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38 years old
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October 10, 1987
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'sauga/GTA, City of the Lion
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Soccer, Chess, swimming, books, misc

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  1. In Topic: The Russia Politics and War in Ukraine Thread

    Yesterday, 10:15 PM

    The Novorossiysk oil terminal is on fire. 2 berths hit, along with shoreline valves and other equipment that's supposed to regulate and measure the flow of oil being loaded into tankers (for accounting purposes)

    If I understand correctly, this is Shekharis- which is the terminal that Kazakhs use to export their oil via Muscovy.

    Feels like UAF is in "no fucks given about oil prices" mode. They also hit primorsk again last night, and we've seen hits on Kstovo and refinery in Nizhny Novgorod.


    Z-heads are whining that a lot of their anti-air is running out of interceptor missiles. We've specifically heard this from Sevastopol.

    Prior to the massive attack on Novorossiysk today, UAF hit several substations in Southern Ukraine, causing blackouts in Donets'ks and Zaporizhya Oblast.

    A cargo ship was sunk in the Azov Sea. One crew member died, about a dozen took a lifeboat to the shore of Kherson Oblast.
  2. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    Yesterday, 06:03 PM

    View PostAbyss, on 25 March 2026 - 01:49 PM, said:

    View PostMentalist, on 25 March 2026 - 04:50 AM, said:

    Finished "The Waste Lands". It's.... different.


    WASTE LANDS exists in a weird space in my head... when i first read it after a looong wait following DRAWING OF THE THREE it was kind of mind blowing. When i read it again ahead of King returning to the series it was less mind blowing and a little more wow was this guy high as fuck when he wrote this, but still enjoyable. As well a lot of the easter eggs and refs to other King books clicked because i had read them. It was totally worth the read, but not exactly the high point of the series for me.

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    Gonna be a few weeks until I'm at my parent's place to grab the next few Dark Tower books, so I'm going to go back to Cinder Spires in the meantime. I got Book 2, but think I'll need a quick re-read for "Aeronaut's Windlass" first.


    If possible get your hands on the 'WARRIORBORN' novella between WINDLASS and OLYMPIAN. You emphatically do not neeeeeed to read it but it very fits nicely between and the additional character work is worthwhile.

    If you can't get it easily msg me, i might know a guy.


    Amazon got it for next day delivery.

    I knuckled down and read basically the whole "Windlass" in one sitting last night. I think I enjoyd it more now than the 1st time I read it.

    I'll need to see if there' anything else I wanna grab with it, then pull the trigger.
  3. In Topic: The Russia Politics and War in Ukraine Thread

    04 April 2026 - 03:31 AM

    Some Z-heads are being incredibly alarmist about UA's SE push, due to the fact that they have advantage in drones and control "near sky", which allows the assault troops to use armor effectively. The 2 orc armies that are holding the front here are under-manned, and the reinforcements are allegedly being directed to maintain the push out of the newly-occupied Hulyaipole towards Orikhiv, the linchpin of Ukraine's defense in the S.

    The Z-heads are worried that if UAF can continue their advance, they might be able to envelop the orc forces between Hulyaipole and Velyka Novosilka, and then have a clear advance "nearly all the way to Mariupol' " personally, I think this feels too doomer-ish, as we're talking nearly a 125 km advance, and it would take an enormous amount of troops to force and maintain a breach that deep and keep it wide enough (at least 50-80 km) to establish any semblance of secure logistics inside it.
  4. In Topic: The game I'm playing is...

    30 March 2026 - 03:16 PM

    Over the weekend played through most of 1348 Ex Voto.

    The story turned out exactly as I thought it might after the demo/prologue. I blame "Best Served Cold" for warping my expectation's of medieval Italy, haha.

    The level design's pretty neat. Combat is uneven, and you're expected to unlock skills in order to keep up- and to do that, you need to explore every nook and cranny, but the levels flow one-way, and there's no manual saves, so if you missed an optional nook before a one-way drop, you have to basically restart the level.

    There's also a handful of bugs- including the last boss phasing out of reality, which is why I didn't finish the game yet.

    It would be decent for the asking price, if it was properly polished. But right now it's hard to recommend
  5. In Topic: The Russia Politics and War in Ukraine Thread

    29 March 2026 - 02:54 AM

     Azath Vitr (D, on 28 March 2026 - 05:56 PM, said:

    The Economist's newsletter today: Ukrainian drones

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    have been taking out Russian soldiers faster than the Kremlin can recruit them



    Yeah, that's been the Unmanned Systems Corps' mission for the past 5 months. Fully embraced by the newly-appointed MoD (formerly Minister of Digital Transformations)

    Recently they shifted focus from simple infantry manhunts to middle-strikes targeting the orc logistics. This was done by re-evaluating the bonus points drone operators get for taking out logistics, instead of individual soldiers (the points tehy exchange for extra drones and drone specific drone components) This is actually more harmful, since when the enemies are poorly equipped, their lifespan on average is even shorter- and havoing to carry all their supplies over the 10-20 km of grey zone makes them more vulnerable.

    We'll have to see if they can keep up the same numbers once the leaf cover comes back, but as of right now, they're pretty on track to cause systemic attrition of the orc army, barring a new mobilization wave.

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    Tsundoku 

    09 Oct 2025 - 19:57
    happy #38 dude
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    Tsundoku 

    02 Dec 2024 - 09:25
    sorry I missed your birthday this year, hope it was a good one
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    Tsundoku 

    09 Oct 2023 - 20:46
    happy birthday, say hi to the guys in ICU from me ;)
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    Tsundoku 

    09 Oct 2022 - 20:38
    happy another birthday dude
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Oct 2021 - 02:00
    Need photographic evidence you are indeed still in one piece. Happy birthday dude
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Oct 2020 - 01:51
    And again.
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    Tsundoku 

    09 Oct 2019 - 19:51
    ditto
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    Tsundoku 

    09 Oct 2018 - 19:56
    happy birthday, try to stay in one piece
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    Shpetim 

    12 Feb 2015 - 21:30
    I hope you won't mind mate, but I copied and posted that "poem" thing you posted on the West Vs Russian interest thread.. You know, the one that starts off about how pathetic Europe is or has become.. Liked it so much that I had to post it. Keep up the good work on reporting about anything new.. Peace out to you friend..
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    Terez 

    18 Dec 2014 - 15:32
    'Tis a pleasure. I really appreciate your comments on Ukraine and Russia.
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    Raraku 

    31 Oct 2009 - 04:10
    + rep for "they can manipulate their way into a Spite/Envy foursome if needed"
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    HoosierDaddy 

    05 Mar 2009 - 19:06
    Wow. I was reeeeaaaalllllll close with that one! :)
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    HoosierDaddy 

    05 Mar 2009 - 05:00
    You originally from Kiev, Ment? I'm getting that vibe from you with the Eastern Europe and K-town thing.
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    frookenhauer 

    03 Nov 2008 - 21:41
    Good luck with the back dude, that sucks! Lectures are one of the reasons I do not miss Uni :)
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    Lisheo 

    10 Oct 2008 - 09:15
    Happy Birthday! :)
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