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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
atomheartbevo replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
There's not even a description of the shooter out there and the local cops and FBI have fumbled the ball on announcing the shooter has been caught. It's pretty wild that somebody in this day and age pulled this off in such a manner. -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
atomheartbevo replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
No idea what's going on, but will always rep a B5 post. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
atomheartbevo replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
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There are another 4-5 episodes after that compilation video above. That was basically "Season 1" and "Season 2" starts off with Taiwan. There are a few things that annoy me about it, but at the same time, I'm like "fuck, as much Tom Clancy and other techno thriller/military stuff that I read in the 80s, I could have made this series". He's pretty thoughtful about a lot of stuff, and keeps a lot of stuff straight in such a vast series (in terms of geography and scope). Anyways, here's his channel Flat Circle History - YouTube So where can we talk about Fawn Hall and Oliver North tying the knot?
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If we are talking Tom Clancy Prime, as in when he was alive and writing the majority of the books with his name on the cover, there really aren't any (especially as he began to move away from Cold War conflicts). Maybe Red Storm Rising and other 80s staples such as The Third World War by Sir John Hackett (British Army offcer) and Team Yankee by Harold Coyle (a US Army officer serving in the 80s) which is set within the Third World War "universe" - the last two are extremely interesting as they were based on real-world NATO scenarios (and Coyle served within a NATO unit or two during the Cold War) and are very realistic. The problem with all of those are they are 40 years old, based on 40-year-old technology, and based on alliances and countries that no longer exist (and so manpower numbers are all wrong), with the bonus that they had the Soviet Union at its zenith in terms of power projection. I've been keeping tabs on this series - a guy is using some videogame engine (maybe ARMA or Total War or whatever the kids are playing) and with voice acting, etc., creating a WW III scenario in the 2030s where Russia has reconstituted its power. Just ignore the graphics (it's an older engine it appears) This is a compilation of the first 14 episodes he's done (the episodes started at under 5 minutes, moved up close to 10 minutes, and are now in the 13-20 minute range). Yes, it requires you to believe that Russia could be rebuilt by somebody other than Putin the aftermath of the current war with Ukraine, but he incorporates modern military tech, and it's interesting.
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Zilker double homicide ends with parent action
atomheartbevo replied to immamac's topic in Daily Texan
My kid's middle school got put on lockdown/secure hold/whatever because of this. Not how I wanted to start my day. I've dreaded this kind of stuff for years. -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
atomheartbevo replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
The rurals in my family all use FB. I'm sure some use instagram/twitter, but the olds don't seem to be leaving (and twitter has enough porn to freak some of them out), so the young 'uns still use it to talk to family/ It's fascinating to see the conspiracy theories spreading on social media in real-time though. People seem to be very against the idea it could be a lone wolf, even though I would argue that because he got away so cleanly, he probably was a lone wolf. -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
atomheartbevo replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
Space Shuttle Challenger because I'm old. OJ was something that fucked up the Rockets game my mom had recorded for me on VCR while I was in basic training. edit: We literally heard about the OJ chase the day after, because it was in the one newspaper we were allowed to read, and it was fucking wild as shit, I will admit. My middle-schooler had no clue today and overheard my wife and I talking about it. Our neighbor's kids (freshman and junior in high school) said they talked about it a bit in class, but nobody really seemed to know him, or if they did, it was because of memes (and they apparently didn't even know his name, just the memes in the past). But this is a small sample, and they are both jocks and tend to ignore a lot of stuff. -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
atomheartbevo replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
I absolutely feel bad for the wife and kids. I am sick of the people (my 19 year-old cousin on FB) who didn't know who he was yesterday and who posted a video of themselves crying about this trying to make people feel bad for them (instead of the wife and kids), but that's for the stupid shit we see on FB thread (or the Anthony Jeselnik thread). Given how well this was pulled off apparently, I won't be surprised if there are others. They had the discipline to setup properly, take one shot, and then escape. That really cannot be understated - this was somebody who rehearsed it/trained for it. If they had missed, I have no doubt they would not have taken a second shot. How many of us have ever went to a range or wherever to do a little shooting, and hit exactly what we aimed at on the very first shot with no warmup? A very tiny target at that at that distance. I kind of suspect he was aiming center mass, but we'll never know. He was definitely patient and disciplined, from the closeup video I saw, he waited until Kirk had paused/was not moving around/or was squared up (prior to that, Kirk moved around a lot). And I'm also wondering if what the cops recovered was meant to throw them off the trail. I mean, I don't want to go down the Jason Bourne/Jackal trail, but....it seems like a lot of the shooters we have in the US have mental health issues that leave them lacking in discipline before and after shit goes down. The nutcase that shot the two politicians in Minnesota, the cops fingered him almost right away as the main suspect because he had fucked up in a couple of different ways and put a "IT'S ME" sign on his back. This guy does not fit that category at all. Shit was thought out well in advance. -
She really wishes she was on some kind of Blue Collar Comedy Tour thing.
