See, there's a lot of people of a certain type in Germany. I don't know whether there's a proper term in Dutch — or in English, for that matter… we call them Gutmenschen, i.e. "good people" or "the better people". Bleeding heart liberals who'd still cry "refugees welcome!" had even three Paris's taken place in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich.
Maybe they think this wretched situation is a possibility to make up for Germany's sins. Perhaps they're just dipshits. At any rate Merkel is not easy to bring down.
I'm disenchanted. Severely. The way I see it, Merkel's failed policies have directly contributed to the Paris attacks, opening a way for terrorists to infiltrate Europe.

She's a technocrat. Every now and again (->Fukushima) it appears she thinks she has to prove that she's capable of emotions, though. A clusterfuck of epic proportions being the inevitable result.

If she falls (which I think she'd deserve), we're in for trouble. Without Merkel, her coalition partner would have no reason to support the conservatives (conservatives my ass!) any longer and they and the left-leaning opposition could elect one of their own. An unholy triad of social democrats, eco freaks and communists would take over. Technically, they can do that, no general elections needed.

Damn this woman. She's made sure no conservative will rule this country for a long time to come: The lefties have gotten stronger due to her, and there is no real conservative opposition capable of replacing her.

Two people are really happy that the match vs Germany was called off, our coach and the director of the football association ... no need for more tears.


France has made a request for assistance to EU members and Germany seems to be looking at every legal possibility to wiggle out of it. Oh wait I know there's an EU mission still going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina and off the coast of Somalia that they could "reinforce to relieve France". Anything to keep away from areas that actually matter. I mean no pirates have been spotted for months so surely there is almost zero risk of the armed forces having to do what other countries retain armed forces for

http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/frankreich-eu-101.html

Goddamnit Turkey.

One autocrat and another's dick measuring contest...

One year… already feels like an eternity.

I know the feeling

Thanks, John. The worst part with such pain is, you actually don't want it to go away.

So, how are things these days?

Mild temperatures with a severe chance of ranting as we approach christmas.

Why's that? (Aside from the usual stuff.)

Renewed inspiration

Well, that's one way of puttin' it.

BIS requires that all addons must be available free of charge. If this is done with a 1 kb/s download rate if you're not paying it still doesn't violate the license even though in practice it of course means exactly that.

What's this post about, exactly?

Armaholic's ad revenue dropped off thanks to steam workshop and SiX so they've decided to start a tiered subscription model.

Oh sorry, wait, no, that's just my baseless speculation. It's entirely down to their server's suddenly being unable to handle the influx of new downloaders that's been brought on by... erm... people getting their Christmas bonus? Sure, yeah, let's go with that. Totally a christmas thing, you know, they were able to handle DayZ when that the biggest thing ever, but, wooah boy, this whole Christmas bonus thing, that's really killing their servers.

Anyway, if you'd just pay around double what you'd expect from professional hosting services like Nexus or Dropbox, we might actually let you download files. And if you dare question this you are an entitled parasite. How dare you insinuate that armaholic is effectively planning to make money off other people's work has anything other the most noble intentions!?

Oh, yeah, and this is only for the download servers, so they're presumably not going to get rid of those ads loaded with tracking cookies for paying members.

Steam takes away many of the rights of the creator so Valve can exploit them. SiX has a premium service as well.

https://withsix.com/gopremium

True that, but both of them offer a "left click to have mods" approach. Lots of people these days are really, really dumb. They don't know how to dot-seven-zip or arr-ayy-arr. They just want the mods.

And, again, with SiX, 3-4 of those crazy Europennys a month (around half of what Armaholic are asking), and they're offering a lot more: their own client (however terrible iti s), no ads... they are paywalling off HTTPS, though, so that's kind of scumbaggy.

(by the way, happy German Christmas, you innumerate Krauts!)

Well, it's 5:35 AM on Friday the 25th now, so here you go """correctly""": Merry Christmas.

Merry Anglospheric Christmas, you innumerate tea chugging imperialist scumbuckets!

Damn, I'm totally ruined by the internet.

I read that without the 's'.

I knew I should have gone with pigfuckers

This is what I get for censoring myself.

Some people just read what they want to read

Daesh, you unoriginal bastards!

