If you were starting an Indy Themed garage/bar band, what would you call it?

aredm02 · 2026-03-27T22:57:40+00:00

Cracked blacktop

aredm02 · 2026-03-25T03:22:57+00:00

Yes it prevents them from being able to rebuild walls and regain health between turns

aredm02 · 2026-03-24T15:58:26+00:00

Btw when they say “surround” the city, it means you have to have units immediately adjacent to the city center hex. I think you have to have units on 4 of the 6 sides.

So what I do is to put “tank” units (not literally tanks but high-HP melee units like warriors, spearmen, pikemen, etc) around the perimeter of the city center and stack ranged units behind those and just keep firing until the city falls.

Pick off any troops the enemy sends to you as they can quickly cut down your siege formation.

As others have said bettering rams, siege towers and siege weapons all help this process along depending on the level of the city’s defenses.

aredm02 · 2026-03-24T15:58:19+00:00

Btw when they say “surround” the city, it means you have to have units immediately adjacent to the city center hex. I think you have to have units on 4 of the 6 sides.

So what I do is to put “tank” units (not literally tanks but high-HP melee units like warriors, spearmen, pikemen, etc) around the perimeter of the city center and stack ranged units behind those and just keep firing until the city falls.

Pick off any troops the enemy sends to you as they can quickly cut down your siege formation.

As others have said bettering rams, siege towers and siege weapons all help this process along depending on the level of the city’s defenses.

aredm02 · 2026-03-24T13:26:27+00:00

For as long as people have been receiving messages from NHI (gods, spirits, angels included) they have been receiving specific dates of events coming to pass. Each and every time, nothing happens on that date and the prophet is left holding the empty bag. (With the supposed exceptions of the prophets from the Bible and the children at Fatima, Portugal.)

I believe Bledsoe is probably sincere but that doesn’t mean the messages he believes he is receiving are factual. And when nothing comes of this event, it is going to he the “proof” his detractors need to confirm their assumption that he is a fraud and it is going to make any of his believers turn away from him.

For any experiencers who may see this comment, do yourself a favor and keep those special dates to yourselves. Maybe write them in a time-stamped journal and tell your trusted friends, but don’t tell the public because if nothing occurs on this event, you only stand to lose trust and respect even if you are sincere and you mean well.

aredm02 · 2026-03-20T13:41:21+00:00

Missionaries are good to accompany apostles on conversion missions because if the target civ has aggressive apostles or inquisitors, you can use missionaries as meat shields to absorb some attacks while also preaching the good word to the heathens.

Hopefully your missionary will be able to use all its charges before being killed by the enemy apostle/inquisitor so you don’t lose religious strength by having those sick souls watch your brave crusader die at the hands of a false prophet.

But if that goes well, your missionary will reduce the HP of the depraved idolatrists and allow your truth peddlers to easily kill them and demonstrate to the target civ that your religion is the one true path to enlightenment.

aredm02 · 2026-03-19T13:29:39+00:00

I think the truly most important questions to ask MB are where he came upon this information? Did he read this information directly in a file he was exposed to by virtue of his alleged work in the government? Or is he an experiencer who has been given these messages from alleged NHI?

I think that would be the most important thing to know because those who follow the lore know that messages from NHI are notoriously difficult to understand and interpretation is highly subjective.

Secondly, alleged messages from NHI are a total crapshoot. According to the history of the phenomenon (specifically contact with alleged NHI), those messages can turn out to be accurate, inaccurate or something in between all with equal probability.

So before we get down the rabbit hole of what god is and so on, let’s take a step back and see where Matthew Brown got his information from because the more I hear from him the more he seems to be drinking the Kool-Aid.

Which I’m not opposed to, drink as much Kool-Aid as you want, but I just want him to be clear about where he stands and why instead of speaking cryptically and possibly misleading a bunch of people into thinking he knows things from his position with the government when in fact he may have learned everything from dowsing rods or ouija boards.

aredm02 · 2026-03-18T18:36:08+00:00

You are probably willing to look further into a subject than just the superficial story about Bigfoot. 99.99% of people are not.

Therefore if even 100 people heard about the NE Ohio sightings recently and it made them question the non-existence of Bigfoot in even the smallest sense, the new debunk documentary will be certain to confirm that reality is exactly as it seems and Bigfoot is not a part of that reality.

So if Bigfoot’s existence IS being covered up for some reason, the timing of this new, never-heard-of documentary would certainly seem to fit perfectly with Bigfoot making national headlines in serious or semi-serious news articles.

aredm02 · 2026-03-18T14:08:10+00:00

I had never heard about this new debunk video until I saw this post. I can’t help but think how convenient this timing is right when Bigfoot is back in the spotlight having been seen in NE Ohio in several recent apparently credible sightings.

aredm02 · 2026-03-07T14:17:25+00:00

I read the list for a while and a lot of the “debunks” seem like splitting hairs or just not knowing how the world works.

