Staying focused is so hard. I wanna polish up the story to help me figure out the way into the next few chapters but then I get like- a third or a chapter edited and wanna go back to drawing fhdhdh

OOC Discourse is always a complicated topic, cause on one hand it IS reductive to go like... there ARE instances where the fans have a better grasp on a character than the actual canon writers do. Especially when you consider bigger creative projects with multiple writers, and especially especially the long-running ones where the original creators are basically uninvolved and everything ‘canon’ that’s being made right now is basically copyrighter-holders-approved-fanfiction. And even in the smaller-scale projects, sometimes the creator writes in something kinda OOC for the sake of pacing or plot or a stupid joke, or maybe they’re just not very good at it and they fucked up. There are cases where fan complaints about canon-material being ‘OOC’ is valid and should be considered.

But on the other hand, there are far too many fans who throw in the “OOC” claim when, like, canon just happens to contradict their favorite not-actually-textually-supported-headcanon, or contradict a version of the character that has kinda mutated through a fandom-wide game of Telephone. Or just like, refusing to engage with the idea that the character might contain more than the surface-level we were initially introduced to, or that people might react Differently in Different Situations, or that Character Development is a thing. And I feel like the folks who are complaining that the Deltarune “The Newest Girl Girl” blogpost is “OOC” for Kris, Susie and Noelle are really a case of the second thing?

Like, first things first, trying to authoritatively label anything Kris does as “OOC” is, in my humble opinion, aboslutely friggin’ clownshoes right now. Kris is the most enigmatic character in Deltarune’s main cast. Because we’re controlling them, we can only can only infer what they are like from the glimpses of their true personality and behavior slipping in through the cracks and from stories told to us by their friends and family. There’s a lot of cool interpetation and analysis work done by the Fandom about Kris’ personality from the little info we have and a lot of it is well-reasoned and well-argued-for but... 

When we get one of the first canon scenes descriptions featuring a (probably?) not posessed Kris, and their behavior in some way happens contradict your Kris Interpetation? I think the correct reaction is less “this so OOC” as much as “hmmm, maybe I need to reconsider some things in my personal interpetation of the characrter?” We’re still in the early stages of the process of assembling the puzzle pieces of Kris’ personality, this is not really the time where we can throw away pieces cause we think they won’t fit?

And Noelle, she felt very consistent with her character so far to me? We already know that freezing up during scary situations is a problem for her - her inability to actually stand up against jerks was, like, her whole character arc in the second chapter. Mostly the focus was about how folks kept overriding her desires and forcing her to do things, but there’s also an undercurrent to how it’s stopping her from meaningfully defending her friends. Espacially when you consider her dynamic with Berdly and his dynamic with Susie and Kris... Honestly, if she behaved better through that whole encounter that could have somewhat diminished the importance of her Big Moment in the climax of Chapter 2. 

And as for Susie.... Yeah, right now we all love and appreciate Susie as the most Wholesome Delta Warrior and the bestest friend of them all - but you remember what happened in Chapter 1, right? She did start out as a bully. She slammed Kris against a locker, threathened to eat their face, constantly insulted them and then spent a good chunk of the Chapter just beating up everyone and everything in the Dark World. These actions stand in contrast to the sweeter side that she shows later on in the game, but it doesn’t negate them or negate the idea that she might’ve done more stuff like that before.

I think you can argue that what Susie did in the blogpost is worse than what she did in Chapter 1, just in the sense that “your mother WILL abandon you and will be happier without you!” is crueler in a much more personal way than “I will eat your face”. But not really in the sense of “Susie would have NEVER said something like this!” as much as “what would prompt Susie to say something like that?” Was she going through a praticularly rough time after moving into Hometown, causing her to take out her own frustrations and insecurities on Kris much more than later on? Was this a spesifically Bad Day? Did... whatever Kris told her in reply really shook her emotionally that much? Did she end up regretting her words and deeds on some level and started mellowing out even before Chapter 1 start? There are a lot of interesting possibilities!

I guess that’s what frustrates me the most about a knee-jerk “OOC Writing” reaction for every time a character catches the fandom off-guard. A sort of refusal to really engage with the text and it’s implication for the characters before you just chuck the text in the grabage. I think this is very much supposed to be a ‘how far they’ve come’ sort of thingie, contrasting the characters as they existed in this blog pre-character development with the better-adujsted post-Dark World Adventure versions we experienced in the game. We’re supposed to to feel some sort of emotional vertigo from how Noelle, Susie and Kris interact here to how they interact by the end of Chapter 2 - but that’s not because of Bad Writing, just cause these kids are changing and growing!

Doom WADs’ Roulette Bonus Round: Nuts 3

As a reminder from my Earth WAD retrospective, this review was made from playing this map with No Monsters enabled. While it is possible to finish this map normally, it wasn’t tested with monsters from what I’ve read on the Doomology site, and... come on people! It’s one of the Nuts installments! These maps are basically shitposts at this point.

B10: Nuts 3

Main author(s): B.P.R.D

Release date: June 28th, 2003 (database upload)

Version played: ???

Required port compatibility: ZDoom (the most compatible at the time of release)

Levels: 1 (MAP01 replacement)

So yeah, we are skipping straight into the third installment of this trilogy of Joke maps; because the first one got a spot in the Top 100 Most Memorable Maps, and the second one wasn’t even tacked on by MtPain27. So now we are stuck with Nuts 3 - Triple the Nut, Double the Mongoose.

So here is the backstory of this trilogy for people who don’t know: Nuts started out as a test map to see if B.P.R.D can upload Equinox into the database without any problems. It was a success... at the cost of making B.P.R.D famous only for this map and not really Equinox.

