Gorth

Not fan art, but game trailer:

Edit: Split from the weird and interesting thread I think we had a thread once for short cgi movies and animations. Can't find it though 🤔 An impressive one man job (mostly for Warhammer 40k fans, but other may appreciate the skill that went into the movie making)

Anyone wants to buy a government? The Australian Liberal Party (the governing party) is always for sale... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55851074 "It started with Zac Efron. Then Mark Wahlberg flew over, Matt Damon jetted in, and dozens of other celebrities followed - all to set up temporary homes in Australia. More recently, Julia Roberts touched down. She's due to film a movie here with George Clooney later this year, one rather aptly titled Ticket to Paradise. Because amid the pandemic, it does appear that half of Hollywood has fled to Australia, viewing it as a Covid-free idyll. Life is good in a country that's largely eliminated the virus - people are freely enjoying beaches, bars, and nightclubs. Most of the famous arrivals are here to work. Australia's government has lured over productions like the next Thor film with tax breaks." ... "They're calling it Aussiewood," one local entertainment reporter told the BBC. ... Just one problem... "But not everyone is pleased. One year on since Australia shut its borders, there are still at least 40,000 Australians stranded overseas. " So yeah, unless you have a few tens of millions on your bank account, don't bother. Even if you're an Australian citizen "The government says it's organised more than 100 repatriation flights, including 20 this year. But with tens of thousands of Australians still unable to get home, anger over the lack of government support has grown."

Not so much TV as something about a TV show, a youtube documentary showing the changes to Battlestar Galactica lore and how it changed over time from Glen Larson's original alien lizards wearing metal armor cylons to the mutation into being droids/mechanical lifeforms because of some restriction on body counts in TV, that you could show in the US at the time. It was quite interesting actually, seeing how they adapted to the circumstances. He (Larson) also introduced "humanoid" cylons to infiltrate the colonies a few decades before the new show. Edit: I guess that would have made the original cylon concept the proverbial "lizard overlords"

Strange, why do they suddenly want to turn the Marines into a naval based, amphibious branch 🤔 The article brings its own conclusion on the why though, to take on Chinese bases in the South China Sea

(warning, video in article shows violent octopus) 😂 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56612257 Australia: Geologist beaten up by 'angriest octopus' on beach In a video that has gone viral, the octopus can be seen in shallow waters lashing out at geologist Lance Karlson. The creature came after him again later and struck him on the arm, before whipping his neck and upper back.

Maybe it's a geo location check? Works fine in Australia. Would you have access to vpn or proxy servers? 🤔

Depends on how things develop on the home front in China. It could be next year, it could be in five years. Depends on how fast Xi needs an external "threat". If none presents itself, he can always assimilate Taiwan (forcefully). Trump set an unfortunate precedent, being willing to sacrifice allies without batting an eyelid. Xi may be expecting more of the same in the White House. In the meantime, China is busy building up its power base and infrastructure for power projection in the Pacific, all the way down to Antarctica. and down through Africa. @BruceVCyou better brush up on your Mandarin too, as Chinese interests are spreading throughout that continent too... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3086968/china-finds-manufacturing-opportunities-low-wage-africa And leaving environmental disasters in their wake, like a passing army ant swarm https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210323-the-factories-turning-west-africas-fish-into-powder

Just some old stuff I happened to listen to quite a bit when it was new.

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The rest of us will enjoy some chocolate eggs 😋 The latest outbreak in Queensland threw a spanner in the works for my travel planes. Had booked flight tickets, hotel and a night of standup/political satire show and comedy (and dinner) in Melbourne. Less than a week before, something escapes quarantine and the area is now in total lockdown until the next review (but too late for me to change plans, so... everything cancelled).

That's why I always thought @Guard Dog was a leprechaun 🤔

Thanks Bruce. We might disagree on the finer details (and I'll still stand by my claim that Ukraine botched the legitimacy of their claims by sending in tens of thousands of troops, annexing it in the first place). But I hope we can agree upon the choice should have been made by the people of Crimea, neither Kiev nor Moscow.

I never got around to read the Danish version. Bear in mind, I would have been around 14 at the time and preferred comics over novels *cough*. We had Danish translations of most of the Belgian/French comics at the time. My love for Tolkien came way later when I got an adventure game "The Hobbit" for the Commodore 64. I was stuck getting killed in the dark in the goblin caves (where you're supposed to find the ring) and the only clue was to read book. The game came with an English version of The Hobbit and I ended up reading it (and found my clues! I had to find and turn 3 trolls into stone, so I could get the sword "Sting", which glows in the dark when orcs/goblins are near, so it could light my way through the caves). I was several years older at the time, around 17-18 or so, and suddenly found the story interesting. Went out and found both Lord of the Rings and Simarillion in English and loved them. Especially Silmarillion is something I read over and over, even to this day. I probably just assumed a while ago your name would be something like Bruce Van (Der) C...something Given the Dutch/Africaans influence on the language

I've been using Gorth first as a board game character since 1978, CRPG character since 1983 and online since 1991. Sort of feeling a bit attached to it ☺️ Strangely enough, in online games and MMO's I'm known by a different name for the last 10 years. Sort of my secret identity 😂 No, not really. Just strange how names sometimes seems to "stick" to you and can be hard to get rid of again. Edit: as for the etymology, I had attempted to read the Danish version of Lord of Rings (courtesy of the public libraries), but it was just way too boring and too long. I did take a glance at an appendix page with a list of names and figured, oh, Gorthaur, cool name, I'm so gonna steal that. Right up until the first wargame on a tabletop and my opponent asked me to pronounce my generals name 😊 Nothing that couldn't be fixed by chopping off a few syllables until I could pronounce it. Sort of. Heck, one syllable left, how hard could it be???

Cognac excluded! 👀

Tried my hand at green curry chicken. I should probably get myself small kitchen scale for weighing stuff. The eggplant didn't feel very heavy in my hand, but it sure was a lot of eggplant once I was done slicing it into little cubes 🤔 It did taste great though. Like the Massaman, I cheated and bought a paste with the spice mix already prepared. It may not be bacon, but curry and coconut milk on the stove isn't bad either when it comes to fragrances 😋

Despite the amusement, actually not a bad cover 😂

She was definitely the "most enjoyable" part of the first Suicide Squad movie. I liked the first movie, but then I didn't really expect haute couture when watching it (and I bought the dvd dirt cheap). Unlike some other movies, I felt entertained afterwards, not like I had just wasted an hour or two of my life or was suddenly missing several brain cells 👍