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by learnedSloth
Tue May 21, 2024 7:05 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: War, what is it good for?
Replies: 1083
Views: 122027

Re: War, what is it good for?

To the helicopter crash where the leaders of the latest nuclear power died.
by learnedSloth
Mon May 20, 2024 1:37 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: War, what is it good for?
Replies: 1083
Views: 122027

Re: War, what is it good for?

The all time high seems to be due to the helicopter crash. The other cases seem relatively insignificant too.
by learnedSloth
Sat May 18, 2024 8:03 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Wind Chill in Winter restricts my Ability to Properly Ride my Dashing Ducati Supersport late at Night
Replies: 3
Views: 96

Re: Wind Chill in Winter restricts my Ability to Properly Ride my Dashing Ducati Supersport late at Night

On first read I thought that you wanted better thermal insulation. What you want is a wind chill index. Something like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Table_of_Wind_Chill_Index_Values.png

except the highest temperature in that chart is 0 °C, and the highest velocity is 70 km/h.
by learnedSloth
Sat May 18, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Wind Chill in Winter restricts my Ability to Properly Ride my Dashing Ducati Supersport late at Night
Replies: 3
Views: 96

Re: Wind Chill in Winter restricts my Ability to Properly Ride my Dashing Ducati Supersport late at Night

I think your best shot at seeing improvement would be telling manufacturers; it should be in their interests.
by learnedSloth
Sat May 18, 2024 12:47 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter
Replies: 28
Views: 656

Re: Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter

It probably didn't work like that in the books. The school would have been buried in sundry items pulled by the spell.
by learnedSloth
Fri May 17, 2024 4:03 am
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Can't start a game against bots
Replies: 6
Views: 251

Re: Can't start a game against bots

The site has received unexpectedly many requests recently, so some limits were put in place. Here's more info: https://www.webdiplomacy.net/contrib/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5414&sid=21428af88781744113bc9e8cfd886af9#p402580 I think a queue doesn't exist, albeit making these limits permanent would ...
by learnedSloth
Thu May 16, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Banned from the forums!
Replies: 271
Views: 9077

Re: Banned from the forums!

Ban Pengwinja for accepting the wrong solution to the problem of the mafia bot not supporting & in names.
by learnedSloth
Mon May 13, 2024 1:58 pm
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Site Loading Incredibly Slow
Replies: 19
Views: 597

Re: Site Loading Incredibly Slow

I wonder if anyone has a grudge against the site or has some reason to want to cause trouble.. hmmm.. I think Hong Kong is controlled by China now, and a DDoS attack could be a crude attempt to censor the site by blocking requests. Of course I'm just guessing, and there's a very narrow possibility ...
by learnedSloth
Mon May 13, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: War, what is it good for?
Replies: 1083
Views: 122027

Re: War, what is it good for?

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Mon May 13, 2024 7:47 am
The Palestinian Government is not holding the hostages, Hamas is.

Everyone except Israel now wants a ceasefire.
Apparently only Israel wants to free the hostages. :eyeroll:
by learnedSloth
Wed May 08, 2024 10:19 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter
Replies: 28
Views: 656

Re: Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter

When 2 novel series have a fight, the real winner is the one holding their covers for them, that is Narnia.
by learnedSloth
Mon May 06, 2024 6:11 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Death Star vs 4 Borg Cubes
Replies: 21
Views: 500

Re: Death Star vs 4 Borg Cubes

A battle between them would resemble a fight between a Spanish Galleon and a a modern oil tanker whose only weapon is the ability to ram. After the first amusing hour the following weeks would get pretty damned tedious. Oil tankers can't take much punishment, so the galleon would likely win in spit...
by learnedSloth
Fri May 03, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Death Star vs 4 Borg Cubes
Replies: 21
Views: 500

Re: Death Star vs 4 Borg Cubes

A battle between them would resemble a fight between a Spanish Galleon and a a modern oil tanker whose only weapon is the ability to ram. After the first amusing hour the following weeks would get pretty damned tedious. Oil tankers can't take much punishment, so the galleon would likely win in spit...
by learnedSloth
Thu May 02, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Can no longer use [url] tag in the forum
Replies: 6
Views: 216

Re: Can no longer use [url] tag in the forum

I'm not sure when this change happened, but as someone who has been having to ban hammer these spammers I'm pretty supportive of it. The problem with the URL tags is that you can disguise a link as something else - hide it in a punctuation mark for example - and that's always what they do. Wouldn't...
by learnedSloth
Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:39 pm
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Can no longer use [url] tag in the forum
Replies: 6
Views: 216

Re: Can no longer use [url] tag in the forum

I assume this was done to prevent bots spamming links? That is my understanding... what little understanding I am able to bring to the table. A lot of things were done to combat the bot invasions. I regret this 'loss,' too. It doesn't even stop them from spamming urls. For example: https://www.webd...
by learnedSloth
Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Jesus was a Socialist
Replies: 113
Views: 2659

Re: Jesus was a Socialist

Why wouldn't God have also kept the Germans who became Nazis on track if he has this power? What a terrible thing it would be for God to save only "his own" from the fate of becoming genocidal murders - what did the ones who became Nazis do to deserve this punishment? Why weren't all Germans "his o...
by learnedSloth
Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:44 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Jesus was a Socialist
Replies: 113
Views: 2659

Re: Jesus was a Socialist

I truly believe that if all of those people in my world were in a situation like the German citizens in World War 2, a large majority of them would have fallen prey to the same propaganda and participated in or turned a blind eye to the same atrocities that the German citizens did at the time. I th...
by learnedSloth
Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Jesus was a Socialist
Replies: 113
Views: 2659

Re: Jesus was a Socialist

MajorMitchell wrote:
Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:07 pm
Your perpetual failing is your desperate need to have your particular God at the centre of all good things.
Attributing dissent to intellectual dishonesty makes blind.
by learnedSloth
Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Jesus was a Socialist
Replies: 113
Views: 2659

Re: Jesus was a Socialist

What do you think it means to put God in all aspects of your life? What does it mean to you that "he shall direct thy paths"? For example: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. -- John 14...
by learnedSloth
Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:18 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Jesus was a Socialist
Replies: 113
Views: 2659

Re: Jesus was a Socialist

What do you think it means to put God in all aspects of your life? What does it mean to you that "he shall direct thy paths"? For example: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. -- John 14...
by learnedSloth
Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:57 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Jesus was a Socialist
Replies: 113
Views: 2659

Re: Jesus was a Socialist

The bible seems to be pro slavery as well as there is never mentions of denouncing slavery or even meth usage The purpose of the Bible is to guide us to the eternal life. The guidance it gives is still relevant in various situations, but that doesn't mean that we should try to recreate the world in...