I’ve never been more thankful not to work in finance anymore than I have been this week.
I’ve finally finished playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses for the fourth time, so I’m only just getting to The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt (with both expansions)–and then I have to deal with Persona 5 Strikers coming out in February… But damn if I don’t want this game, too.
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this.
Enough about video games for a moment; here’s some exciting (?) local news.
A nice collection of silly takes regarding all of the fun stuff happening the last couple days…
I didn’t feel terrorized, but now I do.
Turns out, creating content is hard. It’s even harder when you have to deal with some of this shit.
How about a throwback for this afternoon’s musical selection?
I haven’t watched The Big Short, but I did listen to the audiobook, and I gather the movie does not capture the message the author intended… in fact I hear the movie sells the book quite short with a vague anticapitalist pitch and no reference to the regulatory environment at all. Can you believe that?
Yes, yes I can. Though “a vague anticapitalist pitch” would be in-line with where Lewis is these days, AFAICT.
Blame Tabitha Soren…
Still a very good movie.
Yep.
IIRC there isn’t one mention of the Fed in the entire movie. That’s like making a movie about Nanking without any Japanese.
I generally don’t like that genre and in fact I passed this up when I first saw it but TBF the developer’s other games are pretty good so maybe it’s worth another look.
I know a bunch of people who have put an inordinate amount of time into Hades, they all love it
A buddy of mine is a huge fan of Hades. He’s put a bunch of time into it. I haven’t tried it yet because I seem to have less and less time for games these days. His review is glowing, though.
Safety first
Lori Torres knows the dangers of coronavirus are real.
Fourteen members of her extended family tested positive after they grieved together for the loss of her grandmother last November.
So Torres feels safer at home — and that’s where she plans to keep herself and her three children.
As a Spanish teacher at James Monroe Elementary School in Chicago, she has hundreds of other children also relying on her. But in the pandemic, she’s made her choice to put family first.
“I need to worry about not just what my students are facing, but also what my family and myself are facing,” she told CNN. “I think it’s OK that, at a time like this, that I take a step back and consider me at this point.”
“Fourteen members of her extended family tested positive after they grieved together for the loss of her grandmother last November.” How many of them died?
As long as that means, “No work, no paycheck.
Hahahaha who am I kidding?”
So 14 members of her family now have immunity to the Rona and don’t have to sweat out the vaccination lottery?
I don’t think there was a test for Covid-19 last November. I don’t think it had even been noticed yet.
Good catch. No there was not. And fuck off Tulpa.
That’s not referring to November 2020?
That depends on how you phrase things. I know some people consider “this” November to be the November 2 months ago and “last” November to be a year and 2 months ago, but other people (like myself) use “last” November to be the November 2 months ago and “this” November to be the November coming up in 10 months.
How old was Grannie? Was she in a nursing home? What serious illnesses did she have? Inquiring minds and all that
I haven’t finished my first playthough, so no spoilers.
That game cost me a lot of money, since I bought CD Projekt stock on the strength of that showing.
“Roguelike” is the fastest way to lose my interest. Second fastest would be “Visual Novel”.
Not “walking simulator?”
More characters, so miliseconds slower.
FIF!
I don’t have any cans.
…uhh… moderately sized bottles?
How’d you guess my college nickname?
Any port in a storm, my friend. Bonus points if the bottles contain actual port.
Tall fucking cans, or GTFO!
“But damn if I don’t want this game, too.”
Meh.
Woudln’t this be an actual throwback music selection?
I’ll see your PacMan, and raise you a Popcorn.
Also- the metal version
Ummm, that isn’t a game song. Doom original game soundtrack is what we are looking for.
Yo, that shit totally rocks my fuckin’ nuts off.
But Im partial to the one from Doom 3.
*the version I had was for WinXP. Ah, good times.
Pop, Corn – was a bad dude.
Yes
lulz
I’ll take “topics I wouldn’t touch as a game designer no matter how much you paid me” for $1,000, Alex.
I’m not seeing the racism. Are they depicting all the Europeans as nothing but marauding butchers deliberately engaged in biological warfare?
Greedfall kind of touched on that, and I still enjoyed the game. Kind of an old school Bioware feel to it.
Greedfall is a surprisingly great game. Best effort by Spiders by far.
I remember playing this game in the 80’s where you had to explore the Americas looking for gold to steal. You had to keep the natives happy or kill or be killed by them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Cities_of_Gold_(video_game)
I remember that one. I had a lot of fun with some of those crappy 80s games.
Are you kidding? You could design that so that no matter how politically correct the colonizer is – they die. Fuck the locals – die. Be kind to the locals – die. Get back on the ship to foreswear your venture – die. Everything you do you evil fuck you die. Isn’t that the game they want?
They don’t play games, so fuck what they want. Make something your customers want to play.
I’ll take “topics I wouldn’t touch as a game designer no matter how much you paid me” for $1,000, Alex.
It depends on the genre. The historical strategy game genre does not shy away from such things. The Age of Empires series and Civilization series have both delved into the colonialism topic, allowing the player to play as colonizing factions (Civilization even has a spin-off called “Colonization” that’s all about playing as a colonizer). The Europa Universalis series also heavily features colonization as a game-play component.
Jackson said the vast majority of students whose grades are falling and being impacted dramatically by Covid-19 are Black and Latino students.
“If people don’t see that as an equity issue, I really don’t know what else to say,” Jackson said.
Torres remains frustrated at the school district’s insistence that teachers return.
