The boy was the last survivor of a family who had died in the Great plague, and being 8 years old he was eligible for enlistment in the army of team Johnson, one of the top players in the game.
War
Upon entering the academy he was given the designation JDavid186 of the David mechanized division, Johnson army. For the next seven years 186 moved rapidly up the ranks, becoming company commander at twelve and division head by age fourteen. A tactical genius in training, he was a natural leader.
The game was a traditional table top setup measuring twenty four by thirty two feet across and had many landscape features in which to fight great battles in miniature. People spent thousands on the best trained troops and forces, all in an epic battle for fun. Every Sunday they would join to plot, drink and battle.
Battle table
Until now 186’s division had had a rough fight and 2 battles to claim with almost no losses, but the owner was so happy with them he had them painted in Space Marine livery, and they were quite pleased with their new status. Being the monied sort they were given new trained infantry squads and 186 was glad to have them, they needed some cannon fodder. They were given orders to train with a six month timeline so it was game on for them all.
The David Mechanized Division
The Game
McArron:I hope you are ready, good sir, aerial bombardment awaits you all.
Johnson: Nevermind that, my Davids are the best on the field, shall we dance?
McArron: Indeed sir
The other players stood aghast at the impropriety of overtaking a game, and so they plotted. A cordon sanitaire was established and they let them fight, poking for advantage and watched the fun,
the popcorn and beer flowed.
186 was having it tough, the bombardment had driven them south into the arms of the Evans’
who drove them back into a pocket between two hills, reinforcements were on the way but when? The north was held by JD180 and the Artillery so it was up to us to break through.
McArron: That’s Cheating Sir!
Johnson: Paratroops in your backyard? since when?
McArron: But they are crack troops!
Johnson: why yes they are
Drop zone!
186 pushed northwest and defeated the McArron army, they were given quarter and a great victory was ours!
I am proud to share a place on the shelf, high up with the Legends, looking down upon my owner.
JD186, War God
I had this set for 1900 – I don’t know why it didn’t publish. My apologies, and may God damn WordPress.
Glibs Humpday Zoom Linky
https://www.glibertarians.com/humpdayzoom
I have no idea what’s going on here but party on!
🤘🏼
Party on Garth.
Party on Wayne!
JsubD? (RIP)
JsubD was also on anti-state.com back in the day. Good guy. I had many chats with him. I had no idea he was suffering.
Is this Warhammer 40,000, or whatever it’s called?
The pictures are, the text makes little sense.
Need more context!
Context below
That’s what I thought.
That looks expensive.
Thanks Yusef! Interesting read
Came for the poetry, got some sort of game thing. I’m spoiled, Yusef.
Everything is back to normal. Fucking psychopaths can’t stay home when they’re coughing up a lung. Time to dine in a restaurant! Humanity can go DIAF.
That was the only good thing from the pandemic – the dirty looks coughers would get.
And washing their dick beaters.
DON’T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE
The story is about a game piece that UCS bought and promoted becausae he was cool. I added the idea that it had a life and thoughts of his own.
Seperate timelines etc.
There, happy now?
Yes. I figured it was the gamepiece talking. Just wasn’t sure what game he was in. Cool idea, Yusef.
👍
Fwiw, I found it fairly self explanatory… Even if it’s not, let your reader wonder.
Keep up the good stuff Yusef, better than most AARs
Are those your miniatures? I remember when you did writeups on your dioramas. I liked those.
No others, but good stuff
Yusef is a grown man playing with toys.
The Bro is a grown Firster who was forced to send the child versions of himself off to war.
We are not the same.
If I had the power:
https://s36537.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cat-butts-the-Original-Turtle.jpg.optimal.jpg
Dude, don’t shit on other people’s creative output.
I’m just a bit emotional right now, what with fighting to save the entirety of humanity right now.
Humanity is fucked. Don’t waste your time trying to save it. Save yourself, hombre.
The vast portion of humanity doesn’t want to be saved, they want to be lead to safety, to comfort, to security.
They want to be told what to do, what to think, what to feel.
If you want to do good, save yourself, then your loved-ones.
Do you have plans?
If not, make plans.
Are your plans good?
Maybe consult a professional.
Do you have plans b,c ,d,e, and f?
Make them.
Make them now.
I fear the Bro is but a child flexing his muscles, not realizing the bigger picture.
I carry the seed of The Great Firster in my man-womb. The First That Shall Change Everything. It would be blasphemy to have any other plan.
I was gifted the third eye to travel The Firstiverse so that I may prepare the world and make it ripe for The First.
