Look at this guy, reading my links when there’s a perfectly good fire to gaze at over there.
Friday Afternoon Links
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
I clicked through a slide show and got no sex scenes.
WTF?
You were hoping for a squidface 69?
….maybe.
Yeah… and I’m going to do my best to avoid it. 1) Never know when my son might walk behind me… and he’s too young for that shit. and 2) Not really caring about toon boffing… especially since from what I read, every party member is player-sexual and randier than a pet goat hopped up on Viagra. So I plan on a lot of “Not interested”.
If they ever stop patching the damned thing… That’s another reason I haven’t played in a while… want the code base to settle into something steady.
I’m not reading that because zero interest but… I do wonder how wildly overrepresented the alphabet soup stereotypes are in all the sex that game studios are loading into these games lately.
Sex? For it has always involved a woman. Two people, not one person and a game controller. Maybe it’s just me.
Two people? Is this new? Have you been holding out on me? I don’t have a game controller.
I’m going to tell Mrs F about this new thing with 2 people.
She knows, she just hasn’t let you in on it.
Weakening those bonds was likely one of the points all along.
You don’t want a bunch of Papists ruining this country, do you?
Thomas Nast had something to say about that…
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.theatlantic.com%2Fthumbor%2F6RFmlG0FK-GElW-GnZ_XSrQt13w%3D%2F0x117%3A3219x1928%2F615x365%2Fmedia%2Fimg%2Fmt%2F2020%2F01%2FGettyImages_615293914%2Foriginal.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=8d6c3a555917369878cb92a9e9eb7a43906f8063476c6f6460140b9834b43400&ipo=images
Ironic given that he drew the definitive version of St. Nicholas.
I resemble that remark…. (well, lapsed Papist for the most part).
I’m just a recovering Catholic.
Bonus if Oz does the entire commentary in Yoda voice.
“Hated this, I did.”
It’s a Friday, so to save KK the effort of putting up the link and grumbling about me, I’ll provide the Zoom link for those who still need it.
You are a scholar and a gentleman.
Riven, thank you so much for linking that story and video of the Barrelmancers.
I laughed so hard I might have peed a little.
Same, same. Some people are playing this game on a whole other level.
Almost like they are playing it like table top while drinking with friends. Glad Larius allowed it
*clicks*
OK, that’s funny as hell.
Same here. That was freaking awesome. Just sent the link to all my kids.
Alex Berenson started penning pro-Trump articles.
Now make me believe it.
^THIS^
What’s the evidence that Trump wants to pull out of NATO? He’s said that the other countries should live up to their promises, and if they don’t then we should consider leaving.
There’s none. I just liked the idea of radicalized Donald Trump who, apparently, scares Berenson.
*Can’t reply… ‘batin’.”
“the underpinnings of the modern (domestic) federal government, the agencies that operate mostly independently of the White House”
Of course, such agencies are utterly antithetical to democratic, or republican, governance.
Opportunities for graft draw grifters like shit draws flies.
New Remy. Priceless as always.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ihRPNAXVJG8
After a month of writing, my book is up to 70,000 words. 10,000 to go. Yay me.
Critical mass as illustrated by cats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFMdVIFsgs
We have compulsory schooling here and half of the children who graduate from it cant read or count to ten.
What an evil motherfucker. Weakening the parent child bond is killing the only factor (parents) that contributes strongly to successful education.
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
Well, if you were generally stupid, but just shy of wise…
Why would a slick website for a “locally owned” business not include the fucking address?
I’m not going to email you for a quote, you dumb fucks.
So it’s starting to look like people who say insane things like a woman is a woman and we come from a womb actually believe and it is the publicist who are afraid.
Santana says nah….deletes apology
Fear is the mind killer.
Wasn’t this covered already today?
How many animals that attack press on when the target of the attack runs? <— All of them.
How many press on if you stand your ground?
Giving apology is just blood in the water. When are people gonna learn?
It was covered on what Santana said and apology. It is looking like it’s not the person who is apologizing like in the case of Ne-Yo. It is their publicist as it appears here with Santana
Good for him.
Think I’ll cue him up tonight.
Good god no! The man can make a decent 3,4, or 5 minute song but then he apparently thinks, what this needs is a nine minute groove and we’ll let the bongos be front and center. Stephen King needs an editor and Carlos Santana needs a producer, preferably someone like Shel Talmy or Mickie Most.
I’d like to respectfully drop the retard comment from earlier. Good on him.
This.
I aspire to this.
I really do.
Back to work then.
Back to Work you say?
I learned a new phrase recently in regards to attempts to blame the Maui fires on climate change: flash drought.
