I've been hard pressed to shake a case of the Monday's here of late.
It affects my post count mightily, it does.
The Boy being jumpy hasn't helped. The lack of school is hitting him hard.
The lack of down time for me while he's at school and The Lovely Harvey is at work is hitting me too.
It's taking too long to do simple things because I'm so discombobulated from the "what day of the week is it again?" feeling from nothing keeping a weekly schedule.
Click here to submit $0.00 US for a lifetime subscription
Posts
All Comments
23 July 2020
22 July 2020
Cyclic
The lack of police response encouraged protesters to become rioters.
This cuts both ways.
The person who opposes the riot, when they know the cops ain't coming, is enabled to do more than shout, "stop!"
When the dust settles and only the defenders of property get arrested, the people who were defending their property wonder why they supported the police in the first place.
When the cops leave counter-protesters hanging when the purpose of that counter protest was to support the police, they ask, why did we bother?
The average citizen knows what it wants the police to be and they aren't getting what they want in too many places.
They're sick of being told by their employees that they are not the boss.
They're sick of being told how difficult things will be if the citizens get what they want.
The politicization of too many police departments has brought us to this point.
The police unions were instrumental.
Property rights are the most important of all rights.
Property crimes are the lowest priority for the police.
Theft, trespassing and vandalism are violations of property rights.
Yet, the police put no priority on solving most of these crimes.
The criminals see the lack of police response and are emboldened by it. They spread the word that retaliation for these "petty" crimes is likewise petty compared to the gains from it.
Because we can't get police to do much about it.
The cops aren't entirely to blame here. Politicians reducing sentences on "petty" crime have a huge hand here. Judges being lenient. Prosecutors being lazy.
The servants of society believe they're our masters and we suffer and pay the price.
But I sense a change coming.
A reversion might be in the offing.
This cuts both ways.
The person who opposes the riot, when they know the cops ain't coming, is enabled to do more than shout, "stop!"
When the dust settles and only the defenders of property get arrested, the people who were defending their property wonder why they supported the police in the first place.
When the cops leave counter-protesters hanging when the purpose of that counter protest was to support the police, they ask, why did we bother?
The average citizen knows what it wants the police to be and they aren't getting what they want in too many places.
They're sick of being told by their employees that they are not the boss.
They're sick of being told how difficult things will be if the citizens get what they want.
The politicization of too many police departments has brought us to this point.
The police unions were instrumental.
Property rights are the most important of all rights.
Property crimes are the lowest priority for the police.
Theft, trespassing and vandalism are violations of property rights.
Yet, the police put no priority on solving most of these crimes.
The criminals see the lack of police response and are emboldened by it. They spread the word that retaliation for these "petty" crimes is likewise petty compared to the gains from it.
Because we can't get police to do much about it.
The cops aren't entirely to blame here. Politicians reducing sentences on "petty" crime have a huge hand here. Judges being lenient. Prosecutors being lazy.
The servants of society believe they're our masters and we suffer and pay the price.
But I sense a change coming.
A reversion might be in the offing.
20 July 2020
Comet
My best effort with the M50 is disappointing, but I learned some from it.
Aperture priority, handheld.
I had my old SX20 with us and Marv did better. Braced against a post.
If the weather holds, we're going to try again tomorrow and I will see if I can improve on it with the slightly faster kit lens.
Aperture priority, handheld.
 |
| Canon M50, EF-S 55-200, f/4.0, 1.6", 55mm, ISO 12,800 |
 |
| Canon SX20 IS, f/2.8, 15", 5mm, ISO 400 |
Torque
I must say, even though The Precious is no longer a top of the line super-car, the 428 ft-lbs are verra nice and it gets near 300 from idle.
It gets contrasted with driving Moxie, whose power-band doesn't start until near 5k and makes just over half as much, in a heavier car.
Plus the Zen of rowing my own rather than dealing with the trans diving for sixth like the EPA was printing fines live via OnStar.
It gets contrasted with driving Moxie, whose power-band doesn't start until near 5k and makes just over half as much, in a heavier car.
Plus the Zen of rowing my own rather than dealing with the trans diving for sixth like the EPA was printing fines live via OnStar.
Rapid Dry Fire
Now that I have some .30-40 snap caps I'm entertaining myself with some rapid "fire" drills with the Krag.
