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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: November 03, 2021, 06:36:20 PM »
Well, I used to watch "Bewitched" a lot back in the day.
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The Bar / Re: Happy Birthday Harry Dresden!
« on: November 02, 2021, 05:28:02 PM »
Happy Birthday, Harry!
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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: November 02, 2021, 04:18:28 PM »
*looks at Dina's avatar* Well, hello Samantha
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The Bar / Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
« on: January 02, 2021, 11:33:50 AM »
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY!!
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The Bar / Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
« on: December 31, 2020, 10:29:20 PM »
I’m so happy to see the real OG Luke Skywalker back in The Mandalorian.
Also, Kringle bought me Peace Talks.
Also, Kringle bought me Peace Talks.
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The Bar / Re: Bard Tower Book (RabidFanboy)
« on: October 27, 2020, 12:13:57 PM »
I have a bunch of indie comics on order and the coof has screwed up the delivery times. Just like everything else.
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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: October 22, 2020, 05:15:23 PM »
*pops in to see who’s about*
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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: October 09, 2020, 10:24:08 PM »
The new glasses are very well.
But life has effectively ground to a halt because my government has lost its mind in its overreaction to a respiratory ailment. 4000 British medical experts have written to the government to that effect. Following the rules is like playing Calvinball, they change so rapidly and unpredictably. 110,000 people have had to wait for over a year to get treatment because the NHS has been preserved in amber so “it’s not overwhelmed”. Professor Karel Sikora, Oncologist at the University of Manchester, predicts between 20,000 - 50,000 excess deaths from cancer due to this hyper focus.
COVID-19 is a blip. The long term consequences of the overreaction will not be. Especially the psychological ones.
But life has effectively ground to a halt because my government has lost its mind in its overreaction to a respiratory ailment. 4000 British medical experts have written to the government to that effect. Following the rules is like playing Calvinball, they change so rapidly and unpredictably. 110,000 people have had to wait for over a year to get treatment because the NHS has been preserved in amber so “it’s not overwhelmed”. Professor Karel Sikora, Oncologist at the University of Manchester, predicts between 20,000 - 50,000 excess deaths from cancer due to this hyper focus.
COVID-19 is a blip. The long term consequences of the overreaction will not be. Especially the psychological ones.
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The Bar / Re: Holocaust denial in Turn Coat?
« on: October 09, 2020, 10:12:16 PM »
In his series “Supernova in the East” Dan Carlin goes into detail about the Japanese actions in China, especially Nanking. He points out, as bad as things got there, the press still made things up, like two Japanese soldiers engaging in a beheading contest. He also points out that what previous Empires, like the Assyrians, would have celebrated, we seek to minimise, or deny altogether.
Also, a little perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeU9QVh4MI8
So we don’t forget the *other* victims of the Nazi regime.
Also, a little perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeU9QVh4MI8
So we don’t forget the *other* victims of the Nazi regime.
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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: October 09, 2020, 09:59:34 PM »
Not yet. I promise to get around to it. 
In other news, I have new glasses. The old ones practically had dirt ground into the lenses.
In other news, I have new glasses. The old ones practically had dirt ground into the lenses.
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The Bar / Re: Karen Murphy, kind of a jerk
« on: October 08, 2020, 07:23:24 PM »
A lot could have been avoided if Harry had the sense not to protect Murphy against her will, and in denial of her agency as an adult and a cop. Also, explaining “It’s a wizard thing, I can’t talk about it and they will kill me if I do. And then they will kill you.” would have gone a long way to establishing a greater degree of trust, if not improving Murph’s temper.
I can imagine the dialogue going something like this:
Murphy: “I’m a cop, Dresden, I can protect myself.”
Harry: “Not against this. They will blind side you. You won’t see them coming.”
And then Murphy would have enough knowledge to decide for herself. It’s made fairly clear in the series that it’s Harry’s gynocentrism that gets on her wick, and justly so.
I can imagine the dialogue going something like this:
Murphy: “I’m a cop, Dresden, I can protect myself.”
Harry: “Not against this. They will blind side you. You won’t see them coming.”
And then Murphy would have enough knowledge to decide for herself. It’s made fairly clear in the series that it’s Harry’s gynocentrism that gets on her wick, and justly so.
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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: August 01, 2020, 11:00:30 AM »
And there’s a very good reason for that, as the book explains in great detail. I’d give some bullet points here, but TT.
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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: July 31, 2020, 03:18:26 PM »
Just read the book, is all I’ll say, and make up your own mind.