A Soviet camera lens
A Bottle of Guinness from 2003. (Still drinkable? My arse will tell in the morning)
A spare magazine for the Beretta gas gun
A figurine of Doug Sangnoir I made 8 years ago
A bottle of Bulleit. Half finished. I don't remember buying it. (Still drinkable)
A collection of US Quarters - a quarter of all States
A souvenir bag from my holiday in 2016 - unopened
A half-finished Misty May model
A half-finished Space Battleship Yamato
A Falco 45rpm single - Amadeus
A CD of The Wall, with Wish You were Here and Animals stuffed in the case.
Fifteen Euro in Change
2750 Yen
A half-finished Nakoruru Resin kit - that'd be worth about 200 euro or more if I hadn't started it since the resin version is so rare.
A set of microscrewdrivers
A Bottle of Teeling 23yo.
A paperweight with Lincolnm's emancipation declaration on it
A Tachikoma
A Tachikoma kit.
A Broken Dell Model-M clone
A con-bag from Eirtakon 2008, with conbook, and con-loot including the first five volumes on Seraphic Feather, a Dirty Pair novel, some Evangelion artwork.
A copy of the Illuminatus Trilogy
A receipt from the Soviet Union, unfilled out, for sale of a Soviet Lens.

....and it doesn't look any tidier.

I was sorting examples on some trope pages on ATT, and stumbled across Prom Is for Straight Kids.

Is this still a thing?

Yes, it's a serious question. As I added to the page when I sorted the examples, same-sex marriage has been legal since 2003 here. Nobody makes a fuss on Degrassi about someone bringing a same-sex date to the prom because, as far as most of us in the big cities are concerned, there's nothing to make a fuss over. I seek to understand whether this is still an issue elsewhere in the English-speaking world.

...but what do you want from fanfic?

Ayway, to start it off, kathryn518's Invincible has recived a fourth chapter, putting it at ~110k. I've honestly forgotten what happens in it, but it came up on my FFn list and reading a few pages into the first chapter shows it to be of acceptable quality, so here it is.

HP/DC crossover apparently, though I don't know who "Nolan" is in that context with flying brick and adaptation powers (as in, a thing that hurts him once won't hurt him again.)

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11779002/4/Invincible

I'm putting this here in politics because I'm sure that the discussion will end up there. Thoughts and prayers to Sri Lanka

For those of you who wont read town hall here is the CNN link
https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/s...index.html

So, there's extras floating around the server that're apparently Leos doing. Including an entire new class called Sentinel. Haven't tried it yet, and I suspect I might not get to before the devs manage to pull it out (Apparently they're aiming to restore it to an I24 state). This means that even if the code is as big a mess as all the old stories claim, improvements are possible. Which makes me wonder what people will come up with, and want we want. Personally, I want more weapon models.

Going to leave history, politics, blame and shame, all of that to other threads - and there SHOULD be those threads. 

But the short form is - there is a functioning City of Heroes server.  Right now. And you can get to it. 

Per https://www.reddit.com/r/Cityofheroes/comments/bf462j/a_guide_for_preparing_to_join_the_public_server/

Download magnet:?xt=urn:btih:606490b92fc35d249abff9f00360302d0552e735&dn=coh using the Torrent software of your choice.  This is the..  current..  CoH client (Issue 24 ish.)

Once that download is completed, Windows folks can get http://patch.savecoh.com/tequila.exe Tequila, Mac folks can get http://ir.powermad.net/islandrum-mac.zip IslandRum, and Linux folks can.. err.. I'll get back to you.  There _is_ a Linux native solution, but per the guy across the basement, Wine will do the thing.

OK, so you've got a thing! and it..  doesn't do much.

Head on over to https://score.savecoh.com/  and register yourself a forum account.  This is NOT related in any way to your old NCSoft account information.  Recommend using throwaway credentials.

Once that's up, https://score.savecoh.com/account/ Will let you create a game account. Again, nothing to do with your old account credentials - and it can be the same as your forum ones.

Was arguing with my cow orker today, and called him a drunkard.  CoH has been on my mind with the new news...  and well, one thing led to another..


Glad to see you've kept the lights on!

Epsilon got me to go see Penguin Highway today. (It's playing in Ottawa all weekend.) It was a good movie, and slightly surreal in places.

The movie opens with penguins in a field. In Japan.

Our Hero is in 4th grade, and is the son of a scientist. When he tries to solve the mystery of "why were there penguins in a field in Japan?", things become downright odd.

I suppose I could spoil the movie for folks, ... but, no, this is a movie you should go see before learning anything about the plot.

There's one translator-induced error in it, though:

Spoiler

After seeing a particular Tenniel illustration, we start seeing a Jabberwock in the movie. The Japanese actors called it a Jabberwock. The subtitles, alas, called it a Jabberwocky... which means that the English version has a penguin being chased by a poem instead of by a monster.

So, dunno what news the old CoH crew has been following, but it seems the Hellions in Atlas Park might soon be getting a visit from a telekinetic catgirl archer again...

https://massivelyop.com/2019/04/18/the-c...haracters/

He really doesn't want people to know what's going on with his money.  Too bad - that's not a right you're entitled to when you take on a job that demands absolute transparency where otherwise mandated by national security.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/1...ds-1275965

Related: The Democrats subpoena Deutsche Bank for Trump's financial records.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713861150...p-finances