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Tonga has deployed the Tsar Bomba….that or someone pissed off Haku. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Jan 15, 2022 |
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The gods have angered this man. Pray they do not anger him further.
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Jan 15, 2022 16:41
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Someone's gonna have to volunteer to please that man
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Jan 15, 2022 16:46
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my face after a night of beer and pizza
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Jan 15, 2022 16:48
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:The gods have angered this man. Ahem. https://youtu.be/DaHLgerU5o8
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Jan 15, 2022 16:55
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Haku has to pass on his crown at some point. Olympic flag bearing man is a worthy successor in terms of media exposure. Who doesn't remember that from Rio? When I saw Tonga in my newsfeed this morning, dude was the first thing I remembered about the place.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:04
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That's a big earth zit
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Jan 15, 2022 17:06
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The ending to The Expanse show was really confusing. Are we really not getting another season or a movie or something? They spent all that time building up the Laconia plot towards the very end. I've got the book to read so I'm glad people are saying it wraps things up well.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:07
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Haku has to pass on his crown at some point. Olympic flag bearing man is a worthy successor in terms of media exposure. Who doesn't remember that from Rio? But can he rip a guys eye out with his hand in a bar fight? Yes, he’s from Tonga, and much like Samoa, you don’t mess with guys from the Pacific Islands, so far point.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:10
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The current king of Tonga’s dad personally lead an expedition to reclaim the Minvera Reefs from a bunch of libertarians.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:12
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Not really spoiling anything if you want to read the books, it would be VERY hard to continue the series: there is a 30 year time jump between this book and the next
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Jan 15, 2022 17:13
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Platystemon posted:The current king’s dad personally lead an expedition to reclaim the Minvera Reefs from a bunch of libertarians. I don’t like Royalty…but King Toga ruled. 
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Jan 15, 2022 17:13
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Carteret posted:Not really spoiling anything if you want to read the books, it would be VERY hard to continue the series: there is a 30 year time jump between this book and the next I figured that was a place where the show could diverge further from the books and roll into another season but I guess not.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:16
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Milo and POTUS posted:It really is shocking to me that the mafia hasn't tried to expand more into legitimate businesses over the years. I know the cartels have diversified into very strange or at least atypical avenues Now they make their millions like proper American capitalists, on the backs of the working class and through stock market bullshit 
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Jan 15, 2022 17:25
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I know of at least one Italian luxury manufacturer who fell on hard times and was offered a cash infusion by some Sicilian gentlemen. I am sworn to secrecy as to the details, but it happens. This guy turned them down, no hard feelings.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:29
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bird food bathtub posted:loving reality just making the wildest fiction look dumb. Nobody who wrote cyberpunk said "and the first armed contender in the corporate wars was a package delivery company." Nobody would believe that in a novel it's supposed to be some shadowy international mercenaries-for-hire group or a defense R&D company. William Gibson posted:Cyberspace, as described in Neuromancer, is nothing at all like the Internet that we live with, which consists mostly of utterly banal and silly stuff. much like my posting I do feel like Snow Crash was the most accurate portrayal though.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:48
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Thwomp posted:The sound of the eruption captured from Fiji, more than 500 miles away. Awfully suspicious that this person was ready with their camera rolling right when it exploded. With all the Russia-Ukrainian false flag op talk going around.. I’d be very skeptical about this being naturally occurring.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:54
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piL posted:much like my posting Oh god that book is so cringe in 2022. Listen to the audiobook sometime, it’ll make you physically uncomfortable. Particularly the statutory rape and poo poo. But yeah, it is by far the most spot on accurate portrayal.
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Jan 15, 2022 17:56
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Blind Rasputin posted:Awfully suspicious that this person was ready with their camera rolling right when it exploded. With all the Russia-Ukrainian false flag op talk going around.. I’d be very skeptical about this being naturally occurring. 😂 No.  just loving no.😂
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Jan 15, 2022 17:58
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bird food bathtub posted:loving reality just making the wildest fiction look dumb. Nobody who wrote cyberpunk said "and the first armed contender in the corporate wars was a package delivery company." Nobody would believe that in a novel it's supposed to be some shadowy international mercenaries-for-hire group or a defense R&D company. piL posted:
 SnowCrash was parody of Neuromancer but ended up with the ludicrous plot of an armed delivery driver losing his job because he was late because his boss was GPS tracking the company delivery vehicle through corporate housing slums. It sounds completely plausible now, gently caress...