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Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
atomheartbevo replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
That's not how those vests work, and if they were shooting center mass, any number of factors could have caused them to hit his neck. -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
atomheartbevo replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
I remember when Texas governors used to say they weren't going to let Washington dictate what Texans do.- 309 replies
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Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
atomheartbevo replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
atomheartbevo replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Wasn't she married to one of The Doors or I don't know, I just know she banged Rob Lowe and had some connection to the Doors. Anyways, he's 81, she's 61....so if she was the sidepiece, he did well. -
I won't be surprised if we get a no-fly zone in western Ukraine, along with NATO air defenses either on the border or just inside Ukraine. Well, I kind of would be, but that feels like where this is going - Europe is tired of Russia's bullshit, and Russia is being the proverbial bully and trying to project power when it's fairly weak - we're coming up on the 4th anniversary of the main invasion. Imagine if it was 1994 and the US and its allies were still trying to liberate Kuwait or it was 2004 and we were still trying to take Kabul. And we were fighting literally halfway around the world, and not next door like Russia.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
atomheartbevo replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I was a wee lad, but in high school at the end of Reagan's time, and while I have no doubt some yuppies/College Republicans may have worshipped him, as a kid, I felt he was more about "AMERCA FUCK YEAH!" Obviously he did some really shitty stuff, but he was not out there basically asking people to worship him. He wouldn't have tried to have a military parade focused on praising him. And he was damned sure not out there portraying Democrats as some kind of parasite that needed to be eradicated - hell, he was close friends with Tip O'Neil and quite a few other Democrats. Unlike Trump, Reagan didn't pretend to have always been a Republican and didn't shun his friends going back to when he was a Democrat. He would certainly spar with them when it came to policies, but at the end of the day, he'd have no problem hanging out with them. -
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Pretty sure @RDCanecutter has painted some miniatures of that. Or he should if he hasn't.
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How bad does he want that Nobel Peace Price? Because Putin is shitting all over that for him. Not that he ever had a practical chance mind you, but he believes he does, and he knows Putin is shitting on any chance he believes he has at it. It is embarrassing that he's scared of Putin. It's a good thing he doesn't follow Julia Davis and others covering Russian state media, because he'd absolutely believe that any given week, NYC or D.C. were about to be nuked.
