User Fiction • Re: Strigoi Soul(Original Urban Fantasy)
Sidestory: The Uncrowned King * * *Note: this story is from the perspective of David's strigoi side.* * *There was no being, in this creation or any other, caught in a predicament more stupid than...
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Off-Topic • Re: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside
Been working my ass off this weekend with changing tires on two cars and dealing with the mazda rear brake calipers and replacing the disc. Everything stuck, so much fighting with bolts... hammers,...
View ArticleScience Fiction • Re: (RAR!) A new streaming series that Dominates the AH...
I watch it? I have no special hate for SM Stirling. He was quite courteous when he came here, and while the timeline he presents is implausible in places, he has also explicitly had it be "one of the...
View ArticlePure Star Trek • Re: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
On the other hand the clues were planted by people with 23rd century warp drive. DASH drive might be instant but it might take Moll and L'ak only hours to cross what took months in C23rd.Statistics:...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
Trump calls historic hush money case 'political persecution' as trial gets under wayFormer President Donald Trump said he is "proud" to be at a New York court as the trial over the hush money case...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: Fallout TV series
Just started it. Great soundtrack!Statistics: Posted by Raw Shark — 2024-04-15 05:47pm
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Off-Topic • Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
It's like the CAD program used to design the thing had an extremely low polygon limit and nobody thought to use a better one.TIL that using an air duster to clean a keyboard is more effective if you...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X...
Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokesX's chatbot Grok is supposed to be an AI engine crunching the platform's posts to surface and summarize breaking news, but this week,...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to...
Or maybe he might try blackmail. If he can find something that he thinks is damaging enough to use.There's this app that can make deepfake nudes....Statistics: Posted by Broomstick — 2024-04-23 04:21am
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X...
Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokesYou didn't quote the really fun part of that article:Experts told Ars that it remains unclear if disclaimers like X's will spare...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Rwanda Bill to become law - what is the policy and what happens next?After two years of legal and parliamentary wrangling, the government’s controversial Rwanda Bill is to become law.After the Bill...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: Fallout TV series
So, having finished Season 1, I can report that I, a non-player of the games whose knowledge of the setting comes purely from geek osmosis, and my GF, who has played them but wasn't crazy about it,...
View ArticleNews and Politics • New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020...
New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trialNew York’s highest court overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction on Thursday.It found the...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Harvey Weinstein: fall of Hollywood player they once...
I can actually understand why allowing testimony in not related to the charges would require a re-trial. (Doesn't mean I like it).Now, the question is - If those woman that testified (and are now...
View ArticlePure Star Trek • Re: Star Trek Discovery Season 5 (Spoilers)
So as it turns out:Spoiler L'ak is a breen. Apparently breen can do without a suit but culturally don't as that form is seen as lesser. We get Moll and L'Ak's back story which is fine and most of the...
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Off-Topic • Re: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside
I cured a ham from it's illness, then I smoked it.Statistics: Posted by His Divine Shadow — 2024-04-29 06:24am
View ArticlePure Star Trek • Re: Star Trek Lower Decks Thread
That's a bummer about Lower Decks; I've really enjoyed the whole run, but I think it ultimately makes sense. The main characters have become quite competent during the show's run, so the natural...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
TIL that contrary to appearances, the reason ITV news presenter Rageh Omaar continued his broadcast despite becoming visibly unwell and struggling instead of handing over to another presenter who was...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
Time Magazine How Far Trump Would GoBy ERIC CORTELLESSA / PALM BEACH, FLA.Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice.We’ve been talking for more than an...
View ArticleUser Fiction • Re: The Scholar's Tale(Original Fantasy)
Book IV, Chapter 3* * *The fraction of the Rainbow Burst I had been given was a small, surly thing. Not just in terms of size: it was also petty.Despite being able to shift size, it insisted on...
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