Agiel
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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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I guess it was a sign from up high that I decided to re-watch <<Kite>> last month:
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Just now, Bartimaeus said:
I guess that about seals this election.
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At the minimum we can say these Olympics gave us this moment:
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As more info on the shooter comes out I'm again reminded of this exchange in the Broadway musical <<Assassins>> when the ghosts of American political assassins past and future convince Oswald to assassinate Kennedy:
QuoteOSWALD: People will hate me.
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Having played the North American beta last month I can confirm that it pulled out all the stops for Wuxia tropes (of course a heaping helping of Qinggong, but also martial arts manuals, Qi cultivation, and references to the Jianghu), of which I heartily approve. I also suspect the inclusion of golden swallows in this trailer are a reference to Cheng Pei Pei's character in <<Come Drink With Me>>.
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While I wait for <<The Old World>> Core Rulebook and <<Forces of Fantasy>> to come back in stock I thought it high time to finally finish a kit that languished in my pile of shame for too long:
Spoiler filter for a, shall we say... slightly spicy banner design:
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Can corroborate just about all of these points, though these days I'm more a snifter of Cognac before bed guy than a beer drinker.
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When everyone in the theater cracked up at this moment with Stilgar in <<Dune Pt. 2>> I knew I was among my people:
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I'm guessing when the special effects team needed miniatures for the scene with the fighter jet the Su-27 kits were the cheapest they could get from the hobby store.
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I guess it's settled then. Deathspell Omega does indeed have a human drummer for their recordings:
Shame we missed out on them finally performing live. Would have lined up at the crack of dawn to see them.
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This randomly showed up in my Youtube feed but I have to confess that this has insanely good animation for something that apparently had a 7.5 million Euro budget.
Just a crying shame that it bombed.
Movie is called "Dofus – Book 1: Julith".
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Evidently I only have one gear:
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With my newly arrived WinWing F-15EX throttle handles I've been getting deep into DCS: F-15E. While the work done is quite impressive, helped by real-life former F-15E aircrew Jeff "Notso" Bright, it makes me think back to one of my favourite flight sims Jane's F-15 which modeled the same aircraft and just how close the EA Baltimore team managed to get to the real thing. Pulling up the NAVFLIR HUD and A/G RDR and A/G PACS on the MFDs, compare and contrast:
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20 hours ago, Gromnir said:
regardless, US immigration, like US health care, is complex issues with a whole lotta different parts... and Gromnir is old enough to recall a time when democrats and republicans were polar opposites on the issue. keep in mind trumpy fear mongering about illegals stealing jobs from working class americans and the largely imaginary crime stat hobgoblins shared at fox news were mainstays o' the democrat platform well into the 80s. please recall that working class whites were worried about such back in the 60s and at the time those individuals were dependable democrat voters.
Of note is that Cesar E. Chavez, nominally a liberal icon, took a hardline stance on immigration who didn't shy away from using pejoratives typically associated with the MAGA crowd for his brethren across the border. The reasons I feel are beautifully elucidated in this video from Evan Hadfield:
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2 hours ago, uuuhhii said:
does level cap raised to 60
Devs have said that if you have <<Phantom Liberty>> installed it raises the level cap to 60, and if you raise your ability points past a certain point on the build planner you'll get a tooltip that says you won't be able to actually get them to that level unless you have the expansion.
From pre-release footage of 2.0 and a cursory look at the build planner I was initially excited that CDPR might have done away with the TES-style "raise skill levels as you use them" system, though another observer informed me that it has sadly been retained, albeit in a little more broad form (i.e. condensed into archetypes of play such as "Shinobi," "Netrunner," "Solo," etc).
The All Things Political Topic - Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence
in Way Off-Topic
Posted · Edited by Agiel
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?