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Nothing much going on in Syria anymore. Bit of ISIS I see on the map, and the SAA bombarding rebels on the north east. Beside that Israel is constantly attacking into Syria, targeting Iranian backed terrorists, and Iranian backed militias, and apparently Iranian militias themselves. In Israel, the IDF still wrestling with some Iranian backed, dirty, barefeet, stone throwing kids since October... Where Yom Kippur and Six-Day Wars disappeared? Anyway. In Gaza they bombing Iranian backed Hamas, in Lebanon the Iranian backed Hezbollah. Sometimes they have a cease fire to release hostages as the Iranian backed Qatar negotiates it. From Yemen, the Iranian backed Houthis raiding the shipping lanes with drones and whatnot. In Ukraine the Iranian backed RAF/RuAf is on the attack. The initiative is theirs, AFU tries holding their trenches, forts, and foxholes. I heard couple of interesting things today, but would need some drawing and look up possible sources.
The two news I wanna note:
1. Scholz talking to Putin
2. Biden approved the use of long range rockets into Russia by Ukraine
Both a couple days old now.
Can't find an article on DW about #1. I can't find a search function on their site, curiously.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germanys-scholz-russias-putin-hold-phone-call-friday-bloomberg-reports-2024-11-15/ The Scholz situation is interesting since his government in a crisis now. They are losing popularity, and due to the broken relations with the coalition partners they are also governing form minority.
This move, that he actually picked up the phone and called Putin, could originate from couple of motives (from salvaging popularity to the new winds of the future from Washington), but it has a prior buildup, see this >>52423 , recently he also declared that Ukraine won't enter NATO, until the issue with Russia is resolved.
One more thing, Germany won't ship Taurus missiles to Ukraine. For now.
https://www.dw.com/en/war-in-ukraine-why-germany-isnt-sending-taurus-cruise-missiles-to-help-ukraine/a-70813246 >He argues that Germany runs the risk of being drawn into the war between Russia and Ukraine if the Taurus cruise missiles are used. This statement is suspiciously similar to what Orbán keeps telling to us: "not to be drawn into the war".
>>52589 I think it's silly. It's not enough to change the course of the war or to achieve much at all really but it could have sever ramifications. I don't think Russia will attack a NATO country but I do think they are likely to send a few high tech anti-ship missiles to the Houthis or other kinds of advanced equipment to other hostile countries that have not received advanced equipment before, like Syria, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and maybe the Sahel states.
>>52590 I do agree with what you wrote, and what Matt usually says (no video from yesterday btw, hope he's doing as well as circumstances allow), that the Russian escalation happens on other parts of the globe, the three H-man get more support, or more pressure in Korea, or with Iran, or in Africa or South America. The situation is similar to the Cold War, with many proxy wars and battle for influence between the leading powers but no hot conflict.
Found fun informational. It's dated, I think from 2019 but things seems to be the same. Not sure about that Paris Climate Agreement tho.
As in last post in prev thread stated today EU Parliament voted back Ursula von der Leyen as the president of the EU Commission (EU govt. basically). 719 deputy 707 votes 401 yes 284 no 15 abstained 7 invalid votes She's so dumb, and the dumbest statements she makes. She's also a bit dated, she was first elected in 2019. But it shows how strong the leftlib is, they stay in power as expected, despite all the bleeting in the leftlib press about far-right danger.
Wtf. Videos of the arrivals are uploaded, the opening speech of Orbán is up there, Macron talking is up, but no Zelensky. Even the fugging sky news livestream cuts away when Orbán passes the round to Zelensky. What the actual fuck? I can find articles with a handful of quotes of his speech tho.
Found a speech of Zelensky, but not the one I wanted to listen. And I won't listen this one either he talks in Ukrainian, no translation, subtitles or anything.
