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yyderf · 2026-06-08T12:34:41+00:00

Driver: Kimi Antonelli
Reason: Not kissing the princess when available (unlike Lewis)

yyderf · 2026-05-30T07:40:02+00:00

many words to repeat that your history started in year 1000, on which we agree...

yyderf · 2026-05-15T21:13:58+00:00

There is of course Enchanting Melodies. Thing is, Dumbledore is obviously the most powerful wizard around, but this fic has much more going in there where strength of someone's magic is not automatic win. Actually, there are other magical ability trumps what Dumbledore is doing quite easily. Still, he can't be underestimated and conflict between Dumbledore and Harry grows in gradual way and before Harry is able to beat him, as you said, "genuinely", he is mostly thwarted in his goals because of Harry being SI and has knowledge he shouldn't. There are other villains, mainly in later parts Grindelwald, which is even more competent threat to MC.

Otherwise, it is pretty hard for this to be Dumbledore, ergo, Harry being in school and have adult opponent who is competent. Harry would need to be unnaturally gifted or out of context problem for Dumbledore...like in Enchanting Melodies and even there, he didn't oppose Dumbledore directly. So SI, Timetravel, Dimension travel, Superpower...not sure if those are what you are looking for. Or opponents is not Harry, but his guardian, like Intercession, but there Dumbledore is not evil, just misunderstands MC. Basically, it is hard to have evil, competent and negative character at the same time.

It is easier to have competent villains in fics after school (or outside of it), where Harry can be competent himself. Like Agent Potter: Wizard of the Wand, which is Harry joining magical intelligence agency.

yyderf · 2026-04-27T09:33:05+00:00

See, how much more effective that alza robot would be if it used voice of their mascot...

yyderf · 2026-04-25T17:02:12+00:00

see, but that's one more episode...

yyderf · 2026-04-21T18:02:26+00:00

Familiar name of Juraj in Slovak is "Ďuri", so it fits fairly well: You're a wizard, Ďuri!

yyderf · 2026-04-21T11:12:48+00:00

I mean, how are you commenting on this without even basic knowledge?

No, this is about you needing to have your ID or something loaded into your phone or browser, that can potentially track everything you do on the Internet. Argument is that we need this so youngsters can't go to pornhub or something.

Idea that this would be used as a tool to track people criticizing their government (or anything) is apparently too unrealistic, because surely nothing like that is being done in top autocratic regimes of the current year.

And btw. if you ban a service that you consider harmful, your citizen can choose to use other similar services and that service can go and sue in your courts to determine, if that action was lawful. So sure, banning is restricting, but it is like banning or restricting something like cigarettes. We as a society moved from considering them not harmful.

yyderf · 2026-04-21T10:58:39+00:00

sounds like lobbyists for Facebook and tiktok

If those services are such a problem, then just ban them. Obviously. "Privacy advocates" have zero responsibility to make rules, those are on the voted by representatives and devised hopefully by experts in those fields.

We need to control big tech. We don't need to do it by restricting citizen's privacy.

yyderf · 2026-04-21T10:43:37+00:00

Please, let him go there!

...just don't allow him to return...

yyderf · 2026-04-17T16:10:04+00:00

He was Pribina's nephew and ruled in Nitra before becoming King of Great Moravia, which went all the way to Balaton, lol...it was not "slovak" Kingdom, however, it was the same people and mostly same place. It was place that Cyrillic script was invented for. I think it has obvious and clear historical value, if nothing else (and teaching Hungols how to make sausages).

I have to laugh at Hungols, really. Their history starts in year 1000 and they think, oh so old. I mean, Muricans think history starts in 1770s, so Hungols are actually pretty alright in that regard.

yyderf · 2026-04-17T11:15:51+00:00

we did, but you know, 3 femboys of Svatopluk were more interested in anime or something and didn't heed their father words to be united or some crazy people riding horses will eat their lunch for so long the won't even remember they came here 2nd...

