Posts by Steppenwolf

Quote from FrieChamp

hmm so you're saying that the majority of e.g. German TV stations like ARD & ZDF as well as (public or private owned) newspapers report news that are being fed to them by the government without checking the facts? I didn't know that. Please elaborate.

No i didn't say that. The situation is different. In Russia the government itself corrupts the media. In the west media AND governments are corrupted by private political and/or economic lobby groups. Of course ARD/ZDF isn't comparable to something like RT or Fox News whose whole reason for existance is to push an agenda. But ARD/ZDF arn't free of an agenda of their own either. Frontal 21 for example has a long history of bullshit reporting. And public broadcasters are just one aspect of western media. Most plebs in Germany get their opinions from Bild and RTL.

Bild for example is completely one sided in the way they report about Ukraine. Their narrative about the Maidan protests always was "our beloved sporting hero Klitscho leads the heroic fight for freedom of poor Ukrainian people". I knew through other sources all along that parts of the protesters were neonazis and thugs. The first time Bild even mentioned it was after Janukovich fled. It also took them very long to mention the ethnic divide of Ukraine.

So if you want to really understand a situation you can't put your trust in just one media source. You have to filter through all kinds of media outlets, do a bit of research of your own about history behind events and most important use your own head.

Quote from r1ar

EU/USA news that you read not so free as you think, don't forget about it when you read political text from "free journalist".

Everybody knows most of the media is corrupt. What i find a big difference is the attitude of the population tho. Most Russians just seem to swallow state run media whereas people in the west call out their media all the time for bullshit reporting.

It doesn't surprise me when US officials lie and it doesn't surprise me how toothless EU/US reacts to the Russian provocations. They are shitting their pants because it could cost our economies a couple billions. There is another lesson to be learned here which is that one oligarch does not pick another oligarch's eye out.

So Russia is acting like it does because its neighbors act like they do because Russia acts like it does?

NATO as an aggressor fits well into the Russian narrative but the reality is that countries like the baltic countries would be Russian puppets again without NATO protection und suffer the same violations of freedom and human rights as people in Belorussia for example.

Yea how dare NATO to protect its borders against an increasingly rabid and unpredictable neighbor.

http://en.ria.ru/russia/2014072…sion-Putin.html

More cold war bullshit from Putin. What makes it so devious is that it's HIM who expanded his military presence in western direction over last couple months in practical terms.

It's the same "Evil NATO prepares to attack us" bullshit when Soviet Union had 3 times more tanks in their doctrine for steam roling northern Europe.

Quote from Minos

RT gets a load of bad rep for being Russia biased, but that's a "good" thing if you ask me. Since their propaganda is completely opposite from the american side propaganda, you can get a better idea of what's really going and make up your own mind considering that the truth usually falls in the middle.

Anyway, Abby Martin is awesome and no US channel would ever give her so much freedom: https://www.youtube.com/user/breakingtheset

Man Minos you are falling hard for Whataboutism there Better to understand the propaganda then to search the truth in the middle between RT and Fox News.

Quote from killertomato

to be honest I think this cold war 2.0 situation is not the result of the changing mentality of the Russians. I think both are a reaction to western interference with the Ukraine (where Yanukovych basically had to chose between an alliance with the west or Russia).

That's what Russia Today wants you to believe. But blaming the crisis on the west is a total disregard of the ugly history between Russian oppressors and ethnic Ukrainians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor) and the fact that a convicted rapist and election fraudster (of Russian ethnicity) was in charge of the contracts. Moscow was stirring the shit from the beginning.

Quote from killertomato

I don't think Russia is wanting a cold war 2.0. look at how far they've come from Stalin. would also be highly unlikely that Putin wants another soviet union tbh. those times were hard and the Russians know that. sure, it's still corrupt but just look at what Russia was 50 years ago and what it has become, there is simply no basis for those assumptions.

I don't think Putin wants war, because although large parts of Europe depend on Russia for gas Europe would still win a war with Russia - especially since the USA would probably intervene at least. We may not have the masses of people, but we have the technology and resources to outlast Russia in a war. not that we should want that of course, but I think Putin knows this too. so yes, we should play this long game you talk about, I totally agree on that - but with the addition of flying in military to secure our people under the cover of NATO and possibly the USA.

