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Kikas posted:WHAT. Why did this happen oh nooooooo
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Is that the Opening Arguments Andrew or did another Andrew turned out to be a sex pest at the same time? Goddammit. E: never mind, just remembered that Andrew's last name was Torrez mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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Feb 28, 2023 16:49
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cinci zoo sniper posted:btw, xbone game pass is now broadly available in ee https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-pc-game-pass-40-new-countries-131022625.html They really want that Activision deal to go through it seems.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:btw, xbone game pass is now broadly available in ee https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-pc-game-pass-40-new-countries-131022625.html It took em 10 years to make EE equivalent to the rest of europe. I guess they really hate money huh
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TearsOfPirates posted:It took em 10 years to make EE equivalent to the rest of europe. you still can't create a psn account in latvia, and the official sony latvia dealership advice is to choose finland as the country, which gets extremely funny in that finland only has phone support on psn lol
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cinci zoo sniper posted:you still can't create a psn account in latvia, and the official sony latvia dealership advice is to choose finland as the country, which gets extremely funny in that finland only has phone support on psn lol .... And is that support in... Finnish?
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Feb 28, 2023 22:40
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In EE we already have a games subscription service, it's called 
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OddObserver posted:.... And is that support in... Finnish? i forgot to call during the refund window of a game i wasn't sure i wanted to buy in the end
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fatherboxx posted:Today in what Russian cops bother with to not get sent to the Bakhmut trenches - they have started a crackdown on teenagers affiliated with the fearsome Ryodan PMC Now Belarus, too! 200 detained in Homiel alone (~500k population). Nothing in Minsk for some reason.
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Oh boy. I wonder if this will cross over to Poland. Manga and anime are so huge all of the sudden here. The few tiny comic stores that held on for the past 20 years in Warsaw are suddenly expanding into neighboring spaces and it’s all filled with manga, not to mention the numerous Korean and Japanese specialty stores popping up. Best I can tell, this started a few years ago with the K-pop invasion and Netflix carpet bombing the media sphere with Korean soaps, and then the youths (  ) sort of drifting into the manga area that’s been around for the past 20 years, albeit in a tiny form.
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Mokotow posted:Oh boy. I wonder if this will cross over to Poland. A fun fact to know here is that France is the second-largest manga market after Japan. This could very well be the French industrial-weeb complex moving into Poland.
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The Franco-Belgian Axis has had a very healthy comic scene for a long time. I would not be surprised to find a vibrant banlieue manga youth subculture, undoubtedly very scary to France's upper class twits.
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btw for all the lurking latvians, there's a small change for tax filing this year https://lvportals.lv/skaidrojumi/349442-2022-gada-ienakumu-deklaracija-jaunums-jasniedz-informacija-par-veselibas-apdrosinasanas-ligumu-2023 quote:Jautājums:
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I wonder how much of the whole Ryodan thing is just a moral panic like the Blue Whale death cult everyone was so terrified of several years ago. What is factual so far is that there was a brawl in Moscow between football fans and anime fans, where anime fans managed to hold their own quite well. Then, it looks like, they ironically adopted the PMC name to celebrate the fact they were the ones beating someone up for once, and that maybe attracted anime fans from all over ex-USSR to their shitposting group. The rest, like planning attacks on immigrants or promoting suicide, I haven't seen any evidence of that, not even screenshots from vk/tg. Maybe I missed something, but I begin to think it's nothing more than teenagers who lack parental control doing cringey poo poo online and hanging out with other kids from their subculture. Considering some anime titles (like DeathNote, Inuyasha, Tokyo Ghoul, etc.) are banned in Russia for promoting suicide and LGBT ideology, it only makes sense that the police would see any publicly rowdy anime fans as dangerous terrorists. And since it all started in Russia, it also makes sense that in Ukraine the police would treat it as part of Russian hybrid warfare.
