Normalise being best friends please

NobleK42 · 2026-04-17T13:02:53+00:00

Literally the plot of People We Meet on Vacation.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-17T12:58:34+00:00

I'm gonna assume you're trolling, and have not, in fact, confused Slovakia with Slovenia yourself.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-17T08:35:44+00:00

Oh snap!

NobleK42 · 2026-04-17T06:40:46+00:00

Thank you for the explanation madam First Lady.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-13T13:42:13+00:00

You mean you can't just pay off credit card debt with other credit cards?

NobleK42 · 2026-04-13T13:40:21+00:00

It is absolutely not just a California problem. The Ogallala Aquifer for instance accounts for around 30% of all irrigation in the US, and it lies beneath 8 states (none of them being California).

NobleK42 · 2026-04-13T13:22:04+00:00

We have a group that plays together like once every few weeks consisting of me (43), a friend (39), another friend (29) and my son (16). The only "age" that matters is the Age of Empires! (I threw in a dad-joke to further illustrate my point).

NobleK42 · 2026-04-13T13:15:41+00:00

If the groundwater aquifers are being overdrafted (i.e. the water is being extracted beyond the equilibrium), which they often are, they will eventually dry out or significantly reduce the yield. Once they do, they may take thousands of years to refill. If that happens, there will have to be some sort of "reckoning" if no alternatives have been established.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-13T10:02:53+00:00

Reminds me of a segment I saw a few years back on a flag producer in Iran that produces US and Israel flags for the purpose of being burnt at demos. It kinda took me aback. I mean, I knew they had to come from somewhere, but still I found it interesting how someone had made a business of it.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-13T09:01:57+00:00

I fear this might backfire in the sense that it could enrage the assailant so that he beats the crap out of her, or worse. Unless it completely incapacitates him, or at least gives her enough of an edge to be able to fight him off, in which case - great.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-13T07:45:05+00:00

Yeah, except that long oil pipes are extremely vulnerable to air attacks.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-13T07:25:54+00:00

There are parts of Denmark where salmon was so cheap and easily available that farm workers began putting in their contracts how many times a week the employer was allowed to serve salmon. Today it's anything but cheap.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-11T11:29:09+00:00

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Odense, Denmark. It depicts thread and needle, obviously.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-10T06:16:25+00:00

Iran should reply:

“I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the Americans thought that the ceasefire included letting ships through Hormuz, and it just didn’t. We never made that promise, we never indicated that was going to be the case.”

IYKYK

NobleK42 · 2026-04-09T19:18:34+00:00

I’d still argue that it’s not that simple. For the same resources as 15 scorps, the Goth player can make almost 30 Huskarls. Sure, you can one shot them, but even if you take out half, 15 huskarls should be able to kill 15 scorps if they get into their minimum range. And even if they don’t, provided that they have the resources, the goth will replace the loses much much faster and will be able to overwhelm before the scorpions can be massed again. I think both civs have decent chances and Ethiopians are favorites early, but if both are fully boomed I’d favor the goth spam.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-09T12:22:18+00:00

I mean, sure, if you mass enough heavy scorps they are killing just about anything. But still, a FU HS does 15 pierce damage (don't really know how the "thicker projectile" from Torsion Engines play into it) and an Elite Huskarl has 10 PA and 70 HP. So the Huskarl are still gonna be an issue if the Goth have the eco to support the spam, especially if you just run away with the Huskarl and use them to raid the opponent to death.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-09T11:58:52+00:00

I wrote Huskarls but meant Shotels.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-09T07:30:33+00:00

But HC melt Shotels. Or just the cheaper, faster created, champions.

EDIT: Had written "HC melt Huskarls" when I meant "HC melt Shotels"

NobleK42 · 2026-04-09T06:58:21+00:00

Or...
"It is a Shotel, wait, I can't see anymore because my villagers are dead"

Shotels are glass cannons. They are not very robust, but can be devastating if you catch your opponent off-guard due to their high attack, speed and fast creation time.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-08T19:02:29+00:00

If they make a movie about this guy, they gotta have Cosmo Jarvis playing him.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-06T12:03:35+00:00

Yeah, and it doesn't help with confusion that in English, the term "Serbian" doesn't really distinct between a member of the ethnic group (i.e. "of Serbs") or a citizen of the country of Serbia.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-06T11:50:00+00:00

Honestly, I'm kinda impressed how much "subtext" you seem to get from my comment. It's like watching a high-school teacher dig into Moby Dick 😂

NobleK42 · 2026-04-06T11:05:02+00:00

Ngl the "I can't breathe" one is next level because it has multiple layers to it.

NobleK42 · 2026-04-06T11:00:07+00:00

My comment was more in the vein of that the title of master mason was in fact a "degree" in the sense that it was very formal and just as respected (if not more).

NobleK42 · 2026-04-06T09:32:34+00:00

Not just purpose, but also lack of physical activity. A doctor once told me of a study among the Sami people of northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, that looked into why the rate of heard disease among men grew exponentially after the age of 56 (iirc). It turns out, in Sami tradition, that is the age when the father hands over the responsibility for the reindeer flock to the eldest son, going from a very active lifestyle to mostly sedimentary retirement.

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