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Thanks everyone. It's been a hard week and I've been too tired to really focus on anything after having to deal with grief, doing all the work to set up the cremation and viewing, and helping to rearrange the house after all of the hospice care machinery was taken back. My dad already did some of the planning because he was adamant about not having a funeral and wanted to be cremated, but there's always calls to make and hoops to jump through to make it actually happen. At this point I'm not feeling as sad but just very tired. A guy broke a chair at the viewing, it's sturdy enough that you'd really have to work at it to break it, so I have no idea how he would have done that. My dad would have thought it was funny. Excuse you, I have written a several essays on chainmail bikinis. One of them is very 100000 words.

My father passed away today around 630. I've had to make all the calls letting folks know he's gone and am now finally trying to process things. Back in March, my dad was given at best a few weeks to live. He stuck it out for over four months and fought like hell to stay around for his family, even on death's door cared more about my mom and I than he did himself. I'm gonna miss him but seeing how hard it was for him near the end.....I don't know, it was a tough way to live and I think he would be relieved to not have struggle anymore. Regardless it's going to be a **** week.

You can also say the Republicans are also very pro-immigrant/immigration, because both candidates on their presidential ticket married immigrants. We can do this all day, where the personal identities and actions of individuals are given equal, or greater, weight to the policies advocated/enacted by the party/movement.....which is really dumb. No one is really fooled by it and it only seems to be entertained by the galaxy brained "centrists" desperate for some deniability for going along with repulsive ****. Though I guess going by that line of logic we can conclude that BLM/CRT/Wokeness can't be "anti-white", because of Shaun King. So I assume we'll be hearing nothing more about that from here on out.

Let's not get too attached to the bit here, no one likes Ben Shapiro. I'd like to say I haven't heard of Dave Rubin in a long time, but currently he's trying to launch a Twitter orginal series that's just ripping off a 20-year old Simpsons joke with very bad animation.

Surly Republicans can't be anti-gay because they crash Grindr and Lindsay Graham or George Santos got elected ?

The Boys s4 finale: the writers are two years too late There's a lot going on here, but the short of it is that it's very much final season bait in the way that s3 of The Strain was. There's a new status quo, it's clearly the end of the line, etc etc. It's not really satire again because the big shock of martial law is something that's already in vogue with the people The Boys is attempting to parody. Overall it's floated by the cast, who with the glaring exception of Tomer Capone's Frenchie are fun to watch. But there's just so many times Carl Urban can do his sinister half-smile or Starr can do the Homelander eye twitch without it feeling like....edging. A lot of these seasons feels like filler, almost like half a season or one of those gap movies that too many animes do.

I've looked into it some more and even without the mod it's a potentially very powerful class. To me the issues are: 1) For the class identity I'd assume it would lean more heavily towards Illusion and Enchantment rather than blasting spells. It's not a deal breaker per se because WotR is already full of flavor/gameplay discrepancies, but for the class fantasy breaking minds seems more in line than giga lightning fireballs with 2 for the price of one spells. 2) It's not really an Arcanist but a homebrew class, complete with specific archetypes via that subclass feature selection. Again not a problem per se, but it feels like the Arcanist got shafted in terms of archetypes and I honestly like the Arcanist as a class. 3) The vanilla class design of not having many buffs and getting no bonus spells is not great. Fixed by the mod, but not a good choice. If we're talking about mods.....Twin Spell metamagic can do the double spell for the price of a +4 spell level.

I'll do it: The whirlwind is being reaped. The surprising thing isn't that a presidential candidate was shot at, it's that it took this long to happen (again). In the US you can get a gun more easily than you can pay your rent or get treatment for mental health, there are more guns here than people, you can get shot doing any number of normal activities, and violence (particularly gun violence) is atypically high for a so-called "first world country". The anomaly has been gun violence against politicians and officials, which is shockingly rare given all the above. Guess who thinks this is acceptable? The whole dip**** reactionary political apparatus. They, the courts, the activists, the donors, the politicians made this goddamn situation and as long as it stayed out of their country clubs, bizness meetings, and fundraisers they did not give a **** no matter how many men, women, and children got killed because someone who shouldn't have been able to get a gun was able to. It's finally come home for them, maybe now that happened to their golden calf they'll give two ****s. More likely they come up with some deranged conspiracy theory about the deep state or some other such nonsense to explain away their culpability.

I keep going back to how much dems are screaming that this election will decide the fate of democracy to try and convince people to vote but are not operating strategically like it is. At the very least you'd expect them to put forward someone more liked than Joe, which strangely enough Kamala is, let alone flex some of that new presidential immunity granted by the supreme council of elders....but they're just barreling forward with a strategy that looks likely to fail.....because going against Biden now could hurt their future political career. Guess the ivy league can't teach sense. Also like you said, the seeds of this were planted under Obama. If his administration had stuck to their guns to force replacement for Scalia instead of giving up and if they had convinced RBG to step down then we wouldn't be dealing with this right now. The sad fact is that Republicans are simply better at navigating the contours of US politics (even if they are also bad at actually running things) and operate to achieve total victory while Democrats are still treating politics like a gentleman's game where everyone operates in good faith. It's ****ing maddening to watch.

