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Gorth
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1 hour ago, Gromnir said:
shady' son synth pop and kool moe dee appreciation made us a bit nostalgic for the 80s, so am offering two more.
am admitting we first heard this is the day via the empire records soundtrack which were released 95, so kinda a cheat.
I can't put my finger on exactly why, but that video for some reason made me think of OMD. Maybe it's a similar vibe? Similar...ish sound? Meh, for some reason, it just triggered memories of the latter band.
Falco... I guess I remember the time period better than the artist I suppose. He did do quite a few hits back then... Der Commissar, Rock me Amadeus, Jeanny etc. One of his last songs (I liked the word play, which does need a bit of knowledge of the language to understand the play on the word "koks", meaning both coke - fuel for heating and cocaine and "kohle" meaning both coal and money depending on context)
Some Australian rock/pop band doing a show in some European country (it's not even part of the EU)
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27 minutes ago, xzar_monty said:
To quote myself and to add a nice little detail to the story: the asylum seekers keep arriving on the Finnish border on brand new bicycles. Like straight out of a shop. Children's bicycles, too. There's no question that it's a Russian operation, petty and insignificant of course, just intended to cause annoyance. Great country!
Wouldn't that require some sort of logistics and planning, which Russia has shown itself in short supply of the last year or so?
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On 11/14/2023 at 12:54 AM, ShadySands said:
That's true but they were also some of my very first RPGs along with the original Fallout games, I mean, BG2 and ToB anyway. I still haven't completed BG1. That said, Icewind Dale 2 was my favorite of the IE games when it came to mechanics. I'm not big into TTPRGs (because I had no friends that were into it and probably no tables that were into it either) but I liked the games that were based on D&D 3.5 the most and why I really enjoy OwlCat's Pathfinder games.... and even with those my game is heavily modded with tons of additional options.
I also recognize that my affinity for "spreadsheet games," as my wife likes to call them, makes my preferences less mainstream and accessible. Unfortunately, I like what I like so I'm left with slim pickings.
You could try Eve Online
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I don't think Australia has any kind of "tracking system" of its people. The closest thing would be the bank knowing most of what you do as more and more stuff becomes payable by plastic card only. You literally become your bank account no. But then, you can have multiple accounts
That was a culture shock when you come from Denmark, where you get assigned a literal serial no. when you are born and it follows you throughout your life. Every transaction, every doctors visit, every traffic fine and the address your currently reside at is known to the governments big database.
The number is called CPR Nummer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number_(Denmark)
The government database is the Folkeregisteret http://www.folkeregister.dk/
The system is/was so effective, the last 4 years I lived in Denmark, I didn't need to do tax returns, as the tax department already knew everything.
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I'm not going to search for my old posts, but I did mention a long time ago, a few articles claiming the Swedish government found forensic evidence of who was behind the Nord Stream 2 attack and decided to put a lid on the whole thing. Sadly, the only decent link I could find is to an old 2022 article from WSJ, which leads to paywall...
Supposedly 4 explosions in total, spread over Nord Stream 1 and Nord Steam 2 took place (my assumption being, Nord Stream 1 got blown up too, so it couldn't be used as a backup for a sabotaged Nord Stream 2)
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19 minutes ago, Fionavar said:
During this visit to OBS got play a bit of a Mystary project ... so good. I think all will indeed be pleased! Also got to be reminded what 20 years with the community and OBS has seen artistically! Finally, Extra Life is this coming week ... super excited to be part of one of the sessions. Will post about that too!
Mystary… mystary is good
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17 minutes ago, ShadySands said:
I know the Avengers from Married... with Children. Al Bundy wanted to see Emma Peel kick really high or something. It's probably been 30 years since I saw that episode so I may not remember it 100%.
E: I looked it up and it was about 29 years ago. Crazy the random stuff I remember vs all the meaningful stuff I forget
To be fair, the Diana Rigg of the 1960's was quite memorable
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Speaking of old things, I wonder if there by now would be a complete set of The Avengers to be had on Amazon
(the old British tv show from the 60's, not the Marvel stuff)
Maybe it's time to do a bit of searching...
