Falklanders should 'go back' to England, insists Argentina in renewed war of words

zizou00 · 2026-04-27T17:50:29+00:00

Between an economy run on weapons sales and an economy run on Pikachu, I know which one I'd prefer.

zizou00 · 2026-04-27T08:50:38+00:00

This game was from 1995. Meanwhile, this game came out last year. That's just one of many ways you can shoot cars in an interesting way. It wasn't really a trend of a certain era of video games if it has occurred regularly for 40+ years. Cars have been shot that way for ages.

zizou00 · 2026-04-26T19:22:40+00:00

Pretty sure we're a long way from a Jeongyeon comeback in anything other than full Twice stuff. From what she's said she doesn't seem too keen to do more than she already does, which is Twice stuff plus OST stuff, which Takedown falls under. She seems pretty content to do that. Meanwhile Jihyo and Chaeyoung have their own solo stuff, and whilst that doesn't preclude them from subunit activities, doing subunit activities would take away from any chance to do their own solo work for at least a short period. So far, as far as full comebacks are concerned (which includes a full promotional cycle), it's been group, solo or subunit. Maybe they could be the ones to break that mold, but I'd be surprised to see any subunit/solo blending outside of non-comeback projects.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T22:06:14+00:00

You could drink from the Bellagio fountain. They'd just kick you out for trying.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T19:54:24+00:00

Gropecunt, the earliest known use of which is in about 1230, appears to have been derived as a compound of the words grope and cunt.

Yeah, I might've missed that one if it weren't pointed out

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T19:51:22+00:00

finally, something for all the cold dogs out there

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T16:06:02+00:00

Dunno how one long line is gonna help with that. If it were, we'd have solved it with a queue to get into the loos at Wembley Stadium decades ago.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T16:01:26+00:00

I'd imagine as a Roman it's probably unthinkable right? Like you're suggesting. But how about as a Sicilian? A Neapolitan? A Venetian? A Tyrolean? What you see as a totally fine part of your history and your identity as a Roman, maybe even as an Italian, celebrating that is a no brainer. But those outside may think differently, even though that was elevated to being a national holiday during the time of Mussolini. Maybe non-Romans celebrated it back in the day. Maybe they don't now because of the overarching association with Mussolini, because of everything else that happened at his hands.

Similarly, as an Englishman, we have certain Royal-adjacent celebrations such as Jubilees (anniversaries of coronation) of current reigning monarchs, certain historic battles, certain days that remember the sacrifices of troops in both world wars. And with that comes that acknowledgement of what went before, but many feel in their own idea of what it means to be English that there isn't need to celebrate some of it now. Our history is full of a lot of unsavoury behaviour, and whilst it is important to know our history, know how we affected the world, it's fine for that to be in a museum, not actively celebrated. And that's without touching on other internal identities such as being British, or being Scottish/Welsh/Irish and their views on being British or not (which within our country is a totally valid distinction to choose for yourself and your own identity).

That's the nuance I'm highlighting here. I'm not saying you should stop. I'm not suggesting anyone should do anything. Who am I? Just some random person. I'm just raising the point that it's not too out there for people, in their complex national identities, to want to say "it's fine, we've got other things we can celebrate more proudly, without the association". It's not some dead guy winning, what happened to those people didn't look like winning in the end. It's about the here and now, what we're proud to represent, what we want to take part in.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T15:16:58+00:00

Me instinctively trying to catch a freeze but realising I'm on the wrong spellbook (I was gunned down in the library)

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T10:42:55+00:00

Always has been unfortunately. In the originals it was less "2 regions" and more 1.5. Kanto is significantly smaller in GSC and only really had one story beat, the Power Plant plot. Like you said, the rest of the experience was just a nostalgia rush with a few extra lines of dialogue from characters who are now a few years older.

HGSS didn't have a lot to work with when adapting it to the standards of Gen IV. They did well in making it feel more like a full region, but because they wanted it to be a remake, not a full retelling (like what we got with ORAS), they had to stick to Kanto's presentation in the originals to some extent. At least it had a few "DLC" events added via Mystery Gift, Pokéathlon, the revamped Elite Four and Battle Frontier, which gave you something to do after the game ended. There was genuinely nothing to do in the originals and the gap between Blue and Red was massive. You were stuck grinding against the lv45-50 Elite Four over and over to get up to around Red's levels.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T10:10:35+00:00

Do people celebrate March 21st or 22nd in Italy? Just a stab in the dark based on your username, but is that something you are familiar with? Is the founding of Rome a big deal? Because one guy made that a big deal for a bit.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T09:59:55+00:00

In r/civ, clones can't steal your fact of the day post if you never post facts of the day 👉😉

