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#41

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 11:13:27 AM

There's always something special about non-Jews calling Jews antisemitic.

Since DGuller is a Jew I don't know why you bring it up.

#42

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Maladict - Today at 11:10:19 AM

I see Israel is one of the bookie favourites this year. 

Maybe I'll actually watch it this time, something is bound to happen.

#43

Gaming HQ / Re: News from the lovely world...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 11:05:18 AM

There are lots of examples of sponsors not just being on the sidelines.  Players wear sponsor's names, equipment is branded, fields of play are branded etc.

Yeah... though I think that stuff is already covered by the licensing? I don't know if EA could get away with showing - say - a Manchester City jersey with "United Airlines" or "Languish.org" on it instead of Etihad, and collect a fee from United or Languish for that.

#44

Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2024

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 11:01:52 AM

By the way here's Rex's last column, filed a day before his death.  He certainly was not going gently into the night as he just blasts Trudeau for ignoring October 7th.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-trudeau-faced-an-essential-moral-test-after-oct-7-he-failed-it

What a dreadful, overblown commentary.  The idea that the West somehow "failed" because the victims were Jews completely ignores the world we live in.  Incidents far worse than October 7 have occurred across the world since 1990:  Rwanda, Darfur, and even, right now, in Sudan.  The West is simply selective in how strongly it reacts to such tales (the response to Srebrenica was stronger because closer to home).  Murphy also ignores the fact that Trudeau did on Oct 8 exactly what Murphy called on him to do:  condemn Hamas and its attack as "horrifying and shocking" and mentioning its "brutality."

Also, any time I read a columnist whose evidence is "I hear that..." I dismiss him as a ideologue.

Yeah, he really went downhill but became a darling of the Right in this country.

#45

Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2024

Last post by Jacob - Today at 11:00:11 AM

I haven't really read anything by Murphy since he left the CBC. I guess he went downhill?

#46

Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis GOP?

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 11:00:04 AM

You joke, but there's hardly a year a tourist isn't killed in Austria by a cow after trespassing onto a meadow.

Don't the police arrest trespassing cows?

#47

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Jacob - Today at 10:57:48 AM

There's always something special about non-Jews calling Jews antisemitic.

#48

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Valmy - Today at 10:52:06 AM

White flight has evolved. Instead of moving, whites just split off and create a new city

New City created in Louisiana

The American definition of city continues to enrage.
When you've two substantial settlements that have grown to butt into each other fair enough. But when you've a urbanised modern area isolated from all else  then that's the same city.

This is a legal definition and in any case Louisiana has a weird set of laws based on the Code Civil anyway. You shouldn't take anything that happens there as some kind of indicator of how things are done in the rest of the country.

#49

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Barrister - Today at 10:41:33 AM

The Hamas charter talks about Jews living peacefully in an Islamic Palestine, so the genocide talk is overblown.  The plight of Jews in an Islamic Palestine would not be pleasant given that Hamas thinks that the arrivals since 1948 should be expelled and their land returned to Palestinians, but that's a far cry from genocide.

Sarcasm?

#50

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis IV anno...

Last post by Zanza - Today at 10:30:05 AM

Dharma apparently introduced government reforms, but that's by now probably a free feature. Else it would be better than the mechanics in most other DLCs.

Mandate of Heaven has some good mechanics.

The Leviathan and Cradle of Civilization mechanics are ok. I would miss some of  them now, but I guess the game is fine without them.

Emperor is meh, but it significantly adds to the Catholic faith mechanics, which might be interesting for playing in Iberia.



Domination has no new mechanics, so count it with the other immersion packs. Pretty power creepy though. Same with King of Kings. Had fun games with Yemen and with Ak Quonlyu.

Rule Britannia has a ok content with Anglicanism and Naval Doctrines, but Innovativeness seems fairly inconsequential. Never got to the Industrial age so I have no idea what it adds.

Golden Century adds the orders for Iberians, flagships and barrages are also helpful, especially to exploit certain Portuguese strengths.

Origins, Third Rome, Lion of the North don't add anything you need if you don't play in those regions.

PS: For Portugal there is great mod called "Beyond the Cape".