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

[Trigger Warning]
I believe there are a couple of members that were at Columbine so this can be upsetting.


So, a Florida woman infatuated with the Columbine murderers hopped on a plane, landed in Denver, and bought a shotgun with the intention of recreating Columbine.

Hundreds of Denver Schools Are Closed as F.B.I. Seeks Woman ‘Infatuated’ With Columbine

There is a manhunt on the way and hopefully they will catch her before tragedy strikes.

This is our country today, and nothing will be done because it may upset some GI Joe wannabe.

The videos will embed...  But they won't play for me afterwards.  Is this limited to me or is anyone else having this problem?

Flip Flappers.

Wooooo.

Take Radical Edward from Cowboy Bebop.  Make her cuter.

YES.  CUTER.

Then have her go and turn a perfectly ordinary girl's life completely upside-down and inside-out with her dimension-jumping antics.  But she can't help but love this adorable little lunatic because really, as crazy as she is, she's a sweetheart.

Mix with Mad Hatter by Melanie Martinez (shaken, not stirred) and serve with high explosives.

Enjoy!

Most memorable to me for Pt. 3, "The Resurrection (AKA Fuck You)" it's a series of original music and animation shorts, but that still counts for this sub-forum, right? Besides, they're amazing.

Correction: The animation is original, the music is by other people, two by Voltaire since he makes such a fine voice for the antagonist character. (That's the musician Aurelius Voltaire, obviously, not the philosopher.)

I'm posting a link to the first video in the playlist rather than the separate ones, as pt.4 is new since I last thought to check on it and the interstitial shorts are easy to miss. This way it'll automatically be as up to date as can be.

Wonder Links power, activate!

Now, what made me think to look them up again was this little metal-opera gem, which while entirely different in style and tone still echoes similar themes:


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So, over 3 years after we moved into the house, I finally was able to get two projects firmly off the ground and into a playable state.

   

First, our new virtual pinball build, Radiant Silverball. Hundreds of pinball tables are at our fingertips, at least digitally. I based it in part on the vintage pinball machine we already had. Part of why it exists is that we only have room for two pinball machines.

   

Second is our MAME machine, Legacy of the Stick. A fairly streamlined four-player machine, streamlined as in it's just for joystick games. I really don't like how layouts feel shoehorned/compromised when the trackball and/or spinner is included in these builds. I'll probably build a dedicated "bartop" for those games later on. We also have a party trick to this setup - the monitor can ROTATE. It's a 40" screen, so you can kind of picture how big Punch Out is (yes, it does show the correct over/under).

And with this, our rec room is officially out of room for more stuff.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/notre-dame...-1.5098604

This does not look good at all.

There is an election approaching in Alberta, like a boulder rolling down hill at an archaeologist. As I write this, in fact, the day after tomorrow.
Personally, the only thing that I'm willing to predict is that turn out will exceed 26.6% of eligible voters.

Because it already has.
Advanced polls have 696,000 voters having cast their ballot already (I'm one of them) and Elections Alberta says that there are roughly 2,615,000 voters in the province.
That takes us to 26.62%
Total turn out last election was 54.2%.

It's going to be a wild ride, and if anyone calls a riding that is even vaguely close before all those early ballots are counted I feel like a solid mocking should be in order.

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Whatever effect the original Scorpions version has, the one they recorded with the BPO backing them up is probably somewhere between doubled and an order of magnitude more potent. I mean, holy balls, Al. I think there's something leaking out of my ears, but I can't be more specific in mixed company.

This is a catch-all thread for stuff that I might find useful for any number of projects - strange words, writing prompts, half-formed ideas, obscure trivia, etc.

Anyone is welcome to contribute.