“My first reaction was simply ‘how inhumane,'” she said. “I’m comfortable being at home. It’s safer at home. It may not be true for everyone. And we understand that, but the reality is it’s too soon. If it comes to it, I am prepared to strike.”
Fuck you. Go work at the recycling plant.
We have an economy almost entirely divorced from actual productivity with a few tethers to actually productive industry sustaining it. We need a crash and yesterday.
Seemed a lot easier rooting for the big crash when I was making shit money and had nothing to lose… now I’m making somewhat respectable income and I’m rooting for the inertia/intransigence of the economy… lot of ruin in a nation, I hope…
““[This would] lead to a very dangerous undermining of our civil liberties… and a targeting of almost half the country,” Gabbard concluded.”
Feature, not bug.
Go big or go home?
Well, they’re going big, as predicted. Hopefully it’s a measure of how big a bite out of their ass they’ll take over the next few years.
One of the Altar Boys is totes into video games. I absolutely don’t get them.
Maybe one of the reasons I don’t like them is because I suck at them. To the point that the Altar Boy would condescendingly encourage me if I tried to play some game with him. He’d use the same tone that I used when he was learning to dress himself and would put his pants on backwards, but I’d tell him what a good job he did.
I probably brought it onto myself. When the Altar Boy was very tiny we would play Wolfenstein together. I’d move the dude around and the AB was in charge of pushing the space bar to shoot the Nazis.
Perhaps you should start with a story-rich game. Maybe turn-based so that you can think out your moves instead of having to react on the fly.
Fire Emblem would probably be a good place to start, if you can deal with anime tropes. Otherwise, maybe Battletech.
Okay battletech is a bit short on story, but it is fun.
Nope. Don’t need games. I have way too much other stuff going on.
More power to people that like to play them, but they just aren’t for me. I’d rather go sit out on the ice and try to catch fish.
You could “borrow” Tundra’s Centipede and put in your ice shanty.
Euphemism spotted.
The only “shanties” around these parts are by fucking sissy ass Easterners who move here and think it is cute to organize an Art Shanty Project.
Fisherman have ice (or fish) houses. Maybe a ice shack. But fuck that shanty shit in the neck.
I got the term from Grumpy Old Men. No idea what the difference is.
I think shanty is a term people from out East use. I have never heard it used here at all until they started that Art Shanty crap.
When I hear someone call it a shanty around here, I am immediately suspicious about them.
Do they sing chanties in their shanties while drinking shandies?
Only pussies need a house to ice fish. Real men just need a snowmobile suit and a bucket just like my Grandma did.
Agreed. I used to ice fish in Wisconsin and felt claustrophobic in a house. Who the heck fishes from inside a house or RV? A foam pad on the ice and a sled for a wind block was all I wanted.
Yeah you should see some of the “shanties” they out out on the ice. Refrigerators and satellite TV.
Why would you need a fridge in an ice shack in the frozen arctic wastes?
You need to keep your drinks warm enough that they don’t freeze.
Srsly. Our fridge went out in the depths of winter, but no problem, just put it all on the back porch.
Because they also come with furnaces. You can be expected to reach outside to get a cold beer!
If you leave your drinks outdoors they will freeze. And most fish houses are pretty warm because they are heated.
I usually take off my jacket and fish in just a quarter zip polar fleece jacket. And I’m in a portable ice house with just canvas walls.
If you have a fancy Ice Castle type house it will be 70 inside. So you need the refrigerator.
And refrigerators will not add heat to the inside of them if they are on the outside. So keeping your beer inside a refrigerator won’t prevent them from freezing if you leave them outside and it is -20F.
https://icecastlefh.com/
Naturally I typed visual novel + harem + happy ending and this showed up in Google.
Review: NEKO-NIN exHeart
Visual Novels are not my bag.
Ever listen to the MechWarriors 2 soundtrack? Some decent stuff
I missed it. I started the series at MW4: Mercenaries.
I don’t tend to listen to the soundtrakcs sans games.
It’s a huge nostalgia trip for me. And, well, you said your piece
I get the power of nostalgia. If I sounded combative or derogatory, I did not intend that.
I choose to take your nonchalance as a personal affront. And it’s upsetting to be affronted. Prepare to be boarded
Did you ever get a chance to play the FASA-Official version of the game from the VR pods? Even then, they were fucking with the rulest to make a better video game.
No. I didn’t even know those pods existed until I saw a sarna.net news artile on them last year.
They were fun, and God bless ’em, they really did try to put in all the rules.
Controls: Throttle lever w/reverse thumb button, Joystick w/trigger and two thumb buttons (weapons only), pedals for steering
On the walls were LED readouts with the names of the various weapons, under each readout were three buttons which you could use to assign that weapon to any/all of the trigger or thumb buttons. If your heat level got too high, you could hit all three buttons simultaneously to dump the ammo.
There was a 10key pad on the center console that was only used to enter the override code for an engine overheat situation.
At the end of the game, you’d get a laser printout with all your stats. Supposedly, there was going to be a lifetime record of that tied to your pilot ID card, but I never saw that work.
You’d need a lot of time in that to just git gud.
I played in the pods and had downloaded the manual. First things to do were to put all the items into Advanced mode. I won one match by rerouting power through controls. Good times.
I remember the Infocom/Activision “Battletech: Crescent Hawks Inception” and “Battletech II: Crescent Hawks Revenge”.
