excellent nightmare fuel, as always.

the defenestration is incredibly relevant.

Drinking mercury helps, I hear

Oh I liked it a lot. In the early 90s, I had enough UI extensions running that OS7 looked exactly like BeOS. Gaming life was a lot of Bungie and AmbrosiaSW games and shareware games. So many shareware games. I established my first gamer tag at that time when playing A-10 Attack and A-10 Cuba. You want to talk about Nintendo-hard… Bungie’s Myth - The Fallen Lords was super-hard in single player, and the cross-platform multiplayer was amazeballs. I miss that game so much. Did all my Warcraft RTS playing, and waited a few agonizing months for the mac version of Starcraft to come out. Coincidentally, it was around then that I started doing file sharing through Carracho and Hotline

it was rather clear Russia would not have had the resources and troops to open up a second front.

Sounds like it’s time to open a second front for them

Get everyone and your stuff together

conflict-avoidance often leads to lying, and lying will lead to greater conflict. The truth will set you free.

At least Baghdad Bob didn’t show up wearing a helmet and flack jacket and say, “There’s no war in this area of Ba Sing Se”

Troll’s hat went flyin’.

Jogs over, reaches down, touches the mine, <ffft> lights out… for the lucky one. The other one is gonna save a lot of money on sneakers.

Can I tell 'im?

So much of the wold has changed since '86. The Sovs only attacked NATO because they thought the surprise action would get them to an immediate stalemate that would allow them to steamroll the oil producing countries in the middle east. I can’t imagine any aggressor that could hope to hold an active-conflict stalemate with NATO period. Except maybe the US. Who’s gonna write the script for a rogue-state US fighting NATO?

Iceland plays a crucial roll in the Soviet Union’s non-nuclear attack on NATO forces. Active Volcanoes and airborne-ash would only help to serve the Sov’s maskirova.

Also, to all the others here who have read the book, welcome, and I hope your prostate exams are going well, and that you have a good strategy for the back pain.

Iceland had better watch their shit.

putin dildo and it’s not even close.

those trolls got smoked.

TIL people still play Diablo 4

The beat drops when the Grad pops.

I believe Arthur C Clark was a bard, if memory serves. He did sing a lot about magic, I’ll give you that.

Interestingly enough, The Monkees show started the same month (as all shows did back in the day) in '66. I think he was just covering his bases - if it didn’t work out on Trek, he could transition over to be a Monkee.