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HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

Tai posted:

lol thought someething new happened with loads of posts.

Nope thread still laughing at getting someone to drop $400 on av's because of :byetankie:

I think we're closer to $500 at this point, a bunch more got bought today lmao

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Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005




Lammasu posted:

How long of a prob would I get if I said Imperial Hillary is kind of sexy?

Why deny what is true?

ZogrimAteMyHamster
Dec 8, 2015

Lammasu posted:

How long of a prob would I get if I said Imperial Hillary is kind of sexy?

Stupid Sexy Space Admiral Hillary

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

Fabulous Knight posted:

I dunno, in the short term I just don't see Russia retreating full scale from all of Ukraine (minus Crimea and probably the rest of the areas they controlled pre-2022) like some are suggesting. Ukraine is making progress almost daily but Russia's hold on Ukraine's south seems far from being in danger of collapsing IMO.... unless they are really running out of resources behind the scenes and are just desperate to get out.

Yeah it's far more likely that we see a Vietnam ending and not an Afghanistan ending

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Fabulous Knight posted:

I dunno, in the short term I just don't see Russia retreating full scale from all of Ukraine (minus Crimea and probably the rest of the areas they controlled pre-2022) like some are suggesting. Ukraine is making progress almost daily but Russia's hold on Ukraine's south seems far from being in danger of collapsing IMO.... unless they are really running out of resources behind the scenes and are just desperate to get out.

They are doing damage control and trying for that famous "out" so that they can keep part of the stuff they stole while building their strength back up to get the rest when western focus shifts to unfucking its economy and climate disaster.

Maybe Macron loses another part of his spine and restarts his calls to Putin to broker a cease fire no-one wants?

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:

Stupid Sexy Space Admiral Hillary

I feel they are very flattering renditions

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

Sweaty IT Nerd posted:

I feel they are very flattering renditions

Uh excuse me did you miss the part where she's a space NAZI

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Toxic Mental posted:

Uh excuse me did you miss the part where she's a space NAZI

I guess that makes me a space nazi too

Von Pluring
Sep 19, 2003


Zelensky's Zealots
Pork Pro
It would take at least a russian war to make me start posting on this forum after all these years.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Der Kyhe posted:

Well, its still not US decision to make. Although for realpolitik, if such offer came through, a some sort cease fire akin to Korea might happen.

And I don't think its a good one for the Ukrainian effort, even if it wins the Donbass area back; Russia just starts to rebuild and we get to witness a retry in 10 years, unless NATO eases off the "no contested land"-requirement for Ukraine.

yeah if ukraine doesn't get its stolen territories back now it's never going to and i think every metaphorical crowned head in the room knows that. that's what makes this situation so tough to see an end to. due to putin and zelensky's untradeables, basically one of them has to not have a crown for peace to be achieved. neither of them are leaving power by timeout any time soon; ukrainians have suspended elections for a bunch of extremely good reasons, russians don't get elections regardless for extremely bad reasons. so who's gonna lose the crown and make peace possible? i have a lot of difficulty seeing NATO-aligned countries being OK with putin keeping a crown after all this bullshit, especially when, talking realpolitik, it costs them so very little.

tiaz
Jul 1, 2004

PICK UP THAT PRESENT.


Zelensky's Zealots

Oldsmobile posted:

I bet they're getting ready to say "we'll withdraw but we get to keep crimea" and have back channel assurances from the US that that'll be enough.

I dunno, the US posture has been pretty firmly "it's up to Ukraine"


Fabulous Knight posted:

I dunno, in the short term I just don't see Russia retreating full scale from all of Ukraine (minus Crimea and probably the rest of the areas they controlled pre-2022) like some are suggesting. Ukraine is making progress almost daily but Russia's hold on Ukraine's south seems far from being in danger of collapsing IMO.... unless they are really running out of resources behind the scenes and are just desperate to get out.

