Raithe

BBC - EncroChat: Selfie lands cocaine dealer in jail

He takes over by creating a new crime syndicate of... himself and Fennec? At no point does he actually spend any time preparing henchmen in advance, and even when he does, it's basically three people and a gang of late teens, early tween Mods. He knows the enemy are likely to try manipulating the other crime families, but the moment they all say "of course, we'll stay neutral, let you do all the fighting, and enjoy the fine life after the war" and doesn't do any checking of what they're actually up to from that point on. Apart from walking around rather than being carried on a litter, he does nothing to actually gain the hearts and minds of the locals beyond talking about it. He applies none of his hunter / killer skills for pretty much any gunfight he gets in. In fact, he tends to come across as fairly unskilled with guns but only great with a gaffi stick in melee. Or he mostly uses a blaster to hit people with rather than shoot them. He never tends to use the environment, just walk out into the open. I mean, to be fair, Star Wars in general is fairly terrible with showing small unit tactics or even large group tactics in any meaningful way. They tend towards the "mass everybody together and run towards the enemy while wildly shooting". But still, when we've had decades of "the deadly bounty hunter" in comics, novels, and other media where he usually manages to outsmart the enemy as much as outfight them.. This pretty much played into the guy who gets randomly hit in the rocket pack, bounced off the hull of a vessel and dropped into a sarlaac pit with a concussion.

Did the binge of the Book of Boba Fett. Some interesting elements, some nice expansion. But my god, for the history of Boba Fett the lack of tactical awareness and actual underworld street smarts they have him showing is kind of shocking.

Well I've managed to get offered a new job role, so that's kicking off in a couple of weeks. Surprisingly blah and neutral over it, there's nothing exciting about the work from what I can tell but it's work, it'll be providing income, and that lets me spend on hobby projects and bills and the like. Finished sewing up my Mando flight suit, sorting out various materials to make the flak vest before I return to the design of the armour. I want some reference shots of myself in flight suit and flak vest that I can set as background in Blender to make sure I'm getting sizing and proportions right. Once I start being fully happy with the armour design, I can check it with the QA team at the MandalorianMercs that it's all acceptable before starting to 3d print it. Dad's batch of radiotherapy had it's last day today. Now it's a little bit of wait, then scans and see what the doctor's say and whether surgery or a return to the start of chemo and more radiotherapy. And my sister apparently picked up Covid, so she's not coming around for a few weeks now.

When you realise what he has on the wall...

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-disables-macros-default-security-phishing/?

https://rodserling.com/rod-serling-rips-loyalty-oaths-the-vietnam-war-and-social-inequity/ From back in 1968. For the opening excerpt:

Not hugely behind the scenes, but kind of quirky interesting. And I'm kind of amused by their definition of "the top of Snowden"...

Gameboy peripheral PediSedate was designed for dentists and dosed kids with nitrous oxide as they played games. Camera, printer, sewing machine, now a bloody anaesthetic adminstrator…was there anything the Game Boy didn’t have an accessory for?