If it EXISTS, the ratfinks tax it. Any tax bill should include, “And those voting for this tax are to be taxed on at 200% of everyone else.” (I might have chosen an absurdly low number, I admit.)
Then there are economic farkwhytes that want to tax things which do NOT exist, such as “unrealized” income/etc. They need to be be taxed at 100,000% rates. Maybe – just MAYBE – learning might happen.
“Promoting or voting for this tax” might be a better way to put it – as that would also put the lobbists and assorted staffers square in the sights for paying the tax!
I prefer the 7-fold payment method from the Bible. Especially considering that everyone who is elected to Congress ends up becoming rich without very much work.
No time like the present when it comes to bacon. I’d regret it if I died giving smiles to nubile elf maidens before I had bacon. Oooooh. Combine eating bacon while giving smiles to nubile elf maidens. That would be to die for!
Or elves are all addicted to bacon? Bacon as the universal cure for all elvish curses and magic? Offer the Elf Queen bacon and she’ll even release you from the underworld after you ate their food there.
I’m imagining a large group of skinny, bespectacled young men crowding the roadside. They’re pushing each other along, and if you listen, you can hear:
“Is it real? It can’t be!”
“Here, you go first.”
“No way! What if she…”
And so on. In the end, none of them actually wanders off the road, much to the elven maidens’ disappointment.
Imma let you finish, but I looked up GTA six after the bee mentioned it, and it is allegedly set in Florida, so I expect it was delayed because the Labour party didn’t think it was enough of a screed against Republicans, and wanted some rewriting.
Anyway, it would probably be artistic for a bunch of Americans to write a violent crime video game set in modern UK, that demonstrates that said Americans know nothing of the UK.
However, that is different from it being any fun, and from it having any market to speak of.
“Oi, there, lemme check that paper sack. Whoit, you’ve got THREE plastic forks in here? What sort of thing are you planning on being up to! It’s off to the Block with YOU!”
Well, I’m already nuts by establishment standards, and dead I wouldn’t hurt so much. On the other hand, killing off their mates wouldn’t be conducive to repeat mating, so unless they have a fertility rate of 100% (and history seems to indicate that elves are damn near sterile), or they eat their mates like praying mantis’, there’s no benefit to immediate death.
Judging from various games coming out, ones with attractive female characters do seem to be popular. Though not just with men. I’ve seen some streams done by female gamers and they seem to like the characters.
(Was amused when Vara Dark did a stream/review of the Mecha Break game and spent something like 45+minutes in the character creator getting her female mecha pilot’s looks juuuuuuuust right.)
I think there was a bit of a kerfuffle over females if a certain sort browbeating game creators about “catering to the male gaze,” or some such. “Female characters should look realistic !” Which, to them, meant plain and with poor figures…if not actually fat.
I doesn’t occur to the scolds a less-than -stunning female gamer might want a smoking hot avatar.
More than a few. They need it to be a fantasy of “gooners” and incels and it gets very amusing when it turns out the “gooner fantasy” they’re screeching about was made by a woman.
“That manga with big breasted women is obviously made by an incel!” -turns out the artist is a big-breasted woman.
“Stellar Blade was made by people who never saw a REAL woman!” -show female staff involved in character design and the real life model whose body got scanned to make the main character’s body. Bonus when that model cosplays in outfits Eve (main character) can wear in the game.
…and so on. It’s like that Simpsons character stepping onto rakes.
Curious however. Do the games mimic how the “assets” get in the damn way? I’m not particularly, compared to someone like Sweeny or Dolly P., but I’m not an A/B anymore either. Maybe because I didn’t get them until pregnant and nursing so didn’t learn to “deal” as a younger teen/early 20-something (I was 32)? The very thought of augmentation is “Um? No.”
Some of the armor/clothing mods have clipping issues if you try to use some outfits on a body with larger assets and may have to be fixed in Bodyslide’s Outfit Studio to work properly.
Bodyslide and Outfit Studio are mod tools used for Fallout 4. Bodyslide lets you pick an outfit mod that has files setup for it and then “build” it to fit whatever body model you use for a character and Outfit Studio lets you edit the meshes for an outfit. Sometimes you can remove things depending on how the mesh is built or people make some things called mashups where they import items from different mods and then adjust their settings/fix clipping/etc to work together in a single mesh.