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Paladinus posted:I wonder how much of the whole Ryodan thing is just a moral panic like the Blue Whale death cult everyone was so terrified of several years ago. What is factual so far is that there was a brawl in Moscow between football fans and anime fans, where anime fans managed to hold their own quite well. Then, it looks like, they ironically adopted the PMC name to celebrate the fact they were the ones beating someone up for once, and that maybe attracted anime fans from all over ex-USSR to their shitposting group. The rest, like planning attacks on immigrants or promoting suicide, I haven't seen any evidence of that, not even screenshots from vk/tg. Maybe I missed something, but I begin to think it's nothing more than teenagers who lack parental control doing cringey poo poo online and hanging out with other kids from their subculture. Considering some anime titles (like DeathNote, Inuyasha, Tokyo Ghoul, etc.) are banned in Russia for promoting suicide and LGBT ideology, it only makes sense that the police would see any publicly rowdy anime fans as dangerous terrorists. And since it all started in Russia, it also makes sense that in Ukraine the police would treat it as part of Russian hybrid warfare. Yeah, this looks like 2ch meme gone irl to me. Edgy/semi-topical reason to have some strelkas and to just hang out.
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https://twitter.com/kos_data/status/1630604130560405508 Seems legit.
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i, for one, welcome giant Iceland moving across the sea, apparently reviving the commonwealth, and conquering anatolia and spain
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This is amazing on so many levels. Smallithuania Ukraine being unaligned, but Crimea being part of the European Alliance (and no longer under Russian control) Austroslovakia Robmania The Scots apparently conquering the rest of the UK, apart from NI which joins the Republic Bulgreece The Yugo-Danish Union!!! I hope you posted this in the politically loaded maps thread, op!
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The Latvian Empire.
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Torrannor posted:I hope you posted this in the politically loaded maps thread, op! I nicked it from the awful/funny graphs thread, I think  My theory is that the status of Crimea is connected to the devastated Istanbul and east Balkans coast
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Mr. Apollo posted:The Latvian Empire. 6 > 5
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In the end, it's not even a ridiculous map if you think what the political map of Europe looked like in 1914 or 1923 compared to today. Just more of the shoreline should be under water.
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that one american company i had to deal business with last year that still had yugoslavian office listed in their contacts book might jus be biding its time after all
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Nenonen posted:In the end, it's not even a ridiculous map if you think what the political map of Europe looked like in 1914 or 1923 compared to today. Just more of the shoreline should be under water. This post is so American it brought a gun to school
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So Finland finally does the welfare trick where we declare a war to Norway on a Norwegian bank holiday morning, and surrender the same afternoon demanding to be fully annexed. EDIT: Shame that the Danish went with Yugoslavia, we could have had a sweet "No Sweden" Union going on. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:A fun fact to know here is that France is the second-largest manga market after Japan. This could very well be the French industrial-weeb complex moving into Poland. Is that why Dragon Ball Z in our TV had (atrocious) French opening and French dubbing. (with Piccolo name changed to "Satan Little Heart" for some reason)
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Torrannor posted:Ukraine being unaligned, but Crimea being part of the European Alliance (and no longer under Russian control) This is a plot of 1981 book Crimea Island where thanks to being a proper island it becomes Russian Taiwan after the Civil War
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I think those "Non-aligned" is some shorthand for "boooooring" instead of Yuuge Smallithuania. Has Germany border moved?
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alex314 posted:I think those "Non-aligned" is some shorthand for "boooooring" instead of Yuuge Smallithuania. Has Germany border moved? Not that I can see, the borders look to be unchanged.
