/kc/ - Krautchan

 >>/51896/
> It was very well telegraphed.
Yeah, Iran told US what exactly they are doing way beforehand.
> pro-Ukrainians
From this one can know at least they aren't really banderites or nazis. If they were they wouldn't have such illusions obviously in US logic: Israel is full of Jews, Ukraine is full of only hohols.
But plenty of differences beyond that for the US to rationalize why don't they help out Ukraine in such ways.
> pro-Ukrainians have been really riled up
Sometimes I write couple of words here what I expect to happen after the war. I mentioned all the maimed and the availability of trained footsoldiers for criminal organizations. Another will be looking for scapegoats, Ukrainians, especially the fundamentalist types will want to blame someone, and they'll find plenty to blame. They'll blame Hungary ofc that follows, but they'll blame the west that they let down or even betrayed Ukraine. Some will go through huge disillusionment.
I bet Western propaganda machine will work on it a lot, but it'll be effective mostly for the Western pro-Ukrainians, so they can feel better about themselves, direct the blame towards others like political opponents in their respective countries.
Myths will also be created along the line of this betrayal, which aren't myths in the sense that they are untrue, or entirely untrue. They will be well funded. It's just they'll be told to each other how myths are told. And perhaps they'll gain fictitious details. It's like how masses of German soldiers felt after WWII that the hinterland, the civil society betrayed them. "We could have beaten them but these pansies couldn't hold themselves." And this can be channeled further like NSDAP found more defined groups to blame, commies and especially Jews.
Coming years will be very interesting. Not comfortable, but at least interesting.

Soooo. Israel retaliated the retaliation of retaliation of retaliation of retaliation...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/19/israeli-missiles-hit-site-in-iran-explosions-heard-in-isfahan-report
I bet this is just them finding a way to finally bomb Iran's drone factories as they wanted back in 2023 October:  >>/51146/  >>/51147/  >>/51148/

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Considerable changes on the Avdiivka-Pokrovsk axis since the last time here:  >>/51865/
What operationally important is the northern advances along the railroad, towards Ocheretyne for they can flank the next line of defense (along those rivers) at Sokil-Soloviove.
I do think they have to take Novokalynove and Keramik first, and ofc Ocheretyne itself, but by the time the units at Berdychi-Orlivka reach the riverbend they just might be ready. Or won't.

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Two days old article but we lost nothing yet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/19/ukraine-us-weapons-house-aid-bill/
The article is behind paywall, which can be disabled by disabling JS on the page. Made screenshots for Bernd, I hid the empty fields for images and advertisements.
Why the politics in the Congress was politicized and the limelight was directed on it, the Department of Defense put together the material package they'll send, or some of it at least.
> depending on where they are stored.
I assume they already have those depots in Polan filled.
They'll send 155mm shells, and missiles for medium-range rocket artillery, should alleviate the urgent need for those. 7 to 14 days from now we might expect stronger resistance on the frontlines.
> It is also probable the Pentagon will provide Ukraine with a fresh tranche of air defense equipment and ammunition
Patriots? I heard Russian planes performing close air support, so they are basically free to do whatever at the moment.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/24/russia-arrests-deputy-defence-minister-suspected-of-corruption
Lel, did he not share enough with those above him in the feudal hierarchy, his seniors?
> Timur
Based name tho.

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 >>/51816/
Soooo....
Watched one and a half episodes. It's silly and they should have not made it. Perhaps it will become entertaining. Perhaps it won't. For now I'll watch it for curiosity's sake.
In general I can't say much positive about it, it's flat. I laffed at:
> Vault-Tec Plan D
poison on a table a family's corpses sat around
That shit was funny.
Cute dawg.
That's about it.
I have not found anything too annoying either. What I can mention is the vault's population is about 20. In the games they had that many dwellers for the games/engines limitations. If they put the hundreds of people that should occupy a vault, that shit have lagged like hell. Same with TES games. Some of these vaults should support couple thousand people. In the games these handful of people look ridiculous, but we give them a pass because we know they just represent a population of unnamed NPCs, which would be annoying to have anyway for they couldn't say anything and wouldn't have any meaningful role. In the telly show, it looks ridiculous same, but hard to forgive this.
Meh.

 >>/51883/
Did not get any better.

