ART, OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. WHILE THE BRUTALS WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH HAVE BEEN A CONSTANT BOTHER TO ZARDOZ, YOU, THE CHOSEN ONES HAVE NOT. YOU HAVE SNARKED WELL AT THEM. FOR THIS, ZARDOZ GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
- ZARDOZ SUPPOSES THE BRUTALS OF UKRAINE COULD DO WORSE THAN THIS.
- AND THE BRUTALS WONDER WHY ZARDOZ WANTS THEM CLEANSED…
- BRUTAL BOONDOGGLE DOES NOTHING BUT WASTE MONEY…COLOR ZARDOZ SHOCKED!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
First?
How’s this?
Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, cited…
I suppose so.
But aren’y you supposed to cite something from the links?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN RULE CITING ONE. ZARDOZ IS BEING GRACIOUS TONIGHT, AREN’Y HE? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Who reads that shit?
*ducks behid cover*
Wasn’t it established that UCS doesn’t read the links?
I don’t read anything.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN COVER AND CONCEALMENT SEEKING ONE. ZARDOZ IS NOT ANGRY….ZARDOZ IS DISAPPOINT.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN LINK IGNORING ONE. THE GIFT OF THE LINK IS GIVEN UNTO YOU. WHAT THE CHOSEN ONES DO WITH IT, WELL… ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Yeah…yeah…yeah.I
Make with the gift of the gun.
I haven’t gotten anything new in a couple months. ?
Schmidt-Rubin 96/11 and a Schmidt-Rubin 00/11 here.
Unfortunately, both are project guns.
I still need one of those Schmidt-Rubins. And a 8 mm Mauser. And a mas 49…
Swiss Waffen has a serial number database look-up for Swiss weapons. It is a valuable resource.
There are a lot of guns I need. And I need to shoot more.
Also, Swiss Rifles is good too.
Get the hell out of Swiss’s safe!
This is the worst chatroom ever.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS TUBER CHOSEN ONE. APPARENTLY. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
No. What?
For someone named Bentley, she sure squats like a Slav.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN POSTURE NOTING ONE. ZARDOZ UNDERSTANDS THIS:
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Fun fact: Bentley suffered from acromegaly.
That’s a man baby
It was probably just underfunded.
“The $850 million program doesn’t focus on New Yorkers with untreated serious mental illness, who need help the most”
Focuses on getting all those social worker degreed people a paycheck so they would eligible to go on strike for more benefits..
At least this farce is getting the attention it deser– oh who the hell am I kidding.
haha
But here’s the kicker, none of that California money could be spent on existing programs, hospitalizations or involuntary care, only on “innovative programs for new populations”. So the severely mentally ill got zero help, which led to the dramatic increase in street people. Meanwhile, counties struggled to find ways to spend the money in accordance with the law. So new “tea and sympathy” programs for the worried well, and things like the $2 million that went to a study of the Oakland Laotian community to find out why more of them weren’t signing up for mental health disability services (true story).
This is what happens when you allow idiots to write statewide propositions and then bigger idiots vote for it to stick it to the “rich”.
I didn’t know Brits could be trashy.
That accent, tho.
There’s trashy people the world over, some of them just sound classy because they sound different then us.
*points towards France*
I’ve been a sucker for British accents all the way from Jack Wild back in the day to David Tennant. (Yes, I know he’s really a Scot, but oh Doctor, Doctor…) Is that unAmerican of me?
Hi, Remington Steele.
*swoon*
When I heard Pierce Brosnan was going to play James Bond I was like you’ve got to be kidding me. But you know what, he was a pretty decent 007.
The first Bond movie I ever saw was Skyfall. I saw the one after that. So I’ve only ever seen Daniel Craig as Bond.
I never quite bought him as Sally Field’s dude in Mrs. Doubtfire.
I keep meaning to get Matador.
I like him. He seems like a decent guy and he’s had a lot of hard luck in his life.
The first Bond movie I ever saw was Skyfall.
Excuse me?
You need to watch all of them, in order, starting tomorrow.
Then report back.
This ^
*SMDH at Mo’*
*smart salute*
Yessuh!
We bought Spawn 1 the 50th anniversary DVD collection. He loves Skyfall the best, but can argue the merits of From Russia With Love with the best of them.
Yeah, um, Roger Moore is Bond.
This again?
They are all good.
Yes, they are. However, if you grew up in the seventies, Roger Moore is Bond, the rest did a decent job of filling in after he retired.