Thinking about what this Trump victory could mean to Hungary. Fidesz/govt media sells it as the next best thing ever, here's the Canaan, hallelujah, we win and all that. I'm skeptical about this. Orbán likes to talk about how there is a struggle between "decoupling" and "connectivity" within the EU. Former means cutting off ties to certain countries, Russia, China for starter, but essentially could mean everyone who aligned to them. And connectivity means keeping relations and trade with them, not just have a closeted gay club within The West, but to be open to The Rest. Sidenote: Orbán and co. likes to call the first solution as "globalist", while keeping up with global trade with everyone is not it in their books. But back to the matter at hand. Trump promoting a trade war with Chiner, does not help with the connectivity as Orbán dreams it for us. And frankly "ending the war on the Ukraine" might also not pan out how expected. Will the trade be restored with Russia? Won't be purchasing cheap gas from them frowned upon? Trump was against the Nord Stream pipeline, I'm pretty sure he won't advocate for restoring it. He wants Europe to buy American gas, or from someone that suits to their foreign politics and economy. Russia and China remains a competitor for the US, and this Putin's lapdog stuff is just US campaign propaganda. On the other hand, now that a pal's gonna sit in the White House, we kinda have to dance more for their tune, at least drop the rhetoric of the "rebel" and naysayer. I'm pretty sure there will be more support to Israel. Hungary and our govt has good relations with Israel, so I'm expecting more propaganda in the media (both Fidesz/govt and opposition) that licks that Heeb hiney shiny. And perhaps more active help in some form. I dunno about that usually there is 0 mentions about various cooperations and partnerships with Israel. Sometimes they show us a photo of Orbán and Netanyahu together. Frankly all in all that Chinese angle will be the neuralgic point. They were building battery factory here, and perhaps electric car assembly plant. And there are old plans of the Belt and Road, like the railroad between Belgrade and Budapest. And whatnot (see the Chinese university and such).
>>52583 I know that people are saying it could have a negative impact on Australia. Tariffs on Australia are not such a big deal and probably will not happen but the tariffs on China would negatively affect Australia as they are our biggest trading partner and a slow Chinese economy would mean less demand for our resources which means less money for us but also means that there is less demand for the Australian dollar which would reduce the value of our currency and thus cause import costs to rise. But then the PM has also said their may be opportunity, he said that if Trump starts scrapping funding for Green energy programmes then Australia is well positioned to capitalise on it and pick up some of these green energy industries and investments here. But he did not specify what we would pick up exactly though to be fair Trump hasn't said what he will scrap in the first place either yet.
Hungary will also be negatively impacted by sanctions too though won't you? Given that you are part of the EU. Though we still don't fully know what sanctions will be placed on the EU. A slow China might not be good for you either.
There is also something else that could affect us both, that being Trumps plans to reduce corporate tax. If the US lowers tax rates even further than it already has that's going to put even more pressure on the rest of the world to do the same to stop business relocating to the US.
>>52586 Sounds like it is have to be a balancing act. That green energy thing: perhaps setting up solar farms in the desert. But then that's liek 90% Chinese imports. The hardware I mean.
>Hungary will also be negatively impacted by sanctions too though won't you? Given that you are part of the EU. According to this thing US is a fairly large export destination for the Hungary, almost 4%. Well it was before the war, would be nice to see fresh data. But whatever happens it will have an impact.
I tried blusky for like 2 hours and it was horrible, deleted that shit right off. Is there an actual good social media site/app? Personally I think they really are all garbage but I can't help it and I want to find a decent one
Every time I see a wop girl I feel like cumming in my pants goddammit. If I had an Italian GF I wouldn't get any work done I would just cum bucket after bucket into that gueda pussy GODDAMN. All of my favorite porn stars have been Italian and I would gladly nut again and again to their roman goddess body. IN THE NAME OF ROME AND THE CHRIST I WILL COOOOOOOOOM. I will make an army lil wop children and eat spaghetti for every meal. I will nut every day and I would enjoy it.
today as I've been reading the best source of PROOFS (I mean, they're funded by a government, they literally can't be biased) I noticed this https://www.rt.com/news/394082-south-korea-kim-assassination/ >Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was making plans to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
since koryŏ has been quite busy lately I think it warrants a specific thread
I hear lot about the Best Koreans these days. I don't think I can add much, as far as I know there is no evidence they are fighting against AFU, or that they even at the western border of Russia, any documented movements of theirs is on the Russian Far east. But check this out. From Rodong Sinmun. >Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Performance Test of Suicide Attack Drones of Various Types >produced by an institute and enterprises under the Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Complex >newly developed unmanned aerial vehicles The ingenuity of the Korean people knows no boundaries. These drones are also look very unique with this X-wing design, surely nowhere else in the world we can observe such thing.
Anyway. Just from these images, it seems they tested at least 3 types of drones. That X wing thing is perhaps a simplified version of the Lancet. The one that strikes the BMW seems to have one pair of big wings. And lastly they have those tubes, maybe it's the launching tube for an UAV which wings pops out similarly to the Switchblade drone. Perhaps???
