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by Lord Revan
2024-03-07 07:51am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 201
Views: 7333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

I don't think there's ever going to be actual peace , as opposed to the sort of peace you get where everyone's busy rearming, until and unless Putin is removed from office in favour of someone who might plausibly come to the negotiating table in good faith. Why would the Ukrainians sue for peace wh...
by Lord Revan
2024-03-06 07:50am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 201
Views: 7333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

No one is pretending otherwise, but there's a world of difference between what Putin (even thru other people) says for Russians and what they're willing to accept as part of a peace treaty. Yes Putin wants Ukraine but he wants to stay in power more and Putin will ultimately accept a treaty that all...
by Lord Revan
2024-03-06 07:03am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 201
Views: 7333

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Medvedev again showed that serious peace talks with Russia's current regime are a waste of time, as Russia's goal is the capitulation and near complete annexation of Ukraine. Dude. Why are you pretending you don't understand the idea that what leaders say when mouthing off for internal propaganda i...
by Lord Revan
2024-02-25 01:38pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
Replies: 20
Views: 2707

Re: Enterprise- Federation flagship?

If you want a Watsonian reason then there's a simple enough one, the Sovereign appears to be a prestige ship, not suited for serialized production compared to the others, while the likes of the Akira and Steamrunner are. We know that the Galaxy Class initial run was between six and twelve ships aft...
by Lord Revan
2024-02-18 09:20am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation
Replies: 260
Views: 26284

Re: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation

What does Trump have to do to finally be held in contempt of court? :evil: So far he seems to know exactly where the line is before he gets into trouble. That is a possibility. But, it could also be the judges are giving him extra 'leeway', and a later judge is going to hold him to a higher standar...
by Lord Revan
2024-02-16 09:09am
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
Replies: 20
Views: 2707

Re: Enterprise- Federation flagship?

I know this is just a side effect of the sprawling canon, the need to keep things apart, different cooks in the kitchen and so on but it has always seriously bothered me how we've had two or three on-screen wars now where the Enterprise was absent from the front lines for one bullshit reason or ano...
by Lord Revan
2024-01-21 07:24am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UK and US forces launch 'targeted strikes' against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen
Replies: 68
Views: 4597

Re: UK and US forces launch 'targeted strikes' against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen

To be fair if I'm reading that map right, the Houthis do control a large portion of major population centers, in place like Arabian peninsula just looking at area some controls might not give the whole picture, since some one might nominally control a large area but it's because it's desert no one h...
by Lord Revan
2024-01-15 10:26am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137328

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Either is marginally possible... But getting two planes in one go with such a hail mary plan would mean the planner was the luckiest SOB on the planet. I heard some tentative admission that it was friendly fire... not confirmed, though... we'll see. According to the online chatter this is the same ...
by Lord Revan
2024-01-10 12:27pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 473
Views: 113184

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

Yeah I played the PC version of the original when it came out, I even remember all the talk of "nude Lara" code back in the day, seems silly in hindsight considering how primitive the model was and the things about age ratings we know now. I thought that was a mod for the game, not someth...
by Lord Revan
2024-01-05 06:32pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 473
Views: 113184

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

Yeah I played the PC version of the original when it came out, I even remember all the talk of "nude Lara" code back in the day, seems silly in hindsight considering how primitive the model was and the things about age ratings we know now.
by Lord Revan
2024-01-05 01:56am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 473
Views: 113184

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

OG Lara Croft didn't look THAT bad. But then my baseline is the 8 bit era... She looked like she was smuggling a pair of traffic cones in her bodysuit. more like a single traffic barrier, at least in Tomb raider, in later games they might given her breast more separation, but that's the 1990s 3D wh...
by Lord Revan
2024-01-04 08:34pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 473
Views: 113184

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2024-01-02 10:06pm TIL the actual pronunciation of "indictment", and its origin.
Actual origins or what ever folk origin they're pushing for an agenda?
by Lord Revan
2024-01-04 02:03pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
Replies: 20
Views: 2707

Re: Enterprise- Federation flagship?