I remember playing some of the Mechwarrior games from Activision. I saw the one Microsoft did and ignored the series from then on out.
I still have my FASA Battletech and Mechwarrior boxed sets/books/stuff. Haven’t used them in years.
The Activision games were teh shiznit.
I had a lot of fun playing that.
LA Noir soundtrack is fantastic, as is ChronoTrigger.
I have no idea what those two games do, but the music is fab.
Mojo is the perfect girlfriend. She comes in from out of the wing and asks whether you’re hungry. She’s so wonderful. Thank you, Moj.
???
I meant that as a parody
Whatever, Mojo approves of whatever I do, bow to me you untermensch
You make me smile.
Mojo will be briefed in case hostiles have penetrated farther into the Kharak system.
You make me smile too, Moj. I mean, not sexually, sexually, I am wholly unsatisfied. Regularly I guess I am unsatisfied by Moj.
See, I still think Homeworld has one of the best video game soundtracks. If I ever get back into gaming, getting the new remastered version will probably be one of the first games I get.
RC Dean, you will not be unsatisfied.
I am the holder of the secret fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow!
As I was listening to the Linx soundtrack, I felt like I was watching Charlie’s Angels. Maybe with a mix of Bond.
Meanwhile I am listening to a new vinyl just out by Langhorne Slim. Going to spin a few more times before giving it a grade.
Okay, I’m old so don’t laugh at me. Is visual novel different than graphic novel?
A graphic novel is a book-length comic book format.
A visual novel is quasi-interactive in a Choose your own adventure type format video game, though with variable degrees of impact.
The old King’s Quest games were visual novels since they only had one playthrough path, but the term wasn’t used back then.
Similarly, a number of “full motion video” games from the early/mid-90s would be called visual novels today, though at the time the term “interactive movie” was more common.
No, those are still FMV games, even new ones are being made these days (though far fewer)
If you have to read a lot, it’s a visual novel.
Altar boy?
You don’t like games. For fuck’s sake, play a real game like AC Valhalla.
LOL
Party of hate and fear
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said Friday that she’s moving her congressional office away from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s after the Georgia Republican and her staff “berated” her in a hallway.
“A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway. She targeted me & others on social media. I’m moving my office away from hers for my team’s safety,” tweeted Bush, a freshman House member.
Bush added in her tweet, “I’ve called for the expulsion of members who incited the insurrection from Day 1. Bring H.Res 25 to a vote.”
Greene, who is also a freshman member of the House, responded on Twitter by claiming Bush was lying about the encounter and that in fact, the Democratic congresswoman berated her. Greene added a video she claims is of the encounter showing her talking into her phone in selfie format while walking through a Capitol hallway, during which she condemns the “small group” of Trump supporters who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as well as Democrats for what she claims is their downplaying of violence during last year’s protests over police brutality and racial discrimination. Partway through, she is interrupted by someone shouting nearby, off camera, to which she responds after donning her mask.
“This is arguing with my Democrat, Democrat colleagues, supposed colleagues,” Greene then says after turning back to the camera. “That’s how it is. That’s how it is now in America.”
Bush provided a new statement Friday afternoon about what happened, saying, “On January 13, I was walking with my staff to vote. I was in the tunnel between the Cannon Office Building and the Capitol when Marjorie Taylor Greene came up from behind me, ranting loudly into her phone while not wearing a mask. This took place one day after multiple of my House colleagues announced they had tested positive for COVID-19 after being in a room with Taylor Greene during the white supremacist attack on the Capitol.”
This shit is not going to end well. It’s going to blow up in the Democrats’ faces in a big way, I think.
Their “mandate” is in the ditch, already. Unity, healing hardest hit.
Girl fight.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
I don’t agree with all of her positions, but I think she’s not that bad.
Uffda. Prosecutors in Minnesoda are mad at a judge for making their jobs harder (and the judge is trying to kill Granny).
What this boils down to is that the case against three of the officers is really weak. Especially the two n00bs who hadn’t even been on the force for a year. If they get separate trials, there is almost no way they will be convicted.
Given some of the information that came out of the autopsy/toxicology report, they might have a hard time convicting Chauvin.
My gut tells me that Chauvin will probably get a raw deal because no juror wants to start a new riot. Chauvin will probably get a reduced sentence on appeal.
The one other experienced officer might get some time – again because juror will be scared to acquit. The two rookies will walk.
It does tickle me though that Brother Keith is using the Rona as an excuse to put off the trial. I’m waiting for King Walz to decide that potential rioters should get priority for vaccination over old people.
“Well we know these people are going to be storming around rioting in close proximity to each other, so it only makes sense they get The Cure before anyone else.”
Doesn’t defense get the primary consideration in whether they are tried singularly or not? Right to a fair (and speedy – HA!) trial?
I don’t even know why we bother with “speedy trial” bit anymore. It’s flat out ignored, so why pretend the right is being observed?
Hero
Two Republicans from South Carolina have introduced a bill that would allow US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed during the insurrection three weeks ago, to lie in honor at the Capitol before his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
Rep. Ralph Norman and Sen. Tim Scott introduced the legislation Thursday. If passed, a plaque would be placed in the Capitol in memory of Sicknick and would allow the House Sergeant at Arms to pay for Sicknick’s funeral services.
The union representing rank-and-file officers “welcome(s) the proposal,” which would need to pass with unanimous consent. Sicknick died after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the hours-long fight for control of the Capitol building.