Well, well, the things you spot...

Please remove that barbaric motherfucker's fugly mug from my former living room's screens, thank you very fucking much.

And please, don't call them 'Daesh'. That's but the Arabic acronym for Islamic State and came to use in the Western Hemisphere largely due to that blasted commie Bernie Sander's suggestion on "progressive" broadcaster MSNBC, who called it "unfair" to "convey the impression" that IS had "anything in common with Islam".

If that were true, it'd also be unfair to link Nazism to Germany, the Inquisition to the Catholic Church or football hooligans to England...

Hold up, I'm going to set the filter to autocorrect ISIS to Daesh.

Edit: Done. Hey pMaster, try to say "Scunthorpe"

And Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist at best. Now, Corbyn on the other hand... *swoons*

ISIS. ISIS. ISIS.

I don't even know what that is. Could be an English lord, a condom brand name or a town in Texas for all I know.

It's all the same to me. "Democratic socialism" is a contradiction in terms. 51% of the population voting to steal from the other 49% is as democratic as was Hitler's election.

Damn, I forget you're site team... gah, if you weren't you wouldn't be able to say Scunthrope because it's got "cunt" in it, and then everyone would be all "wow, I never noticed there's a 'cunt' in Scunthorpe" and I could go "well, there's actually quite a lot of cunts in scunthrope" and we could all have laugh at Scunthrope's expense, and everyone would think I'm witty and not just stolen that joke from reddit, but, no, you've ruined that now. I hope you're happy.

Hold up, shouldn't you be posting news or something?

Well, mark my words, one day I shall make you rue the day you foiled this attempt to make you rue the day you previously foiled my attempts to make you rue some other day (I think it was something to with flags, that had eagles, with tits?)


As opposed to a representative democracy, like Germany, where Merkel only need 41.5% of the votes to fuck over the rest of the country?

I'll respond to that later.

A merry 2016's birthmas for now!

Happy Birthday, The Gregorian Calender!

My hangover is not really gone yet. Damnit, what did I drink?

Oh. Don't drink and medicine.

What if my medicine is alcohol?

Tell me something alcohol isn't.

Actually, I don't like to drink as much as I used to. I don't drink any beer at all (I properly can't) and anything else only once in a blue moon. Damn… back in the day Long Island Iced Teas used to be my kryptonite.

Have you ever had a great idea, then as soon as you start to do it, you instantly realize it's a terrible idea, but at that point it's too late to stop?

Anyway, if anyone needs me I'll be hiding from society until I have hair again.

I'll be hiding from society until there is a society again.

Re the lack of hair, why don't you post a selfie? I'm a shorthaired/ skinhead-ed person myself and I get lots of compliments for it. (Owing to me having hat size 8, of course. Less hair makes my head look less big.)

My selfie-taking ability is hindered by not having a webcam, or one of those fancy picture taking phones. Also, I'm not a 16 year old girl.

Ha. And here I thought I'd be just about the only one.

← No FB, no Twitter, no Instagram, no […] and: no smartphone. As a matter of principle.
You know what's funny? Mention that to anyone and immediately you'll get an answer along the lines of "Don't have any friends, eh? Forever alone, eh, bumpkin?"

← "You think you have more friends than me?"

"Let's see…" Checks FB: "I have 523 friends!"

But if you outed yourself as a vegan or as a trisexual Maoist they'd speak most highly of you for doing things your way.

And to think they say the West is an individualistic world… our idea of individualism is to make a selfie with a 500$ smartphone 'cause everyone does it while wearing a hoodie that reads "fight capitalism!"

Oh, I actually am just some kind of bumpkin hermit. I've even taken up homebrewing and mad gibbering. All that remains is to find a cthonic deity to sacrifice backpacking teens to.

Nope, you're just like everyone else here including me.

Also lol at teenagers rioting against security services keeping track of social media for terrorists and other criminals and afterwards buggering off to post all personal details on those same social media and uploading their nude pics to the cloud.

Quickly now, we need to revive this place as soon as possible! It seems to be a stronghold and refuge of common sense in a dying Europe.

Could we not just watch the world fall apart from the safety of our shelter? I was quite enjoying not having to do my job...

