Go in to a longish thread on SanFelix, and click the Rate button on a post near the bottom.  And then... you can't click anything, and you can't even scroll up the page.  And I'm not seeing a modal on-screen, but obviously one is there.

Someone has severely underestimated Ben...

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/v...nsumerism/
https://failedarchitecture.com/tropical-babel/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Helicoide

El Helicoide is a giant hill-shaped Modernist building designed to be a center of commerce, eventually turned into a edifice that dominates the dystopia below both visibly and in life, with unspeakable human rights abuses inside.

And I'm wondering if everyone else knew about this and I'm one of today's lucky 10,000.  It certainly could have been known to the makers of BGC, as the Venezuelan intelligence service moved in 3 years before production.  But probably the Tower of Babel is the archetype for GENOM Tower.

Posted here as opposed to General Discussion (or Eyrie Miscellaneous) because the human rights angle reminded me of DW2 the most.

So... I've had a note for a scene where Usagi joins her school's martial arts club in my notes for chapter 3 for some months.  And a couple days ago, I reached that point.

And I overdid it horribly.  Too much awesome Usagi too soon.  So I scrapped it and rewrote it.  (Well, "scrapped" is the wrong word -- I recycled about a third of the material.  But you know what I mean.)

Anyway, I thought you folks might get a kick out of what went into my discard file.  So here's a scene that will never appear in Drunkard's Walk S.

I just came across this article at Kotaku.com, which reports on a Japanese author (someone who goes by the pen name "Sow") who tried to estimate the values of several famous anime houses and tweeted his results.  (This was some time late last year; the article is dated November 2018.)  He points out that a standalone house with garden like the Tsukino home, located in Azabujuuban, would cost four million dollars in today's money.

Yow.

This is a childhood friend of mine, recently diagnosed with cancer. She needs about $12,000 to cover the second part of her treatment. Any donation will be appreciated.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/pro-fondos-tr...-christine

First, the story: https://www.vox.com/2019/3/15/18264399/c...ng-huffman

TL;DR these parents instead of going through the time tested “I’ll donate a building in exchange for accepting my kid at this Ivy League college” decided to instead actually commit several crimes.

Here is The Legal Eagle with some analysis of the charges:

Heatblur has just brough the F-14 Tomcat to Digital Combat Simulator

As a simulation it borders on indescribeable. It is meticulous in its recreation of the Tomcat - especially the twtchy and tricky low-speed handling. The simulation rattles and judders as you stress and maneuver the jet, and the weapons and systems work with all the clunkiness you'd expect of Mid-70's technolgy. Switches and controls in the cockpit need your attention. The Sim comes with an AI RIO pilot who's reasonably capable on his own and will work the Radar and weapons for you while you do that Pilot Shit.

And it definitely requires you do do that Pilot shit

There's still more to come - right now it's the relatively powerfule B model. The earlier, and much trickier, A model is to follow.

I've been fiddling with this making take-oiffs and landings, starting it up and occasionally chasing down the odd enemy bomber to dick with the weapons. It stresses my laptop to the point where it occasionally locks up solid spinning the disk.

So bear in mind, this will hammer your computer - especially the HDD and RAM. But it is so fucking worth it.

Oh, and it'll do carrier landings and launches also.

The screenshots below don't do it justice.

...and the X-Men and Fantastic Four are back in Marvel's hands.

Vox article here.

Okay, so once Ben gets his BIG Power-Up, because he has a biological M/AM reactor that can pump electricity into his nervous system, he's going to have an enhanced nervous system to make use of it.  It will be similar to the modification done to SPARTAN II's where their dendrites are changed to shielded electrical transduction.

Which means he can probably pump out a substantial amount of juice when needed...?

This doesn't grant him electrokinesis, but put him with one of the Misakas and it may be possible for him to act as a human 'booster unit'.

How this would be done/used, I'm not sure.  Thoughts?