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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 16, 2022, 09:18:52 am »
I personally wouldn’t mind dating some nurses, but I assume the setups failed because the nurses themselves weren’t interested.

Suddenly I’m picturing a senile old man shouting “I think you’d like my son Greta!”, “This is a Bingo Abe.”

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General Discussion / Re: Maybe the WWIII thread (soon) (Ukraine)
« on: March 14, 2022, 05:02:30 pm »
Trump said the same thing about how we should try to get closer to Russia. We all saw how that turned out.

The lesson that needs to be learned from this is that you can only lose when you try to go buddy-buddy with an authoritarian regime. If not now, then eventually. We censored our movies to please China, we deprived Blitzchun of his well-earned Esports money because China said it had to be so, and now they're trying to control Europe through their Belt-and-Road initiative and become the next superpower. Will we be as eager to sanction China when they invade Taiwan, while our economies are still so deeply entwined?

We had our golden age of tight US China relations back in the 2000s and earlier, the China hate you see now is just the result of us awakening to what it will cost us.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: MOOK: Such sights to see
« on: March 14, 2022, 04:02:24 pm »
Gather as many leftover bits of gimpflesh as I can. A lot of it must have surely been knocked loose during my teammates vain attempts to kill them. Fleshwarp merge it into a single, solid, hopefully-still-living, block.

Edit:And then join Yagyu’s meeting


((Don't feel sad horizon, there just wasn't a lot of combat this mission. I'm sure a medic will be much more useful when we're repelling the Gimpderp invasion.))

Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Things I did (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 13, 2022, 10:00:41 pm »
In this case, it's called "The Call of the void". It's a translation of a french saying.

An intrusive thought is a little different, but more serious. An intrusive thought is something like "You're a worthless human being, and all of your friends secretly hate you". While call of the void is thinking "there's nothing stopping me from pushing my wife off this balcony" while you're both looking at a sunset.

Call of the void is a simple acknowledgement of the fragility of life, while intrusive thoughts are your mind randomly attacking itself.

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General Discussion / Re: Maybe the WWIII thread (soon) (Ukraine)
« on: March 13, 2022, 05:51:29 pm »
For what?

Nothing. Literally nothing.


You've got a point there, this video purported to summarize the reasons for invading Ukraine, but upon thinking, a lot of the points don't really measure up.

According to the video, Russia invaded Ukraine to:

  • Control the bottleneck that leads to the militarily vulnerable North European Plain in Russia, which consists of wide tracts of land that are too difficult to defend. (If there's any lesson to be learned here, it's that nukes are already enough of deterrence to prevent an invasion into Russia no matter the crimes it commits)
  • They don't want Ukraine to have access to the vast natural gas reserves in Crimea and potentially become a competitor to Russia in the energy market which is the lifeblood of its economy (Russia already had Crimea, and there was basically zero chance of Ukraine ever being able to retake it. Crimea is less secure now, than it was before the war. Plus, as a result of this war, Russia has incurred sanctions that have almost kicked it out of the energy market completely. Nice job Putin!)
  • They don't want to pay tarifs on the natural gas pipeline that runs through Ukraine in order to sell natural gas to Europe (Russia had already built alternative pipelines by this point, and were very close to phasing out their reliance on this pipe entirely. Waiting a few more years would have been smarter than a costly war)
  • They want to reopen the water canal to Crimea that Ukraine blocked off when it was annexed. Crimea's water issues have cost Russia a lot of money so they'd like to stop them now (As previously discussed in this thread, though the closing of the canal cost Crimea a lot of water, the biggest cause of the shortage is actually the fact that the remaining water is being used to feed agricultural exports rather than the citizens of the peninsula. With the sanctions now, the agricultural exports aren't really viable anymore so this problem had already solved itself. Albeit in an incredibly unprofitable way)
  • Putin wants to rebuild the USSR (The only credible reason, and the only real goal that has not been forfeited as a result of the sanctions. Ukraine may end up getting bombed into useless rubble, but if he does conquer it, at least there will be a piece of paper that says that he owns the country, even if it can be barely called as such. It's just ideological dick-waving though. In other words, this war truly is for nothing now)

This war is only being continued because if Putin admitted defeat, he would certainly lose his grip on power.

Long story short, don't blindly accept edutainment videos no matter how well-written they may be. Always use your critical thinking skills.

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General Discussion / Re: Maybe the WWIII thread (soon) (Ukraine)
« on: March 10, 2022, 09:30:43 pm »
Unfortunately, the Daily Mail is a tabloid. A brief google search to check if a more reputable news source has covered the story hasn't yielded anything, so my bet is on this being fake news.