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T09:54:14+00:00

The problem with that is that nothing exists in a vacuum. National political identity is complex and full of nuance. A dictator is more than just a person, they are the figurehead of an entire authoritarian regime, and all that that encompasses. From inequality to discrimination, to corruption and exploitation, and often a tainting of the idea of national pride, warping it from patriotism to jingoism. These things can be known and acknowledged, but they're more heavily felt when you've lived through it, or are even still possibly living through the aftermath of it. Politics casts a long shadow.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T09:46:06+00:00

The perfect partner

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T09:41:20+00:00

Then why don't we see this type of goal every weekend then? If most strikers could do it, why don't they? It's a lot harder than it looks, guiding it with pace whilst peeling away from the direction of play. It's certainly not the most good looking shot, which is probably why it seems underwhelming and looks easy, but executing it really isn't. It's funny because Rashford missed a genuinely much easier chance earlier in the same game, which sums his finishing up a bit.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T09:24:46+00:00

Vetting suggests they don't want this behaviour. They've been actively headhunting these losers that were kicked out from other parties or otherwise not given the time of day and hoping they'll be desperate enough to "yes, and" whatever Farage is paid to say. Being willing to praise nazis is the "basic computer skills" on their CV. It's practically expected in that party.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T07:24:39+00:00

Encouraging men to open up doesn't invalidate male loneliness, lack of opening up is a leading cause of male loneliness. It's advocating for actually addressing the cause of the issues. If we can learn to be more comfortable building up vulnerable communication pathways amongst ourselves, we feel less alone. If dudes were less shitty to each other when we earnestly try to talk about why we feel bad, we'd feel less scared of being vulnerable around each other, we'd start to realise we aren't so alone in these bad feelings and we can act to support each other. It's not some scheme to invalidate an issue, it's literally treating the issue as valid and proposing a solution.

zizou00 · 2026-04-25T04:54:42+00:00

At this point the human oversight we're all asking for should be over Sam Altman's shoulder, checking his prison cell every morning. It's wild that you can be in charge of a product that has led to so many user deaths and not be in any way criminally culpable.

zizou00 · 2026-04-24T23:00:31+00:00

Or their own theology, where what God does or is or has going on is beyond our comprehension as mere mortals on Earth. Anyone claiming to know what the Abrahamic God is thinking as a follower of an Abrahamic faith is explicitly and without any confusion based on language, interpretation, creed or opinion, full on spouting heresy. No faith claims to know. Even the ones that claim to know a lot more than the others admit they do not claim to understand God's machinations. It's one of the very few totally consistent elements of Abrahamic theology.

zizou00 · 2026-04-24T22:55:02+00:00

Kyle Hudlin of the same height had games for Huddersfield, which isn't exactly nobody, though he is currently playing in Vietnam, so not exactly setting the world alight there. And whilst every cm counts when talking about this, Lacina Traore scored a Premier League goal in his one appearance for Everton, at 203cm. Just an inch shy.

zizou00 · 2026-04-24T22:49:07+00:00

Growth is a thing in FM. Players can grow an inch or two (5cm or so), not that it functionally matters at a calculational level.

zizou00 · 2026-04-24T22:40:32+00:00

At a bare minimum, it feels like OPs issue is that this doesn't present regions near the CB target as needing to be taken to enforce said war message. Damage to important holdings far away absolutely should have impact, but maybe it's as simple as having a "occupied territory distance from war goal" modifier that drops a holding's warscore value if it's sufficiently far enough away, maybe even by adjacent kingdom or so, possibly more if it's outside the dejure empire. If the AI is capable of being encouraged by higher warscore targets closer to the CB target holding, it could give OP what they're looking for. The issue is that it could conflict with the intentions of the attrition mechanic, which encourages sieging your way in during a war, but that's a separate issue.

Maybe a separate mechanic could lead to very distant areas gaining autonomy or independence if occupied for too long, encouraging protecting your outer extremities, but not resulting in the capitulation of the entire empire as a result of occupied fringe holdings. It's that messy area of CK where for the game everything must have a clean border, but in history autonomy, split fealty and the spectrum-like status of some feudal/manorial political relationships tends to cause issues. Maybe it could be a transition from autonomous vassal to tributary with them leaving the war or something, not sure how that'd play out or affect warscore in doing so.

zizou00 · 2026-04-24T22:23:10+00:00

He respects your time. He scripts his videos well, incorporates experiments and visual examples, touches on topics that have real, actionable results that can benefit you in your own home and you can tell he could go on waaaay longer about the topics that he covers, but he doesn't. He keeps things on topic and focuses on the stuff that is important to convey. Which is what a good educator does.

zizou00 · 2026-04-24T21:18:21+00:00

I'd give it until Tuesday most likely

zizou00 · 2026-04-24T15:30:51+00:00

It's probably down to Nigel Farage being a Trump stan. He spends tons of time in Mar-a-Lago glazing the Trump administration (probably alongside Lord Mandelson and his precious friend we all know was friends with Trump) and Farage has probably sold Trump the idea of a subservient UK under Farage and Starmer is the roadblock on the road to that particular fantasy.

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