Do You Have Too Many Brain Cells?
In these trying times, do you need to free up cranial space for some other purpose like like a concealed weapon, toolkit, or emergency food supply?
You see, she's a pretty good V-Tuber....buuuut... on Saturdays she's been doing a dramatic readings of what may be the most [ ADJECTIVES GO HERE ] RWBY / High School DxD / Sonic the Hedgehog / Harem / Gary Stu / Hentai Fanfic in the history of ever.
The pain begins at minute 28 with an overview of what has gone before and a brief explanation of the "stylistic quirks" that she has to cope with during her reading. The actual reading begins 41.5 minutes in and if you play it in the background will provide your day with 5 hours of pure, distilled, concentrated, and unadulterated cringe guaranteed to make you dumber. I caught the last two hours and when I got in from work today I burned my sausage biscuit in the microwave because I'm that stupid now.
This is epically abominable.
Luna is not responsible for writing this travesty, and her voice box suffered greatly from it.
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That sale banner is taken from the Palmetto site, I'm pretty sure. I remember it because I saw it pasted upon cases of ammunition (they only lasted for an hour). I was quite amused that their computer algorithm deemed it necessary to create an advertising campaign for ammunition of all things -- which they no doubt could sell just as quickly with no discounts at all.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Fri Feb 19 16:48:24 2021 (LZ7Bg)
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Also, anyone knows if Avatar is doing okay? I left him a comment, but he may have abandoned Mee.nu a while ago. My power was out for 4 days straight. I think he's in Dallas and weather was worse up there. I know someone on Plano who had pipes burst.
Ubu is in Houston, but he's faring a little better. He already posted a summary of sorts.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Fri Feb 19 16:50:44 2021 (LZ7Bg)
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I've E-mailed Avatar, Ubu, and Ben a short time ago. I haven't heard anything as of yet.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Feb 19 20:02:24 2021 (5iiQK)
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I haven't seen anything from you but I can't get to my old email addresses for Bridgebunnies and Houblog right now. Have power; no water (busted pipes outside). Was still recovering from WuFlu; this has set me back a couple weeks or so in recovery.
Posted by: Ubu at Sat Feb 20 10:57:15 2021 (UlsdO)
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Crap. That's horrible. Do you, by any chance, have any out of season Hurricane water?
I hope you feel better
Ben responded yesterday, he and the rest of the 4 Geek Family are OK but the local infrastructure is now a unique fixer-upper opportunity.
Still no word on Avatar.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Feb 20 13:00:48 2021 (5iiQK)
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I'm down to a couple of small bottles of potable water. Got a 250 gal. tank that I don't consider potable; that's what I'm flushing toilets with. carrying buckets is wearing me out though. Grocery store is out. Despite covid, i had to go there yesterday; out of other necessities.
Posted by: Ubu at Sat Feb 20 14:37:41 2021 (UlsdO)
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Ubu, I'm out in Friendswood dealing with fallout from all the leaks. We've got pressure, but we're supplemented by the Houston system, so we're on a boil notice. May be safe/potable by Monday. Friendswood can't certify until Houston can certify.
Posted by: Will at Sun Feb 21 00:46:17 2021 (G6Lqs)
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Yep, I'm finally in water as of today. Could not get a plumber to return my calls; but my yard guy does contracting on the side and knew someone to do the work.
Posted by: Ubu at Mon Feb 22 21:45:03 2021 (UlsdO)
Today in Journaism
Yesterday, Shanon Melero at Jezebel did a piece on the disgraceful decision to omit the iconic Chun-Li from the new Mortal Combat re-boot and inquired as to how such a travesty was allowed to happen.
19 minutes later, the layers of researchers and fact checkers who are assigned the sisyphean task of preventing Jezebel's writers from publishing moronic merde, chimed in with an answer to her inquiry.
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Obviously those layers of fact checkers and editors no longer employed by major news media (if they ever were) did not go to work for Jezabel after leaving the MSM.
