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Shumagorath posted:This feels like a good time to ask about that rail gun. the munition was sped down the rail as expected but due to cha bu duo the barrel tapered at the front so the forward velocity yanked the entire artillery off the duct tape strapping it to the deck, and it fell into the sea
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Tupperwarez posted:Next time? Why are you thinking about money that you don't have yet? I have the money from the transaction NOW. Look, I know you have many bad foreigner ideas about business, so let me explain how to do business correctly:  
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Speaking of space programs https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/large-chunks-of-a-chinese-rocket-missed-new-york-city-by-about-15-minutes/
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Grand Fromage posted:That is actually a leftover of a dropped plot (like half of the original DX design was cut) where that mass driver was being controlled by an AI that went out of control or was becoming part of the MJ-12/Illuminati conflict, I don't know that they ever figured out exactly. But that part of the game had some work done on it before it was cut, the interiors of Area 51 were originally the moon base. Have you been in the thread for it in Games? It was made for the games tenth anniversary. It just turned 10. 
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Have you been in the thread for it in Games? Not only have I been there, I have been posting in it since 2010. 
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Grand Fromage posted:Not only have I been there, I have been posting in it since 2010. I think my first post on this site is there. gently caress I’m old.
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May 13, 2020 05:53
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I think my first post on this site is there. I was never properly trained in shitposting.
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May 13, 2020 05:55
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Grand Fromage posted:I was never properly trained in shitposting. It’s dangerous to shitpoat in the canals at night!
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May 13, 2020 05:56
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Grand Fromage posted:I like space exploration and China becoming a player in it is good, more rockets is better. With space junk being the problem it is and China's fantastic record when it comes to the commons, I can't really say I feel the same.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s dangerous to shitpoat in the canals at night! I... am not... a shitposte--
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Grand Fromage posted:I... am not... a shitposte-- Make your best post, craplander goonan.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s dangerous to shitpoat in the canals at night! NOT ADVISABLE U MAEK A BIG MISTAKE HOMEBOOOOIIIII
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Shumagorath posted:NOT ADVISABLE Fuuuuuuck how did I mess that up? It’s what I get for not going with the easy “OH my god JC- A Shitpost!” E: maybe because Louis Pan is always floating in said canals within minutes when I play? Kid sucks. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 06:19 on May 13, 2020 |
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May 13, 2020 06:17
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Grand Fromage posted:I'm honestly not sure why their program is so slow to advance. They'll launch a mission that shows progress on something, then just... nothing for years. Success is such a flagrant break of established procedure that they reflexively initiate a round of purges for everyone involved.
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May 13, 2020 06:28
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WarpedNaba posted:With space junk being the problem it is and China's fantastic record when it comes to the commons, I can't really say I feel the same. They'd Kessler Syndrome all the useful orbits just to be contrarian if pushed. In the interim, BIG CHINA #1 WIN! New satellite in space! Only 54265 traceable fragments in orbit when explode!
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May 13, 2020 06:29
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Grand Fromage posted:I'm honestly not sure why their program is so slow to advance. They'll launch a mission that shows progress on something, then just... nothing for years. Progress isn't the point, the point is owning the laowai
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May 13, 2020 06:36
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I love that in Gravity the offending country that blows up the satellite is Russia even though China was the only country that did that And then the whole China to the rescue plot at the end lol
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May 13, 2020 06:37
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Alan Smithee posted:I love that in Gravity the offending country that blows up the satellite is Russia even though China was the only country that did that They would miss out on that sweet sweet international market money if they showed reality instead of pro-China pandering.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:They would miss out on that sweet sweet international market money if they showed reality instead of pro-China pandering. Did The Martian have the pandering in the novel?
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Blistex posted:Did The Martian have the pandering in the novel? I haven't read it but I'm gonna go with a big fat NO.
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Blistex posted:Did The Martian have the pandering in the novel? I don't think it even mentions the Chinese in a role other than 'briefly, in passing'.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I think my first post on this site is there. OLD MEN. ARE THE FUTURE.
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<The running and grunting noises of guys you tranq-darted / pepper bombed except it's from week-old rice and I'm making GBS threads everywhere>
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Porfiriato posted:I'm not sure who did this one but there's a guy who's been doing a few of these on Youtube that look much better in my opinion. Looked into it a little bit more, the print was scanned by professionals with legit gear. It helps that he didn't brutalise it by turning everything to max leaving in the flaws that add to the experience. The interpolation doesn't have that cheap greasy soap opera feel. This guy obviously understands art while the other ran a bunch of filters.
