AernaLingus

Oblivion NPC Putin

Loose rock!

A landslide has occured!

I also dug Lego Rock Raiders as a kid. Come to think of it, I don't think I've played an RTS in about 20 years:

• Lego Rock Raiders
• Warcraft III
• Age of Empires II
• The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth (1 & 2)
• Rise of Nations
• Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

I never got too heavily into the "strategy" part--I just loved being able to have these battles play out with catapults and horsemen and the occasional Dodge Viper with machine guns (howdoiturnthison is forever burned into my memory). I particularly enjoyed how your units could get upgrades and rank up, and they'd carry across missions in BFME so you could make them absurdly powerful. I also remember the graphics being pretty impressive to me--I spent a lot of time just zooming in on units and watching their idle animations and stuff.

I tend towards either anxiety-induced non-reponse and feeling bad about it or writing something way too long and worrying that I came off weird or that the person will feel obligated to respond (which filtered back through my own experience is tantamount to psychic violence).

Putting on my cognitive behavioral hat, making a late reply is good as a low stakes exposure exercise. You kill two birds with one stone--you show yourself that you can push through avoidance even after it has built up, and (with almost complete certainty) by receiving either no response or a neutral/positive response you can see that no calamity will befall you for daring to necro an old post.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1786828547581264118

Challenge him to a duel because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDrHkHpPEzA

pales in comparison to Katyusha, the best sweety war song

Damn straight

More of a lighttantō than a lightsaber, really

insane plot to this story

Holy shit, you weren't kidding! I almost forgot to come back and listen to it, but I'm glad I didn't. Always good to find a new 80s jam.

Here's my own favorite 80s song about infidelity. It's in Japanese, but the chorus has a lot of (real, grammatical) English, so you can still sing along! Lyrically it's very straightforward--talking about sneaking around, taking off the wedding ring, so wrong but feels so right, etc.--but the execution is just so damn good.

The version I've linked is sung by the songwriter herself, Mariya Takeuchi. It was originally released in the 80s by Akina Nakamori, but IMO Mariya Takeuchi's is the definitive edition, with strong, buttery smooth vocals, good acting, and a killer groove (the synth bass is perfection). The arrangement of Akina's version is serviceable, but the weak whisper-singing and slower tempo just don't do it for me, and it lacks the strong groove of Mariya's arrangement (handled by her husband, the legendary Tatsuro Yamashita). Musically, this is straight babymaking music, so it's a pretty different vibe from the Heart song.

I can't believe Ninja has been on Hexbear this whole time and I'm only just finding out

I keep seeing YouTube sponsorships for "Ground News", which purports to reduce media bias by integrating sources from the left, right, and center (some real enlightened centrist shit). Unsurprisingly, when you see what sources they use they include CNN, NPR, and The Atlantic on the supposed "Left" while they have Breitbart and the fuckin' Epoch Times on the Right. Yup, about what I expected.

Good luck! I'm sure you'll do great