Yeah, I agree, repositories are a net benefit

I couldn't get AoE 3 to work on my PC

For the moment I'm burning what little time I have on Division 2 via console. When I get bored with that, the only multiplayer thing I bothered with is Warthunder (ground)

@startselect3

What ones, see if any pique my interest

Ah, not that lol.

But hey, add me on steam and I tend to give away keys from humble bundle of I don't want or already have

Not currently. Immortan Joe, but Dellmaker is the only other name I've used

I believe I show up if searching Dellmaker... Can't remember if it's in my actual ID link thing

Yeah, been working at it for awhile. Got into a bit of a game hoarder craze at one point too

I work 10hr shifts, 2nd shift, so I'm almost exclusively on late nights eastern

But if ya see me on I'll respond

Lords were simply landholders and supporters.of their dukes

Dukes were the heads of power. Kings were the Duke of dukes, essentially.

Lords were no different than the "norms" besides support and property.

In reality, sure

Educate me: what is a seigetard?

Ah, okay, I'm up to speed thank you

@Deleted User specialist in a machine shop

Operators make the parts, I heat treat/passivate/clean

Nah, it's traditional here. Some cells do a rotating 4x 12hr followed by three days off, then reversed

The problem isn't the object, but the individuals

Barring access to responsible folks just because irresponsible people will be irresponsible with it, is irrational.

Minors, on the other hand, are irresponsible by default. Part of maturing is learning how to seek out responsibility, and becoming responsible. Those are the individuals that shouldn't be given access to such do-or-die responsibilities like weed and alcohol.

^just my humble 2¢

@Marcus that's not backed up by statistics. If we are going to restrict the access of the responsible because of the actions of the irresponsible, then let's look at automobiles.

We aren't going to fight Iran. People have short memories - those aren't the first tankers that have been attacked in the gulf of Oman

And it's not the first time the US has said Iran is the culprit.

The only reason gas prices fluctuated as they did was market reaction. It's not like the tankers were "ours", nor the oil for that matter.

=P

Iran is doing what they can to protest the US sanctions imposed on them. If they do like NK and start threatening missile launches, a wild Israeli airstrike appears and takes out some powerplants and scientists. They can't threaten to withhold any commerce, so all they really can do is be a "nautical nuisance"

I've pointed out that this isn't the first time they've attacked tankers. If there was some sort of false flag, then it would be done by making Iran shoot down a civilian airliner. But I don't think that the US government has any desire to go to war with Iran. There's a bigger picture.

Bolton is a walking, talking poster child for warhawk-ism , absolutely lol... But Trump doesn't follow their lead, he just considers their advice. Bolton pushed for escalation with NK, and Trump stuck to his negotiation strat.

Consider: the US makes no money from Iran, and wouldn't make any money from a post-war Iran. Any military actions would be with the goal of creating civil discomfort to pressure the government. Limited airstrikes.

But, like you said: who knows

Damn. I was actually woken up out of bed, having felt *something* somewhere. Opened discord and turns out it was that last meme.

I disagree. Form follows function. Always has, always will. Prototype is ugly, once it's perfected, the beauty aspect gets worked on after the fact, out of what time and effort is left over. US supercarriers are a Pinnacle of function and you don't find decorative wood panels on the ceilings - you find raw bulkheads, bare pipes, bundles of electrical wire.

Equating well kept homes to this imagined law of beauty and function being directly related is just incorrect. There only way it can be a truth, is subjectively devaluing something raw to be beautiful, like a knapped flint arrowhead. But one would have to acknowledge that the arrowhead was not formed for it's looks.

The point is, as you've also made, that the beauty part is purely subjective - which means that some guy can genuinely consider his trashy trailer to be in gorgeous form, and so forth.

But, yes, it is like a valley. The decorativeness of past generation warships, though... had more to do with the zeitgeist - if something was fashioned by hand, then it was being done so by craftsmen, who were expected as part of their trade to fashion visual appeal along with the functional work. Like the welders that work for Rolls Royce. Good concepts to digest.

It's nihilistic

If someone puts your hand in warm water while you sleep, your senses make you piss yourself, but whatevs

Boy, that was close, they almost convinced me not to vote for Trump though such powerful copypasta alpha moves.

Your say that like there's much difference ideologically between never trumpers and Minecraft trolls