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Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's the weather?
Last post by Trevor - Today at 05:22:16 AMFreezing here, we also had some rain yesterday 🥶🥶
#2
Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's the weather?
Last post by claws - Today at 04:28:20 AMI've been complaining about the heatwave we're having in Germany, and honestly, it still feels surreal.
Germany was never known for being hot. When I grew up, summers were mild, winters were properly cold, and "heatwave" was something you heard about happening in Spain or Italy, not Bavaria or Franconia.
But these new heatwaves? They feel wrong on a fundamental level. There is nothing Mediterranean about Germany. Not the landscapes, not the architecture, not the people. Nothing here says "Come to Germany and enjoy the heat!" It's like the climate is trying on a costume that doesn't fit.
And to put it into perspective, here are a few heat‑related facts about Germany that show just how strange this all is:
Germany's average summer temperature used to hover around 20–24°C, depending on the region. Now, 30°C+ days are becoming normal in June.
The country's all‑time heat record (41.2°C) was only set in 2019, a sign of how recent extreme heat actually is.
Most German homes were built to retain heat, not escape it. Thick insulation, small windows, no AC. Great in winter, miserable in a heatwave.
Urban areas like Frankfurt, Cologne, and Berlin can run 5–10°C hotter than surrounding countryside due to heat‑trapping architecture.
Forests are struggling too, drought stress, bark beetles, and fire risk have all spiked in the last decade.
So when a heatwave rolls in, it doesn't just feel uncomfortable, it feels out of character for the entire country. Like Germany is glitching.
Germany was never known for being hot. When I grew up, summers were mild, winters were properly cold, and "heatwave" was something you heard about happening in Spain or Italy, not Bavaria or Franconia.
But these new heatwaves? They feel wrong on a fundamental level. There is nothing Mediterranean about Germany. Not the landscapes, not the architecture, not the people. Nothing here says "Come to Germany and enjoy the heat!" It's like the climate is trying on a costume that doesn't fit.
And to put it into perspective, here are a few heat‑related facts about Germany that show just how strange this all is:
Germany's average summer temperature used to hover around 20–24°C, depending on the region. Now, 30°C+ days are becoming normal in June.
The country's all‑time heat record (41.2°C) was only set in 2019, a sign of how recent extreme heat actually is.
Most German homes were built to retain heat, not escape it. Thick insulation, small windows, no AC. Great in winter, miserable in a heatwave.
Urban areas like Frankfurt, Cologne, and Berlin can run 5–10°C hotter than surrounding countryside due to heat‑trapping architecture.
Forests are struggling too, drought stress, bark beetles, and fire risk have all spiked in the last decade.
So when a heatwave rolls in, it doesn't just feel uncomfortable, it feels out of character for the entire country. Like Germany is glitching.
#4
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:42:26 AMQuote from: M.10rda on June 21, 2026, 05:56:03 PMMy theatre company supported the development of ARCHDUKE, a play by Rajiv Joseph, who has written a few pretty successful plays and one or two movies. ARCHDUKE is about the assassination of AFF, and at least in the play, the Black Hand are a bunch of inept, bumbling patsies. Pretty funny to think of them as inspiring Italian thrillers many decades later!
I suppose the suggestion was that the original Black Hand had manipulated the Great Powers into starting WW I and that they were now trying to bring about WW III. But again, everything remains very vague.
#5
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Wordl Cup?
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:29:32 AMNot really following it. Things are pretty muted over here. There have been times when the national team was seriously hyped up, only to disappoint. With two draws so far (against Egypt and Iran), things aren't looking too good this time around as well.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - June 21, 2026, 08:27:18 PMTonight's Stinker
The Cycle Savages(1969)
https://youtu.be/dRX4E7iYFMU?si=xMm6y-3kosEPys8y
A group of bikers rides up to a to a drive by burger stand & order donuts & beer & make mayhem, while a clean cut guy sit & draws pictures of them.... Later at a bar, Bruce Dern, the gangs short fused leader, confronts the artist about what he's drawing..... The artist walks out, but the bartender tells Dern he has pictures of the whole gang... So the bikers meet the artist at his apartment, beat him up, take his sketches, then get the prostitute upstairs to look after him while they search his apartment....
They find the sketches, & steal a Marine sword while they're at it..... When the artist finds out, he goes to get it back, & makes quick work of the two bikers there.... The rest of the bikers are out getting a stolen bike back, then go looking for girls.... They find one, & for the next thirty minutes, the film cuts back & fourth between the artist in bed with the prostitute while the bikers get rough with the girl they found....
But Dern's constantly angry character is still fuming about the artist & how to wreck his hands....
There's also supposed to be a subplot about the bikers working for human traffickers the never gets fleshed out, & this sex ed book the artist is illustrating, & numerous other things that keep getting mentioned, but not explained....
None of this is as exciting as I described, as it mostly borrows from every biker film before it, while avoiding anything resembling a plot.....
The Cycle Savages(1969)
https://youtu.be/dRX4E7iYFMU?si=xMm6y-3kosEPys8y
A group of bikers rides up to a to a drive by burger stand & order donuts & beer & make mayhem, while a clean cut guy sit & draws pictures of them.... Later at a bar, Bruce Dern, the gangs short fused leader, confronts the artist about what he's drawing..... The artist walks out, but the bartender tells Dern he has pictures of the whole gang... So the bikers meet the artist at his apartment, beat him up, take his sketches, then get the prostitute upstairs to look after him while they search his apartment....
They find the sketches, & steal a Marine sword while they're at it..... When the artist finds out, he goes to get it back, & makes quick work of the two bikers there.... The rest of the bikers are out getting a stolen bike back, then go looking for girls.... They find one, & for the next thirty minutes, the film cuts back & fourth between the artist in bed with the prostitute while the bikers get rough with the girl they found....
But Dern's constantly angry character is still fuming about the artist & how to wreck his hands....
There's also supposed to be a subplot about the bikers working for human traffickers the never gets fleshed out, & this sex ed book the artist is illustrating, & numerous other things that keep getting mentioned, but not explained....
None of this is as exciting as I described, as it mostly borrows from every biker film before it, while avoiding anything resembling a plot.....
#8
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - June 21, 2026, 05:56:03 PMMy theatre company supported the development of ARCHDUKE, a play by Rajiv Joseph, who has written a few pretty successful plays and one or two movies. ARCHDUKE is about the assassination of AFF, and at least in the play, the Black Hand are a bunch of inept, bumbling patsies. Pretty funny to think of them as inspiring Italian thrillers many decades later!
#9
Entertainment / Re: What Video Game are You Pl...
Last post by M.10rda - June 21, 2026, 05:51:51 PMDrifterr, if you are in fact real and not a bot, every RPG I've ever played has pretty much proceeded that way. 
The FALLOUTs are infamous for their endless distractions from the central plot.
The FALLOUTs are infamous for their endless distractions from the central plot. #10
Submitted Reader Reviews / Re: Missing in Action
Last post by Trevor - June 21, 2026, 05:19:39 PM😅🤣😀😄😅