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    Goodbye Ozymandias

    I see. Just because I've known about Oz's illness doesn't make it less sad. Goodbye, Oz-man. :wavey:
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    Random Rants 94 I rant at the thread title and shake my fist menacingly.

    Did a DJ save your life? ;)
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    Should the US Invade Greenland (Denmark) & Panama

    Especially in winter.
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    C7 Progress and Announcement Thread

    Yes. Yes they do. It's like the fanmade level in N that emulates the bridges of Königsberg.
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    Random Thoughts XV: Temere Cogito, Ergo . . .

    Why don't you start by evaluating how Chinese armies fared against heavy-infantry armies of the day e.g. Korea, Japan? Or south in Indochina, or the Philippines?
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    What’s your favorite shape?

    Pics or it didn't happen. This feels interesting.
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    Random Raves 54: You will succeed. It is inevitable.

    Don't underestimate the small benefits. In one week I won four Commander Keen games, and I do count this as a rave.
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    Random Thoughts XV: Temere Cogito, Ergo . . .

    Before the era when gunpowder weapons became the primary weapon of a soldier, cases when missile troops were the central enemy in an army or even won battles by themselves were extremely rare. Sphacteria, Carrhae, Poitiers and Agincourt are about the only ones I can remember off the top of my...
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    Altered Maps XVIII: Continuing Curious Cartography

    It's OK. It's just the Yanks beginning to understand that the whole continent is called América. With an é.
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    C7 Progress and Announcement Thread

    While I'm still posting on CFC I might as well say that animated landscape graphics are why the Transport Tycoon (and other Tycoon games) actually work. Traffic lights, water, etc. just make the game so much better and take not that much memory or processing power to execute.
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    Which films have you seen lately? ΚΓ' - The thread is your movie hegemon.

    Well, then, I insist, too. The one with David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly?
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    Elon Musk: Force for anthropic advancement or self-serving con-artist?

    Money is an illusion and a conman like Musk knows he can just convince people he's ‘worth’ however many bazillion dollars when even his assets aren't. Who the crap comes up with these valuations? My malware blockers don't let my browsers load that, but choxorn's quote does load it as plain...
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    Random Thoughts XV: Temere Cogito, Ergo . . .

    Chinese armies can't have been small. The soldiers in the terracota army are so huge!
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    Random Raves 54: You will succeed. It is inevitable.

    This feels so similar to when Mr. Burns' weekly treatment for cheating death is revealed in The Springfield Files.
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