I'm trying to get a feel for doing single fire until the order to change to the magazine comes and then being forced back to single fire.
If there's a lull in the action, one could replenish the magazine, put the cut-off back on and keep single firing until a rapid run is needed.
I have to say, the butter-like smoothness is WONDERFUL.
I'm trying to get a feel for doing single fire until the order to change to the magazine comes and then being forced back to single fire.
If there's a lull in the action, one could replenish the magazine, put the cut-off back on and keep single firing until a rapid run is needed.
I have to say, the butter-like smoothness is WONDERFUL.
An Open Apology
After watching a lot of YouTube of people working on their Italian exotics...
GM,
I'm sorry.
You did an amazing job of making things easy to access, remove and replace on my Corvette. My eyes were simply clouded by it being much harder than on my dear-departed B-Body.
I must also commend you on the amazing build quality under the veneer of the body and interior materials.
I've seen kit cars done with more care and neatness than I've seen under the skin of a typical Ferrari or Lambo.
Kudos, GM!
GM,
I'm sorry.
You did an amazing job of making things easy to access, remove and replace on my Corvette. My eyes were simply clouded by it being much harder than on my dear-departed B-Body.
I must also commend you on the amazing build quality under the veneer of the body and interior materials.
I've seen kit cars done with more care and neatness than I've seen under the skin of a typical Ferrari or Lambo.
Kudos, GM!
19 July 2020
Willards Most Affected
The tactical effect of real magic and mages is a wall I just slammed into hard.
On the very small scale of players in a game, I'm comfortable.
The Army would have different mages. Quartermaster Corps would have mages who know completely different spells from a line-cavalry mage.
I think to properly figure this out, I'm going to have to learn Willard the GURPS magic system in far more detail than he expected or desires.
This is on top of doing the details on "Old-Magic".
Old-Magic can be VERY powerful, it sank Atlantis after all.
I definitely need to make a few line-mages and support mages to suss out some of the details.
Additionally, a regiment is going to want several items which can do something like cast weather dome just to make life less miserable in the field.
On the very small scale of players in a game, I'm comfortable.
The Army would have different mages. Quartermaster Corps would have mages who know completely different spells from a line-cavalry mage.
I think to properly figure this out, I'm going to have to learn Willard the GURPS magic system in far more detail than he expected or desires.
This is on top of doing the details on "Old-Magic".
Old-Magic can be VERY powerful, it sank Atlantis after all.
I definitely need to make a few line-mages and support mages to suss out some of the details.
Additionally, a regiment is going to want several items which can do something like cast weather dome just to make life less miserable in the field.
I'd Say It Worked
"I'm a 38-year-old single man. There's this very pretty, very nice female trainer I see at my gym. I'd ask her out except that she has a huge tattoo of a diamond on her neck. Ugh. Total deal breaker. If it were a hidden tattoo (leg, hip, etc.), I'd deal. But I just can't imagine myself or any guy bringing a girl with a huge neck tat home to meet the parents. Why would a woman do this?"
Why would she do this?
To make guys like you pass her by is the obvious answer.
Don't think about it too hard, you'll just end up crying.
18 July 2020
Stop Paying Them
VDH on the NFL.
In a couple of months we're cutting the cord... uh... It's a satellite receiver, not a cord.
At any rate, we're no longer getting the programming we wanted to pay for and the realization that we're subsidizing professional sports and the channels that specialize in reporting on sports makes the decision easier.
The channels I used to watch no longer have the shows I liked.
Harvey had more inertia than I did about shutting it off, but she's there now.
I have a few questions for the actors and players from Hollywood and Professional Sports.
Where do you think your millions of dollars come from?
What happens when nobody buys a ticket or tunes in?
Lemme answer.
The millions of dollars that pay your salaries come from millions of fans spending a tiny amount in ticket sales, merchandise and being the targets of advertising.
Providing a target for advertising is where sports is making the really big bucks. This is why they are playing to empty stadiums and how they can afford to do so.
Someone is paying the television broadcaster millions upon millions to play their ads during the game. The broadcaster is, in turn, paying Professional Sports millions upon millions to do something that people will tune in to watch, and thus be exposed to the ads.
More people watching translates to higher ratings, higher ratings mean the broadcaster can charge more for an ad slot. Fewer people watching translates to lower ratings, lower ratings means the broadcaster cannot charge as much for an ad slot.
