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Trump didnt campaign on Project 2025 But he did campaign on the things I mentioned and he never lied that he wasnt going to implement them like border control and deportations of illegals. He stated many times he was going to do this and he still won the election There is understandable Trump voters remorse from many Americans but to say he is inconsistent\lied around what he said he was going to do isn't an accurate reflection of the reality of what he has done As I keep saying, end of the day let the midterms and the state elections tell us what American sentiment about Trump really is Those results will tell us the truth

And the lore of Bunker was interesting, as you find more notes you start to put together the madness what the soldiers experienced I ended up running away from the monster most of the time to the Administration Room , if it was front of me I would use one bullet to stun it and then run over it I even ran away from it after getting the dynamite because it found me , it started chasing me but I somehow got through the tunnels you drain in the arsenal and survived

Im still finalizing my first Skyrim\LoreRim experience and I am researching new mods So I decided to play Amnesia Bunker, its classic Amnesia good fun horror survival. The addition of the monster makes a great change and its nice having weapons Its there best game so far I did decide to use 1 cheat mod. I loaded a mod that gave me an endless torch, I got tired of the rats and the darkness mechanics so from the Arsenal onwards I used this Torch cheat I enjoyed the ending and how you deal with the monster but it did kill me about 5 times before I came right

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/4/nyc-mayoral-election-live-mamdani-leads-polls-against-cuomo-sliwa I see Mamdani will win the NY mayoral race What a racist country the US is that a person born in Uganda who openly believes in socialism could win an election in the wealthiest city in the US Those Nazi\racist people in the US, Im outraged

I would argue Trump was very honest on what he would change and implement if he won the election, at least on main things The main voting issues that concerned US citizens were crime illegal migration\border control inflation Things like DEI or the Israeli vs Palestinian conflict were not primary voting issues So Trump will and should be judged on those deliverables in the midterms. This weeks elections in NJ and Virginia should be an interesting bellwether for the midterms and the GOP current popularity But its a silly point you making and false equivalence A person cannot run for the job of US president if they fail certain basic health expectations and Dementia is one of those things So Biden should never had been the Dem candidate. Whats the point of saying " but Biden would have been better " when his cognitive reality disqualifies him Its a completely hypothetical debate and seems like a waste of time. You can argue Harris would have been better than Trump but she lost the election So Im not making a rhetorical point, Im stating categorically " Biden was never a presidential candidate because of his dementia " And then you probably not aware of the racism and discrimination against white men that DEI has created in certain countries Like the case of the UK RAF, it happens and you should be outraged. Discrimation is wrong !!! And it was a women who exposed this practice https://news.sky.com/story/complete-nonsense-if-raf-is-pausing-job-offers-for-white-men-over-impossible-diversity-targets-javid-says-12674947 "Sajid Javid has said it would be "complete nonsense" if the RAF has placed an "effective pause" on offering jobs to white male recruits in favour of women and ethnic minorities. It comes after defence sources told Sky News on Tuesday that the head of RAF recruitment had resigned in protest at the move which aims to hit "impossible" diversity targets. The senior female officer apparently handed in her notice in recent days amid concerns that any such restrictions on hiring, however temporary and limited, could undermine the fighting strength of the Royal Air Force (RAF), the sources said. "

None of that has any relevance to what I said Let me repeat it for clarity and give more context . The Dem strategists lied to there supporters and the world about the collapse of Bidens mental state. They didnt care that he was suffering from Dementia because they had convinced themselves he was the " only " candidate who could beat Trump and ironically when the truth came out during that debate with Trump it only made things worse for them and should people vote for them What the Dems should have done after the midterms is find a new candidate selected through the DNC process but they decided to stick with Biden despite his dementia If being lied to doesn't concern you thats fine but its one of the reasons Trump had such a sweeping victory Everything you mentioned is issues and criticisms with Trump, thats not what Im talking about And yes I dont think systemic racism exists widely in the US because my definition of that is where you have laws and systems that are racist. Like in Apartheid, that was an example of systemic racism. But you can post an example of a US law or bill that is specifically racist and I will read it. But racism like all forms of bigotry does exist in the US like all other countries but its not "systemic " Then as @Zoraptorsaid I didnt want Trump to be the GOP candidate. But he won the RNC and he became the candidate, thats how national conventions work in the USA Then I always accept the outcomes of free and fair elections in any country even if Im not happy with the outcome and Trump won in a free and fair election Thats how Democracy works and Im not going to change my view on this because of the candidate