Uhm…Timothy Dalton…
?
Like Sean he’s excellent in the first ones, but should have bailed out earlier than he did.
Dalton? The guy from “Hot Fuzz?” Yeah he was great.
Roger and Sean. Very different and very good. Never bothered with the newer ones.
Craig is an excellent Bond, truer to the books. But yes, they were all (mostly) right for the direction the franchise was going at any moment in time. Connery could not have done the Moore movies, and vice versa.
Last Glibs meet up?
say that to my face fucker and not online and see wot happens u are 1 fucking cheeky kunt mate i swear i am goin 2 wreck u i swear on my mums life and i no u are scared lil bitch gettin your mates to send me messages saying dont meet up coz u r sum big bastard with muscles lol fuckin sad mate really sad jus shows what a scared lil gay boy u are and whats all this crap ur mates sendin me about sum bodybuildin website that 1 of your faverite places to look at men u lil fuckin gay boy fone me if u got da balls cheeky prick see if u can step up lil queer.
Some of us are actually Scottish and don’t appreciate your cultural appropriation.
Even if it’s spot on.
I’m a quarter Scottish myself, u cheeky kunt.
Really? Which quarter?
*orders round*
Found a tenner so I’m having one at this posh new pub, and there’s some pissed up cunts starting aggro. Reckon they needs a doorman here.
The jiggly bits and HM has a sad, because “it’s not twue”.
I sent those pics in confidence.
As illustrated above, there’s British and there’s blokes. The British will disagree with an “I’m sorry, old chap but”, a bloke will disagree with a “al hook u in the gabber” and slap you upside the head with a Millwall brick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwall_brick
*prepares a Glaswegian kiss*
If you’re in Milwall, you might just get hit in the head with a brick anyway. Especially if their team just played.
And their team is NOT doing well this year.
Hadn’t really been following, but yeah, they better find their form or it could be League Two next year.
I can’t imagine if US Football had four hierarchical leagues, as well as promotion & relegation. The Cleveland Browns would have fallen to our version of League One at some point. (Admittedly, after the way they played this year, they’d have been promoted).
American sports are too nice for pro/rel.
“I didn’t know Brits could be trashy.”
What? Where am I?
I’ve participated in hundreds of evictions and property repossessions and have seen some that make that British skank look like the picture of clean and organized living. Garbage and pet hoarders are the worst. Most hoarders collect tons of books, or newspapers and magazines or videotapes or something, but those that refuse to get rid of garbage and pet feces are really in another class altogether. The smell in those is like an entity, I’ve seen it get literally neck high.
I’ve been in a number hoarder houses in my lifetime. Those sights and smells become permanent scenes in your psyche.
Remember my ex-wife?
Not even close dude, not even close. It also involves years of accumulated animal and human urine and feces.
We came across a squirrel nest in my attic when we were prepping it for insulation. The nest had probably been lived in for 20 years before the previous owner halfassedly sealed the hole and left the nest for us to deal with.
5 full yard size garbage bags of squirrel detritus later, we never wanted to see a squirrel again. You could feel the musk settling on you. It was oppressive. I showered twice and still smelt it everywhere.
So, like immediate post-Katrina New Orleans, or an Afghan village in August.
Very possibly. A properly appointed hoarder house takes many years of effort.
My grandma had a guest house she rented out. The couple that lived there “uncoupled” and it took the guy about a year to get to full hoarder. In his defense, the chick was pretty hot, way above his pay grade. He went off the deep end and did nothing but drink and go to bars. I used to go fuck around with my Les Paul sitting on the back porch and he would try to get me to go play with his band at the bar. I kept telling him that I don’t really play and besides I was only 18 at the time, but he was persistent that I should join his band. Finally we got him kicked out and it took about a week just to get the trash outta the place. We didn’t save anything. it all went into a rent-a-dumpster. Hard assed work.
Ah, the Afghans just had the rich mixture of human turds, garbage, animal offal and dung, unwashed people, dust and humidity.
After Katrina, I rounded a corner in New Orleans and there was a large bit of standing water that had stagnated…something in it was almost florescent green…and then the smell hit. I almost went into shock. That made the villages of the Panjshir Valley smell like a rose garden.