If you are interested, there’s gaming music videos that have a lot of high quality shots– The Dovalord is probably the best, and there’s one gal he rather likes that I mentally think of as “bait” because oh my gosh is she cosplaying as bait….
Ah, here, different producer, but lots of demonstrated asset.
Definitely “weaponized bait”. Surprised not using them as weapons. Well the bait is, they actually bounce as “real”, as someone would say.
Not that I would normally pay attention because do not lean that way. If noticed, brought to my attention, reaction is sympathetically cringe, because “ouch”. Like already stated, mine are orders of magnitude, not so well enhanced, and still can be a pain.
My definitely inclined that way husband has been known to go “ouch.”
And I scandalized more than one person by pointing to the jiggle physics of the PS Baulder’s Gate bar tender… because it was hilarious.
They had her going side to side to not be a still image.
and they went side to side.
…about 1/4 a frame behind her movements.
Not to be confused with the fact that an overweight, out of shape character would be unlikely to be *able* to perform the acts of derring do the game requires. Just ask my first- and fifth-week selves on the obstacle course at Basic Training back in 1980 . . .
Basically, the woman a man socially bonds to can have wildly detrimental outcomes for his mental health. This is pretty much observed reality.
Elvish maidens, generally, might be culturally quite alien, and hence tuned to a different baseline of sanity. A case of myth making perfect sense as a cautionary tale!
See also, the sea going cultures that tell of kidnapping princesses, and also tell of some interesting internal political disputes, etc.
Anyway, coming back to topic, for long lived or immortal /maidens/ to have a cultural tendency to force breeding does not speak well of how they are inclined to treat humans. How are they inclined to treat the children?
Understand that when I ask that, I’m not saying, “Heck, we might as well do it!” I’m asking, “So, should I show up in body armor, fire-retardant clothes, or a biohazard suit?”
Congress and Congressional Aid pay should be zeroed for any pay period in which there is not a passed full Appropriations and Budget in force, explicitly excluding any Continuing Resolution.
To keep them from fiddling with this it would need to be a Constitutional Amendment.
You actually believe a Constitutional Amendment would stop them? Or even slow them down? You haven’t been paying attention lately, have you?
Besides, they’d barely notice. AOC didn’t get $30 million from paychecks.
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Candidate Joe Biden, August 2020: “We have assembled the most extensive, comprehensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Minutes later: “What do you mean, I wasn’t supposed to say that?”
As James Clyburn (at the time, Democratic party Whip in the House) said some years ago, most of the things they do have nothing to do with the Constitution.
To put it differently, politicians, in all three (or more) branches, so rarely pay attention to the Plain English words and meaning of the Constitution that it’s a major surprise when they do, or even get close. Consider for example Article 1 Section 8, and how tiny is the fraction of Federal government activity that is actually permitted to exist by the words of that article. For example, consider the fact that the Federal government claims to “own” most of the land of a number of states, in clear contradiction with what 1.8 says about what the government is allowed to own and how it is supposed to obtain permission for that ownership.
IIRC, those lands were un-Constitutionally confiscated from their “pre-governmental” owners. Since those lands were not government or state property, they were reserved for the people.
Re “barely notice” – that’s why I included the Congressional staffers. Zero the staff pay and see how long it is until there’s a budget sailing through.
A few things I immediately noticed: The bus is, apparently, full up to standing room only. Maybe my experience is unusual, but I’ve rarely seen public buses running their routes that full. That’s certainly not an average trip.
Second, the pile of cars consists of full-size sedans, SUVs, crossovers, and mini-vans. Note also that they’re not making any attempt to fill one before adding another. Contrast this with the full-to-bursting bus.
Note that this means that the drivers are making their trips to different destinations at different times, probably by different routes, and if nobody needs to make the trip, their cars stay home rather than running the route anyway like the bus does; point being, nobody is trying to fit that pile of cars in the same space as the bus anyway.
None of which is as visceral as remembering Iryna.
The only buses I’ve ever seen standing room only are the Yosemite national park buses. Why? Parking is so bad the only thing to do is find your (legal) parking location. Find the bus stops and use the bus. Complication can’t take pets unless service animal (dog or horse). Trust me, not enough room for the service animal unless small even then it is so crowded not safe. We were there during the “off season”.
