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Thank you Wagner!

For the last month or so, I've been working on putting out Let's Play videos with a buddy of mine on YouTube. Idk if any of you have any interest in Fortnite, but basically the premise of our show is we try to recreate famous buildings of the world in the game. Here's an episode we did featuring the Arc de Triomphe. I'd love to hear any feedback y'all have!

Happy Birthday McDowell!

Yeah dude! I even recorded an EP a few years ago - https://sebastiansings.bandcamp.com/album/sandburg
I haven't done a lot since then, but I'm working on some things now for the near future!

Mostly just been doing grad school stuff (finished in December) and working on a documentary. Also been doing some let's plays and other video editing. 

What have I missed???

Hey all,

It has apparently been two years (!!???!!) since I posted anything here. It's crazy how quickly time passes. Anyway, I hope all of you are well, and hopefully I'll get in some games on the pub server soon. Idk if I still know anyone on here (it seems most people I do are Ret. now), but I hope you're all well. 

Best regards (and *giraffe noises*),

Capt. Giraffe

Hope you don't have any more unwelcome surprises Dillon, and the recovery goes well!

You are quite welcome to sing god save the queen in French... At which point I will laugh at all French speaking surrender monkies and remind them that they lopped the head off their Queen and entrusted power to an angry dwarf.

Viva la revolution. Still sounds like retards urming and arring through a language to me ( case in point Mr Arsene Wengers post match whinging....)

Wait Lloyd are you a yiddo?? PLEASE SAY YOU'RE A YIDDO!

It won't. The reality of the situation is: who gives a shit about Crimea? It's historically and ethnically a Russian territory. Russia has a MAJOR stake in holding on to the peninsula, and if the Ukranian gov. wants to lean towards the west thats fine, but the Russians wont allow major military installations to be held by a western leaning nation, especially when those installations are in an area that is markedly pro-russian (if you believe the status quo the news is reporting). The whole nuclear power thing is irrelevant here: in a conventional war, the Ukranians would lose embarrassingly, and neither Europe nor the US is interested in engaging Russia in a conventional war over its understandable desire to seize territory it deems vital to its natinal security, despite its encroachment on the rights of a sovereign nation. And despite the vote being illegal, the reality is is the Crimean people voted to secede, that was a democratic action. It would by rather hyppocritical of the US and the West to say "hey thats not ok, thats illegal". The American Revolution was illegal. The French revolution was illegal. The Mexican revolution was illegal. Countless other European revolutions were illegal. That does not mean they were not the right thing for those people to do. The Crimean people have spoken. Russia wants Crimea, Crimea wants Russia. The rest of the world cannot decide for others what they should or should not do. Now if the Russians start pulling some Hitler shit, and begin preparing to annex other territories in addition to Crimea (which was an autonomous state within Ukraine) that would be different. The world would probably not stand for another war of expansion by a european power. but lets be real, the people with the most stake and therefore the most say in the matter are Europeans, and if there's anything history has taught us its that Europeans do not fight for each other, they fight for themselves. If Russia were to try to start taking territory that is part of the whole of Ukraine or spread into other neighboring countries, it would be interesting to see how the world reacts.

But lets be real, who's willing to die to prevent Russia for taking over a few Eastern European nations. Raise your hands high please.

This isn't right, on a number of levels. A very vocal part of Crimea has spoken out in favor of joining Russia, sure, but the Russian government has bussed over scores of Russian citizens to sell that image as well. The oldest inhabitants of Crimea, the Tatars who have lived there since the Mongolian conquest, have had virtually no say in the matter, and would much rather live under a Ukranian government that doesn't try to systematically deport them like the Russian government has for 200 years. The "vote" that was held most certainly was not democracy, as it was entirely orchestrated and run by the autocratic Russian government as a pretense for annexation. And it does matter. You know who cares about Russia's annexation of Crimea? Moldova, Poland, Estonia, countries that have seen shit like this happen before and know what it leads to. This is not a good thing, I can guarantee you that, and it will have ramifications. They might not be military ramifications, I certainly hope they aren't, but they will be significant.

This song's everything I love and thus tells you all you need to know about me.

Sadly Britain and the U.S were guarantors over the integrity of the Ukraines borders....

