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AP story here

Any comment I could make is already made in the article.

... of spoons.



Say hello to Server Tick.

(I blame OpMegs.)

--sofaspud
--also: I finally fixed my login issues!  yay!

As of late, it's been down, and is actually throwing this error:

Quote:Internal Server Error

Exception: Invalid domain fanficauthors.net

    in /home/fanficauthors.net/src/FanficAuthors.php at line 161

#0 /home/fanficauthors.net/src/web.php(411): FanficAuthors->getDomainByName()
#1 /home/fanficauthors.net/src/web.php(90): RequestHandler->checkSite()
#2 /home/fanficauthors.net/src/web.php(26): RequestHandler->handleInternalRequest()
#3 /home/fanficauthors.net/lib/http.php(63): RequestHandler->handleRequest()
#4 /home/fanficauthors.net/public_html/index.php(28): httpApplication->run()
#5 {main}

link

I don't expect I need to explain why an area-effect "Hold My Beer" field lives up to the song name. Of course, it does leave Doug with the impression that using it is sheer genius, at least while it's playing. That's pretty much the entire effect, in fact

e: Well, it could be useful if Doug is somehow treed or otherwise needs the enemy to defeat themselves, but very much a godzilla-threshold level Doug Grenade even then.

Magic Power by Triumph

Meta-power: allows Doug to 'share' his meta-gift.  For the next song he hears, he can give 1 female the same powers he'd get.  Like Doug, they need to be able to hear/understand the lyrics (the song has to be played where they can hear it, not just inside LT's helmet)

Possible variation, with this Meta-song, when the next song triggers, Doug can give someone the power as I suggested above, but LT does _not_ get the enhancement/power, he's just the channel for the magic to go to his helper.

For the second time in the last few months, I've had to decline the membership of a new user who appeared in all other ways to be genuine for failing to reply to my "just reassure me you're not a spambot" email.

I wish I knew what I could do to make it more obvious that it's necessary to reply.  I already throw a bright blue banner up -- visible only to those waiting on their registration -- telling them to expect an email and the need to reply to it.  And I know this guy must have seen it -- according to the admin control panel he's checked the boards at least twice since he registered.  But he hasn't replied -- not even to say "hey, i didn't get an email".

And I'm not going to put the boards at risk by taking pity on him and approving his membership without the email.

But damn, cases like this one really bother me.

I placed an order with Right Stuf last December 26. I just checked their website - everything in my order is now showing as being in stock (two boxes weren't, three weeks ago), but they haven't shipped the order yet.

I placed an order with CDJapan on Sunday. Everything was listed as "Usually ships in 2-4 weeks". They're packing the box today - a half-week after I placed the order. (Monday was a holiday in Japan.) Which tells me where I want to shop for things that don't need English subtitles... but so few Japanese discs have English subtitles, and they're pricey.

I recall placing an order directly with Sentai Filmworks at the same time I placed the order with Right Stuf. That was fulfilled and shipped in a timely manner, on par with CDJapan's turnaround time. But they only have their own titles.

Where do people who still buy Blu-rays buy them from nowadays?

AP: U.S. declares Myanmar army committed genocide in Rohingya attacks

Yeah. "Genocide".

Quote:Violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar amounts to genocide, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, a declaration intended to both generate international pressure and lay the groundwork for potential legal action.

Authorities made the determination based on confirmed accounts of mass atrocities on civilians by Myanmar's military in a widespread and systematic campaign against the ethnic minority, Blinken said in a speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Don't know how applicable this Grrl Power strip is to Warriors' World science, but it certainly evokes the same feel.

That's the setting's Big Bad explaining physics to the good guys, by the way.