So in June 2003, B.P.R.D uploaded another version of this map called Nuts 2 - 2nd and/or 1st Anniversary Gold Plated Plutonic Aloy Coated Eight volume Nuclear Donkey Edit, which is basically an actual shitpost of a map, rather than just an upload test. And not even June passed and he released Nuts 3, an actual sequel to the first map.

The plot is no less insane than any other map’s plot written by B.P.R.D: You buy a black balloon for your Nanna’s birthday (I guess you tie it to her grave since you are probably playing as Doomguy). Then the balloon starts getting bigger until it pops, and you end up god knows where (the text file says it’s some kind of meteorite with an ancient temple on the west). Now try getting out there.

With all of that out of the way, why won’t we finally take a look at the last installment and see how it all ended.

There is no denying, folks; this map is fucking blyatiful. For a shitpost map, B.P.R.D took his time to make it look incredible. Then again, it’s B.P.R.D. All of his maps/WADs that I covered looked amazing.

The same can be said about the music. I don’t even need to say anything else just check the track out yourself:

Nuts 3 is rather easy to understand. You must reach the top of the Star Temple to use the star beam to come back to your reality.

There is some stuff worth finding out. For instance, you can find a sign leading to the Equinox facility, implying that this map and the Equinox WAD might share the same universe.

Also, in the northern part of the map, you can find a star-shaped teleporter that will take you to the Secret Place (Rest your weary FPS) full of goodies.

Look, folks, if you actually want to play this map with monsters enabled, be prepared for an absolute nightmare. A sea of demons at the very beginning, sprayed later with Arch-viles resurrecting the corpses and screwing you over, topped with a tower where you end up surrounded by Cyberdemons. Not to even mention five Cyberdemon rocketeers spraying you with rockets as you climb the temple.

The reskin of the BFG doesn’t help you either. Say hello to another case of Nuts 3 shitposting. Now looking like some kind of portable, orbital strike caller, while functioning the same way as BFG, it doesn’t show any particles. Not from shooting. Not from hitting the enemy. Nothing at all.

There is one bug I’ve encountered while playing Nuts 3. On a certain high level of the temple, if you take a look at the rocket platforms, the invisible platforms that simulate these things flying will go apeshit and show you a floor texture rocket platforms have.

Also, from what I’ve heard and seen, some of the demons get stuck within each other and can’t move.

The best way I can describe Nuts 3 is a high-quality shitpost. B.P.R.D could just stop on Nuts 2 and go on with his life and yet he decided to make this map too; in just two weeks.

If you are interested in watching some madmen managing to finish this map, even killing every possible demon on the map, here’s a video of Decino doing it, and also the part on MtPain27’s first Sawed-Off WADs fun pack where he talks about the map... with some pretty pretentious descriptions how the music feels like (starts at 14:13):

There is one last bonus map to check out before finally kickstarting the 2005 roster. Tune in next time, folks, as we will come back to Hellcore to take a look at its MAP32.

Bye!

Recap for Roswell: New Mexico S2E12: “Crash Into Me”: con drama 

Buckle up: we are officially in the home fucking stretch. The compounding lies in the Max/Liz relationship (each constructed out of a misguided attempt to ‘protect’ the other, each digging deeper and wider holes that will eventually connect, like the holes in the movie Holes, into a small canyon of deceit)are getting bigger. Liz groks the excessive antidote use; Max is bursting lightbulbs in the desert (is this his ‘light cardio’? it’s like he’s asking to have another heart attack). Meanwhile they only halfway resolve their fight about her continued interest in using alien DNA to solve every health issue in the world. They’re able to avoid these couples’ trust issues because they have much bigger problems, but stressful times are no cure for unresolved arguments. We’re building toward an impasse here, folks.

Meanwhile, we get some rapid-fire exposition via Isobel, who mind-reads her niece Mimi and learns that, whatever else is going on with Helena, she has known Rosa’s been alive all season. It’s revenge that drives her. But time-untethered Mimi feels absolutely certain that Helena wouldn’t do anything to hurt the missing members of our party (or, she says later, “our girls” - so sans Charlie, maybe she’s not talking about them). When Helena says she’s going to war, does she mean at Jesse’s side or...secretly against him? We’ve all seen how well it goes when one of our heroes tries to break stuff from the inside, but maybe she’s devious enough to succeed where the much less seasoned Alex failed? It’s interesting to have her here, and she’s becoming a much more faceted character than originally supposed, but I also can’t help but feel that her connections to the overall plot are rather rushed for the sake of a late-season reveal. It’ll even out if we get more of her later, but for now I feel like I’m scrambling to catch up. 

It’s clear from the outset that Michael’s incentive to work on the biobomb - seeing Alex - is never going to come to fruition, at least if their captors get what they want. What they want is for Michael and Charlie to complete a weapon for finely-tuned ethnic cleansing, a weapon whose initial component Charlie invented for what she naively thought would be “good, in the right hands.” But it’s like she said earlier in the season; she has learned too late that any invention, no matter how benevolently thought up, can be put to a destructive use. And even her initial reasons weren’t entirely benevolent - she told Liz she was thinking about its medical applications, but she tells Michael now she was also thinking about its wartime uses. And it’s the military: they’re gonna go for the ethnic cleansing. It doesn’t take two geniuses trapped in a room with unassembled bomb parts to figure the ideal test target is likely to be the aliens, nor to realize it wouldn’t stop there. Now they are become death - if they do what they’re told. 