 >>/51856/
Perhaps this should go to the literature thread, but highly related to this.
Started to read the novel. Couple pages from the prologue, but from the description of Blackthorn, the older miniseries' hero is closer to his character. In the book he is tall, have light, blue eyes, and always have a smirk on his face. The 1980 miniseries grabs this better, in this recent one, he feels more stocky. Remember he was traveling on a Dutch ship, where the vast majority of the crew is Dutch. Dutchmen are generally tall, so noting his height as characteristic, means he was really tall, and since nothing else is mentioned, for now I think Clavell pictured him lanky. But back to the new show, he also feels darker somewhat, but he lacks that cheeky grin, he seems frowning more.
This is just my first impression.

 >>/51901/
I'm somewhere before the pissing scene in the book. Blackthorne is more pro-active, he tries to learn the customs, and pick up words, get a general feeling about their situation. So he's more like in the first miniseries in this sense. On the other hand, in the new series he walks weird and looks frail, from the book that makes sense for all of em, the sailors that is, suffered illnesses, scurvy in the firs place. Tho in the book from the scurvy they were recovering fast for they got boiled and fresh veggies in the Japans. I imagine they suffered wounds, that not heal properly due to lack of vit C so such could cause permanent damage in health. In the old miniseries however Blackthorn seems fit as a fiddle.

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 >>/51856/
Finished the show. 10 episodes.
I don't know. Much of it feels just filler, pointless dialogs and standing about. There are couple of cool scenes, like when Toranaga's kid uses the cannons to kill Ishido's envoy.
They demoted Blackthorn to be entirely observer of events.
I prefer the original series. I leave my final judgement after I finished the book, because right know I can tell there is much more to it than either of the two shows provides, and perhaps enough in it to explain the new one's shift of focus to the Japanese characters' thoughts and struggle.

 >>/45392/
That is funny.

 >>/45392/
This is cringe

How do you catch a rabbit?
Sit in a bush and imitate the sound of a carrot.

Yvonne the Terrible

 >>/51898/
I think I should have expanded on this joge. Liek:
> My mother-in-law is called Yvonne
> I just call her Yvonne the Terrible

 >>/51590/
So.
How was 2?

I finished Portal 2.

It kind of had the opposite problem to the first. In Portal 2 the dialogue in the beginning is good but then plot things happen and Glados becomes a completely different character, they destroy what was good about her.

Gameplay wise it's more of the same but for longer.

As for the story and setting, the first one barely had one which I think was preferable, I feel like they tried to do too much here.

I feel like much of the reason Portal has such popular appeal is due to it being old(relativity) and made by a well known company, I think that if it came out today people would not find much of interest about it as there are so many indie games that do things like what they do only better.

Still mucking around with Nobunaga's Ambition.
I think the game has three stages:
1. micromanaging the castles and domains, who gets what, what to build where
2. waiting the castles to fill up with food and soldiers
3. FIGHT
Rinse and repeat.

 >>/51594/
I think back in the day it was a novel idea.

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After watching the new Dune movies (2021 and 2024 ones) I checked out the vidya scene what they have.
I found some dudes are developing an open source cross platform engine for the old Dune 2, the Dune Legacy. The player needs the original game files to play. It's liek OpenMW basically.
Here's a link to the project: https://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/
Have not tried it yet.
Two more finds are:
Dune Spice Whores Wars (released in 2023 Sept.), and
Dune Imperium (2024 March, very recent), which is board game adaptation, uses cards and tokens as far as I can tell from screenshots, have not tried.

Dune Spice Wars is an RTS, and has the classic elements that reminds me of Dune 2. It has that map where you select the next mission, and then you mine spice, build buildings, and produce units and you send your units to fight the rival factions who do the same.
The game goes beyond this however. The battle map consist of smaller segments, villages, you occupy with the resource in that specific region. The buildings are built around the villages.
There is an abundance of various points and resources to generate and track, which is used to do whatever needs doing, from building, recruiting, voting in the Landsraad, doing spy missions and whatever. Spice, money, plascrete manpower, batteries, water, authority, influence, knowledge, intel, hegemony, landsraad standing, guild favor, scraps. What the fuck. Percentage hell. You research stuff to earn bonuses, unlock buildings, units, whatever. You buy CHOAM shares. Generate agents to do intelligence missions and counterintel. Trade with sietches, to make them friendly and ally and send agent to them to get some other bonus. Recon with ornitopters (they can set to auto) to discover villages and resources, and researchable sites with also provide resources and whatnot. Uhh, stuff. Can do without battles fine.
Did three missions from the campaign with the House Atredies. I failed the first for I got assassinated. Won the next two with hegemony. Different missions have different goals, only in skirmishes can win however you want.
It's really an okay game. It already is repetitive despite all the details, but as far as RTS games go, it doesn't lack in anything. I think it is still unpolished, and perhaps imbalanced.