This is where we poors come back into the picture. If we don't watch, we lower the ratings.
While TV plays the game to sell ads, we don't tune in to watch them. We tune in to watch what's playing between the ads. If viewers are not exposed to the ads, advertisers stop buying ad slots for that show.
Want Professional Sportsballers to shut up and play the game? You have to starve them first.
The billionaire owners will still be billionaires if professional sports ended tomorrow. The players, on the other hand, probably won't be millionaires for long judging by the way they spend.
You, sitting at home after work will not be affected much by the cancellation of The Sportsball Show either.
The players and actors need you far more than you need them.
We also need to eradicate the state funded training camps and recruiting stations called "Universities". Call it one of many reasons to kill state funding of colleges.
If Hollywood and Professional Sports can get by on China's money alone, then I think that what they have to say about American politics and society should be ignored. Completely ignored.
I'd also suggest that they be moved to China as well.
In a couple of months we're cutting the cord... uh... It's a satellite receiver, not a cord.
At any rate, we're no longer getting the programming we wanted to pay for and the realization that we're subsidizing professional sports and the channels that specialize in reporting on sports makes the decision easier.
The channels I used to watch no longer have the shows I liked.
Harvey had more inertia than I did about shutting it off, but she's there now.
I have a few questions for the actors and players from Hollywood and Professional Sports.
Where do you think your millions of dollars come from?
What happens when nobody buys a ticket or tunes in?
Lemme answer.
The millions of dollars that pay your salaries come from millions of fans spending a tiny amount in ticket sales, merchandise and being the targets of advertising.
Providing a target for advertising is where sports is making the really big bucks. This is why they are playing to empty stadiums and how they can afford to do so.
Someone is paying the television broadcaster millions upon millions to play their ads during the game. The broadcaster is, in turn, paying Professional Sports millions upon millions to do something that people will tune in to watch, and thus be exposed to the ads.
More people watching translates to higher ratings, higher ratings mean the broadcaster can charge more for an ad slot. Fewer people watching translates to lower ratings, lower ratings means the broadcaster cannot charge as much for an ad slot.
This is where we poors come back into the picture. If we don't watch, we lower the ratings.
While TV plays the game to sell ads, we don't tune in to watch them. We tune in to watch what's playing between the ads. If viewers are not exposed to the ads, advertisers stop buying ad slots for that show.
Want Professional Sportsballers to shut up and play the game? You have to starve them first.
The billionaire owners will still be billionaires if professional sports ended tomorrow. The players, on the other hand, probably won't be millionaires for long judging by the way they spend.
You, sitting at home after work will not be affected much by the cancellation of The Sportsball Show either.
The players and actors need you far more than you need them.
We also need to eradicate the state funded training camps and recruiting stations called "Universities". Call it one of many reasons to kill state funding of colleges.
If Hollywood and Professional Sports can get by on China's money alone, then I think that what they have to say about American politics and society should be ignored. Completely ignored.
I'd also suggest that they be moved to China as well.
17 July 2020
Serious Comorbidity
Elasto-kinetic deceleration trauma is now a co-morbidity leading to Wu Ping Cough death.
Dude gets splattered on a bike, but it's not the accident that killed him, but COVID-19?
And the government wonders why we're starting to ignore them.
Dude gets splattered on a bike, but it's not the accident that killed him, but COVID-19?
And the government wonders why we're starting to ignore them.
Time To Switch To Decaf
Wow!
That could have gone... better.
And at the end of the day, someone who clearly didn't like the cops already has their opinion set into stone.
King Of Florida Jailed
Florida man jailed for arranging to have sex with a 14 year old in Vancouver.
He figured she'd be 18 by the time he got there.
We must rescue our sovereign!
He figured she'd be 18 by the time he got there.
We must rescue our sovereign!
Even Better
I had assumed that the infographic posted by the NMAAHC was created by a racist.
What I, apparently, got wrong was what kind of racist.
WOW.
What I, apparently, got wrong was what kind of racist.
WOW.
National Tattoo Day
Short of LGBT rights and abortion, I've found no topic quite as polarizing as tattoos.
There's even slurs for each camp!
As a dirty inky, I celebrate today.
There's even slurs for each camp!
As a dirty inky, I celebrate today.
16 July 2020
Too Late Comrade
African-American Museum takes down the infographic I posted earlier.