Max and Cam are back together, buddy copping their way through the last of the Valenti connections - it was Jim who helped get Rosa to the pod, who probably hoped, before his death, that Noah would help him revive her. Helena has kept a ton of his stuff, and from the looks of it was mourning him for years. He also comes clean to Cam about his antidote usage after she hounds him a bit about his sweaty, clammy looks. He keeps hoping it will give him a clue to his pre-crash identity, pushing at the boundaries of his health in the chance that he’ll remember something important. Maybe he’ll listen to a warning from Cam that he won’t listen to from Liz...but I wouldn’t count on it. 

Meanwhile, back at the kidnapping, Michael points out the obvious: his work on the bomb is complete, and he’s still alive. This points to bigger goals than ‘just kill a couple of aliens,’ and because he is Michael and never met an authority figure he couldn’t mouth off to, he tries to...well, negotiate would be a strong word. But he pleads with Helena to reconsider - her daughters will never forgive her - though she says that ship has sailed. And for that matter, she’s probably right. But she does concede that her goals don’t align completely with the Manes’, and offers a third version of the disaster adage those guys are always spouting off. Is she a mole? 

If I were kidnapping someone, and he happened to carry around with him at all times a blunt object that he could use either to hit me and possibly overpower me or to merely run away from me, I too would steal it from him and hide it where he couldn’t get it. As a sibling, however, if my brother had a tool he required in order to walk, I probably wouldn’t steal it from him and hide it where he couldn’t get it, unless I was being a real dick. It is in this situation that we at last find Alex, who probably never assumed that he’d have to worry about leg thieves on top of everything else he’s been through. And, characteristically, leg theft is far from his biggest worry in today’s lineup of events. There’s also murderous sibling, murderous parent, love of his life in danger of both regular death and death by hypertargeted ethnic cleansing...the list goes on. What a fuckin’ year, huh? 

Their reunion is brief but tender, and no sooner has Michael fallen not entirely platonically into his arms than he’s added another problem to the list: Helena’s version of fighting from the inside is to swap components in the building process. Her target is Maneses; Jesse specifically, as Jim’s murderer, but she’ll be happy to take Flint down with him. Presumably, those of his sons outside the blast zone will be spared. Michael, for Alex’s sake, still intends to try and do something about the attack - but also for Alex’s sake, refuses to rescue him just yet. Ah, a classic lover’s quarrel.

In the lull before the big CrashCon showdown, we have time for another, rather worse, one. Max says Jesse Manes is a murderer (and was planning on adding to his body count) and deserves what’s coming to him, even if Helena’s methods are extreme (true). Liz says any crime committed by a member of a marginalized group gets fixated on, and creates backlash against, that group, and she has a right to be terrified and upset about the idea of her mother getting caught (true). Liz says that anyone who is a member of the acceptable class or can pass within it cannot possibly ‘get’ the experience of someone who can’t or doesn’t (true). Max says Liz’s attempts to gain recognition through her scientific work smack of glory-chasing and that she can’t exceptional-minority-myth her way to world-saving happiness (...true). They’re getting further away from the task by the minute, and closer to the crux of the problem between them. Liz’s perfectionism and sense of achievement have always been about both fear and obsession, but she’s not the only one with a chip on her shoulder about saviorism. I mean, it’s Max. The impasse is creeping - no, hurtling - into sight. 

And then we’re in the home stretch’s home stretch. In the course of their argument, Liz talks her way into one of the biggest flaws in her mother’s revenge plan - it can’t be turned into a quiet affair. Jesse’s a noted glory hound himself, and he would receive no recognition from the deaths of a few small-town citizens of seemingly arbitrary causes, especially since this first group of targets can pass for majority. He would want his work, and his reasons, noted and agreed with. He would want funding and approval, would want to ensure that he could keep using his weapon, for whatever purposes he deemed fit. He would need the genuine article if he wanted to convince his public that the threat he’s ‘defeating’ is real. And he has one: the rebuilt remains of Nora’s last project, now in the hands of that annoying museum curator and on full display in the middle of the fairground. Max reckons he knows what it is (remote for a ship; Michael gives him the most incredulous ‘what’ which seems more to do with the fact that he’s being shown up on alien mechanics by Max of all people) - but what it is seems far less important at this juncture than what it does, which is, historically, to explode very easily. It’s being stored in the most fire-hazardous way possible, the better to discreetly set it off. The blast will create the right environment for Jesse to launch his DNA bomb, and the paper trail he’s laid out will lead straight to his victims. One has to assume that Helena did not know the full extent of this plan; for all her impulsiveness, lack of foresight, and personal weaknesses she is not the kind of person who would allow a collateral damage as large as we’re looking at just to ensure the death of one man. 

Speaking of, let’s talk about villain motives. Last year’s villain was one man, who used his relative anonymity to manipulate, abuse, and kill individuals who were equally as overlooked as he was. His death and the aftermath of what he’d done could only be talked about freely among a small group of people, most of them his surviving victims. In a small-town story, even the most brutal struggles exist on the micro scale; conflicts are between individuals, and perhaps that’s why it took me nearly as long as the characters to fully grasp the impact of this new antagonist’s motives. Even though Jesse Manes started out talking about large-scale things, he had gradually fallen into the general background layer of feuding and rivalry, and just like his son, I underestimated him. The conflict is bigger than his attempts to live up to what he perceives as his family’s legacy. It is bigger than a grieving woman trying to end him in a way she feels is fitting to his crimes. It is bigger than his hatred for a specific group of three people living quiet lives in Roswell. 

