Not sure when I'll do it, although certainly by the weekend.  I'm going to have to do a full install, which will take long enough that people will notice. This is because MyBB had two releases in such rapid succession that I'd barely noticed the first one and started to plan on applying it when they released the next.  And since their "upgrade" package is only from the next-most-recent to the most-recent, I need the full thing to get the-one-before-the-next-most-recent version's changes, too.

Okay, I wanted to put a big RED mark on this one, because this will probably be even more important in guiding how the overall story builds up.

Basically, this thread will be all about planning out when what big (and little) political powers show up, how they affect everything, and how they wind up fitting into the big picture once every settles down (somewhat :V ).

Right now, some of the big ones that I can think of off the top of my head are:

• The Crystal Moon Empire
  
• The New UN (Along with their Spacy)
  
• The Empire of Jyurai
  
• The Humankind Abh Empire
  
• Pretty much everything from Star Trek
  
• Star Wars (though largely they won't be too hard to fit in as they have an entire galaxy of their own.  )
  
• The Gamilon Empire and Comet Empire
  

Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCLY0Rlx6Q
Amazingly 80s for something released in 2014.

So, after one move across the country, several "interesting" technical delays and a little too much procrastination, I've finally actually finished another story.

http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title...pers_cover

Oh well, it's not like it was set in the future when I started writing it...  Wait... no...  damn it.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Being Reborn as a Live-Action Netflix Series

(Although to be honest, Peg and I discovered ATLA because of the movie; literally right after we saw it in the theatre we went to Barnes and Noble and bought the entire series because we had heard the complaints, but had enjoyed the movie enough that we had to see how much better the series was.)

(Starting this thread in Politics because I know it'll end up here anyway.)

Coca-Cola, Aurora exploring potential for cannabis-infused drinks

Lifetime ban potential makes U.S. travel a 'calculated risk' for cannabis interests in Canada, lawyer says

So... work for the Coca-Cola Company and get turned away from the border? How things have changed since Doctor Strangelove.

Well, screw that when a Republican is under the microscope:

Republican Senator Lindsay Graham Says That Lying to the FBI Is Not 'a Big Event'

Because I’ve seen a lot of traffic and misinformation about this:

https://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-...ng-really/

Checking back at Twisting the Hellmouth for the first time in a while, I find that the "whole story" links now also include epub and mobi files, at least the latter of which when downloaded by my Kindle G3's web browser are not delivered as .zip files like... um... I forget which site, but anyway, they're ready to go right away. Also, TTH does not load up on the scripting until my poor little decade-old device can't handle the RAM requirements and crashes out of the browser.

In the immortal word of Ash Williams, "Groovy."

Thought Bob might like this (inspiration maybe)