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Vermintide 2 revealed: Fingers crossed for a Shadowdancer career, which is probably as close to my dream Warhammer 40K game where you play as an Eldar Harlequin as I'm going to get.

Trump's seeming indifference to the 41 and counting deaths in the NorCal fires doesn't bode well for the people of South Korea.

OK, either this is treason and US military has a much bigger problem than Trump plans to expand nuclear arsenal or the story is a complete hoax. Have our priorities skewed here, huh? The cabinet undermining a President's nuclear policy is not without precedent (and contrary to what is in the movies, or what may seem logical in the post-Cold War era, there is absolutely no democratic firewall between the President post-inauguration and the men turning keys). If anything it is Trump who has been undermining the long-term strategy laid out by his own generals with his tweets if Dunford's words on North Korea and Iran's compliance with the JCPOA are anything to go by. As for hoax, well, Trump has said himself that he wants to see an expansion of the nuclear arsenal. It matters little whether or not he intends ten times as many the US has now or even a, say, 25% increase. It's a beyond moronic proposition given the extreme cost associated not only building up the necessary infrastructure for building new bombs but also the delivery platforms for them when current forces as noted in the article above more than suffice, especially if it cannibalises funding for other critical programs (Ballistic Missile Defence against a North Korean ICBM, tanks and fighters to defend the Międzymorze portion of NATO, and ships in the South China Sea).

Re: Trump's desire to expand the US nuclear arsenal ten-fold, courtesy of the Federation of American Scientists -

Didn't really get why they decided to nerf the Bone Spider. It costs 3 AP to cast and the thing has no magical armour.

The one plot detail in 2049 that kind of keeps it from true greatness for me:

Tactician too easy. Even a moron with 5 in INT can beat it

Checked my email this morning and got this recommendation from Yelp Eat24 and, well, I find it hard to believe that the phrasing for this was all innocent: I should also add that the email subject line appears to have been written as a parody of what eHarmony might send you.

From the late 80s there's been an ever increasing militancy to political discourse - and discourse in general. We're in a period of hyper-normalilzation, a slow boiling of the pot, where most have noticed somethings up, but can't quite put the finger on it. Even the discourse on this little random corner of the net has seen a dramatic change in the last 10 years. Now the discussions around dinnertables all over the world, have always been a little casually racist and objectifying. Not good, but at least managable... But today we're seeing mass generalisations on big network newsshows, accussations flung out without a shred if proof or remorse and huge political scandals that are just 'par the course'.. People are numb to it, which only invites even more. Actually I think the political discussion here on the Obsidian WoT board have never been better than now. It used to be bloodsport here. People really got insulting and angry. Bans and warning were common. Now, points are usually ably argued no one gets too angry. We are an example to the world! Who'da thought? am not certain if obsidian is an example to the world, but am expecting if you spoke to an activist who were in washington in the 60s when ranks o' soldiers were positioned outside the pentagon, white house and capitol to prevent protesters from literal storming the gates, and asked if the dialogue o' today is more or less militant or polarized than what he/she recalls from times now past, the answer would be obvious. I'd add that for all the talk of "Lib-ruhl Nazis," as insufferable as the "SJW" crowd might seem we're certainly quite a ways from them having the kind of disruptive effect on civil society the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the like had. How lucky are we they're content debating with strangers on the internet rather than robbing banks, hijacking airlines, bombing airbases, and kidnapping businessmen and politicians (or as was the case with Colombian far-left revolutionaries in their heydays, any random people they can get their hands on).

I don't object to the message I just think it childish to hold a rally because someone said ****. This is the military, I would expect they would have thicker skin. At the minimum you must not have spoken with any actual combat veterans, or read many soldiers' memoirs, or seen many war movies. Unlike other professions where trust in the person beside you and the ability to act cohesively and harmoniously are big pluses, in the military profession they become functional requirements for _survival_.

Posted this before, but it remains relevant. What's remarkable is that Trudeau nailed his speech mannerisms... back in 1988:

I don't mean to suggest that Obsidian is a studio that is currently in dire straits or that Boyarsky is the type who doesn't think forgoing a very comfortable position that all but guarantees his kids go to Harvard and a great retirement is worth the risk, but one likes to think that if he was tempted away from Blizzard, free catering and weekly Happy Hours and all, then what he's doing at Obsidian must be something really special.

Survived an ambush by assassins that took at three retries. Sadly for my troubles their corpses disappeared in a puff of smoke.

And a companion piece from James Fallows from a year and a half ago: How America Is Putting Itself Back Together

Suppose Trump isn't big on No Kum-sok, then.

I myself wasn't a huge fan of the armour system straight out of Mass Effect 2 and onwards, which seems to be the biggest change from DOS1. Admittedly it's quite handy for dealing with environment effects whilst exploring and the status hazards that can quickly accumulate over the course of a fight, but it also had the effect of making the gameplay seem overly game-y for my liking.

Fountain of Youth? Young Blood Infusions “Rejuvenate” Old Mice Countess Elizabeth Bathory vindicated.

Had a bit of a "Holeee.... S***" moment when a decent portion through Act 2 I realised that...

...or upon killing all the guards between the Ghetto and being able to inform the rest of the imprisoned Sourcerers that it's a prison break.

Price’s private-jet travel breaks precedent I really want to know what depth of f***ing tortured logic is needed to rationalise this kind of blatant self-enrichment in the face of all this "draining the swamp" rhetoric. Really, have the MAGA-types any excuse for the number of weekends Trump has spent on golf excursions?