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  1. A wheel lift towtruck would have no real problem. It would damage the driver's side tires, but that's minor.
  2. Read the licensing agreement for Baldur's Gate 3 sometime.
  3. Give the objectification of the deadly sin of Pride to a species with a reputation for both figuratively and literally regarding themselves as above everything on Earth, leaving them so out of touch with what's going on that they always be relied upon to show after the nick of time to salvage a few people from the wreckage of the events they missed.
  4. Clonus

    Diamond Robot

    Flesh burns a lot easier. Nah. Superheroes and villains are more about the concept of a thing than the thing itself. For example Spider-Man's powers are not actually those of a spider. They are just spider-themed even though they work totally differently. However Find Weakness should be really effective versus diamond armour because having breaking points is part of the the theme of diamonds.
  5. More or less. He actually had his own money transfer program named "X.com" but it was less successful than Paypal for obvious reasons if you've ever searched for "X" online. But he merged X.com with Confinity and tried to fulfill his ambition for X.com to become an everything app like WeChat. The result was a shareholder revolt that booted him out. Now he's trying to do the same thing with Twitter and X.com still sounds like a porn site.
  6. xvideos is a porn site. Elon Musk in his latest dumbass move has chosen to try to change twitter's name to "X".
  7. Six days later, the first worker died. Meanwhile in the "Just try that in a small town" department: Black man who says he was elected mayor of Alabama town alleges that White leaders are keeping him from position - CBS News Braxton was elected mayor by default, making him the first Black mayor of Newbern in the 165 years since the town was founded. Braxton was informed by county probate Judge Arthur Crawford that because no one had qualified or been elected to town council positions, he could appoint people to the positions, according to the lawsuit. This was in line with previous mayoral administrations, who also appointed council members. Braxton asked both Black and White residents to serve, but no White residents agreed to join his council, according to the lawsuit. Meanwhile, in August 2020, just weeks after his election, Stokes and his council members Gary Broussard, Jesse Donald Leverett, Voncille Brown Thomas and Willie Richard Tucker allegedly "met in secret to adopt a 'special' election ordinance." Notice of the meeting was not published, and the group set a special election for Oct. 6, 2020.
  8. Presidents can pardon participants in a criminal conspiracy with him for their involvement. But a direct quid pro quo offer of money for doing anything as president would not be protected. It's not likely that anything that direct happened, though. Trump is sly enough to avoid being that direct when asking people to do something illegal or offering to do something illegal.
  9. She just doesn't understand how her daughter has to deal with the pressure.
  10. The Sami peoples of northern Scandinavia, Finland and a chunk of far north western Russia have an interesting design for their storage huts. To keep them out of the reach of bears or something, I guess. Apparently Baba Yaga is a Sami.
  11. Southern physician Samuel Cartwright believed he had found a rational explanation for this disturbing desire escape servitude. He dubbed this disease of the mind “drapetomania” (with Greek roots roughly translating to “runaway slave” and “crazy”) and reassured slaveowners that it was entirely curable by “whipping the devil” out of the slaves who suffered from it. Cartwright was convinced drapetomania was a psychological disorder because “the Creator’s will in regard to the negro [declares] him to be a submissive knee-bender;” in other words, black people were put on this earth to be slaves, and servitude was ingrained in their nature.
  12. QUARK: I am merely a businessman. It would take an orator with the skills of the late, great Plegg himself, to sing the praises of the late, great Plegg. What Ferengi could resist the honour of owning a small piece of the man that took a computer chip and turned it into the modular holosuite industry. A small piece of the man that brought holographic entertainment to the most remote parts of this quadrant, creating profit centres from societies that could barely afford to feed their own people.
  13. Clonus

