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For copyright reasons no original PG2 elements are included in the Open General package. It includes two e-files that emulate, to the extent possible with game engine differences, the ancient PG (Panzer General 1) and PeG (Peoples General). Respectively, OPENPG and OPENPEG. There is also an adaptati...

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After long months dodging the subject at the PGX forum, events made this imperative.
https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/th ... ne-warning

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Great idea to have Napoleonic Wars with tanks and WW2 equipment :cool The Napoleonic theme was of course posted about at old JP's Panzers dedicated thread. Probably by me, remembering Jeff has an old Allied General Napoleonic scenario. Or at least had. I also remember the great Konzev advocated foc...

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PGX version 800 is about. Almost entirely a tune up of the new scenario's e-file. The new scenario arrived with an update to the previous version. Most likely some will find it rather strange - it is an alternative history variant. The political / diplomatic panorama is that of the Napoleonic Wars; ...

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Sept. 1, 2023 v799 uploaded. This version has a new Tech Level I have been messing with. (Each Factory represents a Tech Level) You only need to get to 5 to max out. And they are cheap (12 points). There are 5 basic.eqs files now. One for each tech level. I think I fixed the Depot ZoC glitch. Plus, ...

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https://www.festivalvilardemouros.pt/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/vilar-de-mouros-2023-cartaz-e1686519460250.jpeg A few low res snippets from Vilar de Mouros Festival. Multi genre music festival nearly ending for this year (23, 24, 25, 26, August). In my case I would probably be more interested in Or...

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66594520

Very important achievement for India... potentially very important mission for the future of solar system manned exploration...
Let's cross fingers that the rover will also be able to perform well and do its scientific experiments.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p-lIgt4E2U

Japanese Metal band Ningen Isu performs a King Crimson cover: Larks' tongues in aspic part II

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must say this, although not my field, i'm medievalist above all. find it interesting when it comes to our continent (after checking South Sudan page and Palestine))... of course, always add something about you and what you find hypocritical what is strange is that how we are so progressive, advance...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wL5c38Gr4w Machine Head in Lisbon 2022. First sounds appear only around minute 13 and are probably just the tech crew moving about. Concert starts only beyond minute 20. Until almost the 1 hour mark the sound volume is really too low. Then it gets a bit better... Tex...

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Time to get some cover with the Hard Rubber Orchestra playing King Crimson's "One More Red Nightmare"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYp4lmBMbRY

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Modern Warfare e-file is upgraded&updated! Unitpaedia is done, even for the near 50 new units added to the roosters. It have 10 campaign (latest is the Ukraine one with 7 scenario) mostly based on fictional events (hope so, see main post). 9 stand-alone scenarios, I recommend SAS8 & SAS9 to try! "8...

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And now for something completely different: natural heritage... Although "natural" is nowadays a hugely confuse concept in many people's heads. In reality, as far as we consider "natural" something that was not influenced in any way by the man bug... "natural" is history too... For those who mistake...

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Two new versions in last days... only last one available for download... "Minor update posted July 21, 2023 v796 Going to try to clean up the web page. It has a LOT of old useless stuff on it, that needs deleting. I uploaded a spreadsheet. Advanced Squad Leader data from the ASL game charts. I am go...

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I am fixing the brink of war scenario. It was too interesting to waste. The nations, efile, and map. The current version is all goofed up. I think I got the e file cleaned up today. (Using the world nations. 100+) Another Jeff announcement, shortly after that of v795. BoW (not to confuse with Bo, ma...

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Version 795 uploaded July 11, 2023. web.utk.edu/~jcrouch/ New Europe1939 scenario. Based on SPI's 'WWII: European Theatre of Operations'. (OOB anyway.) Started a new player help screen. (Just barely started.) Moved the old PG/AG scenarios to their own folder. That was Jrff's announcement on the most...