“Officer Sicknick died because he put the lives of Members of Congress and their staff before his own safety — he did his duty,” said Gus Papathanasiou, president of the union representing rank-and-file officers. “We should commemorate his life and service with respect and dignity.
At this point, I want to see the coroner’s report made public. This whole narrative reeks of bullshit.
The fact that we are no longer hearing about it makes me certain they lied about how the guy died, on purpose, because of narrative.
I FINALLY finished dealing with the mountain of returned mail that shows up after every quarter-end AND I finished the online cybersecurity training that was due today.
Just in time for month-end and another payroll on Monday.
::collapses face-down on disaster area of a desk::
Don’t do that, you’ll get drool on the payroll!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9202383/Steve-Mnuchins-wife-Louise-Linton-plays-wealthy-sex-obsessed-SERIAL-KILLER-new-movie.html
That Bureau of Engraving photo is still the best.
“Who cares where they died: ‘Callous’ Cuomo’s shocking defense for undercounting nursing home deaths by 4,000 – as Republicans accuse him of an ‘outrageous cover up'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9202677/Who-cares-Cuomo-says-counted-nursing-home-deaths-hospitals.html
“Cuomo announces NYC indoor dining will FINALLY be able to start again but not until Valentine’s Day and only at 25% capacity – as ‘heartbroken’ restaurants ask why they have to wait another two weeks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9202029/Cuomo-finally-reopens-NYC-indoor-dining-buried-lawsuits.html
CWAA
Gov, the phrase is “at this point, what difference does it make”.
“What difference at this point does it make?”
Something about refreshing before posting I dunno
“Who run the world? White House press briefing is dominated by women on Thursday with just one lone man joining 12 ladies – after four major networks named new female WH correspondents”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9201863/The-White-House-press-briefing-room-entirely-female-Thursday.html
He probably can’t get a word in edgewise.
Once they synch-up, 1 week a month is really gonna suck for him
Have they installed hen perches at the WH yet, like they do at Panera Bread? *cackle, cackle, cackle*!
“Bodycam footage shows MAGA rioters trampling over dying woman on the steps of the US Capitol to attack cops as her friend desperately screams for help”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9201695/Bodycam-footage-shows-MAGA-rioters-trampling-dying-woman-steps-Capitol.html
Still not convinced there weren’t infiltrators.
We will probably never know. This will be the JFK incident of our era. Not using a certian werd because don’t want to trigger Sir Valance.
To be honest the photo of the dead woman makes her look more Antifa than Trumpalo, but I won’t judge a book by the cover.
Well, you CAN judge some books by their cover. “JAWS” for instance.
“‘A lot of evidence still needs to be looked at’: Marjorie Taylor Greene uses town hall to double down on discredited theory that election WAS stolen – amid calls to expel her from Congress for denying Sandy Hook and Parkland school shooting
Greene has a long history of incendiary social media posts – including ones in which she expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories, which focus on the debunked belief that top Democrats are involved in child sex trafficking, Satan worship and cannibalism.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9201683/Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-uses-town-hall-district-double-conspiracy-theories.html
Why wouldn’t top Democrats be involved in child sex trafficking, Satan worship, and cannibalism?
If Hillary were caught worshipping Satan, her true Elder Gods might be displeased.
The idea sounds crazy, but then Marc Dutroux seemed to have a bit of help in the 90s in Belgium.
I’m sure all the fact checkers will approve Minneapolis City Council members telling their constituents that they defunded the police. The more clever of the Minneapolis residents might see a “nuance” in those statements though.
I’m also interested to see how the Council passes this and removes the requirement for a certain number of police officers without putting it up for a referendum like they are supposed to when changing the city charter.
It isn’t like they don’t have a track record of ignoring laws requiring referendums (Twins and Vikings stadiums).
Country style pork ribs in crock pot with balsamic salad dressing, over wild rice.
YUM.
I had thin sliced marinated boneless country beef ribs sautéd with onions over rice noodles and topped with a poached egg for my pre-nap meal today. I will be making that again.
You had me until the poached egg.
I’m not sure why stories about Minnesoda teachers budding in line to get The Cure pisses me off so much. Maybe because they work in one of the safer industries. Cashiers have a way higher likelihood of getting the Rona because they work with the general public. Teachers work with kids who have been proven over and over again to not be big time disease vectors.
Is it the fact that the teachers are overwhelmingly white and female, but you won’t hear any guff about privilege when they get first shot?
Or the fact that a lot of teachers are young and in no real danger?
I don’t know, but judging by the reactions of coworkers, the teachers may have won the battle but lost the war. I’m shocked at how many normies I know have turned on the teachers. You never hear them being called a hero anymore.
I just want to put in my quarter and start shooting aliens or eating dots for a few minutes. Modern video games want me to have a whole relationship with them.
^^^This.
I’m not even that sophisticated. Just give me my classic Jewel Quest where I can mindlessly match things for a while to decompress, and I’m good.
FruitNinja was great to play on the toilet. Or in the tub.
My favorite was Q-bert.
Cuphead… try Cuphead.
https://youtu.be/cBoPbdOaw7M
I missed out on “what are we reading” earlier so I’m going to play now.
I just started reading Voodoo Science at the recommendation of OMWC. A good read so far.
I also read a couple of fiction novels that I picked up at a second hand store. Since I don’t go to the library anymore I went to the second hand store and bought the oldest hardcover first editions I could find. They were from around 1990.