I can only imagine those two scenarios. I’ve never been in a war theatre or a serious natural disaster. The garbage hoarders really do amaze me. I’ve been in post suicide and murder scenes and houses where a body has been decomposing, but I think the worst smell I ever encountered was in the house around the corner from me that my brother bought. There were two, almost four hundred pound people consuming vast quantities of food and they cancelled garbage service the year before. The rats had a rat problem. They had two dogs freely shitting all over the place. Used food containers at neck high level throughout. The tough ass buddy I have who has a side business hauling took one look at the place and said no fucking way am I doing that. Some guy charged them ten grand to get rid of the garbage. He earned it.
Damn… that is… not good.
The good that came of it was those two got to move to a new place (where I’m sure they are already fucking up) and my brother got a reasonably priced house (for SF) that he now has down to the studs for a rebuild. It now smells like cut wood in there.
Yeah, I guess he would have had to tear all sorts of stuff out. Might as well go the distance, eh?
No other way to get rid of that stink.
Yep. Urine squishing up around your boots as you try and navigate down the hallway. Piles of rotting garbage, and humans who haven’t bathed in the current decade.
None of which stuck with me as hard as dead people no one has seen in a week or two.
Me to a neighbor, after dashing in, looking in the bedroom and dashing out:
“Is he a big guy? About 220-240?”
Neighbor:
“Nah, he was about 140-150.”
I had to requisition a new jacket from supply after that 10 second encounter.
Damn. That smell just permeates dunnit?
I’ve been around pools piled full of dead, rotting salmon on the Umpqua during spawning season that don’t smell that bad.
Humans have a natural revulsion to the smell of rotting human….and for a good reason. It is a survival instinct.
You’re spot on. No other rotting animal has ever been that bad.
See, if they’d had a mental health program such as NY had all the problems would have been resolved by the right people. Need to raise taxes and do things right, for the mentally ill.
sarc, of course. It does truly amaze me how an average IQ’d person can tolerate that hoarding behavior in themselves. Idiosyncrasy, I think not.
I see people who collect junked cars and farm machinery (junk) in the yard but their houses are livable inside. There is a difference.
FWIW NOLA didn’t smell too great before
^This guy gets it^
Katrina was…something. All of the gasoline from underground tanks floated out. All of the sewage was uncontained. There were bodies, human and otherwise, in contaminated water in hot weather. They decomposed at an unbelievable rate. When the water was up the whole city was a sewer. When the water went down every surface up to 30 feet in places was coated with all that up to an inch thick. There were fires. It was the worst thing I have ever smelled. The worst of it was the smell of decomposing bodies burning. It took a year for that smell to get out of my nose.
The other thing I remember is the revulsion I felt about mosquitoes biting me or the swarms of flies lighting on me. I was afraid some kind of funk would infect me and rot me while I was still standing.
Have I said before that I haven’t been back to N.O. since and have no plans to return?
Lol. I bought several houses during the last downturn. One was an amazing disaster. Apparently the person was morbidly obese and never left the house. Probably four packs a day, judging from the nicotine stains everywhere. We filled two dumpsters before we even started the renovations. We also ended up pulling the sheetrock in a couple rooms because the smoking shit bled through two coats of Kilz.
There were roots growing up into the water heater (really!).
After all the bullshit, we were the heroes of the neighborhood and made a decent profit.
I don’t understand hoarders, but they are helpful for buying properties cheap!
Guys, GUYS (and mythical libertarian gals), my neighbor is an avid reader of Friedman, Hayek, etc and a vocal advocate of the Austrian school of economics, builds speakers in his spare time, obsessed with cyber security, and just slightly weird. He’s basically a Glib already. I’m sending him a link.
Are you sure it’s not a false flag?
Look, making friends is hard enough, don’t ruin this for me.
In that case, do you really want to introduce the guy to US?
If he can’t handle the comments here he’s not worthy.
I think you’re a glutton for punishment.
You might need to explain ZARDOZ and STEVE and SEA SMITH…
It doesn’t take a lot to figure out the running jokes, just observation.
And joke observing gloves.
Gilmore Versus su
I love this place
I like to watch your chest move up and down while you breath when sleeping.
Door’s always open, just watch out for the cat.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONE. ARE YOU SAYING LORD HUMUNGUS OR OMWC JUST MOVED IN NEXT DOOR? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Oh great gun-giving one, he’s neither old nor does he drive around in a doomwagon with leather straps for clothes in a post-apocalyptic waste, so I don’t think so.
Was gonna say, I think I know that (((guy))).
Is his name Tulpa?
It is now.
