If Peach was a Swashbuckler, I guess?
“Asus Hopes Its Upgraded ‘ROG Ally X’ Can Compete Against the Steam Deck OLED” (Go ahead and try; I love my Deck.)
“Microsoft Is Launching Its Mobile Game Store Rivaling Apple and Google in July”
“In Company First, Nintendo Nominates Three Women To Board Of Directors”
Nintendo, founded in 1889, is perhaps the longest running gaming company around and, perhaps due to this fact, it has largely remained a boys’ club. This began to change
for the betterin 2020, when it nominated its first woman to the board of directors.I didn’t think they had DEI in Japan. There goes the neighborhood.
There a whole bunch of reasons I couldn’t work for a traditional Japanese company.
I don’t envy women that do so. They have it worse professionally.
And here I thought the office women all secretly snuck out to put on mech suits and fight rogue androids.
Are you saying anime lied to me?
Too busy making tea.
OTH, mahou shoujou!
And emptying the wastebaskets. And serving lunch.
https://youtu.be/uqhpaIvHxfE
Ha! I sounded that out in semi-Korean. Soju is certainly involved.
Close enough for Koreans. I think Pope Jimbo joked the Koreans were known as the ‘Irish of the East.’ I strongly agree. That nation is fucked. A buck for a half-pints worth of booze; available every 200 feet at every 7/11, GS, Mini-Stop+ 24/7/365; and businessmen and college kids (more the former) getting drunk and crawling on the street at 3 in the morning…. all totally normal.
The Japanese men keep the mikado sticks stored too high, so the Japanese women have to climb onto the copy machine, and…well…
https://youtu.be/9OLQC1Innn8?si=cAm0kgn4wtAexCkM
ESG is popular with companies just as much as here, I think.
Nah — he’d just declared his gay love for Frodo, so he’ll be returned to life by Eru as he’s just That Awesome(tm) and he can go smash the Shire Patriarchy or something.
Beat me to it.
Also: Both Frodo and Gollum will be race-swapped.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s grandkids aren’t as good as Christopher was at protecting J.R.R.’s legacy.
….
Whoa… slow down there Andrews Sisters! Guess we know why the Baby Boom happened — and it wasn’t just the war!
Of all the boys I’ve known and I’ve known some
Until I first met you I was lonesome
And when you came in sight, dear my heart grew light
And this ol’ world seemed new to me
Hey — I’m still wondering why T-Swizzle has lots of Starbucks lovers, after all. 😉
I’m unenthused — but I strongly suspect I’m not the target market since I barely ever open the App Store on my iDevices anyway. And the mobile games I play has dwindled to like 2 over the years, and those are ad-free so I’m not feeding the ecosystem that way either.
I don’t open the MS Store on Windows for that matter, so I seriously doubt I’d start on a mobile device….
Now get off my lawn, whippersnappers … or something…
About the only games that I had installed on my phone that I would use to kill time were ports of board games. Hell, the girlfriend and I have sat and played games of Carcassone while waiting at a bar/restaurant for people/service/food.
I have a couple phone games – purchased (I also refuse in-game nonsense). Monument Valley and Threes. The time with which is mostly replaced by Squaredle now.
Two thumbs up for the tune!! 👍👍
My favorite of theirs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WiayZdPESno&pp=ygUhYW5kcmV3cyBzaXN0ZXJzIHJ1bSBhbmQgY29jYSBjb2xh
My turn.
I’ve told this story on the zooms.
I was playing this song on the piano out of the Reader’s Digest Family Songbook and it had an introductory blurb mentioning Yiddish. So I yelled at my mom, “Hey, Mom, where’s Yiddia?” and I have never heard her cackle so loudly and long ever.
She was on the Jedi Council back in the Old Republic… She knew not to kill off the Sith since she’d be unemployed.
The girlfriend’s late mother asked if German Industrial music was what they played in factories.
Rammstein strongly approves of this message, I suspect.
Only in new buildings.
Only after hours.
That joke is beyond The Pale.
Oh Yiddia, oh Yiddia,
Oh have you seen Yiddia,
Yiddia the Kosher lady?
We had a Filipina working at our company and she was asking for the name of another employee. She said you know the Yankee guy. We laughed and replied, oh you mean a yarmulke.
Yesterday we were talking about why real estate prices keep climbing in the U.S. Speculated that the 12 million recent illegal arrivals might have something to do with the demand side of things.