I am the Firster formerly known as The First Of All Firsters who now is called The Three Eyed Firster.
Come at me, bro.
No plans,
*weak*
I am preparing a world without hate, even between Firster and seconder. The First shall re-order the world and give everyone their rightful place.
I go at no one.
No one?
The Bro is all about the peace and harmony. The Bro has never started a war. The Bro only finishes them when required by The Great Firster, as is The Way Of The First.
The kidults are alright.
All The Kids Are Right
I miss the 90s.
I just installed the Pluto TV app on Google TV. I had no idea they host about a million channels. They have channels dedicated to Baywatch, Star Trek:TNG, and Star Trek:DS 9. I may never sleep.
I like their Doctor Who channel but there are so many gaps.
Thigh gaps? Oh sorry. I’m watching Baywatch.
They should have a Jiggle TV channel but it’s probably just a Baywatch channel.
That and The Man Show.
Three’s Company, Charlie’s Angels…
https://youtu.be/TdjrVJDVC9Y
dammit. Meant to link it at 0:36
And repeats of the same ones over and over.
You guys are watching the wrong channel.
From what I can tell they cycle through what they have, which seems to be about half the serials. No idea why they don’t have the rest – there’s no rhyme or reason to it.
I’m guessing they have to buy syndication rights from the BBC. I can only imagine what that’s like.
Yeah but it’s like every other story is missing. I could understand if entire seasons were missing but the way it is, it makes no sense.
OK, now I’m stumped.
If I remember correctly, the BBC lost some copies of early episodes. First and Second Doctor.
If it’s Doctor Who, and not the NuWhoAbomination, I could see some episodes missing if you’re early in the show’s run.
@DEG – Nah, I’m well aware of that saga and it’s not that.
They skip stories from each season that I know exist because I’ve seen all of them 🙂
AREN’T YOU EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW BLACK DOCTOR?
IT’S GOING TO BE GREAT BECAUSE HE’S BLACK.
I really don’t get the UK’s obsession with “diversity.” It isn’t a particularly diverse country. It’s just like the progressive hive mind demands it regardless if it makes any sense, and in a lot of ways they are even more gung ho about it than American progs. Race swapping characters is one thing. Race swapping a historical Queen of England or Greek characters in a series on the Iliad is rather…strange. Almost like a fetish.
Black doc (or lady doc, for that matter) doesn’t bother me at all. There’s no reason there can’t be one. Xe is from a species that spans all time and space FFS. The problem arises if and when they pat themselves on the back over it.
Blacking up actual historical figures (or race-known literary characters) does. That’s just pure politics.
I’m not a Doctor Who fan, but from everything I’ve heard from people who are the main issue isn’t female doctor or future black doctor as much as the writing has gone to shit and that they do in fact pat themselves on the back for it.
That is true from what I’ve heard too.
Not that the first few seasons of Nu Who were literary classics or anything but the writing got dramatically worse in recent years. I stopped watching when girl doc came on board and not because girl but because I couldn’t take the writing anymore and from what I heard it just got worse and worse.
90+% of Nu Who plots (and 100% of NuWho season finales) are of this form:
1. The Doctor Encounters an enemy who is immune to the doctor’s tricks
2. The Doctor invents a completely new ability that contradicts established canon.
3. The Doctor wins!
To be fair, this is the standard format for most shitty “scifi” dating back to Star trek.
*remodulates phaser*
It’s because the writers can’t think their way out of a paper bag.
The absolute best/worst of which was the series finale:
Keeping in mind that everyone knew there wasn’t going to be another season, this was the for-reals last episode:
Will-they-or-won’t-they couple are on a small boat on the ocean. Ben Browder character proposes to Claudia Black character.
Alien fightercraft appears from over the horizon, laser blasts Ben Browner, closeup shot of Ben Brodwer disintegrating, a significant portion of his remains scattering into the ocean.
*roll credits*
Took me a while to figure out which series you were talking about.
Heh. I dopped out of Farscape well before the end.
A song that has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas, other than when it was released as single.
https://youtu.be/iAgQmJ3W-ko
33 years ago. Good lord.
Ok, actual Xmas songs. First up, from Yuming.
https://youtu.be/4iUogzFqzts
Proper response: ok, groomer.
Sadly her career tanked and then she got married.
https://youtu.be/UH0djS-LXhM
Double header from a perfectly named album
https://youtu.be/2cNxCkCNyCc
https://youtu.be/WMd03_ANvBc
Krizzy Kin Bahndo
https://youtu.be/EM_-n5xP6Y8
Old classics
https://youtu.be/MT7147jJdLU
Why yes. I have been drinking, officer.
