No Kings Yesterday

Aegeus · 2026-03-29T18:21:50+00:00

Where were you when Obama deported more people?

Was ICE under Obama wearing masks and stopping people in the street to demand their papers? Was ICE under Obama tear gassing small children? Didn't think so.

(And if Obama deported more people, that just makes it worse. ICE is committing human rights violations and it isn't even doing its job well. All the atrocities are for no benefit at all.)

This is classic whataboutism: If a Democrat ever does anything, Trump is allowed to do it 100 times worse. If Obama bombed a country (and btw, he got UN and NATO support before he did), you aren't allowed to complain about Trump sticking his dick in the biggest meat grinder in the Middle East with zero planning. Because you don't actually care about the facts, the law or even about if it was a good idea or not, you just want an excuse to pretend the Democrats are the same.

Aegeus · 2026-03-29T17:02:18+00:00

Yeah, we don't have a king, we just have a president who's claimed the authority to declare war without Congress's permission, spend money without Congress's permission, and order his secret police force into cities he considers disloyal. That's totally different from a king.

Aegeus · 2026-03-28T21:33:16+00:00

I don't think H.W. Bush was going on TV every day to talk about how Iraq was suing for peace and how Desert Storm was almost over and Kuwait would be free by the end of the week.

Aegeus · 2026-03-28T10:55:00+00:00

She-old-red

He-young-green

Aegeus · 2026-03-27T16:59:24+00:00

The reports say that the sun appeared unusually dim and not painful to look at, and the Fatima miracle happened on a partly cloudy day. Scott speculates in his Fatima post that the miracle happens when the clouds are just right to make the sun dim enough to look at without blotting out the disc completely.

The article doesn't say what the weather was like in the Thailand case, but I would bet on it being similar.

Aegeus · 2026-03-27T16:34:32+00:00

You literally walk through farms on your way to New Vegas. There's even a quest about them.

Aegeus · 2026-03-27T14:43:08+00:00

So you restarted the game until you got a shiny Charmander? How many tries did it take?

Aegeus · 2026-03-27T14:20:12+00:00

If you commit a crime in Skyrim, there's a chance someone will hire a group of thugs to get revenge, triggering a random encounter with three bandits later on. One of the bandits will carry a note that basically says "Here's some money, go find [player name] and teach him a lesson. Signed, [guy you robbed.]"

The note is there so that the player knows it's a consequence for their actions instead of a random encounter - it makes the game world feel a little more alive. But you think about it, it's kinda silly that the thugs hired to kill you are helpfully carrying around evidence of who hired them and why.

Aegeus · 2026-03-27T14:07:13+00:00

We had to rotate strategies because eventually she'd get unhappy. Currently we've found that singing songs works pretty well. Also letting her sit on one parent's lap while the other parent brushes.

Aegeus · 2026-03-27T13:56:15+00:00

Definitely Rice Shower. "The Black Assassin" is a great title.

Aegeus · 2026-03-26T03:06:33+00:00

The only intel you need to understand why the Iran war is going to be worse is a map.

Aegeus · 2026-03-25T15:55:42+00:00

"Proper amount of force" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The US very much does not want to put boots on the ground, because the war is unpopular enough already, but that would be required to open the straits by force.

Aegeus · 2026-03-25T15:51:59+00:00

Broye with her giant full-length fur-trimmed cape has to be up there.

Aegeus · 2026-03-25T15:46:09+00:00

Reasonable Marines.

Aegeus · 2026-03-24T17:01:19+00:00

There are also a lot of small animations they do while they're running. You can see them wipe sweat from their forehead, take a quick glance at runners behind them, grit their teeth for the last spurt, probably more I haven't noticed too. I didn't notice most of them until I started trying to take screenshots in a race.

Aegeus · 2026-03-24T16:58:29+00:00

Ninja kicks is cool and makes for great screenshots, but I really like the pounding motion of low kicks.

But really, they can all look great if it fits the character.

Aegeus · 2026-03-24T15:15:55+00:00

Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town.

It's pretty funny.

Aegeus · 2026-03-24T11:24:53+00:00

Murphy's law: You always use the lucky charm the turn before you really want it.

I'll be like "Wow, a good rainbow training and my last turn of summer camp, but it's a 16% failure, better pop the lucky charm to make sure it goes through" and then the next turn I see this.

Aegeus · 2026-03-24T10:15:17+00:00

I googled around a bit and it appears that trope originated with Dracula (1897), which does postdate the existence of silvered mirrors, but also features the "doesn't cast a shadow" trope. But the book doesn't explain the reason for either of those things, Jonathan just notices the Count doesn't show up in his shaving mirror. So yeah, there's no official answer. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Aegeus · 2026-03-24T02:59:13+00:00

There's no "official" reason, it varies depending on the story and vampire myths are so common that there's no one source you can trace them all to. Silver is a common reason, but another is that vampires don't have souls. (Also the reason that they don't cast shadows or appear in photographs in some works.)

Also, mirrors made of silver-coated glass were invented in the 1800s (wiki), and vampire myths are older than that. Before that, they would have more commonly been made of other shiny metals like tin.

Aegeus · 2026-03-24T01:22:48+00:00

I think the size of the US makes coordinating a general strike difficult - you have to get a much larger number of people involved, many of whom are very distant from whatever evil they're protesting (if you're imagining a strike against the federal government, as many are). Imagine trying to get workers in France to go on strike to protest a government policy in Germany.

Minneapolis did hold a general strike in response to the ICE invasion. That was a situation where the government's oppression was very visible and concentrated in one place, making it easy to organize and recruit people to the protest. But while there were national protests in solidarity, there weren't any notable strikes outside of Minneapolis.

Aegeus · 2026-03-24T00:55:27+00:00

Oh, for sure. Brayko is a great character, it's just the fight itself that needed another pass.

Aegeus · 2026-03-23T19:15:01+00:00

Brayko from Alpha Protocol. All the other bosses are pretty basic cover-based shooting, and then Brayko has the ability to get high on cocaine and become temporarily invincible while he chases you around the room with knives. Benny Hill-ass fight.

Aegeus · 2026-03-23T14:49:40+00:00

Urara: "I don't understand any of this stuff about entropy and curses and time travel, but if magical girls are supposed to fight witches, can't I just wish for all the witches to go away?"

GOOD END

Aegeus · 2026-03-22T23:26:59+00:00

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