Peter B 📈

Funny story about this. The only reason why the "Adventurer's Guild" trope exists is due to the video game Wizardry. Fantasy in Japan was not introduced through novels like Lord of the Rings or Conan. It was video games like Wizardry, which became a major inspiration for Dragon's Quest and Final Fantasy. In Wizardry, you didn't have a set party. You created your own characters and death was permanent, so it wasn't uncommon to create new characters. Swapping and "grinding" were essential aspects of the game. Before you went to the dungeon, you were town where you level up, get items, create new characters, and swap characters. Where did you swap characters? Adventurer's Guild. So now you know why this trope seems to be every anime. It's based on a video game in the 80s that still sways influence today.

🚨As early voting begins for the redistricting referendum, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger sent this news release claiming this would be “temporary.” Democratic lawmakers have repeated the word “temporary” as they try to sell voters on a 10D-1R map. What’s temporary about it? Would the gerrymandered districts go back to what they are now at a certain time? Does anyone believe four potential new members of Congress (like Del. Dan Helmer (D) who has attempted to run for Congress 3x) would be ok with going back to the current map and voluntarily give up their seat in Congress?

I’m deeply uncomfortable with this. War is noisy, chaotic, messy, bloody, smelly and terrifying - after the event for me, rather than at the time. When you’ve had someone’s head splashed over you, smelled the stench of someone’s flesh burning, seen corpses ripped apart and scattered across the ground, a dead persons guts spilled across the road and covered with dirt and flies…then you may realise that it’s not like a computer game, Hollywood film, or about cheering on a football team. War is on another level. At the effects end it is serious beyond the comprehension of those who’ve not experienced it intimately. It scars you. When it comes to it, someone has to stand between those who would do harm and those to whom they would do it. But things that glorify war or portray it as a sport or game, as this video does, concern me.

"Some professors have for many years been giving oral examinations in the old Oxford and Cambridge tutorial style, where students read their papers aloud, and the professor interrupts to ask questions like 'What do you mean by that word? What does that phrase mean?'"

A few days after 9/11, Roman historian Mary Beard wrote that the United States "had it coming." She said we were paying the price for our "refusal to listen to what the 'terrorists' have to say." She called what they did an "extraordinary act of bravery." The UK knighted her.

My stepfather always said "The elephant doesn't have to tell anyone he's big". This guy needs therapy. Its embarrassing. Eisenhower's generation would laugh at him. This is like dialog from a terrible B movie script. Or a Roy Cohn tutorial.