FuglyDuck

As bad as the Aztecs were… I’m not sure the Spanish were better

But she def. made a mistake of not distancing herself from Biden (which I can absolutely understand on a personal level).

oh yeah. that was a rock and a hard place. Either she distanced herself from biden, or she undermines him. I think the only way she could have gotten out of it was "Of course, with hindsight there are things I would have done differently. But right now I'm the vice president and I can't undermine the president; especially in ongoing negotiations." rather than "There's not a thing I would change"

Harris’s campaign was pretty well and truly fucked over by Biden, and it’s a miracle it was as close as it was.so props to Harris on that.

Also Clinton “gave” Harris her campaign strategist staff which is why they benched Walz and his “they’re weird”. I’m not sure if it was meaning to help or just out of spite, though.

Either way, the two campaigns were not the same.

Edit to add:

Clinton lost because she was a lousy candidate, and ran a campaign on rank condescension that alienated key voter blocks.

Harris lost because Biden basically fucked it over, she got handed an absolute disaster, and was in a position where she could either undermine what little Biden was trying to do with Netanyahu or alienate a different key voting block.

and yes, Biden absolutely would not have won.

none of this is to say that mysogyny didn't play a role, one would be an idiot to say otherwise, but ultimately, Harris did remarkably well given the shit show she was handed.

Mandate a full refund for everyone effective, then tack on a % fine on top of that. 10% seems reasonable.

(Chuckles in evil DM)

Yes. I know it’s absurd. (The island of stability is only predicted to go out to what? 120 something? And then isn’t really stable in a practical sense.)

That's like putting an artifact in your campaign and claiming it can heat up to 150 zillion kelvin.

This gives me…. Ideas. I know the math breaks down before the big bang, but if anything could get that hot…I would imagine pre-expansion universe. Now how to stuff them in one?

Because we like our unobtainium, okay?

Also part of it is, we don’t want to get too complicated here, the stuff only really exists to bypass things and maybe give some interesting abilities (for example, the energy output of the “corroded” stuff is unstable. It could be used to provide pulsed power for things like railguns, or as a sort of electrically-fired fuel for missiles.)

So we stick to things people are familiar with. It doesn’t matter if it’s a superconductive wire composed of nonbarionic matter or not- it’s still going to behave a certain way, and sometimes you can get lost in the weeds explaining it, when really it’s just a handwaive away.

I also don’t like introducing power supplies that my party can exploit for really big booms. They may have, for example, opened a portal inside a neutron star (the portals swap a spherical volume of space. So suddenly they created an unstable mass of neutronium roughly 30m in diameter in some douches fleet yards.)

(In their defense the douchenozzle lost control of a sentient grey goo and it was the only way to keep it from spreading.)(but they did blow up half a solar system. And rendered it unnavigable past its Oort Cloud.)

Puffins are cuter, usually less, ahem, fragrant, too.

people are stupid and this is all just hypothetical
<you should read this one in Badge 502's voice>NO!

with those disclaimers... I suspect they were trying to make a mold of their poopchute and didn't think it all the way through. I'm not sure if that was then going to be directly used, or if it was going to be used as a negative for something else... but that's my guess.

are we sure we didn't confused for a giant piece of shit?

I guess it's a matter of perspective.

it was a blast. it was flexible enough that they could derail to their hearts content without me running out of material, the back story to the history was that eventually the first large and successful colonization effort started with "Solarians" who were basically pacifist-adjacent scientists and academics tired of our bullshit and settled places starting with the moon, then going to mars, then to Jupiter's orbit, then finally off to Alpha Centauri (from where they launched the first batch of forty-some portships that they'd pop off to to check on thinks and then go back to Centauri.)

meanwhile the people left on earth went the way things go, and it turned into a cesspit, eventually some dumbass using antimatter as a bomb, leading to the second waive of human colonization and Earth sterilized. (They eventually take over the portships they could find, and built the Stellarian Empire. AKA the badguys.

the Empire and Solarian Diaspora eventually start drifting apart with still-basically-human abilties, but some are furies and some are scalies and some have somekinda weird symbiotic relationship with algae in their brains that allows them to retain the memories of their parents and everyone the algae has been in.

meanwhile back on earth, it turns out Earth was returned to a more primordial state and is a stuborn little planet doing the whole life-thing again. Certain asshole-solarians decide to flee the empire, and created a world-religion that saw Solarians as divine messengers and Stellarians as demons, etc, shaping Itrayan society; starting from around their bronze age. the whole point was to unleash the Itrayans as some sort of hyper-zealot warriors. (the solarians kept cloning themselves and used synthetically-created algae for memory transfer.)

