I am F12!

I cound myself lucky as I was not affected at all. Weather was shitty, 4 days of non stop raining, but nothing more. No storms, no winds, just rain, rain, rain. I live at the top of a hill, so no problem.

My colleague was scared, though. She lives near river and her (ground level) flat was already flooded once 25ish years ago. This time the water risen flooded some of her neighbouring gardens, but stopped few steps from her door.

The worst effect was on place I work at. There’s ongoing reconstruction of the building and while the roof is supposed to be finished, it definitely did not look like it inside. There were multiple places where water went through, so wet walls, ruined drywall ceilings, water in cables, etc. Nothing devastating, but really inconvenient.

Still nothing compared to those poor souls who lost everything in a heartbeat.

When you don’t want to do, you can watch someone else do on twitch… I’m not even GenZ and I kind of do the same thing sometimes.

Yeah 80s/90s were the sweet spot for action movies. Most of them were naive and predictable, but also incredibly easy to digest. I’d say it was kind of WYSIWYG in movie space: good guys were good, bud guys were bad, plot was easy so your dog can comprehend it, no complicated backstory, no bullshit, just action and enjoyable fun.

Hello fellow universal donor. I’m blessed with the same blood type, so I donate the blood when I can at my local hospital. Usually 3x a year.

At first there was not much thought behind it, as both my parents went there too. When I turned 18 they just asked: “Do you want to go too?” And my answer was obviously yes, because why not? It was day off school, after all.

Now it’s just automatic. Since I only donate in my local hospital (small town, 15k people) I believe my blood gets to help people. They don’t pay for it, it’s volunteer, organized by red cross. They used to cover bus ride, but lately switched that for “food stamp” instead. We also get juice, coffee and snack once donated. The good part is, it’s still day off work where I live.

What’s wrong with it?

Autoloader is both advantage and disadvantage at the same time. You don’t need another crew member, but the mechanism proved itself to be deadly when tanks get hit.

The weight itself is a huge factor though. Modern tanks get to absurd numbers where it’s getting difficult to operate them at all.

That’s why I wrote “new/old design”. T-72 and 80 are vastly improved, but still based more or less on design of T-54.

The amount of cars: yes.

How is that any surprise on modern battlefield? Compared to the situation decade(s) ago, tank is just a prey with so much real time reconnaissance drones and long range precision weapons around.

From what I’ve read the main difference between tanks like Abrams/Leopard 2 and old designs like T-72/80/Leopard 1 is that once modern tank is knocked out/damaged/destroyed it doesn’t necessarily mean all the crew members are dead.

I don’t get it, what’s so special about this?

It’s pretty good for what it is. I finished it once years ago. Tried it again last year, got almost to the end and somehow lost interest. Still have it on my drive, so I might actually finish it.

Except for power consumption and heat generation ;-) This is where Bulldozers were hot shit!

Sony went the apple way. Next stand will be brushed aluminium for mere $999…

I started old gem Arx Fatalis. I tried to chew through it during last two decades, but I always failed. Not because of the game itself, because it is indeed very cool. This time I believe I will emerge victorious!

America… Fuck you! Classic.

When either of those things happen it is a good idea to run steam (lutris, bottles) from terminal to see what it’s trying to do while “not working”. Helped me couple times.

Kangaroos where?

/s (if it wasn’t obvious)

I’ve read interesting conspiracy, that Tunguska incident overlaps exactly with Nicola Tesla’s attempts to wireless transfer of energy. Was an interesting idea and read, even though very unlikely to be based on real event.

Because they’re grounded.