Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on August 09, 2017, 08:43:57 PM

Worst case scenario: N Korea nukes 5 cities. Likely the military base in Guam,  Seoul, Honalulu and 2 cities on the mainland. Then North Korea becomes a radioactive parking lot. The bright side? The light nuclear winter sets global warming back.

Likely scenario? Business as usual.

Global warming is a hoax. Hasn't been going on in two decades.

Where do you live? Anyone who is in a temperate climate and anything north of that knows the climate is getting warmer every year. We are getting less snow year after year in Canada, and summer ls reaching 30s in Northern Alberta, when they never passed 25 a few years ago.

You know I feel like modern alt-right and modern Nazis like Das made a point of, are nothing like the Nazis of old. At least the Nazis knew how to look good and have style and knew they had responsibility to support their communities. Instead of being anarchist edgelords.

It depends, if you are going for realistic and going to give motive, it needs to feel like either he has a reasoning or a person who is so involved into his belief he has blinded himself, or a fallen hero. But mostly there needs to be some depth, and it has to come from the character personality. They can be crazy because even that is potential reasoning.

But sometimes a bad guy just needs to be a bad guy. We do not need a big reasoning for why Sid was evil in Toy Story or any big motive or explanation for why Scar killed Mufasa.

Best way to look at it is what does your story represent and how is the tale told. Is it a complicated game of politics, or a simple story of heroism following a single character

Personally I want a reinvention of the old Sinbad or Ali Baba stories and others from the One thousand and one nights. Mostly about Sinbad and his adventures, with no specific story of triumph but a story of just pure adventure and discovery, with each story being short and each tale entering into a fantastical and strange lands or world. Whether it be sci fi or not.

And stories like those usually have a simple bad guy and do not go into motive of reasoning of a bad guy, they are just bad because in the short time the main character spends with them, these character's are evil, and the only goal of the main character is to survive and escape. But they do not always have to be evil, they can just be a normal obstacle like a big bird that catches you and drops you into it's nest to feed it's kids with your other travellers. The villian main goal in these stories is to just be an obstacle to the main character as he travels.

Which is what made Indiana Jones fun, it was mostly about adventure and less about bad and good characters.

Kind of. Shit is slow but I think it picks up at certain times of the day. I returned for some reason. Not sure why still.

Quote from: Risay117 on August 08, 2017, 08:48:19 PM

Plus it brings in the Chinese

Debatable. Even China is rather sick of NK. The only benefit they see with NK if that they're a buffer state. If anything, the US would tell China they're going in no matter what and China would topple the current regime and install a China friendly government that's not so atrocious with human rights.

China would but the way they have been delaying has meant they do not care until the US actually invades. Which I really doubt the US will do. Unless we want a more bloody conflict with higher casualty count than the Iraq war.

Also an invasion that harms Japan and Korea will only create a humanitarian crisis bigger than Syria and make alot of nation's hate the US. For now this battle is a battle of rhetoric. Until someone actually fires a bullet and troops actually land on North Korean soil I will ignore all talk about it.

Congrats, still coddling that chocolate milk here.

What the fuck is this drama? Why is this highschool? Like how do people know each other so intimately here.

Funny thing is I think the South Korean do not care anymore. Also looks like the US has failed to stop the Korean Nuclear program and Korea has reached a point where the US cannot do shit.

Kim Jung Un for how stupid he is has finally checked the US.  Five years of quiet when they are done and expect once they have enough nuclear weapons to stop their program, leading to sanctions being dropped.

"Mazda announces breakthrough in long-coveted engine technology" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mazda-strategy-idUSKBN1AO0E7

Basically Mazda designed a new engine which is 20%-30% more efficient than our current combustion engine.

Ignites fuel by compression instead of spark plugs, and as fuel economic as diesel engines without the release of nitrogen oxide and sooty particles.

Plan is to get it rolled out by 2019, with it's new electric car line and autonomous vehicles by 2025.

This comes on the news that Japan's GS Yuasa Corp is going to start producing lithium batteries that will double the range of electric cars.

Quote from: Risay117 on August 07, 2017, 10:52:35 PM

I mean my friend she got some box wine and Jager and started mixing them and me and her drank a whole bottle through. It tasted horrible, but for some reason we just kept drinking. I wish there was a reasoning, but sometimes the reasoning is why not, because it sounds stupid. We also threw in some fireball in it.

Yeah, that just sounds stupid. You're going to get shitfaced chugging either of those, there is zero reason to mix them together. The whole point of mixing things is to add (in effect or taste), not to make something disgusting. That's like the kid in elementary who would mix all of his food together just to create a mess.

Yeah if I wanted taste then I would mix for that reason, but over here the reasoning was different. Just a stupid desire to do it. Stupid but fun while in the moment. I usually live a reserved life of order and design but sometimes I like to do stupid shit. Takes away from the monotony of my life. Like quitting my job and traveling. Cause I got bored.

