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I've tried to preserve manpower in this campaign, throughout the end of 1941. Can't wait for spring 1942, The Third Reich will never know what hit them. Trying to beat the game in 1943 as Soviet player this time, but it's depending on how fast my command structure stabilizes and improves (Soviet units are disastrous at following orders in 1941, often ignoring or delaying actions, making a mockery at attempts of coordinating counter attacks)

What would the world do without great statesmen like this?... https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54172311 Ok, I was being sarcastic Coronavirus: Trump denies downplaying severity of virus At a televised event with voters, Mr Trump said he had "up-played" it. The claim contradicts comments Mr Trump made to journalist Bob Woodward earlier this year, when he said he minimised the virus's severity to avoid panic.Mr Trump also repeated on Tuesday that a vaccine could be ready "within weeks" despite scepticism from health experts. Guys... do me a favour, if you're in the US and somebody offers a vaccine within the next 3 weeks, stall! Edit: Not saying don't take vaccines, but anything that gets forced through at that pace and still somehow labelled "safe" (granted, probably safer than the bleach that was first suggested) would make the approval process of the Boeing 737 Max look like professional work. Wait until it's deemed safe by somebody other than the current governments henchmen.

Make the Beach great again! Sorry... couldn't resist

True. I played BG2 for a few years before I got BG1, so there's that. But on my very first play through I fell into the Yoshimo trap (man, was I pissed off) and kept my dear sister all the way to the end as my main mage.... (facepalm). In subsequent play throughs, Yoshimo could find his own way and Imoen was left behind too for her own good, as soon as someone with lockpicking skills could be found. I would often play thief myself (my favourite class to play in several crpgs, heck even my main character in Guild Wars 2 today is a thief). Things got better with modding tools where I used Imoen as single class mage. Minsc and Lilarcor were like made for each other, but after a few games it got tiring too, so Korgan (was that the name of the angry dwarf?) often got the slot as the partys muscle, at other times whatshisname the self righteous paladin when feeling like using twohanded swords.

Apparently it can be very, very hard to distinguishing facial expressions when experiencing pain and orgasms. Those clever British are working hard on it though, putting their hard earned tax quids to good work on research. Soon the days will be over where it can be faked! Ah Brexit... you guys will be missed "Significance Humans often use facial expressions to communicate social messages. However, observational studies report that people experiencing pain or orgasm produce facial expressions that are indistinguishable, which questions their role as an effective tool for communication. Here, we investigate this counter intuitive finding using a new data-driven approach to model the mental representations of facial expressions of pain and orgasm in individuals from two different cultures. Using complementary analyses, we show that representations of pain and orgasm are distinct in each culture. We also show that pain is represented with similar face movements across cultures,whereas orgasm shows differences. Our findings therefore inform understanding of the possible communicative role of facial expressions of pain and orgasm, and how culture could shape their representation.Author contributions: C. Chen, C. Crivelli, O.G.B.G., P.G.S., J.-M.F.-D., and R.E." http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/168190/13/168190.pdf

At the latter, according to a law from 1851, they were NOT allowed to leave the reservations (without a written permit)... At the former, I think I had that conversation years ago with Walsingham, as England is generally (rightfully or not) credited with inventing modern concentration camps, used to eradicate the Boer population in South Africa during the Boer wars.

Yeah, how dare they take up arms and defend their ancestral land against the pure, noble whites.... One thing you got right here is, everybody should be held accountable for their actions. As for reservations, they were effectively the koncentration camps of the 19th century. Every time the settlers had trespassed enough into native land and conflicts arose between native population and the new immigrants, the military got sent in to evict the native population. Sometimes they would be given a token piece of land, Just to get them out of the way (probably cheaper than having to buy enough bullets to execute them all). Often tracts of land unsuitable for agriculture and hunting, leading to famine, starvation and epidemics. Short version here https://www.ushistory.org/us/40d.asp No, they weren't "genocided away" in the strict sense of the word, as their genes still exist, but cultural genocide is also a thing. You can kill a mans spirit just as well has his body Gromnir could probably tell WAY better then an ignorant foreigner like me how life in reservations was and is.

I'm not going to post the bill of lading, but lets just say it was a lot of books, a lot of dvd movies, a lot of Games Workshop stuff (when I say lot, I mean LOT, like several thousand metal miniatures, including long out of print stuff from the beginning of the company), wall units, book shelves, living room furniture, tumble dryer, lots of tools and power tools, clothes, my grand old plasma tv and dvd and a blu-ray player, kitchen stuff.... just so many things. As for the personal stuff, lots of things that only makes sense to me, like a teddy bear that I've had since I was 2 years old (with clothes knitted by now dead family members which is why it's important to, never mind the silly bear), drawings and later letters made by what was then little nephews and nieces for their uncle etc. As said, entirely only of personal value.

