Netflix released Witcher Season 4 recently, so I rewatched the whole show, so I won't be clueless what they did. I only remembered I did not like it much.
I liked the novels and short stories - which I should re-read, it's a mess now if I try to recall details. Perhaps I haven't even read some in order.
I liked the W 1 and 3 vidyas. Haven't played 2. Perhaps I should. 3 is very long but I played it through, felt pretty darn good, although towards the end repetitiveness started to get to me.
The show's greatest negative that it was born in the wake of the woke and they shoehorned all the PoCs into it - casting various mutts into roles that should be played by a Euro, eg. the elf queen and Triss and bunch of others - and it's all girlpowah.
The novels are set in a world that has place for all kinds of ethnicities but this multikulti mishmash is a misguided approach. Similarly there are quite a few strong female characters, just from the three central roles two: Yennefer and Ciri are female! Strong and powerful, with great character arch.
How fucking Netflix and all the woke execs, writers, directors, producers can fuck up great stories with their heavy handedness and ideological blindess! No talent two bits Lenins all of 'em. Without real vision hammering their dogmas. All reverse Midases, everything that's golden turns to shit by their touch.

So Season 4.
They swapped Cavill to Hamsworth. I don't really mind as far as the acting goes. Cavill maybe was more into it.
Otherwise it's a giant filler. Nothing really happens, telling backstories and old Jaskier talking to some girl that adds nothing to the story. The big magical battle looks ridiculous.
Couple of Geralt's swordsmanship action really resembles to the games.
And they made a movie from the Rats, abhorrent of an idea. They were the most annoying part of Season 4 - beyond Ciri herself - and I was glad they got butchered. Was hoping Ciri also gets the treatment saving us from the suffering of Season 5. She did not. Woe to the vanquished.

I really, really have to watch Wiedzmin.

>>54805
They really fucked the goose with this new witcher season. I don't think anybody likes it.

>I liked the novels and short stories - which I should re-read, it's a mess now if I try to recall details. Perhaps I haven't even read some in order.
It's really different from the novels. Lots of "changes" were done to all the characters.

>How fucking Netflix and all the woke execs, writers, directors, producers can fuck up great stories with their heavy handedness and ideological blindess!

Some people just like to fug everyone's shit up bernd.

>t. seen it myself

Watched Underworld for the first time. I was avoiding it on purpose for I thought it's a cheap copypaste from Vampire the Masquerade.
I was right. Tho I enjoyed the movie, I just imagined it's a fanfiction. Music is all right, Beckinsale looked good. Visuals in general are good, story is okay. Film has lotsa ties to Hungary. Scenes were shot here, mile long crew list. The male protag is also Hungarian apparently.
Fights were kinda clumsy, but I think for that time, it's okay.

>>54895
>Fights were kinda clumsy, but I think for that time, it's okay.

IIRC there's like 4 more movies in that franchise. Maybe the later films have better fights and everything else.

>>45150
I forgot about that show. Watched 2 episodes back then and that was it.
Finally finished it. It's all right. Better paced than Pluribus at least...

>>54932
>mkv
Fuck me.

A week or two ago in his sitrep, Wyatt of DPA changed his sitreps a bit after he put forward a theory about how the war is fought how they capture ground.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vhocenrJeUY
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vhocenrJeUY [Embed]

He says they have bases in various settlements, where they can house X amount of soldiers, and they send them out to the trenches where they clash with the enemy as they try to hold/capture those. There is a range where it is effective to send the soldiers, and at one point it gets too dangerous due to enemy drones/mortar/artillery.
Russians try to pound these bases and suppress the traffic that is going between the bases and trenches. When the place gets sparse enough, they try to move in "on foot" and capture it.

They say Ukraine will hold presidential election. Preparing voting possibility for those who fled the country.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/66485

Breddy cool map to follow the war. Actually several maps by known mappers can select and compare each. I'm missing DPA from it,
https://ukraineviews.org/

