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General Discussion / Re: UR's Post-USSR politics megathread
« on: March 21, 2014, 10:23:21 am »
Quote from: Grek on March 21, 2014, 10:14:26 am
Further, given that all three of the Ukranian casualties thus far were caused by Crimean rebel forces rather than Russian forces, it can't really be said that Russia has attacked any Ukranians.

Russia is not using force as no Russian soldiers have shot at any Ukranian soldiers, nor (to my knowledge) has Russia threatened to do so.

I enjoy how when Russian soldiers are serving their nation's orders others won't even do them the service of calling them soldiers. I wonder how it feels to be taken for such granted, as a Russian soldier 'rebel' 'self defense unit' who never actually gets credit from the host government despite being sent into harms way in the name of their expansionist policies.



I bet there'd be all sorts of 'outraged' Russians had one of these.. 'rebels' or 'self defence' servicemen died serving the Kremlins orders. Atleast give your soldiers the respect to acknowledge they're in harms way for your nation.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 21, 2014, 09:22:14 am »
Quote from: InsanityIncarnate on March 21, 2014, 02:34:12 am
To break the current theme of emotes and Sandra Bollocks, I present to you The Holy Mountain, singularly the weirdest film I've ever seen.

I went back to watch the trailer having finished the movie itself... and it seemed tame by comparison.

I thought it was one of the worst movies, ever. No amount of 'mystique' or 'uniqueness' can save it from how inane and.. 'creative' it thinks it is. I refer to it as wannabe avant-garde, like a pale imitation of a Picasso work.

No, seriously, the exposition part in the room with the random people-as-universes-or-whatever-the-fuck? The only good part of the movie. I hate movies like Holy Mountain, if only for the fact that they're so random and think they're art because of it.

There's so many real avant-garde films that actually have something resembling substance. Holy Mountain is not one of them. You can take mushrooms and watch it and probably take in about the same amount of plot information.

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Other Games / Re: Therian Saga [Sandbox Browser MMO]
« on: March 20, 2014, 11:44:04 pm »
Can anyone get ahold of hematite ore? I'm interested. I have enough foundrywork to make the bars, which can be a good business of itself, honestly.

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General Discussion / Re: UR's Post-USSR politics megathread
« on: March 20, 2014, 07:59:17 pm »
Quote from: Dutchling on March 20, 2014, 07:49:17 pm
I should probably have linked to the article where I got it from, titled:
"Good News From Ukraine: Everyone Still Hates Hitler"

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Russian and Western leaders don't see eye-to-eye on the crisis in Ukraine, but they've reached consensus on another important issue: Adolf Hitler was bad.

Did the Onion write this? My sides. What a great article, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: Do donuts need to have holes to be classified as donuts
« on: March 20, 2014, 05:19:42 pm »
What about the gas you don't inhale? Seems like wasted gas. I'd just put a straw in it and suck the delicious gasses out before I gorge myself upon the flattened goodness.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 20, 2014, 05:18:33 pm »
Quote from: LeoLeonardoIII on March 20, 2014, 05:15:41 pm
EDIT: and it took me long enough to type that, that everyone else kind of ruined my "ruining the joke" joke.



*Throws every apple

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 20, 2014, 05:13:48 pm »
*Throws an apple

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General Discussion / Re: Eye for an Eye punishment
« on: March 20, 2014, 05:10:28 pm »
Quote from: LeoLeonardoIII on March 20, 2014, 05:07:40 pm
Quote from: greatorder on March 20, 2014, 05:01:00 pm
Terrible joke

Tongue removed

Wait, that would make most of bay12 unable to talk :X

We generally pay lip service to pun laws.

We just need to face it, we'll never reach the head of this issue.

Im sorry

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General Discussion / Re: Eye for an Eye punishment
« on: March 20, 2014, 04:02:59 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on March 20, 2014, 04:00:02 pm
I would not be okay with a law that punished poking out someone's eye by poking out the offender's eye. I might be okay with steps to stop the offender from poking people though, depending on how reasonable the prevention methods are.