The fact that I (and many MANY MANY others) posted it earlier, and the internet is forever, means they're going to be dealing with their stupid decision for a long time.
I hope that it leads to new and better management and a focus on history that's not needlessly confrontational and divisive.
The fact that I (and many MANY MANY others) posted it earlier, and the internet is forever, means they're going to be dealing with their stupid decision for a long time.
I hope that it leads to new and better management and a focus on history that's not needlessly confrontational and divisive.
Arrrgh!
Replaced the battery in the UPS.
Plugged three things that needed uninterrupted power into the "surge only" side.
Thunderstorm this afternoon took out the power for a minute here, a minute there.
And shut down those three things.
Repeatedly and just after I'd gotten them running again.
I took me way too long to remember I'd screwed up the plugs.
Plugged three things that needed uninterrupted power into the "surge only" side.
Thunderstorm this afternoon took out the power for a minute here, a minute there.
And shut down those three things.
Repeatedly and just after I'd gotten them running again.
I took me way too long to remember I'd screwed up the plugs.
Set The Bar Low
Software Janitor mentions, "It just sounds like they want to burn down all of society and they have a very low bar with what to replace it with."
Have I got a surprise for them!
What keeps that low-bar society from, itself, being replaced by "white society"?
A "white society" which will dispense with the niceties of the society which the low-bar society supplanted.
The rules will be different.
It's dangerous to make large changes to an existing civilization without hard thought about the consequences of those changes.
The savages getting their way might be the fastest route to peace.
So is going straight down the rock-strewn rapids.
Have I got a surprise for them!
What keeps that low-bar society from, itself, being replaced by "white society"?
A "white society" which will dispense with the niceties of the society which the low-bar society supplanted.
The rules will be different.
It's dangerous to make large changes to an existing civilization without hard thought about the consequences of those changes.
The savages getting their way might be the fastest route to peace.
So is going straight down the rock-strewn rapids.
Tinkering
Both the set of stocks that came with my CMP M1911A1 and the set I liberated from the trash in the Army are not matched from side to side.
Nor could I make a match from either pair.
So I ordered a matching set from Simpson's.
Much better.
Nor could I make a match from either pair.
So I ordered a matching set from Simpson's.
Much better.
Trinity
I just noticed that this didn't post on time because an 18 looks like a 16 when you skip wearing your glasses. It's retroactively been posted to the correct time.
75 years ago, just this moment, the very first atomic explosion occurred.
Gadget worked as hoped and didn't ignite the atmosphere or fizzle.
75 years ago, just this moment, the very first atomic explosion occurred.
Gadget worked as hoped and didn't ignite the atmosphere or fizzle.
Pscyhological Does Not Mean Fake
There's two huge reasons why I get pissed at bigots who can't grasp something like gender dysphoria and separate it from being a child molester.
First, the class I didn't take that would have completed my bachelor's of science in psychology was English. 3 credits of English separated me from graduation with the degree.
It's not that I didn't learn the material, my summer internship convinced me I didn't want to be a psychologist.
Second, I have an invisible psychological problem. Two, really.
Misophonia is real and obscure. You've no idea how many times I have to remind close friends that what they're doing is setting it off.
It's just as irritating for them to accommodate me as it is for me to deal with their small movements and noises.
Being constantly dismissed because I have no physical indication of affliction and the person not understanding what I'm dealing with is very frustrating.
There's a third thing too.
Way back in high school, when I was being bullied constantly for being a gamer and dirt-head...
The only other clique in the entire school that treated us gamers as humans were the queers.
Not the computer nerds.
Not the jocks.
Not the cheerleaders.
The queers.
You people who didn't get your comment approved? You sound just like the jocks who'd torment us because we really just wanted left alone.
I'm older and wiser now, and you assholes are meaningless. You seek validation in the abuse of others because there's some failing of yours that you cannot bring yourself to face.
You should get counseling. You could benefit from it.
Me, I've learned to have compassion for the suffering of others because I'm living with my own, personal, brand of suffering.
A suffering I cannot help, cannot treat and cannot readily explain.
Suffering from this is not a crime, not matter how tormented I am and how fervently I wish the idiot at the bar would stop chewing like a pig and bouncing his knee. It's a crime when I attack him.
Dressing like a woman to alleviate a symptom of dysphoria isn't a crime.
