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you already got the tyke pushing a lawnmower to earn his keep? am shocked and impressed. who knows, by this winter you may have free snow removal service for your driveway. kidding. even archie bunker probable waited until meathead's eyeballs reached lawnmower handle height. 'course back then as often as not the hardest part were getting those briggs and stratton mower engines to turn over. HA! Good Fun!

now you are sudden worried about russian nukes? rich. HA! Good Fun!

fun fact: the brady handgun violence prevention act of 1993 were the origin o' the requirement for purchasers o' firearms to truthful fill out form 4473. hunter's weapon purchase crime were not being truthful 'bout his drug addiction when filling out form 4473. again, the question he failed to answer truthful were 'bout drug addiction and not conviction o' a drug crime. from a practical perspective, prosecution for failure to disclose drug addiction is near impossible (edit: "near impossible" might be too strong, but extreme rare or ordinarily prohibitive would be appropriate. splitting hairs.) 'cause in most cases such evidence is gonna be protected by medical privacy laws. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/983385027/hunter-biden-says-his-family-never-gave-up-on-him so, hunter writes a book which provides the feds with the evidence they would never otherwise have to prosecute him. ... oh, and btw, joe biden were the chairman o' the senate judiciary committee back in 93/94 and while chuck shumer and bill clinton deserve most credit for the brady bill becoming law, biden stood literal just behind clinton when the President announced and signed the legislation. biden were instrumental in making the brady handgun violence prevention act of 1993 a law. people brought low by hubris and coincidence. somehow feels as if the situation were the plot to a dickens novel, albeit a bad dickens novel. aside: fox is always good for the alt-view. fox folks championing the cause o' kodak black? https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/a-timeline-of-kodak-blacks-arrests-alleged-crimes-and-other-legal-troubles-11178496 minorities frequent do suffer from a two-tier justice system, but the weapon charge for kodak black were maybe not the best example o' a miscarriage o' justice by the feds. ignore for a moment his lengthy rap sheet and focus on only the fed related weapon charges for kodak black from 2019. "Kodak Black and three others were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents while trying to cross into Canada from New York. He was found with a Glock 9mm pistol and marijuana and was taken to the Niagara County Jail. "He paid the $20,000 to $40,000 bond and then walked out of the jail with a fan of cash covering his face. "Then, less than a month later, he was arrested on weapons charges in Miami. Just before he was set to take the stage at the hip-hop music festival Rolling Loud, he was apprehended by U.S. marshals for state and federal firearms violations following what was described as an “extensive investigation.” "The federal charge arose from an instance in which the rapper allegedly lied about the status of his criminal cases when he filled out official paperwork for a gun purchase." TWO separate weapon related arrests in one month? kodak black deserved at least three years for being a criminal knucklehead. HA! Good Fun!

part ii o' the trump interview has fewer, oh my god, he is so going to prison moments. as such am suspecting it will disappoint, but there is more than a few excerpts which should become part o' the permanent lexicon o' essential trumpism. am wondering if that is how chinese history is gonna be taught in red states schools if trump is elected? (<-sarcasm) HA! Good Fun!

our money is on current suretors withdraw meaning george would needs find another source o' cash for bail or risk pre-trial incarceration. we got no special insights save the recognition the suretors has been working hard to keep their identities secret thus far. HA! Good Fun!

