Lexx Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 6 "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Confirmed : Putin is the God Emperor of Mankind Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanisatha Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 15 hours ago, Lexx said: Hope things like this are splashed all over global newsmedia. Being made a complete joke would so drive Putin bananas. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsaneCommander Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Tucker Carlson Putin Memes: The Interview’s Best 22 Memes 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamoulian War Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 3 Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamoulian War Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 US Senate approved 60 billion USD for Ukraine Can this still be blocked by MAGAs in the House of Representatives? https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/13/7441652/ 1 Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Doubtful it'll get past the House - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/12/house-ukraine-johnson-senate/ Surprised it's still not done yet. Also, points for creativity, I guess Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 1 hour ago, Mamoulian War said: US Senate approved 60 billion USD for Ukraine Can this still be blocked by MAGAs in the House of Representatives? https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/13/7441652/ Unfortunately it will get blocked in the House and this is another example of the political inconsistency in Congress "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-forces-destroy-large-russian-landing-ship-military-says-2024-02-14/#:~:text=KYIV%2C Feb 14 (Reuters),on Wednesday%2C Kyiv's military said. Another Russian ship hit badly in the Black Sea, it makes you wonder about the future of this type of asymmetrical warfare and the usage of drones. They very effective in this type of war 1 1 "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Avdiivka looks like it's lost, probably. Shouldn't be a huge problem if so though. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmp10 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Remember GLSDMB ordered by US for Ukraine one year ago? Seems they are finally arriving. Now if that aid bill ever passes they might even be delivered in volume. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 (edited) No world domination https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congressional-intelligence-chair-warns-serious-national-security-threat-2024-02-14/ "Two sources familiar with the issue said Turner's statement was related to Russia and operations in space, without providing further details on what was described as a highly-classified matter. House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters at the Capitol there was no need for public alarm. "Steady hands are at the wheel. We're working on it and there's no need for alarm," he said." Edited February 14 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamoulian War Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 6 hours ago, pmp10 said: Remember GLSDMB ordered by US for Ukraine one year ago? Seems they are finally arriving. Now if that aid bill ever passes they might even be delivered in volume. That should not be a problem, if I understood it correctly, they have been already paid for, when they were ordered. correct me someone, if I am mistaken about that. Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 5 hours ago, Malcador said: No world domination https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congressional-intelligence-chair-warns-serious-national-security-threat-2024-02-14/ "Two sources familiar with the issue said Turner's statement was related to Russia and operations in space, without providing further details on what was described as a highly-classified matter. House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters at the Capitol there was no need for public alarm. "Steady hands are at the wheel. We're working on it and there's no need for alarm," he said." Hmm. The ABC report says it's nuclear, though as with Reuters from old friend 'anonymous sources'. (Good thing it's not the British MoD saying anything or I'd suspect it's Shovel Deterrence Initiative/ Putin having launched a mysterious yellow object into the sky early August 2023 that creates tactical undergrowth to selectively hinder Ukrainian counteroffensives) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 2 hours ago, Zoraptor said: Hmm. The ABC report says it's nuclear, though as with Reuters from old friend 'anonymous sources'. (Good thing it's not the British MoD saying anything or I'd suspect it's Shovel Deterrence Initiative/ Putin having launched a mysterious yellow object into the sky early August 2023 that creates tactical undergrowth to selectively hinder Ukrainian counteroffensives) Maybe they had a look at old Operation Starfish videos and decided they needed a giant EMP in space too? Just to take out all those pesky western communications and intelligence satellites? “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 EMP seems imminently plausible. Not that they'd need Starfish for inspiration, the soviets had (an) equivalent test(s) themselves at a similar time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 You probably mean eminently, unless you've got some really good real-time sources somewhere and we ought to be more worried than we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Ha yes. From some of the reactions you'd think it was imminently plausible though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Interesting observation I've made: non-native English speakers with a decent grasp of the language tend to make fewer slips like this because they haven't grown up in English-speaking places where you just pick up words without seeing the spelling. And given that English spelling has almost unparalleled confusion potential, the odds of you making slips tends to increase if you don't learn the word and its spelling at the same time. (I would probably kill it at spelling bees by virtue of this fact alone.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 In this case it's also the NZ accent's vowel drift results in pronouncing eminently and imminently exactly the same ('uminuntlee'). Forum writing is a lot closer to speaking than formal writing is so you tend to 'hear*' the right word even if you've written the wrong one. *pronounced 'hee-uh' since we love a good diphthong and bad ones even more. Also pronounced identically: hare, hair, here and even heir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Yeah, the NZ vowel drift was sheer hell for me for about three days after coming into the country. For some reason, I found it a lot more difficult than, say, the Scouse or the Scottish accent. But then something just clicked and I got it. Interestingly, this "clicking" was identical to what often happens when you practice, say, an instrument: the sudden leap does not happen while practicing but inbetween sessions. You labour on something for a while and get nowhere, but the next time you return to the instrument, you've got it. Which is why half an hour both in the morning and in the evening tends to bear more fruit than a single one-hour session a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/national-security-warning-reportedly-involves-russian-space-weapon#transcript Anti satellite weapon. This is more of a nothing burger, other than necessitating the Americans spending more Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 I still remember some Kiwi colleagues laughing at me when I tried to explain the plot of the old John Carpenter movie "The Fog". I'm sure my pronunciation was correct, but they wouldn't listen, just rolling on the floor, giggling uncontrollably “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 @Gorth, if this is too inappropriate, just delete this. I think this is brilliant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-is-withdrawing-some-troops-avdiivka-more-secure-positions-2024-02-15/ Presumably this means the withdrawal is complete Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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