Yeah, no surprise there.

a really good one, too. I'm surprised he didn't jump at it

I'd be surprised if he could actually program in python, let alone in C#

If I was in his shoes I would've picked up a C# book and fucking started learning this shit

yea the job was small six figures, full medical and dental, 2 weeks off per year, 5 day workweek

Nice one. Wish I had more experience in C# - just started studying it recently.

oh cool. well if you need a programming job when you are done hit me up. My friend Chet is the VP or product development at a software development firm in Chicago. And I think they will help you get your visa to work in the US

Damn thanks for the offer man. I'll be sure to keep it in mind.

yea, i don't mind helping good people get jobs. i don't have thath many skills, but i have connections out the ass 😃

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this can go on for a while

the website is looking pretty good btw

yea it does. feel free to join us on GoodReads and contribute. And vote for February's book. RIght now The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov is winning

Oh I read that in high school.

Decent book, but not my type per se.

seriously you read it in High school? I had to be turned on it it in a slavic lit class in 2009

yeah hehe, well - we read a lot of slavic books here

barely anything from the US - I think we did Poe at some point

And Hemingway

but that's about it

that is true, we read a lot of books by black women who can't fucking write like Toni Morrisson

Poe is good, Hemingway was a communist

never heard of her

ohhh she's the liberal's favorite author

Oh I love Poe, one of the few poets I really enjoy reading (not into poetry most of the time)

she wrote this piece of shit novel called "Beloved" which every american has to read until they understand that black women are the most powerful thing on earth

Hah

I read Poe's Tell Tale Heart and it scared the shit out of me, that was in junior high school

also there is a horrible book called "I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou with is just as bad

none of that here thankfully

i mean, just look at that title, doesn't it make you want to strangle the author with type writer ribbon?

we did things like "The Iliad", "Decameron", Shakespeare, Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Goethe, etc...

yeah, it's pretty bad

goddamnit, that makes me mad

we read NONE of that in high school or my undergrad. i had to read it in a reading group I formed in grad school for Great Books from Europe

well....yeah...

you'd like our high schools and colleges a lot more I don't doubt

yea, i went to a US top high school, and the best high school in Texas that year, but we were overwhelmed with "diversity"

we had to read chinese poetry, and learn african tribal music. it was absurd

we had optional chinese poetry, I went once and never looked back

Hm, actually I think I used the wrong expression there

I mean, I never went again.

close enough, i knew what you meant. english is idiomatic so if you are kind of off we still understand the sentiment

Not that there isn't something to be said for far-east literature

I liked Hagakure

a good book about total dedication

but maybe that's shallow in comparison to European classics that I've never read

yea, i like some of it, but seriously do we have to read Vietnamese poetry at the expense of American and European writers? Especially if the class is 90% white?

It disconnects you from your own culture, much like I am

and leaves a void to be filled with indoctrination

there is a good book on Japanese short stories from the Feudal period called "five women who loved love" which i like until the last story, but yea there is quality lit coming out of some of those places

but does that make it more important than teaching white American students that they have a history and a culture and a people? I don't think so. Read Asian lit on your own time

Absolutely. When I was in high school I hated that we had to study Serbian history and Serbia literature 50% of the time, while we left only 50% to the rest of the world.

Now I appreciate it better.

You have to know your heritage in greatest possible detail.

To truly respect it in the way it deserves.

In US history classes at my university, they often teach American students lies (America committed genocide againsnt the Amer-Indians) or to hate themselves (if only America were less racist the black race in America would truly be equal and able to compete without the need for mandatory diversity training)

The "story of our people" used to be sung at ceremonial gatherings. Now it's delegated to dusty history books no one has to read.

Insanity.

