Razor's Edge Cooperative [PMT/SignUps/OOC]

[Gigaverse]

Ah yes, the salty British/Nordic/Finnic/Slavic/Baltic nation guy who vehemently denies being a random one of these at any one moment.

HE CLAIMED TO HAVE ONLY CHANGED LOCATIONS ONCE EVERY TWO FICKING YEARS

WTF MATE

What? Y'all still taking Rutthenia seriously?

Let's ring a bell. Or ten.

[Vistora]

HE CLAIMED TO HAVE ONLY CHANGED LOCATIONS ONCE EVERY TWO FICKING YEARS

WTF MATE

What? Y'all still taking Rutthenia seriously?

Let's ring a bell. Or ten.

Alright, alright, that's enough. I won't have this place becoming a flamepit. And go easy on the images.

[Technocratic China]

Yeah, but that's like preferring a plate of horse shit over haute foie gras. I can't force people to change their preferences (dammit), but that doesn't mean the two are equal. Have you ever tried to do physics calculations in Imperial units? It's a absolute nightmare. My father worked for some forty years in the aerospace industry, and he would always convert his units to metric for his calculations, then back to Imperial when he got the final result. Pretty much every scientific and medical institution uses it, as do many engineering firms.

I'll be perfectly honest, growing up and living in America means that I have a better intuitive sense of imperial units than I do of metric, but I have been trying my damndest to shed that ever since I took an interest in science. Even if I instinctively think in terms of feet, Fahrenheit, pounds, etc., I always use a converter.

Yeah, I've recently forced myself to use metric on the forums here, especially since every nation I own uses it, even though I barely understand it myself.

I think it's funny to see people shit on America for using Imperial, but it's really hard to shake the mindset of miles over kilometers. A lot of us are trying, but because most people here never leave good ol' Murica, there's so far no incentive to learn for the average pleb.

[Empire of Donner land]

Yeah, but that's like preferring a plate of horse shit over haute foie gras. I can't force people to change their preferences (dammit), but that doesn't mean the two are equal. Have you ever tried to do physics calculations in Imperial units? It's a absolute nightmare. My father worked for some forty years in the aerospace industry, and he would always convert his units to metric for his calculations, then back to Imperial when he got the final result. Pretty much every scientific and medical institution uses it, as do many engineering firms.

I'll be perfectly honest, growing up and living in America means that I have a better intuitive sense of imperial units than I do of metric, but I have been trying my damndest to shed that ever since I took an interest in science. Even if I instinctively think in terms of feet, Fahrenheit, pounds, etc., I always use a converter.

Yeah, I've recently forced myself to use metric on the forums here, especially since every nation I own uses it, even though I barely understand it myself.

I think it's funny to see people shit on America for using Imperial, but it's really hard to shake the mindset of miles over kilometers. A lot of us are trying, but because most people here never leave good ol' Murica, there's so far no incentive to learn for the average pleb.

There really is no incentive to learn metric more than just the average school education over it that you're forced to do. I know metric, I just don't use it since I live in the US.

[Vistora]

Yeah, but that's like preferring a plate of horse shit over haute foie gras. I can't force people to change their preferences (dammit), but that doesn't mean the two are equal. Have you ever tried to do physics calculations in Imperial units? It's a absolute nightmare. My father worked for some forty years in the aerospace industry, and he would always convert his units to metric for his calculations, then back to Imperial when he got the final result. Pretty much every scientific and medical institution uses it, as do many engineering firms.

I'll be perfectly honest, growing up and living in America means that I have a better intuitive sense of imperial units than I do of metric, but I have been trying my damndest to shed that ever since I took an interest in science. Even if I instinctively think in terms of feet, Fahrenheit, pounds, etc., I always use a converter.

Yeah, I've recently forced myself to use metric on the forums here, especially since every nation I own uses it, even though I barely understand it myself.

I think it's funny to see people shit on America for using Imperial, but it's really hard to shake the mindset of miles over kilometers. A lot of us are trying, but because most people here never leave good ol' Murica, there's so far no incentive to learn for the average pleb.

Working as a scientist helps immensely in this regard, as it results in vastly increased exposure to the metric system. But yeah, old prejudices are difficult to shake. Gaining an intuitive sense of it is the hardest part.

