Everything posted by Gorgon
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The All Things Political Topic
Well, we found out that Biden is past it and that the smart move would be to replace him
- Funny Stuff - It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor
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The All Things Political Topic
^^^agreed
- Funny Stuff - It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor
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Ukraine Conflict - continuing
Well, NATO membership isn't strictly necessary, key countries could sign defense pacts with Ukraine and it would have more or less the same effect. It's not a bad thing to hear Putin talk about the possibility of peace. No doubt the key motive here is to further existing disagreements between Ukraine's NATO backers, but he still said it. That moves it closer to being a reality. We should really try to avoid this dragging on for another 10 years.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps
yeah, it's pretty good.
- Random video game news... Bring me a bucket, and I'll show you a bucket!
- Random video game news... Bring me a bucket, and I'll show you a bucket!
- Random video game news... Bring me a bucket, and I'll show you a bucket!
- Random video game news... Bring me a bucket, and I'll show you a bucket!
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Random video game news... Bring me a bucket, and I'll show you a bucket!
https://www.metacritic.com/game/homeworld-3/ Ouch. The industry score means nothing. The bad user score is either a hissy fit, lots of those around, or a good indication of a terrible game. In truth I probably resemble all the old-school fanboys who have written bad reviews, so, I dunno. A pass 'i think. Jagged Alliance is 50% off, the new one. I might get that instead.
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Funny Stuff - It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor
- Gaza - War does not determine who is right - only who is left
- Gaza - War does not determine who is right - only who is left
- Build Thread 3.0
What should I get if I wanted to go Ryzen. My motherboard just died with a nefarious "disconnect your drives, a system failure may be imminent" message. I have an rx7900xtx and I figure it's too early to swap that out. The cpu could be salvaged, but it's a 12th gen intel core I 5, it was cheap at the time, and it doesn't feel very upgrady to buy a b660 chipset in 2024.- The TV and Streaming Thread: US Writers/Actors Strike Edition
I also watched the first fallout season. It started a bit mixed and turned out really good. I think they got the recipe largely right. There is a ton to chose from in all the games and having three characters just kinda move through it all, The good, the bad and the ugly style, while keeping the characters in focus enables all the lore not to become baggage.- The TV and Streaming Thread: US Writers/Actors Strike Edition
the music is supposed to be terrible, it's tradition- The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
Well, Israel is engaging in war crimes in its war with Hamas according to basically everyone without a vested interest. It is already illegal to invest in Russia for the same reason. Israel gets a pass because the security cooperation and financial ties between it and the US as well as the unfathomable amount of influence it holds in internal US politics. European leaders back Biden's play because of the hundreds of billions of dollars of aid for Ukraine, and because if they don't, they will be dealing with Trump for the next four years. These relations are all transactional, none of them are ethical. If the international criminal court means anything, it will have to issue arrest warrants on both Hamas and senior Israeli leaders, given the facts. With all this, it is entirely appropriate and moral to attempt to undermine the US-Israeli relationship, or at least to say that they don't want their university to have a stake in the continuation of violations against human rights.- The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
There is a lot going on at the same time at different sites but ; What's radical about demanding that a university divest from the arms industry, or that it publish a list of it's potential conflicts of interests. the same should be true of investments with a connection to slave labor, or fundamentally undemocratic ones. The protestors, well at least 50% of them, are paying customers. Institutions of higher learning are supposed to be committed to democratic ideals, there is a long history that at least. Without an ethics clause attached to their investments, the rot and corruption will set in, as we have seen evidence of already.- What are you Playing Now? - Right Now at the moment edition
Wait until you get to diamond city.- What are you Playing Now? - Right Now at the moment edition
how can you stand the 3 minute load times.- The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
Biden's approval of his handling of the Gaza conflict among the 18-25 demographic is at 22% or thereabouts, which is completely terrible. They won't forget being dismissed as antisemitic on little to no evidence, or that that they were dubbed "outside agitators" when this was not true. They are absolutely going to hold a grudge against the Democratic party that Trump can exploit. Trump is no different on Israel, he is even plausibly worse, but Trump is an enemy, he's not a friend who stabbed you in the back, that's always worse. He tried to walk the tightrope by steadily walking up his critique of Israel, but it was so obviously dishonest that he managed to lose ground with both the pro Israelis and the pro Palestineans. You can't be all things to all people. Also, way to piss away the clout he got from pushing student debt relief. That should have been a huge winner for him with anyone in a similar situation.- Gaza - War does not determine who is right - only who is left
- What You've Done Today - We do not remember days, we remember moments
- Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps
A movie doesn't run on the same clock as a book though. It seemed comical the way the fremen won the battle and ran straight into the emperors ships and flew off on the great Jihad all in the space of a few minuites.