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Version 792 posted June 13, 2023. Added a convoy icon to the europe 1939 icons. (Just three copies of the naval transport to look like a convoy.) At least it looks different than the regular naval transport. Worked on the AI use of the new supply rules. (Cleaned it up a bunch.) Fixed the classes.txt...

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Version 791 posted May 22nd, 2023 web.utk.edu/~jcrouch/ New Supply Rule mainly. Plenty to digest here. The third option is pretty much the old one. Just any Primary City will be a supply source. The 4th option..."Advanced" I kinda like a LOT. First of all. The supply phase takes a while longer then ...

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It is guaranteed that nothing is eternal. Even the obsessive desire to see others go will perish with the author of said desire. From the PGX JP's archives: Mr. "Spengler" wrote at the PGX topic back at JPs: "Well, I'm pretty confident in predicting that if Luis Guzman were to ever pull a "disappear...

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Sure thing, there is a character who has been passing death certificates to SSI inspired gaming community forums since he arrived at JP's forum back at the age of https://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/thumbs/bosch-stone-age-meat.jpeg?auto=webp Curious, how a job that, by definition should be short by di...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59LTInidSkI

Vircator - Bootstrap Paradox (Full Album 2023)

There is Metal here but not the most agitated kind.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Vi ... 3540522969

With the exception of first and last, tracks bear the names of ancient civilizations...

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https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/386 ... board-game

https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/ ... miniatures

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rJPqnpY2Vc Jorn - The Rhythm of the Heat (Peter Gabriel cover) Speaking of Peter Gabriel and still on Robert Fripp. Fripp is the guitarist on the three first Peter Gabriel solo albums... Probably would be on the fourth if not for one more King Crimson reforming that ...

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April 4, 2023...v789 uploaded. web.utk.edu/~jcrouch/ This version new rule. units with '-1' movement factor can absolutely not move. Will not buy trucks, can not move by rail. So...if you want an absolutely static unit... give it a -1 move factor. (Zero's (0 MF) can actually move by rail, and have v...

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After many years of successive appearances of good old music in official youtube channels, finally, it is the hour for Jimi. Even King Crimson had done it after the pandemic precipitated the announcement of the musical project's closure. There is some material with the indication that they were post...

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:cool I visited individual sections for the first time today and saw that you are putting a lot of time and effort into the Project. Briefly about King Crimson: I am definitely not a prog fan. My interest was in the band in the early seventies and my musical knowledge never went beyond the 1969 rel...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJo1r7d ... Q&index=21

Laura Cox - Hard Blues Shot

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https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/thread/512/king-crimson-artists-changed-music Most recent addition to PGX Concert Hall. A two part youtube doc on the place of Robert Fripp / King Crimson in the history of music. Part 1 +-30m Part 2 +-45m Unmissable for "Progressive" fans. Potentially interestin...

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Version 788 is out! Follows Jeff's own text. Version 788 posted March 23, 2023 ZoC changes. Naval does not exert ZoC to land, and Land does not exert ZoC to Oceans. Minor (+1) to Attack Grade for Infantry attacking Forts, Tanks, Hard targets in Close Defence Terrain (Cities, Forests, etc.) Infantry ...

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Speaking of unusual voices... not Tom Waits today... more or less the opposite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR1gC4GsFGM
Ney Matogrosso - Rosa de Hiroshima (Rose of Hiroshima)

One of the rare few male sopranos in the planet with a Brazilian standard about the atomic Hiroshima...

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Dimitris GR wrote: ↑
2023-03-20 08:12, Monday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH9dyGo-H84&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfVBYAjNza4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MsZrdIEr8
Various - Yugoslavia 1 (Eastern Serbia) (I guess this was a pre 90's edition)
The Candles of Paradise
Life and death among the Wallachs of Eastern Serbia

On a personal note:
Serbian cuties please do join...

