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Playing through the Neverwinter Nights 2 OC again. Almost forgot how many goddamn traps were in this game. This was what Neeshka managed to pick up from the Graveyard near Fort Locke alone:

I've found that some of Inglorious Basterds' most enthusiastic fans are Germans themselves.

Emphases mine

Ohhh... boy. When that truck said those tacos were spicy, they weren't kidding. 4AM tonight is going to be real eventful

My new boat. With the Hunt for Red October being one of my favourite movies my campaign just got off to an auspicious start: But how we got here... Uh-oh. And so we get underway from Holy Loch in dear old Scotland on December 25th, Ivan having ruined Christmas forever. To raise our spirits COMSUBLANT had plenty of Christmas ham brought aboard for us to dig in as we make for flank speed to our operating area. Our first assignment is to intercept Soviet cruise missile subs looking to run the GIUK gauntlet to break out into the open Atlantic to sink trans-Atlantic convoys. The situation as it stood when we set sail: So far the Soviets have limited their invasion to the Central Front, tanks and APCs rolling across the Inner-German Border, though that may swiftly change. NATO has SOSUS listening posts lording over the Andoya-Spitsbergen chokepoint which clues us into Soviet submarine movements as soon as they clear the tip of Finnmark. Speak of the devil one group is coming right now.

Former Giant Bomb duder Drew Scanlon tours a Ukrainian missile base museum as part of Cloth Map:

Been listening to Deathspell Omega's new EP, <<The Synarchy of Molten Bones>> and a portion of the lyrics of the title track struck me: Are they talking about a synarchy of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Though I suspect whatever Putin's net worth is it far exceeds that of Trump.

Wonder if Ancel will be back on the stage for that caveman game with the giant snake lady in the Sony press conference.

Notably no applause when Bethesda announced the return of paid mods.

Would be something if Bethesda announced a "Fallout: New ___" game made by Obsidian in their upcoming press briefing. Whatever Obsidian was working on it must be something special if it managed to lure Leonard Boyarsky from Blizzard.

After beating West Point in the Army-Navy game fourteen years in a row, they must have gotten tired of winning.

Hell yeah! New Metro game!

Or in the case of a carrier aircraft, fully proficient in landing only after at least a hundred touch-and-go landings and several dozen carrier traps.

A Cold War favourite of mine:

Emphases mine.

Re: Trump and "loyalty":

*Dun*dun* *Dun*dun* *Dun*dun*dun*dun*dun*dun*... *Cue scream* Unfortunately I missed the screenshot key when the Mk. 48 torpedo detonated.

I think Trump's priority is somehow retaining the votes he won in 2016 for the election in 2020 (should he make it that far). Though I'm hesitant to use the tired phrase "if trends hold" since lots can happen in 42 months (see the introductory portion of David Frum's article in the Atlantic for the picture of "things that may be") it looks increasingly unlikely that those who didn't vote for him in 2016 will be swayed given his performance thus far short of Democrat primary voters dropping the ball for their nominee (I remain convinced that in spite of Sanders having some modicum of charisma and having a message that resonated with voters that he would have lost even harder to Trump).

Preacher may diverge from the comics in spots, but at the very least they got Herr Starr right: However I'll be tremendously disappointed if he doesn't get the scar on the top of his dome at some point.