I think the GOP collapse did happen in 2012 and produced Trump, as the system loyal more polite brand of conservatism fell in favor of Trump's more bombastic and pugilisitic reactionary politics became the new order. It isn't favored popularly, but it is embraced enough internally by conservatives (from donors to activists to the base) that this is going to be the way for the time being. I don't disagree, the US clearly isn't working. But sadly I don't think it's confined to here, reactionaries seem to be ascendant everywhere. Maybe we can stave them off for now by everyone getting together to stop them, like in France recently, but I'm not sure if that works as a long-term strategy.

The game now takes 10 minutes to load with all the mods I'm running. The mod that broke it? Sawtooth Sabres can be selected with Finesse Training. .....there's a Deceiver specific mod, I'm kind of interested in it but I want to run it as Int based....also I like metamagic.

I think most people are unaware of how campaign finance law works, I certainly am. But I also think that running Biden is going to lose the election to Trump and that people who want Biden out of the race are not wrong to do so, whether from concerns about him being able to beat Trump again or displeasure with Biden over Palestine, regardless of the practically of doing so. Aside from Bruce and a handful of brainwormed yuros I think most people on this forum recognize that Trump is a horrible fascist who shouldn't be let back into power. But if we're in a position where the Democrats have to win every presidential election from here on out and prevent a super majority of Republicans from getting into congress while also curtailing the unelected council of elders legislating insane **** or else democracy is gone.....then I think we've already lost it. The fact is that Trump isn't going away even if he dies, the Republican party is just going to be like this from here on out.

To be a radical centrist for once, I firmly believe that both Biden and Trump have dementia and should be retired instead of running for President. There's a sick irony in that the only generation that will be able to retire just won't.

48 hours later and over a million power outages in the Houston area, and still the most accurate way to track them is through the Whataburger app because Centerpoint gave up on even having a map. You have to love Texas. Maybe I am, maybe I'm not.

I'd appreciate that, I've been m+kb or switch (only for nintendo specific games, which are imo are generally easier) for a decade now and haven't really played with other controllers.

Well they are loud and proud about being Christian Nationalists so that certainly fits. If anything their objection to Nazi comparisons would be that the Nazis, who pioneered privatization and were admired by arch-bourgeoisie Henry Ford, were not nearly pro-business enough.

I guess my brain forcing me to sleep was a defense mechanism.

So I'm looking at sales and right now I'm thinking I'll finally given Elden Ring a go. But will I need a gamepad? @Bartimaeus @majestic I think both of yall are into souls games, so i'd appreciate anything you could help me with here. Also looking at Skald: Against the Black Priory and open to any other recs.

Right now we're in the eye of the storm so it's calm and it looks like the rebound isn't going to be too much. All things considered the very intense thunderstorm we had two months ago did more damage to the area I'm in. There's still a chance of flooding so I'm hunkering down for the day. Good opportunity to watch a movie or finally start my Lich run.

I'm getting hit by a hurricane right now. Guess that's one way to get Monday off.

I would prefer not to. The intro sequence is awful, and after that it segues into one of the ****tiest ambulance scenes that has been inflicted on me. Beyond that half the time it feels like the cast is doing line reads to memorize the part instead of acting, it's like the shockingly bad Florence Pugh line in Dune 2 but in almost every goddamn scene of this movie. Then in the middle of the action, where the future Spider-Women are being hunted by evil bizness Spider-Man, the titular character drops the girls off with Uncle Ben (yes that one) and ****s off to Peru for a week to discover her past and does some vision quest stuff....because evil bizness Spider-Man who has a hacker lady using 2003 NSA tech and facial recognition on every camera in NYC can't figure out the lady preventing him from killing some teenagers (and whose mom he killed btw) has a friend who has a sister? Come the **** on Sony. I figure I fell asleep during the most action heavy sequences, and I've played enough 10 year old videogames to have an idea how it looked. Anyways I woke up for the end, where the main character is now blind and paraplegic but is also the legal guardian/mother figure to three teenagers who will grow up to put on gaudy Spider-themed costumes and fight random scrubs. This is what happens when I put on a terrible movie to knock me out when I'm trying to sleep, so I guess I can credit it for helping with that.

I'll see you and raise you five Madame Web (2024) I know that on forums like these we often engage in hyperbole and exaggeration, but I can sincerely say that this is easily one of the worst films I have ever seen, if not the worst. On every single level this movie just ****ing sucks, from the bad cgi to wooden acting to a plot so damn stupid even by the stupid standards of superhero movies....it's just ****ing awful. Luckily I fell asleep for a quarter of it.

It's funny that Trump will probably win because the dems couldn't convince Biden to go home and their uncritical support for Israel's slaughter of Gaza alienates key blocs they need to win. They have been screaming that this is the most important election in the history of elections but can't make a single tactical move to try to help their electoral chances, let alone attempt to curtail Trump and Leonard Leo's goons in any other way. Honestly it's just pathetic to watch a party this bad at real politics being the only electoral bulwark against the most abominable political ghouls still breathing. I dunno, maybe an economic crash happens with Trump/Project 2025 and Marx or Bakunin gets proved right. There's probably more of a chance of thay happening than the dems getting their **** together.

Now that's a pleasant surprise.