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The worldwide chip shortage is really hurting Australia by now... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-18/potato-shortage-fish-chips-wa-south-west-margaret-river/101869160 Several large grocery chains have introduced rationing on frozen chips (only so many bags per customer) As for why the potato's have abandoned Australia, it's weather related. Third La Nina year in a row (something unprecedented) means the climate has been generally colder than usual for farmers. I'm currently just waiting for a replacement plastic card to arrive from the bank, as I had to get my old card blocked asap Saturday morning. Woke up to a string of sms OTP requests from Visa, as someone was using my card details to try to transfer thousands of dollars overseas (one of those less known companies that specializes in transferring money fast to countries like Nigeria etc.). No idea about the specifics of how they got the info, but I have a few suspicions. Two major data leaks by large corporations both had me and my data amongst what was leaked. I knew something was up a couple of weeks ago when I got a string of sms OTP requests from EBAY, someone trying to change my account details (and I knew it wasn't me). After receiving 20 messages or so within a time span of 10 minutes, I had changed my password and 3 minutes later, the flood of OTP requests stopped, You apparently didn't need OTP to log in, only to do certain things. I didn't have any card details stored on my old EBAY account though. The only shady organization that had those were PayPal, because in a moment of insanity I made the mistake of storing my CC info on my old PayPal account and PayPal would not let me delete the info. I even contacted their support and they told me it was not a bad design decision, you are allowed to add payment methods to your PayPal account, but not allowed to remove them again. This is PayPal Australia btw, I'm fairly sure that wouldn't fly in any country in the EU jurisdiction. Sadly Australia is still a third world country where banks have too much power, even the unregulated ones. That being said, I still think those two significant (we are talking about 5+ million Australians) data leak is the source of my headache. Of course I got my card cancelled before I had made the sensible move to get some cash from an ATM first, so that left me all week with $0.75 in my wallet Went to the bank today, got some cash and waiting impatiently for the replacement card to arrive so I can get it activated. I do have some utility bills and subscriptions (including charity donations) that gets paid monthly using my Visa card (for which i now need to remember to contact and change the card details when I get it) Yeah, lots of text and brackets. Lets see what the forum software says to that after the fixes

It's "just" a guy drawing sketches (of pretty girls among other things). I watched a few more besides this one and I found it just incredible, how he can sketch things out freehand with a pencil on piece of paper. Then add ink drawings on top of it (again, freehand drawing) and finally scan the black and white art for colorizing in a piece of software, using a Wacom tablet edit: for those who like this kind of art, I would recommend watching a few more of his videos

Watched episode 1-5 so far. Hilarious I can't binge watch it, but sneaking in an episode or two when stopping by Youtube is great. Will definitely watch more episodes of it

Who cares about difficulty curves... this game needs more of Nocticulas curves

While the original Comic Bakery loader had some excellent music, I do like what Instant Remedy did with the song (play it loud!)...

Almost finished painting first third of my Veteran Guardsmen Kill Team (6 out of 18). Still need to paint bases and weapons though. A slow and grueling affair, as I make up the colour scheme as I work my way through the different parts of the miniatures. Hopefully the remaining two batches of 6 each will only take a fraction of the time, as all the decision making and redoing/repainting will be done As for why 18 when a Death Korps of Krieg team is nominally 10, it's because options (and a choice between strategic support options, one of which allows me to field another 4 guys on the battlefield) Kill Team trailer from Games Workshop Edit: Warning, it's Warhammer 40k, i.e. violent and gory

I tried to submit a post 9 times... each time changing a bit, but eventually gave up

I thought a lobster was just a giant shrimp

test Edit: Forum sofware, you suck!

I don't think it's a question of "if" Putin will be able to throw another 200k bodies (low estimate) to the front. It's whether or not the increase in training, technology and intelligence info in the UA army can keep up with the numerical discrepancy. As hinted at before, I was wrong about my initial assumption on how the war would pan out when it happened anyway (because I didn't think it would in the first place). I based my assumption on the UA's performance against the separatists the preceding five years and that was very not impressive. Hence the thought it would be two armies on the same level, but outnumbered 3 to 1 and the outcome a foregone conclusion. Because NATO decided this was a good place to wage a proxy war and suddenly shower UA with western hardware, real time satellite intelligence info, etc. the "levels" of the armies changed rapidly. Those NLAW's and Javelins in the first two weeks of the conflict made a significant difference and the difference has only gotten a lot greater in the almost a year that has passed since. I know from the family back in Denmark, that UA troops have been rotated in and out of the country receiving "NATO doctrine" training in training camps before going back to Ukraine again. I wouldn't be surprised if that had happened in other western countries. It's now a war that isn't only decided by numbers, but propaganda (public morale), technology, fighting spirit of the armed forces and availability of resources (who runs first out of bullets and fuel). If the west decides they no longer want a proxy war and cut off UA to fend for itself, I do think the outcome a foregone conclusion, but I also think they will keep it up for a while yet. Still hoping for some kind of long term profitable outcome.

What exactly is wrong with being wrong, if you're flexible enough to acknowledge you were wrong and change your view (as long as nobody suffers injury or loss as a consequence)? Edit: I know I was wrong when this started because I didn't think it possible to make the kind of mistakes Putin did... and changed my mind as I saw how things unfolded

They still outnumbered the French by around 30000 troops (155000 vs 125000). May not have been a decisive factor during Napoleonic Wars type warfare, but I wouldn't call them "matched"

@Gromnir I've no idea if Michael Kofman's commentary applies to the initial Russian high commands strategy or not, but as events unfolded it looks like it became the de facto strategy (interesting link btw, thank you for that). Borodino, Tannenberg, Kursk... the Russian strategy just seems to historically have been to throw more men (or tanks) at an engagement than the opponent. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't

I think most of the world came to the conclusion at the beginning of last year, that the Russian army is not made up of soldiers, but mostly just "armed medieval peasants" (as always, there are no absolutes and I'm sure they have the odd special forces or other actually military trained units). Which means, they don't fight as a cohesive force, they don't support each other and if something can be raped, pillaged or plundered for personal benefit, it takes priority.

I know Denmark has been “encouraged” to increase gas and oil production since the war started. Production had been cut to minimum level the last few years as renewable energy now supply the country with 67% (no kidding) of its electricity. Oil is mostly just needed for all things combustion engine driven, until those also gets replaced by electric engines. Every OPEC country’s nightmare

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/11/george-pell-dead-australian-cardinal-dies-aged-81-rome-vatican Cardinal Pell dies from complications during hip surgery. What to say?... hip hip hooray? As I said to a friend, better late than never I suppose, making the world just a little bit better of a place, even if his death is 60 years overdue. If I turn out to be wrong and there is an afterlife, I hope there is going to be an eternity of reckoning for his filthy soul.

This may be lost on most of my fellow forumites, but it was a regular "guest" on the radio in my childhood home... (I gave up finding a HQ recording of the song) Edit: The tune is from an old Russian song, but with (obviously) different lyrics

Continuation of old thread https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/129510-pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous-part-5/

End of the path here... more this way

@Keyrock it's not that it's bad... it just feels like he's a bit out of his league (after listening through it)... The original

Damn you @Malcador that brought back memories of manual memory allocation and deallocation, coming up with algorithms for splitting already allocated memory, keeping track of reference counters to allocated memory and building your own "garbage collection" routines

Split off from previous thread...

Time for a ceasefire for this instance of the thread.... Continued here

I don't know if anyone tweaked any settings yesterday (Australian time), but I was able to submit a post from my phone. First time in many days that was possible

Meh, I just want to be able to use the forums on my phone again (it's completely broken)