agree. from a post Gromnir on april fools, 2022 when @Darkpriest did same as key: hunter biden is relevant... again? why? is a serious question. for years now hunter has been a known train wreck. the reason why the laptop weren't a real story is not so much 'cause o' the russian disinformation angle but 'cause o' same reasons it weren't a story october 2020-- the fbi and bill barr had been in possession o' the "laptop from hell" since november 2019 and nothing came o' it. the worst laptop photos and emails from the laptop were already leaked a long time past and we discovered *gasp* that hunter biden has bad selfie discipline and had involved himself in all kinda get-rich-quick schemes with foreign business entities. thank goodness nobody were electing hunter. if joe biden had given hunter top security clearance and made him part o' the day-to-day operations o' the wh, then there would be a story, or at least you would think so. never happened. know what also never happened? the trump doj under barr never found anything on hunter other than possible tax evasion, for which hunter is still being investigated and should not be getting off the hook. you think the trump administration woulda' looked the other way if there were anything else? pre 2020 election some folks in the media were too quick to dismiss a story 'bout hunter biden as complete fake. the thing is, "fake" weren't the problem. the fail o' the story is same now as then 'cause the october surprise is still not particular relevant save for the recognition that hunter is a mess. am no more surprised by that revelations in 2022 than we were in 2020. and from three years past and is others who here didn't know hunter were a trainwreck? has anybody been claiming the tax and gun stuff were manufactured? and just as with the stoopid hunter painting sale, such issues were known to everybody so is not as if the info were blackmail material which could be used as leverage against joe biden. but already we got at least one poster trying to move the goal posts? is a half dozen times when Gromnir said exact same things, pointing out that unless there were some evidence o' a grand conspiracy linking the ukrainians or chinese to The Big Guy, which seemed increasing unlikely after bill barr and the trump admin couldn't find nothing, as well as multiple years o' silence from any relevant or reputable justice source since the laptop were first discovered, then the hunter story is no more significant today then it were when Gromnir mentioned in 2020 or 2021 or 2022. nevertheless, 'cause the result is indeed as insignificant as we prognosticated, such is proof o'... what exactly? so, for the people who is sudden outraged at the hunter story, show us the receipts. go back the past few years and reveal how you were always enraged 'bout tax evasion and an illegal weapon possession. show how when Gromnir brushed off the story as relative insignificant, you stood up for the rule of law and pointed out how vital to the national interest were the story o' hunter's tax evasion. funny, but this were only a story just so long as no charges were brought. one could say that hunter were getting away with something 'cause he were the son o' the President. is no longer possible to argue the two-tiered justice angle. hunter charges will be big news for conspiracy nutters and the breitbart fans, but in a few days they will go back to asking 'bout burisma and The Big Guy email precise 'cause this story were nothing... and exact the same nothing as in 2020, 2021, 2022. so it goes HA! Good Fun! ps as usual, the significant part o' the story is not being covered. hunter, according to his lawyers, is no longer the subject o' an ongoing criminal investigation. means hunter and the doj may be called before Congress to discuss... whatever. IF investigation is complete over, that is kinda bad news for the gop diehards who has been trying to prop up the zombie burisma issue for a few years. 'course is gonna be a circus when doj and hunter is subpoenaed by the weaponization committee *snort* to testify.

let's say you receive a subpoena from a grand jury requesting that you provide all examples of X from your residence at Y, and you is given a time limit o' Z days in which to comply. you are an old guy living in florida and 'tween golfing and your dj hobby, is just so little time to complete the search before Z days will have elapsed. out of the following, which response to the subpoena request seems to be the most ill-advised? 1) you are old, so you decide to take a nap and hope the problem goes away. 2) personal or through your attorneys, challenge the validity of the subpoena while simultaneous attempting to meet the Z days deadline. 3) request additional time from the court to complete your search while simultaneous attempting to meet the Z days deadline. 4) hide multiple examples of X from both the court and your own attorneys and then lie to the court certifying that every example o' X at Y has indeed been returned. *eye roll* is lawyers at every news outlet who is offering their expertise regarding the cases 'gainst trump, but a few o' the most significant aspects o' the cases do not require any legal training to puzzle out where trump blundered. aside, is not getting the attention deserved. is not a criminal trial, but it is likely to serve as a preview o' defenses made in a federal january 6 trial o' eastman... and his co-conspirators. HA! Good Fun!

finished watching the brett baier interview with trump. highlights for those interested trump really should take oj's advice and stop speaking about the case. for the constant evolving team trump, it were gonna be difficult to defend their client... yesterday. is more difficult today. HA! Good Fun!

