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    para reacted to Holien in How Hot is Israel Gonna Get?   
    There have been videos circulating on a whole raft of very poor discipline in the IDF all related to the way they treat Arabs.
    People don't realise what level of anti Palestine sentiment is being stirred up and allowed to influence the forces on the ground. The Israeli media and leadership are in effect encouraging the IDF to commit war crimes. Even pop songs...
    There are whistle blowers trying to raise concerns but they are deemed enemies of the real Israelis.
    As the captain pointed out there are better ways to conduct this whole exercise. The current tragedy could have been avoided by a more careful measured approach but at the moment there is a rush to destroy Gaza before the Western world wakes up.
    In the UK our PM just went to Italy for a right wing get together talking about mass migration being used as a weapon to overwhelm Europe. 2 million folk in Gaza will be looking for homes....
    Perhaps he should be putting pressure on getting Israel to move slowly and more accurately against Hamas rather than razing Gaza to the ground.
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    para got a reaction from Vinnart in Arrow unit base mod   
    I do like this mod. one of the simplest, but best out there
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    para got a reaction from Vinnart in Arrow unit base mod   
    very nice Vinnart
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    para reacted to Lucky_Strike in Price differences for CM games for UK and EU customers   
    Yes, have had enough of arguing this particular toss, all I know is that I'm going to be paying more for a game where I didn't before (and have already paid more for many other things, and will no doubt for many more), and it started with us leaving the EU. Call it what you want, VAT, tariffs, tax, admin fees, Tory biscuit money, but coincidence it is not.
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    para reacted to Lucky_Strike in Price differences for CM games for UK and EU customers   
    For sure, and as we’ve seen with this government, and doubtless will with future governments of any persuasion, they are willing to break their own promises and destroy their own supporters and members to cling to power and achieve their private agendas.
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    para reacted to Lucky_Strike in Price differences for CM games for UK and EU customers   
    Partly Erwin, but don’t forget all the xenophobia that was at the core of a lot of votes to leave ...
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    para reacted to Lethaface in Price differences for CM games for UK and EU customers   
    You also can't bring ham sandwiches to the continent anymore, or at least our customs do check lunchboxes so I heard. 🤣
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    para reacted to Holien in Price differences for CM games for UK and EU customers   
    Further evidence of "taking back control"
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55734277
    Seems like there will be lots of goods being returned. Of course the liars in charge are saying these are all just teething problems. 
    Project Reality...
     
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    para reacted to Vacillator in Price differences for CM games for UK and EU customers   
    Going out on a limb here, but I don't imagine many of the UK folk on this forum voted for the fiasco aka Brexit.  To do so you would likely be incapable of playing a game like CM, but also you would be unlikely to be interested in history.
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    para reacted to Holien in Price differences for CM games for UK and EU customers   
    This might explain the new rules?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55530721
    The joys of a democratic process undermined by foreign interference, lies and a populist right wing liar whose simplifying message is broken down into 3 word sound bites used to emote feelings of a lost world....
    The consequences are now being felt as these teething problems are being highlighted.
    Project reality...
    It could be worse?
     
     
     
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    para reacted to Warts 'n' all in Price differences for CM games for UK and EU customers   
    Just wait until we go back to LSD. Ooops, I meant £.s.d.  Nah, not even The Bullingdon Buffoon would be that stupid, would he?
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    para reacted to Lucky_Strike in Price differences for CM games for UK and EU customers   
    Not sure it’s related to that particular f**k up. Although I did purchase CMFB in November 2020 ie before the final exit, and was not charged sales tax/VAT/money-for-old-rope*.
    However, I am pretty sure that, and this applied pre-Brexit, any digital purchases made in any EU country FROM any country outside of EU was supposed to attract VAT at the applicable rate based on the purchasers local VAT rate. Thus 20% VAT on purchases from US by UK buyer. The VAT is that same rate one would pay on a physical product purchased from US and shipped to UK (with value over a certain threshold). iirc This was introduced to make a more level playing field between physical and digital product purchases, physical purchases over a certain value always attract VAT (if the Customs people spot the item).
    Now, we in the UK may have to pay VAT on BF digital products going forward because, and again please don’t quote me, but iirc BF had an Irish distributor (gateway to EU) so no EU VAT attracted on purchases pre-Brexit, post-Ballsup we, UK, don’t benefit from this (though maybe they do in NI, but that’s another huh hum issue). So our loverly HMRC will do what it wants regarding imports and VAT (sovereignty is a wonderful thing).
    Confused yet?
    Of course if we (UK) have a trade deal with the US this could all change, but at the moment I think we are on WTO rules, so who knows?!!
    * extortion how ever you say it
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    para reacted to danfrodo in To our friends from the UK and the Commonwealth   
    UK seems like a terrible place to me.  It's like The Purge with all the murders!  Even the little college town of Oxford has huge murder rate.  I know this because I've been watching a documentary series on it called "Endeavor".  Oh, not to mention all the killings in Hastings area in another totally true not made up series called "Foyle's War".  Sounds dreadfully dangerous.
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    para reacted to danfrodo in President orders large-scale US troop withdrawal from Germany   
    Sublime, that was a joke right?  That was you parodying an ignorant racist white male who believes really stupid things, correct?   ha ha, great job, you really had me going for a second.
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    para reacted to sburke in President orders large-scale US troop withdrawal from Germany   
    sorry I am not really into White men feeling victimized.  Hell my mother couldn't get a credit card when I was young because they didn't give them to women. The neighborhood I lived in when I was 4 had a massive riot just because 1 black family moved there (google Baker Incident in Phila) and your own Boston history is rife with this kind of stuff.  Black people are still having their voting rights undermined 55 years after the civil rights act.  I think white males tend to be the real snowflakes.  We don't like not being able to take for granted being at the front of the line all the time.
    You might want to do your own research.  Kwanza isn't a religion.  It is a cultural celebration.  It's about Black Americans getting tired of always being negatively portrayed and looking for self affirmative celebrations.  Many Kwanza advocates celebrate Christmas and Kwanza.  Maybe they are just sick of Jesus being a white guy in a Semitic world.
    I am pretty disappointed to hear you espousing this s**t that I thought you were above.  Victim shaming as an excuse for the white nationalism becoming more  mainstream because of our dog whistling President.
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    para reacted to Probus in Battlefront Poll Updated   
    9. One Engine - CMx3
    game performance improvments, graphics improvements, ray tracing, intermediate distance bitmaps
    additional editor features, dynamic operational campaigns
    additional gameplay features, coop, LoS tool, visible aircraft
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    para reacted to Darknight (DC) in Darknight's CMBN Magnum Opus   
    Okay, I've finally finished this mod project...it's been going on in some form or another for years but the present vision was started last July or August, then I took a winter hiatus and being stuck at home has given me time to finally finish.
    This mod started, as most of my mod work has, with my beloved CW troops.  I have nearly driven myself to madness in the past with my completionist obsession for modding the entire 21st Army Group but I deliberately avoided that problem this time by only focusing on the CW units actually represented in CMBN scenarios and campaigns.  I have modded the uniforms and vehicles for each CW unit that appears in CMBN (no small feat but better than my original obsession 😉), which led me to an exhaustive examination of all of the scenarios and campaigns I could find (reading notes, briefings and digging through the OOBs).  At this point, I decided that I wanted to make it easy to use the mod, so that meant looking into ModTags.  All of the unit graphics have had ModTags applied to them.
    I identified 175 scenarios and 22 campaigns that would lend themselves to specific units being represented (CW, US & German); then, I extensively ModTagged all 175 of these scenarios.  For the 22 campaigns, since I couldn't add ModTags to the individual missions, I created campaign-specific mod .BRZ files, which will accomplish the same goal.  Along the way I have made a few changes to the CW armour models in a few of the scenarios and campaigns for greater unit historical accuracy but they are mostly unchanged by me.
    Not being an SME on American or German vehicles/uniforms, I have personally ModTagged many of the community mods that I use and I have also included them in a couple of separate .BRZ files that can be used or not, depending on your preference (the beauty of this system is that if you prefer other mods, just tag them yourself using the ModTags I've added to the scenarios and you can get whatever mix you like).
    Anyway, its all ready to go, I just need to put it up somewhere if people are interested.
     
