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BTGBullseye

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  1. World of Warships.
  2. World of Warships... Pretty fun. Kinda like a WWII version of the ship combat from Assassin's Creed 4, only in a 'match' setting.
  3. As I said, it wasn't political... It was in response to him actively putting out information, knowing it would likely kill someone. He attempted to commit murder, indirectly, but that's equivalent to hiring a hitman. Last I checked, all crimes were a part of a full extradition treaty... Only a rare few are limited to specific crimes. Treason is a crime, but only happens if you are a citizen of the country, and is very much a part of every US extradition treaty. Political crimes is such a vague concept that it is effectively meaningless anymore. (I personally consider every politician to be a criminal, so would their actions be political crimes?)
  4. I'm sorry, but I just can't bring myself to see her as anything but my little sister. (no insult intended, I always wanted a little sister that I didn't have to change diapers for)
  5. Agreed, but when it's a simple request to delay releasing the information a few days to keep someone from being murdered, and it's not going to harm anything or anyone to delay, and he refuses, that's the same as attempted murder in my book. (the government agency that made the request didn't really care at that point if he released the info, just so long as they had the time to extract their personnel) When it comes to attempted murder of a US citizen, I am never against trying to extraditing the person responsible. (it could even be argued that it was premeditated since the reason for the delay was included in the request to delay) Most countries have extradition treaties with the USA, meaning if they are a criminal to the USA, the country that has one of those treaties will arrest the criminal and send them to the USA for trial. IIRC Assange was in a country with one of those treaties, so it wasn't in the slightest underhanded IMO. (no blackmail or bribes required to get most countries to honor their extradition treaties)
  6. This is a post.
  7. Cheesy rice with added turkey, and some sort of raspberry flavored drink. (it's a mix you pour in water, tastes like the raspberry flavor from the Brisk raspberry iced tea, it's kinda like Gatorade but sweeter and better for you, and made by one of the guys that originally made Gatorade)
  8. I tend to stay away from Assange references as a negative for the USA, especially since I know someone who very nearly ended up in the land of the not living because of something he 'leaked' at an inappropriate time. (not at liberty to tell you which)
  9. BTGBullseye

    X-Files

    I didn't get to see the first few minutes of the first new episode, but I got the impression that nobody really knows why X-Files was reopened. I would guess that we'll find out why in episode 6.
  10. The site was never designed for mobile use, so there will be issues with access via mobile devices until it is redesigned. (which I hope takes several decades past the end of my life)
  11. There is the problem however that you run into... Just because one government makes a deal with another, it doesn't actually force the opposing government to do anything. What would be a valid example of the USA forcing a government would be if the forced government was violating its own laws to do something. (like was the case with TPB, which violated absolutely no Swedish laws any of the times it was taken down, and none of it fell under US jurisdiction whatsoever)
  12. I'd like to know why? Many torrents are 100% perfectly legal.
  13. 6/10 "Be not as think as you drunk you are. Live free or die (or run away, or whatever seems best at the moment)." - Placard of Wisdom
  14. Maybe try Port Royale... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Royale:_Gold,_Power_and_Pirates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Royale_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Royale_3:_Pirates_%26_Merchants
  15. Ew, Bose... That's what you get when you want the illusion of quality. Nice headphones though.
  16. Named settlers are different from normal settlers... The benefit of them is you can send them somewhere already fortified, and leave them be, no worry about them dying then.
  17. Well, if those of us in the top 1.1% were the majority, XCOM 2 wouldn't be about a totally alien controlled Earth... The only reason that's what XCOM 2 is about is because the VAST majority of people couldn't beat EU or EW on any difficulty the first time through, and even more can't beat Impossible difficulty at all. Their reasoning was that the majority lost, so Earth was conquered, now you get to deal with the consequences of the majority's incompetence.
  18. Ah, see now you're getting to the point that I usually do when others don't accept my sources... All I want is what evidence you believe points to the US government forcing other governments to do something they don't want to. (I can point to one right off the top of my head, the takedown of TPB, multiple times)
  19. Would you mind providing proof of that? Please don't try and use Vietnam, Korea, or Kosovo as examples, as those were requests from those governments for US assistance. Also, just an FYI, Martin Luther (the one that was excommunicated from the Catholic church in the 1500's) was anti-semitic, which would technically fall under xenophobia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#Anti-Judaism_and_antisemitism
  20. I have to respond to this. Bullets have almost no momentum, and their energy is just not as impressive as you think. If you somehow had an armour that provided no padding (which is impossible) and didn't distribute the force at all (which is impossible) but still stopped the bullet, it would leave a nasty bruise and that's about it. An actual suit of armour both provides significant padding and distributes the force over a much wider area, so much so that it's basically the same as being given a hard slap at best, and a paintball at worst. It would take much, much more than 3-5 hard slaps to have a meaningful effect on somebody, and the same applies to bullets. Hard armour does spread it out more, yes. And it actually does such a good job that some soldiers have reported finding bullet damage on their armour when they didn't even realize they had been shot. And that's with rifles, so imagine how much less a pistol would do if a rifle already did nothing. Further, knocking somebody down with a bullet is always impossible. You're familiar with Newton's third law of motion, right? You understand that any firearm that had that kind of power would also knock down the shooter, right? No number of bullets is going to knock somebody down. You can't shoot people fast enough to knock them down without knocking yourself down, and that's ignoring the fact that a gun that had that much firepower that rapid shots from it could knock people down would recoil so unbelievably hard that it would be impossible to hit anybody with it in the first place, and would seriously injure the user's shoulder. You're entitled to your opinion, but my information comes from military vets which have actually been shot by those rounds. (unfortunately they don't do online stuff, and live in another state, so I can't corroborate for you in a timely manner)
  21. Your settlements don't have to be built at all... The settlers never die unless YOU shoot them.
  22. The second one on your list sounds like it might be a rather good mod... Doubtful it would be a DLC.
  23. Those are the main reasons I won't ever play that game, despite many asking if I wanted to play it with them.
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