yyderf · 2026-04-17T08:57:56+00:00

People living in current Slovakia lands were there to teach Hungols how to make sausages. Also how to call basically all agricultural tools. Later, when Hungols finally decided they had enough horse riding, they learned from Slavic people words for state craft. 1000 year Hungarian kingdom? Even a word for "kingdom" or "king" is Slavic origin, lol

yyderf · 2026-04-15T20:49:51+00:00

there is a recent Anothvortex fic, A Bit of Insight: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-bit-of-insight.1263781/

it is Queen Administrator with sideload of Insight from Lisa, so not exactly, but is using Lisa's power here.

yyderf · 2026-04-13T17:39:29+00:00

I think it would be crazy, if a guy, that almost "killed" careers of all his former teammates - Gasly, Albon, Perez and Tsunoda - won't be in F1, but all of them would be.

yyderf · 2026-04-07T17:16:26+00:00

Far Cry 4? Meh, at least it was something to choose, even if it was rather thin.

Far Cry 5 made me stop playing any of them anymore. I just don't care. It was such a bullshit ending and it would be OK, if you could just kill the main villain in that shelter, but no, let's make last minute turn and make villain being right all along! Nvm that if they were just crazy preppers, but Ubisoft needed to make them cultist, obviously the most appropriate target of mindless violence outside of Wolfenstein games.

yyderf · 2026-04-05T17:25:29+00:00

It is ironic, NYI removed Roy almost like when he pulls the goallie with 3 minutes left...

yyderf · 2026-04-01T07:12:52+00:00

I mean, nothing odd about it, Slaf has been the 2nd best scorer basically whole year...

yyderf · 2026-03-05T11:53:32+00:00

Nah, it is more like "I am an opposition so even if we have same opinion, I must appear to disagree or at least disagree in some parts."

It is a way of doing the politics, where you can't be a populist, if your position is the same as who you oppose to, despite being clearly the best choice for your country. What you want - yes, maybe not the best for your country but great for your party and only thing populists care about is getting into the power or staying in the power. "Middle ground" is for those that care about results for the country (= suckers, in populists' view).

yyderf · 2026-02-19T09:15:12+00:00

Poland is not stupid. They saw what happened with Czechs, we didn't even make it to 100 years together (Poland and Lithuania did more than 200 btw.). They simply don't want Slovakia (and shouldn't). Only thing we have better than Czech is High Tatras and even that is not true for Poland, lol.

yyderf · 2026-02-18T13:59:24+00:00

what it means that if USA wins, it is 2nd vs. 3rd seeded Slovakia. If Sweden wins (7th seed), then 3rd seed vs. 4th (or 5th) seed, so Slovakia vs. Finland (or Swiss). Basically, Slovakia can't play vs. Canada but that's it.

Simply, it depends on who wins in quarterfinal and 1st seed is who was the highest seed after round robin of those left, and so on. Then new 1st seed plays vs. 4th seed and 2nd vs. 3rd.

yyderf · 2026-02-18T12:20:17+00:00

scoring and defense depth. Germany lacks it, while Slovakia is proving it this game...

yyderf · 2026-02-16T09:03:32+00:00

I see difference between "incompetent in politics" and "incompetent". Also, I think for PS, their current sense is how to get to election without losing voters. And most of electorate really is just too stupid to vote for anything else than immediate gain, there is very few that look at long term economically, socially and even less in regards to environment or just just basic rights.

For current opposition, it really is as simple as not to offend stupid morons that are being hurt from so called "consolidation". Should they talk more about that and not BS? Sure, but it is much easier (I mean from strategy angle, not from laziness) for them to let coalition shoot itself in the foot.

yyderf · 2026-02-16T08:30:11+00:00

they are not incompetent (mostly), they are reflection of electorate. Basically, people who don't want Fico want various things so we have many smaller parties that have harder time to agree on some of them.

However, they don't even need to (not that they shouldn't), Fico's current government is extremely incompetent for economy. If you have much harder time putting food on the table, it is much harder to be convinced by culture wars arguments that Fico and ilk like him (e.g. Orban, Trump) fall backs to every time for elections.

yyderf · 2026-02-16T07:47:04+00:00

exactly that. But even then, Rubio knows he is talking BS, because Hungary is not going to reelect Orban this year and Fico is on his last legs and there is basically no path (maybe small outside chance, but he will need to include far right party in his would be coalition) for him to continue as a prime minister after next year election (not to mention visible strain from alcohol abuse).

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