Agiel
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6 hours ago, Katphood said: Elden Ring: Just started Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. Yeah, I'm getting my butt kicked.
Turok 1: Good ol' days, this thing is still fun! I am on world 6(The Lost Land) right now. The difficulty with enemies is getting higher and higher.
Going for Turok 2 and 3 once I am done with 1.
At risk of taking this post into WOT territory I'm relieved to see you still posting and in apparent good spirits.
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You would think Thune would at least have called the White House to tell them "You didn't think we have enough problems going into an election year as it is?".
With the capture of Maduro it is in effect what Putin had hoped to achieve with the Desantnik at Hostomel. However I kept telling this to anyone who would listen that destroying the legitimate political leadership of Ukraine and shattering its conventional military was always going to be the "easy" part of the "SOM" and that even prior to 2022 the Russian military was not at all prepared to handle a counter-insurgency against a hostile population. Now can anyone picture the US voting public wanting to spend a single dime on an actually earnest and dedicated nation-building project in Venezuela?
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Quote"I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia*, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic]."
-Abraham Lincoln to Joshua Speed, 1855.
Perhaps this also explains the current administration's weird obsession with striking some notional grand bargain with Putin.
*In fairness to Czarist Russia serfdom would be abolished about the time the American Civil War kicked off, two years before the Emancipation Proclamation, and almost four before the 13th Amendment was ratified.
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43 minutes ago, Gromnir said:
just as an aside, 'cause the point keeps being ignored/overlooked, but the people sent to cecot by the US were not deported. w/o due process we transported residents o' the US to a dystopian hell hole where they were to serve sentences for an indeterminate duration. we paid a central american dictator millions o' dollars to incarcerate and torture people-- not deportations. trump correct recognized that americans wouldn't care if he made theatre outta cruelty as long as those suffering were part o' a disreputable them. a few hundred venezuelans? so what? they were possibly gang members and they weren't american citizens regardless. virtual nobody were gonna rush to the defense of them.
Given the current Epstein news perhaps the weird parallels to the Pinochet regime and Colonia Dignidad are a sign from up high:
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1 hour ago, Gromnir said:
Posted before, but I just had a major case of Déjà vu.
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More redistricting bad news for Republicans: Texas may not net five GOP seats like they planned
Maybe it's worth reminding everyone the last time some Texans tried to f*** with California:
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Lo, I shall lead you to Fyushal, and there we shall open a temple of food, wherein shall be sausages and doughnuts and all manner of bountiful things. Yea, even individual sachets of mustard. And those who serve shall have hats of great majesty, yea, though they be made of coloured cardboard and have humorous arrows through the top.
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7 hours ago, Gromnir said:most parents is aware o' the Because I Said So doctrine of authority, but am thinking it is a bold approach to suggest it constitutes a legal sufficient rationale for the killing o' 80 people sans any proof that they is posing an imminent threat o' violence to americans.
HA! Good Fun!
I hope anyone who says they're fine with this realises they don't have a leg to stand on anymore when they prattle about Samuel and Vicki Weaver or the Branch Davidians.
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Seems the most exciting prospect of this game coming out are all the inevitable exposé pieces that finally reveal just what the hell happened with this game's development.
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My shake at venison au poivre vert with (store-bought) spaetzle and creamed spinach:
Half-serious question: Does the Rémy Martin for the sauce count against my Sober October?
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Seems appropriate to post this video:
Personal story: Among the reasons my own family is heavily pro-vaccine was the fact that growing up I had a daily reminder of what it was like to live in a world before then. My father walked with a permanent hobbled step as one leg was left shorter than the other as a result of polio. And having got Chicken Pox in 1994 I was probably among the last kids in North America to have gotten the disease since the vaccine only came out a few months later. It put things in perspective when I realised that future generations would be bewildered by this story arc from Calvin and Hobbes:
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To borrow a phrase from Tolkien: Good need not defeat stupidity, it need only to resist stupidity. And stupidity will inevitably destroy itself.
Also, an observation: Given that much of Musk's current net worth comes as a result of significant government largesse, be it from DoD contracts for SpaceX and subsidies for Tesla and that he's apparently pushing for a surrender in a war the US isn't even fighting in does that make him a Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey?
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Can't help but think about how this is in sharp relief to one of my favourite Presidential addresses to one of the service academies:
You, here today on this field, your colleagues at Omaha, Nebraska, or at Eglin in Florida, or who may be stationed in Western Europe, or men who are at sea in ships hundreds of miles from land, or soldiers in camps in Texas, or on the Island of Okinawa, they maintain the freedom by being on the ready. They maintain the freedom, the security, and the peace not only of the United States, but of the dozens of countries who are allied to us who are close to the Communist power and who depend upon us and, in a sense, only upon us for their freedom and security. These distant ships, these distant planes, these distant men keep the peace in a great half-circle stretching all the way from Berlin to South Korea. This is the role which history and our own determination has placed upon a country which lived most of its history in isolation and neutrality, and yet in the last 18 years has carried the burden for free people everywhere. I think that this is a burden which we accept willingly, recognizing that if this country does not accept it, no people will, recognizing that in the most difficult time in the whole life of freedom, the United States is called upon to play its greatest role. This is a role which we are proud to accept, and I am particularly proud to see the United States accept it in the presence of these young men who have committed themselves to the service of our country and to the cause of its freedom.
Postscript. For those who look upon the Kennedy administration as one of isolation and dovishness I find it hard to reconcile with these remarks earlier in the speech:
For some of you will travel where no man has ever traveled before. Some of you will fly the fastest planes that have ever been built, reach the highest altitudes that man has ever gone to,
and lift the heaviest payloads of any aviator in history. Some of you will hold in your hands the most awesome destructive power which any nation or any man has conceived. Some of you will work with the leaders of new nations which were not even nations a few years ago. Some of you will support guerrilla and counter-guerrilla operations that combine the newest techniques of warfare with the oldest techniques of the jungle, and some of you will help develop new planes that spread their wings in flight, detect other planes at an unheard of distance, deliver new weapons with unprecedented accuracy, and survey the ground from incredible heights as a testament to our strong faith in the future of air power and the manned airplane.-
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5 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:
@Agiel What game is that? I like the art direction.
<<Where Winds Meet>>, of which there was a closed beta last weekend. It's in open beta in China, though signing up for it requires a Chinese phone number and best played with knowledge of Mandarin (I come from a canto family 😛 ).
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Until worthwhile mods start coming out (I give it at least a year) I'm sticking with the Jianghu over Cyrodil:
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After 10th Edition 40K kind of falling flat for me I've been having some of the most fun playing tabletop wargames with <<The Old World>> of late. Though it might help that I finally have the confidence to field a big centerpiece model like the Forest Dragon now that the elf with garbage Toughness riding it can't just be cut off or blasted by a cannonball just like that:
And my army on parade:
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Since Trump and his ilk claim to have such admiration for those Nordics maybe he should ask Norwegian men about the <<Plakaten på veggen>> and what they think should be done when they have "no cards to play" (relevant section is "8. Grunnsetninger for forsvarskampen"):
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Military Thread: “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
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