Edit: After all, I did manage to get my hands on Blake's 7, so you never know
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5 hours ago, kanisatha said:
I agree with you about '80s rock music, and also Def Leppard specifically. But for me the '80s were awesome across the board generally. I was class of '86 in high school and class of '89 in college, so that was quintissentially my decade.
Somewhat similar... class of '85 in high school, but started a bit later in university. The 80's were my teen/early twenties years. A good decade to enjoy music
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Nanowar's take on the world we currently live in...
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11 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
There have been some interesting election outcomes in the US but not surprising with abortion rights being supported in Ohio and the legalization of cannabis
Overturning R vs W I maintain was the worst GOP supported and Conservative decision the SC could have ever made around overall public sentiment, I understand this is an emotional and sensitive topic but the SC decision is seen by most women as taking away a fundamental right that women should have
The real question now is "will the anger about R vs W be greater than other issues in the US in the 2024 election " ?
Despite being "pro choice" by nature, I can see the logic of R vs W not really being in the constitution, but something that is up to the state governments to decide on. As long as the states don't "overreach" and try to prevent their citizens to visit other states or prosecute medical staff other states for violating their own, stricter laws. It's supposedly a free country and people should be free to travel and have medical procedures done at a location of their choice. Just my $0.25 and as somebody without a womb to boot.
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24 minutes ago, Malcador said:
I suppose some value in the old saying “It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will conquer.", at least for Leningrad. Didn't recall the casualties being that skewed in Berlin, although you would expect the defender to get the advantage.
Right.
Berlin was a bit atypical, as most sources include the half a million surrendering German troops as casualties (which is technically correct, as they are no longer an available asset). Atypical because there wasn't really a lot of German held territory nearby to retreat to anymore. Looking just at dead and wounded, it still was an expensive price for victory to pay. Also, most sources only focus on the battle in the city, not the advance towards the city...
Best estimates I could find (Quora) are only for the final battle of Berlin (the city itself). The advance or rather the race towards Berlin was considerably more costly in Soviet lives, as neither Konev nor Zhukov cared about casualties incurred in the race to be the first to actually reach Berlin. Sadly Google is not your friend, as any and all search involving the words Soviet and Berlin all leads to the same 20 sites only covering the battle in the city, not the battle to get to the city.
The battle for Berlin itself:
Germany's Strengths:
1,000,000 soldiers (also children and elderly)
10,400 artillery
1,500 tanks
3,300 aircraftCasualties and Losses:
Exact losses unknown But i will try to give the closest number
Estimate: Between 320,000 to 400,000 killed or wounded
Around 500,000 POWAround 700+ tanks
Between 1,500 to 2,500 Aircraft
Artillery losses unknown
Soviet's Strengths:
2,500,000+ Soldiers
41,600+ Artillery
6,250+ Tanks
7,500 +AircraftCasualties and Losses:
360,000+ dead or missing
2,000+ tanks
2,108 artillery pieces
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/sigh
The old terminology debate. Didn't we already have this one 20 years ago when the forum was new???
Let me add some fuel to the fire and call RTS games for action games, the "strategy" part of the name being completely false advertising
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9 hours ago, Malcador said:
I dunno, stuff like Bagration or Uranus wasn't just zerging.
You can add Leningrad, Unternehmen Zitadelle (Kursk) and the battle of Berlin to the list. All strategic victories... gained at loss ratios between 2:1 and 5:1 depending on the battle. As said, throw enough bodies at the fight, and you may just make the other guy despair and give up.
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38 minutes ago, Wormerine said:
If you have a joystick Tie Fighter/Xwing games are StarWars peak.
This
(I still love my old Saitek X-52 stick/throttle combo)
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28 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
Except they came very close to peace during the era of Yitzhak Rabin but when he was assassinated in 1995 everything fell apart
Probably the closest Israel came to a real peace agreement (the Oslo Accords). Both Rabin and Arafat had come to the conclusion, that continuing the conflict would make nobody other than the respective populist factions on each side happy.