We need to bring back word-of-mouth history. Starting with our children 😃

My father used to talk about history with me a lot when I was young. It's all about transferring the knowledge from one generation to the next.

we need to write down the oral histories of the elder generation before they pass away. if we lose the 90 year old German women who weren't nazis, while holocaust studies is a thing and the stories of the old jews in Germany becomes the narrative we will have a damn difficult time red pilling anyone again

I mean, I already have students mad that we don't talk about "the" holocause in my class, but rather we just discuss WWII and it's effects on Europe and Europeans. this makes the professors in Jewish Studies very mad. they call my department head and complain about me being anti-semetic

If only they knew how deep the rabbit hole goes

Next time someone calls me in for a discussion about anti-Semitism, I'm just going to say "I'm not anti-semitic, I'm just Jew-Aware" 😂

Since when has the gaming channel turned into the book channel?

they are the same thing.... duh

bad writing is bad

no

>expecting a lot out of big two comics

ha

maybe if its a grant morrison

or some writers

otherwise

ha

no

yeh

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anyone want to play civ 5 with me

not at the moment. i am going to play WoW soon I think

I was doing Mythic 7 Vault in WoW with necrotig and teeming modifiers and we kept dying b/c one of my party members insist that her husband tank, and I was like "Stop pulling more than you can tank you fucking kike" and everyone was like.... uhhhhh. and I said, shit wrong server. forgot you are all normies. Continue mission. but I'm sure my GM is going to be mad at me tomorrow. 🖕

anyone wanna make a group for rocket league?

https://www.twitch.tv/mr_scapegoat Goat Studios News & Gaming (sometimes)

lol

sorry goat I had to do it

i was going to put a beer then saw the turd and had to do it. ❤

yes

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❤

if you would pin it that'd be great

as - then i woulndt repost tbh other than when going live

pinned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVH0nblL8g

who is a civ master?

Which civ?

5

I am.

Are the achievements broken or no

Depends. It works for some folks and it dosen't for others. Not sure if mods effect it at all.

Once restarted the game and all of a sudden I had half the achivements locked in from previous games.

Short Answer: yes

sheeeeeit okay thanks

Stressed and Depressed?

Cut the throat of a goat, it's 100% guarenteed to give you a blessing from the Thunderer!

@Bloodborn - Kebab has been removed

Ironman, minimal exploits

didn't pull of the republic thing

Ah. Impressive.

Yuge-oslavia eh :P?

haha

actually, if I go revolutionary

it takes on the Yugoslav flag

I took over Asian Minor now as well

Oh? That's cool, then you can go Revolutioanry Monarchy 😛

Asia*

A Serbian Napoleon.. should be interesting.

yeah

If it's after 1700 there's things you can do to work towards revolution.

+2.0%
is bankrupt.
+1.0%
has a war exhaustion of at least 5.
+1.0%
has a prestige of less than 0.
+1.0%
has at least 25 loans.
+0.5%
has at least 10 and less than 25 loans.

Then you can move your troops to some far-off end of your empire and let the Rebels take the capital

Nice job anyway with the Ottomans.

They are always the most irritating nation to fight

Did you Ally Russia? Noticed their troops in your land

... And wait, 'British South Germany'?

GB inherited Austria

Fucking Hell

are they the Emperor now?

Russia was my homie yeah, although I would just bail on them whenever they went to war

just used them for defense

No, Cleves is I think

Russian Manpower > Ottoman Cheats

atm I'm the 2nd great power

Russia 1st

Ah XD

surprisingly most of the usual blobs didn't appear

Oh? France?

GB and France have like 0 colonies

and Burgundy still exists as a minor haha

that should tell you how strong France is

You got lucky.

Sweden is still a puppet

but not integrated

the Commonwealth and Brandenburg are the only other European powerhouses

How did the Middle-East look?

Ottomans with the usual borders, strong Ethiopia, solid Persia

nothing too weird

Arabia almost united

weird colonial powers

Norwegian South Africa, Brittanian Louisiana, Savoiyan Brazil and Dutch USA

Dutch USA...

The United States of Dutchlantis

yeah, weak France, weak Spain, no Austria -> Dutch OPOPOP

Fuck. Well, if you /do/ go Revolutionary you can probably rofl-stomp the Ottoturks out and take out mainland Europe without much worry from other European powers.

