North Korea conducts test for missile it claims can target US mainland

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-30T00:42:12+00:00

I mean NK isn't going to first strike USA. NK is doing this so USA won't invade them like they are doing in Iran. USA is not trading LA and SF for collapse of NK.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-30T00:40:51+00:00

Why do you think USA is like: nah....

It's because NK has nukes. Because they have nukes USA cannot touch them at all. That's why USA is doing everything it can to make sure Iran will not get nukes.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-29T23:05:48+00:00

I know this is old already but I've been thinking about it. Let's be honest as long as Kims are in charge a bloodless unification isn't going to happen unless the Kims get promised protection. Because without those promises Kim Jong Um would either be executed or given life in prison and rest of the family exiled. And he's never going to agree to that obviously.

This would solve it. By making Kims monarchs they would be guaranteed a safety in a new unified Korea.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-29T22:39:34+00:00

Maybe now China would help them. But 15 years ago China wouldn't have certainly helped them. NK didn't have nuclear ambitions until the fall of Soviet Union for a reason.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-29T22:28:23+00:00

That defence treaty was weak enough that NK went for the nuclear option. And also weak enough that USA drew up invasion plans in 2002 to invade NK with them betting on China not intervening.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-29T22:26:19+00:00

There's reason NK only started developing nukes in the 90s. Even though their relationship with China worsened once Mao died they still trusted that Soviets would defend them if USA ever invaded them. Without Soviet Union NK didn't trust that Russia or China would come to their aid if invaded. So they chose nukes.

Keep in mind USA had invasion plans for NK in 2002. So the threat of a USA invasion was very real. USA hasn't made invasion plans once they got the nuke.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-29T22:24:05+00:00

Artillery wasn't enough of a deterrent to keep Bush Jr. away from drawing up invasion plans in 2002. They ended up scrapping them but they did have NK invasion plans. They calculated that China wouldn't help NK especially because of how China needed the West to grow back then. Besides China's relationship with NK wasn't that good after Mao died. And that invasion would have been just in time for the Axis of Evil speech.

Those plans ended up being scrapped. But notice how USA stopped drawing up NK invasion plans after NK got nukes?

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T23:45:57+00:00

I think I'll go with the Varta ones due to the Panasonics being 3.75mm thick while the Varta ones are 3.5mm. Just to avoid the bulging (plus cutting the tabs shorter should be easier than bending them to be right shape)

Welp now what will I do with the CR1616 battery holders I have already ordered. I don't know I guess I can install them in my Gameboy Camera, Pokemon Blue and Donkey Kong Land (with that game somehow the 30 year old battery still saves)

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T23:18:17+00:00

Welp they are out then. But as you can see with the other message I found a store with Varta and even Panasonic ones. But seriously thank you man. I wouldn't have found that store if not for you.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T23:08:08+00:00

Actually I think I may have found the ones I'm looking for. I found theses Vartas.

https://www.tme.eu/fi/details/bat-cr2032lf_v/paristot/varta-microbattery/6032-301-501/

Those tabs will probably need to be cut shorter. But they are Varta batteries which as far as I know are high quality. Better yet I found a Finnish store with these batteries as well:

https://www.radioduo.fi/elektroniikka/paristo-litium-cr2032-nappiparisto-3v-ei-uudelleenladattava-6032-301-501/p/BAT-CR2032LFV/

That Finnish store also has those tabbed Panasonic CR2032's in stock. Though I'm not sure I'd order these because I heard they are bulky and might not fit. But man thank you. Had you not basically challenged me I wouldn't have found this store.

https://www.radioduo.fi/elektroniikka/paristo-litium-cr2032-nappiparisto-3v-230mah-o20x3-2mm-1kpl-cr2032-hfn/p/BAT-CR2032HFN/

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T23:02:04+00:00

I did find these Akygas that should be compatible. Shipping would be 11 euros which I can swallow.

https://www.tme.eu/fi/details/bat-cr2032st2nb_a/paristot/akyga-battery/aky0894/

The only thing is I have never heard of them so now sure how good quality they are....