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https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/arzemes/moldovas-parlaments-atbalsta-jedziena-rumanu-valoda-ieviesanu-visos-oficialajos-dokumentos.a499053/ Huh, this is kind-of a bombshell, really. The Moldovan government has voted to do away with the term “Moldovan language”, meaning that the de jure official language of Moldova is now Romanian, and so on.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/arzemes/moldovas-parlaments-atbalsta-jedziena-rumanu-valoda-ieviesanu-visos-oficialajos-dokumentos.a499053/ To add some context, Moldovan IS Romanian (or, if you're so inclined, a language so close to Romanian that a lot of native speakers won't always be able to tell the difference). The differences between the two are no bigger than between American and British English. However, politically speaking, there's obviously agenda behind what you call the language, same as with Serbo-Croatian/ Serbo-Croat-Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, for example. Calling it Moldovan was something that the Soviet government pushed for to foster a fully separate national identity on previously Romanian territories. There's a whole different conversation to be had about historical justifications for that, let's just say it's not as clear-cut as 'the Soviets made up the Moldavan identity', but it was something they used to achieve their own goals in the region. How the language is called now is not neatly mapped to political views either, plus people often use the terms interchangeably, but broadly speaking, insisting on calling it Moldovan is associated more with pro-Russian leanings, while insisting on calling it Romanian signifies leaning towards EU (and possibly unification with Romania).
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Paladinus posted:To add some context, Moldovan IS Romanian (or, if you're so inclined, a language so close to Romanian that a lot of native speakers won't always be able to tell the difference). The differences between the two are no bigger than between American and British English. However, politically speaking, there's obviously agenda behind what you call the language, same as with Serbo-Croatian/ Serbo-Croat-Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, for example. Calling it Moldovan was something that the Soviet government pushed for to foster a fully separate national identity on previously Romanian territories. There's a whole different conversation to be had about historical justifications for that, let's just say it's not as clear-cut as 'the Soviets made up the Moldavan identity', but it was something they used to achieve their own goals in the region. How the language is called now is not neatly mapped to political views either, plus people often use the terms interchangeably, but broadly speaking, insisting on calling it Moldovan is associated more with pro-Russian leanings, while insisting on calling it Romanian signifies leaning towards EU (and possibly unification with Romania). obligatory companion explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9RJQPZsj8E
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:obligatory companion explanation: "have any smokes? and if i find them?" lmao
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Paladinus posted:To add some context, Moldovan IS Romanian (or, if you're so inclined, a language so close to Romanian that a lot of native speakers won't always be able to tell the difference). The differences between the two are no bigger than between American and British English. However, politically speaking, there's obviously agenda behind what you call the language, same as with Serbo-Croatian/ Serbo-Croat-Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, for example. Calling it Moldovan was something that the Soviet government pushed for to foster a fully separate national identity on previously Romanian territories. There's a whole different conversation to be had about historical justifications for that, let's just say it's not as clear-cut as 'the Soviets made up the Moldavan identity', but it was something they used to achieve their own goals in the region. How the language is called now is not neatly mapped to political views either, plus people often use the terms interchangeably, but broadly speaking, insisting on calling it Moldovan is associated more with pro-Russian leanings, while insisting on calling it Romanian signifies leaning towards EU (and possibly unification with Romania). "The territory of modern Moldova, excluding Transnistria, was part of Romania until 1940" Wait, really? *checks internet* Transnistria was originally part of... Ukraine?
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nm, you were correct, 1924-40 Transnistria was autonomous republic within Ukrainian SSR
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Elections happened in Estonia. I don't know know poo poo aside from what I read on Twitter, but EKRE lost seats which can only be good.
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a podcast for cats posted:Elections happened in Estonia. I don't know know poo poo aside from what I read on Twitter, but EKRE lost seats which can only be good. People were fretting over EKRE seeming ascendant a few months earlier, and pundits weren't sure if they needed to be pricing a silent majority of Russian speakers somewhere. What ended up happening is that Kallas's party increased shares, and another liberal party swung up 9 percentage points, meaning that Kallas has 2 different options that each get her a ~45% coalition stub to sprinkle with one or two more parties.
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EKRE immediately brought out the familiar Trumpian talking points, talking about how they plan to challenge the results in court and and that they do not recognize the current results. Feels to me like they mainly got hosed by their gutless "we are not for Ukraine or for Russia, we are for peace" stance and picking fights with the commander of our defence forces. https://twitter.com/MikeCalamus/status/1632479088639352832 lol https://twitter.com/JaakMadison/status/1629233332113350657 lmao  cinci zoo sniper posted:One notable thing, I guess, would be that more than 50% of voters did cast their vote digitally.
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