Now I imagine something like this, when you put it that way...

...and global warming throws a spanner in the works. Sorry to hear that, people in the western US. Living in Australia, I can appreciate what the "new normal" is for bush fire seasons (almost choking to death in my old place in Melbourne last year). Currently just sitting here, tapping my feet impatiently on the floor, procrastinating on the internet and waiting for the container to get delivered to my door with all my old personal belongings. My stuff has spent the last 6 years in self storage in Europe and now I could finally afford to get it shipped down here Much of the stuff was bought down here before I moved to Berlin, but there is also stuff that dates back to my childhood. Yeah, nostalgia can be a bitch sometimes Edit: Now unpacking stuff... nostalgia indeed (I think the tape is so old it wont work anymore)

I guess I got lucky and felt like I got my moneys worth on the kickstarter projects I supported. Pillars of Eternity was $1000 well spent, but Wasteland 2, Expeditions: Conquistador and the last one, Stasis, in particular were what I consider good games and happy to have supported. Huge corporations, then monopolies are the natural evolution of the an unregulated market, where prices are dictated to the consumers because of lack of competition.

Damn you NASA, poking your nose where it doesn't belong. Now *they* know about life on Earth

Tl;dr; Nethack was a much better CRPG than Witcher III (according to the guy writing)

I've never seen them together, but I've seen CCW and John Fogerty separately live. Ah, back in the good old days when live music was still an option A band I never got to see was Metallica. I actually had no less than 3 tickets for their concert in Melbourne last year, but it got cancelled 1 frigging month before the concert because Hetfield needed to go back to rehab for his addiction problems... as for now, my attitude is **** Metallica, let me get to a Rammstein concert some day

You could argue it's the most important US presidential election taking place in 2020

I do. I mentioned in the past, part in jest part seriously that the governing Australian Liberal Party (ALP) is 100% owned by the mining industry and the fossil fuel industry, Only subject up for debate is which of the two owns more of the party. The banks have been running their own thing without any real oversight for decades, so they don't really count in that equation. The latter could use some summary execution of corporate "fat cats". Since Australia doesn't have the death penalty, life in prison would do for a number of them. The party's latest idea is, in order to fight covid, they want to ban all internal borders so people can travel freely between states again. Not fair if only one state has all the covid. Could also be because Clive Palmer (a local billionaire and stakeholder in the ALP) said it was bad for his business (see above comment about who really rules Australia)

In a bit of good news... sort of I guess. He and his fellow executives are getting off too easy imho Rio Tinto chief Jean-Sebastien Jacques to quit over Aboriginal cave destruction On Friday, the company said in a statement that "significant stakeholders have expressed concerns about executive accountability for the failings identified". The board said Mr Jacques would remain as the chief executive until March, or until a successor was appointed. Other senior executives, including the heads of the miner's iron ore and corporate relations divisions, will also leave the company at the end of the year. Tl;dr; stakeholders in the company, from pension funds to the Church of England were *very* unhappy with the actions of the boss, his henchmen and the light slap on the wrist the company gave them. Sometimes a **** ton of negative PR can work a bit of wonder. I guess walking looks better on your CV than getting sacked https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54112991 Edit: In a perfect world, Australians would do the same and sack the pile of dung prime minister whose government gave the thing the thumbs up legally in the first place

Hahaha, is all good mate. I'm not familiar with Swedish beer I grew up with Carlsberg and Tuborg Edit: And the beer we used to mock was German beer

Hvis jeg nogensinde kommer til Danmark igen en dag, skal jeg nok invitere på dansk øl Edit: Of course, you would have to travel across øresund to get it Edit2: I actually had to google some danish web pages to cut and paste a few letters from the Danish alphabet. Javla Svenska!

Which sort of rams home the hypocrisy of the west, they don't really give a flying **** about democracy, only the balance of power and bottom lines. If you're a *lucky* country outside the block, you goals aligns with the west and even the lowest creep of a dictator can get support. If not, even the most well meaning, idealist state/group run by democratic ideals are screwed.

Yes, I'm Danish. Still relatively fluent (if not perfect anymore) in the language

Scania is the part of Denmark that is currently occupied by Swedish troops...

Looks like Russian intelligence services may have miscalculated a bit... Angela Merkel has something Boris Johnson doesn't have... clout. And Euros of course. Sweet, sweet Euros Which means leverage, that the British government wished it had last time someone got poisoned by Novishock (sp?) It was one short sentence in a German Sunday newspaper. But for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, it was potentially as damaging as an earthquake. "I hope the Russians don't force us to change our position on Nord Stream 2," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said, as the row with Moscow intensified over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54070046

According to google translate: Does anyone tell me if the "grounded" will come out for playstation 4 ?! Note: I want to play this game so badly Moved it to the Grounded discussion forum.