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I see neither. I guess that makes me no-brained

It has it's "erotic" moments and incidental nudity, but as far as I know (haven't finished the show yet), no sex scenes, real or implied. More like what you see on the images posted in this thread.

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A bit about Gleipnir... it's basically about Aliens. Well, one alien. Simplified version: He distributes a potion that turns people into something they wish they were. Out protagonist turned into the silly looking toy dog purse, because that is what he was thinking about at the time. It's a large version of a small toy worn by a girl that he seems to have a bit of feelings for, subconsciously wishing he was that toy hanging at her side in a key ring. As for what the alien (which looks like some surfer/beach boy) wants out of it, their ship crashed and his fellow team members got scattered over a large area. They were in some kind of stasis, the consciousness stored in what looks like a coin with a star symbol on it. He offers to reward people who brings him coins by fulfilling more of their wishes. Imaging a genie in a bottle with more than 3 wishes. The protagonist is a nice guy and not all who met the alien are bad people, but humans being humans, some are. The good guys make it a goal to find as many coins as possible to prevent them from falling into the hands of some of the rather nasty monstrosities we've seen so far. /completely butchered story by leaving out 9/10 of the detail The girl with the cloak can go invisible, the girl with the helmet has bunny ears (she loved animals and wished she could talk with them), the giant bunny is just a big softie and the guy with the telescope head is... yes, a voyeur etc. etc. The other protagonist, Claire is not on the picture. She is the one that normally is inside the toy dog, "piloting" it. She has the ruthlessness that our protagonist lacks and she wants to find her missing sister, after her sister turned into a monster and killed their parents.

Sounds like Putin is focusing on plan C (or D or whatever) and redirecting efforts away from other areas to consolidate the land bridge to Crimea (which makes sense, considering Crimea has been without drinking water for years (after Kiev piled concrete into the rivers providing Crimea with drinking water years ago, effectively cutting off the peninsula's fresh water supply)

Australia has a problem... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-24/draft-leak-chinese-military-base-solomon-islands/100937632 "A draft official document – which emerged on social media on Thursday – lays down a framework which could permit Beijing to deploy forces to "protect the safety of Chinese personnel and major projects in Solomon Islands". Bit of backstory, the current Solomon government decided to break ties with Taiwan (much to Beijing's joy) and the riots (because the people of Solomon did NOT agree with their leaders decision on that) that followed was put down with help of Australian troops. Let's hand Scott Morrison a bigger gun to shoot himself in the foot? Just to find out the current Solomon government is owned by mainland China and the plan all along was to put up military and naval bases on the Solomon Islands, effectively on Australia's eastern doorstep. Scott Morrison being helpful in crushing the popular resistance to it

Damn overachiever

Tiny Tina's Wonderland got itself an official launch trailer... still going to wait for feedback (yes, Borderlands 3 was that much of a disappointment)

I think season 2 is going to be on my to do list. Not stuff I can really binge watch, but it’s fun and relaxing watching just the odd episode every now and then Made it to episode 9 in Gleipnir. For some reason, it reminds me a bit of when I read Lord of Flies as a teenager. Creepy, exciting cringeworthy, sad, hopeful, all at the same time

Based on absolutely no hard, available facts, just a “feeling”, but if all of Londons valuable real estate is either owned by the Windsor family or Russian oligarchs, QE II might soon be the single largest land owner in the city (minus bits and pieces owned by the Saud family and other oil billionaires)

Sweden is probably still expecting Denmark to invade them some day, for a repeat of the Stockholm Bloodbath. Denmark has conscription too (at least they had when I was a young Dane). I got picked for civil defense duty, not the military. Most likely enemy we were going to face were East German and Polish armies. As for the current war, not sure there is a lot to negotiate about at the moment, as I doubt Putin himself knows what he wants... since he obviously can't have what he originally wanted and doesn't seem to have a plan b

Looks like I'll have a new address Tuesday next week, ending my short career as... I won't say homeless, because I would feel like I'm mocking the genuinely homeless, but the temporary without fixed address people, while living in a hotel. Still, feels nice to know I'll have an actual postal address again soon.

Good thing the world still have great humanitarians, like Belarus' Lukashenko (sp?), offering political asylum to persecuted Americans from the fascist dictatorship that is the US... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60843262 A California man suspected of taking part in the US Capitol riots last year has been granted asylum in Belarus. Evan Neumann fled the US after being charged in connection with the riots. The 48-year-old first settled in Ukraine, before reaching Belarus where he asked for asylum - claiming he faced "political persecution" in the US.