The government even has a website devoted to the phenomenon. https://www.drought.gov/what-is-drought/flash-drought It first appeared just a few days after Biden’s inauguration. The first Wiki page appeared just last April. I guess “flash drought” sounds scarier than “dry weather”.
That….goes against every definition of a drought. Maui had ONE year of less rain.
Fancy “Contractors and professionals preferred” building supply place:
Me- “Do you sell Lexan cut to order?”
Counter person- “What’s Lexan?”
“You mean you want to, like, put a sun roof in your car?”
“You mean you want to, like, put a sun roof in your car?”
Oddly enough, I’m going to replace the rear window in my car, which got taken out by a rock, with Lexan. But those yahoos don’t need to know that.
Now here’s an ominous economic sign.
https://twitter.com/InvariantPersp1/status/1695160572319617264
Glenn Greenwald (very long) interview on Patrick Bet David’s podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/live/b0yUxSwDrNk?si=_DorFtVF6hSgBYnT
Very interesting and gets into why Trump didn’t pardon either Snowden or Assange and actually cuts him some slack for it. He doesn’t vote but I think he’d vote for Trump if he did.
The more I read of Paine and the other founders the more I am convinced that revolution was necessary, indeed inevitable. We are incredibly fortunate that despite their few mistakes they chose the path that they did.
It also frightens me that the same old nonsense has taken root here and now surpasses what they faced, and in many ways with a lot of support from the very people being trampled on. I wonder what lies around the corner. I am not optimistic.
The tyrants had trouble tyranting back then because of inefficient surveillance and the fact that it was easy to keep things private. The internet, this supposed boon to the flow of information and freedom, along with Big Data has changed all of that. Not that it’s impossible but meaningful change is much more difficult now.
I watched a doc about North Korea the other day and was amazed how much far they’ve gone over the past few years. Very disturbing. They’ve been able to almost completely lock down their borders and slow down outside information to a bare trickle. Spitballing numbers here, but they went from thousands of defectors per year to just 60 each of the past couple years. China used Covid to amp up their own surveillance in sending defectors back, but NK made their border physically near impossible to cross.
Must state the first, most obvious mistake: Life, Liberty and happiness. Really guys? C’mon, what the fuck is happiness?
Life, Liberty and Property. There, fixed it for you.
Second: No term limits. An aristocratic style ruling class is inevitable without term limits.
It’s inevitable period, but term limits may tap the brakes a little. They haven’t done squat for states that have them except make politicians play musical chairs and increase the power of the bureaucracy since the pols don’t have the institutional knowledge and rely on the bureaucrats even more than before.
It was the pursuit of happiness, not happiness.
Chasing a ghost. In any case it is meaningless.
They just could not bring themselves to secure property….though that may have problems as well.
So we get sky-high taxes and eminent domain.
Just realized I spent the entire afternoon rather intensely interacting with people IRL – first, a long lunch with an old college friend who now lives in the Twin Cities but is visiting her sister and BIL in a southern Dayton ‘burb, then a brief visit with my sister who’s home from the hospital recovering from back surgery earlier in the week. That’s more one-on-one in-person conversation than I’m used to at one stretch, so I’m even more tired than I usually am on a Friday evening.
I think the antidote is to hang out here online with you all.
(And for the record, I only drank half of the much-too-huge strawberry margarita at lunch. I am become an alcoweenie.)
“(And for the record, I only drank half of the much-too-huge strawberry margarita at lunch. I am become an alcoweenie.)”
That is a bad road to get on. It only leads to one place.
Sobriety?
…And meeting the new government standards for alcohol consumption. You don’t want to accidentally comply, do you?
I’d have to significantly increase my drinking to get up to their ridiculously low upper limits, and I don’t feel inclined to do so. I guess I’ll just have to rebel in other ways.
Maybe I’ll eat more beef.
⬅
Corned beef (not the world’s best, but it will do) and Swiss on rye, with a big dose of Poupon style mustard.
That’s better.
Nice. Got Chinese food here. Folding laundry all evening and then heading to Louisiana in the morning.
Re: Brooks
Angel hair with mornay sauce…added a little sweet basil and garlic. Shrimp and flake crab meat added in.
A nice salad on the side.
*cooking for wife. I love cooking for my wife.
Were I alone it would be a ham sandwich.
Re: RJ
Oh? Where in La?
Shreveport. My mom lives there. I’ll be there Saturday afternoon through Sunday.
Take her out to eat. Shreveport has a few and bossier city has more good places to eat.
She loves the restaurant “Biscottis” so I am taking her there. She is getting frail and I don’t think I can wait much longer to see her. She’s 92 now.
That sounds tasty.
All I have is leftovers and some Crown Royal Black.
*looks at bottle*
I had some Crown Royal Black.
