Recent content by Leifmk

Hypothermia and frostbite are a real thing even in above-freezing temperatures. (Under correct conditions, somewhat milder temperatures can sometimes be worse for you than somewhat colder ones, because the air holds more moisture & thus can leech more heat from your body.) You'd think the...

I see you are a person of culture as well. One of the better bands to come out of Norway in the 90s that weren't black metal.

Yeah, we have four kids and all were delivered by c-section (between 2008 and 2018, at a major hospital in Norway). None were especially dramatic although in one of them my wife lost rather a lot of blood. Normally the mother will be awake throughout the procedure. As the father, my main job was...

Here's a Mongolian cover of an old Metallica tune:

Hell, there wasn't a coherent chain of events from the start of ep. 9 to the end of ep. 9. Each of the previous two episodes at least had some kind off plot structure to them, even though they didn't mesh well with each other. Episode 9 was basically just a bunch of set pieces and cutscenes and...

Now as a non-American I had no idea who Biden was before he was elected as Obama's VP in 2008, but I've gathered a few factoids about the man since then... is it not the case that he has been known both to have a slight stuttering problem and a habit of making verbal gaffes since, basically...

Twilight Struggle also exsists in a computer version. Man, Balance of Power. That takes me back. Always used to end in some completely trivial conflict escalating into nuclear war.

May be bad form to quote oneself, and especially just to say I told you so, but: I told you so.

You mean it's going to be horribly long-winded and marred by an awful lot of arguing about the game rules? Sounds about right.

Kremlin, obviously.

It's literally over 30 years since I read the books, but I seem to remember that the magnitude of the explosion would be somewhat random and unpredictable. And possibly there were some other reasons given for why it wasn't a usual tactic to do this deliberately.

If we ever get a real Nordic Union up and running, and I get to decide, then sure, you Scots can come too. Bring whisky. Speaking of which, I've sometimes thought about an alternate history where, instead of joining NATO after WW2, Norway and Denmark went into a Nordic defense union with...

A point made by someone else elsewhere, about the behavior of the cops in episode 1: The cops' actions toward the protagonists are basically the same as the fey folk in grittier fairy tales. Capricious, malevolent, you meet them by accident and they want to hurt you for no good reason; but they...

This is pretty much answered by episode 2 already.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.