Along with Jacques Baud and Xavier Moreau this half-negro Swiss lady was also sanctioned by the EU. She has a very interesting and quite unsettling story.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PXq89FryYzo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PXq89FryYzo [Embed]
The Swiss bank she has account at froze her money in Swiss Francs, and just stole the rest which was in Euro...
She can't fly to Switzerland for the EU surrounds it. But it would be useless to be there since the whole country is run electronically, and large part of her income based on her online presence, and she would be just locked out of every services.
Swiss embassy did not help her out.
Unrelated US companies refusing to deal with her.
Google demonetized her channel.
She's on EU's list and bunch of other 3rd party companies are shutting her out.
The reason all this because she is against France's presence in Africa. She voices her opinion against Francafrique. For the EU this means she works for Russian interests and they cite alleged ties to Wagner (and Afriq which is considered a Wagner front) and destabilizing activities.
She was already pestered by France and Macron back in 2019, he made Ivory Coast to expel her (to Switzerland). Her current EU ban happened back in June.
https://sanctionslists.org/news/eu-imposes-sanctions-on-a-swiss-social-media-influencer/
I guess she and the others still can go to Russia. Then the EU could say:
>see we told you they were Russian agents

Russia often presents herself as a power that is against the colonialism the West still practices. It's a Soviet heritage ofc, the SU did the same. And they support those locals who also want to get rid of the remnants of their former oppressors and exploiters.
But how about Europeans (the colonial powers along with Brussels) approach the Africa question differently. Are they so afraid they couldn't compete on leveled field with others eyeing the continent (such as US, Russia, and China)?

Pascal has a different take on the recently published "National Security Strategy" of the US.
>It is more of a wish list and a mental conception of the world and what the US should want
>could be published in a magazine, like Foreign Affairs
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zu9sQF7d0RI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zu9sQF7d0RI [Embed]

>>54893
Actually I think the whole document sounds like a backward rationalization of all the things the Trump admin. done up to this point. They were blundering in the dark aimlessly and now they try to prove it was along a well formulated plan they finally disclose to the masses. They are trying to give a coherent body to their actions.

Hmm. What's up with Venezuela right now?

I think it's better here since EU politics in general, despite it's related to Russia's war.
About the frozen assets.
So there are private wealth stashed on the Belgium by private Russian entities (companies and individuals) in various banks. EU froze these "Russian assets" at the start of the war. At every 6 months they need a unanimous vote to extend the freeze.
However this time Orbán was very loud about saying no. Why? Because for a while the EU council pushes for confiscating/stealing the money (about €210 billion) and use it to finance Ukraine buy weapons from the US.
So last week they decided a simple majority vote is enough to freeze the money forever. Ofc "defrosting" it needs unanimous vote.
There is one problem: Belgium. The EU council can't take the money, only Belgium can. However there will be repercussions. So Belgium asks support for the EU states, to share the burden, and pay if necessary. Everyone drags their feet ofc.
Confiscating the money need unanimous vote, but Belgium (and others) will say no.
So now EU council (ie Kaja Kallas) wants to take the dough by majority voting, fucking Belgium over.
Belgium was one of the 25 countries who agreed on freezing the assets indefinitely.
Oh the ironing.

Checking some of the articles on that Flemish news site >>54914
Two specifically:
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/12/17/2025-has-been-a-record-year-for-shootings-in-brussels/
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/12/17/federal-police-to-be-withdrawn-from-antwerps-jewish-quarter-at-t/

The first one says that since 2022 the amount of shooting crimes doubled to 96 in Brussels.
The second say the 16 extra officer that protected the Jewish quarter in Antwerp is getting moved.
How large is the gun crime in Antwerp? Can armed criminals travel from Brussels to Antwerp. Is the Belgian govt. preparing to allow a shooting similar to Australia...?

>>54808
Another songs from N.E.R.D - You know what

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_cdPWwBKplI

>>54809
Posting Planisphere from Justice.
Arguably the most daring and elaborate song piece I've heard to date tbh. Really ambitious stuff

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GU21qYFmrcY

>>54808
Fugging posers. Sounds like a Korn song.
>2nd
Entirely different. They have a range of repertoire. Not bad.

>>54809
It's more like in the veins of God Bless Us All.
But more pop sounding.

At the end the the previous thread I posted about a fun song about the Hungarian radio and its history by the band LGT (that's short for Locomotiv GT and the GT is short for Gran Turismo): >>52661 >>52662 >>52663
As it happens the Hungarian Radio turned 100 years old just on Monday, December 1st. Counting from the first official broadcast from a realest official studio. Since 2 years prior there were experimental broadcasts from a truck.
The opening tune was the first couple of seconds of this song, historical themed, from the "kuruc" wars (eg. the Rákóczi's War of Independence). The version I'm posting is only instrumental, it has vocals normally.

>>54874
>Entirely different. They have a range of repertoire. Not bad.
>But more pop sounding.

That's the thing I like about N.E.R.D. They're really inventive with music and always make something new and different in all their albums.