BruceVC

Personally I dont consider you a Russian apologist like Zora and 2133 and I know you mean well But can I ask you something? Ukraine is a sovereign country and in 2019 they had a election and Zelensky won the second round by 72% which is considered an overwhelming victory in any Democracy. Zelensky ran on a pro-EU\pro-NATO ticket and the majority of Ukrainians still voted for him because this is the future they want Do you not believe that Ukraine aligning with the West is what the majority of Ukrainians want? How is the West playing Ukraine when the citizens of Ukraine want to join the EU? And now in Finland the majority of citizens want to join NATO, what would you say if Finland joins NATO, should the people of Finland not be allowed to join because of Putins warmongering and paranoia

I dont know, if my culture allowed me to protest in this way I would definitely squat and occupy an Oligarchs mansion...it sounds great fun

https://news.yahoo.com/wikileaks-assange-denied-permission-appeal-170235575.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall Assange has been denied his appeal in the UK SC around the extradition to the US Maybe we can finally get closure on this, once he is in the US he can face the 18 charges or so he is accused of and then if he is innocent he will walk free The US is not some banana republic or Russia and people facing criminal charges are not automictically guilty and their is a court process which we should all respect

Debt means nothing when you a wealthy Western country, they just print more money and make impoverished, third world countries ultimately pay this debt by forcing these countries to take loans from the IMF and World Bank with exorbitant interest rates Gorthfuscious you must stop having such an idealistic and naïve view of the Capitalist system. It doesnt care about the poor and downtrodden and we must fight against it in everyway

I have decided to give Vampire : Coteries of NY another chance after watching that Swansong marketing video Now that I know its a narrative RPG, when I first played it I was expecting a normal RPG, I am enjoying it so far so I will see how things progress

https://www.aol.com/12-oil-stocks-goldman-sachs-165838372.html Great news again around the oil price, its just higher than $100 and this better price is primarily because large oil companies like Exxon have agreed to make up any oil shortfall caused by Putins War

Good to know

Have you never played any PB games before? Thats standard design for their games generally

Can you provide links so I can confirm what you saying because they taught me at school that they the same thing?

To me thats the same thing

That review really makes Swansong look fun

QFT, their are several games that I cant imagine using m&kb with that includes games like Far Cry and Assassins Creed....oh and imagine Sleeping Dogs without a controller I have to say I love using my controller effectively during frenetic combat in games designed for it

I completed The Forest after about 105 hours last night and it easily scores a 70/100 on the globally respected " BruceVC game rating system " In the interests of full disclosure I did " cheat " and use console commands at the end but only right at the end. Once I used the hang glider to fly into the sinkhole I found that their were not any trees to get branches from so I couldn't save my game strategically in the final cave system accessed through the pool in the sinkhole ( you can only save your game when you can make a shelter, or find a shelter, and you need branches to make that shelter ) So I used the console to spawn branches and some food in the final mission But its a great survival game and I definitely recommend it

I just got my Pfizer booster today, it will probably be my last booster while we see the variants being less deadly and the general pandemic being less an impact to our lives ?

Yes, yes my friend We have heard it all before. The Western sanctions against Russia are going cause the collapse of Western economies And most of us dont believe that so we fine with the sanctions and the consequence of them

I was about to say " Gothfuscious !!!! Enough with this Putin propaganda " but then I watched the video and its really interesting and explains the reasons for some of the issues with the Russian military strategy in Ukraine

Last time I checked it was normal for journalists to be in numerous conflict areas I am not sure what you mean by " what did they expect " ? Remember this is not Russia or China where they kill journalists

But surely before we can call something WW3 it has to mean the worlds superpowers are at war. The Cold War wasnt WW3 but it could have led to that but Mutually Assured Destruction prevented that So if the Cold War wasnt WW3 than I dont think its accurate to say this current tension with Russia WW3 Yes Russia has created huge tensions by this invasion of Ukraine but we not at world war level until countries declare war on each other ?

Its rainy weather in Cpt today and Im making one of my bolognaise mince recipes that always has lots of delicious mince left over to freeze and eat later This recipe is bacon bits, onions, celery, carrot and mushrooms are fired together for 10 minutes or so then I add the beef and ostrich mince and brown it for about 7-8 minutes then I add the 2-3 tins of tomato puree or tomato and onion mix and 750ml of a robust red wine and let it cook together on low heat so that it simmers for about 2 hours. Then the last 20 minutes add cream or milk

Nah, I think the world, and specifically the West and the EU, should survive the banning\blocking of RT. Its going to be hard but I think we should be alright. Lets be positive

" then we have lost the moral authority to criticize them " I have heard this type of left-wing, SJW, socialist doublespeak before where someone says " but we dont have the moral authority to criticize Russia because of Iraq, Afghanistan ,Yemen, Libya , Colonialism and things like the Palestinian Israeli conflict " What have those conflicts got to do with the unquestionable sequence of events where Russia unilaterally decided to carve up the borders of a soverign country and then invaded that country after Putin lied blatantly to the entire world and said "we dont want to invade Ukraine " If you follow the logic of your spurious corollary then the US and the EU should not have criticized or used sanctions against Apartheid South Africa because slavery use to legal in the US and the EU and thats " much worse than Apartheid " The world and the UN responds to the actions and decisions of countries and how they act in real time. Each case is different and each conflict is different and their will always be different levels of global response and concern But to suggest " then we have lost the moral authority to criticize them "is one of the most unconvincing comments I have ever heard about Putins War. Of course its going to be criticized. Why wouldnt you recognize this type of appalling aggression and blatant contempt of international law and sovereignty ?

Yes most people dont have a problem with RT being banned because its not objective news and we dont want people to be confused and manipulated by Russian propaganda I have huge respect for Ursula von Leyen and her latest public speeches I support and they recognize the new united future of the EU and, for example, the new energy plans for the EU Its a good time to be part of the EU because the unity we seeing makes a nice change and bodes well for the future of the EU

Im not sure I understand what you saying? Are you saying you angry and concerned with YT banning RT but you not angry and concerned with basically all media in Russia being state controlled and not telling the Russian people the truth about the invasion or showing the thousands of Russian citizens being arrested in anti-war protests? So all you see from the likes of RT is an utterly biased and selective version of the reality of Putins War both in Ukraine and the streets of cities like Moscow and St Pietersburg. Why would you want to exposure anyone to that false narrative ?

She is entitled to her opinion but its definitely not the truth. The invasion of Afghanistan was not about access to the resources because what resources Afghanistan has are largely in tribal controlled areas or areas that arent safe to mine in for international companies and to this day most of resources are inaccessible The invasion of Afghanistan was about 9/11 and the irrefutable fact that AQ attacked the US and the reality that the Taliban were giving refuge to Bin Laden. It was a perfectly legitimate invasion unless someone thinks the US and its allies should have done nothing about 9/11? Its also not about the race card, the Taliban took over Afghanistan and said they dont want the US or a Western presence in Afghanistan. So now the Taliban run the country why are we blaming the US for the state of the country and the anti-Western rhetoric from the Taliban ?

Gorthfuscious I share your concern about governments deciding on the media narrative which supports my criticism towards RT, its the mouthpiece of Putin and the Kremlin and its pure propaganda. Its state controlled unlike CNN,BBC or Al-Jazeera which at best are state funded but not state controlled. CNN and BBC for example often and on a regular basis criticizes the local government, you wont ever find that on the likes of RT Surly you would agree with me that propaganda is not the same as objective news? So you right, we should be very worried about media houses that are state controlled and decide what we see and what we dont see Thats why its good RT has been banned and or blocked in many countries. It has been blocked in SA on our DSTV offering for example