Fucking a child is a crime. EVEN IF YOU DRESS LIKE A MAN. Which, by the way you uneducated dolts, is how most molesters dress. The molester seeks camouflage, to be invisible to evade attention. Children twig on someone dressing unusually, and that puts them on guard.
But you were so damn eager to be a bigot you didn't bother checking what the real circumstances of pederasty are.
First, the class I didn't take that would have completed my bachelor's of science in psychology was English. 3 credits of English separated me from graduation with the degree.
It's not that I didn't learn the material, my summer internship convinced me I didn't want to be a psychologist.
Second, I have an invisible psychological problem. Two, really.
Misophonia is real and obscure. You've no idea how many times I have to remind close friends that what they're doing is setting it off.
It's just as irritating for them to accommodate me as it is for me to deal with their small movements and noises.
Being constantly dismissed because I have no physical indication of affliction and the person not understanding what I'm dealing with is very frustrating.
There's a third thing too.
Way back in high school, when I was being bullied constantly for being a gamer and dirt-head...
The only other clique in the entire school that treated us gamers as humans were the queers.
Not the computer nerds.
Not the jocks.
Not the cheerleaders.
The queers.
You people who didn't get your comment approved? You sound just like the jocks who'd torment us because we really just wanted left alone.
I'm older and wiser now, and you assholes are meaningless. You seek validation in the abuse of others because there's some failing of yours that you cannot bring yourself to face.
You should get counseling. You could benefit from it.
Me, I've learned to have compassion for the suffering of others because I'm living with my own, personal, brand of suffering.
A suffering I cannot help, cannot treat and cannot readily explain.
Suffering from this is not a crime, not matter how tormented I am and how fervently I wish the idiot at the bar would stop chewing like a pig and bouncing his knee. It's a crime when I attack him.
Dressing like a woman to alleviate a symptom of dysphoria isn't a crime.
Fucking a child is a crime. EVEN IF YOU DRESS LIKE A MAN. Which, by the way you uneducated dolts, is how most molesters dress. The molester seeks camouflage, to be invisible to evade attention. Children twig on someone dressing unusually, and that puts them on guard.
But you were so damn eager to be a bigot you didn't bother checking what the real circumstances of pederasty are.
15 July 2020
Name Calling
If you think that the words "gender dysphoria" and "pedophile" are the same; you are (at best) illiterate or (at worst) deeply stupid.
They are not conditions which go together any place but a bigot's mind.
They are not conditions which go together any place but a bigot's mind.
Why Africa Sinks
In one handy, and bigoted, infographic!
The National Museum of African American History and Culture must be... uh... I can't tell what they're trying to do here.
What I do know is that all of my friends of enhanced melanin count adhere to all of these points and all are more successful than I am at most things.
This infographic is a roadmap to success, should anyone dare to travel the road and it's available to anyone to use regardless of skin-tone.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture must be... uh... I can't tell what they're trying to do here.
What I do know is that all of my friends of enhanced melanin count adhere to all of these points and all are more successful than I am at most things.
This infographic is a roadmap to success, should anyone dare to travel the road and it's available to anyone to use regardless of skin-tone.
More Data Is Bad
The more I learn about some things, the worse I am going to be for the unprepared player come my next Traveller campaign.
It's just little snips here and there, but the details start adding up and they lay traps for the unsuspecting player who doesn't think to ask or consult their skills.
Stuff like watching a documentary on the 15 year servicing of a Boeing 777.
Stuff like reading a forum thread where Navy vets are all comparing their damage control, fire and yard stories. This is a real gem for information that can be translated to something to mess with the players!
It's just little snips here and there, but the details start adding up and they lay traps for the unsuspecting player who doesn't think to ask or consult their skills.
Stuff like watching a documentary on the 15 year servicing of a Boeing 777.
Stuff like reading a forum thread where Navy vets are all comparing their damage control, fire and yard stories. This is a real gem for information that can be translated to something to mess with the players!
It's A Miracle!
I just changed the batteries in my mini-Maglite.
This might be the second time in my entire life that I've done this where the reason for changing them was simple depletion.
I've killed lots of these things from leaking batteries.
I've lost so many I've lost count.
I intend to celebrate!
This might be the second time in my entire life that I've done this where the reason for changing them was simple depletion.
I've killed lots of these things from leaking batteries.
I've lost so many I've lost count.
