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Oh no, Bartimaeus got sucked into the Black Lodge and now there is a doppelganger.

I like Italian food as much as the next guy but the way they treat certain things as immutable (NO CREAM!!!!.....except when making vodka sauce) is ridiculous. For the most part I subscribe to the "who gives a ****ing ****" when it comes to food and I have much better things to do than get big mad about making leftovers into a pasta sauce like leftovers into rice, soup, etc. hasn't been a part of cooking forever. Anyways I had a lot of coffee and a protein shake as the KP cutting project has begun.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1184370/view/6564653885911203913 Looks like it's going to bring a spellbook (merge?) and have a few abilities that focus on breath, I'm guessing it's variable depending on which path taken. No idea if it will be Shifter compatible, imo would be pretty glaring that the mythic path built around shape-shifting doesn't work well with the class built around it. "Improvement and Rebalance"

I saw The Substance several weeks ago and have a review in the pipeline, but I want to watch it again before I pull the trigger. The TL;DR is that it's probably my third favorite movie of 2024, behind The People's Joker and I Saw The TV Glow. In the meantime I saw Rebel Ridge which was just ok. Kinda lame action **** and would have been better if the protagonist.....you know what, I'm not gonna say it because out of context it could get me in legal trouble. There was also many ****ty horror movies because I've been spending time with my mom and she consumes that **** constantly. Nothing in particular sticks out. I did rewatch Phantom of the Paradise (1974) because of the Berserk manga and yeah, it's ****ing great. An incredible blend of Faust and Phantom of the Opera with the decadent 70's rock in the background. Bill Finley is capable of doing more with one eye than some actors can with their whole body and by God De Palma's direction ****ing kills it. This will probably work its way into my top movies of all time.

All I remember is that I thought it looked like **** and being surprised that it dropped off the cultural zeitgeist almost completely within a month after release. It's like a massive void, there's no memes about arrows to the knee or talk of massive mods that make it into a somewhat playable game, there's just nothing there.

No, but SPACE RIPPER STINGY EYES was used.

Satanyahu is right on track then. Romeaboos are just irl Ceasar's Legion. Kinda funny that New Vegas is able to map this well onto irl politics, I guess we can thank a........balanced vision for that.

Well I can certainly go for another 10 episodes of Dandadan after that. Speaking of 10 episodes........I tried Akuma Kun and meh, not really my thing. Who would have thot demons could be this ****ing boring.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christian monarchy, so the guy's tats are signaling something a bit different than support for Israel, which is bad enough. Let's just say your first read on it isn't entirely incorrect.

Oh I have seen that. I forgot it tho. It's very bad but it didn't actively make me as angry as Kengan Ashura.

But you'll miss the Catholic special forces carpet bombing London and Nazi-Vampire-Science-Hybrids! I sincerely don't know why you would try this show in the first place though. Perhaps the only thing more anti-Bartimaeus (besides maybe The Elder Sister-like One, google for 30d6 psychic damage) is going to be Kengan Ashura, which I think is among the worst things I've ever seen. Did you lose a bet?

Trump is going to lose the house by appointing all reps lmao. I mean it's going to be a cluster**** of objective evil and dip**** incompetence.

Has there been an update on that? Last I heard they're not only beefing up the content but rebalancing* the path powers. Maybe it'll be more Shifter compatible. *

I usually play multiple characters in a game because I like to see multiple paths and see what different playstyles are like. Also have a bad case of rerollitis. Don't really identify with them or try a self-insert, because a 30-something weirdo with esoteric beliefs and a(n unhealthy) fixation on Lynchian media is probably not going to be possible. Except in BG3, in which both that and @Bartimaeus's true self are covered by The Dark Urge.

I hate to **** on your friends, but that's giving Bioware too much credit. To say nothing of how the writers room has had complete turnover a fea times now.

It's pretty much nothing. Oooh an ancient gang of ring-wraith knockoffs have been behind it ALL ALONG.

