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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by celedhring - Today at 02:29:23 AM

There also seems to be a reasonable attempt at verosimilitude, too. I'm intrigued.

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Off the Record / Re: Youtube Recommendations

Last post by Syt - Today at 02:18:53 AM

I liked this compare/contrast analysis video of the filmic styles of old vs new Trek:

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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by Syt - Today at 02:07:59 AM

From what I've seen in e.g. OPB's gameplay video, it comes with a strategic layer, i.e. you're not only building one village, but there's competing villages to interact with or land to grab from.

['I hated that dog': Kristi Noem recalls gunning down family's 'worthless' pup]

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Off the Record / Re: 2024 US Presidential Elect...

Last post by Syt - Today at 02:06:16 AM

https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-dog/

'I hated that dog': Kristi Noem recalls gunning down family's 'worthless' pup

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a frontrunner to be named as Donald Trump's running mate, admitted to killing her family dog for misbehavior.

The Republican governor wrote in her forthcoming memoir, No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, that the female dog Cricket had an "aggressive personality" and proved herself "untrainable," according to excerpts from the book published by The Guardian.

"I hated that dog," Noem wrote, adding that the 14-month-old wirehair pointer was "dangerous to anyone she came in contact with" and "less than worthless ... as a hunting dog".

The governor said she included the story in her political memoir to demonstrate her willingness to take on "difficult, messy and ugly" tasks, and she described an attempt to teach Cricket to hunt with other dogs, but instead the pup ruined the trip by going "out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life."

Noem unsuccessfully attempted to bring Cricket under control using an electronic collar, but she said the dog escaped her truck as she stopped to talk to a local family on the way home and attacked that family's chickens.

"[Cricket] grabbed one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another," she wrote, comparing the dog to "a trained assassin."

"[She] whipped around to bite me," Noem wrote, adding that Cricket was "the picture of pure joy" throughout the incident.

"At that moment," Noem wrote, "I realized I had to put her down."

Noem said she retrieved her gun and led Cricket to a gravel pit.

"It was not a pleasant job," she writes, "but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done."

She then recounts how she killed one of her family's goats, a "nasty and mean" male that had not been castrated, by dragging him to the gravel pit, and afterward she realized a nearby construction crew had watched her slaughter both animals before her children were dropped off by a school bus.

"Kennedy looked around confused," Noem wrote, describing her daughter's reaction. "'Hey, where's Cricket?'"

"I guess if I were a better politician," she added, "I wouldn't tell the story here."

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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 12:53:35 AM

Honestly I'm not getting it. Why is it so special? Aren't there a million similar games out there? What does this one do different?
That said it did end up on my wishlist somehow.

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Off the Record / Re: The China Thread

Last post by MadImmortalMan - Today at 12:03:40 AM

There's a lot of westerners being paid to be shills for China's state media right now. Cyrus Jansen, et al.

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Off the Record / Re: NHL Hockey thread

Last post by PRC - April 26, 2024, 11:55:04 PM

Wearing a jersey that doesn't belong to one of the two teams playing is generally viewed as tool-like behaviour.  If it's from another sport altogether but matches the colours or city of one of the teams (IE wearing a red Stampeders shirt to a Flames game or wearing a Broncos jersey to a Nuggets game) that gets a pass.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - April 26, 2024, 11:41:58 PM

"We are writing a rule for the ages." -- Neil Gorsuch

That one line encapsulates everything that has wrong with the Supreme Court, and how much the judicial right has betrayed its own supposed conservative principles.

They said they don't want activist judges that write laws.  No one said anything about rules.

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Off the Record / Re: NHL Hockey thread

Last post by Valmy - April 26, 2024, 11:41:35 PM

At least the Rangers are putting me out my misery quickly.

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Off the Record / Re: NHL Hockey thread

Last post by viper37 - April 26, 2024, 11:39:01 PM

Lawyer beaten and left in an alley, News at 11

See that's the last thing I'd worry about.  I've worn a Jets jersey to Rogers Place lots of time - when the Jets are the visiting team.  It's actually fun - never really been hassled, I'm definitely not the only one (lots of us Toban expats out in Alberta).

Just more wondering about wearing it when the Jets aren't even playing - but then again it's only a watch party to begin with.

It's only a match party, but it's an Oilers match party.

Get your Slayer jersey instead, you'll look badass in it.