First two buckle your shoe
First four better lock the door…
So incredibly infuriating
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-military-likely-remain-syria-many-many-years-come-milley
Choo-choo trains and endless wars. That is where the real graft is.
We simultaneously whipped Germany, Japan, and Italy in 4 years, yet we just cant seem to win against cavemen throwing rocks. Why? I guess we will never know…such a brain-buster of a mystery.
Winning wars stops the $$$ flowing and we can’t have that.
Truth.
20 years chasing goat fuckers around in various deserts and burying our children should tell us that.
Clearly there enough idiots around that cant make the connection between their votes and the practical outcomes of shitty policies.
Wanna bet?
Dog is begging me to go outside into the oven blast furnace devil’s asshole. All he’s going to do is pass, then lie down under the RV
*piss you motherfucking prude Puritan autocorrect
I emailed Glenn Greenwald today and sent him a link to my blog and a document on my ordeal. As I was typing it, I got an email from my congress critter about the inquiry I filed. They are no updates. The timing of that email’s arrival was probably coincidental.
Something really weird has been going on, and I will not rest until I get to the bottom of it.
Hi Riven!
“Jim Henson and Oz co-helmed The Dark Crystal before Oz’s solo directorial debut: The Muppets Take Manhattan”
Muppets from Space was more my jam.
Have a great weekend!
Pursuit of the illusion of happiness.
My pursuit of happiness was mentioned above – to be in a financial position that allows me to tell everyone to fuck off and leave me alone.
I have largely achieved that.
“Musk Slams ‘Black Supremacist’ AG Going After SpaceX For Not Hiring Refugees”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/meet-black-supremacist-ag-going-after-spacex-not-hiring-refugees
He better be careful or he’s gonna get Trumped (unfairly prosecuted for political and/or economic activity). He’s much richer but if they can get to a former Pres they can get to him.
My son is here visiting, lives in Austin. We really have different life styles. Lots of things some city folk don’t know and maybe vice versa.
He is a true believer in “renewables” but hasn’t figured in night solar energy and no wind turbines that seem to materialize out on private land for free.
He’s a good kid but 61 ought to be long enough to figure some things out. Hydro power, not understanding there’s not much left to dam up and even those are politically precarious.
Jimbo pointed to a local article last week of how we are sitting on a serious quantity of manganese here but between the conservationists and NIMBYs struggling to keep the development from happening the rare earth is somehow going to materialize and it’ll be two Teslas in every garage..
Sometimes I just don’t know what happened.
“He’s a good kid but 61 ought to be long enough to figure some things out. ”
Lol.
Really gets the noggin joggin. Everyone is a kid to fourscore.
Not everyone is a cold-hearted rational person that thinks things out. Some people have feelings.
Hormel Austin, or Texas Austin?
I am watching the Spirit Halloween movie of all things. It’s a showcase for their animatronics and stores with a passable story line. It would be good for pre-teens. Christopher Lloyd is in it!
I feel like I must be one of maybe 100 people who have ever seen this.
“barrelmancer,” someone who collects flammable barrels, then sets them off to create a daisy chain of explosions.
A daisy chain for Satan?
https://youtu.be/uZ62SWoR6AM
I, for one, really appreciate the gaming looks Riven, thanks.
Oh hell yeah. I lived that song in college.
Hydro power, not understanding there’s not much left to dam up and even those are politically precarious.
They’re dynamiting dams in the Pacific northwest. Because fish justice.
…and simultaneously commanding everyone to purchase an electric car.
Everything the left does causes serious problems and to fix them the moron voters demand more leftist policies. This is how you get hell on earth.
The little town that my folks lived in, Thompson Falls, MT, had a small hydroelectric dam, producing about 100MW. That is the equivalent of about 100 windmills with the exception that the dam was 24/7/365 and the windmills only work sporadically. Enough for 20,000 homes, continuously, day or night.
The population of TF is only about 1100 people which means that the dam is a net exporter of power.
Kinda like how the US used to be.
Hey from Atlanta-Hartsfield terminal C
After a hellish week I hope to be home by midnight.
Flying back here on Monday…
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1695199819772358786
Well I had a big thing written out but I forgot I wasn’t logged in. Bye-bye comment.
Good news: Xrays came back and my titanium shunt/hip don’t seem to be damaged. The cracked femur affect it! So I still have existential broken-femur pain, but I get to avoid the two worst things: A) Worst case–They use this time to replace my titanium replacement with…a new titanium replacement 2.0; B) they insert a titanium bone and screw in the misaligned bones/stem, etc.
The best option is the one we’re going with! Cuz nothing seems too much out of whack, we’re letting my bone just heal itself. Gotta be extra mindful about every movement. Stairs are the most dangerous part of my day. Haven’t even considered driving yet.