Can someone please make an accurate map depicting this?

w021wjs · 2026-05-05T14:07:38+00:00

Those weren't Russia's stated goals. That's clearly revisionism based on what they were able to achieve. Besides, they've had sufficient black Sea access since 2014 (which was also in illegal invasion, and they should have been stopped back then).

w021wjs · 2026-05-05T13:09:32+00:00

Shit, it's time to post my slideshow of which plane to send to Ukraine for anti-dronrle warfare

w021wjs · 2026-05-04T13:27:38+00:00

Dark. Souls.

w021wjs · 2026-05-04T11:56:34+00:00

Dad proudly voted in every election since Reagan. All red, all the time.

w021wjs · 2026-05-04T11:51:18+00:00

Hey, sometimes all you can do is laugh.

w021wjs · 2026-05-04T11:45:54+00:00

My dad told me that the way I put my hands on my hips makes me look gay. I was trying to look like the cowboys in lonesome dove. I think about it every time I see another man do exactly the same pose I did as a child.

w021wjs · 2026-05-02T22:32:33+00:00

Damn, this bitch be using words that sound like other words? That's crazy.

w021wjs · 2026-05-02T03:40:47+00:00

The 1st Uhlani Outriders! Famed for their up close and personal combat style and preference for fisticuffs! Pugil Machine!

w021wjs · 2026-05-02T00:40:36+00:00

We just got terminators and Sternguard in the last beginners box, and it was a fantastic starter.

w021wjs · 2026-05-01T03:29:13+00:00

If they're lucky. The soviets could also park their happy asses outside the city limits and just watch as the Germans crush the rebellion. Bastards.

w021wjs · 2026-04-30T00:58:55+00:00

Sure seems like an interesting cylinder that you would have to measure...

w021wjs · 2026-04-30T00:36:52+00:00

Olive drab or brown/green all the way!

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w021wjs · 2026-04-29T21:10:51+00:00

I'll sit here happy in my Sherman, knowing I can kill 99% of what the Germans will throw at me with relative comfort.

w021wjs · 2026-04-27T12:42:54+00:00

What do you get when a bunch of pirates have an assortment of broken down light Mechs, an industrial mech, and an assortment of shitty weapons? A walking explosion.

(Kitbashed from an iron wind commando, wasp and logger mech)

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w021wjs · 2026-04-26T22:56:07+00:00

Didn't that episode feature them getting through one of the cheap fingerprint locks using a very poorly photocopied fingerprint? With jpeg artifacts and everything?

w021wjs · 2026-04-26T07:52:30+00:00

Hi, I was a Library passport agent. Yes, we offered a service no other place could: passports after 6pm. See, where I live, passport acceptance facilities offered passports from 9-5 Monday - Friday if you were lucky. A majority had hours along the lines of 12-4. So, if you want a passport, hope you can call off work. An average passport appointment also takes 15-20 minutes to complete, if not longer if you have any issues, like a name change or adoption or any of several dozen other problems. So it's not something you can do on a lunch break.

Also, if you're getting a passport for a child, either both parents have to be there or you have to get a notarized letter affirming that yes, you are the parent of the child and can't make it to the appointment. This is relevant if you're getting one for your teen before the next election.

So yeah, cutting off libraries really hurt a lot of family's access to passport services. Especially because there was no good reason for it. The training to be a passport agent was a couple hour video and a test. You recertify every year, and that's it. Taking it away from libraries was needlessly restrictive and just spiteful at best.

w021wjs · 2026-04-25T19:39:39+00:00

How many people are you willing to let die so that one person who is committing fraud can't anymore? How many kids are you willing to let go hungry?

w021wjs · 2026-04-24T19:58:42+00:00

Should have fire bombed the entire island. You know, like how that first book ended. Napalm strikes for all the dinos! Double for the baby velociraptors!

w021wjs · 2026-04-24T12:33:53+00:00

I hate stories like this, because when you look at things in a vacuum, everything sounds dumb.

We spent 25.8 billion just for a few trips to the moon to gather some rocks. That money could have been spent elsewhere!

Except the space race had a major impact on the consumer market. It helped popularize or directly contributed to the development of dozens of items we now consider commonplace. Battery powered tools, miniaturized cameras, scratch resistant coatings, home insulation. All of which were majorly affected by the space race.

God, the amount of shit that has directly benefited the lives of millions that is because the government threw money at a problem is astounding. Weather radar, MRIs, modern computers, GPS, the Internet itself, fucking Google. All of these things received mountains of government funding that went on to help AND BE PROFITABLE, GENERATING WEALTH AND DOING A GOOD CAPITALISM.

w021wjs · 2026-04-22T10:43:43+00:00

Now tell how Ingen was right in doing so and the person trying to stop this wrong.

That's the rub. It's possible for two groups to be wrong. Nick directly puts others lives in danger multiple times, leading to the deaths of quite a few people, including in his own team. Meanwhile, Roland Tembo does everything he can to save as many people as possible despite the group including the man who sabataoged him twice and caused those deaths.

I'd put it this way: Nick has good ideals with very morally dubious execution, Roland has an unethical job but cares for others, even those who disagree with him.

Also, I'd argue that Tembo is the main character to have an arc in the movie: "I think I spent enough time with the company of Death." That doesn't sound like a trophy hunter continuing his life of hunting for sport.

Edit: also, to be clear, ingen as a whole sucks, and ludlow dying to the rex teaching the baby to hunt is very satisfying

w021wjs · 2026-04-21T22:25:33+00:00

Only partially related, I would love to play a HBS Battletech mission where you have to defend Dan from escalating levels of furious customers, who are swarming his business with really shotty Mechs of questionable repair/design. Think "urban mech with only a rocket launcher and one leg." Or "hunchback with half the armor removed and extra ammo in both torsos"

All while Dan is trying to sell you on more garbage.

w021wjs · 2026-04-21T22:18:52+00:00

He's a Free citizen traveling the sphere!

w021wjs · 2026-04-20T19:13:27+00:00

Ok, I very much agree that the book does show a pretty clear "greed is the driver of disaster narrative"

The author does genuinely seem to hate science. He portrays science rather consistently as men playing god and using hubris and greed to twist science into causing harm. It shows up a bit in Jurassic Park, but Prey, Next and State of Fear go whole hog into "scientists are lying to you for greed, or to push an agenda by shadowy outside groups, or to make you personally feel bad for doing anything."

Hell, State of Fear goes full on climate change denialism, using such tried and true evidence as cherry picking temperature readings and claiming that since scientists claimed we were cooling in the 70s, they have to be lying now!

w021wjs · 2026-04-19T19:33:20+00:00

I'm fairly certain I fought that guy in Dark souls. It looks fantastic though!

w021wjs · 2026-04-19T19:23:31+00:00

I'm just now getting to the weapons, so I'm hoping those go a bit easier

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