Gorth

Nothing unique to the anime where Nier/Yoko Taro is involved edit: the story is spread over the Drakengard games, Final Fantasy the MMO, live stage theatre pieces, novellas and the two Nier games In short, god hates humans and unleashed a curse to wipe them out. It follows humanity through all their attempts to fight it off end eventually leads to their extinction, leaving behind only post apocalyptic ruins and the Yorha project (the androids programmed to fight for humanity)

I know it's satire, but dang it's funny!

The Australian take on the US election...

Make of that what you want… Sounds like a slight doctrine change (like a version of the Truman doctrine) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yjej0rvw0o

Don't worry. She's a human. They added a "helmet" that gives your character elf ears (using the characters skin tone for colour). Can be used by all 5 races (looks a bit funny on the Charr) My "dark elf" is just a bit of creative use of the colour palettes and dyes as well as the pointy ear head gear.

Playing around a bit with character ideas in Guild Wars 2... the new expansion gave the players "player housing". Never mind that you can decorate it, but it's permanent daylight, so nice when taking character screenshots (rather than having to hunt locations depending on the time of the ingame day) A claymore wielding "highlander". Insert Queen's Princes of the Universe sound track A dark elf assassin, wielding two daggers and two pointy ears... A hammer wielding berserker. No skull is too thick. I'll try to take a few shots from the new expansion maps during the week. They really are gorgeous. Soundtrack is nice too

Behold, The Hand of Gorth! Never mind my hand, I was shopping and needed some coconut milk. Then i saw the "organic" part and all the brainwashing from the past suddenly overwhelmed me. Organic milk, from free range cows... bacon from free range pigs... eggs from free range chickens and now this... somehow I just continued the line of text on the tin can inside my head - Milk from free range coconuts Yeah, the power of marketing

Declare those who didn't vote for you heretics and prosecute them?

I think I threatened at some point to show a few pictures of some very old Citadel miniatures from my collection... Dark Elves from back when Games Workshop called them Dark Elves in Warhammer Fantasy. A unit of Corsairs and a Sorceress. The corsairs never got their banner painted The sorceress was literally a cover girl. A plastic sprue in a plastic bag, taped with sticky tape to the front page of the White Dwarf magazine introducing the new race to the world of Warhammer (an ad for the new army book, first edition Dark Elves) Disclaimer, all the miniatures on the pictures are from the 80's and very early 90's, painted with the tools available at the time. No fancy "tech paints" A selection of Imperial Guard troopers (Astra Militarum? Who the **** is the Astra Militarum???). A few Valhallan mortar troopers, some Attilan rough riders, ratling (approved homo sapiens subspecies, exempt from purge) and some character models. Tach priest, Eversor Assassin, commissars and a lieutenant from the old Necromunda Imperial Guard regiment (a tank from same regiment hiding somewhere in the picture)... Edit: I think next up, it will be the undead shelfs turn to get dusted off. Also got some Necromunda gangers and Epic Ork armies

The local grocery stores and super markets sell shrink packed rubber mats. Looks like rubber mats, feels like rubber mats, tastes like rubber mats (don't ask). Problem is, they sell those rubber mats pretending they are "naan bread" Decided to try my hand at making my own for my curry chicken... cut a few corners by buying a herb mix to add to flour, yeast and Greek yogurt. The first few were for the rubbish bin, badly burnt, but eventually I got the hang of it. Making them deliberately "small", because I'm a single house hold and the leftovers have to fit in a container in the fridge The gross looking stuff in the large pot is just the curry, having added tamarind puree and coconut milk, but not stirred it yet (watching the naan bread on the pan like a hawk, needs flipping every 30 seconds to avoid burning) The end result was decent enough thought

Heck, John Lennon got murdered for less

You are indeed a brave man... I lasted for all of 20 seconds before hitting the stop button Different people obviously have different tastes. Must be lots of other people out there who dig it Back to browsing cats in Springfield memes on the internet...

Always take leaks with a crate of salt, but a well known leaker ("122") claims Frieren 2 is already in production... amongst other things

Maybe abnormal number of limbs happens in Springfield? edit I know nothing of Springfield, only remember the name from watching a few episodes of The Simpsons

You could argue Iran already struck preemptively against Ukrainian transport capacity... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines_Flight_752

This was bound to happen... after all, the internet was created to share cat pics!

It's just a trailer, but colour (pun unintended) me intrigued... definitely something that's spiraling (pun intended) out of control

Same... noticed both on yours and Eldars blog. Can't add comments

I currently have status as a "permanent resident". As close to a citizen as you get without being able to vote. Once a citizen, you are required by law to vote and will get fined if you fail to vote As for perks, I guess not having to apply for a returning resident visa every 5 years if I wish to go overseas and also be able to go back? Also, I can travel freely to New Zealand and back again, as they have a kind of agreement involving free travel for each others citizens. For everything else like tax, superannuation, retirement, health coverage etc. I am no different than a citizen at the moment. It just sort of felt like "the right thing to do" though, considering I first arrived here in 2006 and have spent the majority of my time here since edit: I thought about it about 10 years ago, but at the time, Denmark did not allow dual citizenship. This changed 7-8 years ago, at which point I started seriously considering the possibility of becoming a citizen. Only catch then was I had spent 2 years in Europe and in order to qualify, I had to have spent the last 4 years in Australia. So i made a mark in the calendar for which year I could start the citizenship process.

An ex-pat and an immigrant. Two useful passports / too when traveling. Can use the fast lane at either end when traveling between the two countries

30th of September dammit! edit: too focused on the fine print I guess, didn't pay enough attention to the oversized, bold faced headline in the letter

Got my invitation to the citizenship ceremony. Unless something really bad happens, I'm likely to become an Australian citizen on the last day this month (Monday 31st of September). I better remember to treat myself to a glass of my special Cognac that day (which means I'll have dual citizenship, Danish/Australian)

Just something for the aviation enthusiasts... from this years Riverfire in Brisbane

Oh, you really don't want to know where I was last night then... Followed by a 20 minute long fireworks (and lots of beer) later at night