Its excellent, one of the best police dramas I have ever seen. Complex and nuanced characters really make the show You should watch it to the end

Yes the US could target the Soles cartel bases within Venezuela, thats why they have deployed naval assets. Its already been raised as a possibility Thats not the same as attacking the government of Venezuela and Maduro can try to spin that as much as possible and then people can decide to believe that targeting drug cartels is the same as targeting the state. I would expect that type of sensationalism and SM outrage Saying all that targeting Soles and Venezuela is not going to make much a difference to drugs being smuggled into the US. Firstly drugs like cocaine come mostly from Peru, Bolivia and Colombia and then most of the drugs are smuggled by Mexican and other cartels through the border, air and pacific routes. The Caribbean routes are just one way Here is good link on the Soles Cartel so you can understand its relationship within Venezuela https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2025/09/26/what-you-should-understand-about-the-cartel-de-los-soles/

A couple of years ago we witnessed military coups in Mali, Niger and Burkina Fuso where Democratically elected governments were overthrown and the main reason for this was the " failures " of the state to deal with the insurgencies and Jihadists. The various generals claimed they would end these conflicts if they were running the countries The French military were also booted out and Russian Wagner\Africa Corp were brought in to replace the French military Several years later as predicted the insurgencies are not only continuing but the violence has got worse. The Juntas have failed in there main objective and citizens have no recourse because the Democrat systems have been abandoned https://theconversation.com/jihadists-have-blockaded-malis-capital-whats-at-stake-268692 The capital of Mali is basically besieged "For weeks now, Bamako has been isolated from its external sources of supply, particularly fuel, which must be imported from its coastal neighbours. The government was recently forced to declare the closure of schools and universities due to lack of transport. Would the capture of an African capital by jihadists, rather than by conventional rebels, trigger an external intervention by western or African powers? This is unlikely. With the exception of its partners in the Alliance of Sahel States, Mali’s government is very isolated diplomatically. France was forced to depart just a few years ago, and was stung by its deep unpopularity in the region. A new French intervention seems unimaginable. The US is currently more interested in transactions than in new interventions, especially in Africa. Mali’s break with the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) would also seem to prevent a coordinated regional response. Even Burkina Faso and Niger, Mali’s neighbours and its partners in the Sahel alliance, are bogged down with their own jihadist insurgency. "

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5584001-rubio-trump-deny-impending-venezuela-strikes/ Both Trump and Rubio have denied the US has any plans to attack Venezuela, targeting drug cartels is not the same as war with a country unless the country where the drug cartels operate want to create a war " Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back on a report Friday that the Trump administration had decided to strike military installations in Venezuela. “Your ‘sources’ claiming to have ‘knowledge of the situation’ tricked you into writing a fake story,” Rubio posted on social platform X. He was responding to a Miami Herald report that said the strikes could come “at any moment” amid an increasingly aggressive posture from the U.S. toward Venezuela. Sources told the news outlet the strikes aimed at cutting off the hierarchy of the Soles drug cartel. President Trump earlier Friday also disputed reporting that he was planning to carry out strikes inside Venezuela. “No. It’s not true,” Trump said. "

You guys seem to forget that Trump is not in terrible physical shape, look how he was dancing in Malaysia. He has got the moves baby

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/americas/hurricane-melissa-damage-jamaica-cuba-latam-intl @Malcador Terrible damage from the hurricane, do you have any family or friends impacted?

Honestly, you would rather have someone with full blown dementia as the US president than Trump? You really dont like Trump But isnt it sad the low bar we have for world leaders, a choice between Trump or Biden in the US I blame the US voters, its there fault

Im not Afrikaans so it doesnt apply to me What is funny is the stories we hear about the people who migrated to the US and how hard they say it is to live there compared to South Africa. No domestic workers or the number of farm workers compared to South Africa But the reality is its such a tiny number of people who have left for the US, its become much more of a sensationalized story than a real one All the main Afrikaans groups in South Africa say that SA is there home and they not leaving

Do you have no issue with being lied to for several years about Bidens mental state and how he was the official presidential candidate of the worlds most powerful and influential country until a few months before the election? No issue with that?