I intend to celebrate!
Putting The U Back In Uninterruptable
New batts installed.
Status screen happy about the situation on the UPS.
Happy camper!
Status screen happy about the situation on the UPS.
Happy camper!
Trying To Get Out Of Being Punished
Florida cities are fighting to stop penalties of $5,000 and removal from office, if they pass local gun regulations.
I notice that they're not trying to get the preemption repealed, just the penalties for violating it.
Seems like a conspiracy to commit a crime to me.
"We intend to break this law, and would like the penalties eliminated."
This Is Something
Florida labs found to be lying.
From the way they caved to the press, I am left wondering if it's the place they reported to that's ignoring the negative tests and then sending the inflated numbers to the public.
I'd wondered what had changed in the reporting when suddenly we went from 6% or so daily positive tests to 20%.
PS: Despite the spike in cases and deaths, crude CFR continues to fall. It's the breathless reporting on the totals that's making this seem terrifying.
PPS: If this is the cause of the spike here in Florida and not the labs screwing about with the numbers, then I propose internal border checkpoints.
From the way they caved to the press, I am left wondering if it's the place they reported to that's ignoring the negative tests and then sending the inflated numbers to the public.
I'd wondered what had changed in the reporting when suddenly we went from 6% or so daily positive tests to 20%.
PS: Despite the spike in cases and deaths, crude CFR continues to fall. It's the breathless reporting on the totals that's making this seem terrifying.
PPS: If this is the cause of the spike here in Florida and not the labs screwing about with the numbers, then I propose internal border checkpoints.
By The Way
You can reject a lot of the wokeness about transgender stuff and not be a bigot about it.
The woke LGBT side of this is just as bigoted as the "let's be pricks about it" straight side.
Remember, I stated that we treat the people afflicted with dysphoria with compassion and not to be assholes about something that they literally cannot control and doesn't have an effective cure.
But we should not be tormenting language to eliminate actual physical and biological descriptors.
We'd be far better off figuring out new terms and destigmatizing people who're different from us.
The woke LGBT side of this is just as bigoted as the "let's be pricks about it" straight side.
Remember, I stated that we treat the people afflicted with dysphoria with compassion and not to be assholes about something that they literally cannot control and doesn't have an effective cure.
But we should not be tormenting language to eliminate actual physical and biological descriptors.
We'd be far better off figuring out new terms and destigmatizing people who're different from us.
14 July 2020
It Just Didn't Exist When I Started
I recently became aware that my spiffy Canon M50 has a firmware version.
That means that there could be firmware updates.
Pretty standard stuff for computerized stuff, really, but not something I'd thought applied to cameras.
Turns out, there's firmware versions for the lenses too!
The procedure is dirt simple and unneeded at this time because the camera and lenses came with the latest firmware.
That means that there could be firmware updates.
Pretty standard stuff for computerized stuff, really, but not something I'd thought applied to cameras.
Turns out, there's firmware versions for the lenses too!
The procedure is dirt simple and unneeded at this time because the camera and lenses came with the latest firmware.
Escape Evade Infiltrate Eliminate
Another recurring trope with tabletop RPG groups in the paramilitary genre...
Once an employer fucks them, they are going to kill that employer.
To the point of completely eliminating their entire organization from the bottom to the top.
Sometimes they're subtle.
Sometimes they're subtle like a velvet wrapped nickel-iron asteroid augering in at a significant fraction of c.
One thing is certain, they're coming for you Bossmang.
If you're lucky you can turn yourself into the cops and get a quick sentence to Galapticon 9.
If you're not... Rob Zombie would have trouble with dinner after hearing how creative players can be about prolonging the end.
Once an employer fucks them, they are going to kill that employer.
To the point of completely eliminating their entire organization from the bottom to the top.
Sometimes they're subtle.
Sometimes they're subtle like a velvet wrapped nickel-iron asteroid augering in at a significant fraction of c.
One thing is certain, they're coming for you Bossmang.
If you're lucky you can turn yourself into the cops and get a quick sentence to Galapticon 9.
If you're not... Rob Zombie would have trouble with dinner after hearing how creative players can be about prolonging the end.
Extraction
Watching Extraction and at the point where Rake has the kid... uh... extracted and there's fuckery going on about his team being paid for the job just before the bad guys start taking his team out.
I know what my players would have done if they'd been the rescue team.
