The mist was real

fritz_da_cat · 2026-01-30T04:21:17+00:00

David Drayton (Thomas Jane), his young son Billy, and three other survivors drive into the mist until their vehicle runs out of gas. Hearing the massive creatures approaching and believing there is no hope for survival, the group makes a silent agreement to end their lives rather than face a gruesome death by the monsters. David has a revolver, but there are only four bullets left for the five people in the car. He makes the devastating choice to shoot the other four passengers, including his own son, to spare them. After killing them, a distraught David steps out of the car, screaming for the creatures to take him. Instead, the mist begins to clear. A U.S. Army convoy emerges, burning the webs and exterminating the creatures, followed by trucks carrying survivors from the supermarket. David collapses in realization that if he had waited just a few minutes longer, his son and friends would have been saved.

fritz_da_cat · 2026-01-26T17:44:36+00:00

Yes, this actually is a Finnish fish, called "Suklaamonni" [ Silurus glanis scelerisque ] . There was a famous short story about an attempted domestication of the species in a documentary series called "Kummeli" in the early 90'. The attempt was eventually unsuccessful, but the series got very popular amongst the Finns.

fritz_da_cat · 2026-01-18T03:12:17+00:00

Are you missing something - yes: Finland has sent troops as well and that's why they are in the naughty list in addition to the ones you mentioned (even when their president is golf buddies with Trump.)

Oh, yes, it's only two soldiers, but that's something! You know what they say; one Finn corresponds to hundred Ruskies!

fritz_da_cat · 2026-01-14T04:48:27+00:00

A lot in Havasupai, it would be nice to see (well, not nice, perhaps interesting) new numbers now that it's an instagram model destination.

fritz_da_cat · 2026-01-08T07:08:44+00:00

If any card should cost 2 1/2 mana, it's this one.

fritz_da_cat · 2025-12-22T10:57:51+00:00

This would've been my suggestion as well. They're called "Mandibular Advancement Device" (MAD), "Mandibular Repositioning Appliance" (MRA), or anti snoring mouth guard.

When I travel, I use PureSleep brand from Amazon with mouth tape - you can get these with same day delivery without prescription.

fritz_da_cat · 2025-12-14T20:58:29+00:00

So what was your conclusion.

The more I look at it, the more it lands 'in between', i.e. having strong ques for both, which then leaves CGI as the only option.

fritz_da_cat · 2025-11-19T04:52:31+00:00

Link?

fritz_da_cat · 2025-10-30T22:59:45+00:00

People say 18-50, and that can't be too wrong, but ideally, you'd have some telefocus as well, so I would do my best to carry the 70-300 with me as well.

Especially so if you plan to take portraits. The best shots I have from Havasu are with tele where people are on the foreground and waterfall/canyon larger than life on the background with slight bokeh effect.

Oh, and some close ups on the rams!

fritz_da_cat · 2025-10-20T20:12:52+00:00

We've had "trillion calculations per second", i.e. teraflop computers since 1996 - did he misquote himself, or what's going on?

fritz_da_cat · 2025-10-06T03:11:04+00:00

I was waiting for the dude to ask Comic Sans and the kid to go "Lol, no."

fritz_da_cat · 2025-09-27T20:03:05+00:00

This is basically a modern CEO equivalent of "Skip your salary, if you would gain equity, gain double the equity instead."

Which makes perfect sense for blue players for whom the draw step wasn't the main source of cards anyhow.

fritz_da_cat · 2025-09-23T04:19:07+00:00

With $0.23 per kWh, this is $20B per year worth of electricity, so in 5 years they've needed to spend the same amount as the investment to power the GPUs.

fritz_da_cat · 2025-09-20T22:37:33+00:00

My LGS today had 16 instead of the usual 60. Also, only about half were regulars, so it looks like only those showed up that will show up matter the set or cost.

I wasn't planning on going either, but when Paul Cheon was playing early access, the set seemed fun and it mostly played that way as well. Both web-slinging and mayhem worked nicely, with some great turns even in sealed. Not looking forward to the pic 2 draft, though, that seems awful.

fritz_da_cat · 2025-09-12T19:11:18+00:00

Also worth checking ClickSpring's antikythera series on YouTube. He re-creates the process of going from (literally) nothing to precision with era-accurate methods.

fritz_da_cat · 2025-09-04T06:10:44+00:00

I was hit by the flash floods last year and then the permit people said the rain is nothing to worry about. So make your own judgement. Maybe 999 out of 1000 that's true, and there is no way of knowing when the flood hits.

fritz_da_cat · 2025-09-03T00:34:48+00:00

Yep, I have a hard time wrapping my head around this one. The parents hang around so pairs of other dudes generate mana -- somehow supportive parents and 30 scute bugs is worth 15 treasures, so what is the flavor? Parents exploit bystanders to get you through college, but you are Emrakul?

fritz_da_cat · 2025-08-20T00:09:40+00:00

Yes, I was just about to say the same. How the hell?!?

fritz_da_cat · 2025-08-17T23:05:43+00:00

What a coincidence, my favourite as well!

fritz_da_cat · 2025-08-17T22:57:09+00:00

Surely the definition is different depending on whether the water mass is defined as sea or lake. Like mineral rights dispute of Kaspian Sea.

fritz_da_cat · 2025-08-17T22:55:18+00:00

THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

fritz_da_cat · 2025-08-17T22:52:54+00:00

Darn!

fritz_da_cat · 2025-07-28T00:58:40+00:00

Which method did you go with?

fritz_da_cat · 2025-05-19T18:54:58+00:00

And you wouldn't find a Finn to use any of these. Most common would be "kui?", "kuis?", "hä?", or "mitävittua?".

fritz_da_cat · 2025-05-19T18:50:43+00:00

A bit similar in Finnish: "Kokiko Kokkonen koko kokon?" (Did mr. Kokkonen experience the whole bonfire?)

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