A man in Full by Tom Wolfe and Squeeze Play by Jane Leavy. The Jane Levy book is a fiction story very similar to her book about Mantle (which I already have). It took me awhile to get into it but I ended up enjoying it.
A Man in Full is one of my favorite books ever, and I believe it is OMWC’s favorite book.
I enjoyed that one as well but it did seem like it built up in great detail and then wrapped up in a hurry. A good read though.
Voodoo Science is excellent.
One of the big video game publisher is a major customer for the company my wife works for. Apparently the publisher is pushing some software on my wife’s company that will “monitor their social media”. I’m hoping that this is a huge misunderstanding like Chinese Whispers, and that it’s actually something related to GDPR because they ship stuff to customers in the EU. My wife is freaked out about it because she’s from Eastern Europe and has already lived through this crap, and her boss doesn’t understand what the software is.
Brennan. In a just world that asshole would be in prison.
The proper legal system is rarely just; the proper justice system is rarely legal.
Unmupterbladden wood. emasateemet..chippers… unitspecticaular lamp…posts.
Well, I almost got myself and another guy banned from a website for talking about plants. JFC, why does everyone have a big puritan stick up their ass these days?
Details?
Apparently, they have a policy against talking about drugs.
My new friend just just said something about getting his grow room ready soon.
I just made a joke about ‘What exactly are you growing’.
So he said ‘Well, you know it’s legal here’.
I love that site, but let me ask everyone ‘Where in the fuck can you not make a reference to weed today, without getting into trouble?’. The royal court of Joemala?
So I said, whoa, WTF, plants are verboten here?
So the mod/site owner says ‘we have a rule against posting about drugs’. ‘Yeesh, get the stick outa yer arse’. I didn’t say that. I said ‘Look, no one reads that shit. Lawyers write it, no one reads it, not even them, everyone knows that’. But it wasn’t my friend there, it was me, I made the reference.
Is this really 1619? I can go to work and make a reference to weed in an executive meeting and it’s illegal here, and no one will say shit!
But anyway, he said ‘Don’t worry, you’re OK, just don’t talk about drugs’.
Well, OK, your royal holiness prudefuck.
Your next public post there should read “I needed an aspirin and a beer after talking with the mod here.”
“Robinhood restricts crypto trading ‘due to extraordinary market conditions’”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/29/robinhood-restricts-crypto-trading-as-bitcoin-dogecoin-surge.html
Who want to start Nottingham Financial?
We are doing the GlibZoom happy hour thing tonight, right? I know Nephilium can’t host, but he found a sub, right?
I would host but I don’t have a legit account.
It needs to be someone with one of them high roller accounts
Dick/Balls has all that “overthrow-foreign-government” money and he won’t pony up, sad.
Right? Dick Slashballs holding out on us
The first time I did the trial account thing which is limited to 45 mins or something, they gave me a teaser of allowing it as long as we wanted. Which was probably up until Hype passed out in front of his computer but I don’t remember.
In my defense, one has to pass out somewhere.
One does not simply “pass out” somewhere.
I don’t know if anyone else stepped up. If need be, I may be able to kick it off and pass hosting duties. Not sure how much of a PITA that is with the phone interface though.
I can do this. I have paid account if that helps. My handle (at) glibs dot com if you need to send me any secret passcodes or anything.
Tonio to the rescue!!!
I gotta have my fix, maaaaaaan
Email sent with some details.
Do you have one of the corporate stooge accounts, T-o? Regular accounts have time limits
*EDITED*
Neph will kick off the GlibZoom at 20:00 EST.
Usual Glib Time, usual Glib Channel.
Be there, or B**2.
??????
Fuck the facemask mafia.
We are doomed as a species Vol. XLVIIOFFS
Fuck
“On Jan. 13 — after members tested positive for COVID-19 after being locked down with her on Jan. 6 — Marjorie Taylor Greene came up from behind me, loud and unmasked. I called out to her to put hers on.
Her staff yelled at me, “Stop inciting violence with Black Lives Matter.””
https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1355236960948912130
Well, I almost got myself and another guy banned from a website for talking about plants.
The FBI doesn’t like it when you out their guys.
I love Elon Musk – how long until Twitter shuts him down?
That is a good question. He gets on the fringe of things.
He will simply move to a StarLink platform where they can’t shut him down.
In one sense I hate him because he is a welfare qween.
In another sense I love him because he has coopted the system and is using it against the established players.
Yeah, I’m conflicted, man.
Exactly how I feel.
He is a modern day By-Tor.
$5 says that, no matter how many times her staff has explained it, the dopey cunte has no clue how a Hedge Fund operates.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
This is unacceptable.
We now need to know more about
@RobinhoodApp
’s decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit.
As a member of the Financial Services Cmte, I’d support a hearing if necessary.
She knows nothing about financial services, except for the ones that charge you an exorbitant fee to “wire” your overdue utility payment for next-day posting.
Lol
$10.00 (USD even!) says that her staff have no idea how a hedge fund operates, either.
By exploiting the working class. Duh.
I’m convinced congresscritters are assigned to committees with dice and whiskey.
Oh, I don’t think it’s that rational an allocation.
Almost certainly true.
That don’t make her evil for showing her stick in this case.
I’m no expert, but it sure as hell looks to me like RH is engaging in some activities that are ultra-fucky, and if they are, they need to be bitch slapped.
And no one bitch slaps the financial sector like a True Believer™️ progressive.
If they engaged in illegal activity, figurative necks should swing.