Also since Rodong Sinmun is for the outside world, it cannot be overlooked that this might be just for the show, and these are not much more than simple fireworks rockets.
Chcesz zmarnować trochę czasu rosyjskim oficjelom? Powstała strona, dzięki której jest to możliwe!
Powstała strona internetowa, która pozwala zadzwonić do... rosyjskich urzędników. Za stworzenie witryny odpowiadają haktywiści. Jak donosi Wired, WasteRussianTime.today - bo tak nazywa się strona, automatycznie wybiera numer oficjeli z Rosji, łączy z wybranymi osobami, a następnie pozwala "zająć" im kilka chwil. Jest to już kolejny niewątpliwy wyraz sprzeciwu wobec wojny w Ukrainie.
Nie ma chyba osoby, która chociaż raz w życiu nie prowadziła rozmowy telefonicznej z botem - nawet krótkiej. Połączenia tego typu nie należą do grupy przyjemnych, a często określa się je mianem uciążliwych i natrętnych, zwłaszcza że ciężko je wyeliminować. Opcja "zablokuj numer" bywa rozwiązaniem, ale nie jest gwarancją, że nigdy więcej nie nie otrzymamy podobnego połączenia z innego numeru. Grupa haktywistów wzięła to pod uwagę i postanowiła założyć witrynę internetową - WasteRussianTime.today. Jej nazwę w przetłumaczeniu na język polski to: "zmarnuj dzisiaj rosyjski czas".
Serwis Wired wyjaśnia, że na stronie znajduje się lista numerów telefonów rosyjskiego rządu, wojska oraz wywiadu. Zaledwie kilka kliknięć pozwala na uruchomienie połączenia konferencyjnego, które łączy dwóch przypadkowych urzędników. Strona ta daje możliwość podsłuchania ich rozmowy, podczas której najprawdopodobniej będą próbowali ustalić, kto zainicjował połączenie i dlaczego ze sobą rozmawiają.
To jest cywilna interwencja: jeśli wisisz na telefonie, nie możesz zrzucać bomb, nie możesz koordynować żołnierzy, nie możesz planować inwazji
– można przeczytać na witrynie.
Każda osoba, która odwiedza witrynę może wykonać połączenie. Oprócz tego - połączenia są wykonywane automatycznie przez boty stworzone przez hakerów. Jak sami tłumaczą, zrezygnowali z możliwości bezpośredniego łączenia dzwoniących z urzędnikami, bo nie chcą narażać ich na niebezpieczeństwo. W trakcie rozmowy mogliby wypowiedzieć jakieś słowa, które w konsekwencji zdradziłyby ich tożsamość. Mają również świadomość, że nie wszyscy dzwoniący znają język rosyjski.
To wojna w Ukrainie. Po ulicach jeżdżą czołgi, są naloty, ulicami spacerują żołnierze z bronią w rękach. Telefony od ludności cywilnej z pewnością nie doprowadzą do dalszej eskalacji. To jest forma cywilnego oporu
A year passed and again this day commemorates the foundation of Hungary, this is 1018th birthday. We celebrate this national holiday with listening to politicians mixing irrelevant daily politics into historical events in the morning and watching fireworks in the evening. Budapesterners can witness the procession of state founder Saint Stephen's Holy Dexter. Also all the local communities have their own little celebrations. This is the third time I make this thread, and I won't post much, maybe I'll post something about what happened today - if anything interesting - later.
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23rd October, Revolution and War of Independence of 1956Bernd10/23/2024 (Wed) 19:00[Preview]No.52516del
I missed out the October 6th commemoration of the Martyrs of Arad. I wanted to take a look of other political martyrs of the era, Italy is bound to have some, and I heard something about the Fenians. But I missed the opportunity, oh well.
So I'm thinking now - in honour of our '56 Revoulution - to take a look at Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Prague Spring I don't know much, especially not the details, so this will more like a general inquiry into the topic on my behalf, and perhaps summary of things. See also: Wikipedia. All right maybe I'll try write something that Wikipee does not, I'm curious about Hungarian ties to it ofc. As stated before politicians always mix daily politics with these national holidays so I don't listen their speeches.
