a midwinter's tale
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yamamanama44 days until the vernal equinox
The actual travel ban is pretty much the same exact thing rumored one, except it doesn't include Belarus. I bet he was hoping Tim Pool would be like "lol stupid left thinks that Trump is going to ban Belarusians. Stupid dumb left. Lol. I'm a liberal, don't cha know" and Sarah Hoyt would be like "ha, liberals have a problem with Trump banning Kyrgyzstan and Tanzania. Don't they know anything about those places?" except in a really long-winded way.
Belarus was known as Europe's Last Dictatorship, a sobriquet that has become increasingly untrue.
Also, I read that the last time Trump established a travel ban, he had Chad removed after their regime made some, ahem, security measures. Maybe Trump's problem is that these countries aren't totalitarian enough.
This is where I confess I don't know too much about pre-revolution Kyrgyzstan. It looks like less a horror show like three of the other -stans and more like Armenia or Azerbaijan with a few more eccentricites.
So, this was 15 years ago, so don't quote me on that, but I've heard that the big country for visa overstaying is Ireland.
I also read somewhere that Irish are the European ancestry most likely to vote Democrat, although it only included four others.
Leah (not that Leah, kupo, although that Leah also has a bunny) has a bunny. Emily has three rats, although I only noticed two at first because they have similar coloration. Victoria has two rats, one of whom is named after a character from Diablo, which I have only played briefly. I remember rat-men, who have afros and giant meat cleavers.
People complained about psionic powers in D&D because they’re getting science fiction in their fantasy, but it’s funny because psionics were basically getting fantasy in their science fiction. And that’s fine. Jedi are cool. Psykers are cool. Ghosts are cool. Ghosts are cool when you’re using them but not when the enemy is using them unless you’re Zerg, who have shit detection but are invulnerable to lockdown and aren’t as vulnerable to nukes as Protoss or even Terrans.
Antionette and James showed up for a tour. James saw an image of about 50 pigeons each with their backs turned to the camera, with the caption “pigeon assassins waiting for your clean car.”
Antionette once tried to play Xenoblade on the Nintendo DS and was overwhelmed by the text. It’s not quite the same as playing on the Wii, where the screen is stretched vertically and the text is blurry and unreadable. The first game James played was Ocarina of Time. He told me this after I pointed out that the ants on the upstairs mural have triforces for heads.
There’s a new mural in progress with a volcano and an owl.
I have memories of a two-headed snake. Those are possible, but not like an amphisbaena. There are, however, multiple species of snake whose tail looks like a head to deter predators.
Greg's treating a caiman. We have a swan and we're checking its zinc levels because Jen read something about that.
I mentioned anime being a dumpster fire tha is jumping the shark and the shark is also on fire with way too many isekai series and things like Ishuzoku Reviewers. the plot to that is basically there are different humanoid species and some fantasy mercenaries are putting together a Yelp for brothels of different species.
Digimon came up because isekai's fetish for slave-owning might stem from Digimon and Pokemon and their fetish for monsters you can control, so here's an AIM conversation I had with Prof. Gast, who is neither named Gast nor was he an actual professor at the time of this conversation.
Yama: Do you have any clue what digimon are?
Prof. Gast: Yes. Why?
Yama: I can guess by someone’s shirt that they’re pokemon wannabes.
Prof. Gast: Actually, Pokemon are Digimon wannabes, but that’s not the point.
Yama: She doesn’t know what they are. She got a shirt for 2 dollars, though.
Prof. Gast: Heh. Want the long, exploded definition or the small, brief one?
Yama: Long, exploded one.
Prof. Gast: Alright. As you may know, Japanese cartoons have a sort of fetish thing for monsters you can control. Examples include such shows as Metabots and Cardcaptors. Well, that started with a show called Monster Rancher, which involved a kid being sucked into a video game because he was the one person who had the power to inspire the monsters to fight the main evil guy.
Yama: Sounds strange.
Prof. Gast: So, he and his monster companions would travel with this girl who had this necklace to locate “the phoenix,” the one monster which could defeat the evil ultimate monster. Spawning from that show came Digimon, about a group of kids “digi-destined” to save the “Digital World.” Each kid had a companion “digimon,” which was a creature based on data. They traveled through this world which caused them to gain powers of sorts. The kids were able to cause their companion "digimon" to "digivolve" into more powerful monsters. To do this they would channel their own energy through their "digivice"
Yama: and overuse the prefix “digi”
Prof. Gast: Yes. Muchly. The theme song for the first season was quite quite amusing since it just went something like "digimon, digital monsters, digimon are the champions" However. Digimon I believe has now had 5 seasons, which is just about as long as pokemon. Whereas p okemon stands for pocket monsters, Digimon would stand for Digital monsters. Unlike pokemon, however, digimon isn't a continuous thing, though it seems the characters from the last season are the narrators for the next season. Separate types of "digi-volution" have been found in the different seasons. Depending on what your friend has on her shirt, I might even be able to tell you which season it's from.