It's possible other papers are taking their time to write a juicier article, but I doubt it. This is way too huge to not at least have the papers make a brief acknowledgment of it before putting out a bigger article.

If it is true, expect to hear a lot more about it tomorrow, but I don't think so. Thanks for citing sources.

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General Discussion / Re: Maybe the WWIII thread (soon) (Ukraine)
« on: March 10, 2022, 08:29:26 pm »
Those generals and commanders are going to eventually realize that obeying Putin’s order to participate in this war will be nothing but a death sentence for them. Right?

...Right?

Am I really supposed to believe that they’re going to continue to willingly throwing their lives away for this stupid war, when it’s only justification relies on complex geopolitics that Putin doesn’t want the average Russian citizen to understand?

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General Discussion / Re: Maybe the WWIII thread (soon) (Ukraine)
« on: March 10, 2022, 05:44:16 pm »
You know China has officially endorsed Putin's invasion, right?

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Generification is the name of the phenomenon. Genericized is how you use it as a verb.

eg. the term Kleenex has been genericized.

Companies hate it when it happens to their product because there is a precedent for losing some of their trademark rights when that happens. That's why google sued a dictionary for including googling as a verb in it. They didn't want it to happen to them.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: MOOK: Such sights to see
« on: March 09, 2022, 11:35:38 pm »
((In hindsight, you could have done something quite clever with that. If you snuck a time bomb onto derp, the gimps would have closed the portal and then it would detonate before Derp could execute his evil plan. Oh well, portal is sealed for the time being. I'm not sure derp realized how difficult it would be to open it up from the inside.

We'll pay for it eventually, but since Baldwin knows nothing about Mr. Friend, he can live on in blissful ignorance.))

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Roll To Dodge / Re: MOOK: Such sights to see
« on: March 09, 2022, 05:58:20 pm »
Attempt to retroactively shoot one of the gimps with the occult gun "Fragile Darkness" while they flee into the portal. Try to figure out what this thing does finally.

Regardless of whether the GM allows that, find Will and give the gun back to him.


"Here's the thing back. Didn't get a chance to test it unfortunately. I kept having to do consulting for everyone's various schemes and then they abruptly left. Should have shot one in the back when I still had the chance"

Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)

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Look, Mumen Rider is great, but our society can at least support a Batman. Maybe even an Ironman if Tony agrees to sell his technology to the military.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: MOOK: Such sights to see
« on: March 07, 2022, 01:47:46 pm »
((Well okay then, it seems like we have the option to create a one-way portal for the gimps, but there's a chance that they might end up learning how to create their own one-way portals as a result.

Don't know if I want to risk that. It seems very difficult to find a good solution though.))

Disconnect control from the robot and take off the VR goggles.

So you're saying, that if they all want the portal to here to be a portal to hell, it will go there instead?

..or maybe we could all just will it closed, collectively, all together?

Suggest to the gimps that they could make the portal to this unverse a portal to hell, if they want it enough.  And hell is possibly more profitable.

Assist the gimps with Hell-portal creation if they accept Summer's offer, otherwise implement my other plan:




"Excuse me my dear friend, can I borrow some hunks of your immortal flesh? It seems to be necessary for the creation of the portal you requested."

If I get permission from the gimps, acquire a few kilograms of non-sentient, but immortal gimpflesh and look for a creature like a mouse. Attempt to use flesh-warping to create a mouse-gimp hybrid with biological immortality. This is a prototype for the the creatures that shall be the building blocks of the new portal. I will need to find a way to expand their minds though...

Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: Maybe the WWIII thread (soon) (Ukraine)
« on: March 06, 2022, 11:23:32 pm »
Because Russian's don't usually protest like this due to how heavily the state cracks down on it. It shows that the people view this as one of the least popular things Russia has ever done.

Though the number is small, it is growing. It will continue to grow as more and more people lose their jobs and livelihoods to the sanctions.

I know you want the Russians to don suicide vests and bomb the Kremlin, but you gotta think realistically. It is reasonable to expect people to sacrifice themselves for their countrymen, but it is not reasonable to expect them to sacrifice themselves for strangers. But who knows, you may get your wish eventually. We all know what happened when Tsar Nicholas failed to invade Japan.

Patience my friend. Russia is bleeding horrendously right now, but when you're the size of an elephant, it takes a while before you start to feel woozy.

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General Discussion / Re: Maybe the WWIII thread (soon) (Ukraine)
« on: March 06, 2022, 05:54:52 pm »
We kind of are at this point though, but that’s only cause they struck first.

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