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Dune Imperium (and I think the board game too) uses drawings of the actors from the recent movies. I do not like that.
I finished the first tutorial from the three available. It's cards and tokens. Meh.

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Posting some songs from the punk rock band Dead Kennedys

California Über Alles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIqESwzCGg4&pp=ygUNZGVhZCBrZW5uZWR5cw%3D%3D

The Man with the Dogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI94MwAtyCw&pp=ygUjZGVhZCBrZW5uZWR5cyB0aGUgbWFuIHdpdGggdGhlIGRvZ3M%3D

Let's Lynch The Landlord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiYmCVikjo&pp=ygUmZGVhZCBrZW5uZWR5cyBsZXQncyBseW5jaCB0aGUgbGFuZGxvcmQ%3D

Holiday in Cambodia
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA

Kill The Poor
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L8zhNb8ANe8

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TVzfAji2sYg

Sorry chuds your music is gay (officially)

 >>/51878/
Kindergarten, pls...
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lmQkKJexjxs
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lmQkKJexjxs

 >>/51878/
Huh? Chud? I'm not a Baltic or Finnish person though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chud

https://youtube.com/watch?v=T6OHquevASY

 >>/51072/
 >>/51072/
Just bernding out I guess

 >>/50624/
Looks like the users are at least putting in a bigger effort knowadays

 >>/51118/
I'm being really srs now. That chan needs better moderators or more users active in reportings

 >>/51791/
That site gets hit by the same type of spam that hits this chan too. How curious

 >>/51791/
Probably mods check on the board not too often.

 >>/51792/
Many chans have trouble with the same spam. For many years now. This is the sad state of things.

nice board fren

 >>/51840/
Or not.
On that particular instance some videos are working, others aren't. Different instances works less.

They fixed invidious. Well they adapted the code I assume to the changes youtube made. Or youtube returned to previous state.

Crazy Neighbour died too.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vxKgUgqqY2w
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vxKgUgqqY2w

 >>/51844/
Most of the instances aren't working for me right now. Dunno about anyone else

 >>/51876/
Was same yesterday. A Finnish one worked stable, now yewtu.be is fine today.

 >>/51830/
Impressive. So the rig with the model more or less works. Shoulders need some working on?

 >>/51831/
> Spoilered
Oh well.
Spoilering is tricky. I have to retest it because I don't remember at the moment. I think the big checkbox needs to be checked all the time, and only those small which images need spoilering.

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 >>/51834/
Yes, I fixed the shoulders as well as some other issues. To make the rig I had to merge vertices at a further distance than I normally would as it would not let me make the rig with Vertices too close. I didn't notice until afterwards but that ruined the mouth and navel, so then I had to fix that but in doing so even more issues came up with faces that were facing outwards thinking they were facing inwards and refusing to be corrected when I tried so I had to do more work to fix that so I could paint them again. Somewhere along the line that failed to translate into Unreal when I re exported it and so now she has red marks on her lips. I guess what I would have to do is reunwrap it in Blender to get the image texture fixed.

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 >>/51836/
Sadly I can't give suggestions or tips on how to form such model. I chose to model Capn. Bernd as a lego figurine for a reason. Each limbs are separate meshes themselves.
> now she has red marks on her lips.
Looks like a chink with big teeth.

 >>/44822/
I think this ship looks /comfy/ and homely in a possibly nostalgic r low poly shot of way. 

 >>/44916/
I wounder how easy would it be o make a pseudo-3D game with still screencaps of 3D assets in RPG maker? Like Donkey Kong on the SNES.  

sorry for Tor posting and replying to something a bit old, just wanted to show my love for that ship. Have a great day, Bernds!

 >>/51848/
> I think this ship looks /comfy/ and homely in a possibly nostalgic r low poly shot of way. 
Thanks.
> how easy would it be 
In case of RPG maker I guess a lot depends on the creation of assets. If it goes well, the rest is given by RPG maker. Okay writing is another thing.
> Like Donkey Kong on the SNES.
On RPG Maker?

