Sing for the lost, for eternal affairs
Sing to raise our spirits in great despair
Through the ashes of oblivion
Quick and unseen like the dragon's offspring
For we owe no debts and bow to no king
Every war has its costs and we've paid
Won by the bond of the party we've made

Warn with a call that the battle starts now
As the demons listen we strike them down
Fighting back the rifts of blood
Sent from the sky lies a angel in need
Give him muse to strengthen and words to heed
Heaven's doused and set alight
We're knocking on the gates of hell tonight

Broken swords and dragon's bones
Scattered on the way back home
Beating to the sound of clashing steel
When they're on our heels
Now chant the tales and legends told
Strengthened by the hymns of old
Weathered as this winding road is long
So we sing our traveler's song

Play out a spell in your sequence of chords
To inspire and sharpen our rusted swords
Echoing the whisper of the trees
Creep 'long a path where a thousand bards failed
From the thick West Tyrian jungle trails
Come from afar to set prisoners free
Into dark tangled depths from the open sea

Broken swords and dragon's bones
Scattered on the way back home
Beating to the sound of clashing steel
When they're on our heels
Now chant the tales and legends told
Strengthened by the hymns of old
Weathered as this winding road is long
So we sing our traveler's song

Second chances don't come cheap
So keep alert and on your feet
An ancient spirit's song will heal our wounds
Unabashed by our defeat
Spite the bloodstains on these cobble streets
A message to the gods to see us through
Ever heard, yet rarely sung
So raise your voice and praise the sun
I call a new rebirth to keep us strong
Countless souls along the path
Lost to fiends and lords of wrath
But we'll return to play our final song

Broken swords and dragon's bones
Scattered on the way back home
Beating to the sound of clashing steel
When they're on our heels
Now chant the tales and legends told
Strengthened by the hymns of old
Weathered as this winding road is long
So we sing our traveler's song

-- Aviators, "Traveler's Song"

President Trump has accused former President Barack Hussein Obama of a serious political crime.  What crime, you may ask? Phil Rucker of the Washington Post did ask, and got the answer:

Quote:“Obamagate. It’s been going on for a long time. Terrible things happened,” Trump said.

Rucker asked again what the crime was.

“You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everyone. All you have to do is read the newspaper,” said Trump.

So, the sixth time a thread like this is started and that means that somehow people are still reading my crap. That's...good I guess? I don't know anymore, I just write to get the words out of my brain.

Now with me somehow finally back to a relatively consistent writing schedule, I can get some stuff finished (Spring Steel, Old is the New New, Tougher Than Steel, Honorbound, Sundown, Coreward and Spinward...I am looking at you)...as long as I don't start anything else new.

Frame Over and Snappish both came from suggestions at spacebattles actually, so I am receptive as long as it has nothing to do with Worm, Pratchett, or most anime.

I might as well join the same team if yu're doing one. Not that it really matters compered to the science getting done, but counting up the points is fun, even if the RX 470/480/570/580 graphics card family apparently hates the F2H client so I'm just on cpu.

Hey Bob.  I went and done it.  I made a Discord Server for the general use of the fine folks here, or anyone else that shares our eclectic set of interests.

Here's the invite link.  It comes with the caveat that it's only a temporary invite unless you're assigned a role on the server.  Otherwise you'll get kicked when you disconnect.

xhttps://discord.gg/KyTDPX (Link invalid - see below for new invite link)

I haven't done anything yet - for that, I'd like to get some input from everyone that wants in on it.

EDIT: I've updated the invite link so you won't be auto-kicked the moment you look away from the channel.  However, you'll be relegated to a single channel, named in honor of Ralph Von Wau Wau,  until I can verify you're not a bot and grant you a role to access the rest of the server.

Today is the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day in World War II.

I understand the celebrations are muted this year...

Not Trump this time, but rather Republican Rep Steve King (Iowa)

He was trying to make a case for implementing anti-abortion laws, without allowing exceptions in cases of rape and incest, so what what does he say?

There Would Be No Population Left If It Weren't For Rape And Incest

https://life.shared.com/steve-king-inces...wOEfw4bH-E

Needless to say, that kicked off a shitstorm.

this is for stuff that isn't science, but isn't a simple image or video either.

From the website LGBTQ Nation, a commentary posted back in March
Satan resigns because he can't keep up with Donald Trump
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/03/sata...ald-trump/

And this one is from the end of 2018, but I recently saw a link pop up on Facebook
talking about a Chinese family who bought a 'Mastif pup' that turned out to be a bear cub
https://life.shared.com/woman-buys-pup-b...KwYfsIU1_0

I brought this up in the COVID-19 check-in thread, but I feel that I need to ask here as well.

Pros:

• It will help cut down on less-than-consequential natter here in the forum.
  
• It will permit real-time conversations which means actual discussions.
  
• It provides a fast means of sharing files of modest size.
  

• Not everyone has Discord.
  
• Those that do will have yet another server to keep tabs on.