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  1. Cult Icon replied to RecTop2012's post in a topic in Female Fashion Models
    Joy's abs, wow
  2. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in General Talk
  3. ^ thanks .. s
  4. who is this?
  5. FTX is the most stupid financial disaster I've ever seen ^^
  6. Cult Icon replied to katchitup's post in a topic in General Talk
    Mike O Hearn is one of the weirdest fitness personalities. For years he keeps on claiming that he's natural, no steroids. He should just keep quiet about it but he keeps on trying to 'convince' people that he is natural.
  7. Cult Icon replied to Joe > Average's post in a topic in General Talk
    Ronnie Coleman's diet, protein protein protein protein...
  8. Cult Icon replied to katchitup's post in a topic in General Talk
    He's rather likeable. His supplements have his catchphrases ("lightweight baby", etc.) He was a police officer and was winning Mr. Olympia.
  9. Putin's biggest failure of the war was to get mobilization started 7 months after his enemy. If he did partial mobilization months before the war, the Russians would definitely be in much better strategic situation. At the very least all 4 Oblasts (K, Z, D, L) would be completely under their control with Ukraine's army in tatters. Instead his failure to maneuver Russian politics towards greater war support allowed Ukraine to amass many multiples numerical superiority in conscripted manpower and replace their 6-figure human losses. I've been watching the Russian partial mobilization for the past 2 months. It reminds me of WW2. The US, British, and German army had good tactical and unit training but the Soviets were shoddy in this area. The Russian reservists right now are getting mediocre training at best, 2 months of refresher training in their districts and then they are shipped to units for further training. The training in Ukraine looks relatively local and improvised. The 100,000 men already shipped to Ukraine are going to very useful in the defense but less so offensively. The Ukrainian reinforcements are even more poorly trained. The NATO trained 70000 only have up to platoon level, the rest are conscripts improvised training. The Russians conducted sophisticated large scale maneuvers with Eastern Military District (50,000 men 6000 armored vehicles) and are planning big maneuvers in Belarus. This leaves 300,000 new troops in the interior without higher level formation training. Last week they inducted conscript class 2022-2023 with 130,00-120,000 men. The previous year (160,000-140,000) is already fully trained and with their units but are legally not allowed to be used in the war (yet!).
  10. Politics is aways a part of war. US wars have heavy political influence, and so does the war in Ukraine right now (on both sides). The problem is that the politics can strongly interfere with military reality, and lead to disaster. Stalin's problems in 1941 was that 1. he purged the army, but likely not to the extent popularly believed 2. no retreat policies, leading to huge defeats 3. misjudged the political situation and allowed the Russian army to reorganize. The Germans attacked when their motorized forces were half-formed and trying to train/assemble into cohesive units. Hitler from 1943 onward was doing the same thing with no retreat policies. Although for Germany by 1943 they were so massively outnumbered that they had no chance of winning.
  11. Cult Icon replied to katchitup's post in a topic in General Talk
    Indy Jones 4 was so bad that I couldn't finish it. Also Ford could barely talk in Star Wars and Blade Runner. His vocal cords aged so much. And his acting wasn't good. It's kind of weird that he keeps on wearing the same clothes in the film lol.
  12. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in General Talk
  13. Cult Icon replied to katchitup's post in a topic in General Talk
  14. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in General Talk
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  16. This is quite sad for book collectors, researchers, and students. This site literally had EVERYTHING, a goldmine. It saved people thousands or tens of thousands of dollars of otherwise expensive material.
  17. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in General Talk
    This is really cool. I would have watched Fallout 1 and 2 if it was 3D. Maybe later. I want to watch Days Gone, it's supposed to be the best open world zombie game ever made.
  18. Cult Icon replied to katchitup's post in a topic in General Talk
    I am very surprised. I thought she would get away with 2 yrs Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for fraud | CNN Business So getting a womanly haircut, marrying a rich heir and having a baby didn't save her.
  19. I watched a bit of that. He gets most facts right, a few are questionable though. The story of the Soviet Union in WW2 is insane and epic. Historian David Glantz calls them "Stumbling Colossus 1941 and the Colossus Reborn 1942-1943". Are you interested in the Chechen wars? I am looking at a book about it.
  20. This is pretty funny to me. The Russians have NEVER run out of missiles. They shoot them everyday and recently they fired 100 plus in one day. Last month they fired 84 in one day. It is more rare that they don't shoot cruise or ballistic missiles during the course of 1 day. I hope people start questioning if the Ukrainian intelligence services are giving us in the West highly inaccurate military reporting.
  21. Dario in the books is very different from the one in the show. Very flamboyant, like a medieval rockstar: Dany has strong sexual attraction to tyrants.
  22. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in General Talk
    You think they would ever remake Fallout 2 (into a 3D version?)