Im not following this debate closely but Trump doesnt have anything like the dementia that Biden had or what my father has and your dad He forgets things and makes some mistakes but thats more common for his age as you mentioned Trump can hold a conversation and he has many interviews where he is coherent outside of his normal rants and narcissistic personality. He can answer questions It was an utter disgrace and betrayal of the entire Democrat base the way the Dem strategists lied about Bidens mental decline Can you imagine if Biden had become president with his condition

This is a particularly interesting analysis of the reality of the Indian and Chinese unbalanced relationship with Russia and how unhelpful it has now become for Russia on many levels but especially oil sales and Chinese investments into Russia . Its only 10 minutes and worth listening to for those still interested in this war but I think @Malcador and @Zoraptorwould appreciate it

I have finally decided to take the plunge and play Skyrim, its only been 14 years since its release The hardest decision was what mod collection to use and I did loads of research around the best mod collections and how they change vanilla Skyrim and I finally decided on LoreRim v4 which is the last and final LoreRim version This mod collection has over 4000 mods and uses Requiem as its foundation But how can anyone install 4000 mods, who has the time for that and I have one word for that relevant question ..." Wabbajack " (WJ) These are steps I followed and the timelines to install LoreRim and the issues I experienced Wabbajack downloaded all the mods in about 6-8 hours, I let it run overnight and with a Nexus Premium account I had no issues LoreRim V4 uses Skyrim AE edition and you need to install the relevant Creation Club (CC) mods or the Wabbajack install will fail. But WJ provides detailed logs on what is failing so I had to manually re-download 3 CC mods. Then I had about 10-12 Nexus mods that reported on being corrupted during the WJ installation. You just delete them from the WJ download and it downloads them again Finally it reported some access errors 1-2 times but you just shutdown WJ and restart it and then it worked, WJ remembers where it last failed so you dont have to ever start the whole process again WJ then created my MO2 profile with all the 4000 mods in the correct MO2 load order So the entire install of LoreRim and troubleshooting after the initial downloads took about 5 hours. Thats nothing compared to how long manually configuring 4000 mods would take as any modder will agree My next steps before I play Go through the post installation configuration advice and tips from the mod creator Install some additional mods and possibly some adult mods. There is a process to follow from the mod creator I will make sure I save my working MO2 profile so I can easily role back I dont plan to add many new mods but I want to play around before I start with LoreRim because now I understand the installation process

Im super excited about DW2, I played DW1 a few months ago and it was one of the best horror survival games I have played I didnt even know there would be a sequel, different developers but it still looks excellent https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-pathologic-devs-are-making-darkwood-2-with-acid-wizards-blessing-in-a-frankly-outrageous-piece-of-horror-synergy

Yes in response to Russia testing of its nuclear capable missiles, its being done on an equal basis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/trump-says-us-to-begin-testing-nuclear-weapons-on-equal-basis " President Donald Trump said the US would match its rivals in testing nuclear weapons after Russia in recent days announced trials of a nuclear-powered underwater drone and nuclear-capable cruise missile. Because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump said in a social media post shortly before meeting China’s leader in South Korea on Thursday. “That process will begin immediately.”

Yes there is interference from several countries that include the UAE and Russia and they all have vested interests in the war continuing but the 2 Sudanese factions fighting it are the main problem But the real disappointment for me is this should be something that the AU resolves but its toothless. Very good at rhetoric and podium statements but terrible at implementation of its own policies Africa cannot realize its full potential until the likes of the AU is effective and consistent So failing that we constantly fall back on the UN to resolve Africa's problems with mixed results. And then if a UNSC is vetoed you see nothing constructive Unfortunately Trumps direct intervention and transactional approach to geopolitics has more success in several conflicts than the UNSC but the US has no interests in this Sudan war so I cant see the US intervening unless asked?