If he fails tonight, he will likely hardly suffer. Sure, he’s literally planning a terror attack, but he is a white, resspected veteran, and society will find a way to excuse his actions even as our heroes, lest they risk exposure, struggle to provide proof of what he’s capable of. Succeeding, he will harm, probably kill, dozens of people (and that’s a conservative estimate), adding to the already boiling atmosphere of xenophobia and intolerance that informs not only his worldview but that of half of his children, many of his neighbors, and absolutely his authorities. The stakes are not tidy or personal now. 

I’ll admit, I was surprised to see ‘conspiracy thriller’ win out over ‘revenge killing’ - though not displeased. This show sometimes stumbles into or out of its forays into social and political commentary, but in the final stretch of the episode it fires on all cylinders. Our little Scooby Gang isn’t the cast of Person of Interest; they’ve never had to thwart domestic terrorism before. They’re a bunch of mostly-unemployed twenty-nine-year-olds, and the only one with anything approaching experience is chained up miles away so he doesn’t die in Helena’s counterattack. But not for long. Our local cinderella man (trapped by a cruel family, wants to go to the festival, looking for a lost foot shoe) is fully fed up waiting. When Flint next comes in to taunt him, he figuratively jumps at the opportunity. First he appeals to compassion - not that Flint has that anymore. Then he tries heritage - it sounds like once upon a time his big brother used to have softness and creative impulses of his own. “When was the last time,” he asks, “that you made something that wasn’t supposed to be destructive?” 

But Flint doesn’t have any respect for weaving, or stories, or the quiet pleasure taken in giving life to something that’s just nice to look at or comforting to wrap around your shoulders. He doesn’t hum new bars of music to himself to while away the captivity. He doesn’t take out his pent-up trauma on something useful, like firewood. He’s got one hobby, and that’s being the best Manes man he can be. Dad didn’t mess him up! It’s just Alex that’s that way! Alex is the pathetic one. He and Clay turned out fine! (Up to this point, I had forgotten Clay existed. This may actually be the first time Brother #4’s name has even been mentioned. Wherever he is, he sounds like a chip off the old block). Even Gregory’s going to CrashCon! By now he is right up in Alex’s face, which means he’s within kicking distance. Cinderella brains Drizella and grabs the keys. Risk of dying in a targeted DNA bomb be damned, he’s getting his foot and he’s getting the fuck out of here. 

He arrives after dark, as the rest of the gang try futilely to minimize the damage they know is coming. Liz tears off to the lab, where she concocts something that seems to be working correctly when it explodes a beaker - but she’s followed in secret by Diego, who I guess is already tired of being a tertiary character. Rosa and Maria (and Cam, elsewhere) are trying to figure out how in the hell to evacuate a whole fairground, bumping into Greg Manes (he’s not just your cool brother, he’s a mild-mannered grade school teacher! Good lord!) and awkwardly telling him to get his field trip back on the bus and out of the line of fire. And Michael’s bang on the money when he takes one look at Nora's project and decides Max and his tachycardia aren’t allowed near it because he might accidentally set it on fire. 

Then Flint shows up. He’s overpowered Charlie and arrived with Jesse’s bomb canister (the one Charlie was supposed to dismantle). And then Alex confronts his dad. And then Max decides the most useful thing he can possibly do is singlehandedly try to stop Flint from completing the attack and it’s one exertion too many on top of his constant insistence that he’s totally fine, god, guys, quit making such a big deal about the fact that I almost died of heart failure this year! 

The fireworks have ignited the Highly Flammable Location. Charlie is trapped in the burning house. Jesse is this close to setting off one bomb canister (the one that’ll kill him and also three-quarters of his family). Maria’s finds the other bomb canister and chucks it way out into a field, but not before she starts bleeding in a super-distressing way. Gregory finds his family at the exact wrong time and so does Michael and a shooting seems very extremely imminent. Max tries to hand-kill Flint??? And maybe succeeds? And then has another heart attack — Rosa and Liz stand frantically over him — 

It’s a cliffhanger, folks! We’ll see you next week. 

A fun nod to the fact that these characters would swear so much more if they weren’t on network TV from Rosa, who has resorted to saying ‘give a duck’: “Oh, I just found out about autocorrect, it’s hilarious.” 

Arturo’s Arturo’s Churros hat. That man loves him some novelty headgear.

Alex, in any situation where he could use Michael’s first name: lastnames him

Liz still with the Mikey: exact opposite situation. Trusted friends and research partners can nickname you but the love of your life will call you what he’s called you since twelfth grade because anything else would either indicate a moment too intimate for words or be too weird 

Max, still miffed about not being as much of a Fitness Guy as Kyle and Diego: “I don’t think they drink beers; it’s not keto.” Don’t worry, king, I like your lack of ab definition, and that’s not sarcasm I mean it sincerely. I think you need more of a muffin top.

“I was held hostage, Max! I deserve to ride the Scrambler until I barf cotton candy...and maybe watch a bad man die :)”

In the Manes family, if you are named after a rock or a geographical feature, you’re a really fucked up dude. If you have a basic-guy name you’re chill though 

“She...doesn’t wanna kill aliens?” “Nope. Avenging her murdered lover.” “Oh my god, I love a good telenovela.” This show is a great at being a novela, and I can’t believe I forgot that 

One last ominous nugget to stay up with at night: Jesse tells Alex he should understand collateral damage ‘better than anyone.’ Is he talking about the obvious: he’s missing a limb; he is collateral damage? Or is he talking about some shit Alex did over there that we still don’t know about?

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️

It’s been a fun week at work. I’ve been fixing bugs here and there. For some reason I enjoy this type of work. I spent a decent amount of time looking at memory graphs for object retentions problems and fixed a couple of good ones this week. That always feels great!