Pay more attention to the Russian propaganda apparatus and the laws that Putin comes up with. Everything is pointing in a direction that separates Russia more and more from the western world and reignates pride in the Soviet era. A cold war is only a logical consequence of that. Russian media and political rhetoric is full of of the whataboutism that was so typical for the propaganda rhetoric of the communist era. And read some comments from brainwashed Russians on the internet. It's all "Nato this, CIA that". The cold war is back in people's heads and not much is missing for it to become official state doctrine.

When i say new Soviet Union i don't mean one Stalin style tho. Putin and his gang are oligarchs. He's probably aiming for something that's similar to the Chinese model. One ruling party with an almost unrestricted capitalist system that allows the oligarchs and party officials to fill their pockets to the brim. And Russian people will not give a shit for the most part as long as they can feel their national pride. Just take a look at the Sochi Olympics and how little resistance and outcry there was to the unprecedented corruption.

Sending in Nato troops to Ukraine is just what Russia's propaganda machinery is waiting for and it's playing with fire. Suppose they get attacked then we have Nato troops fighting Russian troops right next to Russia's border.

I'm afraid there isn't really much the west can do for now. Putin WANTS cold war 2.0. It's the best that can happen to him to be seen as a strong leader who shows the middle finger to "decadend and degenerate west" and by that holding all the power in his hands to become a proper dictator. He's not giving much about freedom and human rights already and it will only get worse the closer he gets to building his new Soviet Union.

All that the west can do is to play the long game, getting rid of our economic dependencies (with the Middle East aswell while we are at it) and not fall for Russias provocations and cold war antics.

Some happy kid is going to Disneyland for his birthday.

This looks painfully religious themed. Not sure if want.

My money is on trigger happy rebels who got their hands on some fancy toys. Doubt it's a false flag operation of some sorts. Would neither benefit Ukraine or Russia.

As tragic as it is this is not RMS Lusitania. Commercial planes will avoid the region, maybe couple years down the line someone will be held responsible in a court. That's all that's gonna happen.

haha yea some idiots try to make a scandal where there is no scandal. Just the kind of people who cried themself to sleep every night for the last month because "celebrating German football team = 4th Reich in the making".

Yea i wasn't a huge fan of Nitrious first because some stuff looks different then what i used to (and i hate change) and ther's still the odd artifact or bug but when i saw that i get tons more fps with it and runs way smooth that became secondary complaints.

Opens instantly for me. Infact max never as was quick as in the recent versions and i've worked with some super detailed models recently. What drivers do you use inside max? The Nitrous drivers are 4-5 times faster for me then the old DX drivers.

I agree about the pilled up ui clutter tho. I hope they will unify the menus eventualy

Names are long overdue to be eligible for compound words anyway.

Turns out on monday morning about 5am i ordered a jersey that has "Müllerthomas" printed on the back.

Yea i hate Maya with a passion. I heard it's getting better but i don't even want to try it. It's like once you had food poisoning after eating a fish no matter how delicious fish is afterwards even looking at it gives you a gag reflex

Max on the other hand i like more and more even after years. Using it with Rappatools and xrayunwrap is a blast to me. Even Modo that so many people rave about doesn't feel as solid and intuitive to me (it has a couple feautures that i wish max had tho, like mesh fusion and falloffs).

No idea where the Max rumors come from. Digital Tutors ran with a blog post about it recently but i read it before. Someone pointed out that Max is Autodesk's second best selling software (don't remember which was number 1 but it wasn't Maya). So i think it's safe to say that it's all bollocks.

Quote from SpronyvanJohnson

World champion in Maracana. Brazil beaten 7:1. It will never get better. That realisation that from now on its all downhill (football fan wise). I don't expect Germany to get ever get world champ again in my lifetime. But tonight i don't care.

As one huge football fan and neighbor to another, enjoy my friends! You deserved it. I only have Euro 1988 too look back on but I was 5 and only remember little. That doesn't mean they haven't given us a lot over the past decades and it fills my heart with pride to see that such a small country can achieve great things. I do however hope, that I too, just as you, get to witniss us winning that World Cup once. Not because of greed but because I think we deserved it. But enough about us, this is your moment. So, for the next four years, oh correction, two because we'll see you at Euro 2016, all I can say is:

Netherlands is long overdue for a world cup. All rivalry aside you deserve it. I root for Netherlands when Germany doesn't play. Probaly no consolation to you but in a way Germany's win is also in part due to Netherlands. When Germany was at the bottom after Euro 2000/2004 they looked to the Netherlands model to improve youth football. If Brazil is smart they will do the same. When a small country can stay relevant in football for decades then so can a big football nation when only they put their focus where it's important.