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Went to a birthday party yesterday. Nice and cozy, in an old brewery. We were (I think) about 11 people. Listening to the two Estonian girls talk to each other was a bit "weird", because even if the language is different, it reminded me a lot of the half day spent in the airport of Helsinki, while doing a stopover there (on my way from Australia to Copenhagen, 8 years ago). She "melody" and the sound of the language was just so similar to the local, Finnish conversations I listened to in the airport. edit: not understanding a word in either case, but the sound of the language was very similar

@melkathi sadly I never got to play BloodBowl when it was new, a few decades ago. But, afaik it's still a "current" game. Awesome gobbos!

Little seems to have changed since 1939. I wonder if they still have NKVD officers and commissars?

Disclaimer, not trying to start a religious war nor done any fact checking on his claims. I just listened to it the other day as background while painting miniatures. But his history of theology in this case was intriguing enough that it made me want to dig a bit deeper into the origin of the Abrahamic religions at a later date I.e. from a warrior god in a larger pantheon to a god in small Caanite pantheon to a single god for the tribes of Israel....

Meh, enough with the Marvel stuff already (isn't that all they do these days?)

@BruceVC are we still waiting for your contribution?...

I think a lot of “democratically” elected governments gets toppled by either military coups or uprisings because of rampant corruption… i.e. being “democratic regimes” in name only, not functionally. No easy fixes for deep rooted cultural problems

Politics... politics never change More politics here

Split off from old thread.... JuiceMedia's analysis of the state of Democracy around the world (warning, depressing news)

Georgia is in the process of introducing an almost carbon copy of that law, leading to unrest in the country. Spitefully referred to as "the Russian Law"

I enjoyed a video where she mocked people for even suggesting Ukraine was somehow Russian and had some fun conversations with a Ukrainian friend to show linguistic and cultural differences. Ie both former Soviet states but different countries .That was 3 years ago and the video is still there in

This. I don’t think she’s lying but I suspect her choice of location and subject gets “vetted” by people you don’t want to antagonise

So... Heiliung is going to tour Australia, with special guest Eivor. I would go see either without as a main event (both together just means I must have been a good boy), but... I am torn between getting tickets for their Brisbane concert or their Melbourne concert. The former is closer and more convenient, but the latter is probably a bigger event with better facilities

IIrc her name was Natasha or something close. Last video I saw (a year ago) was posted from some other country. I *think* she was staying in Georgia https://www.youtube.com/@NatashasAdventures/videos

Sad thing is, it's entirely possible... although I think that is giving FSB too much credit.

Isn't that what you get as a politician if you put all your eggs in one basket... and the basket turns out to be a basket case? Personally, I see that as karma for being followers rather than a leaders, despite marketing yourself as society's leaders. Sometimes the path of least resistance is a dead end... Edit: That last one actually sounded quite nice, have to remember that, if I think I need to sound profound some day

@BruceVC you may or may not find this interesting. After my favourite Russian blogger left Russia at the beginning of the war, inside information sort of dried out. Stumbled across this girl a few weeks ago, ethnic Tatar (she also has videos about the 190+ ethnic groups living together in the federation), but Russian citizen, giving insight into life in Russia. Her blogs are from the perspective of what I consider "enlightened" Russians, not the "bogans" from the "only in Russia" videos. If interested, you can find a 2 year old video on her channel where she explains why she isn't leaving and why politics doesn't interest her.

Windows 1984 indeed

I think I'll just repurpose my old thread here as a general Warhammer universe thread... I might even put some of my old paint jobs in here some day... You guys feel free to share your own armies whether Fantasy, WarCry, Necromunda, whatever... Anyway, It was hard to not notice the **** storm that occurred when current heads of lore in Nottingham decided to introduce a female Custodian... can't say I liked the idea either, but there is one thing WH40k does over and over, it's retconning, big time and consisten retconning Makes me wonder about the two missing legions and primarchs (2nd & 11th). My current (personal) conspiracy theory is, those were female primarchs leading female legions. But the Emperor foresaw how the world would react 40 years later and so decided to eliminate them in "Thunder Warrior Style" and remove all records of their existence

Some Vikings inspired music... the show, not the culture Edit: Saw Heilung had put up a new live video on their channel. Warning, light nudity involved...

Thanks. Editing my previous post, adding them

Based on recommendations, I made myself a list of shows to check out, as in at least watch a few episodes of each (depending on availability). Not necessarily in this order, just cut and past from posts above Kill la Kill Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Bakemonogatari Code Geass Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Edit to add (so I have them in one place) full metal alchemist aquarion evol Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun tower of druaga

@Bartimeus as much as I love the old recoloured, upscaled and frame rate corrected footage from the late 1800's and start of the 1900's, this is indeed just creepy, making realism look like CGI movies

You can't convince me Minsc didn't already explore that path

I worry what an AI would do to us once it's done scanning these pages for information about humans