Yes its a horrific ongoing war and Im being generous if I say its gets 5% of the attention and outrage that the Palestinian vs Israeli conflict gets And that includes attention and activism from Africa which is where you would expect to find the real concern But there was attempts to pass UNSC resolutions last year declaring a ceasefire but Russia vetoed it, the only country that blocked the resolution https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/25/un-russia-vetoes-sudan-resolution-despite-global-support

Im about 80 hours into Cyb2077 and Im about to finish the last mission Its been fun but not fantastic, firstly the game gets a 60/100 on the globally respected " BruceVC game rating system ". Thats not a terrible score, anything higher than 50 is still worth playing I found myself getting bored with the game and most of the missions and the main reason for this is because Im not a big cyberpunk fan. So its not like Witcher and fantasy which is my favourite RPG genre First what I liked about the game very stable now. No serious bugs or crashes, maybe 3-4 CTD and I was using loads of mods I liked the hacking and braindance mechanics I liked the details with Night City and the NPC. It felt like a living city NPC and companions had interesting side quests I completed Phantom Liberty in the middle of the main quest and that was an interesting diversion There were some unique side-quests and choices I had to make like should I support the guy who wanted to crucify himself on live TV The races were fun and hunting all the cyberpsychos added some challenge to combat What I didnt like about the game Combat becomes too easy, nothing really can kill you on higher levels the city doesn't really have much to do outside of a few common activities the lore didn't motivate or interest me. not enough Romance or adult content. This is suppose to be a city of depravity and corruption and you were limited around what you could interact with despite extensive crafting available I ended up just using 3 weapons all the time I didnt end up using most of the special abilities as you increase in levels because I didnt need to use them in combat. Its a strange mechanical implementation in a game if you dont need to use something you have levelled up towards? As I mentioned my main issues with the game is because Im just not a cyberpunk fan Overall, fun game but nothing like the Witcher games

Yes but the US influence is clear which is why Netanyahu and Likud voted against this motion. But the US cant stop these types of bills being presented and then the Knesset votes like any other similar parliament If it wasnt for the USA Netanyahu would have voted to support it and this motion was raised by other far right parties Its basically dead in the water and it wont get advanced despite it being passed But this development for me is more about the factions in the Israeli right-wing coalition and differences in opinions and what Israel should be doing And most of the far-right parties dont seem to understand how they need to align with what the US\Trump wants to achieve around a lasting peace or they will lose much US support Here is a more detailed article around this https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-election-nears-annexation-fiasco-shows-netanyahu-losing-control-of-his-coalition/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/middleeast/trump-israel-west-bank-annexation.html This story is a few days old but relevant for the future of the region Israel's Knesset voted " symbolically " in a razor thing majority to annex parts of the West Bank but the US rejected this firmly and vociferously Netanyahu and Likud also voted against it because this would have undermined the US peace plan that Trump is responsible for and Netanyahu doesn't want to upset or alienate Trump Its another example of the influence the US has over Israel "The next steps in shaping a peaceful, postwar Gaza remain vague, but the Trump administration has made one thing clear. Any Israeli attempt to annex parts of the occupied West Bank will not be tolerated. President Trump drove the point home in an interview with Time magazine published on Thursday. “It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries,” he said of West Bank annexation. “Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.” The day before the interview came out, the Israeli Knesset, or Parliament, passed two largely symbolic votes in favor of annexing land in the West Bank, a territory that much of the world envisions as the core of a future Palestinian state. The United States is Israel’s most important ally and the preliminary votes clearly raised the hackles of the Trump administration, which has worked hard to keep its Arab partners to the Gaza deal on board. Vice President JD Vance, who was wrapping up a two-day visit to Israel on Thursday, vented his anger at the vote. He said someone had told him that this was a symbolic political stunt with no practical significance. “If it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt, and I personally take some insult to it,” he said. “The West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel. The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel. The Wednesday votes took place on the same day he arrived in the country. The messages left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambling to distance himself on Thursday from the votes that angered the U.S. administration. “The Knesset vote on annexation was a deliberate political provocation by the opposition to sow discord during Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Israel,” he said in a statement issued in English. "