As for Stream for Mac, I started off the week in a bit of a funk but thanks to some amazing Mac devs I was put back on the right path. Stream for Mac development is moving forward once again. Fingers crossed I can keep up the momentum. 🤞🏼

Nikita Prokopov A.K.A. Tonsky

So all this time I was living under impression that, for example, if the average web page size is 3 MB, then JavaScript bundle should be around 1 MB. Surely content should still take the majority, no?

Some of the examples Nikita gives seem ridiculous. It makes me wonder if backend processing that spits out pure HTML will ever become a thing again?

Harry Cheadle • Eater, Seattle

But Tony Delivers doesn’t need to be anything bigger than it already is, which is one guy on a bike showing up to deliver food, probably smiling, probably asking how you’re doing, a bolt of disarming kindness in a city that even before we all got addicted to screens was known for being standoffish. That seems worth $5.

Tony has become a Seattle hero! I can’t believe he’s able to survive on $5 deliveries but bravo for making your own little niche!

Nish Tahir

I’ve been learning more about common attacks that appear in my Nginx logs to learn more about what happens beyond the log entries.

Nish is geekin’ out again. I wish I had his brain. The things I could accomplish! 🧠

Gunnar Anzinger

Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.

This piece is ridiculous in all the best ways. The paragraph I chose to feature really hit home. Yes, yes, take your time. We need it in two days. 🤣

Claire Elise Thompson • grist

If you like the idea of a perpetual three-day weekend, you might be one of a growing cadre that supports the concept of degrowth: a school of thought aimed at shrinking economies and moving away from GDP growth as a metric of success, while instead emphasizing universal basic services and social well-being.

With the rise of AI companies believe they can replace us with software for many types of work.

I think that’s cool! Let’s replace workers and figure out a way to allow folks to do whatever they want and still receive a paycheck. Like, perhaps, Universal Basic Income, Single Payer health care, and free university for everyone! Of course the rich people won’t like that idea.

Trust me when I say I could find plenty of things to work on.

Michael Szczepanik

It’s time for the NATIVE mobile development to end.

I don’t agree. I’ve been working on a project that involves React Native and I see the value in it, but that doesn’t mean native development should go away. Your mileage may vary. For me it’s native or bust for my personal projects.

Mike Elgan • Computerworld

More to the point: Most companies cannot show actual monetary benefits from RTO mandates. But most employees can show actual and significant monetary costs from RTO mandates.

This is an interesting take on the cost to employees to return to work. I’ve never thought about it in those terms. For me it’s always been about the flexibility working remotely gives me. I save between 40-60 minutes a day by not commuting, I can have afternoon coffee with my wife, and if I need to work late it’s so much easier to stomach because I’m already home.

If WillowTree asked us all to return to the office full time, I would. I just prefer working from home.

Jacob Phillips • Evening Standard

The Kremlin has said it will use its “entire strategic arsenal” and fire nuclear missiles at London, Washington, Berlin and Kyiv if it is made to give up the areas of Ukraine it has invaded.

We need to get our act together and get more aid to Ukraine. The GOP loves their orange American Dictator who, in turn, loves Putin so they’re keeping aid from Ukraine. What happened to all those Patriotic Republicans with their flags and love of all things military? They’re too cowardly to stand up to Trump. It’s really shameful.

Chris Evangelista • /Film

Stephen King Hates The Only Movie He Ever Directed

I liked Maximum Overdrive for what it was. It’s a popcorn movie. Get your popcorn, soda, find your seat, and sit back to watch the mayhem unfold. It delivered and I had no idea Stephen King directed it.

Droppin some thoughts (is long)

So, I've got some thoughts I want to send out.  Things that have been percolating in the back of my mind for a long while.  Some folks may not agree with them, which is fine, you're allowed to think differently from me of course.  But if it bothers you to the point of anger or being offended, you've got bigger problems and should really look deep within yourself.  Or don't.  I mean, I'm not your dad, can't make you do anything.  :P

But as I was saying.  

Change is inevitable, for good or bad.  Society has been changing since time immemorial.  It's just part of human nature that things will change and adapt and co-opt as new information or awareness becomes part of our social fabric.  There are people who will dig in their heels or stomp their feet and scream and fight against it, sometimes even violently.  There are people who will grind their teeth and grouse that we're not going far enough.  And then there's everyone else that's between that.  It's a bell curve.  Most of us probably reside in that middle area for most subjects, and may lean further in one direction or the other on specific things.  

Those specific things are pretty hot button items, exacerbated and built up far more as forms of dog whistles, misdirection, bad faith arguing, whataboutism, fear mongering and outright hate.  Things like:

Gun Control Abortion Trans-gender people Gay people Ableism 'wokeism'

Some of you may already be getting your hackles up just at the mentions.  :P And some of you may be ready to cry out that I'm some liberal pinko communist twinkle-toe hippie (or some variation of that) on what I'm going to say about those subjects above, but let's get this out of the way first: I do not identify as Liberal or Conservative.  Maybe Progressive, but I don't know as much about that particular leaning as I probably should, so I won't swear to that one. What I am is very much anti-authoritarian assholes, regardless of which direction they lean, such as Republican or Democrat in the US.  I'm also pragmatic and a historian.  I'll come back to that last bit in a moment.  Let me just break into each of those subjects above with quick snippets of my thoughts.