[Technocratic China]

Working as a scientist helps immensely in this regard, as it results in vastly increased exposure to the metric system. But yeah, old prejudices are difficult to shake. Gaining an intuitive sense of it is the hardest part.

As someone who is studying a field immensely different from science, I gotta say I have no incentive besides the desire to see the places I teach about. History, bruh. I feel like the best way to know about a place is to go there, even if just for a little while.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

What? Y'all still taking Rutthenia seriously?

Let's ring a bell. Or ten.

Alright, alright, that's enough. I won't have this place becoming a flamepit. And go easy on the images.

This is Turkmenistan, deal with it

[Vistora]

Working as a scientist helps immensely in this regard, as it results in vastly increased exposure to the metric system. But yeah, old prejudices are difficult to shake. Gaining an intuitive sense of it is the hardest part.

As someone who is studying a field immensely different from science, I gotta say I have no incentive besides the desire to see the places I teach about. History, bruh. I feel like the best way to know about a place is to go there, even if just for a little while.

That sounds really fun. I love to travel (who doesn't?), but it's not something I get a lot of opportunity to do.

Alright, alright, that's enough. I won't have this place becoming a flamepit. And go easy on the images.

This is Turkmenistan, deal with it

Hehehe. Speaking of chaos, isn't there some krazy shit going on in the streets of Hong Kong right now? Summink about fishballs.

[Technocratic China]

Hehehe. Speaking of chaos, isn't there some krazy shit going on in the streets of Hong Kong right now? Summink about fishballs.

From what I heard, the police were cracking down on street vendors and people started getting pissed. I'm probably horribly generalizing it, but that's the basics, I believe.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

Hehehe. Speaking of chaos, isn't there some krazy shit going on in the streets of Hong Kong right now? Summink about fishballs.

From what I heard, the police were cracking down on street vendors and people started getting pissed. I'm probably horribly generalizing it, but that's the basics, I believe.

Oh dear no...

It's them...

Chengguan...

They have fucking returned

[Vistora]

From what I heard, the police were cracking down on street vendors and people started getting pissed. I'm probably horribly generalizing it, but that's the basics, I believe.

Oh dear no...

It's them...

Chengguan...

They have fucking returned

Well that's not fucking ominous at all.

[Vistora]

I read about it in this week's issue of The Economist, and there unfortunately was not a whole lot of information, only that it's the worst outbreak of violent protest in Hong Kong since the sixties. Yikes.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

I read about it in this week's issue of The Economist, and there unfortunately was not a whole lot of information, only that it's the worst outbreak of violent protest in Hong Kong since the sixties. Yikes.

Wtf mate where did it happen

Fooking ccp censors shit

[Vistora]

I read about it in this week's issue of The Economist, and there unfortunately was not a whole lot of information, only that it's the worst outbreak of violent protest in Hong Kong since the sixties. Yikes.

Wtf mate where did it happen

Fooking ccp censors shit

Mong Kok. Hong Kongers were celebrating Chinese New Year, and authorities started cracking down on street food hawkers. People got pissed, and things started to get... hectic.

Though I don't expect that you will be able to see it, here's the article, just in case.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

Wtf mate where did it happen

Fooking ccp censors shit

Mong Kok. Hong Kongers were celebrating Chinese New Year, and authorities started cracking down on street food hawkers. People got pissed, and things started to get... hectic.

Though I don't expect that you will be able to see it, here's the article, just in case.

Should I expect any more from the place where an old woman living off nothing but selling newspapers can get her own money stolen under bare daylight?

[Vistora]

Mong Kok. Hong Kongers were celebrating Chinese New Year, and authorities started cracking down on street food hawkers. People got pissed, and things started to get... hectic.

Though I don't expect that you will be able to see it, here's the article, just in case.

Should I expect any more from the place where an old woman living off nothing but selling newspapers can get her own money stolen under bare daylight?

I... suppose not. The situation is, in a few words, generally rather unsavory. Hong Kong still has some thirty years before its independence is slated to end (can't say I'm looking forward to that), and yet the encroachments have already begun.

[Technocratic China]

The most shameful part is that you're totally in the blind about the whole thing, and nobody in America is really talking about it.

This stuff is kind of like the Baltimore riots, but in the middle of the day.

And now the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are saying this was started by a radical separatist organization, which I find really hard to believe.