When the between-the-parks buses stop arriving for some mysterious unexplained Disney reason at Disney World when the outer parks are closing (this particular instance was after a dinner at the resort over at the Animal Kingdom park, with a desire to get back to another resort), then they finally show up, standing room only is the least of it. I expected to the crowd waiting to start subcontinental-style roof riding if they’d been much later.
I have to say, though, as someone within striking distance of Yosemite, those busses are mighty convenient. And I found out where the missing Stop 13 is! It wasn’t taken off for any superstitious reason; it’s just right in front of the Curry Village pizza place and is only by request/suggestion. (The bus driver only had one group getting off at Curry Village at the end of the day and he asked them if they were hungry, so he dropped them off there to suggest it for dinner.)
Yes. They are. We’ve taken the busses. I carried my service dog. Small enough to have on my lap. Last trip we were the last ones on, standing room only, she was by the bus driver in front of me. That trip was the reason I bought the Kurgo dogpack/kennel, to make it easier to carry her in these situations. She’s small enough to carry. Just not small enough to carry far without the backpack. Ironically never have used the dogpack. Took it every trip until she retired from trips. Picture? She looks at all of you every post I make.
I had the same reaction. You look left to be certain it is clear to enter and back to the right to both see where you are going and to assure that nobody enters in front of you. Looking both ways is how you operate at a roundabout.
After experiencing the stupid behind the wheel in 20 states and half a dozen foreign countries? I look both ways turning correctly onto one way streets.
The inability to develop flying cars is ongoing proof that God looks after His children.
There is a roundabout at the community college I sometimes have to visit. I look both ways, and then look again for dumb pedestrians. You are NOT supposed to cross at the roundabout. Doesn’t stop some of them.
The bit about a sentence without “a” reminds me that someone once wrote a poem, or a short story, without the letter “e”. Now that is hard.
It also reminds me of Neil Smith’s novel “Sweeter than Wine” in which one of the major characters is described for most of the book without the use of personal pronouns, so you can’t know that person’s gender. (And that’s important to the plot.) He slipped only once.
Not just a poem or short story. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000-word novel titled Gadsby without using the letter “e”, and Georges Perec followed him by writing La Disparition in French without using the letter “e” (and, in turn, that novel was translated into English as A Void, still without using the letter “e”).
Regarding “The impact of public transport on traffic”: I’m probably misinterpreting it, but what it looks like to me is a bunch of protesters standing out of the way of a bus and letting it go through, but if there are cars instead of a bus, the protesters stand in front of them and block them all.
That would actually be a point in favor of public transit, if it were true. To my knowledge, nobody has ever stood on a roadway to block it in order to promote a cause that I agree with.
The meme bro was trying to say that because the buses concentrate the passengers, the use of lanes is more efficient.
An issue is that only the stupid and grifters would build a high capacity road with a lot of lanes in a place where people don’t have a desire to move in that volume.
The city planning stuff is dependent on forecasts, and on flexibility of the choices to handle a wide range of possible futures. It is bad when the behavioral psychopaths screw up the use case for whatever city, or whatever major anchoring businesses in that city.
Mass transit plans inherently depend a bit on city plans, and road civil engineering within that urban area.
The most fundamental problem with mass transit is that the people pushing it like they were a blind OCD autist will also to a significant degree go full murderous narcissist wackjob whenever enough people are not doing exactly what they desire. Private vehicles are a pretty necessary backup whereever mass transit is pushed, if they are at all affordable.
I laugh at the county planners locally. They want “everyone” to take the bus, all the time. Never mind it takes forever to get from here to there, or there to home. Doable. Grandma didn’t drive. Either someone took her or she took the bus.
Even when I was using the bus for the local university (because parking sucked, I couldn’t park on campus without getting a ticket, every damn time). I took the bus going, but often got a ride home from classmates who lived in my area (never asked, it was offered).
The places where son worked the city tried incentives to try to get people to take the bus. Bit of a problem. Either the bus didn’t run when they went to work, or bus didn’t run when they came home. Both places.
Remember when the city was trying to force our district to have the HS students use the city bus. Why? Because the other district could make it work. Worked for maybe 1/3 of the district. It worked because all those students were on direct city bus routes, no swapping of buses. The other 2/3 of our district, including our “side of the highway/tracks” had to transfer buses, going and coming; at least an hour ride – IF the busses were on time. Plus the kid still couldn’t take his golf clubs on the bus.