I am
PoppyTulpa.Keep your children close.
via AoSHQ, here’s a fascinating video explaining the process of “turnaround“, when a large industrial plant gets taken offline for regularly scheduled maintenance and inspections.
Bless her hearts
Has Lachowsky seen this and does Tres Cool, Jr. know Jugsy is doing industrial videos?
Whoa.
I’m in love.
Now have her explain a reacharound.
Otherwise known as “how to turn an otherwise boring, technical presentation into a highly interesting and beautiful subject”.
“Infomercial video by oil industry logistics firm should be one of the most boring the web has ever seen.. so why could it have possibly gone viral?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3471564/Infomercial-video-oil-industry-logistics-firm-one-boring-web-seen-strange-reason-s-gone-viral.html
The Daily Mail, asking the tough questions.
Dear Jeebus. Well, now we know what Hi-X’s little sister does for a living.
WHAT?!?!?!?
So far, it’s not as bad as the publicity made it out to be.
Is that a kid tech-priest on the right?
No, a Heretek deserving of nothing but purgation.
We have some old friends from Hit & Run days coming over tonight. Los Doyers and his latest Hispanic tranny as well. So you know what’s going to happen.
Yep, we’re showing off our photos from our last visit to Francisco d’ Anconia, where we absolutely wrecked him. Fucking lightweight.
The large pee stain on the front of his pants with him passed out was my favorite of the bunch.
That wasn’t pee.
No, it wasn’t!
So after begging Frisco to come back, he finally does and you drunk shame the poor guy… So mean.
Make sure to use protection and plenty of lube. You *can* get an HIV superinfection if you’re not careful.
A really bitchin’ D&D session?
And loud arguments over which dice to use to determine damage and movement.
Movement doesn’t require dice, and damage is determined by the weapon and the size of both combatants.
/hides his dice bag.
Though you may need to make a check to cross certain terrain under combat conditions.
Wait you guys don’t actually fight things out with real edged weapons? Hmm maybe that is why I can’t find a group anymore.
Escapism isn’t supposed to end with an ambulance trip to get your limbs stitched back on.
It’s only a flesh wound.
That’s a different group. And it’s rattan anyways.
Been there; done that.
The early 80’s called, they want their moral panic back.
Well excuse fucking me. My last dope fueled, D&D all nighter was around 1980.
Yeah, just like Libertarians, there were no women involved. And as far as you know, I have never owned a pad of chart paper and a box of D&D rules pamphlets…
YOU ASSHOLE!
No kidding. Pointing out your premature ejaculation is just rude.
The Ukraine is so screwed up they might elect the Court Jester. Might be why the Left hates actual comedy.
Hey, it worked here.
I wish I knew why that one clapping lady always turns to the right, but no one else in the entire crowd does.
She’s checking to make sure her boyfriend/husband is clapping appropriately as well.
*narrows gaze*
Damn, beat me to it!
Role reversal.
You got this one pegged, Swiss.
NEED WUMAN FOR ENTERTEANMENT AND SEX
http://archive.li/KmbqU
#1 wow
1 and 3.
Y’all blew your load too early.
9 seems like a nice upstanding girl. 39 and to to round out the foursome
39 and 40.
Because it makes sense to autocorrect 40 into to.
https://icd.who.int/browse10/2010/en#/F52.7
Mr Withnall said if Miss Bentley decides not to leave the property in the near future, it could take six weeks for bailiffs to come and evict her from the house.
Six weeks? I’m surprised they’d come at all.
Just claim she has a knife or said something racist on Twitter.
I should have thought of that. It is the UK.
No – claim she did work for the Trump administration. They’ll be kicking down the doors the next morning.
Livestream from tonight’s Glibertarian’s meetup.
Seems legit.
Jabba the Hutt has been working out.
Too much green, not enough wine or caged children. FAKE NEWS
Gutten Abend, Glibs!
Grüß Gott!
Chafed? Jusgsy got MOAR hips than that, and a ass you can set a TV dinner on (while she’s upright). From the video of her on the side of the road, she got a ass like a cookie sheet.
100 more pounds and she can be LUMP
I know you like your women with, shall we say, meat on the bones. But I’m getting the picture of Jugsy being morbidly obese. Say it ain’t so Tres.
Like to fight?
It’s always good to have a friend to save you from yourself.
Yet more proof that dogs are superior to cats.
“Yeah, you’re drunk. You don’t want any part of that.”