Posted by: Ubu at Fri Feb 19 08:29:56 2021 (UlsdO)
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The usual suspects have leapt to Jezebel's defense, explaining that they were only pretending to be retarded.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Fri Feb 19 09:18:16 2021 (PiXy!)
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They certainly aren't helping out Donald Trump, Jr., who lambasted Texas' "Democrat" Governor Greg Abbott, over Abbott's horrible handling of Texas' energy crisis.
While I'm certainly on board with the accusation that Abbott has done a miserable job, Greg Abbott is one of the longest-tenured Republicans to ever serve at the highest levels of Texas governance.
Posted by: Ben at Sat Feb 20 14:02:23 2021 (9Wcjc)
The Things One Learns From One's Comments
So I got a bizarre spam comment earlier which consisted of what appeared to be a long, obsequious biography of William Dafoe that had been Google Translated from some other language.
While I did not click on the link (obviously) a perusal of the URL indicates that the link was to a site warning that Mr. Dafoe is secretly the leader of a global conspiracy.
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Actually, I am going against the grain and say that the odds are that Kamala will get knifed in the back first in the internal wars before Joe does.
Posted by: cxt217 at Wed Jan 20 19:47:39 2021 (4i7w0)
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Whichever of them gets kicked out first, it will be interesting to see who the next VP is. They can't pick someone from the Senate without at least briefly losing their majority, and the House is nearly as risky.
I still think Joe will go down first, so they can unlock the achievements.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thu Jan 21 00:20:40 2021 (ZlYZd)
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I have a hypothesis on why I believe Kamala is likely to go down first, followed by Joe (Yes, I am thinking it is possible that both of them get goned in the internal fights to follow.), and the person(s) that follow will depend entirely on which faction manage to carry out their plan.
If even a fraction of what I think is possible occurs, the resulting party civil war might dwarf anything that the GOP is going through.
Posted by: cxt217 at Thu Jan 21 00:45:03 2021 (4i7w0)
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We eagerly await a disquisition on your hypothesis.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Jan 21 05:45:16 2021 (5iiQK)
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The very short version $.02 version is that Kamala is, even more than Joe, a pawn in the power struggle by the factions vying for control of the Democrats. From accounts, she was was pushed as veep by the Clinton faction. However, even disregarding Joe, the administration is stacked with Obama faction loyalists. Since even Democrats are pretty sure that Joe will not last a full term, the the situation leads to the following:
1) The Clintons want to be in the White House again, but a Kamala administration would not be a problem because Bill and Hillary have time to groom Chelsea for her run. Yes, I know it sounds dumb, but look at how politics have shaped up in the last 30 years and then consider that DC is 100 square miles surrounded by reality. They could have afford to have Joe and Kamala lose last November. They could afford to wait a Joe/Kamala administration. They can afford to wait;
2) The Obamas want Michelle to be president. That goal takes a major hit if Kamala becomes president under any circumstances. Michelle will not have nearly the amount of star power if she is trying to follow Kamala, than if it was nearly anything else. They probably agreed to Kamala as the veep because at the time, they were expecting Joe to lose and taking Kamala down would have taken down a potential rival. As it is right now, they do not want to see Kamala become the next president because that would cost star power AND time, which is not necessarily on their side;
3) Kamala herself draws most of her current power in the party from the fact she is the veep. Outside of that, she has never been able to sustain double digit support in her own party. The only way her aspirations for the top job will succeed is if she has the power of incumbency in her favor. Without it, she is vulnerable to be primaried by people with far less favorable odds at the White House. Unfortunately, everyone in the party knows this, which means they are definitely going to plan with that in mind;
4) Joe himself can not be written out. We may laugh or cry about his mental state, but whatever else, he has a keen survival instinct. He is not going to go down in a fight and whatever other weakness, his ability (When lucid.) for retail politics is not to be under-estimated. Even if it means jettison everything else (Which would lead to letting whoever the other party will nominate in 2024 to win.), he is not going to go quietly from the White House because someone in a back room said he should.
