Quote from: MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE on December 11, 2016, 02:41:56 AM

I hear a lot about this Russian-pushed 'fake news' but I don't think I've ever actually seen any.

I think it's mostly an establishment buzzword to explain why it's not Democrats' fault for losing. (Hint: they picked a weak candidate) Don't take the bait, though.

I know this may sound like liberal propaganda or US propaganda but it is well known that the Russians have been focused over the last few years on a massive pr campaign. Mainly focused on mass disinformation to confuse the populace. It's kind of their game plan, anything anyone says and you basically throw a bunch of arguments whether fake or not, add what about isms.

The Russians love mass disinformation campaigns and mind you for them to expand they need the west to be unstable and dealing with local unrest. Why they have been heavily focused on tearing apart the EU by funding the different parties within European countries, whether left or right, to mainly pull their countries out of the EU. If they succeed they can easily move into the Balkan and actually annex a bunch of old soviet satellite stores and not many countries can do anything about it.

By creating distrust in Nato as well, I see them trying to weeken the resolve of the leaders of the US for standing up for the Alliance. If anything if they can make the US to leave it due to some excuse, it really makes all of Europe a playground for Russia. The more countries they can pull from it, even Turkey who they are both strong arming and giving some nice concessions if they listen, the easier it is for them to swing their club around.

I do wonder though if the Chinese may start getting worried, yes they have a huge economy and are trying to expand eastward, but I feel they will soon have to deal with the Russian threat as they are only allies of convenience and naturally expected to but heads due to territorial friction. Their spheres of influence are always colliding with each other. India may take advantage of this and stay out, and the Americans will keep propping Pakistan up, because it is the most significant force in the region that can counter and really drain the resources of the three major players I  that region.

Overall the Russians trying to influence the US election is guaranteed. The question really is to what end goal. There is a report going around NYT and other more trustful sources that a couple sources from the CIA, that not only DNC were hacked but the RNC were also hacked by the Russians. Now the RNC hack theory I am not so sure about, but the DNC is well known to be done by the Russian intelligence agency we'll either their agency or groups working in close unison with them. This is mainly due to a number of verifiable and we'll respected cyber security firms doing an assessment on the hacks and coming to the same conclusion based on many similarities to other Russian Cyber attacks around the world most notably the one in Germany.

Personally I see their end goal is basically to create unrest, push people further to the fringe by supporting groups that are alt-right and strong left wing groups, to mainly push the populace of America to be more isolationist and more willing to hate each other over any foreign threat. The main plan is to make it hard for the country to get involved and find the political will to support agreements like Nato and most of all undermine the major institutions like the UN and the World Bank. Thus cutting them off from Europe and allowing the Russians to expand west and and expand their sphere of influence over their old states and further into heart of Europe.

Americas best counter to that though is to create and support a strong Europe, Iran in a weird sense will be a great tool in that as a strong Iran erodes the Russian influence in Middle East. Isolate China and force the Chinese to expand west and north, thus putting the Chinese and the Russians in more conflicts over land and resources.

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Honestly trying to incite hatred against a groups is the wrong way to go. If a minority becomes a significant part of your population, it is best to try to incorporate them into your country.

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Hey, why not we just get rid of the election and make it a series of challenges with the last people standing have to duel each other for the right to rule.

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Honestly America does not need to remove the electoral College but needs electoral reform. Ditch the two party system and try to bring in more companies.

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Cool. So jail him. What does this have to do with anything. Why do you have to create a bigger narrative than the story. Plus if it's a Facebook news blog, well I already fear the site is the type to focus on certain crimes to create a narrative to basically create an echo chamber. Considering I do not believe they are that zealous in their tracking of crimes by other people that include people of all races who do the same shit.

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Uhhh, geography and history fail aside, kind of interesting  to see. I will wait and maybe tune in to see the results. Hopefully after a couple more test it will show some clear signs on how close we are to another era of medical tech growth.

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Eh, I am okay with the humor. In dire circumstances people act differently, some people cope with cracking stupid jokes.

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That you like Foo Fighters?

Quote from: BaconShelf on October 21, 2016, 04:32:10 PM

I made a gun but I can't run it on my home computer

So you made it in a computer lab at school, I guess?

Quote from: Risay117 on October 21, 2016, 05:01:51 PM

I did play around with it some time ago, but gave up, so unfortunately cannot help you much. I do have Unity 3d downloaded on my computer as well as autocad. The only person I know personally who actually was involved in quite a bit of 3d modelling and a little bit of game design was my younger brother, but he wont likely be any help for you.

Used to play around with Blender, that was beautiful piece of program that I came to love.

Any specific reason you gave up? I could possibly help you (although probably not that much,considering I'm a complete newbie).

I've tried blender before, but I'm learning 3DS Max now.

Biggest excuse, right now in Engineering School. Presonally, a project or two I will dive right in and then after a point I might just get distracted with something else.

I am a fickle man and that is my weakness.

Some weathering on the vehicle, but got to say, one beautiful hunk of machine. Cant say much more. Although the type of style for aesthetics is one that sometimes weird me out, for some reason kind of love it, especially after Initial D manga.

Any update? Any plans to connect this site to the Bungie site?

SevenSamurai, find it subbed. Or  Yojimbo

Hey, what do you expect. Someone like her who has ties with nearly everyone in the world who actually has influence, hell some of her friends I bet have done worse, and friends is a loose term, if anything they were likely associates for one business transaction.

I bet it is going to be an Iraqi Army operation, they better make sure to keep the Kurds and the Shia militia out or else this could get alot more ugly.

No clue, I personally am not a big drinker, most beer taste shit so I end up forcefully drinking it. Only had a few beer that I have liked the taste of, but usually they are specially brewed, and not ones that you just buy a 24 pack for.