Crime: Eye Poking

Judge Verdict: Remove fingers and toes

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 20, 2014, 03:55:25 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on March 20, 2014, 03:54:37 pm
You may note that that cat is gnawing on the stuffed toy's neck.

It isn't hugging it. It's mauling it.

The most adorable kind of mauling is kitten-exclusive.

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General Discussion / Re: UR's Post-USSR politics megathread
« on: March 20, 2014, 03:45:24 pm »
For the record I've not been insulted by you or anything you say, Comrade. Just saying. I incorrectly lumped you in with Beznogin, who actually holds the.. unique views of 'acceptable sacrifice'.

Quote from: Guardian G.I. on March 20, 2014, 02:35:54 pm
Since this thread went up in flames because of my previous post, I want to say that by "sacrifices" I originally meant people sacrificing themselves for the Soviet Union (e.g. soldiers during WW2). While some may say that it is also necessary in some cases, killing political dissidents isn't a sacrifice (although if Stalinist Aztecs had existed, they would have regarded that as a genuine contribution to the country).
You didn't mention this in response to Beznogin, you mentioned it after you told me to fuck off, which is alright, but it doesn't help that I thought you agreed with his held view of acceptable sacrifice. I apologize for that misrepresentation.


But. Same way if someone from the US told me it was perfectly alright for us to genocide the natives, or that slavery was a reasonable sacrifice, I'd go to great lengths to atleast condemn such a viewpoint. I'm an enemy of these viewpoints, not any nationality.

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General Discussion / Re: UR's Post-USSR politics megathread
« on: March 20, 2014, 03:08:37 pm »
Quote from: BlindKitty on March 20, 2014, 02:52:17 pm
Order No. 227 and Order No. 270 issued by the Stalin, for example. Various memoirs of the Red Army soldiers. Books about the 'Great Patriotic War' (is this the right term in English?) written by people who have no interest in conforming with the propaganda (for starters, Victor Suvorov). You know, things like that. I'm actually interested in the history of WW II, but most of my sources aren't in English (or Russian, for that matter), so I can only direct you to things that Googling 'barrier troops in Red Army' uncovers, or Suvorov books, as those are available in English for sure.

Hey, wait a goddamn second... You mean this mission wasn't based on made-up stories?

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Other Games / Re: Prospector, a roguelike in development
« on: March 20, 2014, 03:00:51 pm »
I'm pretty sure there is in the new version, I don't remember exactly, though.

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General Discussion / Re: UR's Post-USSR politics megathread
« on: March 20, 2014, 02:56:58 pm »
Quote from: BlindKitty on March 20, 2014, 02:52:17 pm
Quote from: olemars on March 20, 2014, 02:49:26 pm
On topic, unidentified soldiers have boarded and taken control over at least four Ukrainian navy corvettes. Under normal circumstances that's an act of war. Technically so is blockading another country's ports. Sinking old ships as a blockade is probably a violation of any number of international conventions and protocols. So is having your soldiers running around without insignia.

I'm half sure that having soldiers run around without insignia is even a war crime under Geneva convention or something similar, but it's only half sure and Russia may not have yet signed those.
(It's actually a funny bit of trivia - Soviet soldiers during Cold War didn't know that shooting things with big red crosses on white fields on them is considered rude out there in the West.)
I actually was just looking into this. Apparently it's not a violation. The passage pertaining to this reads:
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In order to ensure respect for and protection of the civilian population and civilian objects, the Parties to the conflict shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives and accordingly shall direct their operations only against military objectives.

So, obviously being soldiers counts as distinction, even if not showing any insignia is still looked down on.

@Comrade Lol. Chill out dude. Did your family personally participate in the purges, or something? /sarcasm

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Other Games / Re: Therian Saga [Sandbox Browser MMO]
« on: March 20, 2014, 02:49:53 pm »
Don't quote me on this, but high fame/prestige materials should make better companions appear, right?

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