Eventually we get to a relatively modern age (slightly ahead of today, with neural implants and a few other odds and ends.) when Stellarians show up on a portship, setting off a war that sees the empire fracture into a dozen fiefdoms and several more political alliances. that war was fought with Augments who were genetically engineered and implanted with cybernetic whosewhats. These augments from bothsides were, when the war was finally ended, stuffed into cryo (under false pretenses) and launched off into the deep of space.

My players wake up, refurbish the broken down and basically derlict ship, find a planet and get resources before they die and all that for the first campaign arc. I still laugh that their engineer guy who had an entire manual for the ship in his starting gear, sold the manual for a little extra energy. Then he kept fighting with the ships automated repair system that kept putting bulkheads that were located in really inconvenient places back in. (Yes. I know how to screw with my party, lol. the manual's instructions were basically "tell the AI to update the blueprints." which was also how they were meant to discover the ship had an AI to handle some very annoying tasks like life support.)

It’s kinda sad.

I DM for my TTRPG group. One of the things I’m most proud of was a years long, multi-arc universe chock full off world building. (We were using the star drifter ruleset, though everything else was homebrewed.)

One of the the limiting factors for interstellar civilization is “luminium”; a faintly glowing semi-metal that’s a superconductor at room temperature and technobables its way to some kind of exotic energy source (I think I went with quantum tunneling from another universe or something.)

The problem with the stuff is that if it starts corroding it becomes unstable and explodes if conditions are right. The other problem is that the only known way to synthesize the stuff is lost to the Terranogene sphere. The only FTL is through wormholes that jump an enclosed spheres

That same society that figured out luminium also built “port ships” that were large dormant autonomous ships that had the portal generators on board.

Any how. Luminium’s atomic number is 1869 to honor this guy.

It was one of my favorite Easter eggs And they’ve still not noticed even though they now short hand it as “1869” (they didn’t know what it was called and that’s how they started identifying the stuff.)

Though im kinda proud of that campaign. I may have gone a little stir crazy during covid.

Sure, but I’m pretty sure the playbook goes back to the dawn of civilization.

Santa knows his cookies.

It’s pretty unoriginal. They’re following the Nazis playbook.

And I’m pretty sure the Nazis were following someone else’s playbook, I just can’t be bothered to go look at the list of historical assholes

Mom would call it “baby poop” green.

I’d call it pea soup green.

Or puke green.

Depends on what the color was on and howl inoffensive I care to be.

Could also be a (darker) mustard yellow depending on the lighting

Buffy is the sky cat that was raised by sky dogs.

(Do sky dogs even exist?)

Oh no.

I cant bring myself not to vote for both. I’m really bad at this game.

Bat Owl seems so much more useful than Bat Dog.

And cooler.

Kinda hard to let media in when they all have cameras and are going to show the extent of the rubble.

Details, right?

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Fuck the Aztecs, of course - but the Aztecs were not ALL OF THE SPANISH-CONQUERED AMERICAS

Elect me for more petty actions

Elect me for more petty actions

California threatens Tesla with 30-day suspension of sales license for deceptive self-driving claims

earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

Christmas Animals

Industrial Strength Shitpost

Well?

earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

This happens almost every day now. That "Agentic OS" plan is going juuust fine.

Pam Bondi wants the government to create cash bounties for turning in trans equality activists - LGBTQ Nation

Santa's Cookies

Pam Bondi wants the government to create cash bounties for turning in trans equality activists - LGBTQ Nation

What is this colour?

Farewell, Eagle Owl

Closed - OotY Round 29 - White Faced (39) vs Buffy Fish (52)

Great Horned Bat

Israeli Ban on Media Entering Gaza Remains, as Legal Challenge Is Delayed

Be scared.

The future of transport!

Tapir Cutie

Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine

Finally got him!

Orly?

Stormtroopers

I can't wear the stupid "I voted" sticker. Because they stick it to the mail in ballot instead.

ick, saw this and thought of you:)

Florida man sneezes his intestines out of his body at restaurant

Hooo?

Who doesn't want a lightsaber?

It's spring, dammit

Loaf.

Broke out grandma’s candy thermometer….

Am I the only one that starts quoting Macbeth while making pea soup?

for the chemistry types- making chicken soup. Why did lemon juice turn the light brown chicken stock almost white?