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first three mainly due to their history, culture, etc.

last two because of their climate and nearby natural beauty, while being a place where i can speak a language everyone speaks (english)

rennes, paris, la rochelle, akureyri, sauðárkrókur

now there's an idea... hand adjudicated billion prov dip

you know, the same map creator was designing one that was even more micro...

can you believe this game is hand adjudicated as opposed to bot adjudicated lol

budapest ain't walking out the other side of this one

diplomacy map of europe, but with afr more provinces, there are around 30-50 red lines all pointing at the city of budapest

fun times in the diplomacy game i'm part of right now (i am one of the italian players)

yee haw pardner

all without losing your editor in chief job!

surprised you haven't been replaced by some grok derivative yet by the paper's management

set aside a particular slot in the week, make it regular and maybe watch em with a friend or partner so you feel a social obligation not to cancel

this will probably be the only 2025 film i watch for a few years

you really need to wait for the dust to settle to know whether something is worth your time or not, this for example was not worth 90 minutes of my life

for my full review (though its not long as this film doesn't command much time) click here :)

there's one character i quite liked, she was horrible but in a way i vibed with

all the characters are horrible little shits though, but not in a particularly compelling way

michael fassbinder on a bridge in front of the houses of parliament

tonight's watch, a film released in the current year!?!?

black bag

very stylish and well put together, but vapid and empty, has little to say about spycraft, and even less to say about relationships, which it purports to focus on

reading on it more, the film is only partially faithful to the novel, because it is impossible to make a film fully faithful to the novel

a novel filled with essays on hugo's special interests, maybe i should read it

read the full review here:

by the end of the film, it seemed i was expected to have more sympathy for an arch royalist aristocrat than the titular misérables

the film is quite faithful to the novel so my problem is moreso with victor

while jean's character is well acted, he's too saintly to be a compelling character,

the narrative is an endless series of melodrama and felicitious coincedences

the 1832 revolutionaries on top the barricades

tonight's watch: my first ever adaptation of les misérables

the 1934 one that's 4 and a half hours long

on a technical level this is a masterful film, great camerawork and lighting, jean valjean is performed brilliantly, we really see his tortured soul

narratively i hated it

this betrayal of breadsticks will not go unanswered

watch your back

lithograph of ahmed niyazi in military uniform with a long sprawling moustache

interesting... interesting...

how do you regard this man?

what are your opinions on kosovo... 🧐

rac (ethnonym) or rascians, an early modern name for serbs

what i'm hearing is, you're serbian

same as it ever was

they act like america still has conscription

691/26000 RUB, 3 days left

after almost a week of starvation, with a white bread loaf intermission for a day, the food is ok for a few days but the fundraiser isn't getting anywhere and we need it to stay housed *and* hopefully eat for the month lol please help if you can and want

curious, for it did not stay your hand from gdansk

interesting partition of czechia excluding its border regions, german 🧐

how the fuck has that not been said before

we've been slacking, jesus

hello brie skull emoji, i am sovietblobfihs

seperating 'maga' from republicans is very cute

awwww someone still thinks they can be separated from one another