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- 2024-05-07 06:36am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: (RAR!) A new streaming series that Dominates the AH fandom's attention
- Replies: 7
- Views: 828
Re: (RAR!) A new streaming series that Dominates the AH fandom's attention
Btw can anyone more familiar with the series tell me if the Draka are "all evil ideologies are all the same" or is there more of an attempt to make what could be potentially polar opposite ideologies have common cause beyond "be evil", since from what summaries I've read the main...
- 2024-04-14 06:04am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Final Fantasy XIV
- Replies: 304
- Views: 97909
Re: Final Fantasy XIV
Btw for those interested the Benchmark for Dawntrail is out
Female Hrothgar are included for the Benchmark too so you try that to see if you like the look.
Female Hrothgar are included for the Benchmark too so you try that to see if you like the look.
- 2024-03-07 07:51am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25285
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...
- 2024-03-06 07:50am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25285
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...
- 2024-03-06 07:03am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25285
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...
- 2024-02-25 01:38pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3529
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...
- 2024-02-18 09:20am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation
- Replies: 262
- Views: 30337
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...
- 2024-02-16 09:09am
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3529
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...
- 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: 6036
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...
- 2024-01-15 10:26am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148676
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 ...
- 2024-01-10 12:27pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 538
- Views: 128362
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...
- 2024-01-05 06:32pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 538
- Views: 128362
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.
- 2024-01-05 01:56am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 538
- Views: 128362
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...
- 2024-01-04 08:34pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 538
- Views: 128362
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Actual origins or what ever folk origin they're pushing for an agenda?EnterpriseSovereign wrote: ↑2024-01-02 10:06pm TIL the actual pronunciation of "indictment", and its origin.
- 2024-01-04 02:03pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3529
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...
- 2024-01-03 04:02pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3529
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...
- 2024-01-02 12:31pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Project 2025: How to Start a Fascist Takeover in 180 Days!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2244
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...
- 2023-12-24 03:00pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Russia Bans Anti-War Candidate for President
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1256
Re: Russia Bans Anti-War Candidate for President
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.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.
- 2023-12-18 09:45am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148676
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Considering both sides use the same equipment friendly fire incidents are bound to happen.
- 2023-12-13 05:02am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148676
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.
- 2023-12-08 05:55pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
- Replies: 769
- Views: 126752
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...
- 2023-12-08 05:50pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148676
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 ...
- 2023-12-08 02:43am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148676
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...
- 2023-12-04 05:18pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: LGBT right movement are now labelled extremists in Russia
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1467
Re: LGBT right movement are now labelled extremists in Russia
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.
- 2023-12-01 06:12pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148676
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 ...