[Gigaverse]

dat censorship tho

pretty sure only thing that gets censored in VN is BBC

[Vistora]

The most shameful part is that you're totally in the blind about the whole thing, and nobody in America is really talking about it.

This stuff is kind of like the Baltimore riots, but in the middle of the day.

And now the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are saying this was started by a radical separatist organization, which I find really hard to believe.

It kinda was, (see Hong Kong Indigenous) but I would take the details of China's words with a grain of salt.

dat censorship tho

pretty sure only thing that gets censored in VN is BBC

Yeah, pretty much. I've actually been to Vietnam a multitude of times with my mother, and I didn't encounter any hardcore censorship like what China has.

Speaking of which, I might have to persuade my mom to take me to Can Tho again.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

The most shameful part is that you're totally in the blind about the whole thing, and nobody in America is really talking about it.

This stuff is kind of like the Baltimore riots, but in the middle of the day.

And now the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are saying this was started by a radical separatist organization, which I find really hard to believe.

goddamit

[Vistora]

The most shameful part is that you're totally in the blind about the whole thing, and nobody in America is really talking about it.

This stuff is kind of like the Baltimore riots, but in the middle of the day.

And now the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are saying this was started by a radical separatist organization, which I find really hard to believe.

goddamit

Don't worry Singy, I'll be your infodrug dealer. Forty yuan a gram.

[Europe 2099]

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A Russian Winter's Winds - Character Form

https://cyborgphotos.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/cyborgphotos-wordpress-com-closet_cyborg_by_rocklou-cyborg-man1.jpg

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Name: Ivan Yermolayevich Anikin
Date of Birth: 2082
Location of Birth: Siberia
Allegiance: Whoever pays him
Biography: Ivan was born in a small settlement of tents and cabins in Siberia, where his parents died while stuck outside in a blizzard when he was just twelve. As he grew older, he reverse-engineered and retrofitted virtual reality apparatuses to turn them into transportable, addictive, drug-like stimulants. Eventually, he left his settlement and headed west. He now sells his virtual reality stimulants in Moscow to anyone with an agreeable price.
Personality: Shady, greedy, dark sense of humor
Gear: A large supply of virtual reality stimulants, many mechanical implants, the means to make more stimulants, one AM62 Vulpes
Skills: An excellent businessman and virtual reality engineer, pretty good with an assault rifle and average in hand-to-hand combat.

Yeah, sorry a five-minute task took several weeks. Heh heh. My bad. And just like I predicted, the image I finally found shows someone who looks nothing like a Russian. Whatever, that's just one reason that having a face-covering mech suit was better.

[Vistora]

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A Russian Winter's Winds - Character Form

https://cyborgphotos.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/cyborgphotos-wordpress-com-closet_cyborg_by_rocklou-cyborg-man1.jpg

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Name: Ivan Yermolayevich Anikin
Date of Birth: 2082
Location of Birth: Siberia
Allegiance: Whoever pays him
Biography: Ivan was born in a small settlement of tents and cabins in Siberia, where his parents died while stuck outside in a blizzard when he was just twelve. As he grew older, he reverse-engineered and retrofitted virtual reality apparatuses to turn them into transportable, addictive, drug-like stimulants. Eventually, he left his settlement and headed west. He now sells his virtual reality stimulants in Moscow to anyone with an agreeable price.
Personality: Shady, greedy, dark sense of humor
Gear: A large supply of virtual reality stimulants, many mechanical implants, the means to make more stimulants, one AM62 Vulpes
Skills: An excellent businessman and virtual reality engineer, pretty good with an assault rifle and average in hand-to-hand combat.

Yeah, sorry a five-minute task took several weeks. Heh heh. My bad.

YES! FINALLY! *hugs*

I'll go stick this on the thread OP. Shit goes down this Monday. Now that you're in, the only last person who might join is Argonians.

[Gigaverse]

Speaking of which, I might have to persuade my mom to take me to Can Tho again.

wat

You've been to the Mekong Delta? Daaaaamn.

Now that we mentioned Mekong Delta

[The Great Devourer of All]

Speaking of which, I might have to persuade my mom to take me to Can Tho again.

wat

You've been to the Mekong Delta? Daaaaamn.

Now that we mentioned Mekong Delta

Hehheh. 'Dam'.

Heh heh heh.

Sorry.