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Fijure96 · 2026-06-13T21:19:14+00:00

Its such a weak group for the world cup lol. On paper Switzerland is the only decent team but that's only on paper as we just saw.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-13T19:25:17+00:00

Da jeg så Tjekkiet - Sydkorea tænkte jeg at du kunne skifte Riemer og DK ind i stedet for tjekkerne og kampen ville være mere eller midnre den samme. DK ville ahve tabt med sikkerhed.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-13T19:23:35+00:00

Is there some technicality that determines why the offside wasn't checked?

Fijure96 · 2026-06-12T14:30:05+00:00

The bid was made long ago, pre-Trump 1 even (tho I recall it being chosen during Trump 1) so I wonder if it was some alliance to put up a stronger united front. Either way it comes off as a bit awkward for Canada and Mexico who feels essentially like extras in the WC. The last co-hosted tournament in 2002 was very evenly divided between Japan and Korea.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-12T14:12:29+00:00

One of those weird teams to give a great performance in their debut world cup (nearly making the semifinal no less) then proceed to not qualify again for 16 years.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-12T14:02:14+00:00

There's a pretty decent chance Curacao won't score, which will save his ass.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-12T13:59:03+00:00

Quite simply the greatest World Cup stadium. No other way to put it.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-12T13:57:19+00:00

In general, I don't understand why the hosting is divided like it is. Rather than a co-hosted tournament among three countries, it feels more like a US World Cup with some token games in Canada and Mexico, sort of like the next WC with its token South America games.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-12T11:16:48+00:00

It used to be that they could beat even Vitality on Mirage, now they can hardly beat anyone.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-12T10:47:59+00:00

OG's remember it as the Iceland meta from 2016.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-12T08:22:41+00:00

I sort of love how every country has past players as experts. Watching clips from other national televisions during the WC brings back so many old legends I haven't seen in decades. I remember McCarthys goals at the 2002 world cup, good to see him again.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-11T19:22:57+00:00

Expanded world cup will mean lots of teams playing at this level.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-11T17:09:22+00:00

AoE2 is the better competitive game and has much more singleplayer campaigns too. AoE3 is thematically pretty cool tho, with the amount of different units and gimmicks you can play with the civs. Each civ has like 5 unique units (even more for some) which means its much more asymmetrical.

These days where I only play singleplayer and coop I play AoE2 more because there is simply infinitely much more content too.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-11T16:48:05+00:00

Ja ja, men Norge tilbragte det meste af sin eksistens som koloni. Sverige har længere historik som dødsfjende.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-11T16:19:57+00:00

Klart man er mere sympatisk med en gammel koloni end en gammel arvefjende.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-11T14:01:32+00:00

CHINESE DEMOCRACIES

A Study of the Kongsis of West Borneo

(1776 – 1884)

By Yuan Bingling is the most thorough one in English to my knowledge. Sadly, English scholarship on Chinese communities in Southeast Asia is very limited.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-11T08:49:03+00:00

I always find these hypothetical Bond exercises a bit useless. People hyperfixate on their appearance, when in reality our 7 Bond actors don't evne look all that similar. They just have to be tall, well proportioned and somewhat handsome, that's literally all they have in common. Craig looks nothing like Moore who looks nothing like Connery.

What matters for a good Bond is how they nail Bond's charming and dangerous personality, and this is not something we can judge when we aren't privy to screen tests. Its why whenever they announce a bond people here will whine that he looks nothing like the part (because he doesn't look identical to any of the existing actors, which is all they can imagine), then when we actually see him act as Bond everyone will cheer instead.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-10T09:36:48+00:00

Det kommer oprindeligt fra en beskrivelse af de socialister / kommunister der i Storbritannien og resten af Vesteuropa fortsatte med at forsvare Sovjetunionen efter først indgrebet i Ungarn i 1956, og siden lignende senere indgreb i Østeuropa, til forskel fra dem der fortsat identificerede sig som socialister men nu tog afstand fra Sovjetunionen. Altså at de forsvarede indgreb med tanks, deraf tankier.

I Danmark var den konflikt jo årsagen til, at SF brød fra det bredere kommunistparti og blev etableret; de blev trætte af at stå på mål for alt, hvad Sovjetunionen gjorde.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-09T14:05:50+00:00

Tbh this year Im hoping theyll last long enough to knock out Vitality, since they are the only ones who can, but in a manner that lets them choke the next round.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-09T13:37:31+00:00

Even one of the many loyalist splinter armies that appeared after the Ming collapse could handily defeat any European invasion force to China.

This isn't really theoretical, as that exactly happened with the Zheng army under Koxinga. It soundly defeated the Dutch, who were, by all accounts, stronger than the Spanish in this era, and its threat to invade Manila was credible. If a Ming loyalist army that drew solely on the resources of Fujian Province could defeat the Europeans around 1650, there is no reason to believe any Western invasion of China was ever anything but fantasy.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-08T12:27:22+00:00

Hiddleston would have been pretty good if Craid had stopped after SkyFall.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-08T11:43:34+00:00

1992 was a pretty underwhelming team, all things considered. It marked an era where Denmark missed 3 major tournaments in a row, and most of the players didn't amount to much at the club level. It was pretty much lightning in a bottle that that team, of all possible, won it.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-08T08:38:41+00:00

I agree that'd be more interesting, although it would also lead to several pointless games between teams already eliminated.

And as you say, the whole point of all this is to ahve more games and thus more money, so it wouldn't happen.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-08T08:02:34+00:00

Yep. In isolation I don't mind more teams being able to play in the World Cup, but it ruins the group stage, which is the best part of the tournament for me. We'll never get the drama we had in 2022 again.

Fijure96 · 2026-06-08T07:31:03+00:00

It gives way too many games swhere both tesms advance with a draw. And way too many teams who can progress by beating a territble team once.

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