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Jan 15, 2022 18:02
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Haku has to pass on his crown at some point. Olympic flag bearing man is a worthy successor in terms of media exposure. Who doesn't remember that from Rio? I went to high school in CA with an unusually high percentage of islanders from Tonga and Samoa. In fact our varsity defensive line was heavier than the NFL average. In peace the kindest most friendliest cultures. We even tried to take our honeymoon in American Samoa but it’s simply to far and too much money. I hope that because American Samoa exists that the area will get the relief they may need in the coming months. Just don’t pick a fight with one. Even if you think you may have a chance they always have a brother, cousin or uncle who’s just a little bit bigger.
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Crab Dad posted:I went to high school in CA with an unusually high percentage of islanders from Tonga and Samoa. In fact our varsity defensive line was heavier than the NFL average. In peace the kindest most friendliest cultures. We even tried to take our honeymoon in American Samoa but it’s simply to far and too much money. I hope that because American Samoa exists that the area will get the relief they may need in the coming months. I played rugby in college and a lot of Samoans learn rugby before american football / are pretty big into it. A couple of guys in our club were previously there at the school to play football and either ran out of eligibility or got cut due to grades or whatever. I was in really good shape in college, like 6ft 220 <10% body fat kinda deal and was very fast for an amateur. Then the 2 samoans joined mid-season and both were like 6'4" 240 and could run a 4.6 forty yard and bench like 375 and poo poo, just absolute beasts, both were linebackers at our DI school. It was loving brutal going up against those guys in tackling drills. Outside of practice they were fun as poo poo to hang out with, would literally do anything to help anyone. Going out to bars though... poo poo. Those dudes just loved to get drunk and fight, just sucker punch a dude and be smiling about it. We got in so much loving trouble because of those two but drat it was a lot of fun too.
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Jan 15, 2022 18:10
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Seriously the stories I’ve heard of pacific islanders who were professional wrestlers and people tried to be racist assholes to them or test them at the bar, oh boy talk about mistakes in ones life choices. Very large mistakes indeed. Conversely also wonderful people with a strong sense of family.
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Jan 15, 2022 18:44
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Tiny Timbs posted:I figured that was a place where the show could diverge further from the books and roll into another season but I guess not. Probably Clarissa having 5 years to live according to the Autodoc in the show makes me think they'll pick up season 7 about 5 years after the end of season 6. While not the 30 year gap between the two, it makes sense from a story telling point. Laconia did build up their military strength in the 30 years between book 6 and 7 and the colonies were able to build up, but from a narrative perspective I don't think anything is lost from having the time gap reduced.
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Jan 15, 2022 18:46
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We made our post rugby practice bar the one across from the strip club in Reno that was frequented by all the biker gangs, Hells Angels and whoever else with swastikas and white power tats. I was always the smallest one since I was just a 200 lb white boy so everyone would gently caress with me over the islanders but that was only the first night we were there cause the team captain put someone down with one punch. Everyone wanted to talk racist poo poo at matches but not within hearing of them.
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Jan 15, 2022 18:49
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Tiny Timbs posted:The ending to The Expanse show was really confusing. Are we really not getting another season or a movie or something? They spent all that time building up the Laconia plot towards the very end. On top of what has already been said - The Expanse is a VERY expensive show to produce and we're lucky we got a 6th season as it stood. SyFy couldn't justify continuing past season 3, as most viewers *bought* the show versus watching on SyFy through cable. That was the justification for Amazon to pick up 4/5 (plus Bezos liked the show). Negotiations for Season 6 were the friendly-but-rocky type - Alcon/Expanse folks quoted a super-high price to make a normal season, Amazon was like ehhhhhh, then everyone eventually agreed that 6 episodes was the BARE minimum they could do to wrap up the story (plus a few vingnettes). That said, the showrunners/writers have been very clear that they don't want another Save The Expanse effort or Amazon Studios getting badgered about it. That has essentially put the series into hiatus rather than completely over, but the actors involved have already been released to do other projects and stuff and books 7-9 might be a bit... hard to put on screen  Edit: oh and two days ago, the less-talkative writer even mentioned that "discussions are ongoing about other stuff we can't talk about yet" and randomly there's going to be a Telltale prequel game about Drummer, starring Cara Gee. So this all feels dramatically different than the SyFy cancellation. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Jan 15, 2022 |
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Jan 15, 2022 18:51
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Blind Rasputin posted:Awfully suspicious that this person was ready with their camera rolling right when it exploded. With all the Russia-Ukrainian false flag op talk going around.. I’d be very skeptical about this being naturally occurring. The Krakatoa eruption was heard 3,000 miles away and sent pressure waves that went around the entire world several times, and people knew about it back in 1883. It’s entirely reasonable that people would know when the sound would hit and be outside to film it.