Quote from: Risay117 on August 07, 2017, 10:29:53 PM

Quote from: Aria on August 07, 2017, 10:28:35 PM

Jäger straight up tastes like cough syrup. I don't understand the hype.

Cause people want a shot and get wasted. Some people drink alcohol and harsh one not for the joy of taste but to get wasted. And fast.

Which honestly a bottle of wine can do quite well.

I'll drink Jäger if I'm doing bombs, but I have some friends who will just drink it straight.

If you just want to get fucked up fast, Vodka is cheaper and straighter to the point.

Good point but I think is more because it just seems like if we are not going to do bombs let's just down some Jager, cause it is harsh and high in alcohol content. Also vodka does the same but has a different flavouring.

I mean my friend she got some box wine and Jager and started mixing them and me and her drank a whole bottle through. It tasted horrible, but for some reason we just kept drinking. I wish there was a reasoning, but sometimes the reasoning is why not, because it sounds stupid. We also threw in some fireball in it.

But mind you I usually only get wasted in safe locations among friends. Other times I time my drinks. Cause every time I get kicked out for being intoxicated cause they say I look like I am going to pass out when I am naturally lazy, and usually look tired. Fuck I got kicked out once when I was sober just cause I sat down to enjoy some music in a club with my eyes closed.

I was wondering one things , why do we not see Podrick pussyslaying anymore if that is his true skill.

i've been told that it explores a lot of themes and expresses the same kind of messages that i do about life and whatnot

but if that were true, why would it be so goddamn popular

Because maybe not everyone is as shallow as you think and actually have these thoughts every now and again. I mean get high and talk about philosophy with anyone and you can end up in totally new locations. Everyone has a different take on the world.

Some just like to think about it less and are just shallow. Plus it is mostly popular in certain population groups, which you are a part off. Other population groups are not that into this.

Hahahaha, funny joke. I have not met a single one of you, and I would like to keep it that way.

Well maybe not, some of you can be sane.

Not to disregard the rest of your post, but Obama certainly wasn't diplomatic (I think you mean 'bipartisan'), and that stubbornness is directly responsible for quite a few major issues such as our involvement in Syria, the temporary collapse of Iraq, and the dumpster fire of policy that is the ACA. Obama is right that Americans' hate towards him led to Trump's presidency, but it's not because he's black: it's because he was just an awful president in many regards.

Syria is a weird place, yes America got involved with it, but it was also a task Obama tried his best to avoid after Libya while major factions in his administration which include Clinton we're pushing it and taking action to speed it up. If anything I would have said Obama should have ignored the Clinton and other war Hawks and stayed out of Syria only to look into getting involved on the humanitarian side of things.

Libya was weird as it was the French that dived in first pulling everyone in and then passing the reigns to the US. But it was also Obama's fault for going in thinking no boots on the ground would be okay. Only to find out it was a bad idea all along.

Iraq's failure is more to Obama initial attempt to leave, problem was the Iraqi government created a situation hostile enough for the Sunni to jump to the ISIS ranks when the opportunity arrived. No president could fix that issue, unless they stayed which would have been a bigger toll on the US. If anything I am okay with this because it made Iraq realise the situation they were in and how they could not malign their Sunni brethren anymore. Something that Sadr has made a point of. It may in a sense build a sense of nationalism identity.

If anything Obama avoided going troops heavy even betraying his red line, though succeeding in getting Syria to forfeit it's chemical weapons. With Iran he was able to diplomaticly halt the nuclear arms program though not the missile program, honestly a better option than having a second North Korea on our hands. But Obama did not do enough he should have taken a hard stance of staying out of there and not helping groups with ties to Al-Qaeda, but there is only so much you can do when your intelligence community are doing their own things under your nose.

The ACA was a dumpster fire in certain sense, but the biggest reason was trying to appeal to Republicans. The Republicans would never accept a proposal even if it was friendly to them. I mean the ACA is basically a republican health bill that they themselves pushed and supported before Obama came to power. Romney himself implemented it in his state and Obama was going to do the same. But because it was Obama they would not accept it. I mean the ACA in many ways is a Republican policy, but the only reasoning of it not being accepted by Republicans is that it was proposed by Obama.

The economy was also steered under him from the 2008 recession to the growth it is having now. He left Trump with an under 5% unemployment, with the stock markets hitting new highs that it has not reached in history. All Trump has to do now is not mess with it and it will keep chugging along happily. If he leaves the US under another recession then it will be the biggest blunder I have seen in ages.

I will disagree on him being an awful president, compared to others he did great, Bush, Carter, Nixon there are many that did worse than him. The TPP would have been a nail in the coffin in China's expansion in the East, but we know what happened to that, a few political points win which sacrificed strategic superiority in the economic sense.

People voted for Trump because some hated him, but many hated Clinton, and wanted an outsider. Trump seemed like it but like others he is just another establishment candidate. Only hope for anti-establishment is a third party.