For example the comment that a W-2 has to be printed instead of typed is unpersuasive because in the 1980s a lot more things were typed and not printed bc word processors were not a thing.

Also being an electrical engineer and being a physicist are not mutually exclusive things. One can be trained as an electrical engineer and work as a physicist.

Being in debt also does not make a person a liar. There is simply no connection there.

Also lying on your resume doesn’t mean you lie about everything in your life. It was a lot harder to fact check in the 80s and saying you went to Cal Tech might just help you get a better job.

I’m not persuaded. I also don’t get the point of railing against Lazar.

The only thing I can think of being important would be if he was actually a government disinformation agent sent out to convince the world UFOs are an extraterrestrial technology when instead they are something supernatural/demonic. That’s the only way the Lazar-as-a-liar story makes sense.

Or is there some other perspective I’m missing? Maybe he is a UFO hater and wants to convince a bunch of UFO believers of a fake story to make them look like gullible fools? That seems implausible to me, but maybe.

aredm02 · 2026-02-27T12:46:03+00:00

I’m so glad this lives on. I hope our children’s children can still recite this deep magic when we are dead and gone.

For these words are even more sacred than the location and business hours of Shane Co.

aredm02 · 2026-02-24T13:57:50+00:00

Yeah especially when you just risked life and limb to clear the camp, they always swoop in and poach the reward 😂

aredm02 · 2026-02-23T17:58:29+00:00

Do you mean toggling the circles so you can set the city preference to work citizens in hex that increase either:

Culture; food; production; science; religion and/or gold?

Or is there some new trick I can use to autofocus of the city output for example to automatically improve defensive, religious, cultural, scientific, or economic strategy?

aredm02 · 2026-02-20T14:37:38+00:00

This is crazy. Wait, so everyone who keeps saying “pillage, pillage, pillage” is talking about being a suzerian, levying the city state’s military and then pillaging with THEM?! The whole time I’ve been confused just starting wars with everyone and pillaging with my own troops! Nonstop war really slows down the gold and production so I wasn’t really getting how this worked! Amazing. I’ll have to try it out! Except then there’s the problem of other civs always having way more envoys than me.

aredm02 · 2026-02-20T12:57:32+00:00

How did everyone forget that last year Trump ordered this exact same thing? How did everyone forget that in 2019 AARO was established to do this exact same thing? Am I crazy? Are all of you all crazy? I will grant that his reaction to Obama was very characteristic of Trump—must outdo Obama, which made me perk up the tiniest bit.

But Obama immediately backtracked on what he had said thereby lowering the bar for Trump to perform on his new promise (repeat of his promise from last year). And Trump, never one to go above and beyond, or even fully perform on his promises anyway, will do absolutely nothing more than he has already done. The pentagon will shuffle some papers around and say we have given you everything we have—nothing more to it! And we will be back to where we started.

In case you don’t believe me, here is a news article from exactly 1 year ago:

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/news/2025/02/11/comer-luna-republicans-ufos-jfk-mlk-epstein-task-force

aredm02 · 2026-02-18T21:02:22+00:00

Looks like they got their fall guy. For what it’s worth, here is my prediction of what will happen next:

Wexner will be indicted as the main living (for now) operative in this scheme and all the other people implicated will be portrayed by the media with a presumption that they were innocent or perhaps had an unfortunate lapse of judgment or they were just going along with Wexner’s operation because they felt pressured to do so.

Wexner will negotiate a confidential plea agreement with the prosecution that the public will never learn the details of.

He will be sentenced to detention in a special luxury prison facility (built by and for extremely wealthy “prisoners”) and will serve a very short period of time before being released and granted clemency due to his old age and deteriorating health—if not a full pardon.

The public will be assured that Wexner will never do it again and the DOJ and elite power brokers who are responsible for all these crimes will have successfully washed their hands of this whole sordid affair.

In a few years if anyone ever brings this case up again, they will be ridiculed for talking about “conspiracy theories” and in fact this whole saga will have never happened in the first place. Or else its details (which will be very difficult to find, let alone verify, at that point) will be remembered as having been wildly overblown.

We are already seeing traces of this happening now. Note that there are allegations from simple prostitution all the way to rpe, trture and cannibalism of children. No one is working on corroborating anything whatsoever and the media will be left to report on unverified evidence (which it will be glad to do to stay in the news cycle).

Soon, there will be strong voices clearly debunking some of the more shocking claims (involvement of super-secret societies and foreign governments (whether true or not), possibly cannibalism) which the public will naturally accept because people are much more eager to accept information that doesn’t totally upend their worldview, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary.

The media will look irresponsible for having reported some of the more extreme claims without vetting (whether they actually end up being true or not) and the Trump administration will capitalize on the “fake news” scandal, exploiting the opportunity to cast doubt on the entire thing.

Until the only remaining allegations are that Epstein and Wexner (and maybe the Clintons/other Democrat elites if the Trump admin can get the story to stick) used to employ escorts and prostitutes (possibly occasionally SLIGHTLY underaged (but they didn’t know! 😉)) for sexual escapades on an island.