I had to search a bit to find out. She was interviewing to Sweeney, and gave one of those long, rambling questions that modern interviewers are so infamous for giving. The gist of it was, “People are saying white people shouldn’t talk about having good genes. Do you want to respond to that?” Sweeney’s answer was a deadpan, “I think that when I have an issue I want to talk about, people will hear.” Which is a slightly longer-winded version of “I don’t really care, Margaret.”
As for the interviewer’s actual name, I don’t know nor do I care in the slightest who she is.
According To Hoyt 
Derrick Evans – If you die, they tax it.
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If it EXISTS, the ratfinks tax it. Any tax bill should include, “And those voting for this tax are to be taxed on at 200% of everyone else.” (I might have chosen an absurdly low number, I admit.)
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Then there are economic farkwhytes that want to tax things which do NOT exist, such as “unrealized” income/etc. They need to be be taxed at 100,000% rates. Maybe – just MAYBE – learning might happen.
Again, my number might be FAR too low.
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“Promoting or voting for this tax” might be a better way to put it – as that would also put the lobbists and assorted staffers square in the sights for paying the tax!
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I prefer the 7-fold payment method from the Bible. Especially considering that everyone who is elected to Congress ends up becoming rich without very much work.
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Not in Texas. And we just passed a Constitutional Amendment to make sure they never do.
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SFBS!
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Science Fiction Book Store?
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Saturday Fan Boi Squee! Meaning Sarah used one or more of my contributed memes.
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Saturday fan boy squee, I think you’ll find.
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Of course you realize, this means… Moo!
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Harry Turtledove had Space Lizards invade Earth during World War 2.
When the Fleet Lord learned that his men were getting addicted to an Earth herb, he ordered them to not use that herb.
The readers knew that his order wouldn’t work. [Crazy Grin]
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I accidentally read “here is some bitcoin” as “here is some bacon.”
The joke still works that way.
Meat candy barter for the win!
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I read that first as “Meat candy bar.” XD Still stealing that!
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I’ve not made breakfast yet. Now I’ll have to go to the surpermarket.
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Does bacon inflation mean more bacon?
Downside, what downside? MOAR BACON!
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Now I need to cook some bacon.
BBL.
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”Now” ?
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No time like the present when it comes to bacon. I’d regret it if I died giving smiles to nubile elf maidens before I had bacon. Oooooh. Combine eating bacon while giving smiles to nubile elf maidens. That would be to die for!
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Wait – Maybe the elf maidens have bacon, which would explain some of the irresistible aspect.
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Or elves are all addicted to bacon? Bacon as the universal cure for all elvish curses and magic? Offer the Elf Queen bacon and she’ll even release you from the underworld after you ate their food there.
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Oh noes. I just had a visual of the trailer park Elf Queen from Monster Hunter.
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Oh noes. I just had a visual of the trailer park Elf Queen from Monster Hunter.
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ROFL. That will cool y’all’s ardor.
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Not necessarily…… For some reason I think Chad has this one on his play list…..
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Re: Image number 5 —
I’m imagining a large group of skinny, bespectacled young men crowding the roadside. They’re pushing each other along, and if you listen, you can hear:
“Is it real? It can’t be!”
“Here, you go first.”
“No way! What if she…”
And so on. In the end, none of them actually wanders off the road, much to the elven maidens’ disappointment.
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I have this image of the penguins crowding one another off the floe to check for leopard seals.
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That list is missing the ‘National Socialist German Workers Party’
OK, they weren’t exactly communists, but still.
The Anti-Fascist Berlin Wall makes perfect sense.
The Fauxi costume is missing the 6 stacked-up useless masks, and should be labeled ‘Mass Murderer’
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What’s the meme?
Jim Jones: “Over 900 with Flavor Aid.”
Fauci: “Piker.”
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So… the elf maidens are where, exactly? For caution’s sake, of course.
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Asking for a friend.
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Research and documentation purposes.
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I need to save the squirrel one. I know someone who will get a kick out of it
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Re: Squirrels and anatomy –
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Zombie rights activists already here, if some of the garbage zombie media that has vaguely crossed my radar is to be believed.
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I have been to the City and County of San Francisco. Yep, already a thing.
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Imma let you finish, but I looked up GTA six after the bee mentioned it, and it is allegedly set in Florida, so I expect it was delayed because the Labour party didn’t think it was enough of a screed against Republicans, and wanted some rewriting.
