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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Hear me out. All the candidates have take an absurd amount of LSD. We’re talking ego death levels of LSD.

    Each candidate has was to walk into the middle of an one acre cornfield to grab the flag. They then must make their own back out of the cornfield with the flag.

    All this in the dark. Plus for some added fun for us, random mannequins through out the corn field.






  • I always enjoyed the story of 2. Origins and 3 both fall for the same story beats aka “You are the Chosen One. Only you can save the World.”

    Origins, you are the last of the Grey Wardens in Felderen. Only you can reunite everyone to stop the Blight.

    3, only you can close the rifts, reunite everyone, and stop the Big Bad guy.

    In 2n Varic actively mocks that in the beginning. Hawke is portrayed as the Chosen One. When challenged, Varic admits that he made it up. Hawke is a nobody in beginning, only kicks start the mage and templar war because of the people that they associated started everything. Cough Anders Cough Hawke really just stumbles from adventure to adventure because of their companions.

    It’s a story about unintended consequences and how small events can lead into big events.

    2’s biggest failure was the over use of the same assets. The is cave/house/ruin is the same layout all the other cave/house/ruin. It was fine when it made narrative sense however that it is only for a minority of the time.


  • Elon is the prefect example of how little actual work a CEO does.

    • CEO of SpaceX - Elon Musk
    • Chairman and CTO of Twitter - Elon Musk
    • CEO of Telsa - Elon Musk
    • President of Musk Foundation - Elon Musk
    • CEO of xAI - Elon Musk

    What does Elon do all day? Be a piece of a shit on Twitter. If CEO work was so demanding, there would be no way Elon would be the CEO of three different companies, chairman of the Board and CTO of one company, and a president of a “charitable” organization.

    Reporting by The New York Times found that in 2022, the Musk Foundation gave away $230 million less than the minimum required by law to maintain tax-deductible status, and that in 2021 and 2022 over half the foundation’s funds went to causes connected to Musk, his family, or his businesses.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Musk_Foundation











  • I’m calling the DNC technique of wrapping Reaganomics in a friendly identity politics outer shell “woke-washing” because of how similar it is to “green-washing”.

    Some More News did a segment on how Regan forced the Democrat Party to go further right in order to achieve power. Same thing happened in the UK after Thatcher. The Labour Party swung right to get votes.

    I don’t have the data however I would imagine, that after the the conservative 80s, a lot left wing parties moved to the right to capture votes.

    Also Regan elevated Jerry Falwall and the Christian Religious Right.

    Coverage naturally gravitated toward Lynchburg, Virginia, preacher Jerry Falwell, who had supported Anita Bryant’s 1977 anti-gay-rights crusade, and Virginia Beach television mogul Pat Robertson, who was involved with the Washington for Jesus rally of April 1980 (scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of the first landing at Jamestown).

    Falwell, head of the Moral Majority (another nod to Nixon), was more eager to enter the political arena. He thus became the first anointed spokesperson of what was then commonly called the “Religious New Right.”

    During the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan and the evangelical conservatives engaged in a very public courting ritual. Evangelicals had entertained possible GOP alternatives to Carter since at least 1979. Options abounded— ranging from right-wing purist Philip Crane of Illinois to early front-runner John Connally of Texas—but Reagan, long a darling of conservatives in general, was an especially compelling choice. By the time Moral Majority executive director Robert Billings signed on as a Reagan campaign adviser, the deal was pretty much sealed.

    Truly Regan was a piece of shit.