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Rime posted:Remember when China dropped a Long March on a village by accident when they blew up their launch facilities in the 90's, and the response was to wipe away any evidence the village existed and pretend they didn't kill several hundred people? And how they sifted through the wreckage to try and steal tech off the satellite they blew up on the pad? And were banned from being used as a commercial launch partner for decades afterwards as a result? Intelsat. PRC probably didn't get anything from the satellite but managed to glean a fair bit from the independent investigation to improve their rockets as the Chinese investigation was hosed as expected. Because of that the US put in the ban that still stands. A good read. https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/disaster-at-xichang-2873673/ quote:The cause of the accident was eventually traced to the rocket’s flight control system, but not before a military official on the Chinese launch team tried to shift the blame elsewhere. Campbell recalls that he “came in, thanked everybody for great friendship and cooperation, and said that ‘Everybody knows that when you light the rocket it goes straight up, so, obviously, outside influences had an effect.’ We all tried not to laugh.” China hosed a launch a month ago destroying the satellite. No villages destroyed. https://satelliteprome.com/news/chinese-rocket-fails-during-launch-of-indonesian-satellite/
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oohhboy posted:Intelsat. PRC probably didn't get anything from the satellite but managed to glean a fair bit from the independent investigation to improve their rockets as the Chinese investigation was hosed as expected. Because of that the US put in the ban that still stands. A good read. quote:n October 1994, Bruce Campbell, a safety specialist with Astrotech Space Operations, based near Cape Canaveral, Florida, boarded an airliner in the Chinese city of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.
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Chabuduo mart is cheaper
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Kharnifex posted:Chabuduo mart is cheaper Tupperwarez fucked around with this message at 09:31 on May 13, 2020 |
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If he hadn't, though, Brock Samson might never have been. Although I'm willing to ignore that if it means I never have to think of Borderlands again.
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Fojar38 posted:Progress isn't the point, the point is owning the laowai Yet, they aren't owning anybody. Blistex posted:Did The Martian have the pandering in the novel? The China rocket sequence is in the novel, but in the book it's more explicit that China has NASA over a barrel and will not help unless NASA gives them a slot on the next Mars mission. So it's realistic, not pandering.
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Grand Fromage posted:Yet, they aren't owning anybody. As I recall this is made explicit in the Chinese dialog in the movie, so they're arguably not overly pandering to the target pandering audience
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Grand Fromage posted:Yet, they aren't owning anybody. Correct, but remember how insane Chinese insecurity is about everything. Meeting the absolute bare minimum is considered a glorious victory in China's inevitable rise
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Also it's pretty great that 2020, the year that was supposed to be the Year Of Chinese Ascension has so far resulting in China inflicting a plague on the world and causing fire and brimstone to rain from the heavens
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Fojar38 posted:Also it's pretty great that 2020, the year that was supposed to be the Year Of Chinese Ascension has so far resulting in China inflicting a plague on the world and causing fire and brimstone to rain from the heavens Doing your best to drag everyone else down to your level is a kind of ascension
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Magna Kaser posted:I thought many people unironically liked huawei's android phones and think they‘re about the best android ones on the market? i'm a dumb fruit phone user so I cannot comment. Huawei circa 2016-2017 actually had really good Android phones from a hardware standpoint for mid-grade prices. OnePlus is the new title-holder there with Huawei's downfall in international markets, but even OnePlus is realizing they can (and as of this generation of phones, are) charging higher prices more in line with flagship series from Apple/Google/Samsung. This is all based off of me reading Ars phone reviews so take it with a big ol' grain of salt.
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Fojar38 posted:Also it's pretty great that 2020, the year that was supposed to be the Year Of Chinese Ascension has so far resulting in China inflicting a plague on the world and causing fire and brimstone to rain from the heavens This whole thing has accelerated the decline of American hegemony by like a decade, so I'd say it's looking pretty good for them
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LimburgLimbo posted:As I recall this is made explicit in the Chinese dialog in the movie, so they're arguably not overly pandering to the target pandering audience iirc in the movie China didn't want to help because their rocket was super secret tech they didn't want to get "Stolen" and the other Chinese official counters that how great and generous China would look if they provided the rocket. That scene likely played well in China and made sense to them but it was pretty cringe as it made them assholes angling for an advantage. Fairly faithful to China attitude as seen with the current pandemic. Asking for a mission slot to Mars is a lot better.
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tractor fanatic posted:This whole thing has accelerated the decline of American hegemony by like a decade, so I'd say it's looking pretty good for them 0.50 RMB has been deposited into your account, Zhang. Thank you for your service.
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