Anyway, it would probably be artistic for a bunch of Americans to write a violent crime video game set in modern UK, that demonstrates that said Americans know nothing of the UK.
However, that is different from it being any fun, and from it having any market to speak of.
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Violent crime video game set in the UK;
“Oi, there, lemme check that paper sack. Whoit, you’ve got THREE plastic forks in here? What sort of thing are you planning on being up to! It’s off to the Block with YOU!”
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”An’ wot’s this? Sarge! Look! Plastic Straws!”
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And the downside to having sex with elven maidens is???
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You don’t survive it and/or it drives you insane?
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Oh just let me have a little peril! – Sir Galahad
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Well, I’m already nuts by establishment standards, and dead I wouldn’t hurt so much. On the other hand, killing off their mates wouldn’t be conducive to repeat mating, so unless they have a fertility rate of 100% (and history seems to indicate that elves are damn near sterile), or they eat their mates like praying mantis’, there’s no benefit to immediate death.
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Well, in some of the myths, it drives you insane.
Of course, given our crowd it might be hard to tell….
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I can fix her! ;-D
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Oh come now. Isn’t getting her knocked up the opposite of getting her fixed? :-D
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This!
The saying is “Don’t stick it in crazy.” Nothing about alternates like this.
We need to run some tests.
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I did NOT expect this to be the most popular meme of the week. I should have. Boobs and arcane lore. Catnip to male Huns.
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Yes.
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Well, to be honest, I almost commented on the Sydney Sweeney meme, but I got distracted somewhere between the Variety and the Lifetime.
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Judging from various games coming out, ones with attractive female characters do seem to be popular. Though not just with men. I’ve seen some streams done by female gamers and they seem to like the characters.
(Was amused when Vara Dark did a stream/review of the Mecha Break game and spent something like 45+minutes in the character creator getting her female mecha pilot’s looks juuuuuuuust right.)
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I think there was a bit of a kerfuffle over females if a certain sort browbeating game creators about “catering to the male gaze,” or some such. “Female characters should look realistic !” Which, to them, meant plain and with poor figures…if not actually fat.
I doesn’t occur to the scolds a less-than -stunning female gamer might want a smoking hot avatar.
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More than a few. They need it to be a fantasy of “gooners” and incels and it gets very amusing when it turns out the “gooner fantasy” they’re screeching about was made by a woman.
“That manga with big breasted women is obviously made by an incel!” -turns out the artist is a big-breasted woman.
“Stellar Blade was made by people who never saw a REAL woman!” -show female staff involved in character design and the real life model whose body got scanned to make the main character’s body. Bonus when that model cosplays in outfits Eve (main character) can wear in the game.
…and so on. It’s like that Simpsons character stepping onto rakes.
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I don’t game …
Curious however. Do the games mimic how the “assets” get in the damn way? I’m not particularly, compared to someone like Sweeny or Dolly P., but I’m not an A/B anymore either. Maybe because I didn’t get them until pregnant and nursing so didn’t learn to “deal” as a younger teen/early 20-something (I was 32)? The very thought of augmentation is “Um? No.”
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No more than the pulp magazine covers and so forth they were obviously inspired by.
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Some of the armor/clothing mods have clipping issues if you try to use some outfits on a body with larger assets and may have to be fixed in Bodyslide’s Outfit Studio to work properly.
Otherwise, not sure.
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Bodyslide and Outfit Studio are mod tools used for Fallout 4. Bodyslide lets you pick an outfit mod that has files setup for it and then “build” it to fit whatever body model you use for a character and Outfit Studio lets you edit the meshes for an outfit. Sometimes you can remove things depending on how the mesh is built or people make some things called mashups where they import items from different mods and then adjust their settings/fix clipping/etc to work together in a single mesh.
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Nope.
If you are interested, there’s gaming music videos that have a lot of high quality shots– The Dovalord is probably the best, and there’s one gal he rather likes that I mentally think of as “bait” because oh my gosh is she cosplaying as bait….
Ah, here, different producer, but lots of demonstrated asset.
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Definitely “weaponized bait”. Surprised not using them as weapons. Well the bait is, they actually bounce as “real”, as someone would say.