To be fair I don't recall Picard ever being formally in charge of a fleet, he was charge of task force trying to stop the Romulans but that seemed more like he was part of a larger whole and just in charge of that section as for Battle of Sector 001 in First Contact that was more a case of "the...
by Lord Revan
2024-01-03 04:02pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
Replies: 20
Views: 2707

Re: Enterprise- Federation flagship?

I suspect "Federation flagship" was more of the "exemplar" role then the "command ship of the flag officer" role, Enterprise seems to carry a certain status with just the name so I think it's more the prestige coming with the name Enterprise then the stats that makes th...
by Lord Revan
2024-01-02 12:31pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Project 2025: How to Start a Fascist Takeover in 180 Days!
Replies: 19
Views: 1567

Re: Project 2025: How to Start a Fascist Takeover in 180 Days!

It should be noted Germany at the time was in such condition that it was only a matter of time that some extremist movement took over if it had not been the Nazis, it would have most likely been the communists, USA isn't even close to that state yet, the fact how badly the Jan 6. incident failed sho...
by Lord Revan
2023-12-24 03:00pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Russia Bans Anti-War Candidate for President
Replies: 5
Views: 718

Re: Russia Bans Anti-War Candidate for President

Broomstick wrote: 2023-12-24 04:28am He's dictator and President for Life - he doesn't have to put up with nonsense like fair elections or dissent.
Sure he's czar in all but title but he wants to keep the idea that he's the beloved leader of the people for propaganda purposes so that why the faux elections.
by Lord Revan
2023-12-18 09:45am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137328

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Considering both sides use the same equipment friendly fire incidents are bound to happen.
by Lord Revan
2023-12-13 05:02am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137328

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Seriously though I suspect those tax records might have the citizen records too so Russia might have just lost massive amount of information on its population and with country as big as Russia that's not something you can rebuild over night.
by Lord Revan
2023-12-08 05:55pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
Replies: 764
Views: 115809

Re: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk

He also doesn't seem to understand that the rest of the planet are not his servants or, outside of his companies, in any way subject to his whims and will. It always blows my mind how much people - like Elon Musk and Donald Trump and similar - seem to feel that the world _owes_ them success. Well t...
by Lord Revan
2023-12-08 05:50pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137328

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

That assumes he's still alive, there's plenty of rumours persisting that he actually died and it's someone else pulling the strings. Even if someone else is ruling in his name, the point stands, I hope whoever is in charge of Russia stops this madness before Russia devolves into a civil war and us ...
by Lord Revan
2023-12-08 02:43am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137328

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Hah. Oh yes, conscripts who are more likely to turn their weapons on their own officers and surrender to the first Ukrainian soldier they find than put up a fight are really going to help turn the tide. I suspects are only there to make up the numbers and to make sure the wealthy ethnic Russians fr...
by Lord Revan
2023-12-04 05:18pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: LGBT right movement are now labelled extremists in Russia
Replies: 11
Views: 899

Re: LGBT right movement are now labelled extremists in Russia

LadyTevar wrote: 2023-12-04 04:49pm I"m wondering how many of those arrested in these raids are going to be conscripted to the Ukrainian front lines.
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was a way to get cannon fodder to the frontlines via penal legions, well not officially but in practice.
by Lord Revan
2023-12-01 06:12pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137328

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Or maybe they never told him where the mines were because he was that unpopular with the troops. That's possibility too but those "oops sorry sir!" type of kill generally aren't that common unless things are going rather badly and even then it's typically directed at the direct superiors ...
by Lord Revan
2023-12-01 09:35am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137328

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Plot twist, it was one of their own... Placed near the base to 'catch saboteurs'... If true it does give some indication of the quality of Russian forces at this point, if they couldn't tell a deputy commander of an army corps "don't go there we got mines in that area" either because no o...
by Lord Revan
2023-11-21 03:14am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137328

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

They lost all reserves in the south, it's becoming so bad that Ukraine forces managed to sneak a handful people across a couple of miles into Kopani, overwhelm the sleepy guards with no nightvision, and then get into the barracks, empty their mags into the sleeping men, toss a few granades, and sca...