 >>/51817/
Ah thanks for context. No wonder his legs look thin and weaker than the rest. He is young still so hopefully his injuries won't leave much of an impact. Sadly chances are he could be prone to injury. That would suck balls, this helluva splash he did proves he is very capable.
> Onosato eclipsed him
Even if Takerufuji don't accomplish anything more - perhaps for recurring injuries, or because facing all the top ranks will be a harder challange, or whatever else, fate knows -, and Onosato grows into the next yokozuna, I think Takerufuji proved that he is more than a match.

 >>/51817/
Still haven't watched that. I really should.

Here's an article about the fate of Miyagino stable n wrestlers. They are now housing in with Isegahama, apparently Teru doing some mentoring.
https://hochi.news/articles/20240331-OHT1T51144.html?page=1

 >>/51843/
Well well well
I wonder what the reasoning behind this decision was. One thing is, Isegahama-beya has a yokozuna and four more in makuuchi (or five? is Takarafuji promoted back now?), and they need assigned attendants. But, Isegahama-oyakata will be retiring in July next year, after reaching maximum age of 65. What happens then? Can Miyagino-beya branch out again?
In the meanwhile, it is mostly disappointing that now Hakuoho and Atamifuji won't be able to face each other – not good for rivalry development.

In other news, Kirishima has now joined ex-Kakuryu's Otowayama, as his stablemaster is retiring. His poor performance was due to neck and elbow broblems. Hope he can recover.

 >>/51849/
I read Miyagino was or is a branch of Isegahama or something.
> What happens then? Can Miyagino-beya branch out again?
I assume this is temporary.
> Hakuoho and Atamifuji won't be able to face each other – not good for rivalry development.
Not to mention the third rising star Takerufuji. And with Onosato we're starting to run out of promising new talents. Hoshoryu is veteran at this point (heh Takerufuji is same age). Gonoyama is new but I'm not sure of hist capabilities. Sometimes his fights are impressive. Oho isn't good, although if he could muscle up, he could counter skill with strength.

 >>/51850/
I like Kirishima so I do hope it will work out. Luckily at least one other rikishi, and personnel are transferred, so not entirely new situation.
> Hope he can recover.
Indeed.
Heh on Natto's discord there is a couple of users who are vocal Kirishima opposers. They see attitude problems with him, he smirks a lot apparently. He does do that but it doesn't seem haughty to me. So basically they just find him antipathetic. Happens.

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 >>/51460/
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Merry Christmas and happy new years bernds. Hope everyone's holidays were ebin :DDD

 >>/51460/
Thanks!

 >>/51478/
Spent Xmas ill...
But was okay considering.

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 >>/51493/
 >>/51493/
> Spent Xmas ill...
> But was okay considering.
Hope you're better now though bernd

 >>/51531/
Fairly good, thank you.

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Easter is here, Good Friday today.
Looked up a bit of folk believes, and traditions related to this particular day within the greater holiday of Easter, which actually starts 40 days before, with the Great Fast.
One group of customs is a type of health conjuration, all related to water, more specifically to fresh stream/brook water. Most often is bathing in it, washing oneself, just face or fully submerging in it. Sometimes done at early dawn. It could help with various ailments, give beauty, or just health in general. It should help with animals too, either the through should be filled, or the animals has to be led into the water. I like the one where girls seek out places where willow trees grow next to the water for bathing in it results in long, thick, healthy hair (on their scalp).
Christianized explanation of this power of brooks: when the soldiers led Jesus, they pushed him into the Cebron/Kidron river.
Another group is the so called "Pilate burning". A literal act is when they burn a figurine made of straw, which they name either Pilate of Judas Iscariot. This has some derivatives. Sometimes they beat the strawman before burning. At places a child was chased around the courtyard and if he got caught, he got beaten. At one place the priest hit the step leading to the altar with the Bible, and the congregation beat the benches with sticks. The custom of Pilate burning should be known in other ex-parts of the Habsburg monarchy - Austria, Czechia, Poland, Croatia, etc.
Banishing pests - such as rats or cockroaches - can be done on Good Friday. There are taboos, such as butchering chicken or plowing must not be done on this day. There are places where they light fires, sometimes young men jump over it, in some regions they hold vigils at these fires. It was also customary to treat the day as if someone from the family died, and act accordingly (like dress in black/dark clothing, cover mirrors, etc.)