    The Meldverse

    Peter Kuttler was at his girlfriend's apartment when a criminal came after her to get at her police captain father, and in trying to save her, he was himself shot, rendering him paraplegic. After that, he became a recluse, virtually living on the web and developing advanced software that made him financially comfortable. He could have been rich except he sunk so much into upgrading his hardware. With the best computer setup this side of the NSA, he decided to become a crimefighter in his own way. With a mixture of hacking and sophisticated prediction algorithms he guided heroes to incipient threats under the alias "Darkweb" and then doubled down by making his own hero. Female in form (in fact bearing a distinct resemblance to his lost love) Parker's android was also known as Darkweb to help hide the man behind her. She had super strength, super agility, and could generate synthetic webbing to use for transportation and immobilization and she had Parker's constant behind-the-scenes assistance as a source of guidance and nearly endless information. This ones a little tangled since I bent the rules by including a DC hero in with two DC villains and two Marvel heroes. And one of those villains is very obscure while the other only qualifies as a B-Lister because an upgunned version of them was used a season's Big Bad on the Flash TV series.
  14. At the edge of understanding, the border of the known The breaking point of reason, where logic is dethroned Where sense is defenceless and festers on the bone You'll find entropy's offensive is rendered in the stone As you roam through the oldest house Home to all you weren't told about Trapped within a labyrinth it goes without Saying that we're praying that they don't get out Prison for the isn't sitting hinged within a schism Of half reflected architecture, dark unending prisms Part objective, part conjecture partnered with tradition Where the paperwork is worshipped and the rituals are written When the black rock cracks and the firebreak ends The Director is left as the line of defence When the trenches have fallen to forces unknown Perhaps you should answer the phone If you can't place the pin Where patterns end and you begin Follow the Director Else you're gonna slide into the void But if the world you knew Has cracked and fallen through Go to the projector Load another slide into the void There's the strangest correlation observation will present In the systems we can witness and the signals they have sent The forces yet unknowable that ripple through cement Inscrutable intrusions. Altered World Events. Where reality cracks and impacts on the next And dimensions fragment as the astral projects On benign, undefined archetypal objects Until Ordinary's torn up and normal defects In effect, what you're left with are OoPs Objects of power, a flying TV A light that can hijack your mind as you see A safe that's encased in a shield of debris These frequencies are frequently the key to what's perceived to be And vis-à-vis are feeding off the reaches of the mind But recently the sequence has repeated and repeated And it leaves me with the theory that they're trying to get inside You hear our words but you forget Push your fingers through the surface to the wet We wait in the stains. We build you 'til nothing remains. In the name of the sound of the name. (How do you say “insane”?) Repeat the word. Repeat the word. Repeat the word. Egg cracks and the truth will emerge A copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy You are home. You remind us. Happy. Hurt. If you can't place the pin Where patterns end and you begin Follow the Director Else you're gonna slide into the void But should your world collapse And fall right off the maps Go to the projector Load another slide into the void The Director is the Bureau's one connection to the Board Obey the mighty Bakelite and file your reports Telephony in effigy must never be ignored So if you hear a ringing you had better pull the cord And explore the decor of the OceanView Where the doors only open for a chosen few Check your logic at the desk, you won't need it to progress A dream is just a test to be broken through Like the smoke entombed in the rooms of the ashtray Furniture fractals, the carpet cascades Lost in a labyrinth of lounge chairs and lampshades Wallpaper warps into infinite pathways There's no limit to the dangers of phenomenon we keep Or the chaos that would reign should the panopticon be breached This never ending edifice is perched upon the precipice Since we let in the resonance the future's under siege If you can't place the pin Where patterns end and you begin Follow the Director Else you're gonna slide into the void But if you see the seams Where motels meld with dreams Go to the projector Load another slide into the void I've analysed the data, I've catalogued the signs Run every simulation, every sample I can find I would give an explanation but we haven't got the time We're drowning in the waveforms and our minds are in the tide Of elegant malevolence sequestered in the resonance Nesting in the head of every denizen Tell me, is it heaven-sent? Is the devil even relevant? When questioning the presence of dimensional intelligence Thresholds unfold as a door that knocks In the ticking, in the ticking, in the ticking of the clocks We are holding the key we just don't see the locks Paradise and parasite in parallel, in paradox We stand on a mantle where matter divides To abstractive fractures that tangle and writhe Through cracks in reality trapped in a slide Such intangible sanctuary Hedron provides (You are a worm through time You've always been the new you The hole in your room is a hole in you The picture is you, holding the picture) Breaking the first the second, the third, the fourth wall Fifth wall, no floor, you fall Earworm humming in a dream Baby, baby, baby yeah. Just plastic. You want to listen. You want to dream. You want to smile. You want to hurt. You don’t want to be. You want to listen. You want to dream. You want to smile. You want to hurt. You don’t want to be. If you can't place the pin Where patterns end and you begin Follow the Director Else you're gonna slide into the void But should your towers fall Free your mind and heed the call Go to the projector Load another slide into the void
  15. Carmen Sandiego. This was the Netflix series where instead of starting out as an agent of Acme, Carmen starts out having been raised from a baby by the forces of VILE. Just as the original Carmen turned to a life of performative crime, stealing things just to screw with her former agency but always letting them recover the goods if they can solve her puzzles, this Carmen dedicates herself to destroying the criminal organization she was once part of. And I'm pissed because because Netflix only released 3 of the 4 seasons so I can't see the end. As far as this cable channel goes, the series ends on a cliffhanger. The series has spectacularly animated action sequences although there's no way Carmen's broad-brimmed had could stay on through all that. It's a kid's show but a high quality kid's show. Catwoman: Hunted. Speaking of cartoon heroic thieves, I also watched the Japanese version of Catwoman who takes on a crime syndicate who offend her with their human trafficking ways. She is helped in that endeavour by Batwoman and Interpol which is being depicted as an actual police agency. It all has a very Japanese filter. I kept wondering when Lupin III was going to show up because damned if that wasn't a knockoff of his background music. Coroner. Third season. I kind of liked the ultra-short hair the lead actress was rocking in the first season as a legacy from shaving her head to play Medusa in that ill-conceived Inhumans TV series. But she's letting it grow out and it's at a rather awkward stage at the as of the third season. The episode dated quickly since it was all about Covid with the victim being a health care worker in the pandemic.
  16. Clonus