Naoya Matsuoka and tobacco money
https://youtu.be/HKhifgU8xZU
A novel legal theory is tested in America’s Hat. It is the live version of FYTW.
https://lawliberty.org/the-aftermath-of-canadas-freedom-convoy/
“On the last week of hearings, Commissioner Paul Rouleau—ordinarily a sitting judge on Ontario’s powerful Court of Appeal—was questioning the federal Attorney General and Minister of Justice David Lametti. Lametti, a former law professor, had balked at answering questions about the basis for the legality of invoking the federal Emergencies Act, claiming this information infringed upon solicitor-client privilege.”
From there Canada’s act goes downhill. But points must be awarded to one woman. “The federal government also leaned uncomfortably on the provinces, prompting swift resistance. At one point, Ontario’s solicitor general, Sylvia Jones, snapped in response to the federal Minister of Public Safety, when he pressed her for a plan, that “I don’t take edicts from you, you’re not my fucking boss.””
“… balked at answering questions about the basis for the legality of invoking the federal Emergencies Act, claiming this information infringed upon solicitor-client privilege.”
FYTW, indeed.
JFC
I like the cut of her jib.
Just read the article. The only way Canada is going to find out what really happened is by electing a PM who is overtly hostile to Trudeau or for Musk to buy America’s Hat.
I don’t know anything about this type of gaming, but the setups look cool!
Disney films is scared to have an interracial kiss on screen, lest they offend all of those racists that they are sure exist out in flyover country.
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo had an interracial couple star throughout the film as the good guys. IN 1984!
Cannon Films was more progressive than Disney.
Quality Best Of The Worst released tonight.
IN 1984!
Seventeen years after Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner…
I think you are a bit off. They are scared of the loud moth progressives that will A) Complain about anything, and B) never buy their products. Disney has existed for over half a century off those flyover people dropping a huge chunk of change year after year on their movies /products and dropping the equivalent of a mortgage payment on taking their spawn to one of the parks.
I think there are definitely Disney executives who think the country is close minded/racist/bigotted. They are progressives themselves and have become increasingly bold about putting the messages into their products, but they have definitely restrained themselves in a few areas (probably, ironically enough, the less or completely non-controversial ones) because of their own biases.
It’s the same reason they made the black guy on the cover of the new Star Wars movies smaller for the Chinese market. They are convinced that everyone else are sexist, racist knuckle draggers besides themselves and the people who think just like them.
Kirk/Uhuru did it best.
It’s good to see Chicago keeping pace with NYC.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/21/frightening-video-shows-suspect-pushing-woman-onto-subway-tracks-train-pulls-into-station-chicago/
Wind is howling. Already 25F
Same with the wind. 32F and starting to snow.
We get ours tonight, starting with rain and a high of 40º
The high tomorrow is forecasted at a balmy 3. Three Degrees!
Fred Sanford concurs.
😀
Still sunny and~60 here.
When it gets down to forty in a few days it’ll be pretty toigh.
Good mornin!
Good morning, Sean, Roat, Stinky, Scruffy, rhy, homey, Yu, DEG, and (somewhere upthread) Lack!
Our new coffeemaker arrived yesterday! This morning, I woke up to coffee and didn’t even have to flip a switch in my sleepy stupor! 😃☕
Today’s gotta-do: Check employee phone numbers from payroll against the emergency call system in advance of Snowmageddon. Anyone who didn’t make sure it was up-to-date is SOL. And today’s the birthday party for a senior manager, so I get to eat barbecue (homey! It’s from Bullwinkle’s!) AND cheesecake! 😋
wait, the cheesecake survived?
It did! It’s a Christmas miracle! Probably only because a representative of the Employee Engagement Committee (no – really!) brought everyone a box of homemade cookies and sweets. (Buckeyes! Yum!)
Mornin’, GT and the rest of you reprobates! You too, UCS.
All is well, you have coffee. And BBQ. And cheesecake! The rest will take care of itself.
Morning.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Did work let you sleep until the alarm (YOUR alarm, not theirs!) went off today?
Oh yah, and today I shall bask in the glory of a great triumph. During the ordeal of the past week I noticed a process running way longer than it should take, and yesterday applied a fix, reducing execution time from 1.5 hrs to 4 minutes. An additional fix chopped another 1.5 hours off the pipeline. So in one day we went from missing our SLA by 1.5 hours to finishing 1.5 hours early. I think my job is safe for now.