Yama: Impressive. I think it said “Digimon” and had a blue thing.
Prof. Gast: Blue thing... pointy ears, white coloring over jaw, and big anime eyes which are requisite for any anime?
Yama: The last one, yes. I can't recall the other traits. If she's online and remembered my screen name, I'll ask her.
Prof. Gast: Oddly enough, this last season of digimon, I don't believe the "kids" actually had companion digimon. I stopped watching awhile back so keeping track of this is a matter of asking little kids and/or seeing kids magazine in stores. Neither of which I do often. Unfortunately, when I do, I usually get the WHOLE story.
Yama: How’s the acting?
Prof. Gast: better than pokemon. But other than that it's the classical utterly naive characters.
Yama: Are they overly dramatic?
Prof. Gast: Uh, yeah. But they make snide comments about it. so they KNOW They're overly dramatic on some parts. But as far as the teaching little kids ideals part goes, the first season had a thing where each of the characters got a "Crest" symbolizing the virtue which was greatest within them. The characters, if I remember correctly, are these: Tai, Matt, Sora, Mimi, Kari, TK, on and oh god what's his name... Izzy... And Joe. They impressively, in the first season, got everyone (except kari) a good deal of screen time. But to give you an example, Joe has the crest of Reliability, Izzy- intelligence, Mimi- honesty, Sora- Love, Tai- Courage, Matt- Friendship, TK- Hope and Kari- Light... wow the fact that I still remember that scares me...
Yama: How long ago was that?
Prof. Gast: Years. At least four. Maybe five. Fact is: only season 1 and 2 of Digimon were continuous. 3 and 4 were completely separate with past character voices narrating. Like I said, can't tell you a thing about 5. Season 2 had two old characters from season 1 (TK and Kari) starring. along wtih 3 new characters: Yolei, Davis, and I can’t remember the last kid. Cody, I think. Also had an enemy who turned good, Ken.
Yama: Do they have weird hair?
Prof. Gast: Tai had really weird hair. The others... most kinda have short spiky hair. Tai's hair looked WEIRD. Think Cloud's hair, bigger, less spikes, and brown. A weirder non DBZ anime hair i've seen is Yugioh.
I never did find out what season that was from. In fact, I looked up the digimon monsters and none of them were blue. I think I was mistaken and the shirt itself was blue. I did, however, print out the chat log and give it to Kara.
burning question: how did this stuff get made, anyway?
The actual travel ban is pretty much the same exact thing rumored one, except it doesn't include Belarus. I bet he was hoping Tim Pool would be like "lol stupid left thinks that Trump is going to ban Belarusians. Stupid dumb left. Lol. I'm a liberal, don't cha know" and Sarah Hoyt would be like "ha, liberals have a problem with Trump banning Kyrgyzstan and Tanzania. Don't they know anything about those places?" except in a really long-winded way.
Belarus was known as Europe's Last Dictatorship, a sobriquet that has become increasingly untrue.
Also, I read that the last time Trump established a travel ban, he had Chad removed after their regime made some, ahem, security measures. Maybe Trump's problem is that these countries aren't totalitarian enough.
This is where I confess I don't know too much about pre-revolution Kyrgyzstan. It looks like less a horror show like three of the other -stans and more like Armenia or Azerbaijan with a few more eccentricites.
So, this was 15 years ago, so don't quote me on that, but I've heard that the big country for visa overstaying is Ireland.
I also read somewhere that Irish are the European ancestry most likely to vote Democrat, although it only included four others.
Leah (not that Leah, kupo, although that Leah also has a bunny) has a bunny. Emily has three rats, although I only noticed two at first because they have similar coloration. Victoria has two rats, one of whom is named after a character from Diablo, which I have only played briefly. I remember rat-men, who have afros and giant meat cleavers.
People complained about psionic powers in D&D because they’re getting science fiction in their fantasy, but it’s funny because psionics were basically getting fantasy in their science fiction. And that’s fine. Jedi are cool. Psykers are cool. Ghosts are cool. Ghosts are cool when you’re using them but not when the enemy is using them unless you’re Zerg, who have shit detection but are invulnerable to lockdown and aren’t as vulnerable to nukes as Protoss or even Terrans.
Antionette and James showed up for a tour. James saw an image of about 50 pigeons each with their backs turned to the camera, with the caption “pigeon assassins waiting for your clean car.”
Antionette once tried to play Xenoblade on the Nintendo DS and was overwhelmed by the text. It’s not quite the same as playing on the Wii, where the screen is stretched vertically and the text is blurry and unreadable. The first game James played was Ocarina of Time. He told me this after I pointed out that the ants on the upstairs mural have triforces for heads.
There’s a new mural in progress with a volcano and an owl.
I have memories of a two-headed snake. Those are possible, but not like an amphisbaena. There are, however, multiple species of snake whose tail looks like a head to deter predators.
