Agiel

To borrow a phrase from Tolkien: Good need not defeat stupidity, it need only to resist stupidity. And stupidity will inevitably destroy itself. Also, an observation: Given that much of Musk's current net worth comes as a result of significant government largesse, be it from DoD contracts for SpaceX and subsidies for Tesla and that he's apparently pushing for a surrender in a war the US isn't even fighting in does that make him a Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey?

Can't help but think about how this is in sharp relief to one of my favourite Presidential addresses to one of the service academies: Postscript. For those who look upon the Kennedy administration as one of isolation and dovishness I find it hard to reconcile with these remarks earlier in the speech:

<<Where Winds Meet>>, of which there was a closed beta last weekend. It's in open beta in China, though signing up for it requires a Chinese phone number and best played with knowledge of Mandarin (I come from a canto family ).

Until worthwhile mods start coming out (I give it at least a year) I'm sticking with the Jianghu over Cyrodil:

After 10th Edition 40K kind of falling flat for me I've been having some of the most fun playing tabletop wargames with <<The Old World>> of late. Though it might help that I finally have the confidence to field a big centerpiece model like the Forest Dragon now that the elf with garbage Toughness riding it can't just be cut off or blasted by a cannonball just like that: And my army on parade:

Since Trump and his ilk claim to have such admiration for those Nordics maybe he should ask Norwegian men about the <<Plakaten på veggen>> and what they think should be done when they have "no cards to play" (relevant section is "8. Grunnsetninger for forsvarskampen"):

I guess it was a sign from up high that I decided to re-watch <<Kite>> last month:

I guess that about seals this election.

At the minimum we can say these Olympics gave us this moment:

As more info on the shooter comes out I'm again reminded of this exchange in the Broadway musical <<Assassins>> when the ghosts of American political assassins past and future convince Oswald to assassinate Kennedy:

Having played the North American beta last month I can confirm that it pulled out all the stops for Wuxia tropes (of course a heaping helping of Qinggong, but also martial arts manuals, Qi cultivation, and references to the Jianghu), of which I heartily approve. I also suspect the inclusion of golden swallows in this trailer are a reference to Cheng Pei Pei's character in <<Come Drink With Me>>.

While I wait for <<The Old World>> Core Rulebook and <<Forces of Fantasy>> to come back in stock I thought it high time to finally finish a kit that languished in my pile of shame for too long: Spoiler filter for a, shall we say... slightly spicy banner design:

Can corroborate just about all of these points, though these days I'm more a snifter of Cognac before bed guy than a beer drinker.

When everyone in the theater cracked up at this moment with Stilgar in <<Dune Pt. 2>> I knew I was among my people:

I'm guessing when the special effects team needed miniatures for the scene with the fighter jet the Su-27 kits were the cheapest they could get from the hobby store.

I guess it's settled then. Deathspell Omega does indeed have a human drummer for their recordings: Shame we missed out on them finally performing live. Would have lined up at the crack of dawn to see them.

This randomly showed up in my Youtube feed but I have to confess that this has insanely good animation for something that apparently had a 7.5 million Euro budget. Just a crying shame that it bombed. Movie is called "Dofus – Book 1: Julith".

Evidently I only have one gear:

With my newly arrived WinWing F-15EX throttle handles I've been getting deep into DCS: F-15E. While the work done is quite impressive, helped by real-life former F-15E aircrew Jeff "Notso" Bright, it makes me think back to one of my favourite flight sims Jane's F-15 which modeled the same aircraft and just how close the EA Baltimore team managed to get to the real thing. Pulling up the NAVFLIR HUD and A/G RDR and A/G PACS on the MFDs, compare and contrast:

Of note is that Cesar E. Chavez, nominally a liberal icon, took a hardline stance on immigration who didn't shy away from using pejoratives typically associated with the MAGA crowd for his brethren across the border. The reasons I feel are beautifully elucidated in this video from Evan Hadfield:

Devs have said that if you have <<Phantom Liberty>> installed it raises the level cap to 60, and if you raise your ability points past a certain point on the build planner you'll get a tooltip that says you won't be able to actually get them to that level unless you have the expansion. From pre-release footage of 2.0 and a cursory look at the build planner I was initially excited that CDPR might have done away with the TES-style "raise skill levels as you use them" system, though another observer informed me that it has sadly been retained, albeit in a little more broad form (i.e. condensed into archetypes of play such as "Shinobi," "Netrunner," "Solo," etc).