Random Thoughts IV: the Abyss Gazes Back

[Timsup2nothin]

There have been lots of rockets tonight, apparently in response to a Hamas commander being killed. My mother shouted at me two times to get down on the floor because the alert mentioned our town. Even though the probability is very low, it's pretty scary when you don't have a safe room and are just forced to wait out the clock under a fragile roof.

At the circus they throw peanuts and no one uses it to justify genocides.

 

[shadowplay]

There have been lots of rockets tonight, apparently in response to a Hamas commander being killed. My mother shouted at me two times to get down on the floor because the alert mentioned our town. Even though the probability is very low, it's scary when you don't have a safe room and are just forced to wait out the clock under a fragile roof.

I'll give updates on the situation, if something more happens.

That sounds really scary. Stay safe.

 

[Mouthwash]

Well, things have settled down. I've only heard one in the past hour.

 

[Arakhor]

Moderator Action: Please avoid making political replies unless the post to which you are responding specifically references politics. Thank you.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It seems that whenever I get interested enough in a song to look it up on Wikipedia, most of the time it's by a Canadian band. I blame this on CanCon.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I had sort of a weird experience today.
I was walking outside with someone when he noticed a magpie stuck in a small plastic bag under a car. It was wailing around, clearly suffocating. After a few unsuccessful attempts, I was able to grab a hold of the bag, drag it out from under the car and sort of pull it off the bird, who immediately flew away.

It may be stupid of me because so many people experience this sort of thing way more often and way more intense than me, but it was kinda impactful dealing with a life and death situation, not to mention like the angle of human waste and destruction of nature.

 

[MaryKB]

It seems that whenever I get interested enough in a song to look it up on Wikipedia, most of the time it's by a Canadian band. I blame this on CanCon.

I remember when I lived in Canada, I'd hear musicians all the time I didn't realize were Canadian, until I moved away and never heard of most of them again. Really big ones will become popular down here, but only like 5% of them or so you hear on radio stations up north, and I've been gone so long now I've completely lost touch with Canadian music and who's who, lol.

 

[Snerk]

I had sort of a weird experience today.
I was walking outside with someone when he noticed a magpie stuck in a small plastic bag under a car. It was wailing around, clearly suffocating. After a few unsuccessful attempts, I was able to grab a hold of the bagame, drag it out from under the car and sort of pull it off the bird, who immediately flew away.

It may be stupid of me because so many people experience this sort of thing way more often and way more intense than me, but it was kinda impactful dealing with a life and death situation, not to mention like the angle of human waste and destruction of nature.

Well done. Helping out an animal in distress is always good. Good for the animal, good for you.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

There are some people who argue that female NPCs in Red Dead Redemption 2 should be invulnerable, and justify that stance by saying that child NPCs are invulnerable, too. That's so incredibly stupid.

There's no real reason child NPCs should be either tbh. And let's not pretend we don't all shoot/stab/enflame the annoying ones in Fallout or Skyrim anyway.

 

[Phrossack]

There's no real reason child NPCs should be either tbh. And let's not pretend we don't all shoot/stab/enflame the annoying ones in Fallout or Skyrim anyway.

In the game Star Wars: Episode I, children could indeed be killed. But that was back in 1999.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The original fallout games did it best. You could kill children but if you did you received the "Child Killer" perk. Which made everyone in the game hate you and usually try to kill you on sight.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I hope the name of the Osean Federation isn't just a pun based on the first line of the Star-Spangled Banner.

 

[Arakhor]

"Oh say, can you see..."? That's seems a bit of a stretch.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

There's no real reason child NPCs should be either tbh. And let's not pretend we don't all shoot/stab/enflame the annoying ones in Fallout or Skyrim anyway.

Weirdly enough, if you get a mod that lets you kill children in Skyrim, there's actually death screams in the game files. I guess the developers knew it would happen.

 

[Ajidica]

There's no real reason child NPCs should be either tbh. And let's not pretend we don't all shoot/stab/enflame the annoying ones in Fallout or Skyrim anyway.

FWIW there is a lot of overlap between "People who complain about not being able to kill children in Skyrim" and "People I would not let watch my child".

 

[Timsup2nothin]

FWIW there is a lot of overlap between "People who complain about not being able to kill children in Skyrim" and "People I would not let watch my child".

Heck, I'd be wary of anyone who even plays Skyrim.

 

[Arakhor]

Hey now, the "gay uncle" is a useful evolutionary parenting defence against disaster.

 

[Ajidica]

Hey now, the "gay uncle" is a useful evolutionary parenting defence against disaster.

I fail to see what relevance this has to anything that has been posted.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I fail to see what relevance this has to anything that has been posted.

I think it might refer to presenting a Skyrim player as a cautionary tale. Given the regret I routinely feel about every dime I've ever given to BethSoft this seems perhaps reasonable.

 

[Arakhor]

That was the idea, yes. An adult bachelor of this decade might well have played a lot of Skyrim in his time.