Rayvin
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There's a decent amount of interest in retro games. Give Rocket League a whirl though Closest you can get to playing football in a video game, despite the fact that it's only 3 per side, you can fly, and you're a car. Good luck anyway, let us know when you're afloat.
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Do you reckon you're on for promotion?
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I think the same demographics who support Putin over there are the same ones who support him over here. He's put money into Brexit, Trump, the right in general, anti-wokeness, the discrediting of institutions both national and international, and it's the same demographics who lap it up whether here or in Russia. I don't blame them particularly because our entire discourse (and certainly their's) has been destroyed. We can't agree now on what the metric for assessing a factual statement is, instead we tell ourselves that philosophical frameworks and structures that we would have once used for this are 'elitist' and part of some conspiracy. That's Putin's doing IMO (which isn't to say that those who spun this bullshit didn't eagerly lap it up). Either way though, we live in a world where established, evidence based opinions are treated as equal to poorly informed, vacuous opinions. Instead of engaging in sincere and honest debate with a view to informing yourself and growing, people instead want their biases confirmed and defend and fight for their positions without any regard at all for truth or evidence. Because of how successful Russian social media manipulation has been over here, I am confident that it is also strong over there. But yes, it won't be all of them. As ever, people who have developed critical thinking skills will be less susceptible to it.
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Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
Rayvin replied to Sonatine's topic in Newcastle Forum
Is that a line he's pushing? Where was that angle when Bruce was here and all and sundry were raging about how ungrateful and awful we all were to him? For that matter, doesn't Edwards himself support Crewe?? EDIT - Leyton Orient apparently. No opinion for you, Luke. You stick to Orient. -
Mind I'll never forget his involvement in that 4-4 against Arsenal. Two penalties and some great shithousing. EDIT - To this day I think that game was the beginning of the end for Wenger. They lost the League Cup final to Birmingham (I think?) shortly after it. Arsenal's collapse took many seasons but that second half comeback started the process IMO.
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These are the sort of skills you'll need as a streamer tbf.
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Personally I am not optimistic about this game at all, and will be pleased with just a decent performance. Especially given this Mike Dean nonsense ffs.
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What are you going to play?
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Other Games 21/22: Talk about Actual Football
Rayvin replied to Ayatollah Hermione's topic in Newcastle Forum
West Ham completely wasting their time in the Europa League. No ideas, no threat, no clue. -
Two Russian cruise missiles hit Kyiv while UN Sec. Gen is visiting. Being interpreted at a sign of what Russia thinks of the UN.
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Fully agree on all of that.
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I hear a lot about Modi because my closest friend is an Indian guy - keeps up to date with a lot of the political stuff. Hates Modi but a lot of his family really back the guy, think he's making India strong etc. He's been in power for a while though at this stage, no?
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I felt, possibly stupidly, that Russia was doing some good in Syria. As opposed to any NATO alliance and entry into the conflict which I was firmly opposed to. Maybe I was wrong, I don't know anymore. I do care about Yemen. I care about Ethiopia too, whose war/ethnic cleansing is exacerbated by the food shortages that all this is causing. I would oppose it all if I could. You're right though, that Ukraine 'feels' closer. One of the consequences of Brexit was that I lost a great deal of my sense of identity - I ceased to be British European and became British and European - arguably more on the European side. So for me, this feels very close to what an invasion of Britain would feel like. Not quite the same, but really pretty close. I struggle to understand why a treaty makes the lives of people in Ukraine less than those of Romania, or here. Ultimately though, I believe that imperialism should be resisted and forcibly stopped wherever it occurs. I will feel the same when China takes Taiwan. And the same if the US is ever stupid enough go for something like Iraq again.
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He is the winner, in that scenario. Rewarded for his aggression. I guess that's what we accept in this world though.
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Who is advocating nuclear war?
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Agreed, but based on the evidence so far, he's going to slowly steamroll across various nations unopposed by any serious military because we're all afraid of nukes/wasted years failing to switch to renewables.
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Fair point, to which I direct my other comment:
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Wasn't really aimed at you, I'm just worn down now. I don't think Ukraine can win. I don't think they'll survive, it'll be cultural genocide. I think he'll go again for other countries. I think we'll get that war further down the line anyway, just having given Russia more time to prepare for it. I don't think the Russian people are going to overthrow him, I think he genuinely does have majority support.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/28/moldova-facing-very-dangerous-moment-amid-fears-it-could-be-drawn-into-ukraine-war Putin is way ahead of me anyway.
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Fuck it, let's just give him the keys to Europe. Within another 10 years he would have owned our discourse in full anyway.
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This is exactly what I want for the world but I don't see how we can get there with Putin poisoning the wells in Western democracies and invading his neighbours. I know that a lot of people who rightly accuse the US military industry of all manner of evils across the world struggle to see a man whose defiance of NATO made him something of a posterchild to the left and whose conservative, strongman act made him a posterchild to the right, but he is every bit as bad as the US side in terms of who he is, but worse, he's not remotely reined in by the checks and balances that exist in Western democracies. Such as they are. He is the equivalent of one of our warhawk imperialist arch capitalists but without any accountability to anyone. I have no hope. Brexit killed the last of my hope, learning Putin basically financed the damn thing twisted the knife in, and I stand here almost alone on the moderate left hand side of the spectrum (that I know, many people now don't believe in because IMO he's done such a fucking good job of muddying the entire fucking discourse in our countries that no one knows which way is up anymore) screaming and shouting to my comrades about the ACTUAL FASCIST who is invading a European democracy and they just don't want to hear it. Or they do hear it, have a moment of cognitive dissonance, and then default back to talking about how the US is the real enemy. I assure you, there is no hope left.
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I saw Biden is trying to pass a motion to recover damages to spend on Ukraine from oligarch frozen assets, maybe we can use that as a symbolic gesture if nothing else. What happens if Putin says no to your framework there though - he turns around and says 'when we started this I was taking it upon myself to clear up the Ukrainian question for generations of Russians to come. Ukraine is Russian. We will only accept an end to hostilities if the whole country is absorbed back into the Russian empire'. That's what their stated objective was at the start, so that's why I keep bringing it up. I don't think he needs a leg to stand on other than 'might makes right'. To be clear though, if that could be achieved then fine. Doubtful though.
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Russia of course itself asked about joining NATO, and was told that it would have to apply the same as everyone else - which would have entailed becoming a true democracy. Putin said he wouldn't stand in line like a minor country, and here we are. So if NATO was such a great threat to Russia, why try to join it? And if the issue wasn't fear of western systems of governance and power distribution, why later resist when they were insisted upon?
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I'm not, don't worry - I do think you think I'm naive but be assured that this is a common view on here anyway. I don't think you're raging either. I'm not myself. We're fine.
