian language was never penalized." was instead a load of Ukrainian/ western propaganda? No? Then you're just making yourself look silly by carrying it on.

People who like Yennefer absolutely hated her betraying Ciri in S2, and that generated most of the drama and lead to a lot of 1s on metacritic and the like; and a lot of toys being ejected from cots across social media leaving to the impression that people hated it. Personally, I thought it was absolutely in character for her to betray someone who meant nothing to her, and at that point Ciri meant nothing to her. If nothing else Witcher S2E1 was the best fantasy tv episode since absolute prime GoT, and showed what the more episodic S1 should have been. I'd rate S2 as the 2nd best fantasy tv season in recent years, so I liked it a lot (more than that utter dross WoT). Also, S1 was poor enough that a viewership drop off was to be expected; a lot of people who didn't like S1 simply wouldn't watch S2. Cavill nearly quit pretty publicly after S2 wrapped, and a lot of his comments around the time of the recast announcement suggested pretty strongly that he was going, Superman or no, eg "It’s just about belief. If you believe what you’re doing then you’ll be able to keep on doing it. It’s also important to know that if you realize you’re doing the wrong thing, that’s when you stop doing the wrong thing. You don’t just keep on going just because. Because that leads down a dark path." The proposed Superman movie was literal years off anyway, there was no need to quit for it. Indeed, Cavill actually stated that a return to Superman could coexist with Witcher, previously.

Witcher S2 earns extra points for trolling Yennefer stans, a group that so very desperately needs trolling.

Two other guys are meant to be doing the actual writing/ creative side, and their resume looks pretty decent really. I'd usually tend to give people involved in Children of Men and The Expanse a chance at least. (Why they didn't make them the showrunners who knows, since they created The Expanse for TV. And that was a show that looked like it had WoT's budget most of the time despite, well, not having that budget. Maybe they didn't want to handle the money side but still, even ignoring the creative mess Rafe Judkins made WoT look like it had a tenth the budget it actually had. If that. Surely there must be someone better than that clown?)