Evilsandwichman

I noticed similar sentiments to this before; why are some Turkish people kissing up to Europeans like this?

I don't even know the historical premise of the movie, I just thought this was hilarious.

Yeah, because the Algerians just famously sat around and waited for the French to leave, and even if they fought, not like they were in any actual danger.

Yeah the French totally left all on their own, and this love of the freedom fighters is comparable to American conservatives.

That thread is a ~~gold~~ crap mine of dunk tank posts.

I found a study that says that dried cucumbers go up in calories because of this or that getting concentrated, but like, the raw cucumber even if eaten whole with all that stuff in there, it still has a minuscule amount of calories. How does drying it raise the calories? Please explain like I'm 5.

The study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292994599_Nutritive_value_of_convection-dried_Cucumis_sativus

Edit: I tried rereading it but I still don't get it. If you have a bucket of water with 10 stones in it, and then freeze or steam it, we're still looking at 10 stones. I don't get how this works.

After what China did to Japan 500 years ago ~~(under Mongol rule)~~ (not Mongol rule as a hexbearer pointed out actually), they have no right to condemn Japan for anything; also bacteria, viruses, what's the difference? Also it was an attack, not an epidemic that formed naturally like they have throughout history.

The mixed reality is actually legit really good; I played a free demo of a game that lets you summon creatures and to arm yourself with a bunch of swords, a rifle and a revolver (I think the swords each have a special ability as well). You can summon something as weak as a goblin (though with a shield), and I think it goes all the way up to a dragon, perhaps beyond that too; for context, the first creature was a straight up sword and shield goblin, the second a rogue type character that can throw a line of daggers at you from a distance, and the third was a straight up red giant who towers over you (also he's got like maybe four or five health bars), and those were three out of maybe ten or more enemies. The fight against those three enemies (I lost against the giant by the way) was actually good as a workout and I was tired by the end of it (then again I'm fat and out of shape).

The Q3 also has an air link feature that lets you stream your oculus games (which would have been designed originally for the Rift and Rift S) to your headset, and a steam link that does the same.

I bought some custom VR lens from a company called VR lens lab, and I'll hopefully have them in three weeks or less; they should allow me to use the Q3 without having to wear glasses, so that's awesome.

Honestly as much as I love VR, I think mixed reality is probably going to be my preferred game type as I can see the world around me so I know where I am at all times and where every piece of furniture or clutter is.

The headset isn't without its flaws though; it heats up uncomfortably, the battery life needs to be much longer, you can't use the air link or steam link feature I mentioned if you're on another network (so no activating your PC at home and trying to stream games from it at a friend's house; although apparently you can use virtual desktop to do that I think? Not sure how or if that truly works), they need to up the resolution of how the real world looks in the headset, the IPD despite my fiddling still isn't aligning properly for some reason, I could almost swear the FOV is smaller than the Rift S, the sides of the headset from within the headset are very visible making you feel like you're wearing goggles.

I tried finding some info on which games may offer the best workout and hilariously found a workout game called supernatural that actually has a subsciption model that's more expensive than a netflix subscription (the cheapest offer goes at $28 a month).

My room is badly cluttered, so unfortunately working out in my room is going to be somewhat unfun; I need to see what I can do about making space or playing somewhere else.

I was curious to see where the inspirations for Game of thrones came from; I studied the war of the roses in school like, two decades ago or something, so I'm aware of names like 'Plantagenets' and 'York' and such, but can't recall for the life of me much else.

When watching Game of thrones it got easy to forget who was who, given the gigantic cast of characters (mostly secondary obviously), and I'll probably have a difficult time here too, but I'd still love to get a refresher.

So let me get this straight: so they have business portfolios in their industry that people can invest in (piracy), they invest some of their wealth in local communities to curry favor with the average American I mean local Somalis, they keep the lion's share of the wealth and buy expensive mansions, luxurious cars and throw lavish, drug-laden parties.....and they make disingenuous claims to justify their actions. They make a claim they're using their funds for environmental projects, but then don't. Also they hinder efforts intended to benefit local communities probably because it would harm their own efforts and their own income.

But they're from the global South (Africa specifically, and they're black too), so hence they're called warlords, while ours are called businessmen. Their efforts harms Western countries so they're dangerous warlords, while Western operations harm countries in the global South and are at worst called controversial.

I'm not going to defend what these guys do, but I'm entirely fine with waiting on fixing this problem until Western countries knock off the crap they're engaging in first or actually actively fix it (rather than just stick a band aid on the problem). I wonder how many of these problems in the global South end up disappearing as a consequence of cleaning up Western actions.

I ask because I recall seeing a clip of Putin that was from a fair number of years back where I got the impression he was eager for Russia to be considered a Western country.

What's the opinion of Russians towards Westerners today vs how it was before the SMO? On social media, it's the easiest thing in the world to find some of the most caustic racism being levied towards Russians, and mass media is only 'gentle' when you look at American and British media, I've seen subtitled clips of news shows in Germany and France and there's some of the most heinous, flat out Nazi rhetoric I've ever seen.

I know this is Hasan's reaction to the debate between Shaprio and (bleak) Destiny, but I really don't want to watch this video on either of those morons' uploads, so here's the timestamp: 2:35:43

Now what do I mean by Shaprio making an actual Italian fascist's comment: I recall someone posting a link in regards to Italy's apartheid and genocide of Ethiopia in the 30's, and in that essay (article?) the writer mentioned an actual university student's demands of the Italian government that they not spend one Italian life killing the (if I recall the word he used correctly) beasts of Ethiopia. Shaprio is here saying that Israel shouldn't be playing so loose with their soldiers in Gaza.

These awful scumbags aren't trying to echo the words of fascists, but fascism is so deeply ingrained in them it just comes out naturally and they sound like fascists of old.

If anyone has a link to the article I mentioned, please post it here for folks to read it; honestly more people should read about the atrocities Mussolini committed in Ethiopia.

I wonder if the Nazis killed anyone in Soviet territory or did anything particularly heinous that would disgust anyone.

(I kind of wonder if Quora should be disallowed cause it's just easy pickings)

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Winston-Churchill-oppose-killing-SS-officers-after-the-war-Did-Stalin-want-them-dead-for-revenge-or-to-stop-a-future-Nazi-Germany

I don't like rust.

I don't like building a full building inch by inch. I don't like having to worry about eating too. I can't speak to Palworld, but I don't like rust's empty world, devoid of NPC's short of playing it coop with a lib. I don't like literally every tiny thing having to be crafted, especially with it having its own little crafting subsystems like crafting firewood for fuel for a furnace which crafts materials that are used in another crafted device to craft something else. I also despise crafting and working farms.

One of the few mercies this game offers is Pals to pick up the pace.

I'm going to give it a chance but I'm already going in expecting to be disappointed.

One simple improvement would be being able to just plop down full buildings, but I don't believe that's possible at all.