One thing that rarely gets mentioned in relation to the revolution of '56 is the Warsaw Pact and Hungary's place in the organization.
In 53 with Stalin's death and Khrushchev emergence meant some changing - in tiny steps - in Soviet politics, and their lackeys in Hungary had to practice self-criticism. In place of the Stalinist dictator, Rákosi Mátyás, Nagy Imre was placed who changed focus from the forced industrialization to the immediate needs of the population. But a year later with the threat of rearmament of Western Germany and her integration into the NATO the reigns - held in Moscow - tightened again, and now Nagy found himself as a target that he let the country onto the road of dangerous rightist deviations, instead of preserving the peace with the enhancement of armament production.
There was the question of Austria and her becoming neutral in the near future, when Red Army units have to leave the country. The ones stationed here were here because they had to secure the supply lines to the ones in Austria. If those leave, "ours" will lose the reason why they are here. It will be so nice to finally not be occupied.
But in late '54 Moscow gently nudged Czechoslovakia and us, to initiate a conference to discuss the matter of the safety of the Eastern Block, where the matter of setting up a new defense treaty can be discussed. After about half a year of preparation the Warsaw Pact was set up finally. By that time Nagy was out of office, and Rákosi was back in. Forced armament was restarted - they agreed on setting up an army in the size of 470 000 soldiers -, and after the leaders of country and the Hungarian People's Army expressed their fears that Hungary is defenceless without the protection of the great Red Army, an Air Army (actually one air division) and a mechanized infantry division from Austria was settled beside the already present mech. inf. division.
Our role in the Warsaw Pact wasn't that big, but might have been strategically important(-ish). First we had to establish an airbase for Soviet bombers which could target objectives in Southern Germany, Italy and Africa from there. During a war games they also simulated an offensive in the direction of Zagreb, Ljubljana and Trieste, which suggests our troops would have participated opening up a way to the Adria and toward Italy (at least in the plans of '55, later probably everything changed).
I have to interject here and note that during another joint army exercise the imagined situation was that the westerners would start with the aggression, using nuclear and chemical weapons as well, and the forces of the Eastern Block would disarm the attack and response with a counterattack, also with nuclear and chemical weapons beside the conventional ones. The containment of the entering enemy would happened in operational depth (not at the front), then would came the encirclement and their destruction.
But by the second half of '56, winds changed again, a thaw came in international politics, talks started between the US and the SU, armament and the army became less important again - the number of enlisted was determined in 115 000 men. Was that a promise of freedom again? Maybe. People could interpret it as such. But the reality was the Soviet Union couldn't let out of the line (or - Marx's forbid! - leave) one of the members of her Warsaw Pact just one year after of its formation.

This German tv-show was recommended to me, should be some mystery. They told me a little about the story, something liek timetravel or similar.
That yellow raincoat really reminded me...

Something that I have been interested in with the archival of youtube video comments is the avatars and having the replies arranged correctly. It's nice to have the avatars and the exchanges can pressure more context of the conversation in a human readable way than a JSON file. Though is this case it can clearly be see that YT's own comment system updates owner the years did a toll on this old PMVs comments. That is the problem with this system. I had to use Firefox's inbuilt screencaper and just click manually as they have removed the options to load all comments awhile ago. I had trouble with a larger vid too though it still maybe doable with taking section at a time. The fact that I have click 'read more' on all the longer (and often more valuable) comments means that this system probably won't be the most doable on a large scale.

Speaking of PMVs. Not sure if I mentioned it before but I was considering to host select PMVs with out the song. Just a notation of it and the user could get the song himself and assemble it. Though I could see some difficulties if the songs were specifically timed or it included vocal clips from the show edited in.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=i6En9e61Ayc [Embed]
Video in question.

Oh, yeah. Pastebin doing some purging too. I do wonder what their criteria for this is and hope it doesn't wipe out a lot of the pastebins that relate to old fandom activities. I've seen everything from YT list with a lot of unlisted vids to even breakdowns of history and old drama. With all the idiocy I've seen when sites pull this I have little faith in the long term perseverance of those things. I still will look around but fortunately it looks like we got a bit of help with this one:
https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Pastebin

https://ponepaste.org
An /mlp/ has set up a site for pony pasting. Tumblr, YT comments and restricted vids. At this rate the fandom will have to go full autarky.

>>2080
sounds like Grems only feely.
>i like it!

>>2098
>likee
me too. Been listening to em since 2013. French "cloud rap" from two Moroccan dudes.

>>2103
>From *Monaco
Muh bad

I am currently trying out an obscure game called Chulip!, where you play as a young and poor Japanese boy who has to prove his manliness by helping out other people and smooching with them.

It looks like a bright and innocent game, but it's extremely dark sometimes. It provides a contemporary look at Japanese society throughout the entire game. It also shows how people who work without much recognition, I.E bernds, are actually the ones who keep society running

Here's an thorough analysis on the game (skip to 7:00 or ignore the long winded intro)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=--7K9eVCFy4 [Embed]

>>40652
That being said, the game is pretty tedious and apologetically hard sometimes. Think NES game or Contra arcade level hard. You will need a manual or guide for this game. Although one is available if you have it from the PSN store.

This game was created by designers from the now defunct videogame company "Love-de-Lic", who created an extremely underrated game called "Moon Remix RPG adventure. They were also had employees who made the games Chibi Robo and Little King's story There's a really interesting story behind the game that I will write about when I get the chance. And Moon Remix also deserves a thorough analysis with it.