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The Old Hack
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16 hours ago, mlooney said:Sorcerers aren't built, in general, for hand to hand combat.
Nor are wizards. Which may be a large part of the reason that Rincewind is built for land speed.
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11 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Thanks for the parts on the landscape tip. I don't think they've fielded T-34s yet, but that time seems to be coming.
After that it will be T-27s. After which it may be time for horse cavalry armed with sabers, I guess. I am not sure this progression is really that good of an idea.
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14 hours ago, mlooney said:I stopped reading when I read "meth addict broke into a lab". Nothing good can come from that
I wish I had had your wisdom. Instead I read on, hypnotized by the continuing disaster. Oh good Lord what a train wreck.
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11 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:I've seen a couple of dealerships that look like that, in Texas and Albuquerque. They are always in a sketchy part of town.
I don't blame them if you can just casually unload for a quarter mill in gold all at once in these places.
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3 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:It must also be acknowledged that after several unsuccessful attempts on his life, Hitler managed to kill Hitler.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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9 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:He will be. Hitler is remembered, no?
To be fair to Hitler, he at least did somewhat better during his initial invasion of Ukraine.
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2 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Glad to hear there's an active aftermarket; in case I change my mind. I bet parts are hard to obtain.
I dunno, I hear that in Ukraine you can find Russian tank parts just lying all over the landscape.
2 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:True. I'm not sure your striking workers will be in any shape to come back to work, though. You must have been reading some history.
Well, about a century ago -- I think it was in 1929 -- Winston Churchill was confronted with a mining strike. He was enthusiastically planning how to deal with it, a plan which included tanks, when he was informed that the negotiators had settled matters with strikers and that the miners were already returning to work. He got so mad that he threw his pen across the room.
This was of course absolutely in character for the man. I don't think he acknowledged the existence of any sort of problem that could not ultimately be solved by throwing tanks at it. His conflict seeking mindset might be best explicated by his quote "There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at and missed."
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28 minutes ago, mlooney said:The Russians bought a battalion worth (31 tanks) of T-34 from Laos in the mid 90's for parade use. There are a handful of countries that still have T-34, North Korea having the most. According to "Military Balance 2023" Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,Namibia, Vietnam,Yemen, and Congo have some still in active duty or in store.
The T-34 is still an excellent tank as long as the opposition doesn't have any of its own nor any weapons able to hurt one. I'm sure it does just fine against civilian demonstrators or striking workers.
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1 minute ago, mlooney said:That's a deep cut. unless they have brought him back. He was the big bad back when I was reading Marvel in the late 80s
Likewise.
Also oh my Lord. I just read the background of the Sentry. I regret everything. There was so much stupid in that that I could feel my brain trying to hide.
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1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:<face palm> Was the driver drinking the fuel again? How difficult can it really be, to line yourself up with a trailer and go straight. To be fair, I've never driven a tracked vehicle of any sort, but my impression watching them is that an experienced driver can make it go where he wants it to go.
I think part of Putler's problems is a serious shortage of experienced drivers and crew. I imagine the poor sod driving it was a recent conscript.
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On 5/29/2023 at 9:28 PM, Darth Fluffy said:Yeah, what exactly is 'beyond' the bed and the bath? It would depend on how your house is laid out, no?
That's the part of the chain where they serve Beyonders.
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I think it might be these guys. If they are new arrivals they might need to convert gold into local money.
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4 hours ago, mlooney said:There aren't many serious reports of T-14s being deployed to Ukraine as yet. The damn sure aren't building any new ones, so the prototype run of them is all they have. It's telling that they weren't in this years victory parade. Of course that may indicate that they weren't in Moscow.
Speaking of the defeat parade, apparently the T-34 caught wind of a rumour that it was to be sent to Ukraine after the parade and tried to injure itself to avoid going into the grinder.
https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1655946975836262400?cxt=HHwWgMDS2YfAjfstAAAA
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I'm rather curious. I've looked a bit at the Russian T-14 and people can't seem to agree on whether it is a superweapon or a huge waste of resources. Is anyone here knowledgeable about it and able to shed a little light on the topic?
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On 5/25/2023 at 7:33 PM, mlooney said:Yeah, it's sorta hard to deal with Disney being, if not the good guys, at least the less bad guys.
This is actually a trend from them in some ways. This is NOT a defence of them and their business methods. However, one of their business methods is to make sure that their LGBTQ employees are healthy and as well taken care of as possible. They have offered queer employees health care since the 90s, which is a BIG thing because 1) even then right wingers were furious at anyone who dared treat us as if we were human beings and 2) this was the height of the AIDS epidemic which meant added financial risk.
As far as this is concerned, I consider Disney at the very least situational allies and I am rooting for them against that fascist Santis and his loathsome policies and abuses of power. In this case the enemy of my enemy really is my friend -- at least until the battle is over.
Which may still be quite a while.
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21 hours ago, Don Edwards said:The pushing wasn't the problem. It was the poking.
It wasn't one of his best ides.
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21 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:I imagine Odin and Athena had quite a play-by-mail chess game going with Nymphs and Valkyries delivering the moves back and forth as well as acting out the game on a giant board.
Did the Egyptian Gods do this with Kalaha?
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On 5/22/2023 at 1:06 AM, Don Edwards said:If you deliberately blab secrets that don't matter, with the intent of earning a reputation of being unable to keep a secret, it gets easier to keep the secrets that do matter - because nobody believes you're keeping any secrets.
In school I established a reputation for never lying because I told the truth even when it was inconvenient for myself. Then one day I told a blatant lie to protect a classmate from bullies and everybody believed it. A reputation can be a valuable tool when applied correctly.
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On 5/23/2023 at 4:36 PM, mlooney said:If we ever do make contact with the "admin" of the site, we need to have them change the "I'm a human" captcha to one that still works. It's impossible to log on as a new user right now.
The Moderator: I am sorry to say that I have not been able to get into contact with Thom Khatt for a long time now. I will make another attempt but I am afraid I cannot promise anything.
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21 hours ago, ijuin said:The French Imperial Foot was 1/3 meter long (33.33 cm vs. the British foot of 30.48 cm). Thus, being five feet, two inches tall in French feet was five feet, eight inches in British feet, which was average for a Frenchman born about 250 years ago.
The Moderator: Is this a political foot? *scratches head*
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58 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:It might hurt his recruiting for replacements.
He could always start drafting them.
Forcibly drafted random students make ideal rocket scientists, right?
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Apparently Putler is so mad that his hypersonic missiles have been intercepted by Patriot missile batteries that he has had one of his top rocket scientists arrested and placed under trial for treason, joining two others he had arrested last year just after a test firing of the same missile.
I am not certain this is his best idea ever. It seems to me that you can run out of rocket scientists awful fast that way.
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15 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Per Sid Meier's Civilization V, they should get two free workers. At least that's something.
Two free workers is absolutely not a bad thing, especially if they can also make garlic knots.
That being said, I am surprised there isn't a McDonalds around in the area, too. You'd think they would want to show their Golden Arches to the descendants of the greatest engineers and architects of the ancient world and see what they think of them.
Discussion of Military, real or fictional
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The problem is that urban warfare is a rather different animal than urban law enforcement. I am very much afraid that the proliferation of automatic weaponry, hand grenades and more modern tactics has made it a bad time to be a horse in a place like Kherson or Bakhmut. This is not even mentioning open land. Horses might still be useful for transport, I admit, but the wise rider will keep his animal away from the front lines.
This gives me an amazing mental image of a moon base where astronaut cavalry patrols its environs on spacesuited horses.