Conflict and fear is the bread and butter of populist leaders, they need an abundance of it in order to gain power. Creating it, if it isn't there and encouraging it at every opportunity. I do not doubt for a moment, that peace rearing it's ugly head led somebody to motivate a man with an UZI to kill Rabin "for the cause".
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32 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
Thanks, you recommend I play both?
I have already started looking at mods for SW1 and I found the restored content for SW1
https://www.nexusmods.com/kotor/mods/54
Yeah. The second one pretty much picks up where the first one left off... not a direct continuation, but you get it indirectly as things referenced and happening in the background, enabling you to work out what happened to some of the main characters of the first game. No small feat considering Obsidian didn't get to play the first game until development of the second game was already somewhat progressed.
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12 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
I am considering playing SW Knights of the Old Republic, I haven't played any SW games and I have this and SW2 on Steam
What are peoples views on SW1&2? @Gorth arent you a fan of these games?
I have both games and I've played both games through a few times. The second one more so, especially after a few restored content mods (for me a must). The first one has less bugs, but the story is... not good (imho) and the characters feels paper thin so to speak (very 2 dimensional). Biggest crime for me was an encounter which they repeated in Mass Effect 3... you beat the living snot out of the boss and use his face to wipe your boot soles clean, after which the game designer decided "oh, thanks for winning, but you have now lost". And then proceeds as if you lost the fight. Pissed me off no end in both games. The second one has a horrible first map, which I struggled to get through the second and subsequent times (it's a mystery/whodunnit kind of thing and after knowing the background it becomes a grind to do again when the mystery is no more). Apart from the first map, the story is way more up my alley and it has some rather memorable (if criminally underused) Sith Lords and protagonists. Just listen to @Gromnir waxing lyrical about Kreia
I hope somebody some day do a if not a remake, then a spiritual successor to the second game (the swtor mmo sort of continued the first game)
Edit: About the mods, it feels like almost a third of the game ended up in the cutting room, because of some extreme deadline requirements, like a year or less. The bugs are many and the wtf? moments too, when you feel something is missing (not kidding, it's obvious in several situations, more was supposed to happen).
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20 minutes ago, xzar_monty said:
Exhaustion, defined in the physical-medical sense, may well set in. But what I find interesting (and what has been written about in our press and commented upon by Zaluznyi and others) is that apparently Russia really doesn't care about its own losses of personnel. This is really quite something, and this war has really hammered it home for me, among others.
it worked for the Soviet Union and it was more or less how they won WWII... throw enough stuff at the Germans and eventually they will run out of bullets.
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Part of the problem is people see groups like Hamas as the cause of the conflict, rather than a symptom of a much longer lasting conflict that has been going on for 6+ decades.
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3 hours ago, Raithe said:
Maybe a little niche but...
Is Guy Fawkes day coming up soon?
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On 11/4/2023 at 1:18 AM, Mamoulian War said:
An interesting analysis of Zaluzhniy’s interview.
That guys sounds very Danish
Watching the rest of the video sort of confirmed it, if nothing else, the book title for the book he just managed to do a moments product placement for
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There is a kind of perverse irony in Israel stealing all the thunder, the attention (and ammunition), giving Russia a big helping hand. Not knowing any better, you would think Putin instigated this new conflict as part of some big, cunning plan... which of course it isn't, we're talking about a guy who screwed up a simple invasion despite an initial advantage on every metric that mattered at the time...
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9 hours ago, Malcador said:
Proved myself a master of SQL optimization by realizing joining on a table of 1 billion rows isn't smart in SQL Server. Always a good sign when my SSMS crashes running a select count(1) on a table.
Keys are the key to success
Ok, they are only part of the recipe for living happily ever after. Don't throw the predictions out of whack by ruining the statistics (used for the optimized pre-fetch routines internally) and if you have at your disposal, set up some data cubes that gets updated with key information over time, rather than all 1 billion on that day you want to leave early
Assuming a fair sized client, they would have their stuff in a SAN. Are the data files, log files, tembdb etc. each on their own RAID10's ???
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Right.
The All Things Political Topic - Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex
in Way Off-Topic
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There be dragons then...