So are the border guards and the politicians that restrain them which is what got us into this much trouble in the first place. You are a part of the problem, and we all know what the solution is!













That's right: Wolfpacks in the Mediterranean. They're moping now when ~3000 out of over a million refugees die let's see what effect a Mark 46 has on their rubber dinghies! This would result in far less than 3000 deaths since after the first few attempts at crossing no gold digger is going to be crazy enough to take that route due to this ruthless invention of German efficiency. Now you might be thinking well they'll just travel by land at which point I would like to make clear my ideas involving land mines and audio detectors

Nonsense! If video games have taught me anything, we only need one thing, Cyclopeanly complex border control documentation. Glory to Arstotzka.

At least nine Germans dead in a suicide bombing in Istanbul.

First of all: Rest in peace.

Secondly Merkbot has emphasized that this underlines the urgency to fight terrorism. In Germany's case this will be in the form of an increase in paperwork and by taking high-res pictures of slavetraders from 15.000 feet and leaving the actual dangers of fighting a war to others. Perhaps she would like to borrow a shovel so she and the rest of the Bundesf*g can bury their heads even more firmly in the sand?

If I wrote my feelings on the sorry state my country has entered, I'd be banned from this site and probably arrested for hate speech.

I would want to remind Europe that St.Denis, Molenbeek, Malmö and Rotherham aren't places in Germany, though. The old hag in Berlin is but a symptom of the sickness that is liberalism.


Damn! I'm feeling old. Already many comments of mine sound like "back in the good old days", and I just turned 26!

Perhaps the worst thing is that by "good old days" I don't mean 50 but 5 years ago!

'eh, if I ban you it'll just be me and JdB, and, well... could you imagine that?

It'd just be something like:
JdB: By my THROBBING ERECTION, something terrible happened in the middle east!
Dave: But it's the middle east! Something terrible happens there every day!
JdB: But this affected White People! The old administration, which I was part of by the way, would never have such a blasé attitude towards the suffering of your fellow man! By my MIGHTY LOINS, how can we good Christian men sit idle as such monstrosities, almost as monstrous as my FREAKISHLY LARGE PHALLUS!, take place! We should do something! DEUS VULT!
Dave: I act like I dislike you, but I secretly wish I was a woman so I could make love to you.
JdB: That's entirely normal! By which I mean, I think Hitler was right! SEX JOKE!
Dave, now Davina: *Swoon*

Actually, no, I changed my mind. Andi, I need you to post your true feelings on that matter so I can ban you and live out this new fantasy of mine. Not the best birthday present, I know, but, look at it this way, a bunch of trinkets can be bought at any store, but being thrown out on your arse for hijinks, that comes from the heart!

It's cute to see how well you know me

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Back in the Ye Olden Days of the Glorious Empire where "being considerate to the ethnically challenged" meant waiting a day and slaughtering them on Monday instead of bothering to come out of bed on the Lord's day.

JdB has been a moderator twice, once on this site, and once on it's predecessor (or was he an admin first time around? I forget, it was before my time). Both times he has been forced to step down, as his sexual obligation to his innumerable legion of admirers has taken priority.

I knew that. For some odd reason, I happened to think of the Dutch government!

I quit twice but could easily have stayed on since I was already well on my way to banning the other half of the memberlist. Both times because I can't stand incompetence and weakness. Sometimes it's called a "lack of empathy", but I consider any such theories of "psychology" as pure overeducated heresy that needlessly drains government funds from things where it could actually do some good, like in the acquisition of shiny new aircraft to bomb stone age cave dwellers back to the sto ... keep them where they belong.

Same goes for mods. I'm in one mod where the problem where the main problem with not getting stuff finished was that they were doing whatever they wanted to do rather than finishing what needed to be done. They didn't want to change so I quit. On to another mod where things were organized but over time turned into the same problem that the first mod had so I said adios. Not about to waste my time helping people that ask for my help but don't really want to be helped.

Now I just make stuff on my own. No one disagrees with the plan or tries to wiggle out of their commitments. I've cut down on management a staggering 95%, you should see the team meetings they're truly insightful. Ruthless efficiency is just my kind of thing. I guess it's my German streak