***WILD APPLAUSE!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼***
Morning reprobates.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/witness-recounts-man-beating-shark-with-hammer-on-florida-beach
Netflix reboots Jaws.
He didn’t have a big enough boat.
If you’re going to keep the thing what the hell else are you supposed to do? Would it be better if he had used a pistol to blow its brains out right there or maybe just let it suffocate out of the water?
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2022/12/21/omnibus-bill-taxpayers-erect-press-statues-washington-dc-give-1b-subsidy-media/
JFC. I thought I was pissed off before…
A statue of Goebbels?
Propaganda doesn’t pay for itself.
We get to pay for them to propagandize us and then we have to kiss their collective ass with a statue…sounds about right.
They’re just fucking with us now.
National divorce, I’m ready to sign the papers. She can even keep the house.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/police-search-for-potential-witness-of-deadly-nj-hit-and-run/3457014/
Just another attempt to smear Elon.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/lawyer-flagged-by-msg-facial-recognition-removed-from-knicks-game/
Boy, that’s a tough one. Let me know when we can ban ALL politicians from venues.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-22/uk-told-not-to-get-drunk-or-play-sports-ambulance-strike/101802856
God bless America!
Don’t get ‘blind drunk’
ablist!
The UK not get drunk? Yeah right, ain’t gonna happen.
Ive only been up all night but….
suh’ fam
whats goody
*waiting patiently for snow/cold-mageddon
Its a story about a toy, nothing earth shattering like Brochetta shitting on the chess board.
Happy blizzard everybody!
I hope you all get stomped on, I know I will.🌨🦎🙄
I was promised a blizzard but it’s only raining.
Uh oh, malformed muppet girl has turned on overweight amphetamined to the gills fraud boy:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/caroline-ellison-throws-sbf-under-bus-pleads-guilty-fraud-agrees-cooperate-doj
If those two kids can’t make it what hope do we have in this uncaring world?
I suspect SBF is still on “suicide watch” in jail and if Miss Muppet doesn’t go missing, she’ll inherit Jizzlaine’s spot in prison.
Yeah, as long she doesn’t start naming the wrong names she’ll be fine. Him on the other hand…well…I wouldn’t want to be him right now.
Mornin’ all.
Gym time.
Morning.
Yo.
“FBI blasts ‘conspiracy theorists’ over ‘Twitter Files,’ claims to provide ‘critical information’ to ‘protect’ company”
https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/fbi-blasts-conspiracy-theorists-over-twitter-files-claims-to-provide-critical-information-to-protect-company/
If you think the FBI was acting out of sorts you’re a conspiracy theorist. They’ve got to be defunded, then again the cuck Republican senators are about to give the incredibly hostile to them NPR/PBS a ton of money and a statue to boot so I don’t think the FBI will have to worry.
“We only hurt you because we love you so much!”/FBI to USA
Can we get a restraining order which requires the fBI stay at least a hundred yards away from any americans and not contact them?
Why, sure! And it will be just as effective as any other restraining order!
Battered citizen syndrome.
“It’s our fault! If only we hadn’t made them so mad!”
We can always count on the Republicans to bend over for the Dems and fuck America.
The enabling spouse?
I don’t know, the biggest priority for the Republican base right now is funding the Ukraine war and they’re getting a shit ton of money, at least according to The Turtle. It’s not so much that they’re misreading the room, they just don’t give a flying fuck what the room says.
Today in inappropriate terminology…
We are an agile development shop, and meet every two weeks to scope out and assign tasks for the next two weeks. This is known as sprint planning, but our new PM uses another term, so today we will be having a grooming session. I think this is work-related.
So, combs, soap, and lint rollers?
OK groomer?
Grooming is a review of the backlog to prepare tickets for work.
I know, I just find the language amusing.
Sorry. Inferred PM was using grooming for sprint planning. Don’t worry. The woke will force a new name like they did for other IT terms.
In my shop grooming is sprint planning – nothing new on the horizon and we should clear our backlog about the same time we pay down the national debt.
Bad Scrum Master. They are separate activities.
Agile is already the communist manifesto made into a process to control development for businesses. How could it get more woke?
Is that a challenge?
It’s an article where I can prove my case. Product owners turn into commissars and entire teams not in the value stream begin to make business decisions.
We have separate grooming and we have already been informed of the name change. I forgot what they call it now but everyone still calls it “grooming”.
/we don’t give a fuck