in recognition of juneteenth. is still work to do. HA! Good Fun!

you are not alone re: indiana jones. our first post 'bout the lamplighters league we will observe the game is leaning hard into elements o' cthulhu mythology, so given the overall aesthetic o' lamplighters, perhaps add in hellboy as inspiration? HA! Good Fun!

ps the lamplighters league release is listed as october 3, 2023. pre-order is available via steam. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.facebook.com/socientifica/videos/carl-sagan-escuridão/684624558370639/ carl sagan narration were the best part o' the trailer, which is not a criticism. HA! Good Fun!

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okay, that one made us chuckle. HA! Good Fun!

anti-establishment? the guy is one o' the 5g + bill gates + covid vaccine microchip kooks, and he continues to promote that bit o' crazy. shared such with rogan in fact. am not saying rfk jr. is a bad person. already mentioned him overcoming his addiction is a plus in our book. additional, he has championed the causes o' more than a few indigenous peoples, and if you told us he had saved a puppy from drowning by risking his life, swimming into dangerous cold waters, we wouldn't be surprised; we would cheer his humanity. seems like he means well. unfortunate, we wouldn't want a person so divorced from reality as rfk jr. to be President... anymore than we would champion joe rogan for the office. tinfoil hat legionnaires, regardless if they is anti-establishment or even if they have a meaningful and practical plan to address income disparity and national debt problems (he doesn't,) should not be serious considered as President. a lack o' shared belief in facts and reality is an increasing problem in this nation and to have somebody who believes school shootings is the result o' the invention and prescribing o' prozac is literal dangerous to have sitting behind the resolute desk in the oval office. as to age... am recognizing how different people age... different. however, am having noticed old people is often the last to admit they need help even if most people around them see how the aged person is increasing incapable o' driving safe, handling a gas stove, or being a US Congressmen, SCOTUS Justice or POTUS. biden did recent take speaker mccarthy's lunch money during the debt ceiling negotiations, so score one for the octogenarians, but another four years? ... not to be morbid, but perhaps an upside to biden being elected to another four years is am suspecting such would lead to support for the passing o' an amendment xxviii calling for age limits for those serving in specific enumerated article i, ii or iii offices. HA! Good Fun! ps 'pon reflection, is no reason to not speak the silent part. "anti-establishment" insofar as rfk jr. is camouflage. the vast majority o' rfk jr. fans is people who thought covid were a hoax, that vaccines were/are a hoax, that fauci were selling a hoax and that lock downs and mask wearing (which americans never actual supported enough to be as effective as were the case in south korea, taiwan, new zealand or elsewhere)were authoritarian tactics used to promote the hoax. don't just buy the anti-establishment claims without considering the source.

... what do you mean the magic trick video is irrelevant? from the sudden turn o' the thread, it looked like we were sharing ways to distract children when we run out of things to say. whatever. WATCH: Investigation shows Minneapolis police show pattern of violating rights, Garland says the doj findings significant undermines the one bad apple narrative. weren't just derek chauvin and his nine and a half minutes. unfortunate, has only been a day after the garland news conference and the story has already faded from most headlines. DOJ accuses Minneapolis Police Department, city of using excessive force, racial discrimination as usual, am posting the fox coverage not 'cause o' the spin on the story so much as for the comments from readers which follow. am recalling many euros cannot access the comments portion, so, an unedited sampling follows: no shared fact. no shared reality. complete polarization. so it goes. edit: @Gorth but let's say you had read mein kampf and didn't like. understandable. the writing is, at best, clumsy and hitler offered little more than grievance and outrage, promising struggle but avoiding a worker's paradise reward such as were teased by marx. curious, struggle and outrage were all hitler were selling. meh. so, again, for sake of argument, say you didn't like hitler's book after reading. now assume hitler released hundreds and even thousands o' similar works, but with each new release, hitler fans insisted you were being unfair to hitler by not reading each "new" work. silly, no? rogan has recorded thousands o' podcasts. we reference one such in the following post: just how many rogan or rfk jr. contributions does one need indulge before it is fair to not read or view the next? how many minutes o' the next three hour conspiracy laden and fact starved podcast must you suffer before concluding, no más? is our no más HA! Good Fun!