Wokeism: first off, what the hell stupid shit is that?  'You're too WOKE!'  Soooo...you want to be 'asleep' and basically be a 'sheep' who follows blindly?  That sounds amazingly dumb.  And kinda dangerous.  Here's the thing: we have a greater awareness of things than we did before, and we're more plugged in to what's going on in the world than we did before.   This is a GOOD thing.  To be a good citizen and member of society, you need to be aware of not just what's going on locally, but also nationally, cause the national shenanigans that take place can and will affect you locally too.  So people claiming things like the US military is too 'woke' is...god, so facepalm worthy.  The military is a reflection of our society, and in more pragmatic terms, they what to make sure that they have an effective fighting force, which  means you need to draw from as large a pool of recruits as you can.  The US military though is incredibly resistent to change (looking at you, Marines).  So calling them 'woke' is stupid.  The term in general is stupid.  And frankly, some of the things that people who are anti-woke are going on about are things that should actually be considered courteous.  

That leads to the subjects of trans-gender and gay people.  More people are comfortable coming out and owning what they feel they are.  I personally don't feel that way, and I straight up don't understand it, but I also don't have a problem with it.  You know why?  Because ITS NOT ABOUT ME.  Let them do their own thing.  They want to date someone of the same sex, knock yourself out.  You feel your brain is wired in a way that makes you uncomfortable in your skin and so changing yourself physically is the only way to correct it?  Well, I don't get it and personally feel it's kinda odd or weird, but I'm also coming from a position of being comfortable in my skin and my sexuality, so I cannot truly internalize what it's like to think or feel that way.  

But I can be courteous.  I can accept that this is a thing you did or are doing.  Its not my thing, but then, it's not about me.  It's about them.  So, I'm at least aware of it and if I misstep and use a wrong pronoun or make a joke that doesn't come across right, then I just need to be corrected and I will do my best to adjust myself.  It's courteous, it's polite, and it's respectful.  Because, again, it's not about me.  I'm going to screw up.  I've been on this planet 43 years now, so I've got a lot of engrained behaviors in place.  It's going to happen, usually when I'm not thinking about it.  I acknowledge this, but I also accept that I can adjust myself too.  It's just gunna take time and practice.  I can do that.  Cause there's nothing wrong with being courteous.  I don't have to understand it to be able to take it in stride and adjust course.  Maybe I won't even like it, but...it really doesn't matter if I like it or not.  In the end, it's a non-issue, or at least should be treated as such.  

On the subject of Ableism, I don't really understand that very well, which is something I will try to dig into further to come to grips with it, but my initial thought is that our position should be the same as above: be respectful and courteous.  Don't mistreat someone just because you don't agree with or like what they are.  Seems like common sense to me, but common sense is just not as common as one would think (and probably varies greatly depending on your area and what everyone there thinks is common sense).  

Now, on Abortion and Gun Control, here's where my historian background comes into play a bit.  

Did you know that the NRA used to help craft gun control legislation?  Yea, that organization that lobbies soooo very hard to stop any attempts at gun control ever since the time of Charlton Heston and Columbine, used to be totally in favor of it and helped to make it happen (until gun companies had their own people get leadership positions and wrenched the organization away from a focus of responsible gun ownership and more into a shield for the gun industry).  And Abortion?  That also wasn't a problem decades ago.  But now both have been made into massive issues by interests that like to either protect their profit margins, or to stir the pot and clamp down on peoples autonomy.  

My thoughts: we do need to have an actual conversation and do deeper research when it comes to gun control.  Because I feel that there should be some in place, and the Supreme Court has even confirmed that at times.  Hell, I wrote a paper on it in college making that point.  But we have to have that conversation, come to some concensus about certain aspects of firearms, instead of just screaming "NO! MY SECOND AMENDMENT!" (slightly exaggerating the reaction).  And abortion is something that is a very deeply personal situation that should really only involve the principles involved (aka the potential parents) and that the option shouldn't be restricted or taken away, cause most of the opposition to it is religious based (and they really don't seem to care what happens to the child and parent after the child is born..hmm, interesting).  If you take that option away, they're just going to find a way to do it anyway.  And it'll probably be a lot more dangerous.  

Am I equating those two subjects as being similar?  No.  Am I hypocrtical in saying we should be more restrictive with guns but less so on abortion?  "If they're just going to get an abortion anyway, then if you restrict guns they'll just get it anyway and make themselves criminals!"  That's a bad faith argument right there.  They're two very different subjects that require their own specificly crafted solutiona, and conflating the two and claiming I'm being hypocritical is a bullshit argument to make.  And conviently ignores my points as a way to be dismissive of them and not actually try to work on solutions to the benefit of society.

Am I going to provide sources for these things?  Honestly, not in depth.  But here's one quick example for the gun control and abortion bits: "The NRA assisted Roosevelt in drafting the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act, the first federal gun control laws" - time.com

On abortion, from wikipedia (not a primary source, but does have a decent bibliography to good sources that go more in depth if you want): "Abortion has existed in North America since the European colonization of the Americas,[21] was a fairly common practice, and was not always illegal or controversial.[22][23] " [21] = article Abortion in early America [22] = book When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine and the Law in the United States, 1867-1973 [23] = article The complex early history of abortion in the United States - National Geographic

To sum up: people should be allowed to live their lives without being hassled or restricted based on things like religious beliefs (which you can have, but YOUR religious belief does not and should not dictate what goes on in my life or anyone elses).  

Also, evangenlicals, shut up about being 'oppressed.' You're not being oppressed, get over yourselves and stop playing at being a victim.  I don't see any of you being arrested and shoved in any camps, or followed and hassled by cops just because you go to church.  