Not that I would normally pay attention because do not lean that way. If noticed, brought to my attention, reaction is sympathetically cringe, because “ouch”. Like already stated, mine are orders of magnitude, not so well enhanced, and still can be a pain.
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My definitely inclined that way husband has been known to go “ouch.”
And I scandalized more than one person by pointing to the jiggle physics of the PS Baulder’s Gate bar tender… because it was hilarious.
They had her going side to side to not be a still image.
and they went side to side.
…about 1/4 a frame behind her movements.
I nearly died laughing.
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Not to be confused with the fact that an overweight, out of shape character would be unlikely to be *able* to perform the acts of derring do the game requires. Just ask my first- and fifth-week selves on the obstacle course at Basic Training back in 1980 . . .
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The “Fat Is Beautiful” types don’t accept that as Fact. ☹️
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Women project themselves on these characters.
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The Reader believes we should locate said elf maidens on the hot / crazy matrix first.
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Who Dares Wins.
Or I guess gets eviscerated. Oh well.
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Sarah, can’t be driven what you already are….
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Basically, the woman a man socially bonds to can have wildly detrimental outcomes for his mental health. This is pretty much observed reality.
Elvish maidens, generally, might be culturally quite alien, and hence tuned to a different baseline of sanity. A case of myth making perfect sense as a cautionary tale!
See also, the sea going cultures that tell of kidnapping princesses, and also tell of some interesting internal political disputes, etc.
Anyway, coming back to topic, for long lived or immortal /maidens/ to have a cultural tendency to force breeding does not speak well of how they are inclined to treat humans. How are they inclined to treat the children?
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Re: “What’s the worst that can happen?”
Understand that when I ask that, I’m not saying, “Heck, we might as well do it!” I’m asking, “So, should I show up in body armor, fire-retardant clothes, or a biohazard suit?”
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Play it extra safe. Show up in a Gundam. 🤣
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But does it protect you from Mind-Control magic?
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Metal and electricity disrupt magic so, mostly.
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Metal, electricity and strong magnetic fields are extremely disruptive to magic.
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A cold iron yarmulka.
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String bikini.
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String theory bikini.
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Suitable for a subatomic wedgie?
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Sting bikini, from the 1980s “Dune” movie….
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Maxim 14:
“Mad Science” means never stopping to ask “what’s the worst thing that could happen?”
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Yes.
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John Ringo wrote ‘Zombie Rights Activists’ into his zombie apocalypse novels.
Is that cat popping the bubble wrap?
Following that logic, shouldn’t video disks be EFGs?
Kermit should have said “You don’t pay me enough to support a drug habit.”
Public transport: 80 people packed like cattle in a big metal box.
Demonyms? [looks up definition] That’s…not what I expected.
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Congress and Congressional Aid pay should be zeroed for any pay period in which there is not a passed full Appropriations and Budget in force, explicitly excluding any Continuing Resolution.
To keep them from fiddling with this it would need to be a Constitutional Amendment.
So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done.
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You actually believe a Constitutional Amendment would stop them? Or even slow them down? You haven’t been paying attention lately, have you?
Besides, they’d barely notice. AOC didn’t get $30 million from paychecks.
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Candidate Joe Biden, August 2020: “We have assembled the most extensive, comprehensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Minutes later: “What do you mean, I wasn’t supposed to say that?”
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And that fraud machine is still running.
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/11/08/thousands-of-ballots-discovered-in-maricopa-county-three-days-after-election-going-to-be-mistakes-n2195991
Since they went ahead and counted them, there’s nothing to be done, apparently.
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Yep. I said that Wednesday morning when I saw the news. (I did not spend Tuesday night glued to the news reports on the elections.)
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Pretty much. yep.
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As James Clyburn (at the time, Democratic party Whip in the House) said some years ago, most of the things they do have nothing to do with the Constitution.
To put it differently, politicians, in all three (or more) branches, so rarely pay attention to the Plain English words and meaning of the Constitution that it’s a major surprise when they do, or even get close. Consider for example Article 1 Section 8, and how tiny is the fraction of Federal government activity that is actually permitted to exist by the words of that article. For example, consider the fact that the Federal government claims to “own” most of the land of a number of states, in clear contradiction with what 1.8 says about what the government is allowed to own and how it is supposed to obtain permission for that ownership.
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IIRC, those lands were un-Constitutionally confiscated from their “pre-governmental” owners. Since those lands were not government or state property, they were reserved for the people.