One could think the Hungarian Revolution of '56 had great impact to the other Eastern Block countries. It is hard to measure but it seems the opposite is the truth. Officialy it was labelled as a counter-revolution and the rest of the opinions were suppressed. There were little to no samizdat activity that could give a voice, censorship ruled. We already had some understanding with Poland, but Romania was openly hostile, Czechosolovakia ditto (with serious anti-Hungarian chauvinist overtones in both countries). Officially in the latter country as a direct reaction there was a "secret" memorandum that declared support for the leadership of Antonin Novotny, securing his position of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which he held since 1953, then he became president in 1957, held both offices till the Prage Spring removed him. As our Revolution gained some of the ideas from the de-Stalinization and some wind too, Novotny's reign started with that - but as a counterweight. He seems he was more of a hardliner, who put effort into halting any thawing processes, and his "socialist" constitution of 1960 was even more formally communist than the previous one they accepted in 1948. So this "destalinization" went slow with occasional pushes from more reformist elements (such as writers, or the next First Secretary, Alexander Dubcek), eroding Novotny's popularity. I can't say how wide was the popular support, but judging by the events that followed the later Soviet/Warsaw Pact invasion it seems that sympathizers were from all over the country from all level of the society - but not in any impactful numbers. People wanted changes but did not want to risk a more serious push for them. What we should see, that the changes were the product of the rise of an internal political opposition, and were introduced upside down, no armed uprising against the communist leadership happened unlike at Hungary. In 1968 January Dubcek and a pal cornered Novotny, and Brezhnev (probably already probing the opinions of the leaders of the satellite states) decided to green light Novotny's retirement. The issue seemed to be decided but then Dubcek and many reformists started to talk nonsense about living standards, multi-party systems, democracies, building relations with the West and such. This compelled Brezhnev to engage them and tell 'em they should slow down a bit. They agreed, but The Head and Brow of the Soviet Union was not convinced, he saw that the process will lead to losing Czechoslovakia, and ordered the tanks of the SU and allied Warsaw Pact (Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary) countries' tanks rolling. No clash happened between the two sides, almost only civilians resisted, mostly with non-violent methods. Dubcek had to go, he was replaced by Gustav Husak. All enacted laws and reforms were reverted, except the one that made Czechoslovakia a federation of two countries. Later some of the reforms were activated again as amendments if I understood correctly.
As for Hungary. It appears that at the same time the Czechoslovak reforms started, the Kádár regime here introduced new economical practices, trying to make the country's economy actually work. The changes put forward in the neighbour were mostly political in nature, so our leadership started to pray to Saint Lenin that they keep them very "moderate". They feared if things were getting out of hands then our economical project will be scraped, or perhaps even the thoughts of resistance will be reignited here or at least Moscow will think that's happening too. Since their fears seemed to become true, they decided to show they are loyal subjects of Moscow, and they can march along with the Warsaw Pact, right into Czechoslovakia, when finally Brezhnev decided at the military solution. Kádár even declared that if it comes to counter-revolution in Czechoslovakia, he will vote wholeheartedly for military intervention. Well he did the same with his own country so I don't see how could he not applied the same principle elsewhere. From his opinion we could also deduce, that the Dubcek-turn, was went far enough for him to consider it a counter-revolution. However this is not the case. He gave the opinion to Brezhnev (on the day of the invasion, on August 21), that the events in Czechoslovakia are closer to the Polish events of 1956 than to the Hungarian counter-revolution of the same year. Still, Hungarian forces were participated the same.
Supposedly later in 1988-89 when our socialist system started to collapse they considered the moral Czechoslovakian lesson and example.
Google/youtube is wrecking Invidious. Up till yesterday I could use at least for browsing channels. Then I used yt-dlp to dl the video and watch it locally. Now when I open a channel on an invidious instance I got 400 error... Fuck youtube seriously.
>>52568 These days I'm browsing videos on invidious, and use yt-dlp to get the video. But after a while I get error, apparently youtube limits the request rates, and I think their Invidious instance run out of it. When that happens I use piped to browse. Problem is on pipe I don't see option to order videos. So the two platform has to be mixed depending on usecase, not to abuse invidious' limits... Almost getting to the point when its just simpler to bite the bullet and suffer on the youtube.
There was one nitter instance that worked reliably. Was a short downtime when Musk got the 5 minutes and shut xtwitter in, but that's over.