The kid would be dead.
The only question would have been if it would have taken significant time for the kid to die, but he'd be dead once the people who hired them to rescue the brat failed to pay.
This trope is as consistent with this genre of tabletop RPG as "you meet in a tavern".
I know what my players would have done if they'd been the rescue team.
The kid would be dead.
The only question would have been if it would have taken significant time for the kid to die, but he'd be dead once the people who hired them to rescue the brat failed to pay.
This trope is as consistent with this genre of tabletop RPG as "you meet in a tavern".
And He Teaches Our Children
I think it's time to purge the bigots off the side bar again.
Divemedic keeps posting his gorilla analog to transgender.
It's the "Be A Prick" school of dealing with LGBT.
I already posted my thoughts on his stupidity and got a lengthy diatribe from Aesop in the comments.
I suspect that, like abortion, it's GOD who's made up their minds and not an actual rational thought process.
The justification to be pricks to LGBT boils down to having to do something they don't like.
I don't accept that from a 5-year old, why would I accept that rationale from an "adult"?
I'm sick of people being bigots about this. I've too many friends who've spent time in e-rooms from the attentions of the likes of Aesop and Dive Medic.
Divemedic keeps posting his gorilla analog to transgender.
It's the "Be A Prick" school of dealing with LGBT.
I already posted my thoughts on his stupidity and got a lengthy diatribe from Aesop in the comments.
I suspect that, like abortion, it's GOD who's made up their minds and not an actual rational thought process.
The justification to be pricks to LGBT boils down to having to do something they don't like.
I don't accept that from a 5-year old, why would I accept that rationale from an "adult"?
I'm sick of people being bigots about this. I've too many friends who've spent time in e-rooms from the attentions of the likes of Aesop and Dive Medic.
13 July 2020
Wrap Around Magazine
The Krag-Jørgenson is famous for it's magazine.
Here's some pics with my new, photogenic snap-caps!
Here's some pics with my new, photogenic snap-caps!
 |
| Magazine Cut-Off On |
 | |
| Magazine Cut-Off Off - The round is presented just a little further into the feedway. |
IPS
My uninterruptible power source has decided to be interruptible.
Dead batts.
I discovered this the hard way when the power gave a hiccup during a thunderstorm.
New batts on order.
Dead batts.
I discovered this the hard way when the power gave a hiccup during a thunderstorm.
New batts on order.
Greyhound
Surprisingly, I am not screaming at the screen at how inaccurate Greyhound is.
If you've seen any WW2 sub v destroyer movie, you've seen this plot.
That doesn't mean it's not well done this go.
I recommend it.
If you've seen any WW2 sub v destroyer movie, you've seen this plot.
That doesn't mean it's not well done this go.
I recommend it.
12 July 2020
USS Bonhomme Richard Is Ablaze
LHD-6 is on fire.
Skeleton crew aboard for routine maintenance.
Fingers crossed that it looks worse than it is.
I'm betting a weld started the fire. It's far too common.
The comments from Facebook are actually getting hilarious.
Apparently a significant number of people are unaware that ship names are recycled.
LHD-6 is the third ship of the name. Preceded by CV-31 and John Paul Jones' Revolutionary War frigate.
Skeleton crew aboard for routine maintenance.
Fingers crossed that it looks worse than it is.
I'm betting a weld started the fire. It's far too common.
The comments from Facebook are actually getting hilarious.
Apparently a significant number of people are unaware that ship names are recycled.
LHD-6 is the third ship of the name. Preceded by CV-31 and John Paul Jones' Revolutionary War frigate.
This Is My Shocked Face
We now have pictures of the home-invaders.
Well, the dead ones. Is anyone else just absolutely shocked that they had mugshots already?
I'm waiting for either some overzealous DA to file charges on the homeowner or some sort of race-bait-riot to start at his house.
Supposedly the jammed firearm was a Glock 19.
Update: After thinking about the victim's statement a bit, I wonder if the "jam" was simply running out of ammo.
Well, the dead ones. Is anyone else just absolutely shocked that they had mugshots already?
I'm waiting for either some overzealous DA to file charges on the homeowner or some sort of race-bait-riot to start at his house.
Supposedly the jammed firearm was a Glock 19.
Update: After thinking about the victim's statement a bit, I wonder if the "jam" was simply running out of ammo.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)