Note to self: get a golden
Would have been helpful in college.
Or during my military service.
That is super sweet.
I’m looking to sign up for a music/podcast service. My current choices are Amazon Music, Pandora, and Spotify. Anecdotally, it seems like most here use Spotify. I’d love to hear who uses what and why…and if there are better choices than the ones I listed.
I dont know who it was here, perhaps EGould (YOU GLORIOUS BASTARD!) that turned me on to somafm.com
Its seems like a decent “listener-supported” stream
That does look cool. I’ll check it out.
However, my current primary reason for looking into this is to listen to German language rock bands. So I need the ability to search out songs and artists, as opposed to just listen to radio stations. (I have SiriusXM for that)
I use Bandcamp – you can easily search by keywords. Most artists include the country and city in their keywords.
PS. I don’t use it like a “radio” or anything – I don’t know if it has similar functionality. I only use it to find new & purchase new music and support some bands I can’t find anywhere else. I don’t pay for streams.
I am familiar with it only as an avenue for purchasing music from one of my favorite (and obscure) artists. I’ve always assumed that is it’s purpose, and it’s only purpose; a place for non-famous artists to get some album sales.
Probably. Give the search a try anyway, you might find some cool stuff.
Drah’ Di net um, oh oh oh
Schau, schau, der Kommissar geht um! oh oh oh
Er wird Dich anschau’n
Und du weißt warum.
Die Lebenslust bringt Di um.
Alles Klar, Herr Kommisar?
You know who els– enh, you get the gist.
I think that may have been me, I have been a somafm fan for more than a decade now. It’s free, but I kick them 50 bucks a year for the t shirt because they are so fricking awesome. I love me some Secret Agent Radio on it, and also dig some of the electronica stations there and 7Inchsoul. Mission Control has some cool historic NASA transmissions mixed with ambient electronica. They have a station there for almost every taste and no advertising and very few pleas for money.
I use Amazon music and Pandora, though I don’t pay for either. Amazon music had some pretty good selections just through prime. I don’t mind commercials so Pandora is ok for me.
Amazon has been pissing me off. A lot of stuff I want to listen to is behind the Unlimited paywall. Like every single AC/DC song for starters. And Rammstein. And Oomph! And on and on.
However, if I am going to end up using a premium service, Amazon is only $8/month since I am a Prime member.
See if Amazon still offers the 99¢ for three months deal. Won’t save you a fortune but $23 is $23. I have a few days left on it but probably won’t re-up. It is nice when Tundra, Penguin or Egould throw a suggestion out, but I at most used it once a week.
I’ve got Pandora. Works for me. I had the paid one
for a while, but let it lapse. I don’t mind the few ads,
but I don’t think the subscription is expensive.
I’ve managed through judicious or injudicious thumbs uping
to turn my Weird Al station into an Irish folk station.
Hmm… apparently I have Amazon Music along with Prime.
Who knew? Not sure what the difference between regular
and unlimited is.
Well, I’m no EDG, but he persuaded me to look closer at Spotify. I’ve tried them all.
Why I like Spotify:
Massive library
Nice app
New Release Radar
Tailored playlists for you. For instance, they put together a playlist based on the songs you listened to most during a particular year.
Reasonable family plan.
EDG’s playlist
Do it.
Do you use the paid version? Is there one? I just started playing around with it and I’m not seeing a paid option. (not complaining) Can you download songs, or is it always using data?
I use the paid version. Family plan for all four of us. $15.00/mo.
You can download stuff to use offline. It’s been solid.
https://www.spotify.com/us/family/
Im a big fan of spotify. I find a lot of new music thanks to the recommended songs and playlists. Also i recently discovered that if i have my own song files on a local library, i can download that playlist on my cell phone and listen to song files that are stored on my PC. Super convenient!
Somewhat related, sometimes there are songs on youtube that i cant find on spotify, so now i will rip it off youtube and store on my pc then i can listen to it from my phone anywhere. Awesome.
I use Pandora (mainly because T-Mobile gave me a year for free). Decent station building ability, and only a couple of (really obscure) bands that I haven’t been able to find on there.
Oh. Em, GAHD.
Paging Sharpie….she does it in espanol, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReH1dSJshEk
I paused a Bloke on the Range video for this. It was worth it.
YouTube deleted British Muzzleloader’s videos on reloading .303 British. They are over on the Utah Gun Exchange server now.