again, you are asking for something irrational. am not enduring the entire interview to criticize anymore than we would play an entire pc game or watch all of firebirds before we were justified in offering a critique on rfk jr and rogan whom we has seen and heard many times previous. we read books by mao and marx in their entirety. read the motorcycle diaries AND guerilla warfare by che. rogan is an entertainer who admits he is talking out his arse, which is s'posed part o' his appeal as well as a defense to his inevitable nonsense. converse rfk jr has done nothing to convince us he deserves more consideration than rogan. have seen the ridiculous retort many times that one needs watch or read something in its entirety before making the reasonable choice to stop the bleeding. crazy talk. but knock your self out. far less than three hours. heck ff to 7:20 and feel free to stop after 9:30. notice we ain't even suggesting a full viewing is required for context? is the farewell address immediate before kennedy became President. again, read kennedy's/democrat's 1960 platform. the military industrial complex speech were in part a warning 'cause o' the threat eisenhower saw in the campaign rhetoric o' the golden goose. military industrial complex out to get kennedy? sure. @Bartimaeus is not the first time the US had to endure ultra partisan and polarized politics. perhaps ironic it took world war 2 to change the dynamic o' nativism and fear which drove politics in the US from the last decade o' the 19th century. am s'posing such were the theory behind ozymandias' scheme from the watchmen comic-- fear o' an even more terrible enemy were needed to unify naturally fractious and adversarial human beings. 'course is doubtful we can count on a costumed sooper genius to manufacture an alien threat and only insane people would would advocate ww3 to solve our dilemma. obviously antebellum civil war through reconstruction were horrific and so not the kinda blueprint one would look to replicate in extracting the nation from the current polarized mess o' tribalism and paranoia. ... hard to believe, but our sad national response to mccarthyism might be a best case scenario? a chilling thought. HA! Good Fun! edit: rfk jr. whackadoodle positions on prozac being the cause o' school shootings, suggesting the link between hiv and aids is myth, blaming vaccines for autism, as well as a few o' his easily debunked covid conspiracies should preclude reasonable voters from taking him serious as a Presidential candidate. however, am gonna concede the oft mentioned heroin addiction he dealt with does not bother us over much, and perhaps less than it should. overcoming heroin addiction isn't exactly a positive résumé bullet point for a candidate running for political office. nevertheless, am admitting we cannot help but applaud the fact rfk jr. overcame such a terrible personal demon. good on him.

don't take our word. educate yourself. we added links to get you started, but is gonna be up to do the hard part. oh, and we know very little about gardening, non english poetry, post colonial south american history (genuine feel bad 'bout this one,) tibet, any recipe which includes rhubarb and probable a trillion other subjects. and is no way am listening to the entire "interview." insanity. walked out of firebirds after thirty minutes. why on earth would we give rogan more than that? kennedy started in on the conspiracy silliness and am thinking we deserve a medal (albeit a minor civilian medal) for sticking it out as long as we did. HA! Good Fun!

