Flashman. These are greate recommendations. That's solidly going back on my "reread" list. I learned a ton of history from those books!
What did I finish -- "Assassin's Apprentive" series by Robin Hobb. Very fun. Without giving anything away, it's the story of an orphaned boy who is brought to the king's court and who...well...goes through a lot!
I think I'm going to start on "Lightbringer" by Brent Weeks next.
Oh man, I read those years ago and LOVED them. I should reread.
I am 100% in favor this. My town installed shotspotter and then removed it because the most-SJW progressive politicians fought against it.
Let the gangsta neighborhoods be riddled with bloodshed and crime. If they don't want to do anything about it, good for them. I'll live somewhere else.
#Accelerationist
Totally. It's a racist insult. Oreo is another one. This woman 100% intended "coconut" as a racist insult, and it's hilarious watching her try to spin it as being a protest against white supremacist political policies.
Back in the day when there were goths at school, I was walking with one of my Chinese friends. He seems a couple of Asians hanging out with the trenchcoat kids with safety pins in their clothes, etc. He spits and says "Fucking bananas. Yellow trash."
I find moments of honest racism like this reassuring. Emphasis on honest.
"There are some experts who might say they find the placard to be racially inappropriate, even racist."
"Even though some language may be pejorative, it doesn't make it racist. Coconuts--brown on the outside, white supremacist values on the inside."
Coconuts--brown on the outside, white supremacist values on the inside
This is the funniest shit I've ever listened to.
The others are, unfortunately, all too scared to resist/fight back...
I 100% would be too scared to do anything.
Where I live (US South) there have been multiple road rage shootings in just the last year. As in, somebody gets pissed off in traffic and shoots another person or car.
It's not worth fucking around with crazy. Me? I have a lot to lose. I have a job, family, house, kids, health, never been arrested, etc. What does some insane dude going around grabbing people's food have to lose? He's already doing insane stuff, what are the chances he pulls a knife or a gun?
It may be pussy on my part, but there's no way in hell I would fuck around with someone like this.
Haven't played it, haven't followed news, played the crap out of BG1 / BG2.
When you say Act 2 is not terribly well executed, do you mean plot? Side quests? Amount of content? That is, the mechanics of the game should be pretty consistent between acts right? So what tailed off so dramatically after Act 1?
Canada. That's all it takes.
Not at all! I'm not saying there aren't things in Linux that are more complicated, nor am I saying that you won't have to learn anything new. But, it's not rocket science. If you can program in Godot or what not, you can pick up Linux.
Seriously, try it out with a VM. Get an Ubuntu installer, spin up a free Virtualbox VM, and have at it. You can have a desktop up and running in minutes.
(Ironically, I'm not a huge Linux fan. I've been running FreeBSD on various devices for more than 20 years now. I feel like it's kind of falling behind now due to the dominance of Linux and the lack of Docker, but it's just amazingly solid and consistent for servers.)
Honestly, Linux is not hard. If you're any sort of a power user, and especially if you're doing any programming, you're really doing yourself a disservice if you don't know at least some linux.
I can't imagine being a Windows-only dev. The *nix/*bsd commandline tools are just so insanely powerful.
It can't get much easier than installing Ubuntu.
I loved Delphi back in the day.
Never been a fan of Xcode.
Vim on the other hand...
All are declining, but the mainlines seem the hardest hit. Thankfully.
Here's her substack.
https://felicitations.substack.com/p/my-new-3d-printing-project
tl;dr generic parasocial geekmom influencer sponsorship.
You think she made that much from Geek and Sundry? I imagine she's doing just fine, but she's never been in anything huge. She's by no means an A-lister.
The interesting thing to me is not just the pronoun and "identifying" horror, but think about someone saying this exact same thing about black people.
A strange black person is undeniably a threat. I don't think there is a white-identifying person alive who wouldn't be gripped with fear to see a black person on the sidewalk in front of them. ... The truth is that blacks do whites harm, every day."
That would RIGHTFULLY be called out. But because it's women...
The "Western woman" named Aqra (Pakistani) with twitter handle Goulhag who according to her twitter is in the process of having an arranged marriage setup back in the old country?
And this is why you can't trust Republicans either.
Upvote for "pablum." Great word.
Hah, Imp as F2M would give a whole new dimension to his arguments.
"Women are evil cunts. I know. I have one."
I wish he could have just calmed down with the obessive posting a bit. He was fine to talk to, if repetitive, but it was just too much.
Yeah, absolutely. I should have been more explicit in my dancing on the corpse of the mouse.
I would guess The Little Mermaid truly made money for Disney (and probably more so with Disney+ action), but everything else is an outright loss or at best break even.
This according to Wikipedia.
Little Mermaid. Budget of 240.2 million, box office of 569.6 million.
Indiana Jones DoD. Budget of 295-387m. Box office 384 miilion.
Haunted Mansion. 150m. Box office 117.5 million.
Ant Man. Budget "326.6 million (gross) 276 million (net). Box office 476.1 million.
The Marvels. Budget 219.8m to 274.8m. Box office 206.1 million.
Wish. Budget 175-200m. Box office 254.9m
What a beautfiul sight to see. Little Mermaid was the most succesful of all of these films.
How did we go from the Scottish Enlightenment to this?
Vim is my most used editor by far. It's beautiful.
Wikipedia page about the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Weeks
Lightbringer. Unique magic system I think is maybe the biggest takeaway!