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Jan 15, 2022 19:19
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Blind Rasputin posted:Awfully suspicious that this person was ready with their camera rolling right when it exploded. With all the Russia-Ukrainian false flag op talk going around.. I’d be very skeptical about this being naturally occurring. Even Russia isn't stupid enough to take on a bunch of angry Tongans
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Jan 15, 2022 19:29
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Holy loving lol https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1482027800496377858?t=WEOfJe0Xf1acDEBWpSJAmA&s=19
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Jan 15, 2022 19:42
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For any country with any industry at all those probably shouldn't be too difficult to make right?
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Seriously the stories I’ve heard of pacific islanders who were professional wrestlers and people tried to be racist assholes to them or test them at the bar, oh boy talk about mistakes in ones life choices. Very large mistakes indeed. Probably 2/3 of my fun college stories start in our local bar in the woods in Northern Louisiana surrounded by a bunch of rednecks and one of them gives a dirty look or says something to a Samoan roughly 25% bigger than him. The second act is also always the same, a Samoan smiling laughing yelling and usually one shotting a redneck into the floor. I really hated living there but those guys made it a lot of fun and I will always love them for that and miss them still.
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Jan 15, 2022 20:00
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I just finished The Expanse season 2. It's growing on me and I mostly like the show but Holden is still one of the most annoying characters I've ever watched in a show. More people need to punch him in the face, and keep on punching him until he shuts the gently caress up. How is this guy the leader???
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Jan 15, 2022 20:03
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Bored As gently caress posted:Holy loving lol IDGI
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When we were in Iraq, the IRGC gave Shiite militias those copper things which are EFPs or Explosively Formed Penetrators, which essentially negate almost any kind of armor protection that most vehicles have by turning the copper into a white hot plasma that penetrates the armor and kills the people inside. You put the explosive behind the EFP and boom, the copper does the rest. That's my non EOD dumbed down understanding of it. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/soleimanis-legacy-the-gruesome-high-tech-ieds-that-haunted-u-s-troops-in-iraq/ quote:The weapons, compact but potent, are deployed against armored vehicles in a way similar to traditional IEDs but are much deadlier and more effective, Castner said. But they are also more complex and difficult to produce. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/01/03/soleimanis-legacy-gruesome-high-tech-ieds-that-haunted-us-troops-iraq/ Calibre Obscura is making a joke saying that there's probably going to be a lot of those being made by Ukraine for their guys to make IEDs that'll to go up against Russian armored vehicles. Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Jan 15, 2022 |
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Jan 15, 2022 20:28
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator#Use_in_improvised_explosive_devices Edit: gently caress, penetrated.
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Mustang posted:I just finished The Expanse season 2. It's growing on me and I mostly like the show but Holden is still one of the most annoying characters I've ever watched in a show. More people need to punch him in the face, and keep on punching him until he shuts the gently caress up. How is this guy the leader??? the purpose of his character is to be punchable but also keep accidentally winding up in the right place to save the universe
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Jan 15, 2022 20:39
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https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1482436739738316801 Ugggghhhh I hope this ends peacefully for the sake of everyone in there
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Jan 15, 2022 20:40
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Well gently caress...
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Mustang posted:I just finished The Expanse season 2. It's growing on me and I mostly like the show but Holden is still one of the most annoying characters I've ever watched in a show. More people need to punch him in the face, and keep on punching him until he shuts the gently caress up. How is this guy the leader??? Just end your journey into the expanse here, because you’re not gonna be happier if you don’t. Though there are some Amos story arc only episodes later that are good. That’s it though, you’ll hate yourself for the rest IMHO.
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Let me guess, white male, 30s-40s, christian, probably baptist. Guys, I'm starting to think religion is a huge part of the problem.
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