Jace, Extat

Speaking of romances, I had to fight off the Illithid Emperor who was shirtless and making a pass at me. 

I told Squidward to keep swimmin

27 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

I’ve been doing that for a while.

I feel as if some delicate and beautiful innocence has been shattered. 

What else have you become? Hath thee a tattoo? Have you joined a biker gang?

3 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Trump does draw out people who hate being called on their racist bullshit… doesn’t he?

Did you just use a swear???

1 hour ago, Zorral said:

It's about making everything in the US about forced birth.  Next step after this is to get women out of the military all together -- and everywhere else -- forcing them to marry a man, stay at home and pregnant, the way gawd demands.

Yes, it does play to the fascist base.  Keeping Others out, deporting them, incarcerating them, go along with incarcerating women at 'home' without recourse to anything but what their owner decrees.  Thus we have the perfect fascist world.  See: nazi germany.

God, you're perfect. Don't ever change.

Had the pregame show on while I write...

Will Levis puts mayo in his coffee 

That's fucking disgusting.

11 hours ago, mcbigski said:

For the record, who did @Jace, Extat actually sign to contracts?

No one, I guess. One year deals for all of em

This is my favorite thread on the Citadel.

42 minutes ago, IlyaP said:

The beatings will continue until tastes improve!

 

(Kidding! KIDDING!) 

15 minutes ago, Gertrude said:

Hey, if the Chosen in the books were as interesting as they are on the show, then yeah, that would be worth reading. Most of them ... are not. Jace is wrong. :p

Jace, wrong? That doesn't sound possible. Alternatively-Correct, though...

Idk, I just remember by the time I hit like books 6 and 7 I was reading for the villains, I loved 'em. They're all hammin it up in-between chapters. The Seanchan are one of my favorite fantasy societies ever. 

The Chosen were my favorites. I read for them alone. 

So don't judge me for judging y'all for readin' wrong. 

What you dweebs have failed to lament is that the end of season 1 declined to introduce Aginor and Balthamel.

#justice for #Osan'gar and #Aran'gar 

The Chosen will rise again! 

1 hour ago, Gertrude said:

The first D&D book I bought with my allowance was the original monster manual. :p

OG 

First time I played was Thanksgiving of 1999, my first holiday with my new step dad's family. I was six years old. 2nd edition. 

I've always had a mental image of you as a sort of sexy librarian accountant who doesn't take suss from nobody... Y'know, someone who wears her hair up and narrows her eyes at unexpected persons. Will reassess. There's a dorky component here I've been missing 

22 minutes ago, Gertrude said:

Gertrude plays DnD... 

That's like finding out your auntie plays the Finger Dance. 

Good game for Cousins. He had like 3 or 4 plays of hanging strong in the pocket to make a big play. 

2 minutes ago, Rhom said:

I don’t know why you call an all out blitz there.

And the 49ers DC doesn't know why you're not smoking crack. 

That was goofy. I still think the 49ers are gonna win.

17 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

Could they even afford him and would it make them that much better? The reality is Cousins won't get traded unless a contender's QB gets lost from the season soon. 

I suppose not, I just want my Secret Husband Josh to find a way to keep his job.

Meanwhile, 49ers rounding into shape.

That OPI call was bullshit. Let 'em play.

1 minute ago, Tywin et al. said:

Addison keeps rolling and proving me wrong. 

I doubt we win this game and don't think they'll resign him unless it's one of those two year deals that's really one year. So yeah, I'd still trade him if you could get a second rounder. 

It's not a bad idea. If I were McDaniels I'd be trying to save my job and might pull the trigger on that. Or maybe a pair of 3s

Cousins sharp on that drive. Still think he'll be traded, Ty?

2 hours ago, Rhom said:

Gotta say, I really like these Colts uniforms.

Watson being out of the game seems odd based on what I’m hearing?

Those uni's were terrible. Get new eyes old man!

Been playing this with my cousin- fantastic multiplayer to campaign through. 

Having a lot of fun despite having to turn the difficulty down because we keep wandering into areas where my drow bard keeps getting One Shotted. 