Fury on Twitter. Get to your cellars, a storm is coming.
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1101966963172089858
“rad fems say I can’t be a feminist if I’m not a woman but when I say I agree with Hitler they call me a Nazi even tho I’m not german? okay”
https://twitter.com/rumeruwu/status/1102014271242883073
“I put my dick in your coffee cup when you weren’t looking.”
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1101985700382232581
I can see dipping your balls in salsa, but sticking your dick in a cup of coffee is asking for trouble.
All Scottish food was based on a dare.
https://twitter.com/Eddieristo1/status/1098378566406832128
OFFS
You guys and twatter. Luckily 9 times out of 10 it doesn’t load for me.
I think God is looking out for me.
I don’t get why people go there.
Who gets a tattoo on their clit?
Clitler?
*golf clap*
There’s a lot of good replies there:
So I just watched the documentary about James Randi on Amazon, and it popped up Fallen as the next thing recommended. It is a Heroes in Blue, Just get home safe documentary. Seems an odd recommendation.
https://archive.li/KmbqU/2b51af87030c631722ace5059acfda41a87841f5
But can she explain why a refinery should be be closed down for maintenance and upgrades?
Can Demi Rose?
Just to give you some context about the Ukrainian politics. Here’s the video of a meeting of the Ukrainian government in December 2015 where the minister of the Interior (an important position, more like the AG or the FBI director), the governor of the Odessa region (former Georgian president Saakashvili) and the prime minister accuse each other of stealing billions of dollars and curse each other (a more serious sin to do in public in the Ukrainian/Russian culture than in the US) . President Poroshenko presides over the meeting but says little. Meetings of the heads of criminal families look much more dignified, if you believe Hollywood movies. Also, not a single person says a word in Ukrainian, everything is in Russian only.
Some tough looking fuckers in that room. I notice that video is a few years old.
Who killed who?
The Russians?
Yes, Saakashvili has by now been stripped of the Ukrainian citizenship. But Poroshenko is still President and running for reelection.
“CPAC has revoked the press credential of Laura Loomer, a day after the right-wing activist heckled CNN reporter Oliver Darcy in a media area for the annual conservative gathering.
On Friday, Loomer, who received media credentials for the event as a representative of “Illoominate Media,” followed Darcy into CPAC’s media center heckled him with questions about internet censorship and social media bans, according to several witnesses. Loomer believes Darcy is at least partly responsible for her being banned by Twitter.
Loomer did not return to CPAC Saturday, and CPAC representative Ian Walters told TheWrap her press pass to cover the event had been revoked.”
https://www.thewrap.com/right-wing-activist-laura-loomer-loses-cpac-press-credential-after-heckling-cnn-reporter-exclusive/
So don’t be an asshat?
No, it worked out just fine for Darcy.
Marcy Darcy?
NO MA’AM
But, This Is Hot.
I necro-replied to you a few days back, you probably didn’t see it; thanks for the Collective Soul new album heads up
I saw it. Knew you’d appreciate.
“I have written to Google CEO @SundarPinchai calling on him, as a matter of urgency, to remove the YouTube page of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson.”
https://twitter.com/tom_watson/status/1101931566387941376
Christ, what an asshole.
The world is filled with them. If only some place would invent a government system on assholes not being over to fuck other people. Nah that’ll never work…
The replies are actually pretty decent on both sides, by Twitter standards.
(Not to disagree that Tom Watson, MP is indeed an asshole of the highest order.)
I only see Twitter when people here link to it. You’re right Rhywun. The replies were surprisingly good. I wouldn’t have thought that many people on Twitter support free speech for everyone.
JFC this guy and Corbyn are peas in a pod.
Damn, I have to figure out how the armies are going to actually move into the battle.
First assumption – neither commander is an idiot.
Second assumption – both want to play to their strengths.
Marcel’s army – strengths include speed and mobility, with a larger cavalry contingent containing his quality troops. Weaknesses include a lack of seige engineering expertise, and a mob of escaped slaves following them around as infantry.
Stojan’s army – strengths include solid heavy infantry and seige engineers, plenty of archers. Weaknesses include – short dwarven legs preventing them from moving fast.
Confounding factor – Stojan is set to invest the city of Kydessa in a seige. As his only city, Marcel can’t afford to have it put to the torch.
Something something six sided die something something.
Well, Stojan wants a pitched battle to finally have a shot at destroying Marcel’s cavalry (or doing enough damage that his army is neutered). But he has to lure Marcel into attacking, because he simply can’t catch the horse if they decide not to fight at that moment.
