News and Politics • Situation in Ecuador is escalating - Drug cartel declares...
There has been a lot going on there...https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67930452Armed men storming live tv broadcasts, Fighting in the streets, in schools...It started when a drug cartel...
View ArticleFantasy • Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
I'm thinking that the creatures that gain power as they age (i.e Dragons, vampires, other types of undead if exposed to the right energies), that are confined down there, are under a variant of sleep,...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Chris Christie exits 2024 White House race with parting...
Chris Christie exits 2024 White House race with parting shot at TrumpFormer New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has dropped out of the presidential race with a parting shot at frontrunner Donald...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Chris Christie exits 2024 White House race with...
A political has-been ends his spite run.I look forward to his show on MSNBC.Statistics: Posted by Gandalf — 2024-01-11 10:19pm
View ArticleNews and Politics • Get ready for another round of EU austerity
As Germany double down on failed austerity ideology. Perfect storm to cope with when in dire need of massive investment to deal with a multitude of issues, not least of all Climate Change and going...
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Off-Topic • Re: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside
Oh yeah photosNot actually working though, car doesn't have the wiring for the front fog lights. Funnily enough they only came pre-wired for that in cars that went to the US or Canada. But I got all...
View ArticleFantasy • Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
If outright mind control magic and imprisonment aren't inherently aligned I see no reason why alignment changing magic should be.Which is separate from whether forced alignment change magic should...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Get ready for another round of EU austerity
Nobody really mentions anywhere in the news how the euro is unsuitable, nor do most people or politicans understand why the same currency is bad for a bunch of different countries with different...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Chinese Military woes... Corruption worse than assumed...
Some may have noticed that there was quite abit of a kerfuffle this year with chinese military leadership, and Bloomberg has a really good article on it.. (may be paywalled for...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Chinese Military woes... Corruption worse than...
Taiwan elections - big middle finger to China...https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/13/asia ... index.html#Let's see how that turns out - just for the files - who had Chinese invasion on their bingo...
View ArticleSTGOD role-playing games • Re: STGOD 2020/21 Main Game
Endeavour twisted in space, a flurry of white-hot steel needles punching a hole through where the destroyer would have been with a less adept helm. Her turrets spat back, red fire, needles of its own...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: UK and US forces launch 'targeted strikes' against...
Eh. It stopped being an Israel blockade since Houthi began indiscriminately targeting ships like the Saudi to India oil tanker or the Singapore Flagged ship. The only real interest is if Biden should...
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Off-Topic • Re: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside
Last saturday I did some baking. These are called munkkipossut, or syltgrisar, grisar which translates to "jam pigs" or simply just "pigs".Recipe I used, google translated:1 liter of liquid...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Remember the story where russian air defense shot up their own paratroopers doing training near Rostov-on-don because they thought it might be an invasion.Russian air defense keeps being twitchy, it...
View ArticleSTGOD role-playing games • Re: STGOD 2020/21 Main Game
Isenvajedo, Amazo-X OrbitalDue to an unfortunate labelling error, a platoon of rare Yrch administrative troops had been sent on the ill-fated Grand Expedition instead of a platoon of elite shock...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation
Trump lawyer Tacopina withdraws from Manhattan legal teamBy Hannah LangJanuary 16, 202411:04 PM GMT+13Updated 2 hours agoJan 15 (Reuters) - Joseph Tacopina, an attorney on former U.S. President Donald...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: What Instrument Do You Play?
I played the trumpet when I was younger, I’ve been working on it again slowly over the last couple of years.Statistics: Posted by TrekkieJeff2000 — 2024-01-17 04:36am
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
I thought the movie Brazil was fiction, but apparently not, holy shit.https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/ed ... s-28443143Statistics: Posted by His Divine Shadow — 2024-01-18 06:14am
View ArticlePure Star Trek • Re: Strange New Worlds (spoilers)
Well I just got the season on disc and finished the last episode, not sure I'm a fan of the cliffhanger that boils down to Pike making up his mind on what he's going to do even as the Gorn are firing...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Speaking of ships, 2 more Royal Navy ships out of service after a docking accident in Bahrainhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25427119/ ... e-sailors/SAILORS are fighting to stop one Navy minehunter from...
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