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of course, that kind of death toll is more similar to what's happened with fires at clubs, not just contaminated hooch. Which makes it so creepy that the bodies apparently show no signs of external injuries. That's exactly what made me flash to 'dodgy owner serving methanol' (or something else chea...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 12:55 pm This is both horrifying and very creepy:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61941170

Contaminated hooch was my first thought -- happens a lot, even in bars and clubs, though the one-roof death toll here is a lot higher than I've heard of before.

Hey guys. I'm new here, but I just have to say, we just elected the son of our dictator as president over here in the Philippines. And it fucking sucks. Six years of blatant corruption and rewriting history ahead. So yeah. I'm angry and scared, not for myself because me and mine, being comfortably ...

Back on topic, my wife is obsessed with Sky Castle, the latest Netflix K-drama, which is a whole genre now. As someone who lived for the better part of a decade in Korea, I have never been able to get into K-dramas. Does anyone here see the appeal? I do see the appeal. But (a big but) only if the d...

Starts at the Mississippi? My mother, born in Philly, thought she'd be seeing the Rockies and buffalo when they moved to Ohio as a kid -- it was 'way out west' for their family/community.

I'm surprised there's any portability at all between Vic2 and EU4 -- from what little I remember, they seemed very different.

I really, really like the idea of playing at Almea in some Paradox game, and I really hope you come back re-invigorated and re-inspired! Cheers and admiration!

You remind me of why I don't play with beta releases, and also of some of the 'joys' of modding Vic2 that I'd nearly managed to suppress

TBH, I haven't followed the newer history of Almea at all, so couldn't comment (let alone contribute!) usefully ;( I wonder if the difficulty in modding Vic2 isn't at least in part due to its modeling of populations on a pretty detailed/complex level, which isn't part of the later games' models (or ...

Mocha, this is such a great idea, and I'm so glad that you stepped forward and picked up the project! Going from fairly old memory at this point, I remember modding Vic2 as being much more finicky, limited, and with less documentation or support, than any of the more recent Paradox releases. There's...

The second series was a disappointment to me, when it introduced the Conspiracy Theory model of storytelling that, it sometimes seems to me, is the norm in modern(-ish) settings lately. I would have been very happy to watch more blocks of episodic, character/setting-based dramas about 'a pair of fa...

Very belatedly -- Navn Ukjent was a great character, although I think they generally copped out on the Mesolithic people's language - you'd think that after several years in Norway, at least some of them would move beyond speaking Pidgin Norwegian*), and the Vikings speak Norwegian just fine when th...

I'm cat-sitting again, for a new 'client'. Now, I'm a disgusting skin-monkey whose quarters are horribly infested with red dot, and I really appreciate my houseguests' efforts to capture and, ideally, eliminate it. This cat, however... whenever the red dot manifests, he just straightens up, stretche...

Yeah, I think the term "existential copula" was enough to make me think the question was about Tibetan-style yin/yod distinctinos, rather than the Spanish sort of thing. Never mind!

Just off the top of my head, Tibetan has this, modern Chinese as well. Nothing exceptional, ISTM. Though maybe I'm misunderstanding the distinction between the two you're actually making, and interpolating my own ideas. Anyway, go for it! [Edit: maybe 'equative' (equatative?) or something along thos...

I just watched Beforeigners too, just at the same time! I agree with you... though I didn't really warm to it until after the Mesolithic thug's line, "Now... wife win glory, in blogging."

Funny how this discussion occupies close to 0% of the time I spend with gay and lesbian people offline, but the vast majority of the shit I read from queer people online. It's almost like there are people into cosplaying as homos when they've got no money in the game.

I'm not sure if it's really "growing" or just getting better press, since this is a Known Issue in library circles. I belong to a large discussion group for library professionals and regularly every June one or more of them post about putting out a display of LGBTQIA+ books and having exa...

Zju wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 7:26 am

Massey University fat studies academic Cat Pause dies suddenly.

I think we have a winner. We can close this thread down now.

Thank you, everyone!

Just now I walked myself into some nostalgia-bargle-wargle. Yes, I know, it never ends well. But I hope some bright prince(ss) here can rescue me. Wasn't there on YouTube, even recently, some compilations of Soyuzmultfilm's Winnie-the-Pooh as dubbed into an ass-ton of the Caucasian-area languages? I...