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bande dessinée - BD from French language / also banda desenhada - BD in Portuguese But of course, the use of the BD acronym derives from France, the leading force, in Europe, on drawn stories. Portuguese BD is a local phenomenon unlike the French one. LOTR thing... I'm not sure Jeff will go ahead wi...

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People probably didn't fly as much as reaching Spain. But maybe some pieces of roof did. In some places roofs became scattered over hundreds of meters. Districts of Leiria and Coimbra look like those reports we get from the States, of post hurricane days. Countless thousands of trees ripped off the ...

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Here in Portugal most of us are still here but this damned wind has sure shaken us almost to the point we get airborne and fly over you on our way to France...

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Posted as "announcement" at PGX forum. Because yes... Additionally, Jeff Crouch, the PGX demiurge, is a BD fan, not counting he draws himself. Naught, he himself draws... I also "consumed" some examples of the genre. A few very little people will know because they're from Portugu...

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Its not only Switzerland; some fellow was saying on PT TV that 1502 people had died in New Year celebrations around the world. Can't imagine where fellow got that figure from... but I suppose he may be talking sense... lots of factors in favor of "accidents". Starting with so many people g...

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One thing is for sure... a lot of new wars to make scenarios and campaigns on... well, some are old wars already. Ukraine against Russia, China, North Korea and Iran (I must be forgetting someone). Thailand vs Cambodia. India vs Pakistan. USA against Canada, Greenland, Panama and Venezuela (ongoing ...

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Want a Christmas tradition schism?... You need go no further than the Iberian Peninsula. The big day in Portugal is the 25th December (or the passage from the 24th to the 25th); in Spain, of what I've heard, its the 6th January... I bet some people around the Peninsula do have two Christmases, one o...

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If i say something (good or bad) has no matter, but when someone has the publicity, is different. Brigitte was against women, gays, immigrants, refugees etc. She was one of the most beautiful women ever, i still remember her when i was young :love :love :love , but the death of everybody does not f...

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The way this whole thing is going one of these days either we'll be all fascist or we'll be all something else... Everything but a varied collective of more or less balanced people with slightly different perspectives on things... Discovering (inventing) the different in the other and kill it is wha...

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Brigitte Bardot 1934 - 2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot

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Have I reported v832 yet? Aye! No new version of PGX or of the two more recent offshoots of more tactical nature. Just sort of social stuff. The Teophrastus Bombastus Experience is under works because of the 1000 boards limit. Have created 28 forums to spread the content according to much more speci...

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Never mind "eastern", (just joking pun)... Europe "is doomed for long long troubles", point, paragraph. Or at least for very intense ones; because in the event the heaviest means available get to be used right away trouble solving will be pretty close to instantaneous and with ve...

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PGX v832 available for download!

Added a limit AI air stacking.

That is what Jeff wrote in the News topic but very recently he had posted at General Discussion he was preparing other stuff.
Namely naval AI action at least, so v832 may contain new code on that too.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfCqDqgjI3I&t=77s
or the instrumental version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCnuEWL ... rt_radio=1

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Down at the PGX forum there are 364 "visitors" on the Music section alone. Plus 11 on Science and Technology, 4 on Games and 3 on Command Section (main game section). We aren't that popular... and a few days ago the "last 24 hours" counter went above 1500 "visitors"... ...

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Also found the page of a fellow who presents and comments the quiz, including link to his own list of "74 solutions". But what I found the most interesting is the fellow opinating the image includes extra quiz references. Maybe the image was used by Virgin Records, not purposely produced f...

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56. Below the pet shop boys it looks like a very small dog so I launched a "Chihuahua band" search and there was a French band with that name: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(groupe)

Edit: but it probably is the Skinny Puppy number 33...

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55. Between the TVs and the surf board bearers way back to the right there's a sign with two tiny figures that look a lot like: The Black Crowes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Crowes

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54. A clump of objects that look like twigs left of the queen, below the round silver shield could be: Styx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_(band)

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An alternative interpretation for the fellow in front of the queen and left of the flamingos. Yes, Prince has some logic. But taking into account the colour of the garments it could be King Crimson.

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53. left of fellow smashing the orange cucurbitaceae presenting The Pink Flamingos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McArtney

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The T. B. Experience project just hit a major snag! Was going to open sub boards by genre of composition for Fauré and Proboards says "Sorry, you're allowed only 1000 boards." Damn! Theoretically, I should be able to create another thousand per forum. So, if I can't have a bigger forum may...

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Cover time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S65kJ2k ... rt_radio=1
Billy Strings with Hendrix cover: Fire

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Jack DeJohnette 1942-2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzzkOtCrP8Q

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I know some Spanish dudes that're gonna get medieval on your ears...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd4GenGjEsY

Capella de Ministrers - Una sañosa porfía. Juan del Encina (Author)

(One more with (after the) battle)

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Battles are very much on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLnFftA4Cvw

Krak: Battle of Grunwald

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Charlie & the Bluescats live broadcast at Portuguese Antena 2 radio station coming October 22, 19h00 (Greenwhich time). https://antena2.rtp.pt/em-antena/concertos-antena-2/charlie-the-bluescats-22-outubro-19h00/ Antena 2 is one of the public / state, radio / television group of channels. More sp...