Here’s the opposite extreme in a country that doesn’t have open borders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWlL0OQ-7lY
Institutional investment which drives up prices and restricts the market particularly in the low to mid range:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-single-family-homes-and-put-them-up-for-rent.html
The standard libertarian admonishion of reducing code and zoning restrictions also applies but it’s mostly the above from what I’ve seen.
We’re overdue for a correction. It’ll get some of this bullshit under control.
Contra
Makes sense. The thing with institutional investors is that they tend to be very heavily leveraged, which translates to volatility. As the cost of money stays high(er), their financials have to be looking like shit. Sooner or later, when debt turnover time comes (and, if the lenders are extending them, the lender’s financials start looking like shit for carrying bad loans), the shit will truly hit the fan. I think it may be a similar dynamic to the Big Dump of ‘18, when an overleveraged RE market collapsticated.
Err, Big Dump of ‘08, or Ought 8 as us old timers call it.
There’s a reason why a 40+ year house is vacant. If you go to real inaka, you might be able to get paid to acquire and life in the house. It’s not out of the goodness of the seller or local gob’s heart.
NH Democrat Congressional candidate profile
“My name is Maggie Tamposi Goodlander, and I was born on Election Day right here in Nashua, New Hampshire.” So begins the candidate’s announcement video, released Thursday, with the disclaimer “Approved by Maggie Tamposi Goodlander.”
The announcement video is filled with images from Nashua politics, including conversations with Goodlander’s mother, Betty Tamposi. A former New Hampshire state representative, Betty Tamposi also ran for Congress in the Second Congressional District—as a Republican. She served in President George H.W. Bush’s administration before being forced out over a minor scandal involving Bill Clinton’s passport.
And Goodlander’s grandfather, Samuel Tamposi, was also a major political player in the GOP (not to mention a part owner of the Boston Red Sox).
So perhaps it’s no surprise that Maggie is running as “Tamposi Goodlander.”
But it certainly is new. A Google search for the name before April 2024 turned up zero results.
Betty Tamposi isn’t the only Republican to appear in Goodlander’s campaign launch video. There’s also a photo of her with her old boss, U.S. Sen. John McCain. After serving as a senior advisor to him, Goodlander went on to work as a White House adviser and a deputy assistant attorney general in the Biden Justice Department’s antitrust division.
She is married to Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. The two own a home in Portsmouth — which is not in the district. But she told the left-leaning Boston Globe that she just signed a lease for a home in Nashua.
That’s the same district Lily Tang Williams is running in I believe.
Yes
Christ. A swamper and a nepo candidate. Hard pass.
The studios don’t produce new content because there is too much financial risk.
Instead, they do sequels, prequels, reboots and so for. But then they turn each move into a 200 million dollar extravaganza that can’t be allowed to fail. So they micro manage the projects which generally guarantees their failure.
Solid business model you got there nitwits.
I think it was the Drinker or that Chapo guy who detailed this. Well know actors are expensive, add all that CGI, and then spend more on marketing, and it’s nearly impossible to make money.
They have both hit on this topic hard.
Ricardo Cortez was the ultimate Sam Spade.
And that is not a sustainable model. They can only cannibalize themselves for so long.
Marvel is already cutting back on the number of movies/shows they’re releasing, there’s only so many flops in a row they can afford. Leaning into that a bit (and since it’s Riven links, and we were talking games earlier), I’m also enjoying watching the studios take huge losses on crappy live service games.
I am upset that the tactical games that I’m a big fan of are not doing well (Lamplighter’s League and Midnight Suns were both flops in the market).
There has been some good Schadenfreude to be had. Turns out that designing games based on feedback from Twitter lunatics and “Narrative Consultants” is not a recipe for success, particularly since whatever additional venture capital that ESG netted them seems to be drying up.
I am a little annoyed that KSP 2 (KSP 1 is right in my sweet spot of sandbox with just enough campaign to keep you engaged) is being left in early access limbo after a pretty bad launch (pun intended).
Enjoyed the music selection, but this is more my type of harmony.
Oldest teenage group in America. What Boys II Men may sound like one day.
https://youtu.be/-fOmKNOeJpc?si=Orm86Larb-6CGyaD
Overalls with a bowtie and a suit jacket!
Well, it looked like a formal affair.