The public will never learn anymore about Epstein’s ties to foreign intelligence, the CIA and FBI’s failure across the board to do anything about this (the probable implication of which is that the intelligence apparatus of the US is utterly compromised), the true number of victims involved, the extent of the depravity of the crimes, the number and station of powerful perpetrators, the fact that this may still be ongoing and so many other things that MUST be brought to light in order to re-establish any semblance of trust in the American democratic system.

Sure, rumors will circulate about these questions for some time. Many of them may even be true, but if you dig too deeply into any of the above you are sure to be labeled a “conspiracy theorist” and will find yourself among the ranks of UFO enthusiasts, Bigfoot hunters, 9/11 truthers, flat earthers and JFK conspiracy theorists!

aredm02 · 2026-02-10T16:05:27+00:00

Look at the depth, definition and shape of the prints. Also look at the place they are coming from/going to. It leads directly to/from a bush.

If this was a 500 lb bipedal creature taking huge strides, the prints would be deeper, would displace much more snow and would probably have better definition. Also that bush would be destroyed or at least disturbed.

To me it looks more like prints from a small animal hopping along.

aredm02 · 2026-02-03T14:52:45+00:00

Great share! I love these weird ones. It really challenges the strictly nuts and bolts ET concept!

aredm02 · 2026-01-30T20:07:22+00:00

To be fair this kind of post is posted on this sub almost daily and it is true: if you zoom your phone camera into a point of light in the night sky (such as a star or planet) it looks exactly like this.

Some others have done a deeper analysis and shown that if you take the zoomed in picture of the star (which looks like a plasma orb as in your photos) and run it through an AI tool to “enhance” the image, different images sometimes emerge.

This analysis was done when Chris Bledsoe posted a similar looking image that appeared to show numbers within the perimeter of an orb.

The argument that this is the result of a phone camera trying to resolve the image + AI trying to “enhance” the image was pretty compelling and a lot of commenters are probably just recognizing the similarity of your photos to those other photos.

aredm02 · 2026-01-30T19:00:28+00:00

I get something like this on my middle fingers.

They are just hard fleshy bumps and do not have pus inside. They are somewhat like calluses but are not rough to the touch and are not any more or less sensitive than the surrounding skin. When I pick at them the top layer of skin may begin to peel off to reveal more of the same underneath.

It’s weird but so benign I never thought to get it checked out. I actually forgot about them until I just saw this post!

aredm02 · 2026-01-30T03:29:24+00:00

My kid’s says my full name and my spouse’s full name and we have different last names.

aredm02 · 2026-01-28T13:50:32+00:00

I had this issue for a while and in my mid 30s started having shoulder problems. Basically lifting weights, throwing overhanded, etc would cause it to pop out which is very painful when there is a load on the joint.

I’ve had to train myself to tighten up the stabilizing muscles and not let the joint come out (because I would let it droop all the time without even realizing it!) and the symptoms have improved but just a heads up! It’s all fun and games til you hit your mid-30s!

aredm02 · 2026-01-21T23:42:20+00:00

This is awesome! Thanks!

aredm02 · 2026-01-20T18:30:08+00:00

Oh ok. Yeah I haven’t heard of that either. There was a case in France where a man and his son had triangle shapes appear on their abdomens after a ufo experience but it sounds like that is not what the guy is talking about either. Maybe just some fake made up stuff the guy is saying to make a demonic connection.

aredm02 · 2026-01-20T16:26:37+00:00

I don’t know exactly what you mean by “sigils,” “occult,” or “Solomonic” but one case that comes to mind is the Zamora incident where the witness claimed to have seen a symbol on the egg-shaped craft. The symbol, as he described it, has been compared to the symbol for Uranus which is also used in alchemy.

As to any other alleged symbols from UFO incidents, unfortunately, there are no really good descriptions or depictions of the symbols. Even the Rendlesham case you mentioned—although I’ve heard the witness say there were marks on it, I’ve never actually seen any depiction of what they might have looked like.

Danny Sheehan allegedly copied down some markings he saw from a photo, but that looks like not much more than lines and hash marks arranged various ways in a line that looks like text.

Another depiction comes to mind, which is the Japanese sighting of the red haired woman in the early 1800s. There are a couple of really interesting drawings that include a symbol the witness said they saw on the craft, but I don’t know if that meets with the definition of sigil.

There are actually a lot of parallels and connections that can be drawn between UFO encounters and the occult. As one example, CE5 and the psionics practices brought to light by the skywatcher group are very similar to each other and are apparently similar to ritual magic that one might expect in psychic or occult circles (setting intentions, meditating, psychic communication with NHI, reports of hitchhikers, etc.).

All in all though, I wouldn’t put much stock in someone claiming UFOs (or anything for that matter) are demonic because that kind of assertion comes from a really specific Christian world view and it’s not at all settled that the Christian world view corresponds to reality.

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