Collapses are slow until they're fast, so it's hard to say. I don't expect a Goodwill Gesture™ all that soon either, but I think it'll look normal-ish right up until the break.

Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

Coolguye posted:

i cannot do anything about your gang tags but i concur that your posts just loving look wrong without skeletor in play

PREPARE TO BE IMMORTAL



I don't get it. I don't see any difference

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Russia eat poo poo and get out of Ukraine

TEMPLE GRANDIN OS
Dec 10, 2003

...blyat

Von Pluring posted:

It would take at least a russian war to make me start posting on this forum after all these years.

cool crow av...shame if something tankened to it

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:

cool crow av...shame if something tankened to it

It would be Hillaryious if something happened to the old avatars of the goons posting here for commenting about it.

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

zone posted:


Bold of them to think they'll keep Crimea.

Is it my imagination or do they also intend to keep a chunk of Kherson?

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

Sweaty IT Nerd posted:

Russia eat poo poo and get out of Ukraine

When this country invades to Iraq replace the head of the government under false pretenses?: Horrible war crime, should have never happened.

When the former quasi-socialist autocracy invades Ukraine to replace the head of the government under false pretenses?:

poor waif
Apr 8, 2007
Kaboom

Tarkus posted:

Is it my imagination or do they also intend to keep a chunk of Kherson?

The big blob is the north Caucasus, the little blob appendage is Crimea. I don't see any Kherson in that picture.

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

Storkrasch posted:

The big blob is the north Caucasus, the little blob appendage is Crimea. I don't see any Kherson in that picture.

Ok, yeah, I see it. The map is odd, it's not aligned north to south or something or it's a tight-cropped spherical projection.

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005




Toxic Mental posted:

When this country invades to Iraq replace the head of the government under false pretenses?: Horrible war crime, should have never happened.

When the former quasi-socialist autocracy invades Ukraine to replace the head of the government under false pretenses?:



bUt WhAt AbOuT aMeRiCa?!?!

or "But America did thing....should be ok." (an actual argument someone made a few months back in this very thread).

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Nelson Mandingo posted:

bUt WhAt AbOuT aMeRiCa?!?!

or "But America did thing....should be ok." (an actual argument someone made a few months back in this very thread).

My personal favorite is "Ukrainians are so russofobic nowadays Russia just needs to defend its own interests...[wall of text]... and the entire thing is in any case USA's fault."

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006
i saw someone with absolute and complete seriousness say that Ukrainians not wanting to use Russian language is Ukrainian genocide of Russians

cant imagine why they dont!

pro starcraft loser
Jan 23, 2006

Stand back, this could get messy.

I wonder how many conscripted Russians could have gone on vacation with the Hildog fund?

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

pro starcraft loser posted:

I wonder how many conscripted Russians could have gone on vacation with the Hildog fund?

400 USD is about 37000 rubles which in turn is 360 euro's, and it seems that hotels in Sevastopol start from 40 per night.

So some lucky guy could have taken 9-night stay in hotel, or bring his 3 friends for a weekend there. The extra night goes to the captain who forged the paperwork.

EDIT: if they get a group with guns-discount that is easily one weekend off for one entire BMP.

Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jul 28, 2023

thekeeshman
Feb 21, 2007

Nelson Mandingo posted:

bUt WhAt AbOuT aMeRiCa?!?!

or "But America did thing....should be ok." (an actual argument someone made a few months back in this very thread).

People advocating for a multi-polar world seem to think it will mean less stupid invasions like Iraq, but what it really means is that instead of only the US being able to do stupid invasions, in a multi-polar world the US, China, Russia, and maybe India will all have the ability to invade other countries with impunity. The people who think a multi polar world will be more peaceful have literally no knowledge of human history from any era.

