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- 2023-03-12 08:54pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 137329
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
IIRC the Austro-Hungarian empire didn't so much fragment as it was split by the winners of WWI. Yeah, but like the Russian Federation, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was 30-50+ years past its prime as a Eurasian great power and its military was somewhat outdated, with corrupt and inept officers, etc, ...
- 2023-03-12 08:16pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 137329
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
If Russia is lucky, it'll just be an even weaker and much more decentralized Federation, with regional oblasts, republics, and cities given more autonomy (maybe after a series of brushfire wars and a Moscow coup) or (if even the nukes got too rundown by corruption/neglect and regional Chechen style ...
- 2023-03-12 07:07am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: The Board Members You Miss Thread
- Replies: 125
- Views: 49299
Re: The Board Members You Miss Thread
I miss some posters, very smart people in their own ways, but their ego/anger got the better of them.
- 2023-03-12 07:00am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: My Father Has Passed...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1668
My Father Has Passed...
In the small hours of the 11th of March, my father died in his sleep from complications stemming from a stroke he suffered nearly two years ago. He was a ripe, but disappointing 71 years old, suffering from over a decade of poor health and serious hospitalizations.
- 2021-06-11 06:15am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: The Mandalorian Discussion Thread (spoilers and such)
- Replies: 602
- Views: 240376
Re: The Mandalorian Discussion Thread (spoilers and such)
Early in the Mandalorian the stormtroopers definately looked worse for wear. Gideon's forces appeared to be shiny clean, though. Though Gideon's quasi-private army of Stormtroopers are still mostly about keeping up appearances and he's still working with relatively limited resources, when the Empir...
- 2021-06-11 05:42am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Where is Darth Wong?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12978
Re: Where is Darth Wong?
Yeah, he should pick and judge his fights more carefully against US rightwingers.
- 2021-06-11 05:40am
- Forum: Artwork, Music and Photos
- Topic: Stargate Command Croydon
- Replies: 121
- Views: 161272
Re: Stargate Command Croydon
He'll have more spare time for his passion project now...
- 2021-06-11 05:40am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: My Dad Suffered A Stroke
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7889
Re: My Dad Suffered A Stroke
Thank you for your kind words of support. And here's an update: my father is now past the worst of his stroke complications and now able to hold proper conversations over the phone (for many days he had bouts of incoherence and in his first week he was having hallucinations).
- 2021-05-26 08:14pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: My Dad Suffered A Stroke
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7889
My Dad Suffered A Stroke
About a week ago I had to call paramedics round our house because my father suffered a severe stroke, and he has been sent to the Bristol Royal Infirmary (which is the best place for him). The bad news is that he's battling a lung infection (most likely complications from the stroke, maybe partially...
- 2021-02-24 04:52pm
- Forum: Artwork, Music and Photos
- Topic: Stargate Command Croydon
- Replies: 121
- Views: 161272
Re: Stargate Command Croydon
Nice to see you about after so long, Starglider, and your underground home puts many evil lairs in fiction to shame.
- 2021-02-24 04:49pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: The Mandalorian Discussion Thread (spoilers and such)
- Replies: 602
- Views: 240376
Re: The Mandalorian Discussion Thread (spoilers and such)
So Operation Cinder gets name dropped (alongside Grand Admiral Thrawn) and we get more insight into how the New Republic, despite winning the wider galaxy, was still in a comparatively weak military state decades later against the First Order and Sith Eternal from their redoubts in the Unknown Terri...
- 2021-02-07 05:17pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Stuart Slade has died
- Replies: 26
- Views: 24685
Re: Stuart Slade has died
So sad to hear this, he was a charismatic and smart man, despite his faults.
- 2021-02-07 04:08pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: RIP Mira Furlan (B5, Lost)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8526
Re: RIP Mira Furlan (B5, Lost)
RIP When you look at one of those "where are they now" videos on Youtube, all of the B5 cast are old :( The remaining cast are starting to get up there, but on the contrary a huge chunk of the core cast and regulars are already dead, dying only in their late 50s and early 60s. And Richard...