Seven months after they pledged to work toward “ending the Minneapolis Police Department,” a trio of City Council members have introduced a second proposal that would eliminate the department, though it would keep the police.
The plan calls for the city to create a new Department of Public Safety that includes police and “additional divisions … to provide for a comprehensive approach to public safety beyond law enforcement.”
Change the name and double it in size. Priceless.
+1 holistic
I think it depends on 1) how it’s structured, and 2) what departments are involved.
It’ll absolutely be a shitty mess bureaucratically and cost a fucking fortune.
But if changing police culture is important, putting them under the bureaucratic umbrella of “public safety” might have a profound effect, IF other departments generally thought of as public safety (fire department, ambulances, etc) were also a part of it, AND you don’t appoint cops to head this new Department of Public Safety.
I’m a huge believer in the idea that group culture stems from the top. The organization takes on the culture put forth by the head.* Even in inefficient ass government.
Put a fireman or paramedic or whatever bureaucratic yonk from Princeton as the head of this new department, and there is a great potential for cultural change in how cops operate.
*While stipulating it did not work that way with Trump.
Not sure I agree. We cycle through agency heads every few years. They usually only impact us by having some shitty product they forced us to use and will take years to get rid of. Middle management has more of an effect because they’re around longer. We got a change when the last round of retirements hit and some of the people stuck in bad ways left.
Perhaps the exact prescription I’m using isn’t the right one.
Ultimately what I’m suggesting is that it’d be fucking nice to get police departments out of their bubble. It’s all cops all the time. From top to bottom. It’s their own little world where everything operates in a massive feedback loop. That’s why they’re armies.
It would be nice to see that culture disrupted, even if the disruption is a bureaucratic pile of dog shit.
I think a lot of cops would prefer to get back into a city safety/preservation of the peace model. But it’s not really up to them. Take drunk driving, for example. Society, through the legislative process, has decided that DUI is a felony, its equivalent to spinning around firing a pistol with your eyes closed. It’s not something to be dealt with by driving a drunk home and issuing a summons.
Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkey
With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continuing to decline, officials are worrying about the next potential super spreader event: the Super Bowl.
Los Angeles County and California have managed to bend the curve after a deadly fall and winter surge in COVID-19, but the football championship is one of several concerns. Outdoor dining is expected to be allowed to resume at restaurants as early as Friday, the last of several stay-at-home restrictions to be lifted this week.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday urged people to keep up their guard and limit exposure to the virus.
“It’s about minimizing risk,” Garcetti said during an evening news briefing. Even as COVID-19 hospitalizations have fallen from a peak of 8,098 on Jan. 5 to 5,855 on Wednesday, the number is still far higher than it was in early October, when fewer than 700 COVID-19 patients were in the hospital.
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Said the mayor: “Progress is very fragile.”
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Garcetti urged people to continue wearing masks when not eating or drinking, and to exercise caution when meeting or gathering with people outside their household.
Especially for the Super Bowl. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs take the field in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 7, and officials fear big social gatherings such as the holiday events will push another winter surge.
“It will be tragic if the Super Bowl becomes a super-spreader of coronavirus,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said this week. She urged restaurants, in reopening outdoor dining areas, to not repeat the mistakes in the run-up to the World Series and NBA Finals, when crowds of packed fans crammed into outdoor dining patios are believed to be a major factor in the deadliest surge of the pandemic in L.A. County.
What would be especially tragic is if people just went out as did as they pleased. What if they, you know, had fun?
Royal Court of Joemala say ‘Fun very dangerous, make commie flu more, dangerous for our democracy, democracy very important! Gargeley Bargeley herpity derpity derptard!
Plus, people meeting in groups tend to form ideas. Can’t have that.
Royal Court of Jomala say ‘idea very bad for democracy, must not have idea, save democracy!’.
The fuck are you complaining about?
I love the shit out of being shamed for wanting to see my friends and family on days that I would normally celebrate with my friends and family. Especially since I haven’t seen mom and dad in a year.
Need rum recommendations on the quickness…neighbor is running to the liquor store.
Kraken, Sailor Jerry
Sailor Jerry has been a sponsor for Viva. How many brands have a song written about them?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=A9YjMiCdApw
Bring the Kraken. Oh, wait too soon.
Appleton is also very good.
Cuba Libres incoming!
If you’re just mixing it with Coke, anything will do.
On the other hand, Flor de Caña is nice for sippin’.
The Kraken is sufficiently cheap to put in Pepsi and not feel bad about it.
I put it in cookies and people loved them.
No, no, no, cuba libre is made with aged white rum.
?
“Need rum recommendations on the quickness…neighbor is running to the liquor store.”
Beer. Tall cans.
Gosling’s Old Rum.
Ron Zacapa
Finishing off The 1,000 and One Nights, or The Arabian Nights, as it is also known.
Some differences between Disney Aladdin and OG Aladdin:
-there are 2 genies: one in a ring and one in the lamp
-no limit on number of wishes; the 3 wishes/objects/tasks thing is a trope from European fairy tales
-story happens in China and Aladdin is Chinese, probably a Uighur given his Arabic name
-there are 2 evil wizards and Aladdin kills both – the first by drugging him with marijuana-laced wine
-the other one kills a holy woman and steals her identity; Aladdin kills this one with a dagger while pretending to get a blessing
There are no flying carpets, cute animal sidekicks, catchy songs, or cocaine-fueled ad-libbing.