If your characters aren’t telling you what they’re doing your forcing the story, in my experience.
I haven’t met Marcel yet. He has always been a background character.
And Stojan is a secondary character.
the narrator and his companions are here because they need to resolve this war to A: get out of the region without being arrested and B: get aid for their own war.
Also, if writing for a character with more knowledge and experience than the author in a discipline (say, ground tactics), it helps to take the time to think it all through and discuss the situation with others.
So have few beers (or the bland equivalent you desire) and let the characters talk to you. They don’t have to be logical, as long as what they’re doing makes sense to them.
Also, if you’re writing it from a 3rd characters POV, it can just be seen as mayhem; he doesn’t know all the strategies and neither does the audience.
He doesn’t know what Marcel is going to do, but he does know the plan on his side. He’s also supposed to end his character arc as a commander in his own right.
So if it’s based on medieval or hoplite fighting, throw in something about flanking. If tanks or mechs or involved call it pincer.
Stojan’s base strategy involves infantry squares to protect his archers. He does plan to flank Marcel with his own limited cavalry when the other army has commited.
I think Marcel is going to throw his unprofessional infantry at the squares to bog down the dwarfs and try to burn the seige works while they’re occupied.
When the two plans collide, that puts the narrator in the middle of a cavalry melee.
Well, dwarves change the whole plan. Everyone will be so mystified by them that the enemy will start laughing and lose their edge.
I did chuckle but Marcel is in rebellion against them, so his humans would not be all that surprised.
How big are the dwarves? Are they competent in melee or just the building kind?
They’re the kind that are at least as physically strong as a human, if not more so. The courtiers are a joke, as are some of the noble guards, but the legionnaires are not. These are legionnaires.
Use them as a flanking maneuver in an area with tall grass, just on the other side’s side of the battlefield. That would be a cool scene, they come out from the tall grass and begin knee capping everyone from the behind.
Marcel mans the town with enough forces to withstand a frontal assault, and lets the siege play out while his cavalry chop up Stojan’s supply lines, slaughter his foragers, and chip away at his army. If you want Stojan to win, you need to come up with some trickery on his part, or play up the siege expertise angle a bit, because a siege against the stronghold of a light cavalry power is a very hard thing for the attacker to win.
This. Logistics win/lose sieges. Cavalry is for cutting supplies and starving the investing forces.
Marcel isn’t in the town at the start of the battle. It’s only defended by whatever rabble are unfit for fighting.
If I were Marcel, I would split my forces and for Stojan to defend multiple sites. Gain numerical superiority and Stojan’s army’s lack of speed would make them less able to send reinforcements quickly. Then again, just from the limited details you’ve given…*shrugs*
I’m sorry about that. I tend to think by explaining things. But the situation is a bit complicated. Battles tend to be.
From what you said, I was reminded of Stonewall Jackson’s threat on DC. Force the enemy to meet on his terms.
Tactically, use every unit to its strength. Strategically, do this.
Does anyone know what this “Definitive Edition” crap is for Total War? My Empire, Medieval II and Napoleon games were automatically reinstalled and my mods were uninstalled. I feel violated. Steam and Creative Assembly are assholes.
News to me. But I’d be pissed to lose my mods. Especially for CA games, which always have a handful of glaring gameplay issues.
I have Steam set to not update games, and in case have a backup save file for modded games, just for this type of thing.
Speaking of which, GTA V was on sale this week for $15 on steam so grabbed it, 80 fucking gigs? What the fuck? it was listed at 40gigs.
Huh. I’ve always found the opposite (listed much higher than actual download).
Wait a minute… 80GB?! That’s… insane. 40GB is also insane.
I hear these ads for ‘cloud’ backup and laugh. I’m have almost 10 TB of shit, with an internet connection that maxes out at 800k under the best conditions.
It’d be faster to order a NAS, get it delevered and copy over a local wire.
I’ve always left it on, but am considering turning it off (only because I don’t play a lot of games and I’m tired of it downloading a dozen updates every time I launch it.) If I turn it off, does Steam tell you when there’s an update so I can do it manually?
Depends on the publisher, some games are set to auto-update on open. For games that aren’t you can set Steam to ask you about updates or somesuch, don’t ask me now, I’m drinkin!
A little research indicates that you can tell it to not update for each. individual. game.
And some games ignore it.