    Darknight
    PS - If any scenario or campaign authors would like a particular CW formation that I haven't included (because they don't appear in CMBN yet), then drop me a line and I should be able to easily provide it, and I can advise on the ModTag structure and layering too, if needed.
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    para reacted to sburke in THE PANDEMIC CHAT ROOM   
    well to be honest. I think in that moment he was actually right.  The last briefing was frankly the best move for him to make.  Get in, get out, don't start ad-libbing, don't argue with the press.  It just isn't in his make up though to leave it at that unfortunately.  The one surprisingly good thing going on that gets little attention is what Melania is doing and note this is from The Washington Post.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/melania-trump-a-most-private-first-lady-finds-her-voice-in-a-stay-at-home-pandemic/2020/04/22/a774dec2-83fa-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html
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    para got a reaction from PhilM in THE PANDEMIC CHAT ROOM   
    Didn't your CIC say that under 100k would be a good result also?
    Don't know what im getting all uppity about Boris and his merry men have managed to **** up our response also. although we have many here in the UK saying he's  done a great job. ffs
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    para reacted to Ales Dvorak in THE PANDEMIC CHAT ROOM   
    Like dr. Trump said: "America First".
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    para got a reaction from Holien in THE PANDEMIC CHAT ROOM   
    Didn't your CIC say that under 100k would be a good result also?
    Don't know what im getting all uppity about Boris and his merry men have managed to **** up our response also. although we have many here in the UK saying he's  done a great job. ffs
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    para got a reaction from sburke in THE PANDEMIC CHAT ROOM   
    Are you not worried about the Gov't/NWO or Illuminati putting chips in any vaccine? lol
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    para reacted to sburke in THE PANDEMIC CHAT ROOM   
    Well apparently we are going to be and it seems the logic is based on fear of an underground movement of speakeasy hair salons.  of all things.....  there simply are no words.  I think I'll go gargle some disinfectant and shove a UV light up my arse.  Science is dead.
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    para reacted to Holien in THE PANDEMIC CHAT ROOM   
    Thanks AKD reading that article now starts to make sense in how the Virus is being weaponised in the American Election.
    Link the democrats to the stay at home orders and they become the bad cop that  the Republican supporters can turn against, they generate mass support because people have lost jobs so drag in a wider support base...
    The Democrats ruined the economy, the Republicans would have saved the economy but ohh those evil Democrats want to destroy your freedom to infect folk...
    Joy....
    And there I was thinking it was about saving lives and based upon past experience then protecting the economy as you have more people alive to generate and create the economy.
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    para reacted to sburke in THE PANDEMIC CHAT ROOM   
    Umm.... yeah I know I should just walk away from this one, but I just can't.  
    The doctors and nurses working around people possibly infected with a virus tend to wear N95 masks, not just your standard garden variety mask we wear to the grocery store.  In fact there are nurses fighting with hospitals now about being asked to work without proper gear, but somehow a beautician wearing a standard mask and working with multiple people all day long in close contact is okay.  Apparently the Gov in Georgia agrees with you about what constitutes an essential service. 
    All I can say is best of luck to those folks and I wish them well.
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