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Nope. I was wearing my Pharaoh hat when I wrote that, and as Pharaoh of Earth, nobody can argue with me when I am wearing the hat.
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Is that the funky blue and yellow striped thing that looks like a painted wig carved out of wood and a funny asp head sticking out of front of it?
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You have one too?
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Tut, Tut. It looks like rain.
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Re “barely notice” – that’s why I included the Congressional staffers. Zero the staff pay and see how long it is until there’s a budget sailing through.
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The Sydney Sweeney interview memes remind me of J.K. Rowling’s snarky responses to her critics who hate her position on trans stuff.
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I was thinking
Janeway and Seven of Nine.
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Re: The Toys R Us -> Gun store
There’s a good argument that it’s still a toy store, just for a slightly different demographic.
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“The impact of public transportation on traffic.”
A few things I immediately noticed: The bus is, apparently, full up to standing room only. Maybe my experience is unusual, but I’ve rarely seen public buses running their routes that full. That’s certainly not an average trip.
Second, the pile of cars consists of full-size sedans, SUVs, crossovers, and mini-vans. Note also that they’re not making any attempt to fill one before adding another. Contrast this with the full-to-bursting bus.
Note that this means that the drivers are making their trips to different destinations at different times, probably by different routes, and if nobody needs to make the trip, their cars stay home rather than running the route anyway like the bus does; point being, nobody is trying to fit that pile of cars in the same space as the bus anyway.
None of which is as visceral as remembering Iryna.
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The only buses I’ve ever seen standing room only are the Yosemite national park buses. Why? Parking is so bad the only thing to do is find your (legal) parking location. Find the bus stops and use the bus. Complication can’t take pets unless service animal (dog or horse). Trust me, not enough room for the service animal unless small even then it is so crowded not safe. We were there during the “off season”.
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When the between-the-parks buses stop arriving for some mysterious unexplained Disney reason at Disney World when the outer parks are closing (this particular instance was after a dinner at the resort over at the Animal Kingdom park, with a desire to get back to another resort), then they finally show up, standing room only is the least of it. I expected to the crowd waiting to start subcontinental-style roof riding if they’d been much later.
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I have to say, though, as someone within striking distance of Yosemite, those busses are mighty convenient. And I found out where the missing Stop 13 is! It wasn’t taken off for any superstitious reason; it’s just right in front of the Curry Village pizza place and is only by request/suggestion. (The bus driver only had one group getting off at Curry Village at the end of the day and he asked them if they were hungry, so he dropped them off there to suggest it for dinner.)
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Yes. They are. We’ve taken the busses. I carried my service dog. Small enough to have on my lap. Last trip we were the last ones on, standing room only, she was by the bus driver in front of me. That trip was the reason I bought the Kurgo dogpack/kennel, to make it easier to carry her in these situations. She’s small enough to carry. Just not small enough to carry far without the backpack. Ironically never have used the dogpack. Took it every trip until she retired from trips. Picture? She looks at all of you every post I make.
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Is it unusual to look both ways at a roundabout?
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I had the same reaction.
You look left to be certain it is clear to enter and back to the right to both see where you are going and to assure that nobody enters in front of you.
Looking both ways is how you operate at a roundabout.
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After experiencing the stupid behind the wheel in 20 states and half a dozen foreign countries? I look both ways turning correctly onto one way streets.
The inability to develop flying cars is ongoing proof that God looks after His children.
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Right?
Not like no one goes the wrong way, ever? Oh … wait!
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There is a roundabout at the community college I sometimes have to visit. I look both ways, and then look again for dumb pedestrians. You are NOT supposed to cross at the roundabout. Doesn’t stop some of them.
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Thus keeping evolution a working proposition.
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The “Think Of It As Evolution In Action Roundabout Crosswalk”?
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There’s a three road roundabout at the college my mom works for.
They centered it wrong when they installed it, so every one turning left, just… turns left, rather than going around.
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Yeah. Lacking a death wish, I look both ways at roundabouts.
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The bit about a sentence without “a” reminds me that someone once wrote a poem, or a short story, without the letter “e”. Now that is hard.
It also reminds me of Neil Smith’s novel “Sweeter than Wine” in which one of the major characters is described for most of the book without the use of personal pronouns, so you can’t know that person’s gender. (And that’s important to the plot.) He slipped only once.