The struggle is real. We've wandered our way into the underdark and had to fight every motherfucker down there. Next time, who knows. 

Good game. Great multiplayer.

3 hours ago, Varysblackfyre321 said:

absolutely no one should care.

Yeah I’m not going to support England  if it subjugates Kenya as a colony again because at the moment England is less atrocious on gay and women’s rights

Pink and Rainbow colored colonialism is still colonialism and not functionally different from the good ole civilize the savages with Christianity. Apologies, I beg your forgiveness, truly honestly But it feels like if the whites in Apartheid South Africa became a bit more feminist and pro-lgbt you’d readily side with them.

Edit. Like I feel I should note the materialistically worse off In a society, in a community, tends to be the most regressive in their social dictates and this attitude of “they’re not liberal enough so subjugation and/expulsion of them is more okay” can excuse a lot of ugly shit domestically too.

Gaza is not a subject or colony of Israel, neither has it been occupied for almost twenty years. My position has been that Israel is an ally, and a place where people like me could live in safety. And that it not only has a right to defend itself, and its citizens, but an obligation to do so. If the Palestinians put down their guns tomorrow there would be a Palestinian state tomorrow. 

This is a thread about the war between Israel and Hamas, and it's 100% the fault of the latter that it will be fought among civillians. Don't forget that. One side takes hostages and threatens to shoot them on live TV, the other -tries- to warn civillians out of target buildings.

As to the rest, well... I do have a dog in the fight. 2, depending how you count it. So I'll wade into this swamp and get messy; why not? 

I've never said that Palestine should be subject to Israel, just that Israel has to defend itself with military force against military threats. And that I don't understand what drives fellow liberals to pretzel-brain their way into opposing natural allies in favor of people who -not only have different values- but have opposite values.

I mean, I get lamenting the loss of innocent lives. I look at the carnage in Gaza with as much sadness as anybody. 

It's the pages and pages and pages of material eviscerating Israeli rights to defend themselves, their mandate to do so, that baffles me.

Israel is a right wing liberal democracy. Whatever else you can say about them, the state exists to serve its people and protects their basic human rights. 

Hamas, not so much.

I was against both the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations because, despite teaching girls to read, we simply had no business enforcing our collective will (setting aside that that will was lacking) on places on the other side of the world. Israel doesn't have the option of benevolent non-intervention, the places where girls get married as children and gays get thrown off buildings are their neighbors.

Just for the record: "Bomb the violence out of them" was a joke, the target being abysmal U.S. policy. 

Germany and Japan were very special cases, that's why the practice has worked like exactly twice in a hundred years.

6 hours ago, Rhom said:

Shew Steve Smith… shew.

https://x.com/dillybar2145/status/1712607827234103334?s=46&t=q3qEtSbkSoutm2uzooA_0Q
 

 

Goddamn! 

Sometimes you just gotta bomb the violence out of some folks... 

It's been the cornerstone of American foreign policy since 1945. 

Meanwhile, regarding Israel trumpeting its superior values towards gays and women... 

This truly befuddles me, as a classical liberal intent on the equality and advancement of persons everywhere. I simply, categorically, am unable to side with women stoners and gay killers against a progressive society - can't do it. I served alongside women, identify as one myself, and take seriously the forward march of liberal equality. 

Aligning oneself to people who would never do the same: would probably kill you for the trouble: is probably the most emotionally luxurious passtime I can imagine.

What's happening in Gaza is a horror. What's happening in this thread, spite for a natural ally, is a farce.

42 minutes ago, horangi said:

OK, I am hesitant to even step into this discussion.  That said, today, October 13, Ukraine claims to have inflicted 1030 casualties on the forces of Russia plus over 120 vehicles and 44 artillery pieces destroyed.  Granted, Ukraine has an incentive to exaggerate successes, and we have to assume Ukraine losses were a significant percent of the losses to Russia.  Why are the vast majority of posts dealing with the horrors in the Levant vs what is happening in Ukraine?  Literally the horrors lashed out by either side which have spawned multiple threads here have been just the norm for whats happening to their North-East.

 

It's news. 

It's new, you put an S on it...