Just treat people respectfully, courteously, and politely.  You don't have to agree with their decision, but it doesn't matter if you agree or not.  It's not YOUR life, it's theirs.  But if you attempt to force your beliefs on others, you're in the wrong.  Period.  And frankly, if you don't want to be around them...don't?  It's not that difficult to just...not be around them?  They probably don't want to be around you either.  And if they're an asshole, then definitely don't be around them.  Otherwise, just don't worry about it.  

Last note: I have pretty much written all this off the cuff and have not shown it to others to get their thoughts in advance, or dug around for sources beyond the quick ones I dropped up above.  This is the 'raw and unedited' version. :P Take it or leave it.  

No TL/DR version.  I'm lazy at this point and don't wanna try to sum it up.  

It almost feels silly to address a situation like this with a National Crisis happening, but I also don’t want to ignore problems in my own backyard in lieu of the Bigger Picture. This is what an agro-narcissist/egomaniac looks like. You probably have one in your life or in your comedy community. Best case scenario they don’t support others or only support folks that cater heavily to them (they talk through everyone’s sets, don’t go to shows or watch other comics, leave as soon as they’re done etc.) worst case scenario they are threatening, abusive, and violent. Standing-up to them or speaking out against their abusive behavior will most certainly put a target on your back. That’s fine with me, this isn’t the first time it’s happened to me and it probably won’t be the last. All too often in my life, situations where I’ve had to defend myself or others from abusive or problematic behavior, get boiled down to “beef” amongst two people. As if speaking out publicly or taking a stand against someone instigating verbal, emotional, or physical abuse is in-and-of-itself abusive as well. As if simply stating the truth and bringing attention to a situation publicly makes YOU the problematic one. It ain’t. It don’t. Speak up, stand-up to bullies and abusers. The nail that sticks out will get hammered on but it’s always better to stick out than quietly accept a situation where you have the power to stand-up for what’s right. If enough nails are sticking out of a structure, the building will probably collapse. In much funnier news than anything this person could steal off the internet to present on stage as original material, I broke my baby toe. Apparently, steps have beef with me too. I’ll be standing-up a little slower for awhile and probably won’t be able to dance as much as I’d like. I appreciate every ounce of support and love I have in my life. I know I’m never standing alone, even when it’s hard to stand. <3 #comedy #savannah #pitfalls #comedians #egomachines #bullies #awareness #abuse #isnot #beef #ban #shun #standup #defend #protect #against #abusers #broken #babytoe #funnier #than #you (at Savannah, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfTxOJDAFns/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Maximizing Your Smile with Tooth Whitening

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The elemental detail people today notice about you as soon as you meet them is usually your smile, and your tooth are a substantial entire body member that will extremely have an impact on how you smile. Possessing superior oral hygiene, like brushing your enamel for at least two minutes, can help protect against various dental problems like enamel discoloration, decays, and cavities. Whatever the underlying motive which will discolor your tooth, an array of whitening merchandise can be obtained that could effectively whiten your enamel. Select one of those functional selections that completely in shape your dental situation. Every item has various directions, so make sure you begin to see the directions to end up with probably the most excellent final results. An authority performing enamel whitening in Maple Ridge factors out that some dwelling whitening kits may perhaps harm your teeth’ enamel, resulting in the necessity for unexpected emergency dental treatment. There's nothing a whole lot much better than a pretty smile, and When you are taking good care of your teeth, you’ll appear far more youthful and better up close to. Use the information listed here To help you to possess got an excellent smile. Teeth Whitening Despite the fact that folks check out their most effective to deal with their teeth by everyday brushing and normal flossing, various causes can cause tooth discoloration, for instance owning colourful food stuff and drinks, dental filling, and perhaps the growing older approach. With yrs of experience and expertise, professional dentists will use several fashionable techniques supplied by beauty dentistry science to restore the brightness of your enamel. If you choose to use tooth whitening alternatives to accomplish your required smile, make an appointment to go to your dentists as quickly as possible. Visiting your well-informed dentists is necessary due to the fact numerous of these goods may well harm your tooth, so it is vital to understand that they transpire being successful and will be ignored. Your dentist will guidebook you to definitely the very best products on your oral health. Generally, if you choose to undertake a house whitening tooth therapy, there are numerous approaches to accomplish this, but essentially the most well known technique should be to rinse your mouth with peroxide for a few days. You must not get it done persistently. Having said that, it could certainly brighten your smile devoid of numerous expenses; This could problems your enamel. In-Workplace whitening possibilities can create desired results without delay since Superior and complex applications empower your experienced and devoted dentists to make use of bigger peroxide. Moreover, you can also use more than-the-counter whitening enamel approaches or Qualified whitening to help keep the enamel white. Though whitening goods to restore your Actual physical appearance are highly regarded these days, your teeth could develop into sensitive due to overusing them. Every person needs to get an attractive smile with brighter teeth, however, you shouldn’t hazard your Total oral overall health for beauty motives. Make sure you Bear in mind to Adhere to the dedicated dentists’ recommendations thoroughly to keep up the integrity with the tooth. Immediately after Enamel Whitening Process The good news is, no serious instruction is suggested when the process is about. You ought to steer clear of stain-triggering foods when whitening your enamel. You wouldn’t like your undesirable behavior to make your time and effort pointless. Additionally, you'll be establishing an improvement in your individual existence, Though you won't only possess a brighter smile.