rfk jr and rogan? is there enough aluminum to craft the hats both these jokers need? rogan ain't educated enough or is too immersed in conspiracy crazy to push back on the obvious untruths kennedy spews. https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/06/06/rfk-jr-makes-unfounded-claims-about-mass-shootings-covid-19-here-are-all-the-conspiracies-he-promotes/?sh=41f1b6753acc https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-twitter-elon-musk-1234747479/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/05/rfk-jr-democratic-primary-biden/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/08/robert-kennedy-jr-measles-vaccines-226798/ etc. was only able to take so much bs about kennedy from the rogan lovefest. revisionist history 'bout jfk didn't help neither. after all, eisenhower (republican) were the "dove" who had warned about the military industrial complex and kennedy's literal number one campaign issue in 1960 were national defense (long, but if you don't read, you won't learn nothing): the idea the military industrial complex were out to get kennedy only works 'cause +90% o' americans don't recall or never learned much 'bout kennedy save the post dallas revisionism which became popularized following the assassination. kennedy were the freaking golden goose for the military industrial complex. whatever. and trump's popularity increased with republicans after the indictment. is terrible, and is bad for america, but democrat leadership actual wants trump to be the republican candidate 'cause he is the one guy democrats, and an Increasing number of independents, will crawl across broken glass to vote against. yeah, with trump as the gop candidate, the rhetoric becomes more extreme and chances for violence increase, but biden is not a good candidate and democrats perhaps need an existential crisis alternative to win. just as with the midterms, democrats is willing to risk extremism and violence to actual aid the most fringy gop candidates 'cuase recent history has changed the democrat voting dynamic. in the past, democrats only bothered to come out and vote if they were hopeful or enthusiastic about a candidate. now, democrats will vote if they are afraid... afraid enough. and yeah, there is indeed a chance trump gets a second term in part 'cause biden is so not great for democrats. pretend trump can't win 'cause he lost in 2020 is naïve. so democrats quiet cheering as trump solidifies his frontrunner status with the gop is questionable even if it might be a winning strategy. COVID-19 research updates: does wearing tinfoil hats pose neurodegenerative threats to conspiracists and the general public? HA! Good Fun!

aside, since @majestic is such a fan o' covers, we will share a couple favorites... one is even from an animated movie. have mentioned we originally thought led zeppelin were a blues cover band. am so not a nirvana fan, but their version o' in the pines is fantastic. prince being prince. 'nuff said. which brings us to... am disappointed the film (as well as the soundtrack) didn't get more love. HA! Good Fun!

What Iowa Republicans are thinking after Trump’s federal indictment

"we never harvested a single leaf" ... am finally able to appreciate the final scene from planet of the apes (1968.) HA! Good Fun!

have mentioned previous how impressed we were by the music o' both icewind dale 1 & 2. different composers, but similar evocative. am not having a favorite anime music/tune, but paranorman was animated and include one o' the most underrated scores am able to recollect. HA! Good Fun!

"the wound is the place where the light enters you." am forgetting the origin or attribution at the moment. *shrug* our personal experience suggests we learned far more from our failures than our victories. our query is for any and all obsidian developers who would care to answer and am hopeful responses need not be limited by the twentieth anniversary event; am genuine curious and would welcome any and all developer answers. regardless, our question is as follows: what memorable error related to a game development made obsidian (or individual obsidian developers) better at crafting games? please offer details 'bout the mistake which 'brought about enlightenment as well as the resulting epiphany. thanks in advance. HA! Good Fun!

as o' today, snow peas are available from a local farm, so for the next month am gonna be on a snow pea diet. got a handful o' recipes which star the delectable legume, but they are so good we typical just steam 'em for 1:30 to 1:45 and perhaps sprinkle with a bit o' salt. we also purchased a fair amount o' fantastic looking pickling cucumbers. 'cause of late season cold rain, july 8 is projected first day corn will be sold local. melons and some o' the best poblano peppers anywhere should also be purchasable sooner rather than later. once tomatoes begin being harvested here in the valley, we enter a kinda produce nirvana for a couple months. ordinarily we would take advantage o' a u-pick option at .40¢ per lb.--$20 minimum. unfortunate we had an injury last december which prevents us from bending our right knee more than a tiny fraction, so squatting to pick veggies is nigh impossible and far too much effort. even so, u-pick won't start until the aforementioned july 8 and the snow peas is not an option through u-pick regardless. snow peas typical is sold local for a bit more than a month... HA! Good Fun!