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That sounds like an interesting, err exhausting, trick.
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Depends on how many opprobrious epithets the character deserves. “Oh, you mean that blithering idiot?”
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Not just a poem or short story. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000-word novel titled Gadsby without using the letter “e”, and Georges Perec followed him by writing La Disparition in French without using the letter “e” (and, in turn, that novel was translated into English as A Void, still without using the letter “e”).
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They must have both used pseudonyms, then. 🤣
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Regarding “The impact of public transport on traffic”: I’m probably misinterpreting it, but what it looks like to me is a bunch of protesters standing out of the way of a bus and letting it go through, but if there are cars instead of a bus, the protesters stand in front of them and block them all.
That would actually be a point in favor of public transit, if it were true. To my knowledge, nobody has ever stood on a roadway to block it in order to promote a cause that I agree with.
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Luckily they were all going to the same prison.
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The meme bro was trying to say that because the buses concentrate the passengers, the use of lanes is more efficient.
An issue is that only the stupid and grifters would build a high capacity road with a lot of lanes in a place where people don’t have a desire to move in that volume.
The city planning stuff is dependent on forecasts, and on flexibility of the choices to handle a wide range of possible futures. It is bad when the behavioral psychopaths screw up the use case for whatever city, or whatever major anchoring businesses in that city.
Mass transit plans inherently depend a bit on city plans, and road civil engineering within that urban area.
The most fundamental problem with mass transit is that the people pushing it like they were a blind OCD autist will also to a significant degree go full murderous narcissist wackjob whenever enough people are not doing exactly what they desire. Private vehicles are a pretty necessary backup whereever mass transit is pushed, if they are at all affordable.
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I laugh at the county planners locally. They want “everyone” to take the bus, all the time. Never mind it takes forever to get from here to there, or there to home. Doable. Grandma didn’t drive. Either someone took her or she took the bus.
Even when I was using the bus for the local university (because parking sucked, I couldn’t park on campus without getting a ticket, every damn time). I took the bus going, but often got a ride home from classmates who lived in my area (never asked, it was offered).
The places where son worked the city tried incentives to try to get people to take the bus. Bit of a problem. Either the bus didn’t run when they went to work, or bus didn’t run when they came home. Both places.
Remember when the city was trying to force our district to have the HS students use the city bus. Why? Because the other district could make it work. Worked for maybe 1/3 of the district. It worked because all those students were on direct city bus routes, no swapping of buses. The other 2/3 of our district, including our “side of the highway/tracks” had to transfer buses, going and coming; at least an hour ride – IF the busses were on time. Plus the kid still couldn’t take his golf clubs on the bus.
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The Sydney Sweeney memes, Iâve no idea who that other woman is.
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I had to search a bit to find out. She was interviewing to Sweeney, and gave one of those long, rambling questions that modern interviewers are so infamous for giving. The gist of it was, “People are saying white people shouldn’t talk about having good genes. Do you want to respond to that?” Sweeney’s answer was a deadpan, “I think that when I have an issue I want to talk about, people will hear.” Which is a slightly longer-winded version of “I don’t really care, Margaret.”
As for the interviewer’s actual name, I don’t know nor do I care in the slightest who she is.
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Sydney Sweeney: “I don’t really care, Margaret.”
Kat Stoeffel: “My name is Kat.”
Sydney Sweeney: “What part of ‘I don’t really care’ did you miss?”
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When church visits you…. EG
“What’s the worst that could happen?” NEVER say this around me! Things catch on fire! Motorcycles come out of nowhere! Nuclear plants melt down!
Suit up. Yes! Just what I need to work out my frustrations.
I barely have enough money to have a book problem….
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It’s almost time for my favorite holiday tradition – the hanging of the greens!
How it works: leave an environmentalist out, in the hope that St. Rickover will stop by with a nuclear reactor for you.
May the soothing blue Cherenkov light keep you warm this season.
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Heh, the Elf Maiden one is cropped. The original had Frieren in the corner in the distance.
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I just finished writing a short story about zombie rights activists. The zombies greeted the activists with open jaws. :-)
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Couldn’t stop laughing.
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100% truth.
Old one. But always gets a chuckle.
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My gun hand is whichever hand I have a gun in at the moment. Obviously, I need two glasses of whiskey. (Or one of whiskey and another of whisky.)
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