"There are four types of economy: Developed, developing, Japan and Argentina"
-Simon Kuznets
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- 2024-01-09 07:28am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Argentina peso: Milei begins 'shock therapy' by devaluing currency
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1199
- 2023-01-28 11:26pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: D&D AND THE OPEN GAMING LICENSE
- Replies: 103
- Views: 20247
Re: D&D AND THE OPEN GAMING LICENSE
Yo thanks for the free 5.1 pdf guys
https://www.dndbeyond.com/attachments/3 ... icense.pdf
Hopefully this learns Hasbro a good one (it won’t)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/attachments/3 ... icense.pdf
Hopefully this learns Hasbro a good one (it won’t)
- 2022-08-01 04:17am
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: RIP Nichelle Nichols, 1932-2022
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3299
RIP Nichelle Nichols, 1932-2022
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62373143 American actress Nichelle Nichols, best known for her role in 1960s sci-fi TV series Star Trek, has died aged 89. Ms Nichols broke barriers in her role as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in the series, becoming one of the first black actresses in the US to...
- 2022-01-17 08:28pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: "Rate my Rig" thread
- Replies: 1107
- Views: 495309
Re: "Rate my Rig" thread
How did you manage to get one?EnterpriseSovereign wrote: ↑2022-01-07 10:27am Well my new graphics card arrived, a very expensive but bottom-of-top-drawer GTX 3060
- 2021-12-22 12:22pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: "Rate my Rig" thread
- Replies: 1107
- Views: 495309
Re: "Rate my Rig" thread
Board: 华南金 X99-T8 CPU: Xeon E5-2698v3 GPU: NVIDIA A4000 RAM: 128 GB ECC DDR 3 Storage: ADATA XPG SX6000 512GB, Seagate Exos 16TB Power: Seasonic Focus Plus 750W Gold That's right we're going full meme! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=338EhbY8PZ4 Also successfully continuing to eschew DDR4 for the en...
- 2021-09-17 12:29pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: [FULL SPOILERS] - My raw impressions of Dune 2021
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10513
[FULL SPOILERS] - My raw impressions of Dune 2021
+ Pacing is much more coherent than 1984, the scene-to-scene transitions don't feel jarring at all Absolutely zero irritating Hollywood quips and one-liners. This movie is decidedly anti-MCU in feel (I approve of this wholeheartedly) Real flapping 'thopters! Nice chunk of Leto 1 Stilgar spits on the...
- 2021-06-11 10:11pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending their marriage
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10427
Re: Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending their marriage
Detailed Vanity Fair piece from a few days ago. My highlights: While M$ is not commenting on the news, it may get harder for the tech giant not to address reports of Bill’s conduct, both in the office and outside it, as former employees who put up with what they describe as inappropriate workplace b...
- 2021-05-29 12:12pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending their marriage
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10427
Re: Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending their marriage
re: Epstein and billg's lies about knowing and seeing him very frequently, the Times published in 2k19 on the topic and had to retract nothing. Mr. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, whose $100 billion-plus fortune has endowed the world’s largest charitable organization, has done his best to minimize ...
- 2021-05-23 09:45pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending their marriage
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10427
Re: Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are ending their marriage
It sounds like Melinda was skeeved out by billg’s deep Epstein ties and multiple jailbait flights. It cannot help that he had annual Ann Winblad vacations even after marriage. Other reports of misbehaviour have also emerged re: stripper and hooker pool parties in Seattle in the 80s and 90s. As an M$...
- 2020-05-16 12:22am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Voter purge USA
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15172
Re: Voter purge USA
America and the UK are so weird. A national ID, fingerprinting and facial recognition is the bare minimum expected of a functional modern state. As someone who lives in such a fascist utopia (with bonus "race" and "religion" categories listed for convenience of discrimination) I...
- 2020-04-09 07:20am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Venezuelan Navy commits piracy, loses battle against unarmed German cruise liner.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9424
- 2020-03-08 10:38am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: History repeats itself. That’s bad news for the 2020s
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5785
Re: History repeats itself. That’s bad news for the 2020s
As good students/historians of Sci-Fi we know the proper term is psychohistory!
- 2020-02-28 10:55pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Alberta oil company distributes stickers depicting Greta Thunberg (a minor) being sexually assaulted.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 13418
Re: Alberta oil company distributes stickers depicting Greta Thunberg (a minor) being sexually assaulted.
Actually I was mostly siding with TRR here. Under Canuck law you don't require an actual child to be depicted in these images for it to be deemed child pornography I believe. e.g. lolicon manga would qualify and send you down for the full count. You shouldn't, because TRR knows sweet fuck all about...
