Russo-Ukrainian War

[gimp]

All mans in eastern hemisphere, you okay?

Obviously Ukraine not okay, dont know how many Ukrainians there are in elma community.
I have heard Russia is not okay either because of the sanctions causing supply issues and inflation, but not sure how much is just media hype.
Not sure how other Europeans are affected. Here in America only thing I have noticed so far is lots of gossip and gas prices are up.

[milagros]

i use info only from reliable sources
here is the recent explanation of the situation by us vice-president kamala harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZqZm1ajbU

[gimp]

I dont know what the intent of your video was, but yeah those two and our last president say crazy shit all the time

i want mans to know i do not judge by what country you are from.

[Hosp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqk4pWnVN5w
Very important video, and message in this time.

[ribot]

join discord for humble discussions of teh

[kuchitsu]

bring back ribot

[Pocho]

bring back ribot

+1

[gimp]

join discord for humble discussions of teh

I tried discord. Didnt like it. Im sure i am in the minority though since mopolauta is a ghost town now.

[kuchitsu]

Yeah, forums are dead as a format. You'll have to adapt to trends to stay connected with the community.

[specter2]

Yeah, forums are dead as a format. You'll have to adapt to trends to stay connected with the community.

forums are not dead as a format, but in this extremely small community there aren't enough people to keep it active

[Grace]

Forums still exist. Compared to absolutely any metric (the old activity of forums... the prominence of just about any social media, especially Discord) in-context though, calling them dead is pretty fair. In the height of activity this forum saw, we would have multiple individual users posting as much a day as the entire community posts here a year now.

Yes, some forums still see activity, but those forums are also not thriving as they once were. On the whole, the format is well past its prime.

[specter2]

finland at least still has forums that get hundreds of posts daily, they are not around any specific topic but are general and have sections for different kind of stuff. also reddit is very forum-like, that's where most of the people went i guess and that killed off the smaller individual forums. so no i don't think it's the format that's dead, maybe it wasn't just a sustainable format for these smaller communities.

the problem with this forum is that i don't really know what i should be discussing here about. why would i talk about russo-ukrainian war here because i know there are better forums with better posts and more content? i am not really that interested in those five specific individual's views that might post on this topic. same applies to most of (if not all of) the generic world topics etc. these topics are easily scratched on the surface while talking random stuff on irc on in-game chat and that's enough.

what i would gladly talk about here is the stuff that concerns this game. there's just not much happening in this dead community, apart from all the occasional drama and that's when people reveal their nonexistent discussion skills which further pushes me away from posting anything serious on this board.

[AndrY]

at least this forum is not as dead as that http://forum.elmaclub.net/
but its slowly going to)

[gimp]

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[gimp]

why would i talk about russo-ukrainian war here because i know there are better forums with better posts and more content? i am not really that interested in those five specific individual's views that might post on this topic.

I understand this is not the optimal place to discuss such matters. I do happen to be interested in the community's views though. You guys are the only people in the world I know that live in Europe and Russia, albeit I only know you through the lens of a computer screen. If people don't want to or care to share views about this on a gaming forum that's understandable, but in past I have learned other viewpoints here on things like Covid or even anti-American views I never knew existed. It is an outlet for new perspectives from people I semi-know.

[AndrY]

All mans in eastern hemisphere, you okay?

Obviously Ukraine not okay, dont know how many Ukrainians there are in elma community.
I have heard Russia is not okay either because of the sanctions causing supply issues and inflation, but not sure how much is just media hype.
Not sure how other Europeans are affected. Here in America only thing I have noticed so far is lots of gossip and gas prices are up.

okee
Duno how its in europe with gas, but here... Was strange lack of office paper a week ago (and mb sugar?), but duno.. really i dont feel any notable changes. Prices are the same, or almost. Dollar/euro are going down. McDonald's, clothing stores, luxury stores and such, closed.. hmm:/ not a serious problem imo. Many sites are blocked.. dont think is was a good idea:/
A relative have problems with the delivery of materials from europe (for welding), but it seems that nothing is wrong either, somehow it is solving.
Really its a question for whom these sanction are worse, europe or rus.

War.. its all shit ofc. Europe+usa blame Russia, deify Ukraine and suddenly HORRIFIED by the war, despite the fact that it has been going on in Ukraine for like 8 years (LPR/DPR). In Russia these actions in ukr are explained by usa pression (with help of ukr) and ukr nacism. The truth is somewhere in middle..:/

rus side if view seems more reliable, but dont want to discuss (it was enough in discord imo)

[gimp]

Thanks Andry for post. This to me is the most interesting to see perspective from Russian kuskis, would be nice to see Europes too though. Of course none of us want to think we are the bad guys. In reality no individual is at fault here, we all just happened to be born in some country, but it is easy to take matter personally. I served in American military during Afghan/Iraq war and the world had different opinions on it. Some commended me and some thought i was the "bad guy". the truth is that all war is shit and i was just trying to pay for college as a young kid, this is bigger than all of us.

My media says Russia is the bad guy in this situation, that the naziism in Ukraine is real, but only a small faction of the country and hardly a problem at all or worth starting a war over, and that Putin's real motivation for starting war is to keep Ukraine from joining NATO. They say Putin is losing the war so far which may lead him to feel like he is "backed into a corner" and he may launch a nuke or use chemical weapons. Anyway just what my media is saying, but bias is everywhere of course. Sorry for all mans effected.

[AndrY]

Anyway just what my media is saying, but bias is everywhere of course.

sure

This to me is the most interesting to see perspective from Russian kuskis

is was only my opinion. among rus kuskis its very dif, heh

[milagros]

it's a blessing we have all these big countries - USA, Russia and China - in all their greatness and glory willing to share their wisdom, how other inferior under-developed territories and their uncivilized savage population is allowed to run their countries and their lives

[Tigro]

Gimp, don't listen to andry and come to discord to read many more opinions of other mans who weren't indoctrinated by putin's domestic and foreign propaganda.

[milagros]

how's denazification going?
because there are nazis in latvia, finland or poland waiting to be denazified next
god bless russia and their retarded leader