All wearing tuxedos anyway
A magnum Opus?
Heh.
Another magnum Opus.
Deine flicke Finger seien verdammt!
🙂
I was living there when that song was everywhere at once. Fond memories….
Magnum Opus.
Internal server error trying to post a quote from this story.
“Abortion abortion abortion abortion.”
Was trying to keep this light (okay, probably too silly with my bad jokes granted) — but since we’re posting politics now….
…. and nothing else happened.
Bonus: Another good reason to get out of the UN. If they’re not even going to follow the Charter and let in “peace loving” states like Palestine, there’s less point than with the League of Nations other than milking us dry.
Refer the matter to the UN Human Rights Commission …
Is Iran still running that?
What a sad joke that outfit is. Oh, and aggressively evil.
Schumpeter’s creative destruction example
Podunkville is an old mining town, it had a 3 block long main street with all the stores one needed. Pretty much everything, even 5 car dealerships. Then in the late ’50s the mining started winding down. The open pit mines were allowed to fill with water. The stores began to close, little by little. As time went by the empty stores became “antique” stores, filled with left over garage sale merchandise. Podunkville advertised itself as the Antique Capitol of Minnesoda. By the late ’80s there was not a single pair of socks being sold or available, unless the sole remaining drugstore had support socks in your size. A development program came to town, with grant money, it lasted several years but no serious businesses were opened, finally, the junk stores started closing, as taxes went unpaid some store fronts got torn down, leaving parking lots available, empty. Then mountain biking was discovered, abandoned rail lines became bike trails. Eureka!! The state dumped money in again. Where there had been 1 or 2 restaurants there are now 7-8 or more plus a doughnut shop, a couple sandwich shops, a wine tasting salon. The upstairs of the old buildings are remodeled into sleeping quarters for the biker crowd.
Now we’re talking, Podunkville is back on the map! However, biking in this area is greatly diminished about 8 months of the year. Bikers tend to be young, somewhat limited budgets and are not hanging around spending money and want to keep moving. Old people have to home by dark.
The population over the last 70-80 years has remained more or less static, a couple small factories moved in nearby. The big money comes from the hospital/nursing home and the schools. Government (tax payer) supported. Lake shore homes are no longer week end cabins but fully modern homes with retirees that were able to sell their metro property for serious cash.
Small town America ain’t what it used to be, not when Creative Destruction is dealing the cards.
Irony that conservatives love capitalism when capitalism doesn’t conserve much.
Ok Glibs, it being after 30 minutes and a Friday, I need some food advice. Every Memorial Day weekend we host Sausage Fest, a raucous event full of roller derby girls and the few hockey teammates who don’t think I live on the other side of the world. I am in charge of making homemade sausage. (Yes the jokes write themselves).
I’m planning the menu for this year, and I want to keep it simple. I’ll probably case 50 pounds of meat (I have done as much as 75 in a day). I have made the following varieties over the years:
Hawaiian
Italian
Poblano Cheddar
Poblano Peach
Loaded Baked Potato (bacon, cheese, potatoes, chives)
Teriyaki
Chicken sausage with Feta and Dried Tomatoes
I’m planning on 4 varieties, and I’m looking for something new. Maybe a cheddar brat, maybe Texas hot links, maybe chorizo (I usually make that uncased but it might be interesting cased). Anyone have recipes?
Homemade frankfurters? Then make your own buns and have hot dogs!
Cheddar Brat and Texas Hot Links are two of my go-tos. We’re doing a memorial day shindig as well, but I’m not going as far as casing the sausage.
Perhaps a Nashville hot chicken sausage?
Kielbasa.
Gyro.
Lamb merguez is always a favorite when I’m grilling. Being from the swamps, I can get boudin and andouille pretty easily — that’d be a change of pace for you, I reckon.
Closer to you, I discovered these guys when visiting CPRM for his birthday last year. I think they ship. Something like sixty-leven types of bratwurst.
Good to see that we can have some frank discussion around here.
And what better place to discuss, than the links?