Yay.
I guess I’ll just let it do its thing. I still don’t understand this “Scheduled for tomorrow at 3am” crap. My computer isn’t awake at 3am you idiots.
Apparently they bundled all the expansions if you already owned the base games. Will Darthmod still work with these?
As someone who already owned most of the expansions… I’m really not all that upset. I bought them so long ago I can’t feel cheated.
Except for those unit packs. Those are new to me.
Definitive Editions are usually released long after a game has been on the marked, and includes all of the DLC and all patches rolled into it.
So, just barely like a few songs on the Classic Country station I work at part time, but there is going to be an opening on the Hot New Country station that could move me to full time. I could handle the job, not so sure about the music.
I don’t think either station will have you playing Spineshank or Mushroom Head. Take the money and run.
I didn’t work this long surviving on the scrapes I have to have to listen to that though, I mean maybe I should just go work at McDonalds instead, probably make more money.
I didn’t know this guy was still on TV
Trevor Noah
@Trevornoah
It’s amazing to me that my joke about the conflict in India and Pakistan trended more than the story of the actual conflict itself. Sometimes it seems like people are more offended by the jokes comedians make about an issue than the issue itself.
So now the guy is a defender of edgy humor? GMAFB.
That’s because it’s his joke.
I think I watched some episodes of The Daily Show when he first started and not since then. He was a typical leftist, basically a continuation of where Jon Stewart was politically at the end of his run. Anyone to the right of Obama was a conservative. Just unfunny.
Cornell’s president actually defends free speech and freedom of thought. I’m shocked.
Cornell ain’t Harvard – as everyone associated with Harvard will be glad to explain.
That fake sex ‘doctor’ from the lynx the other night agrees.
Yeah, it’s obviously better.
Ah shit, too on the nose. Sorry, Rhywun.
That was my point.
/taps fingers
/looks longingly over at beer and bourbon
/sighs
Just over an hour until I can get started on my scheduled maintenance.
Meh, end day light savings early and have at it.
I prefer keeping my job. Taking down the phone system outside of the maintenance window would be a big deal. I’m just hoping it goes smoothly and is over in 15-20 minutes.
It’ll be over faster if you’re drunk!
I’ve pulled a few half-drunk all-nighters. What the hell is wrong with you?
There’s a guaranteed outage, a 24×7 call center that will go down, and the only reason I’m doing the maintenance (instead of passing it off to another team who’s shift is during this time) is to calm down the client. If something goes wrong, I would not enjoy the Monday morning discussion. The expected outage is only 5-10 minutes, if that goes smoothly, then it’s just a matter of running health checks for the entire environment. Just over 40 servers to check.
/insert sad Archer “Yay!” here
Peer Pressure!
So not a euphamism? *shrugs and walks away disappointed*
Nope. Real work stuff.
Maintenance went smoothly, the system came back up in about a minute, and now it’s just time to start verifying that there’s no lingering server issues so I don’t get called bright and early tomorrow.
And health checks complete. Everything wen smoothly.
Now to grab a beer.
You like beer!?!
Not at all. Instead I drink it to prevent others from drinking it. I wouldn’t want them to suffer.
I doubt Trump cares about the principle but if he can lawfully implement this then I’m all for it.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-to-sign-executive-order-requiring-colleges-universities-to-support-free-speech-on-campus
BOOM
This is classy trolling, the best. I don’t see any legal objection – gummint money always comes with strings attached. Make the hogs explain exactly why they are resisting the 1st Amendment.
I’m sure their bullshit response will invoke the nonexistent hate speech exception to the First Amendment.
My Feelz is the crack/meth/fentinal of these sorts. Disregard.
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Only the first one works. *sigh*
Were the 80s the height of race relations in the US?
Pretty much. It’s fucking disgusting how many “race experts” are out there, to deliberately foster division and hatred for their own profit
Us cuspy late Boomers/Xers were the Pepsi generation. It’s all gone to shit in a scant few years.
I’m ashamed to admit I took the Pepsi Challenge in a mall once and chose Pepsi.
I… I thought I knew you… but… you’re a monster.
YOU’RE A MONSTER!!
(weeps softly)
To be fair, it was 34 years ago. And I don’t think I’ve drunk Pepsi in a couple decades.
Now I want a Pepsi.
Pepsi, Coca Cola no big dif when mixed with the cheap stuff… Bottoms up!
That last one was for Rhywun ( * ).