When they see us they will run for their lives
To the end they will pay for their lies
So long did we wait, now we are home

Here once again there's a battle to fight
Gather together for the sound and the might
So long did we wait, now we are home

Now we will fight for the Kingdom, fighting with steel
Kill all of them, their blood is our seal
Fight till the last of the enemy is dead
Ride through their blood that we gladly have shed

I now issue the call, are you ready to fight? (yeah!)
Fight all together as one for the Right
To be free once again - tonight we will win

I can see by the look that you have in your eyes
You came here for metal, to fight and to die
Defenders of steel, now we are home

Fight for the Kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel
Blood is upon my steel

Now we will fight for the Kingdom, fighting with steel
Kill all of them, their blood is our seal
Fight till the last of the enemy is dead
Ride through their blood that we gladly have shed

I now issue the call, are you ready to fight? (yeah!)
Fight all together as one for the Right
To be free once again - tonight we will win

I can see by the look that you have in your eyes
You came here for metal, to fight and to die
Defenders of steel, now we are home

Fight for the Kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel

Fight for the Kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel

Fight for the Kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel
Blood is upon my steel
Blood is upon my steel!
On my steel!
-- Manowar, "Call to Arms"

Recreational marijuana use to become legal in Canada as of October 17

The bill cleared the House of Commons and the Senate this week - it just needs to be signed into law.

"Luna," I asked after some thought, "what are the odds that Her
Nibs bound all the guardians' souls together so they'd all be
reborn around the same time in the same area?"  I snorted.  "Or,
better question, how likely is it that she would have been 
stupid enough *not* to?"

Luna laughed.  "'Stupid' was a word *no one* -- not even her 
enemies -- *ever* used to describe Her Majesty."

"Then we've got, what, another half dozen or so Guardians all
around us, just needing a swift kick in the butt to wake up and 
join the fun?"

I saw the realization of what I meant dawn across her face.  "I
do believe that you are right."

"It'd be a waste to sit back and wait for them to wake up on 
their own," I said, and took a sip of my tea.  "So what do you 
say we *give* them that kick?"

DW II, Chapter 13 Wrote:It had been her favorite book, once. Howard Pyle. The Adventures of Robin Hood. The definitive Japanese translation, first published in 2018.

Chapter 8 Concordance Wrote:"Nice nail polish, Lisa!"

Yeah, it's permanent. Probably not inheritable, though. Probably.

Chapter 6 Wrote:"There what?" Nene crinkled her nose in confusion as she read the line under Priss's fingertip. "'Beverly's Dandelion Wine', the Beatles, 1974? What about it?" ...
"The Beatles broke up in 1971, right after the Revolver Tour. They didn't get back together again until just before Sir Paul McCartney's death in 1983." The singer stabbed her finger at the screen again. "And they never recorded any song by that title, least of all in 1974!"

Chapter 7 Wrote:The JSDF is disbanded, and the Nationalists re-establish the Japanese military

Never Forget.....

Trying to report a post in the FLCL thread but for some reason the dialogue box doesn't render properly in Firefox.

I have to zoom my screen all they way out to here to even see it. The're no way to scroll the screen down at all.

So... uh... this is apparently a thing now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force

...yay?

CBC Analysis: Trump's fixation on 270% milk tariffs, FBI texts shows how he 'cherry-picks' truths to justify actions

It's a very basic spin technique, but Trump does have it mastered.

As an example: Remember how Trump was demanding a probe into the whether the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign? He got that probe, it reported in, and Trump immediately dubbed the report "#Spygate". Never let the truth stand in the way of spinning a single cherry-picked fact. (In this case, the cherry-picked fact was that FBI agent Peter Strzok wrote back to a FBI lawyer: "We'll stop him." Never mind that there's no evidence Strzok abused his position to persecute the president, or that Strzok was taken off the case - Trump is spinning a single comment by a single person into an organization-wide conspiracy. This is the same illogic that claims, because BlackAeronaut lives in Texas, everybody with an account on this forum is a Texan oilworker, and never mind the truth that not everyone here lives in the USA and even BA isn't in the oil industry.)

Washington Post: An American editorial cartoonist has been fired for skewering Trump. He likely won’t be the last.

The cartoonist had been working at the paper for 25 years.

The editorial director who fired him had been there for three months.

See some of the cartoons here.

I made a Cult DLC for Overlord's Arch-Demon CYOA to fill in a couple of things it mentions but doesn't cover, at least in the six pages I've been able to ind for it. The base game document is one of the more interesting ones I've seen, and doesn't involve mandatory evil despite the name.

It and my add-on are available in an Imgur gallery here, and my sample build in a pastebin or in this Spacebattles post.