Looks around for libertarian women…
Garlic Rosemary Sausage
3 lbs. Ground pork
2 lbs. Ground beef
2 tsp white pepper
1.5 Tbsp salt (1.5-2% of meat weight)
5 Tbsp minced garlic
4 Tbsp liquid smoke
1 cup chopped fresh parsley
2 Tbsp powdered rosemary
Place dried rosemary in a spice grinder
4 tsp chili pepper flakes
4 tsp cayenne
Recipe: Luganega (Italian pork sausage)
4 feet hog casing
3.5 lbs lean ground pork
1/2 lb pork fat
1.5 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp grated lemon zest
1 tsp grated orange zest
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 cup dry vermouth
1 cup grated Parmeasan cheese
If you like goose and pheasant. Saucisse Minuit. Takes time.
Ah, a man of good taste! I have the Nero Wolfe Cookbook. It’s fun, but I don’t know that I’ve cooked anything from it. Nero’s tastes were not mine, or vice versa.
Home made Knockworst would be fun.
“Anyone have recipes?”
Except for pistoffnick, nope.
Adipose tissue distributed in a sexually pleasing way.
https://archive.is/yKOf6
https://archive.is/yf4rV
Friday Funbags.
Thanx for the lynx Riven. (fyi in the aircraft carrier mod for 7 Days to Die there is a Hazmat zombie named Riven. I chuckled)
Let me tighten up the headline in that FEE article…
*snip snip snip*
A Marxist Professor Fails Again
Brevity and all that.
Also. +1 on that picture of Princess Peach. She’s clearly poking some evil villain in the fanny with her rapier.
Speaking of something or other, I watched a (the?) Harley Quinn movie last night- Birds of Prey, I think. I hung in there right to the thrilling conclusion. Yay gurrrrrl powarz!
It was not that bad, as mindless entertainment goes.
Whew, that was a bad movie. I tapped out about half way through it. And I made it all the way through the Marvels and the Flash.
Obviously, the smart money is on LOTR: THFG sucking bigly.
But…
Rogue One showed that you could do an original story that was canon-compliant and fully immersed in/respectful of the original IP. Later Andor did the same thing.
The LOTRO MMO folk have shown that they can in fact come up with new LOTR-feeling storylines.
It all depends on who they get to write this thing.
On the gripping hand… the Amazon series.
sucking bigly
What’s everyone’s arc of interest?
Here’s mine:
10 she: ooh, this HBO thang is getting raves (eg: GOT, Succession, Righteous Gemstones, Insecure, Westworld)
20 season one is intriguing: neat idea, setting, theme, boobs
30 season two: ooh, it’s starts back in three weeks **buys moar popcorn**
40 well I guess we could use even more character development; it’s nice to have this Sunday thing on the couch together
50 she: ooh it’s back next month; he: hmmph (nibbles crumbs from last year still in his his cushion)
60 season three: new characters and useless plot points; unneeded portal to medieval Arabia or Japan opens
70 she: I can’t wait for season four! he: plays chess online while vaguely listening; boobs and dragons no longer help
90 vague plot twist involving acts of doG or turbo-magic that render all previous plot points and devices moot
99 she: ooh, this is getting raves GOTO_10
wrt the new Gollum movie, I’m going to hold my expectations in check. IF IF IF they take the opportunity to explore and flesh out Tolkiens world as we know it from the books without adding canon breaking nonsense, then fantastic I say.
If they go the route of the Hobbit or Rings of Power I’m just going to pass.
I’m just going to pass.
Tolkien’s books (including those Christopher put together posthumously), ICE’s MERP RPG, Jackson’s LoTR movies, Bakshi’s movie, and not much else will do it for me and Tolkien’s world.
I’m probably going to be repelled. The Hobbit movies pissed me right off.
The benefit to being a pessimist is you only have pleasant surprises, somebody once said. We’ll see.
Much like I have no need for more than three Star Wars movies.
It’s being directed by Serkis. The guy who made Venom 2.
He was great as Gollum, but ‘m not expecting a masterpiece. And it’s a story we already know about. How much more do we really need?
I’d be happy with accurate expanded world building and a story that didn’t perform a bloody abortion on the source material.
Was listening to some U.D.O. while reading ron’s stoic post. Reading stoicly about Stoicism on a beautiful Friday afternoon while udo screams his lungs out fits. This way, I can’t hear the neighbors argue.
I’ll be First into the night.
Ok… which of y’all has a side hustle. I swear that was written by a Glib.
Might want to watch this one first to get the feeling for the depiction if needed. Also hilarious.