I'm looking for a car but I don't know much about them. I am thinking of a car like a Fiat 500 or a VolksWagon Beetle. What other cars are there like this, cars that are small so they are easy to park and don't use much fuel but that also look interesting and nice.
Dreamt another humorous that made me laff. Extremely unusual. It was about a movie. I watched it and/or observed it made. It was an awful movie, amateurish, low budget, with noname actors. The actors and crew was an assorted one, it turned out one of them was Hungarian. He was looked a bit like Santiago Segura (Torrente), and he was dumb. He pretended he knew his job, knew how to act. He also pretended knowing languages, or at least English. For some reason the movie got some award and he had to give a speech in English. He read some lines with zero English pronunciation, frankly like how he would in Hungarian, and one of the word sounded like a Hungarian profanity and that tickled me enough to laugh a bit. Then he gave another speech, or perhaps it was actually an interview. They asked him something and he did not know what to reply. He was like "uh, ah" and the situation started to get embarrassing as he was hemming away. Then an associate there on the stage tried to save the salvageable and gain some time and said he is actually Muslim and he has to pray to Allah first. Here I laffed again, and shook me up to wake.
>>52341 >Maybe it's easier to say it that way It is. Hungarian language does not like consonant congestion, and would insert a vowel inbetween consonants. Second best would be adding a consonant after, which gives the impression that the word consists of two syllables. So. Lidl -> Lidel or Lidil / lid-li
>>52390 >>52390 >Dreamt another humorous that made me laff. Extremely unusual. >It is. Hungarian language does not like consonant congestion, and would insert a vowel inbetween consonants.
Because the previous >>28357 is autosäging. From the last posts: >>42501 Crusader Kings 3 first impressions by Rusbernd >>42504 unkown vidya making fun of Australia due to the lack of certain biome by Ausbernd
Last year I found out there's native Linux version of the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Editions. They are working well but I don't think I'll ever finish a playthrough again. Back then I finished original BG, and BG2, but not the Throne of Bhaal expansion. Damn long games. Enhanced Edition makes it possible to play this classic DnD based crpg on modern steel, fixes bugs, changes some rules, adds new NPCs with quests, new items, two new expansions (The Black Pits - arena fight generator?, and Siege of Dragonspear - which is a module for the original story, taking part between BG1 and BG2). It seems okay all in all.
>>45715 Also >Shadow Warrior haven't played this but played
>Serious Sam 2
And I got bored after like 3 hours of playing. It's impressive for its time and it takes a stab at Duke Nukem Forever in one chapter but it's pretty dull overall. Doesn't have the same badass energy as Duke or Doom.
>>52565 Up till recently I uses PlayOnLinux, but some years ago it's development stopped, and sometimes stuff is buggy (like installation of dll's via winetricks). Prior to that I sued Q4wine but the development stopped around 2014 as the conflict started with Russia, because the dev is an Ukrainian and wanted to draw attention to their plight. I think since then he restarted developing it. However. Recently I started to use WineGUI, which seems to be the closes to the Wine project, and it's just werks. My problem with others I found, like proton and crossover or whatnot, that either have to pay or can't use them with pirated backup copies of games. I think all three is in the repos no additional 3rd party sources are needed to be added.
I saw some Mexican asking for gulyás recipe on Kohl and because I don't really want to start posting there beside the World Cup I decided to reupload the gulyás cooking as the other thread is "File not found" as well. So here's with original text.
Cooking with Bernd: gulyás
I was planning to post a good gulyás cooking since day one but somehow the occasion eluded me until now. I know a Hungarobernd did this on KC main but it was regular "cooking in the kitchen" type of thread and not "over open fire in bogrács" (traditional Hungarian pot). I couldn't do this live for technical reasons but it will be fine this way too.
Pic #1 Ingredients: meat (little bit over half a kilo, it's pork, not beef), taters (by volume I used about the double of the meat dunno their weight), onions, tomato, paprikas, black pepper in the mill, dried ground paprika in the jar with the red lid, salt in the middle, and the white wax paper on the right covers the salo (fatback). You can also see my Mora for cutting needs and a bearly visible peace from a wooden spoon behind the meat and the potato, the masterpiece of my carving art, used for stir the food in the bogrács. The taters are leftovers from winter, wizened but fine for our purpose. Some of the onions and the paprikas are also leftovers I utilized.
