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eating an aloo paratha. pretty good for frozen food but nothing compared to a fresh one
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Nov 13, 2015 03:41
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nutranurse posted:annie's? no, it's a made-in-India brand
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Nov 13, 2015 04:38
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my eu4 books won't balance. life ruined
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Nov 13, 2015 17:03
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Luigi Thirty posted:how I'm playing ayutthaya with pretensions at being a world power. lovely provinces and tech
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Nov 13, 2015 17:08
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Luigi Thirty posted:Ayutthaya is ridiculously wealthy though unless they nerfed the Bukkhara trade node (you did conquer Bukkhara right) I was using the Malacca node, I assume that's what you mean? I'm doing ok in trade but I just can't keep up a colonial empire and a fearsome army in addition to all my inflation and loans
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Nov 13, 2015 17:19
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Luigi Thirty posted:yeah Malacca. you need to conquer as much of the island chain as you can before expanding outward to lock up all the cash from gold and spices. What are you trying to colonize from Thailand? I westernized via Africa -> Brazil, now I have colonies in Colombia, Mexico, Louisiana, Eastern US, and California too. Honestly I'm doing pretty well it's just that my finances have been stretched by inflation and loans
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Nov 13, 2015 17:59
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Luigi Thirty posted:oh I never tried to expand the Thai empire that much, I was content hoovering up the remains of Ming China, colonizing the Pacific, and conquering India I kind of colonize reflexively at this point, it's not that important but it can come in useful and I like seeing the map get painted
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Nov 13, 2015 18:05
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I ordered a pretty d&d board game. It's called Cuba Libre and it's a 4-player wargame about Castro's insurgency. I bet I end up playing it alone a lot
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Nov 14, 2015 14:08
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I have Twilight Struggle already, it's a really good design. I've been interested in the COIN games too, for their diplomacy and cool settings.
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Nov 14, 2015 14:33
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Alligator Horse posted:I have friends who are super into board games and do the whole WBC thing but I don't live near enough to them to do the monthly get-togethers. It's a bummer. All I've got at my house is Smash Up. I can get people to play fare like Puerto Rico, but a 3+ hour wargame is a hard sell around here.
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Nov 14, 2015 15:13
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The Warszawa posted:watch a most violent year is it pretty violent?
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Nov 14, 2015 23:38
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I tried a Bush-Powell ticket and went mostly moderate, but I couldn't make Florida or Pennsylvania like me and lost. Vindication for arch-conservatives everywhere.
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Nov 15, 2015 08:11
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what's with caring about UFC fights
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Nov 15, 2015 08:36
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:At what point do terrorist attacks become commonplace enough that we stop giving a gently caress, like how we don't give a gently caress about car accidents or school shootings? Judging by the example of Iraq in 2005 or so, it doesn't take too many before it's just background noise.
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Nov 15, 2015 08:38
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well of course evilweasel thinks that meatless days at the cafeteria means jackbooted thugs stuffing tofu down our throats
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Nov 15, 2015 13:00
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pretty quick on the trigger there exclamation marx!
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Nov 15, 2015 14:01
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so what's the deal with Myanmar/Burma these days? Is the military actually going to step aside as promised? There's also a zillion insurgent groups fighting civil wars, which hopefully a new administration could deal with in a non-awful way
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Nov 15, 2015 14:05
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kustomkarkommando posted:Don't the military have a reserved share of like 25% seats in parliament? I don't know much about Burma but it seems the NLD seem to be deliberately playing it very safe in regards to keeping within the bounds set by the military which is probably smart enough. Yeah, from my understanding the NLD has switched to mainly cooperating with the military, which seems pragmatic under the circumstances. It does look like they have a commanding majority, at least on paper: 
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Nov 15, 2015 17:10
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Is Fallout 4 like Fallout 3 (a bad game for dorks)?
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Nov 15, 2015 20:04
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Aeryk posted:Do you enjoy shooting raiders? If so fallout 4 is for you. I enjoyed New Vegas because the designers remembered to put in stuff like "coherent themes" and "visual design"
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Nov 15, 2015 21:31
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Shear Modulus posted:what's the current Smart Person consensus on whether al Baghdadi actually exists/is alive I'm sure Brown Moses will clear it all up soon
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Nov 15, 2015 22:37
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How can you rewatch any of the prequels, they were so painful to sit through
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Nov 15, 2015 23:27
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Badger of Basra posted:i remember thinking 3 was awful but i'm pretty sure i liked 2 All I remember is wooden characters, a really really stupid plot, and endless CGI abortions where you couldn't tell what was going on, if you cared in the first place. It probably had some decent moments but they were spectacularly awful in my memory.
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Nov 15, 2015 23:59
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Nintendo Kid posted:as a kid i liked the lightsaber fights in the prequels aka the only reason for Darth Maul to exist. i swear Lucas finished the script for ep I, then was like "oh poo poo we need jedi fights" and boom, the devil guy with no backstory was born
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Nov 16, 2015 00:09
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Exclamation Marx posted:i like 6 of the star wars films I feel that Clone Wars was the zenith of the franchise 
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Nov 16, 2015 00:16
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I remember my 9/11 pretty well (I was a high school senior) and I'm confident no one learned anything from the experience, it was just a massive shared freakout
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Nov 16, 2015 00:39
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I wonder if Saddam or his sons could have held onto power after the Arab Spring? Hard to see how things could have turned out worse though
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Nov 16, 2015 00:53
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Jagchosis posted:counterfactuals are hard but the iraq war was prolly a proximate cause of the arab spring Yeah, fair enough. But man, things would have been different if not for wacky antics in Florida 2000
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Nov 16, 2015 00:57
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What is a concession on Assad? Like, Russia leans on him and then he's like "ok go get ISIS"?
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Nov 16, 2015 01:02
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Rollofthedice posted:and just as i post that my cat decides to get on my desk again I was freaking out a little this morning when my cat was MIA and didn't come back when I called him from the yard. He made it back before I left for campus though, and he got MASSIVE CUDDLE time.
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Nov 16, 2015 23:18
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here's my cat, because pictures of other people's pets are automatically fascinating
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Nov 16, 2015 23:21
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Comic books are a poor investment. Buy board games
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Nov 18, 2015 03:50
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First world problems: my family wants to give me stuff for christmas but I already have more stuff than I want or need
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Nov 22, 2015 13:03
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do DaDs have any favorite board games? I was thinking of getting Race for the Galaxy. I really like noted slavery game Puerto Rico and the nuclear holocaust sim Twilight Struggle!
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Nov 25, 2015 11:11
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oh and is loving WWIII starting or what!!!
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Nov 25, 2015 11:12
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My understanding is that Settlers was one of the first "actually good" games but it's kind of been superseded? I never tried it
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Nov 25, 2015 11:50
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Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride are two more easy to pick up, hard to master games. Good for newbies.
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Nov 25, 2015 12:38
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Dreylad posted:it's like more fun risk because the board is cleared every few rounds. I believe you will find the pro-est games are wargames featuring weird conflicts 
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Nov 25, 2015 17:37
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corn in the bible posted:gently caress you for owning that when i can't I P500'd it, it might get to me in March or so
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Nov 25, 2015 17:39
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