Burton’s wife wrote a nerfed version of The Arabian Nights so it will sell better with parents looking for bedtime stories.
Wine and weed were pretty common in the Muslim world until that jerk Wahhab decided there was trouble in River City 300 years ago.
Welding update – I got a practice run at my first test, which is filling a groove with a flat bottom and angled sides. I almost got it done in 2 hours after using up about 30 sticks of 7018.
Ever make it to Phalombe?
https://www.maravipost.com/malawian-man-dies-of-excessive-orgasm/
No, but some of my Peace Corps pals took the train to Zambia to see Victoria Falls. I do not recommend riding on the Tazara railroad. Awful safety record.
There’s a speck of land in Lake Victoria called Migingo. It is famous for its brothels. A Whore Island, if you will. It also has a KFC.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/oct/24/life-on-the-tiny-island-of-migingo-in-pictures
I heard a story about a guy called Nusu Mungu, Half God, because of the hundred or so kids he had sired. In some places, fathering lots of kids is a sign of status.
Fun facts:
The Swahili word for a woman with an enormous rear end is wowowo (sounds like woe-WOE-woe).
If a man flirts with a woman and she doesn’t like it, she will say something like “you don’t look strong enough to carry a bucket of water on your head”. Carry water is women’s work over there.
Every Peace Corps volunteer who has gotten HIV had sex with a local. We were discouraged from doing that, though some did anyway. I didn’t.
“We were discouraged from doing that, though some did anyway. I didn’t.”
Whatever helps you sleep at night, Nusu Mungu! ;^)
Yep, I would definitely eat at a KFC in a place like that. I sure would. *gags a little*
unlimited wishes is a bit OP tho, so they had to nerf it in the reboot.
Also there were two Sinbads: Sinbad the Sailor and Sinbad the Porter. The former related his tales to the latter and provided him with a bag of gold coins after each story.
And the outrage machine clanks and whirs into high gear
Newly elected gun-toting Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has come under fierce criticism for mocking Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, weeks before the tragedy’s third anniversary.
In a tweet on Thursday, Hogg called on Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to take a stand against Boebert and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) whom he deemed the “real threats” to the U.S. Capitol.
Boebert, 34, replied to the 20-year-old activist in a tweet of her own: “David, please. We all saw how tough you were when questioned face to face. Give your keyboard a rest, child.”
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Republican Olivia Troye, once homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, called on Boebert to resign.
“This is quite possibly one of the most deplorable moments on social media by a sitting elected official. A gun toting, insurrectionist enabler, talking down to a school shooting survivor,” she wrote.
“So a sitting Congresswoman cyber bullies the survivor of a high school gun massacre,” tweeted Sunny Hostin, co-host on ABC’s The View. “This is the Republican Party today.”
VoteVets, a veteran-focused PAC, tweeted: “Lauren, please. We all saw how seditious you were when there was an election decided by the people. Give your traitorous ways a rest, Congresswoman who should be expelled.”
OMG you insensitive seditionist.
An insensitive gun-toting deplorable traitorous insurrectionist seditionist.
Cyberbullies a twenty year old firebrand?
Is that even possible?
He should be immune from criticism because he has the right political views.
*reads Troye’s twatter*
She may as well be a Democrat. She raves on and on about “our democracy.”
And this twat worked for Pence?
“A gun toting, insurrectionist enabler…”
I heard her on local radio a couple of weeks ago explicitly denouncing those who entered the Capitol.
“Democratic Florida Rep. Omari Hardy responded: “Bullying children who watched their classmates die. Classy.””
Wasn’t he in another building when the shooting went down? I’ve been adjacent to an active-shooter situation and it can be unnerving, but…
Yeah. Hogg’s as much a “survivor” of the shooting as I am, and I was in the Lower Rainland™ when that went down.
I honestly don’t know what to think of Boebert but holy shit she has pissed off all the right people in her short time in Congress.
Hey, wait a minute…I am a school shooting survivor! Does that make me immune to criticism?
Shit, man. You survived 9/11, that guy driving the truck through the crowd in Nice, Fukushima, and the third Matrix movie. You’re a hero!
Welding update – I got a practice run at my first test, which is filling a groove with a flat bottom and angled sides. I almost got it done in 2 hours after using up about 30 sticks of 7018.
How big is this “groove”? How thick is the material? Is it supposed to replicate a joint with the edge of the material cut back at an angle for better penetration and fill?
I’m strangely aroused right now.
Penetration and fil………..never mind.
???
Groove is about 2 inches deep and 9 inches long. Welding sticks are 3/32 inches diameter and about 15 inches long. Not sure about the rationale for it. Teacher said it was a fillet weld.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillet_weld
Hades is Polygon’s 2020 game of the year, with good reason: It’s fresh take on the roguelike genre has turned roguelike haters into roguelike lovers.
I tapped out of the video pretty quickly. Rogue-like games are all ASCII.
I finally got around to finishing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla this week. And while I had a great time with the game I also parted ways on a pretty sour note, because like its predecessor, it is just too damn long.
I said the same thing about “Crusaders of the Dark Savant”. And the writing in “Dark Savant” fell apart at the end.
Is the Josh Shapiro who tweet is included in that Bored Panda article about Gamestop the current PA AG?
JRPG like fluff.
Did you guys fix the refresh problem with the anchor tag? Well, god bless your hearts, just before I went stark raving mad.
Did they? I’ll have to test.
Testing…
Nope, I got popped back to the top.