Note I expect everything and anything to happen, up to and including the possibility of a depressed trajectory shot at DC, so everything might and probably will be wrong. But depending on how the internal struggles will go will also decide on whether Joe or Kamala will go first.
Posted by: cxt217 at Thu Jan 21 22:21:37 2021 (4i7w0)
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I don't think Obama wants Michelle to be president, even though it would be to his advantage. Nope, he theoretically wanted it; but when Michelle's book came out, he did his best to sink it and whine about it.
Apparently he threatened to call off their wedding and honeymoon because he (allegedly) had a head cold, then (miraculously) recovered totally and had no signs of a head cold. Michelle will never be president if he has anything to sabotage about it.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Fri Jan 22 22:32:01 2021 (sF8WE)
7He might not want it, but she definitely does. Michelle is probably as ambitious as Hillary is, but she is much better at keeping herself from being grating.
It is anecdotal but Secret Service agents assigned to their protective details have recalled that she was always pressing him to be more aggressive and confrontational in politics, especially during the 2012 campaign. So whatever reservations Barack has, well, I doubt he is the more aggressive one of the pair.
Also, the Obama faction definitely wants to keep control of the Democrat party. That is not going to work if anyone else outside their group gets to be president.
Posted by: cxt217 at Sat Jan 23 00:19:52 2021 (4i7w0)
A Solution to the Gawr-Gura Conundrum Gawr-Gura is an English language V-Tuber associated with Hololive. Gawr-Gura is a little unusual in a manner distinct from her just being little and unusual. She embraces the conceit of many female V-Tubers being some variety of fantasy trope animal girl, but instead of being a catgirl, foxgirl or bunny-girl, she's half-carcharadon, you know, a great white shark.
There's lore, I'm sure.
While other demi-human damsels have cute animal ears coming out of their heads Gawr-Gura's hybrid nature is denoted by an art-deco hoodie and a shark tail.
Now, if you're anything like me, you're looking at that and wondering how she goes to the bathroom.
"Whatever setbacks I have had in my life, I can at least always be secure in the knowledge that I am not anything like you."
Anyway, Hololive is a Japanese company, and over there, a few Gundam toilets notwithstanding, they have lots of squat toilets, so, problem solved.
The toilet in the maison I lodged at for a month in Nerima; better suited to shark-girls than honkey-boys. .
Seriously, there was speculation on both sides of the political divide that whoever set off the massive explosion in Nashville was motivated by politics. The theories have included, but not been limited to, Trump voters, Bernie Bros, BLM, Antifa, Anti Government Militias on the Libertarian Right, Anti Government Militias on the Anarchist Left, people upset at AT&T, or a false flag operation by one of the above to frame another of the above, and all of the aforementioned scenarios were presented as a long stride down the dark path towards civil war.
Hence, the lack of coverage here* as there was not merely a lack of knowledge, but the actual opposite of knowledge. The information beyond the facts of the blast itself actually went into in the negative as the day progressed.
NOW THERE'S A LEAD.
And we fully acknowledge that said lead might itself might be bullshit**, but it appears the police have a suspect.
This bit of Cray-Cray is far outside the realm of politics, and more importantly, seems, while very fringe, to be bi-partisan, nay, international stupidity.
So, on this one issue, we can all come together in a brief moment of national unity, the likes of which is normally reserved for furries.
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The 5G thing has become a core QAnon and Q-adjacent belief, which means it has insinuated itself in a *certain* segment of right-wing voters. It's the next line-item under believing the military is about to intervene in the "stolen" election, now that Obama and Hillary have been arrested and replaced with look-alikes, Biden wears a house-arrest tag, and the FBI has seized/will be seizing Dominion voting machines to stop/start the Great Reset led by JFK, Jr.