Yay world police again, pretty glad I'm out now... Russias a bit chilly to go and sit in compared to Afghan

Well Crimea's basically the nicest part of Ukraine, so I think it would beat the hell out of Afghanistan.

And in most states in the U.S... doesn't mean she's not too young lol

That "olympic ring guy found dead" story is fake. It's the Daily Currant which is a fucking idiotic "satirical" publication that makes up stories that sound real.

I could spend days talking about how this is a very popular attitude because of the decades-long conflict the USA had with the USSR, and how there's loads of Schadenfreude at seeing a long-time rival screw up. American media have had a field day pointing out everything that goes wrong, and you better believe they're picking every little thing apart moreso than they have for any other Olympic competition -including the one that was held in a city where people need masks to go outside because the air is so fucking polluted.

Of course there are issues with these Olympics, of course there is corruption, the threat of terrorism, and last-minute preparations. These problems that have occurred at tons of Olympics over the years. Does that excuse them? No, of course not, but do Americans take more joy from Russia's failures than others, yes.

I don't like Vladimir Putin: I think he's a tyrant, a bully, and I think the way he's able to play on Russians' fears and convictions to get what he wants is disturbing to say the least. But I sympathize with the Russian people, many of whom are immensely proud of these Olympics, and I'm annoyed at how blatantly so much American coverage is massively biased against the host country.

The guy was sober for like 23 years, you guys have no clue about what kind of father he was, or any idea of who he was in his private life. Addiction is complicated, and to point the finger at a dead man is unproductive and disrespectful. It's not your place to judge.

RIP Mr. Hoffman, you were truly a great actor. Almost Famous and Capote are two of my favorites of his.

That would be very nice Engle.

I got a winter coat and some books. Too embarrassed to ask for any videogames this year

Where'd you get that 2% number? Because it seems there are some scientists who disagree with you. In fact, the UN has estimated that livestock account for nearly 15% of all human-caused greenhouse gasses. The EPA even puts agriculture as the primary source of methane emissions, globally. Forests' methane emissions are the biggest natural source of methane -less than 1% of the globe's methane emissions-, but this is mitigated by chemical processes in the soil, that cattle grazing can also affect, through soil-degradation from overgrazing. Deforestation for grazing releases CO2 stored in trees, which contributes much more to the greenhouse effect than the methane they naturally produce.

But the damage of cattle farming extends beyond greenhouse gasses. The livestock sector is one of the biggest contributors to air and water contamination, biodiversity loss and land degradation. I'm not saying you have to go vegetarian or vegan or anything like that, but if you cut meat and cheese from your diet for one day (1 day!) of the week, it would be the equivalent of taking 7.6 million cars off the road. Just think about that for a second.

But of course, most people don't give a shit, because steak tastes better than conservation. Which is fucked up

It might not be healthy, but it's more environmentally responsible to be a vegetarian or a vegan. I'm neither, but I have cut down on the amount of meat I eat considerably over the last two years.

What people don't tend to think about is the environmental cost of the industry required to produce all the meat people consume. As the planet's population grows, and the per capita GDP of countries like China increases, more and more people start eating meat. That means more and more cows, pigs, etc. need to be produced, which, in addition to contributing considerable amounts of greenhouse gasses such as methane, also leads to the destruction of ecosystems. In places like the Amazon, one of the leading causes of deforestation is to make way for fields for grazing, which is largely unsustainable. So not only does big agriculture contribute methane to the atmosphere, it also removes trees that could help mitigate that greenhouse effect.

So, if you cutting down on your consumption of meat is just another thing you can do, like investing in fuel-efficient cars/light bulbs/etc., to ensure there's still some planet left over for your descendents.

It's definitely not 100 times worse in Europe. First of all, that's a massive generalization, and second of all, the image tons of people on this side of the Atlantic have of hooliganism is outdated. A lot of people think it's STILL as bad as it was in the 80s, which was the true height of hooligan violence, and firm violence.

Where it IS 100 times worse is in Brazil and Argentina, where people have died at multiple games in the past year.

My vote just tied her up! Not literally... I mean, to first pla- aw forget it.

Youtube's been full of videos of goats talking/singing like people for the last couple years. Probably a nod to that

That beach at the end is in Brighton, England. Beeeeeen there

You should probably show her my music, you know, purely for professional reasons. Trying to expand my fan base and whatnot...

You guys are going to scare Powell off again

Oh come on