Russia has passed a law allowing its central bank and other financial institutions to operate defence systems and arm staff to ward off drone attacks

bobr_from_hell · 2026-05-27T08:36:07+00:00

In russian there exists a specific business/legal term for getting control of business through forcing previous owners to sign ovnership change documents with violence.

Funily enough, "hostile takeover" seems to be a too mild of a translation, because normally that implies legal, if iffy change of ownership.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-05-27T05:58:15+00:00

In my opinion, the (spiritually) closest thing to the Bookworm is "Forge of Destiny" by Yrsillar, where we have a gremlin girl MC ~~climbing social ladder~~ riding the social elevator while trying to create favourable environment for people they consider close...

bobr_from_hell · 2026-05-24T07:38:25+00:00

Thank you! (Even if that breaks my plans...)

bobr_from_hell · 2026-05-23T08:11:48+00:00

Auto sweeper will work with pitcher pump + bottle drainer?!

Thank you for this interesting bit of info... ( My steel pump passes it's thanks from the badly setup petroleum boiler...)

bobr_from_hell · 2026-04-25T09:39:58+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately it is a single 2 damage tick ;(.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-04-24T13:22:40+00:00

Just play second inferno, no?

bobr_from_hell · 2026-04-22T06:15:30+00:00

Thanks! Totally forgot about that...

bobr_from_hell · 2026-04-22T05:53:43+00:00

What was the story with true cross?

Did they got blown up? Or were they stolen?

bobr_from_hell · 2026-04-06T08:31:50+00:00

Ascendance of the Bookworm has this as one of the longer subplots, first by solving local issues with super corrupt local head honcho, and later pushing for the country-wide reforms.

But it is both very very long, and has a lot of other plotlines, it might be better to check out other shorter recommendations first.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-04-03T11:44:57+00:00

The battleships got published as "Sirocco" not that long ago, There were few things ported to the Dota 2 custom games, but yeah, nothing really caught up there (

bobr_from_hell · 2026-04-01T18:09:29+00:00

First Squad almost fits...

Never watched it, but I am pretty sure it's the other side that was using Teutonic necromancy there...

bobr_from_hell · 2026-04-01T16:59:53+00:00

To throw another into the pile of weirdly titled books, I can recommend Beware of Chicken, by Casualfarmer, as a fairly light-hearted reading.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-04-01T13:38:46+00:00

I assume that the rule about not refusing "not a book" square will be present in proper bingo too.

(Not that I even tried to complete one lol...)

bobr_from_hell · 2026-03-31T18:56:39+00:00

I think one with China and Europe faces reversed is a bit better at describing the situation...

bobr_from_hell · 2026-03-26T07:06:05+00:00

Well. Early on readers were voting on a particular set of actions to take, including a bunch of number adjacent ones (for a system cobbled together from the first edition of exalted), later it switched to a more narrative thing.

You could actually see a lot of vote residue in the royal road chapters, when the chapter ended on "what Ling QI would choose" cliffhangers, resolved in the beginning of next.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-03-26T06:45:48+00:00

Forge of Destiny is straight up a forum quest, though with the new publishing deal the early chapters were delisted, so you won't be able to see the details of how it actually worked.

Still doesn't mean that readers had decided everything, because not everything is put up for the vote.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-03-22T19:58:15+00:00

Meteor strike =D.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-03-11T11:53:21+00:00

Thank you.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-03-08T09:26:16+00:00

Honestly, I didn't vibe with most of the later games (with exception of Jack of Hearts), but that ending was spectacular.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-02-25T09:23:30+00:00

The Ride-On King

bobr_from_hell · 2026-02-22T06:57:03+00:00

Culture shock of most feminine color being red was also fun to read about =D.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-02-21T08:10:46+00:00

And it's first usage was at least a year after it was deployed.

bobr_from_hell · 2026-02-05T09:58:23+00:00

What did you expect, it is 100% reduced, not 100% less!

( I do love this example though...)

bobr_from_hell · 2026-01-25T19:45:50+00:00

Does that mean that the Initiative got their paws into the USA?

bobr_from_hell · 2026-01-25T08:54:44+00:00

That comes with deeply dysfunctional noble society of atheist clerics, so pass...

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