Kchama
Jul 25, 2007

thekeeshman posted:

People advocating for a multi-polar world seem to think it will mean less stupid invasions like Iraq, but what it really means is that instead of only the US being able to do stupid invasions, in a multi-polar world the US, China, Russia, and maybe India will all have the ability to invade other countries with impunity. The people who think a multi polar world will be more peaceful have literally no knowledge of human history from any era.

They only have a problem with the US and Europe doing things. Russia and China and other authoritarian hellmonsters doing invasions and genocides? They are super into that.

Bertha the Toaster
Jan 11, 2009
Its been less :byetankie: and more

Commodore_64
Feb 16, 2011

love thy likpa




Prettz posted:

Yes but guns are very short-range. They don't have enough to cover the major cities from even the slow Shaheds. It's crazy they're not being given more AA guns.

Well, since I was curious, I looked it up and it turns out they have an effective range of 5.5km, which is a whole lot more than I would have guessed! I absolutely agree they need more of them, but it sounds like Germany is already scouring the scrap yards for more of them to repair. I wonder if there are any comparable systems that countries are holding back on?

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Bertha the Toaster posted:

Its been less :byetankie: and more

I don't know what the intent was but Hill posting is pretty fun

SPERMCUBE.ORG
Nov 3, 2011

Space commies are th' biggest threat t' red-blooded American Freedom we got in th' future. So me and my boys got to talking over a few hot dogs the other day and this is what we came up with...

ZeusCannon posted:

It just occurred to me how much AI facilitates the posters who run amok with themed avs. Before they had to try a bit to find a full set, crop em etc. Now they just stuff "hillary but the empire lmao" into the prompt.

Even lower effort

In my day a man disappeared into the wilderness with nothing but a hatchet and his own sinew and returned with a handcrafted Hillary hewn from a live oak. If he returned at all.

Bone Crimes
Mar 7, 2007

:freep: :bahgawd: Death Star Trench Run ain't goin' away! :freep: :bahgawd:

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Bone Crimes posted:

:freep: :bahgawd: Death Star Trench Run ain't goin' away! :freep: :bahgawd:

As far as we know, UAF is doing the Trench Run as we speak!

poor waif
Apr 8, 2007
Kaboom

Kchama posted:

They only have a problem with the US and Europe doing things. Russia and China and other authoritarian hellmonsters doing invasions and genocides? They are super into that.

I think for leftists, the idea is that a multipolar world will result in the US and subsequently capitalism and globalism becoming weaker, improving chances for the glorious worker's revolution. Whether Russia or India or China or whatever are capitalist or not doesn't really matter, the US is seen as the guarantor of the current capitalist system. Russia fighting Ukraine just means that two capitalist countries are fighting, the only result that matters is whichever results in the US looking weak and bad.

It's why they want to end the war, but only as long as Russia gets everything it wants and the US looks weak. It's not that Russia is better than anyone else, it's just not the US. Ukraine must negotiate away its land and its sovereignty, since it will make the US look bad.

Deus Ex Macklemore
Jul 2, 2004


Zelensky's Zealots
LOL I made one post during the Hillening and now I lost my Goddamn Twin Peaks avatar that I made

DAMMMMMNNNN YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM






lol

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Flyinglemur posted:

LOL I made one post during the Hillening and now I lost my Goddamn Twin Peaks avatar that I made

DAMMMMMNNNN YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM






lol
Congrats.

My previous avatar with the green Lego man was given by a mod to replace the last one that I got thanks to our mentally ill friend. The :frogout: one before thar I've had since 2009.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



These avs are the only good use I've seen of AI yet

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Data Graham posted:

These avs are the only good use I've seen of AI yet

I like your AV Data Graham

SirJohanna
Nov 23, 2007

Data Graham posted:

These avs are the only good use I've seen of AI yet

Seconded. I generally detest AI generated slop, but in this case I’m making an exception.

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mcvey
Aug 31, 2006

go caps haha

*Washington Capitals #1 Fan On DeviantArt*
Any sexy hills going around

like surgically enhanced yknow

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