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  1. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in Music
  2. I have to catch up, too many trailers today!
  3. Hunter mcgrady is morbidly obese wtf....!
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  7. 1. Russian forces continue to advance north and northeast of Kharkiv with the support of air, missile, & drone strikes. These towns appear to be poorly defended. The Ukrainians claim that these Russian recon and infantry troops are a regiment sized group of approx. 2,000 men out of 35,000 men. There is a potential of eventually committing 70,000 men of Army Group North to the offensive. 2. Pentagon & Western sources claim that the Russian operation is small scale and local affair meant to expand the zone of control but not invade the city of Kharkiv proper. 3. The biggest news is the firing of longtime Russian minister of defense Shoigu after some corruption issues with his staff. Shoigu has been moved to the Security Council. Instead, Putin hired the experienced economist Belousov to become Minister of Defense. The claim here is that the War economy is at 6.6% of GDP and needs to be lowered and rationalized, while increasing production. So this is quite interesting as circa 2023 the Russians talked about a target of "10%" of GDP for defense and now 6.6% is considered too high for their strategic goals.
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  10. I thought he was kind of strange person. He looked a bit like Aragorn (disheveled, good looking) but unlike Viggo there is a creepiness to his presence. Did you suspect that he was Sauron when you first watched it? I didn't catch on to the twist in the beginning at all. It seems that they were vaguely trying to make Sauron 'misunderstood' evil, which isn't bad if it is implemented correctly, which it was not. I think it would have interesting if they made Galadriel & Sauron BFF & even more romantically inclined lol. There are slight hints to that in later episodes. my impression from reading the Simarillion is that Tolkein's concept for Sauron was not so much like the one used in Rings of Power, but someone very similar to Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost: In human form he is attractive and charismatic & skilled in the rhetorical arts/arts of persuasion in which he used to his advantage.
  11. Cult Icon replied to Enrico_sw's post in a topic in General Talk
    @Enrico_sw @SympathysSilhouette This CDPR comic (1 out of 5) is the sequel to Witcher 3 blood & Wine. The first issue is pretty solid- it starts with Geralt as a winemaker. Interestingly it starts off with Yennefer visiting Geralt at his house some time after the events of B & W, which is not what happened in the game. In the game if the player went with Yenn, she visits and settles down. It's pretty good! sucks that there is no ciri or anyone else but yenn though. it looks like Vampires are still a problem in Touissant
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  13. It's desperate and insane imho! The Amazon series and this new effort are literally based on a bunch of paragraphs from the Simarillion etc., which is why they are badly written. The hobbit is a very simple story, literally just 1 movie's worth and no more. In the middle of production Peter Jackson was forced to expand it from 2 to 3 movies due to the greed for $ lol.