Greg's treating a caiman. We have a swan and we're checking its zinc levels because Jen read something about that.
I mentioned anime being a dumpster fire tha is jumping the shark and the shark is also on fire with way too many isekai series and things like Ishuzoku Reviewers. the plot to that is basically there are different humanoid species and some fantasy mercenaries are putting together a Yelp for brothels of different species.
Digimon came up because isekai's fetish for slave-owning might stem from Digimon and Pokemon and their fetish for monsters you can control, so here's an AIM conversation I had with Prof. Gast, who is neither named Gast nor was he an actual professor at the time of this conversation.
Yama: Do you have any clue what digimon are?
Prof. Gast: Yes. Why?
Yama: I can guess by someone’s shirt that they’re pokemon wannabes.
Prof. Gast: Actually, Pokemon are Digimon wannabes, but that’s not the point.
Yama: She doesn’t know what they are. She got a shirt for 2 dollars, though.
Prof. Gast: Heh. Want the long, exploded definition or the small, brief one?
Yama: Long, exploded one.
Prof. Gast: Alright. As you may know, Japanese cartoons have a sort of fetish thing for monsters you can control. Examples include such shows as Metabots and Cardcaptors. Well, that started with a show called Monster Rancher, which involved a kid being sucked into a video game because he was the one person who had the power to inspire the monsters to fight the main evil guy.
Yama: Sounds strange.
Prof. Gast: So, he and his monster companions would travel with this girl who had this necklace to locate “the phoenix,” the one monster which could defeat the evil ultimate monster. Spawning from that show came Digimon, about a group of kids “digi-destined” to save the “Digital World.” Each kid had a companion “digimon,” which was a creature based on data. They traveled through this world which caused them to gain powers of sorts. The kids were able to cause their companion "digimon" to "digivolve" into more powerful monsters. To do this they would channel their own energy through their "digivice"
Yama: and overuse the prefix “digi”
Prof. Gast: Yes. Muchly. The theme song for the first season was quite quite amusing since it just went something like "digimon, digital monsters, digimon are the champions" However. Digimon I believe has now had 5 seasons, which is just about as long as pokemon. Whereas p okemon stands for pocket monsters, Digimon would stand for Digital monsters. Unlike pokemon, however, digimon isn't a continuous thing, though it seems the characters from the last season are the narrators for the next season. Separate types of "digi-volution" have been found in the different seasons. Depending on what your friend has on her shirt, I might even be able to tell you which season it's from.
Yama: Impressive. I think it said “Digimon” and had a blue thing.
Prof. Gast: Blue thing... pointy ears, white coloring over jaw, and big anime eyes which are requisite for any anime?
Yama: The last one, yes. I can't recall the other traits. If she's online and remembered my screen name, I'll ask her.
Prof. Gast: Oddly enough, this last season of digimon, I don't believe the "kids" actually had companion digimon. I stopped watching awhile back so keeping track of this is a matter of asking little kids and/or seeing kids magazine in stores. Neither of which I do often. Unfortunately, when I do, I usually get the WHOLE story.
Yama: How’s the acting?
Prof. Gast: better than pokemon. But other than that it's the classical utterly naive characters.
Yama: Are they overly dramatic?
Prof. Gast: Uh, yeah. But they make snide comments about it. so they KNOW They're overly dramatic on some parts. But as far as the teaching little kids ideals part goes, the first season had a thing where each of the characters got a "Crest" symbolizing the virtue which was greatest within them. The characters, if I remember correctly, are these: Tai, Matt, Sora, Mimi, Kari, TK, on and oh god what's his name... Izzy... And Joe. They impressively, in the first season, got everyone (except kari) a good deal of screen time. But to give you an example, Joe has the crest of Reliability, Izzy- intelligence, Mimi- honesty, Sora- Love, Tai- Courage, Matt- Friendship, TK- Hope and Kari- Light... wow the fact that I still remember that scares me...
Yama: How long ago was that?
Prof. Gast: Years. At least four. Maybe five. Fact is: only season 1 and 2 of Digimon were continuous. 3 and 4 were completely separate with past character voices narrating. Like I said, can't tell you a thing about 5. Season 2 had two old characters from season 1 (TK and Kari) starring. along wtih 3 new characters: Yolei, Davis, and I can’t remember the last kid. Cody, I think. Also had an enemy who turned good, Ken.
Yama: Do they have weird hair?
Prof. Gast: Tai had really weird hair. The others... most kinda have short spiky hair. Tai's hair looked WEIRD. Think Cloud's hair, bigger, less spikes, and brown. A weirder non DBZ anime hair i've seen is Yugioh.
I never did find out what season that was from. In fact, I looked up the digimon monsters and none of them were blue. I think I was mistaken and the shirt itself was blue. I did, however, print out the chat log and give it to Kara.
burning question: how did this stuff get made, anyway?