- 2020-02-28 09:16pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Alberta oil company distributes stickers depicting Greta Thunberg (a minor) being sexually assaulted.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 13418
Re: Alberta oil company distributes stickers depicting Greta Thunberg (a minor) being sexually assaulted.
Actually I was mostly siding with TRR here.
Under Canuck law you don't require an actual child to be depicted in these images for it to be deemed child pornography I believe. e.g. lolicon manga would qualify and send you down for the full count.
Under Canuck law you don't require an actual child to be depicted in these images for it to be deemed child pornography I believe. e.g. lolicon manga would qualify and send you down for the full count.
- 2020-01-05 08:31am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Facebook Moderation Firm Calls it Quits
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11903
Re: Facebook Moderation Firm Calls it Quits
re: paid moderator mental health and having fewer people die at their desks... How about an automosaic/blur filter for all of this unfiltered content? On the various UNIX/UNIX-like systems some hideous offensive raw user content like: https://ii.worldmarket.com/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi?FIF=/images/world...
- 2019-12-13 11:48pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 819
- Views: 407778
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
I tend to oppose secession on principle, both because of my contempt for nationalism in general and because I prefer working to reform a country rather than abandon it to create multiple weaker, more isolated nations. Bro, wait, what? You don't like imperialist superpowers and you don't like weak, ...
- 2019-11-09 09:31am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Tube protest was a mistake, admit leading Extinction Rebellion members
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9657
Re: Tube protest was a mistake, admit leading Extinction Rebellion members
This is like those vegan nuts trying to keep the hungry Dane (?) out of the Burger King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Ld4GmZPiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Ld4GmZPiY
- 2019-10-18 03:09pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: [Guns, USA] Feds agree to drop Roh case to avoid precedent
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6465
Re: [Guns, USA] Feds agree to drop Roh case to avoid precedent
When the case finally came to trial last year, much of the four-day proceeding consisted of Nicolaysen, Roh's defense attorney, grilling ATF officials on arcane gun laws and regulations and the agency's internal decision-making process. After both sides presented their evidence, the defense filed a...
- 2019-10-12 01:54am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
- Replies: 91
- Views: 43159
Re: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
How much of this has come from the PRC as opposed to Blizzard trying to avoid what happened with the NBA? Excellent question. I'm pretty sure e-sports are still piddly compared to basketball, and I'm sure this was internal Blizzard nonsense, initially anyway. The Party is definitely aware of it now...
- 2019-10-10 03:01am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
- Replies: 91
- Views: 43159
Re: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
They are really taking it up the ass in social media now, and deservedly so.
#boycottblizzard is enormous on Twitter at the moment.
#boycottblizzard is enormous on Twitter at the moment.
- 2019-10-07 11:30am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Joker- DC's latest colossal clusterfuck (spoilers).
- Replies: 105
- Views: 42557
Re: Joker- DC's latest colossal clusterfuck (spoilers).
Already posted my review in the OT fantasy thread, on the topic of this thread, I think the studio made the right decision. Why pander to a ridiculous class of modern-era "critics" instead of avoiding their malign influence entirely and delivering this movie directly to audiences as-is? ED...
- 2019-10-07 11:27am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Joker (spoilers)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 33516
Re: Joker (spoilers)
8/10 did enjoy
Gotta say Joaquin really put in work this film, the physical x-form is near-shocking and he's on-screen basically the entire run.
Gotta say Joaquin really put in work this film, the physical x-form is near-shocking and he's on-screen basically the entire run.
- 2019-10-06 04:47am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Thank you to the Mods
- Replies: 113
- Views: 129779
Re: Thank you to the Mods
SB mods are shitheads man. I'm still waiting on my "Lee Fuxx You" account, that I made to celebrate the dictator's death, to get approved. Actually, on that note, why are there such a huge number of Singaporeans there? I wouldn't expect an Amos Yee topic to get to even 50 posts anywhere el...
- 2019-10-06 04:44am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Joker (spoilers)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 33516
Re: Joker (spoilers)
Really interested to hear Stark's review (does he still post?)
- 2019-09-21 12:38pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Saudi Arabian oil processing facility attacked
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16806
Re: Saudi Arabian oil processing facility attacked
Whoa we ran straight into off-topic land, but I for one would love a serious Syria thread.
There is a lot of insane bullshit to discuss given the sheer volume of factions and participants involved.
Heck just a Douma attacks thread would be nice.
There is a lot of insane bullshit to discuss given the sheer volume of factions and participants involved.
Heck just a Douma attacks thread would be nice.