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The modest Hard / Metal section of The Teophrastus Bombastus Experience has reached the 100th post.
A 2024 Hellfest Concert by Polish band Batushka makes the honors:
https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/th ... ollTo=7563

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John Lodge 1943-2025.
Best known as bassist, vocalist, composer with The Moody Blues. Here in one of his compositions for the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXKPtFzwPmg&t=148s

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In later months I've had various occasions in which the game simply shut off when the political / diplomatic mode had the USA declaring war on the USSR. Always after the USSR joined the Allies and before the USA joined any side. So, an interesting perspective for the German player (me) to have the U...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall

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https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/th ... ollTo=7554

Most recent entry at the Concert Hall... coming from the East... but with influences from other directions...

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So what do we need to do to get an extra zero to this count? You could say that in two years (2019 - 2021) 10,000 posts were reached. Then, in four years (2021 - 2025), another 10,000 posts were achieved. This means that reaching 100,000 posts requires a lifespan of over 100 years for most users of...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzcZXjJYiIo&list=RDMzcZXjJYiIo&start_radio=1 Moonspell on Vampiria feat Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa. Was going after posting Itami at the tube topic when I stumbled on this one, only 10 days old. Seems to be a teaser track for a live album release coming n...

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Portuguese Metal/Punk with a 4 track demo from Porto's band Itami.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk6Q7f8XWqI&t=45s

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If I got right where you say you are from, taking from our TV news, you have enough emergencies over there but those involve more like police, although saving the extinguisher for the eventual urban fire spilling from the riots may be a prudent idea... Besides, we had a pair of Moroccan planes to th...

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https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/th ... 66/weather

Here's one from the Science and Technology section of the PGX forum.

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A logical step maybe: JC made manpower purchaseable, like ammo, fuel and Research and Development... PGX version 826 posted Aug. 7th, 2025 Added Purchase Man Power on Purchase screen. Changed costs to a percentage of available production $. (Basically just an extremely simple version of increasing c...

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I think that PG X should be not at Pub, looks so interesting The "well enough told" story of why I chose to open a separate forum for Jeff's PGX instead of the natural option of asking for a "formal" place here at OGs would give a small book. Much longer than the summary notes a...

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Blunder!... never wrote down the link... and now its already the link with the 3 or 4 bands already scheduled for next year... But here's a couple of 2025 samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17gO7bBj7Rs&t=102s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om46ka_FoVY&list=RDom46ka_FoVY&start_radi...

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Version 825 uploaded August 3rd, 2025. (not sure what happened to v824 ? It just got lost in the shuffle I guess.) New Optional Rule. Manpower. Basically you get a percentage of each nation's population per turn. So...I got the ratios pretty correct, it's just how much you get that may need tweaking...

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Here I am with one of my ad libs, the link to the Vagos Metal Fest 2025 billboard... from 31st July to 3rd August. 3rd August may well become a particularly hellish day at the Festival and the rest of the country as meteorologists are talking about North African winds predicted, producing average te...

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And with Ozzy, another musician from another genre goes too...
Chuck Mangione 1940-2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC1NXV1cF8o&t=32s
Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good

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Jeff announced a shift to the tactical version but then a recent forum arrival bumped into a bug in the old PGX, so...: PGX v823 uploaded July 25th, 2025 Fixed a few bugs. Thanks for finding those for me. I guess as long as I keep fiddling with the program, I am going to add bugs ! Ha Ha. web.utk.ed...

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After some attention dedicated to the old PGX that became known at JP's, J. C. returns to the recently launched tactical version: Combat version 10 posted July 1, 2025. I think for the vehicles and guns I will use the 6 view icons from Panzer General 2 ? Working on Over-Run attacks. Passenger, Rider...

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Ladies day today on The Teophrastus Bombastus Experience: Kicked off with Orianthi: https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/thread/6317/orianthi-concert-various-locations For seconds there was Hannah Wicklund: https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/thread/6319/hannah-wicklund-live-troubadour-2025 Third s...

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Play Mini Games. Getting runtimed out of latest PGX version so I went for something I already tried, PG online. Didn´t find the old spot but this new one. New for me... https://playminigames.net/game/panzer-general I'd say the only thing missing are sounds... I noticed a link to the place´s WWII gam...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obDQWDrM7gg
The Often Herd - Starless (King Crimson Bluegrass cover and only one of'em is American)

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Back in 1972... And now for something completely different: a man with popcorn up his ears...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9xDPa5d464&t=27s

And the version on a metal bucket...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O775dHUHxLs

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Great miracle the cables and connectors were compatible. There have been generations of motherboards but the power and reset buttons connectors are still the same format. Meanwhile, because this substitute machine runs on Windows 10 I edited the PGX forum post about the (in)famous necessary dll file...

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