Pic #2 The initial setup. Two quarter logs at the sides and a nest in the middle for the fire itself also aligned toward the usual main direction of the wind. The rocks are there for a little draft control. Tripod to hang the bogrács.
Pic #3 Lighted a handful of dry grass, placed in the middle of the nest, then a large handful of dry twigs above, and sticks across the log above all. As these sticks burn in the middle they broke after a while and fall into the nest. The heat from the nest lights up the inside faces of the logs. The heat is very concentrated toward the nest. The cooking is going above the nest, and it really doesn't need much flames. The smoldering logs pumping up lotsa heat, only some sticks are needed to be placed inside the nest time to times. Also when a log burns through, a new can be placed there. I had several prepared.
>>51528 Picked some of mushrooms today. 4 boletes, and a bunch of lepiotas, probably macrolepiota mastoidea all. Some might be macrolepiota procera but their stipe are too slim. Anyway no mushroom cream soup yet again. I just fried some up with onions and scrambled eggs. Salt, pepper. Tastes great. Here's a trick for frying mushrooms. Not sure frying is the right word. So the trick: Slice up the mushrooms, but instead of fats (oil or lard) pour a bit of water under it, and cook it with that until the mushroom is soft and the water evaporates. Then add the fats and fry them up. The reason is that the mushroom is like a sponge and can absorb a ton of the fats - and while the body do needs them, too much can be unhealthy -, so much in fact that you'll be tempted to add more. And some find it disgusting too. So just use water first.
Having butterbrot with honey (drinking milk). I rarely do this, for me it's just too sweet, but I had some hankering. It's special - for me - because it's not the usual mix (wild) flower, linden, or locusts/robinia - which are the most common honeys here - , but rapeseed flower (Brassica napus) which became more used in recent years. Not bad. Now I have to eat some salty to balance it back.
>>52559 >>52435 >Here's a trick for frying mushrooms. Not sure frying is the right word. So the trick: >Slice up the mushrooms, but instead of fats (oil or lard) pour a bit of water under it, and cook it with that until the mushroom is soft and the water evaporates. Then add the fats and fry them up. The reason is that the mushroom is like a sponge and can absorb a ton of the fats - and while the body do needs them, too much can be unhealthy -, so much in fact that you'll be tempted to add more. And some find it disgusting too. So just use water first.
It's mostly the early demos from all the albums. Almost all acoustic guitar for all of the songs. a lot of emotion and feels in all of the songs though.
I just realised something... something spooky as fuck.
You know how sumo is derived from some ancient rituals? How it was performed in shrines, to appease the kami, to ensure prosperity? It was only later professionalised, and is now performed on a national level by salaried wrestlers, but there are still many religious elements, from how the ring is consecrated by a priest before each tournament, yokozuna entering the ring with that big white rope around his belt, to wrestlers actually throwing salt into the ring before each bout as a means of consecration. It is a deeply religious ritual, somehow performed to appease the kami for the entire nation of Japan. Kinda like how the ancient Olympic Games were performed on temple grounds, and were a form of vitalist worship of Greek gods.
You know when's the last time sumo wasn't performed as scheduled? March 2011. The March of the earthquake and tsunami that rekt Japan. But guess what? The tournament was cancelled a month before. Because of some match-fixing scandal. Yep, that's right. And the earthquake happened 2 days before the tournament was scheduled.
The earthquake happened because the sumo ritual wasn't performed. Because the kami weren't appeased. They were pissed and caused the earthquake as a warning.
>>52430 He was indeed. I wrote a lot-ish on spartschan. I still want to post couple of thoughts about the basho here. I could try to get this, it'll be released next month. Looks hilarious.
I think this basho wasn't that great in the sense that only a few bouts were impressive. On the other hand a handful of them were really fucking impressive.
Tamawashi vs Kinbozan. Oldboy got a big fugging slap just behind his right ear. Down. Kinbozan had a godawful tournament, but this move was brutal.
And then this henka Abi pulled on Hoshoryu.
Lastly Wakatakakage's victory over Onosato. Wkage holding himself was masterful, and turning his sure loss into an epic win.
Now that we are at Onosato. He did an outstanding job. Great march, beating both ozekis. That two losses are the student fee he has to pay. I've no doubt he'll learn.
