If anyone here has an interest in Pokemon fan-games, you've probably heard of it before - a huge (relatively, as in double-diogit megabytes, but that's big for 2d sprite stuff and text scripting files) asset pack for making Pokemon games in RPGMaker ... um, I think specifically XP? No idea how hard it is to import the script and projects into newer versions. Well, after three years, v18 (and just Monday 18.1 with a few additions and fixes) has been released, covering up to gen 7 material. Link is to the announcement thread with a download link, no account necessary:

https://reliccastle.com/essentials/

It is of course entirely unofficial and at best dubiously legal in terms of copyright on the ripped game art and trademarks, but but unless you go making a big splash like Pokemon Uranium you're not likely to see anyone professing to care or make trouble for you in more than the abstract. If just playing new games on a low end PC is as far as your interest extends, obviously it'll take a bit longer for folks actually making them to convert or start new things, but as with many other can-do-it-in-lockdown things COVID has brought about a new surge in interest across the board.

So, for reasons related to having a senior moment during which my vocabulary was in the other room and refusing to come out, I made a quick Google search to find the word I was trying to think of:


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And my immediate reaction was, "Wait, that has nothing to do with...  ah, jeeze, Google."

We have threads for oddities and for weird and interesting science, but not for good news? Especially now? Time to fix that.

First:

Ryan Reynolds to use part of his own salary to hire BIPOC crew members on upcoming film

(BIPOC: Black, Indigenous and people of colour )

Essentially, this is paid on-the-job training that can actually be put on a resume for a career in the film industry. And Ryan Reynolds is paying for it out of his own pocket - he's walking the walk, not just talking the talk.

Big in Japan: giant Gundam robot makes its first moves in Yokohama

And video of the event:

As requested, spun off into its own thread.

So, exactly what is socialism?

Socialism in theory:

The dictionary definitions in Oxford and Merriam-Webster are remarkably similar (although M-W has a definition that OED doesn't), so I'll be lazy and just quote M-W's wording of the definitions that the two dictionaries have in common.

Quote:1. : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
3. : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

Quote:Finland explained himself in the comic, but in 2010 Denmark started giving heroine[sic] to drug addicts for free and it was such a huge success that it has continued until today. Because of this Norway has started experimenting with it too.

It’s a lot cheaper for society because the addicts commit less crime, they don’t have to spend money on drugs so instead they spend it on things that are more healthy for them so they don’t end up on the hospital as often, they have to take the drugs in special clinics so there’s no chance of them taking an overdose or using dirty needles and spreading diseases among each other, there’s always staff ready to help them if they want to get off the drugs, and it’s a lot more effective way to help more people because addicts come into contact with professionals who want to help them before they even think about getting help themselves.

Nobody wants to be homeless or an addict. Though they often end up getting involved in criminality because of their situation, the act of being homeless or an addict is not a crime in itself and the people deserve help like anyone else.

Well, yeah - plot holes accumulate when a series is plotted out one book at a time, and it doesn't matter which series we're talking about.

Quoting from entry #5 in this list of plot holes:

cracked.com Wrote:We're picking on Harry Potter especially for this because after they use the time machine that one time, that was it. For the rest of the saga, the entire wizarding world is under siege from a magical Hitler, and they never again find the time travel useful? Despite all the people who die in the Harry Potter series (and post Azkaban, they start killing them off like it's a Friday the 13th movie) he never goes back and saves any of them?

Selfish prick.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/...index.html

How soon before McConnell says, "That rule about not appoint Supreme Court Justices in an Election Year?  Yeah, that only applies to Black Democrat Presidents."

No, i'm not making a political statement outside the political boards. for those of you who don't know me or where i live, (in general) i live in Northwest Florida, yes, i just endured Sally. Unlike a lot of folks, i stay prepared for Hurricanes because, having grown up here i know what they are like and how fast they can come on, not to mention how long it can take for the relevant people to get power up and running again. 

if anyone else on the board was or is in the path, here is a place to talk about it, even to vent when it seems like the powers that be are taking forever to get things done for cleanup. 

Remember, the first 72 are on you, (meaning it will take at least three whole days for FEMA to come into your area after the storm.

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I was going through old links and giving them one final check before removal,when one of tenhawk's returned a out of date certificate error.

After a little playing with the link I had a link with at least two stories showing an updated in July of 2020.

I did a very quick site search and didn't find the specific tenhawk thread I was thinking about so started a new thread.

almost forgot, this is the link to the webpage with the July Updates.

https://fanfic.tenhawkpresents.ink/index.php

hmelton