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atomheartbevo

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  1. That refinery, even if it wasn’t too heavily damaged, has to scare the shit out of Russia.
  2. If the Russian people are forced to seriously ration gas, and get rolling blackouts, and crops are difficult to harvest, and unemployment shoots up (fuel or electricity restrictions would cripple a lot of businesses), things could/would start to get spicy. Putin has done a pretty good job of trying to isolate a lot of Russians from being affected by the war. Impact their food supply, employment, heating and electricity, etc. and the war comes home, and they ask why Putin invaded Ukraine and why they have to pay for it. Ukraine is going down that road of hitting the national fuel infrastructure which can make all of those other things happen. There are no western companies rushing in to replace that infrastructure. And Russian air defenses are extremely strained as it is.
  3. He wouldn’t use nukes. He’s afraid of dying. Nukes also end China, Iran, and India’s support and financial dealings. BRICs would fall apart.
  4. The people pushing that stuff, it's fun to ask them why the Epstein files aren't being released.
  5. Are we and/or the Middle East/Africa/North Sea able to meet their demand?
  6. The problem is he still doesn’t understand what tariffs are, or he put that requirement in there to sabotage this and keep it from ever happening.
  7. But the boomers will believe it if it’s on Facebook.
  8. I’ve thought about this over the summer. I somewhat doubt it because I think too many people have been exposed to too many awesome games to want to go back to the shitty games many of us grew up with. However, I think we will see a reduction in new offerings going forward, because there’s just so many options available now. There is a bit of a feeling like when the video game market crashed in the 80s where there were too many games produced, and while there were plenty of amazing games, there was also a lot of shit plus people had their limits, financial or otherwise. Compound that by the fact that many of these board games being made now are high-priced and people are reluctant to spend money on something they may not play that often. I can walk into Tanuki Games or Dragon’s Lair here in Austin and I will immediately recognize games I have seen you or others mention or that I’ve read about on BoardGameGeek or Reddit and I’m zeroed in on a few games that I’m considering/wanting and I can be in and out fairly quickly. My middle-schooler will spend a couple of hours looking at every game if given the chance. A casual board game player like my wife would be absolutely overwhelmed unless I point her to one or two sections that I know she would like (Tanuki has a decent setup that doesn’t seem to be too overwhelming for casual players). it’s not in our budget for too many of these games per year, and I have a backlog, so it could be a few years before I catch up. I would bet many others are in the same boat.
  9. I wonder if you asked grok to define what “Western Civilization” is in context to Leon’s rants about it being destroyed, and if the answer would be “the ability to generate shitty AI anime porn for incels to jerk off to in their mom’s basement.”
  10. Cross-quoting? @Gatorubet but you should subscribe to this thread. I loved Broadside as a kid.
  11. So can Poland take Moscow by the end of November, or would it drag into December?
  12. AMC gets money to keep making decent stuff, and I can watch it on Netflix.
  13. In case it's ad-blocked. "pre-production" could mean a lot of things and if they started on sets in mid-July, and he was training, they were probably still a month away (or more) from actual filming. Training could literally be him getting in shape.
  14. Saw a news blurb that one of his employees was "crushed" in a new section of the tunnel they are digging under Vegas. Odd, it was late at night, took a crane and a bunch of EMS/firefighters to help get them out. The tunnel must be woke.
  15. Release the emails.
  16. By the way @Parliament this could be seen as a modern take on Red Storm Rising, and Hackett's Third World War and Team Yankee - it gets into day-by-day actions, ranging from infantry at the squad level all the way up to strategic missile launches. It's actually pretty decent. I've watched the episodes individually as they came out, but watched 15-20 minutes of the compilation above, and I gotta give the guy props for putting it together the way he did. I need to poke around his channel to see what game engine he used and how he did it. Season one - Russia rebuilt after losing in Ukraine, and after a coup of Putin in 2026. Season two - China going after Taiwan (Russia went into the Baltics, China goes after Taiwan to split US forces).
  17. Only the best manservants and proctologists who can examine you on the spot reside behind the dumpsters at the Hancock HEB. And if you're lucky, sometimes they are one and the same person.
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