Down in juryo Takerufuji did excellent. BUT. Previously, couple of posts above I wrote him is getting to be a personal favourite and pick him over Onosato... nah, too... cocky, with similar primadonna attitude Hoshoryu had when he wasn't yet ozeki. Onosato while he isn't particularly humble, he looked moved after his successes and the following applause, rewards. Just the human moment from this talent which makes him more likeable. Also not Isegahama boy, who are everywhere.
Anyway Takerufuji might turn out a rival of Onosato. Considering that yusho of his in makuuchi last time.
As our esteemed colleague noted >>52430 Onosato made it to ozeki. I've read this is the fastest ever ozeki promotion, he succeeded with only 9 tournaments under his belt. His last three bashos had the results: 12-3, 9-6, 13-2 - gathering 34 points, allowing them to promote him. Also two yushos. Here's the promotion ceremony: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_s-ZMXeOJ0o https://youtube.com/watch?v=_s-ZMXeOJ0o [Embed] And the press conference: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Ok7ghNrwULM https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ok7ghNrwULM [Embed]
Now these two eight-sevens... and the rest of the notables. This is a problem with the current top line of rikishis, they are good. They just seem to underachieve randomly. Both ozekis barely got that kachi koshi. I have the growing doubt that Hoshoryu has it in him to make it to yakozuna. I hope both him and Kotozakura can pull it together and be as reliable ozeki as Takakeisho was for years. Takakeisho hasn't recovered and had to sit out the tournament. Kirishima, the other failed ozeki had a good tournament, and started another ozeki run. Question is if he can keep it up. He can bring in 11-4, 12-3 results, he proved it before, maybe he'll manage again. Wakatakakage is returning with a bang. While he mostly faced lower ranking rikishis, that Onosato win was a banger. Have to make note of Takayasu, who did not seem 100% healthy. He was fighting from the end of the banzuke, and 10 wins are 10 wins. I'm sad for Hiradoumi. That komosubi ranking might be a bit high for him.
Sumo starts on Sunday! Gonna get those Natto videos as usual. I hope they share dl-able links, if not we are in trouble.
Lets blink at that banzuke. Makuuchi As we noted Onosato is now ozeki! Fuck yea. However his greatest nemesis, Takerufuji is now in makuuchi, I assume he'll try and stop him getting the yusho, which he needs 2 (or some equal-ish exceptional achievement). I really hope the other two ozekis will produce more convincing results form the previous, and make things more interesting. Tho I'd like to see Kirishima continuing his last performance. Oho is at #1 maegeshira, very surprising, perhaps he is growing up to the task. Or the last one was a fluke. COME ON HIRADOUMI!! Wakatakakage is close back to the top, I bet he is eager to get back to the sanyaku ranks. Takayasu is only at #9, but he was dealing with injury, I think that last 10-5 was a good score from him like that. He shares the place with Midorifuji, who did not do good. Shishi is in!
Juryo Hakuoho is the main rikishi to watch here I think. And then perhaps Kinbozan who is better than this level.
Wanna watch The Longest Yard, the original Burt Reynolds movie. I only see two remakes, the Mean Machine with Vinnie Jones, and the Adam Sandler comedy from 2005. Probably the only good Adam Sandler movie. It's greatest selling point is the catchy tunes played in the background and the supporting cast. Judging by the screenshots it follows the original story quite tightly. The Mean Machine is adapted to the circumstances of a Bri'is prison and normal football. It was entertaining too. One more remake was made, and Egyptian one: Captain Masr in 2015. Not sure if it's available anywhere, or has any English dubs or subs. Also features normal football.
Mom says I'm unique - so my favourite film of the series is "Alien 3". I know even Fincher doesn't think that - but I do. The only way it could've been better is one of the precious concepts with a wooden moon inhabited by 300 medieval monks.
As for the "Aliens" - it's your typical Hollywood slop. A studio taking some surprise hit and turning the sequel into some dumb popcorn movie for the biggest common denominator. In case of the "Alien" it was really tragic, because they turned the very concept upside down - instead of the titular alien, an embodiment of sadism and satanic evil, they went with the "guys, what if there'll be tons of these bastards?", turning them into just a pack of dumb beasts that a little girl can evade. "Event Horizon" is more "Alien 2" than "Aliens".
>>52505 >Alien 3 That's the prison one? >"Aliens" - it's your typical Hollywood slop Well the ending of Sopranos feel unoriginal and lame from the distance too for many. Event Horizon is cool. But has nothing to do with Alien. They are just going crazy.