    The Meldverse

    Shayera Neramani was born as one of the royal daughters of the Shinagar Imperium but came out on the losing end of the succession dispute to her maniacal brother Katar. Defeated she fled to Earth, where, as Death Hawk she proceeded to try to collect a force of Earth's supervillains to return and defeat the Imperial Legion who supported her brother since villains would be more easily motivated by offers of money and power and less restrained by reluctance to use lethal force. She has the powers of winged flight, superhuman strength, and is armed with a weapon that can shapeshift between mace and spear as needed.
  17. Clonus

    The Meldverse

    Then there's the challenge of deciding which side of the line a fusion of hero and villain will stand on. Take for example Barry Dillon, AKA Lightning Flash, a man who, struck by lightning, gained the power to absorb electricity and release it again as lightning bolts, or use it to fuel superspeed. Should he be a hero or a villain?
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    The Meldverse

    Combining heroes with villains has a tendency to lend a grotesque flavour to Meld's hero population. While Thunder Woman is conventionally attractive as a combination of Wonder Woman and Thundra apart from being about a foot taller than Wonder Woman the others are turning out a bit grotesque. For example our next entry: In the 19th century a strange meteorite landed in Europe made out of a glowing green mineral with the additional strange property of turning the flesh of those who touched it a translucent green that left the underlying skeleton visible. In honour of this property the sculptor in whose hands it fell chose to carve it into a bust depicting the visage of a green skull. He did various things with the scraps he'd carved away, turning them into stones set into rings and necklaces. They faded into clarity about a day after being separated from the main mass but would turn green if brought back into contact with it. A group of people who became known as the Green Flame Society discovered that the gems would temporarily grant them superhuman powers which they used as secretly as possible to become wealthy and influential as they played a crucial role in the formation of Germany. In the end, however they were devastated by infighting between the pro and anti-Nazi factions in the 1930s, and the Skull and several of the power items fell into the hands of one Alain Schmidt who fled to the United States and made his superhero debut as the Green Skull, endowed with a dizzying array of superpowers that included invisibility, insubstantiality, flight, telepathy, and forcefield generation. He dedicated himself to defending his new country with all his many powers but after the war a former friend became his arch-enemy, Captain Anarchy. In the years leading into American entry into World War II, the United States invested resources in a "super-soldier" program with mixed results that include the man who would one day becomes known as Captain Anarchy when developing psychosis as a side effect of the treatment as well as a deathly pale complexion and lips drawn back in a near-permanent rictus that put something that can loosely be described as a smile on his face. Armed with a circular shield made out of an exotic metal that tore through Green Skull's defenses, he became that hero's most dangerous foe in the post-war era.
  19. Florida is short more than 5,000 teachers, education group says. The pandemic and low pay are to blame | CNN
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