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So played a bit in the spring, then played with my son in July, and then a little bit over the past few months, on the official UO shards. Impressions. The event they held over the summer was pretty fucking cool, and it was a demonstration of a new quest/event/dungeon system that was just implemented. The "New Legacy" speciality/seasonal shard is cool (the rewards are worth it). It's also the test-bed for new code that's being written to replace the old "spaghetti" code. Atlantic completely, utterly sucks ass. A decent-sized house in a decent location (not even max-storage mind you) runs into the hundreds of millions. With that said, you can place 9x14s and 10x15s here and there when houses fall (Ye Olde IDOC) but there's always a dozen people also trying unless you stay up really late. But Atlantic is over-run with middle-aged 12 year-olds talking shit to each other in general chat, and the best housing plots that are available were placed by scripters who had automated bots place the micro-second an IDOC spot was available for placing. Apparently 1-2 people have placed about 90% of the best spots that have opened up over the past few years. Developers say they are going to deal with them harshly, soon (2 weeks?). Prices also suck on a lot of things, and it seems to be populated by shit-talkers, item collectors, and people trying to sell stuff for real-life money. Lake Superior, Catskills, Chesapeake, Baja, Pacific, and the Japanese shards are the best shards - not as much activity as Atlantic, but not overrun with shit-talking and scripters, and you can place 18x18s (And even towers and keeps). They ran the events this summer just fine (the events required cooperation from several players to even have a shot at making it through all 5 steps). Luna no longer matters as far as housing because we have a shard-wide vendor search system you can access from your home or in a city. People still hang in Luna a bit, because the bank has all of the NPC shops around it, but it's not like it was. According to a friend who has gotten me re-engaged with UO, UO is slowly being rewritten to address various issues (it has 5-6 person team doing coding/design/graphics). This summer, the back-end of the Classic Client was migrated to "modern tools" (guessing the same as the Enhanced Client). Right now they are working on making the Classic Client run at 60fps or more, and with a resizable window. If you are wanting to play production shard, I'd go with Lake Superior. I'm on there and can help anybody who is interested. It seems to run on a central time zone, and the reason why I originally picked it back in the 90s was because of how many Austin-area players were on it (it had a really good ping, I think it was located in Origin's offices here in town). Yeah, there's Lake Austin, but that came later.
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Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
atomheartbevo replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
And then we have things like online gaming- those of us who play the various online games see and hear a lot of stupid shit coming out the mouths of middle-schoolers (or younger). A lot of racist and misogynistic bullshit, but overall just a lot of stupid shit, and these little shits get used to this - if they behaved this way during PE or with other kids in-person, they'd get their asses beat. But they do it for hours every day online, with no pushback, and in fact encouragement from their peers and while they initially may not realize the impact of what they are saying at their age, eventually, down the line, it has to influence their personality. It becomes normalized. -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
atomheartbevo replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
And it speaks to a deeper trend - we see really stupid fucking ideas being accommodated. We have a President who, when caught lying, immediately shouts out "FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS" and the media doesn't push back. We see dumbasses in our government talking about chemtrails as if they were real or saying maybe we shouldn't be too harsh on the flat earthers or moon landing deniers, and they aren't being mocked for that, or worse, that 9/11 was a false-flag operation (look at how Laura Loomer was around Trump and how much influence she wields). The most popular podcaster adopts whatever beliefs the person sitting in front of him has, so tens of millions of people who think he is an authority figure are nodding along say "well maybe we didn't land on the moon!" 40 years ago, these people used to have an audience that consisted of themselves, hanging out in the back of a bookstore, and occasionally a kid in junior high who was bored at the mall and hanging out in B.Dalton and looking at all of the spiffy covers and blurbs on their books. We used to shove these people's heads in the toilet and flush it or give them wedgies. Here in 2025, these people are pushing the dumbest fucking conspiracy theories on platforms that spread their bullshit around to millions, unchecked, within seconds, and they are spreading it to people who are vulnerable to this bullshit - our parents/aunts/uncles who, for whatever reason, have lost whatever critical thinking skills they had when it comes to the internet. And when they hit the mainstream (MTG, etc.), they don't get pushback from the media because the media is afraid of them. We should not have state legislatures "banning chemtrails" and they should be routinely mocked, but they aren't outside of the Jon Stewarts. -
On the other hand, he also knows his troops couldn't handle a stand-up fight with the Polish. And this is absolutely mocking Trump and making Trump look weak, which Trump despises.
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