Now I’m stuck listening to the whole series.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3rT52ckkJ-JP2nbmpUzXPTO5b04GWqGh&si=TAQ-tWgHsp8_fa6Y
Desecration
A top Wall Street regulator has proposed outlawing election betting in the U.S. derivatives markets, with officials warning that the activity poses a threat to the sanctity of American elections.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is charged with regulating the vast and complex derivatives markets, voted 3-2 on Friday to issue a new rule proposal that would ban so-called event contracts that effectively act as wagers on political elections. The plan would also prohibit those contracts related to sporting events and even awards ceremonies like the Oscars.
Betting on elections is no different than betting on which crossdressing clown wins the pie fight.
Bye bye iowa futures market.
Nonsense push polling is still ok. As is yellow journalism.
Data created by election-betting markets can also be used by economists, journalists and Washington insiders looking to gauge where voters stand.
But that’s what polls are for.
New Hampshire Liberty Alliance’s midterm state legislator ratings.
I’ve already had one happy hour tonight.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
With the RV repair guy?
I wish! With the neighbors. It was good to meet them, though – most people stick to their spots and there’s not a whole lot of neighbors out and about strolling around.
Some lawmakers like Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) urged the CFTC to proceed with caution in the run up to Friday’s vote. In a letter last week, Johnson and six other lawmakers on both sides of the aisle similarly raised concern about pushing the event contracts market out of the U.S.
But many Democratic lawmakers and critics have raised concern about the idea of election products. Last year, Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon called Kalshi’s proposal “a clear threat to our democracy and elections.”
Trump and Biden are going to cut cards for the Presidency?
Marxist professor….blah blah.
Marxism is about power. Power is a fixed pie. Prosperity and innovation give you options… the more power you have over your own life the less power the marxist has. Thus the marxist seeks, as we are seeing today in our own country, to destroy prosperity. The Obama and now the Biden admins are about actively, openly destroying prosperity. What the marxist seeks is to dispense the rations of slavery. Remember Julia? Look at the socialized medical systems all over the world and their ever increasing the chocolate rations to half.
It is remarkable to me that having seen this movie so many times in the past we have to watch it again in our own house.
I see the Biden string-puppet is still gibbering about how awesome the economy is. We should believe him and not our lying bank statements cuz OMB.
By the way, didn’t Stormy Daniels admit that she never had sex with Trump after the scandal kinda blew away and the election was over? That has obviously been memory holed. I see the knob-gobbling fact checkers assuring all of us now that that was all a hoax. Until Jean Carroll popped up with the most ridiculous completely unbelievable allegation I remember all of the Trump sex accusers being thoroughly debunked.
It is difficult for me to watch the circus anymore.
If she admitted that, wouldn’t the dense have brought it up under cross?
“defense”
I have no answer for that. It is like this never happened:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stormy-daniels-denies-affair-donald-trump-never-happened-010513645.html
Thats going to get swept under the rug so fast….
“ Marxist professor….blah blah.”
I second this motion!
There were already games where Peach played a major role or was a star.
And they were great. This new Peach game? Boring as hell and super easy. Insultingly easy. It is going to bomb.
Kotaku and Polygon writers are going to love it, then
I played the whole free episode. It was seriously drab. I can’t imagine anyone buying it based in the sample. Anyone got sales numbers?
Sooo…behind on reading glibs all week – busy with my planner class here in Newport, RI.
May possibly make a trip towards NH one of the weekends between now and Memorial Day weekend – depending if another friend over there is available to meet up. Open to other NH glibs too.
Also…it looks like I’m in the area for the wrong season for an official Lovecraft tour in Providence- does anyone have any links or addresses if I wanted to do an unofficial tour of sites in the area. Some of the old houses here in Newport are pretty interesting. It’s so great being here this time of year vice Oct-Feb.
Also…that much closer to a set of multi-year active duty orders in Europe. Will make an info post/question set when I get confirmation.
May possibly make a trip towards NH one of the weekends between now and Memorial Day weekend – depending if another friend over there is available to meet up. Open to other NH glibs too.
I expect to be around most of May. thorby455 AT proton DOT me is an e-mail to get a hold of me.
AstraZeneca vaccine is being pulled off the market.
https://youtube.com/shorts/CrKVLWFPu1w?si=oKIdHGeZy-X4BRl-
I must have just had a flashback to the 90s. There’s 2 words I want to share with you. Only two.
Netscape. Navigator.