Weird, seemed to be working. I guess I was being overoptimistic.
another try
Confirmed, It’s working now.
Not over hwere – what’s your setup?
Windows 10 and Chrome.
Chome? No thanks, I’ll cope with the bug.
And?
BTW, I love the film Wolf of Wall Street. One of my favorites off all time. REAL toxic masculinity, the real deal.
Three more, roughly 3lb slabs of pork belly curing. Can’t have enough bacon in my house.
Next is I have to breakdown my whole packer brisket. Probably gonna corn the flat and make pastrami out of it.
I like pastrami, but it doesn’t like me. How is it that I can eat corned beef with no trouble but pastrami gives me a horrible bellyache?
That is odd. Maybe the black pepper?
Nice. Reminds me I need to make a belly run to Sams soon. What price did you get the packer? Whole briskets are rarely affordable around these parts?
The one thawing was … 3.99/lb @ 12 lbs and is choice from Albertsons. The one I just bought and in the freezer was …2.99/lb @ 11lbs and is prime from Costo.
test
The chair is against the wall
Nick has long chin whiskers.
The alligator comes out at night.
29 – 12 – 16 – 05
No shit, Shirley?
Some House lawmakers are privately refusing to work with each other. Others are afraid to be in the same room. Two members almost got into a fist fight on the floor. And the speaker of the House is warning that “the enemy is within.”
Forget Joe Biden’s calls for unity. Members of Congress couldn’t be further divided.
Just weeks into the 117th Congress, the bedrock of relationships hasn’t been on such shaky ground in more than a generation, with a sense of deep distrust and betrayal that lawmakers worry will linger for years. And those strains could carry long-term effects on an institution where relationships — and reputations — matter more than almost anything else.
“This is a real tension,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who was among the roughly two dozen Democrats barricaded into the chamber during the Jan. 6 riots and later contracted coronavirus after spending hours in a safe room with Republicans who refused to wear masks. “I don’t know if that’s repairable. It is certainly a massive chasm that exists right now between a large majority of the Republican caucus and all of us Democrats across the ideological spectrum.”
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But many Democrats say they remain livid at those 139 Republicans, and say it’s tougher to move on amid ongoing security threats that continue to target members. Party leaders have also stepped up security inside the chamber itself — widely seen as an acknowledgment that some GOP members could still be threats.
Those tensions didn’t just materialize on Jan. 6. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said she’d been expecting some kind of flare-up after observing the rise of the far right for years. On the day of the vote, Lee — who had to escape the Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001 in high heels — decided to wear tennis shoes, just in case.
Surprise. After years of accusing your colleagues of being evil monsters, they’re sick of putting up with it. And now you want a divorce.
Guess what, honey. Eventually, after you accuse him, over and over and over, of beating you and tormenting you and making your life a living hell, he might just decide there’s not much reason to NOT push you down the stairs or smother you with a pillow as you sleep.
Or maybe it’s all in your empty little head.
^^^^
Barricaded in a chamber during the riots. Got the cootie bugs only after having to be around republicans. Wearing tennis shoes in case she has to run.
Uh huh. Histrionics much?
They desperately want this to come to blows so they can have their glorious revolution ending in a one party state.
Who?
I thought that was in a state legislature somewhere, not in DC. Maybe it happened there as well. If it’s what I’m thinking of, the clickbaity headlines oversold it somewhat. I can’t seem to find it right now but think baseball “fights”.
Relevant
Almost….that means two members did not get into a fist fight on the floor.
I gotta make dinner & put on my human face. See some of y’all on the Zoomz.
Maybe Tom T will fall asleep early tonight…
More likely, I will. : /
Hope to see you!!
*EDITED*
Nephilium will kick off the GlibZoom at 20:00 EST, usual Glib Channel.
Be there, or B**2.
I might join for a little bit. I have a few things that need to get wrapped up at work and around the house.
What if Zoom is for feeding the facial recognition databases, and improving the algorithms for surveillance systems like those used in China?
*Doesn’t even bother reaching for foil hat any more*
That is why I sign in under your name.
What if?
*chuckles*
Ahem, that is 1800 TBTZ (The Best Time Zone)
Thanks Tonio!
Please note that tonight’s GlibZoom will be at the usual GlibTime and GlibChannel.
I jumped the gun, but Neph had it all under control.
I didn’t see you there. How ARE you? The new haircut is really cute.
Someone trip over you in a parking lot?
https://twitter.com/drdavidsamadi/status/1355174116542849027
No.
What they don’t tell you is that you’re gonna end up on the internet with pixelated genitals.
pixellation is a terrible STD, the public humuliation is the worst symptom.
It is impossible for me to believe that everything about this cootie bullshit is not punitive. Couple the sadistic nature of totalitarians with the fact that none of it makes any sense and it is pretty clear.
It’s scam for the dems to seize power. Trump was one of the few to be reluctant to go all in on it, and he was right. It was the momentum of the whole world that prompted him to cave on it. The basics are just crazy. 99.x rate of recovery for every who gets it and is less than 70 years old. We knew that back in February. Amazing how many gifts the ‘rona have given the lefties all over the world and here in particular.
I seriously hope that this testing procedure becomes ubiquitous. The brainwashed sheep should be raped on a daily basis. I wear a mask to be polite, fuck you, here’s your anal swab.
Just bought 10,000 shares of American Motors Corporation.?????. Those hedge funds are mine.
Congratulations, you are now the sole owner of the American Motors Corporation of Usa, Japan.