I'll try

Dutch in the US, New York City was originally New Amsterdam

Revolution target[edit]
National manpower modifier.png +10% National manpower modifier
Morale of armies.png +10% Morale of armies
−0.15 Monthly war exhaustion
−50% Unjustified demands
−50% Land maintenance modifier
−50% Naval maintenance modifier
+40% Land force limit modifier
+40% Naval force limit modifier
−100 Yearly papal influence

Ugh, won't let me edit the rest.

Either way, the biggest things you should notice is the Unjustified demands...

Land Force Limit and Land Maitanance...

You can raise a huge force!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ1r3QUlUgQ "Who says, who lies that Serbia is small?"

feels apt

I'll keep you updated

was a good run

I'll see if I can raze Brussels, London and Washington before 1821 :p

I thought you would want to turn Mecca Orthodox Serbian 😛

haha, nah...Mecca was never Christian - although it would be fun to piss on it

I got Tsarigrad back (Constantinople), and I destroyed Albanians and Bosnians

good nuff for me

Meh, once I get past my 'ideal borders' I always just conquer and make client states like... 'French Carpithian Colony' or something like that.

Carpithian Administration...

I remember when I went and played as the USA... I had really good fun making Client States 😛

*French Client State* Surrender Monkies.

*Spanish Client State* Other Mexico

I named the Uk something like 'American Colony'

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.VariableOne.Unblockable pls pls try my Android game :3c

feelsbadman @Bloodborn

That's about right XD

Meanwhile in Victoria 2:

http://orig11.deviantart.net/2027/f/2014/236/8/b/victoria_ii_texas_flags_by_rasnow94-d7wjzhv.jpg

http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/25/24482/acw_screenie.jpg

a few hours after your neighbouring empire starts expanding his borders

is that hoi2?

@frankvl That's Stellaris

He mighta meant two pics ago. That one was hoi

No, the ones two pics ago was Victoria 2.

both of them look just like the eu4 diplo screens

It's a Kaiserriech mod for it.

Eh, Paradox likes to try to keep interfaces similer

@Bloodborn I wonder if Garry's mod is still around for some people.

i.e. paradox just makes one game with different flavor

I've had fun with eu4 not too long ago though

conquering all of the americas and most of germania as holland

@randellgary Don't know about that.

Try that with Ryukyu.

it's a meme but it's just no fun

it takes like 50 years to get up and running and it's just like playing a real country but way slower

I'd rather have fun

Ryukyu?... I thought the recent patches made it easier to nab Exploration ideas earlier on?

it's easy but waiting until you colonize a significant chunk of development and building up enough steam to do a world conquest is boring compared to what you get by just starting in europe

it's just too slow a game for me

Ah, well, I like a challenge... speaking of a challenge, ever tried Byzantium/Theodoro/Athens/Albania?

albania is just rerolling until you get lucky and don't get fucked lol

I don't have too much experience to be honest

I'm just slowly working through a france game right now

and if I can conquer half the world with a slow start as holland I don't think I need to play slow gimpy games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVE4u0d4BDY&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/ZVE4u0d4BDY?t=1072

tfw Vikings move in next door

meqqa is rightful germanic clay

lol

@frankvl Maybe call it al-Deutschistan.

that's a good name for modern germany

https://twitch.tv/mr_scapegoat

<@261192246999777280> guten morgen, wie geats?

wait, it's not morning in Germany right now. what is the word for afternoon?

Afternoon = Nachmittag

But you just say Guten Tag

oh ok. my chinese german instructor spent most of the other day trying to get the words right

loool

chinese german instructor

http://colonthreeenterprises.tumblr.com/post/156354414901/my-quake-2-unit-is-finally-here-3c-it-has Please try my Quake 2-singleplayer unit :3

singleplayer?

but

So I was playing HOI 4

as hungrary

and took yugoslavia, romania, bulgaria, greece, albania

USSR had civil war

with russia

who then joined axis

'communist france joined comintern and didead along with russia

so now axis stretches from france to japan

all at war with britain, and america

feels good man

also italy has nothing

apart from libya/egypt

rekt

but turkey jois axis too so I couldn't continue to expand hungarian reich