- 2021-02-07 04:06pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Christopher Plummer dead at 91
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6437
Re: Christopher Plummer dead at 91
Sad, but he led an exceptionally long and sucfessful career (with Knives Out having one of his better final roles).
- 2020-09-10 04:55am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Havok / Havokeff has died.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17775
Re: Havok / Havokeff has died.
It's been a very long time since I posted here, but Havok's untimely passing has hit me pretty hard, and I want to express my condolences.
He was a talented comic book artist who posted his drawing here back in the day.
He was a talented comic book artist who posted his drawing here back in the day.
- 2019-05-16 01:18pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 349
- Views: 184377
Re: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
Yeah and what does he do with his frozen self, hm? That's a hiccup, but in his mind it's better to screw over another version of himself than others. He felt deeply hurt and guilty about what happened to his best friend, and was profoundly grief stricken over Natasha dying (when he had a passing cr...
- 2019-05-16 10:05am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 349
- Views: 184377
Re: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
I got the impression that Steve was in an alternative timeline, with "another" Peggy Carter (the next best thing in the whole wide Multiverse) and I like to think, knowing about the mayhem from his native TL, he'd dismantle HYDRA before it spread too far through SHIELD and many other insti...
- 2019-05-08 06:34pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 349
- Views: 184377
Re: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
I think the point is that Gamora does have the same experiences as the first Gamora up until the Time Heist set her on a different path. She is the same Gamora up until that point, but her experiences after that turn her into a different Gamora. The 2nd Gamora had the same set of experiences as the...
- 2019-05-07 01:01pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 349
- Views: 184377
Re: Avengers: Endgame release thread (spoilers)
I'm not sure why anyone wants any characters coming back. If characters die and come back, it destroys any meaning their death may carry. Gamora and Romanoff both had deaths with meaning. Bad enough that Gamora came back, even if it is an earlier version. Also, about how Gamora and everyone else fr...
- 2015-09-03 01:03pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Ultraviolet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1772
Ultraviolet
No, not the deeply mediocre Matrix crossed with Blade rip off from 2006, I'm of course talking of the cult UK series from 1998. It is about UK special agents that deal with hunting down vampires with high tech gadgets and science. It's main lead, a young Jack Davenport, went on to a respectable ...
- 2013-07-25 07:49am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: World's End (Spoilers)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3030
Re: World's End (Spoilers)
Sorry, double post.
- 2013-07-25 07:49am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: World's End (Spoilers)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3030
Re: World's End (Spoilers)
This movie had a pretty strong late 80s/early 90s retro soundtrack as well (but it could've included Go West's "The King of Wishful Thinking", which fits snugly into the late 80s/early 90s time period and Gary King's mindset). the conformist, invasive nature of mobile phones, pub restauran...
- 2013-07-24 05:13pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: World's End (Spoilers)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3030
Re: World's End (Spoilers)
I enjoyed The World's End but it felt like a blend of the last two "Cornetto" movies. And what was it trying to say? An early middle aged bloke partying hard will bring about the collapse of modern civilisation? It had a surprisingly unexpected and downbeat ending though, and it also had s...
- 2013-06-14 08:36pm
- Forum: Artwork, Music and Photos
- Topic: Peter Connolly's memorial event
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3765
Re: Peter Connolly's memorial event
Oh dear, I didn't know he died recently.
I hope he's now having a nice time with that other popular Late Antiquity/Medieval illustrator Angus McBride...
I hope he's now having a nice time with that other popular Late Antiquity/Medieval illustrator Angus McBride...
- 2013-06-09 07:49pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Iain Banks diagnosed with terminal cancer (Died 6/9/13)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5038
Re: Iain Banks diagnosed with terminal cancer (Died 6/9/13)
What's unavoidably sad is that he was still banging out solid sci-fi novels in recent years ( Matter , Surface Detail and The Hydrogen Sonata ), he was still quite young really, and a lot of creative potential was unfairly robbed by his cunting cancer. I'm particularly rattled by his death on a pers...