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He’s packing large wood, but it’s not so big that a VPN can’t take it all in.

Making decent progress on painting my core set. Terrain is all done. B1s, Ventress, Rex, and Clones are done. Haven’t painted consistently in a while, so some of the stuff I usually struggle with doing as well as I’d like, such as faces and eyes, aren’t where I’d like them to be, but practicing on someone like Ventress who doesn’t have human skin helps with reps just thinning and glazing consistently. Trying to be “productive” during what I hope is a briefly tenured bout of unemployment; helps that I’ve spent a tremendous amount of money on this hobby and have a ton to paint without having to spend more.

@Tofurkey

I actually PLAYED the game today. Turns out it's a lot of fun!

Soon the world will know what anyone with a functioning brain has known for some time. Reddit is worthless.

Bioshock and motherfucking Heavy Rain.

Angel Giraldez doing inspiring work as always.

:First off his post reads like an except "Baby's First History Book" authored by someone who loves Ayn Rand. Secondly, "full government" vs. "half government" is one of the stupidest things I've ever read. And lastly, it's not like Germany and Korea are in petri dishes somewhere, free to flourish or not based on their own merits and circumstances. It's not like they were part of the Cold War or something, no. Also this.

Imagine being this fucking stupid.

Rich Californians and Texans love bouncing to Idaho for tax and "other" reasons.

ALL Dr. pepper is fizzy you goon.

I'm not intimately familiar with Halo lore, but wasn't the SPARTAN program initially developed to counter human insurgents then the timing of the Covenant threat just kinda happened to work out?

As you'd expect, the dumbest motherfuckers on Twitter are wondering if this was a terror attack. THEY'RE JUST ASKING QUESTIONS

I think this is part of it, but I suspect that a larger contributor is the lack of meaningful consequences for when said extraction goes badly or just straight up fails. Why WOULDN'T you go all in on a shitty hand if you're largely playing with house money and your personal financial security is guaranteed regardless of outcome? I don't gamble often but if someone gave me some cash and compelled me to do so, I'd absolutely bet differently than if it was my own money on the table. If there were few meaningful consequences paid by people who punish fucked the housing market or poisoned the earth with something like eh VW scandal... why should we expect the people controlling the money to do anything but bet recklessly? The potential benefits are enormous, the downside for them is negligible.

This is a bummer mainly because I feel that Wyll and Karlach, Wyll in particular, have threads that are finished but feel slapdash compared to the rest of the origin characters. Wyll is a character to whom a lot of things happen and considering his family ties, should have had much more interesting things happen to and around him. Without spoilers here, I covered some of this earlier in the thread. One of his big consequences can simply… be undone? In a way that doesn’t make sense and isn’t particularly acknowledged. I dunno that DLC could fix this, but he feels a bit undercooked. Karlach isn’t the same, it’s just that the stuff about her isn’t really all that interesting and her endings have the potential to be just kinda… there. There’s an obvious potential for where DLC for her could go and it’s a shame we won’t get that. But good on Larian for securing the bag, realizing that Hasbro blows, and getting the fuck out of dodge.

Yesterday at PAX East I collected the final Puzzle Swap piece. Took me a week shy of thirteen years.

Yall have probably seen it but if not…

brain so smooth

haha lol

Elon is a man who thinks posting publicly available flight information is the same as posting assassination coordinates and that DEI initiatives lower the exam, testing, and hiring standards for people who aren't white men. He's a fucking moron. Of course this will be selectively enforced for the chuds.

May it grow a Jesus fruit tree or whatever the fuck.

Absolutely. If Ohioguy had $44B to spend he'd still buy games used for his stepdaughter.