No, Ukraine is not difficult to traverse. Quite the opposite. It's big, flat, open land. Only obstacles are rivers and cities (and the weather, although the roads don't turn into mud like in WWII). There was a reason the Germans advanced so fast until the rain set in. Cities can be ignored if you have them surrounded and occupy the area around them. Deny them supplies and access to the air and they are just as much prisons as strongholds. Even medieval generals sometimes just put up enough siege to contain the defenders while ravaging the country side. No offense to the Iraqi's but the army was very much sub par quality (even the much reported on guard was little better than most western countries draftee's when it comes to training and equipment). Two main differences. Ukraine uses a lot of western technology. They have the local population on their side (well, western Ukraine anyway). Saddam Hussein inspired fear in his subjects, not loyalty. Ukrainians will actually grab guns and Molotov c0cktails and put up a fight. Iraqi's lined up in nice, orderly queues to surrender as fast as possible. Anything, for most of them, was better than Saddam. The US got it's strategic (military, not civilian... definitely not civilian) priorities right and focused on first knocking out anything that could pose a threat. Radar, SAM, Airports, supply lines (anyone remember those pictures of endless columns of burned out vehicles on the road?), meaning they could move unopposed in the air and use air power as interdiction and disruption rather than just very expensive long range cannons. It really looks like Putin thinks like a KGB agent, not an army general. Except, his assumptions are so wrong, he would make a very poor KGB agent.

I tried starting the game up over the weekend. Just sat there staring at one of my characters on the screen for a while. Just couldn’t get into it at all again I think the whole knights of the eternal grind thing just left me in some kind of gamers ptsd Or maybe other mmos spoiled me

Umm... "! his video is private". Who was it?

So much potential in "Shady"... Shady Cars, Shady Accounting, Shady Tech Support, Shady Consulting, Shady Business Advisory Services, Shady Repair Works... Ok, it may not really sell long term

As someone who loved Borderlands 2 and Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragons Keep in particular, this one piqued my interest. Cautiously anticipating it after the disappointment that was Borderlands 3 https://playwonderlands.2k.com/

Yeah, there are 10 types of people in this world… those who understand binary and those who don’t

Some people react badly to vaccines (the various components in the vaccine, it's not just a saline solution) and the vaccine could kill them outright without waiting for covid to catch them Edit: That was just one example. I'm sure I remember something about cancer patients (on chemo therapy) being vulnerable to covid because the treatment and vaccines don't go well together. I.e. it would be a death sentence for such patients if the Omicron variant were to run rampant on a hospital ward. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7002e1.htm

I'm general in favour of letting people "have it" with all the possible consequences if they refuse vaccines because they believe in conspiracy theories. They also imho gets lowest priority if vital healthcare resources are contested. Not every country is at the stage where vaccination rates are like 90%+ and I know both in Australia in Denmark, there are restrictions in place in healthcare and aged care facilities. Not everybody *can* get vaccinated, due to no fault of their own. Down here there are also still mask requirements on public transports (because it's impossible to voluntarily distance yourself from other people) and international airports (which I think have opened without many people noticing it). Edit: But it's a far cry from border closures and ban on public establishments etc.

There is. Or rather, there can be. Lockdowns are no longer a measure to stop covid (here in Australia), but to slow it down, so the healthcare system can keep up and keep casualty rates low as a result. Also, preventing people dying from other causes because the previous strain on the hospitals is lower. It doesn't "stop" covid, but adapting the degree of lockdowns to your countrys healthcare system still makes sense. Unless it's completely dysfunctional anyway, in which case, yeah, there might just be collateral monetary damage without any QoL improvement for the vulnerable part of the population. Eugenics fans may be all in favour of getting rid of lockdowns regardless of everything else.

Finished Gleipnir Episode 5... pleasantly surprised so far. By now, we have gotten a bit of background, the why's and how's and some actual objectives for the two protagonists (in the beginning it was "just" about basic survival and unknown circumstances).

I'm not sure Eastern Europe is considered "Western" in this context. I.e. you just confirmed that Western leaders are not held accountable for war crimes by the ICC As for Kangaroo courts, it took the opposition party and a struggling free press down here (despite the Morrison government trying to silence it through heavy handed use of federal police in an attempt to silence the press) to raise the finger and point out Australian War Crimes for domestic prosecution at least.

What makes you think it wouldn't have been perceived as a declaration of war (and a Casus Belli to invade them)? Wanna bet it still gives Putin nightmares that they joined NATO and he couldn't do anything to prevent it? What I'm trying to understand is the mindset and the paranoia. Every major invasion came through the Ukrainian plains. From the Polish invasion and sacking of Moscow to the Nazi German invasion and almost sacking of Moscow (and every invasion in between). No serious threat came from the south or the east after the collapse of the various Mongolian empires and successor realms (yeah, the Czars completely bungled the various wars in the far east, but weren't existential threats). It was the same reason the Warsaw Pact was created (and a number of countries turned into de facto puppet regime states) a few years after NATO, to give a buffer and an early warning when western powers again decided to invade Russia.