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While the sky does not fall on our heads, let not this be the day before that, 24th March is scheduled for the release of the 50th anniversary of: The Dark Side of the Moon Promotional stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7i8X-Qdhjw&list=PL0SqtI95X6o1iaOp_15elKvoZEWg7oIuP&index=1 https://www.youtu...

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Just watched on TV, a US drone and a Russian fighter collided over the Black Sea:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/14/poli ... index.html

So, here's the question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXohcs1j5PM
The Pineapple Thief - What Have We Sown?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tWzMNqMUbA
Porcupine Tree - Russia on ice
(Progressive Metal they say, from year 2000)

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It was what? Maybe not much more than a week since I noticed Portuguese TV started mentioning Rammstein as scheduled for next June the 26th. And Rammstein Portugal, the local fan community are already presenting "sold out" signs for all but the lowest price tickets. https://rammstein-portugal.com/no...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF0eZjQ8A4A Braga 2 v Rio Ave 0 Braga's scorpio lacks no ammo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofaDpxIv6Kg Casa Pia 2 v Paços de Ferreira Paços' long range artillery was not enough... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-lbc4e6JRM Gil Vicente 2 v Marítimo 0 But Gil's w...

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Wayne Shorter 1933 - 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-btnDSY5R0
Weather Report - Mr. Gone

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Sinners repent for they are here among us to reap the Lord's harvest!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptwUYdTxaI

Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen

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club from "separatist region" of Moldova btw, many people twisted that also in their mind etc etc. and many people do not even know that basic facts for example, let alone trying to "parlare" about global, geopolitcal events :) Aye! We have to be very careful these days with all these people tellin...

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3 most popular male names for kids Probably not much to do with names much more to the east of my close neighbourhood, there is a pair of lists with the top ten boys and girls chosen names in 2022 going around. Francisco is number one 2022 chosen boy's name. Maria is number one for girls. Analysis ...

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And now, paraphrasing someone. Wagner tones...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XX5W7rBWkg
Siegfried - Idyll
Münchner Philarmoniker conducted by the one and only the late Celibidache...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW3IwWFkpfc And now the russophobic Boston Philarmonic Youth Orchestra performs Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmilla Ouverture (I had the care to pass on Tchaikovsky's 1812 Ouverture... you see old Tchaikovsky's sexual tendencies are a bit off on his homeland these days) The ...

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further today, there are some Wagner-tones :p really what Wagner has to do with anti-fascism and so on and on... tiresome and confusing "Good" propaganda is designed to be tiresome to the point people just stop thinking anytime they listen... again... and again... and again... But the "we are fight...

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PGX v787 available for download. Bug fixing. Meanwhile Jeff's posting and e-mailing mention he is working on a "Platoon Level" variant of the game. Actually, an idea that was already present in the old days of JP's. Additionally, he is tinkering with the introduction of another old idea in the "big ...

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...Serbs not only are Europe, but they also created it. (and Rome as well, he added)... As all the others, throughout history... It is precisely that multiplicity in the European identity that is so hard to understand from those who look "from outside". And some who are really "inside" have not yet...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC1ss61kATk Cowboy Junkies - Don't let it bring you down (Neil Young cover) https://www.google.com/search?client=avast-a-2&q=don%27t+let+it+bring+you+down+lyrics&oq=don%27t+let+it+&aqs=avast.4.69i57j0l7.9074j0j15&ie=UTF-8 Lyrics For Elena. Outskirts of Kyiv. Status un...

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Had a Brexit War started.
Royal Navy did not budge a single hex.
Aircraft did move and the French did send two Fighters to destroy one British Bomber.
In my second go I downed the two and bombed three French ships.
I also managed to Embark a ground unit and move it, contrary to the ships...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbKMX2vFOaQ
Tom Waits - Free the Glutens

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Dimitris GR wrote: ↑
2023-02-08 14:02, Wednesday

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2023-02-08 12:34, Wednesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78YpvJI6eSw
Tom Waits - Road to Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_mLxEw6XGE
Tom Waits - Day After Tomorrow

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