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atomheartbevo

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  1. And a big chunk of that is due to Russia interfering in their elections and getting Putin’s buddies elected. 2013/2014 started to put a damper on Russian interference and would lead to the start of true Ukrainian independence from Russian-leaning politicians, which is why Russia invaded in 2014. They saw their influence waning and the possibility of the West getting legitimate access to Ukrainian resources.
  2. Did he have to pay for her like I did? Was her name Trixie?
  3. Whoever wrote that proposal did so knowing it would be unacceptable for Ukraine. Either they were hoping Ukraine would turn it down so they could say “well we tried!” Or they were hoping that Ukraine would agree to a small portion (probably resources) - the whole ask for $500 billion, but accept $100 billion strategy. If we end up pulling our forces out of Europe, Russia wins. We are heading towards the late stages of the British Empire.
  4. Russia hasn’t had a fair national election in over 25 years, I’m sure we are asking for Russian elections if they want new Ukrainian elections, right?
  5. Who knew Ozzy and I had something in common.
  6. Remember when Leon pushed for a “Bitcoin reserve” in Texas? Some legislators are pushing it, but it appears to (hopefully) be left pending in committee. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/crypto-reserve-proposed-at-texas-legislature/ I wonder how many Teslas were bought with Bitcoin. It would make perfect sense that a bunch of the Cybertrucks were bought with it.
  7. Yep, about 4-5 degrees cooler than predicted for us no they are showing 19 tomorrow morning in Austin.
  8. Good thing they don't follow the teachings of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, otherwise they'd have some explaining to do. And that's totally Musk - Trump nor anybody else around him would have a fucking clue about the ASMR stuff.
  9. Is it a poor man's version of Meatballs with Bill Murray? I'm so pissed that all of the summer camps I went to were mostly Christian camps, but I was too young to take advantage of the settings.
  10. Edit: Never mind, I guess movies about step-sons and step-brothers finding their step-moms and step-sisters stuck in various household appliances does not fall under the category of "romantic movies" So I'll toss in Palm Springs as a recent one that was decent.
  11. AISD posted this at 6pm: Based on the current forecast, we do not anticipate any changes to our normal school schedule tomorrow. Road conditions are expected to be dry; however, temperatures will be quite cold in the morning. We will leave campus HVAC systems running overnight to ensure comfortable temperatures for students upon arrival.
  12. Leon and his band of incels are the dumbest fucking people in Washington D.C. And that's saying something.
  13. https://www.wcvb.com/article/jfk-library-boston-closed-trump-executive-order/63832670 Narrator: Musk is going to work to lay off more employees and close it down because they dared speak out against him.
  14. Park land/protected areas have been a problem along the Texas Coast for him in the past.
  15. Absolutely. When they talk about some agency or group of workers being fired as part of a “broader purge”, it’s DOGE trying to help Leon’s companies while hiding behind a “look we are trying to fire everybody, it’s just a coincidence that we are hitting groups directly impacting Dear Leader’s companies.” It’s not about government waste, just about all of Leon’s companies had problems that are now going to go away - Tesla, Neuralink, Boring, SpaceX, xAI/Twitter, etc.
  16. Sega Dreamcast getting cloud support and saves https://www.retroshell.com/2025/02/18/sega-dreamcast-receives-cloud-save-support-in-2025/
  17. Damn nice update. You can now restrict replies to your posts to followers only! A new settings page now exists to set default "Who can reply" settings on all future posts Improvements to the search page interface Added a new "Search posts by user" tool to profiles When reporting DM conversations, you will now be prompted to block the offending user and delete the conversation
  18. Using Signal, but not twitter. You'd have to be really fucking stupid at this point to be a federal employee and trying to communicate through twitter.
  19. I've been playing around on Atlantic with the free version on a new account just showing my kid some stuff (I'm nervous about re-activating one of my main accounts), and when I roll into a vendor mall in Malas or near the Yew Gate or wherever, and I see vendors selling lots of stuff for 175 million gold... And I had 3 different people, when they found out I was looking at coming back for a bit, just hand me a few million in gold to help me out. Strangers. I mean, a few million gold does not go very far at all, but it was very generous, and one outfitted me with some armor and weapons, rulebooks, etc. I was also told that if I transferred all of my rewards and old stuff over to Atlantic, I could easily be rolling in half a billion or far more in gold easily (well, translated to platinum because the bank can't go that high in gold). A whole lot of stuff from the 90s and early 2000s is worth an insane amount these days. I can remember when $10 would get you a million gold, now $10 will get you 50 million in gold. But it makes me wonder how the hell a truly new player could get started. Atlantic is the busiest, with I think Pacific and Catskills trailing, and everybody else outside of the Japanese shards doing a lot less. And it's quite clear that a shitload of people are playing on unofficial clients - people even joke about it in game, and I watched a few PVP events and it's clear that...I won't say they are scripting hard, but...some of them are. I could not PVP in this day and age. They did add official support on the official shards for a 3rd-party web-based client (you still need to have an original install on your computer for the data files) - https://classicuo.org For those wanting to play unofficial shards, Outlands is probably your best bet.
  20. There's been this weird buzz lately. Not sure if something is going on. Bonnie/Mesanna has stepped down as producer after over a dozen years of running the show, and the lead designer (one of only two designers) is now the producer as well, and he was best suited to take over. I wouldn't read much into that - she's taken a reduced role (head of GMs/customer support), but it's clear she's basically retiring (she's of the age to). The buzz seems to be some YouTubers have generated some interest, and there appears to be some older sites in the process of making a comeback (they never went away, just weren't being updated since the 2010s). But at the same time, the dev team is small as hell, with only one programmer, two artists, and a designer and designer/producer. At least publicly they are, based on the credits from the last few expansions. It took them 4-5 years to get this up and running, it's the first new official shard in almost 20 years, and it's focused on roleplaying, with "seasons" or whatever. https://uo.com/ultima-online-new-legacy/ It's not been much of a hit with longtime bank sitters players from what I can tell, and I have no idea if it's bringing people back, but overall there is definitely a buzz that hasn't been around in a while. Could be just something temporarily ginned up by some positive YouTube coverage. Meanwhile some of the free shards are more popular than ever. Nothing major on the horizon, at least not until the summer when they are teasing an major event that could boot out King Blackthorn (which be interesting if they brought back Lord British): https://uo.com/2025/01/21/2025-roadmap-update/
  21. Thunderbolts will be fine. F4 will be on a scale we haven't seen in a while. It's directed by a guy who produced and directed WandaVision and has directed episodes of The Great, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Fargo and Game of Thrones. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - that's all I have to say.
  22. The good news is that Ukraine is not Czechoslovakia of 1938. And the Soviets needed the Ukrainians to drive their war machine, and Putin's troops are not even the best army in Kursk. Still shitty though.
  23. Start of the RCU?
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