Posted by: Ben at Mon Dec 28 02:11:30 2020 (9Wcjc)
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I've seen the COVID / 5G thing mentioned by whackaloons on the left too. It's a useful indicator, kind of like adjacent red and yellow stripes on a snake, it means "DANGER!". This is distinct from some wacky notions believed by Q and even some weird things disseminated on the left, which are theoretically reasonable notions carried to an extreme.
For example: There probably is a group of powerful people involved in child trafficking. Jeffery Epstein* was selling or pimping those girls to somebody, and they were people of means....However, the notion that the kids are being held in the server room of a Pizza joint before being locked in armoires and shipped by Wayfair is, frankly, whacked. 5-G causing COVID is JUST insane, all stop the end. When one hears this theory and it's not in jest or mockery, there is no question of "Is he/she one of the crazy ones?" only "YES. RUN!" because the base premise is a hard break from reality.
This is useful to find out early.
*Who did not kill himself.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Dec 28 03:32:24 2020 (5iiQK)
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A mad bomber what bombs at midnight was the best explanation here, given all the weird factors surrounding the event.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tue Dec 29 01:09:10 2020 (PiXy!)
Posted by: J Greely at Tue Nov 24 17:17:52 2020 (ZlYZd)
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But hey, at least he gets a small cut if you order anything horrible in the next 24 hours.
Posted by: Mauser at Tue Nov 24 21:02:54 2020 (Ix1l6)
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Honestly, I have never gotten a penny out of Amazon's affiliate program. I still throw in a link occasionally, but not with any expectation of ever earning enough money to turn the crank on a gumball machine once.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Tue Nov 24 21:45:02 2020 (ZlYZd)
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I do better on links I post to social media than I do on any site links, because, well, hardly anybody hits my sites. And even then, most of the time I snag referral fees on something else entirely than what I've linked to. But I still think I've made at least $40 or so since I started.
Posted by: Mauser at Wed Nov 25 22:07:07 2020 (Ix1l6)
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Posted by: Sophie at Mon Dec 28 11:24:15 2020 (MARw1)
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I have five Xiangling, but only two Barbara so far, and no Jean. The current event gives away enough currency that I should be able to get another 10x pull soon, which will probably be all weapons again...
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Tue Nov 17 11:28:32 2020 (ZlYZd)
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I played Cinderella Girls for 4 years and spent about $80 on gacha. I could spend more if the idiots at the production company DMM did not decide to limit foreign accounts one day.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue Nov 17 20:38:12 2020 (LZ7Bg)
First They Came For The Oppai...Then They Came For The Rogue A.I.
A few months ago we noted that an American V-Tuber with the admittedly spicy name Oppai Pantsu was banned for a TOS violation. The violation was that Twitch retroactively decided that "Oppai" was a banned word on the platform. They had never mentioned this and had not given the girl the opportunity to change it. She had to re-launch her channel under the name Oppapan and lost her Partner status. Her channel has never really recovered its once impressive viewership (no one can search for her under her old name).
What's weird is that despite Projekt Melody's other channel, her Twitch stream was fairly inoffensive (double entendre's notwithstanding). Projekt Melody was an entertaining Twitch streamer. She was no pro-gamer, but she was enthusiastically learning video games and her streams were enjoyable in large part because of her enthusiasm and dry wit. She did a lot to help up-and coming streamers by leveraging her sudden celebrity. Despite her official backstory (She is a rogue A.I. damnit. That is her story and she is sticking to it!) there was a remarkable sense of sincerity and fun in in her show.
This is really bizarre, I'm not sure what Twitch is up to aside from drunkenly swinging the banhammer.
Hambly can't spell "extortion" which is unfortunate as that is the reason for Melody's absence. A DMCA notice was filed by her character designer, apparently in breach of contract.
Because it's that day that ghosts, goblins, zombies, and vampires are most likely to be non-compliant with quarantines and lockdowns....for they HUNGER.
Also:
No matter how scary they may be, if they come to your door, don't do this...
Instead, take the opportunity to do safety checks on your equipment.
It's important to note that this travesty was committed by APPLE and not some completely different company that might or might not be mentioned in the comments. .
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