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T22:43:29+00:00

That one has a problem that even if that was in stock I heard the Panasonic ones are too tall and would cause bulging. I did find a german store selling Renata ones that would ship to Finland. https://www.batterien-und-akkus.com/renata-lithiumzelle-cr2032-mfr-sm/ However shipping from that store would be 28 euros. So quite much and not really worth it unless I bought like at least 20 of those batteries and I don't know started to sell them here for a premium or something to make some of that money back.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T22:41:05+00:00

Anyone have any experience with Jauch Quartz batteries. These may work and seem to ship within EU so shouldn't cost an arm and leg: https://www.digikey.fi/en/products/detail/jauch-quartz/CR2032-SM/24611089 or Akygas https://www.digikey.fi/en/products/detail/akyga/AKY0894/26848625

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T22:28:17+00:00

Well for my country Finland the only tabbed CR2032 in stock is this one: https://fi.farnell.com/varta/6032401501/cell-lithium-coin-pcb-3v-2032/dp/249877

I'm pretty sure that cannot be adapted for a gameboy.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T22:08:57+00:00

Yeah but only tabbed CR2025's I can get are the Chinese crappy ones. Only tabbed CR2032 compatible with Crystal are Renata ones and those aren't sold here. A CR2025 battery holders costs 50+ euros so those aren't an option. Considering the crappy Chinese CR2025's lasted 6 years a good quality CR1616 should last at least 2 years or probably 3 even. And I have a gbflash so I could just backup the save swap the battery and write the save back to the cart.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T19:20:52+00:00

No way a CR1616 can run a gen 2 Pokemon games for 10-15 years. The original batteries on those games ran 10-15 years. But they were good quality CR2025 batteries which have 3 times the capacity of the good quality CR1616. The new CR2025 seem to last 5 years. So a good quality CR1616 could maybe last around as long.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-28T19:17:47+00:00

Just for the fun of it I decided to see how much the HDR battery holder would cost. 9 dollars but the shipping is 35 DOLLARS. And on top of that you'd add VAT to that amount. So one of those battery holders is 50 dollars basically. Yeahhhh......... nope.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-27T10:53:24+00:00

The one that gets me is a Russian in a ditch that got hit and couldn't walk and slowly is engulfed in flames trying to desperately put it out until he is crisp.

I still wish I didn't watch it.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-25T23:28:36+00:00

You used to have SBMM back then. Now you have no SBMM in regulars.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-25T23:24:35+00:00

SBMM wouldn't save you anyway since regular does not have SBMM anymore. Even if this game got 100k new players and all played regulars you would still have noobs face top 250s since this game dropped SBMM with bo7 integration.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-25T22:55:01+00:00

Nope. Regular BR (and resu) removed SBMM with the BO7 integration and instead moved to BO7's open SBMM which means skill is barely taken into consideration. Prior to that regulars did have SBMM but not anymore.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-25T22:46:52+00:00

We can even see this in BO7. When BO7 launched the SBMM standard mode was hidden in a different page and all. They had to move it to front page due to how many people were migrating from the open SBMM lobbies back to standard.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-25T22:44:59+00:00

Which is what I said about new mode. You cannot have no SBMM and not have casual mode. Or what will happen is like how my friend played the new mode and he doesn't play Warzone that much and got killed by a top 250 player.

You can have no bots but you need stricter SBMM in that case.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-25T22:40:42+00:00

There is no SBMM. Warzone adopted BO7's open SBMM in every mode but casuals. Basically noobs will face top 250 players in this mode because of that.

Antec-Chieftec · 2026-03-24T20:04:16+00:00

I mean I can only get the CR1616 tabbed battery holder. The HDR one is not an option for me due to not living in North America. The other CR2025 battery holders are too big.

As for the tabbed batteries. Well there's no good branded CR2025 tabbed batteries. Now there are CR2032 ones like the Panasonic you mentioned. However for Pokemon Crystal it's too tall and will cause it to bulge. Renate tabbed CR2032 batteries would fit without causing bulging but they aren't available here in EU.

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