Caring For Your Cat: Tips And even Tricks

moving fish cat toy A cat may be a fantastic pet. After just about all, imply need in order to be walked, hate baths and manage to take care of themselves. However , presently there are some issues you have to do intended for them, even nevertheless they may not think so. Here are several cat tips you can adhere to to give your own cat a great life. Cats want a certain quantity of brushing to be healthy and presentable. Remember to be able to brush your cat's fur and brush it regularly. Perform this often in order to aid in trying to keep your cat's outside coat clean and healthy. It can decrease shedding, which means these people won't be encountering a ton of hairballs. Your cat should be retained groomed so that will they look great and even you'll also make your home look good. Cats and kittens can use their paws to destroy home furniture along with other parts of the house. Purchase a scratching post if you want to protect the home furniture in your home. 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You put a couple drops in everyone of your cats ear and then maintain them closed whilst massaging them with regard to a minute. Whenever you let go, have back or a person will get included in the liquefied once your cat shakes its head. If your cat has got kittens, it is usually luring to get purge of them as soon as possible, but you need to wait a fair amount of time. A cat has to learn the few things through mom before you go away from into the planet alone, so provide him six weeks to learn all he or she can. Look regarding potential problems if getting a new cat. Their eyes have to be clear, nose clear as well, and the ears with out any type of discharge. The cat have to have a sparkly coat and typically the mouth and gumline needs to be free of sores. Accepting a good unhealthy cat may be expensive. Do not really leave the doorway to your automatic washer or dryer wide open if you experience cats. This is the place where cats love to crawl in addition to take a quick sleep, but it are often very dangerous. You don't desire to turn upon the machine then find out your current cat is inside there. Will probably be pretty frightening for them in addition to it may lead to an injury. Your cat might not think this individual needs you, although he does. In case you use the following tips in this article, you can help to make yourself even even more necessary. These tips can help keep your own cat healthy in addition to happy, so offer each of these people a try. You can search out a lot more tips, so your own cat provides the best life possible.

7 Amazing Tricks To Get Essentially The Most Out Of Your Privet Server Wow

I do know that many people (together with myself) assume a scarcity of education attributable to age when coping with missing punctuation, improper capitalization and poor grammar. Many guilds do not feel snug including minors; even a yr or two could make or break their response. I am going to make two educated guesses here. On the one hand, it makes an odd form of sense -- pull from a bigger playerbase, and you're never going to have a repeat offender or a case of excessive harassment, usually talking. We usually edit our letters somewhat for clarity, however the best way this one is written is essential to this week's matter. The way I at present play, I raid with my guild, run LFR sometimes (not fairly often) or queue for some dungeons either solo or with some Real ID/Battletag buddies, do some retro raiding in the same fashion, and normally to me my server is sort of completely meaningless. I went on to raid all through Cataclysm and noticed the identical effect even within that one growth: When the Firelands raid was released, the original raid tier out of the blue turned so much simpler. Or, as Pugnacious Priest pondered, can we undertake a system like the one which LoL is undertaking and let the players choose for themselves who is right and who's mistaken?

You is not going to cross the assembly stone, you won't struggle the door boss for the fitting to enter the dungeon. Just assume no malice is supposed and poke fun right back (again, without malice). Moreover the principle content of WotLK, Sirus offers gamers 5 new races, dungeons from The Burning Crusade tailored for stage 80. After players reach the maximum 80 level, there is a category upgrade - new quests that are meant to improve characters’ combat performance. Hopefully the players we'll be partying with will already be totally repaired and have enough reagents to final the run. One caveat: All of this assumes that you are, in actual fact, old sufficient to be comfortably and appropriately mixing with a gaggle of adults. The one factor you might depend on with these servers is that just like all small town neighborhood, folks talked. Turning round, I remember being amazed that the portal on Outland's side was so much larger -- a dizzyingly tall gateway that made the one in Blasted Lands appear like a dollhouse door by comparison. The guild has pretty much ostracized me as a result of they all think Zed is a superb man so there have to be one thing off with me if I'm stubbornly refusing to group with him.

Cross Realm Zones solely do a lot to alleviate the issues with low pop realms and do nothing to assist the local economic system. Realms have nicknames, whether they be good ("TichOWNdrius") or bad ("Argent Down," "Lagging Skull.") They've celebrities each famous for his or her exploits (Death and Taxes on Korgath, Sebudai on Doomhammer) or infamous for screwing up (Overrated on Black Dragonflight, Avatar on many servers but initially Warsong.) They've private dramas and screrenshots that can be humorous only to residents of that realm. Realms in World of Warcraft are alleged to be like completely different, although equivalent, worlds. Replace 8:00 p.m. EDT: A brand new message states that Blizzard has ran into problems as they have been getting the realms up, and that they have no definite time frame for when they're going to be up once more. The issue is can Blizzard even attain them? Of course, you can do a little analysis upfront and select amongst the most effective ones, in order that you do not waste your energy within the incorrect place. I may be fully wrong on this; you will need to let me know. Might began out with a bang: The buddies and household alpha of Cataclysm started, giving our first look at the new shadow priest in motion.

My daughter isn't even preschool age but, but when she is prepared, I plan to play WoW with her -- in all probability after taking part in Toontown and perhaps CoH first(there isn't any dying, just defeat). World Joyland Play Valley is the world's first video recreation inspired amusement park. So why do I play? Why not? It is not like anyone's going to bother to report them. 1. Lisa Poisso. Lisa takes a take a look at all of the comments posted on WoW Insider. Pugnacious Priest takes this one step further, questioning if that is the sort of system that could possibly be implemented in WoW some day. Blizzard's coverage as far as reporting players has been about the identical since day one. WoW has had its share of jerks through the years, whether it was people who ninja looted gear, gamers who intentionally stirred up drama, gamers who used GearScore to measure another participant's validity, players who used Recount to rub higher DPS numbers in other gamers' faces -- the record goes on and on.

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