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The usa still hasn't recovered from the disaster of the Reagan years. In many ways I think it's more likely that the us ceases to exist as the us before it gets fixed. Somewhat related, still counting votes but my dumb-dumb brain can't see how 15 million votes are out there to hit similar numbers as 2020. California, which yes I know is big, has about 40% left to be counted, but quick and dirty looking at what's there is maybe 7 million left. A few others have 15 to 25% left to count, but most of the country is sitting at 99%. I think my gut instinct of that Trump had a similar amount of votes as last time (acounting for population growth) but the dem voters just didn't show up is right. Also interesting how Harris lost every swing state while the dem senators held on, with the possible exception of Pennsylvania.

Yes and no. I think Trump's only real belief is that Trump should be in charge (even if only nominally) and should be the center of attention. He's clearly in this to get to do the pomp and circus of politics and not because he actually cares about the border or teh gheystrans or anything else. There is nothing this man would not flip on and he is more than happy to say that everything is incredible, beautiful, never been anything like it, best in the world without actually doing anything. The problem is that Trump isn't alone, he's going to get the worst people to run things for him while he plays. Those folks are either going to not be able to actually do anything out of incompetence (see how Obamacare survived a Trump trifecta) or are going to do some seriously evil **** (like mass deportations or banning unions), likely a combination of both. It's definitely going to be a bad time for everyone who isn't a rich **** and it's certainly true that the Project 2025 people or Libertarian-Fascists (like Peter Theil) are very much not kidding when they tell you what they want. I also think that when certain people downplay stuff like Project 2025 but are also absolutely convinced that BLM/Antifa supersoliders are spreading DEI to cuck the white manspread division should just be considered to broadly agree with stuff like Project 2025/Agenda 47 or understand that it isn't going to really effect them.

Going to read in on my lunch break. Edit: This Will Do.

I mean more than likely that's what they're going to try, I do not think it's going to work.

So as things roll on and the dust settles some thots: 1) Total voting looks on track to be more than 10 million less than four years ago. In some ways this feels very much like 2016 again, with two deeply unpopular candidates running and there not being much enthusiasm for the dems while gop is animated with cult adoration. Overall I think a read of this as a broad rejection of the Biden administration (and the continuation of it via Harris) is probably more correct than people generally becoming maga. 2) The momentum from Kamala replacing Biden completely evaporated in the face of the laughable centrism of dem strategists. Dems managed to alienate potential voters with wishy washy nothings on pretty much everything while all outreach to Republicans yielded jack ****. Again I think the dem strategy of taking progressive and minority voters for granted while they chase conservatives is a huge mistake and by God are we seeing that unfold. 3) Things are either going to go to **** or it's going to be a situation where a Trump bi/trifecta doesn't do anything because they only have concepts of a plan, if that. Maybe 50/50 split. Either way we'll probably see Dems really win in 2026. Assuming they don't **** it up by uncritically supporting a genocide or trying to beat Trump on the border. 4) While I don't think Trump goes away with Trump (assuming he does go away), I do think the reorientation of the GOP as a cult dedicated to him is going to collapse because he doesn't have a successor and doesn't care to appoint one. Will be a nasty fight to claim his mantle and even so won't really guarantee Trump level support, in many ways Trump is lightning in a bottle that probably won't be replicated by losers like Rhonda Sanctimonious or Rammyswammy or Lyin Ted.

I think the most likely thing to happen if Trump wins, which I've said I've felt is likely to happen for months now, is that he does indeed go back to tweeting and doing rallies because that's just who he is. At the end of the day Trump doesn't believe in anything but Trump having a fun time, the worst things the Trump White House did the first go around were things that Republican think tanks had been cooking for decades in their dark money hell pits rather than something Trump himself thought of. The problem is that he's going to let an even more noxious gang of ghouls run things for him while he parades around for the next four years, and you can bet your ass they're going to **** things up.

You probably won't. I miss all of my dogs quite a lot, though as time goes on it feels less painful. Just do what you need to do man.