Imagine a girl you like putting a hand on your shoulder, looking into your eyes, saying some gentle word I don’t quite remember due to being mesmerized by those eyes, and you know what I did? I just looked back uneasily for a few seconds, then nervously took her hand off my shoulder, shook it a bit, released it and awkwardly smiled. (That even wasn’t her last attempt to make me happy against my best efforts ; ended bad anyway.)

There are many things further down the road to go wrong with attractive popular girls. 2 most catastrophic cases in my life are with those such as them.

Admittedly I’m the one who mainly failed them due to misunderstandings and passiveness, but when a girl (being all that popular) is used to boys being rather active and competitive and social, and then you are here just cause she happened to like your looks, this may end painfully, for you more than for her.

There are also cases from the post, only I may have noticed, just wouldn’t risk losing an existing good friendship for possible romance.

Exactly.

Yes, the thing is - it’s a choice.

I’d be using Gentoo if not for installing software being something you have to plan for.

In some sense this would even seem an advantage of Windows. (I know it’s the fundamental reason for many hangs and freezes, but the idea that a file is a lockable resource doesn’t seem that bad.)

Some even Paradox ones. One can waste many-many hours in CK:DV with Mappa Regnorum mod, for example. Though CK2 is more complex, it lacks the relative simplicity and clarity.

Yes and no, they are behaving like Azeris. This is not acceptable.

Actually at this point I think I’m closer to a fascist than anytime before. (I’m not deleting that sentence, but thinking about the reasons, I’m not, just really want a working system to make evil something with too high a price tag.)

But in general, in abstract I’m a distributist. It’s something neutrally anarchist, without going into ancap or ancom directions, ansyn would be the closest possibly. Sort of a political ideology close to some general Catholic worldview.

TBF, their prices are localized. Say, in Russia it was always not something you can do every day. They depend on many things, supply chain, general income levels, some central strategy. It’s a franchise, as everybody knows I’m sure. You can open a McDonalds in a place lacking one if they agree.

And the reason it’s comparatively expensive now somewhere as compared to 15 years ago is that they apparently think that being more expensive and smaller in volume is better for their operation than being less expensive and bigger in volume. Or something like that.

which was filmed during a wine-and-cheese event

Not sure this is indicative of anything, there are many countries where such events are not luxurious at all, neither is wine as a drink. Dunno about Austria.

Unpleasant and unempathetic, but “ghouls” I’d reserve for people, for example, who say “N won’t allow ethnic cleansing in M”, and then in 5 days, when that EC is 99.9% complete, refuse to answer anything at all. Or their bosses if they are just talking heads.

There are also ghouls who rape and behead people.

This one is just a fool, nothing too horrible.

Search for Locutus, it’s very similar to what I’ve been imagining, only real (well, not yet, it’s a project).

Bye, moscovite.

What an ape FFS. Don’t say bye the third time.

EDIT:

I mean, you say “genocide” as if China is being sanctioned or punished for Xinjiang, and very little pressure would be required to make them stop, or Azerbaijan for Artsakh, and Azerbaijan is a bug to squash, one phone call would be enough, and Turkey itself mostly does all the things it does to pressure concessions, so they are ready to negotiate in every moment.

Ah, and Ukraine supports Azeri genocidal crimes in Artsakh, so fuck them.

Your country, if that’s US, doesn’t do anything about these. It cooperates with the criminal terrorist states I’ve mentioned. And yet you have the gall to throw the word “genocide” around about something which is war crimes, yes, and even sometimes acts of genocide, but that would mean that a Ukrainian life is worth more than an Armenian life, and I don’t agree. A Ukrainian life is worth more than your life, surely, but not more than an Armenian life.

Now, you can say that yes, these are all genocides much more real about which you don’t care, cause your side is of the perpetrators there.

You don’t fucking know which things the words you use mean. And since you still dare voice your opinions on real world - blocking me is an important first step at stopping that.

I suspect they are getting second thoughts there about those fallout shelters and how different they are from wow hypersonic missiles and wow radioelectronic warfare and other kinds of wow they considered real.

Well, in Russian it’s a swear word meaning a faggot, which refers to prison hierarchy.

Murdering, kidnapping and brainwashing Ukrainian children is genocide.

Then we’ll have to introduce degrees of genocide.

Attempting to exterminate the Ukrainian people is genocide.

Which is not happening.

I said “in some moments”. There were days and places under Kherson a few months before.

Like every ceasefire.

I suppose right now Ukraine just wants some better guarantees while it has a strong negotiating position.

So that it takes some effort from Putin to even be heard.

Or maybe what Zelensky says is what he means, you can’t negotiate with a pathological liar (just like a few of Ukraine’s allies, though) who doesn’t know how to lose with dignity. Be it a person or a whole elite of some country, like Russia. I mean, emotionally I’ve met some and I’d agree. Just don’t know what it is rationally.