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This is great!
Let’s put aside this is AI. It certainly isn’t slop. Here’s a very clever sequel to the final episode of TNG’s first season, “The Neutral Zone,” dealing with the fates of 20th Century survivors Claire Raymond (Gracie Harrison), a housewife; Ralph Offenhouse (Peter Mark Richman), a financier; and L. Q. "Sonny" Clemmons (Leon Rippy), a musician. This piece follows each as they acclimate to the 24th Century. This is what the best TREK novels used to do so well. The level of detail, world building and fealty to canon is a stark contrast to what we get from modern TREK.
But hey, @StarfleetDreams, for Vaal’s sake, dump these horrendous, 20th Century Church Rock songs and consider going instrumental for your next piece. Aside from that, top marks!!!
youtu.be/d_pqcQamags?si=3ZUH…
God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The books exist.
Read them. Ignore the pretenders.
Why does it matter?
We have AD&D. And, if we prefer, 2nd Edition.
What jackassery happens with the modern pretenders to the title doesn't matter.
Just use the good stuff that came before.
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Thought for the day:
You are about four times more likely to die from the heat, over the summer, in Europe, than you are to be shot over any given year in the US. If we redact from that figure those who are neither criminals nor live in Democrat-run cities and states, the difference is much, much greater.
It's a soulless collection of identical townhomes with no yards, no community green space, little privacy, and less character or potential for customization and individuality.
And it's way over priced.
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The Iran war effectively destroyed every nation outside of the Americas as a rival to the U.S.
Iran is broken as a contender for power; they can't even sell their oil. Tankers are ignoring the IRGC and transiting via Omani territorial waters, protected by the U.S. Navy. Iran is too cowardly to commit acts of war off the Omani coast. Oman has also made it clear that they will never support Iran's delusional plan to toll the Strait.
Iran can't get a single tanker to dock at its ports. Their economy is in a tailspin. Iranian inflation is approaching pre-Milei Argentine numbers. A famine is a very real possibility; Iran imports half of its food and no one is willing to sell to a pirate state that keeps shooting at commercial traffic.
Iran has failed to uphold its end of the MOU and thus hasn't received a single dollar in unfrozen funds or Gulf development aid. The MOU was a test to see if they could behave rationally when their military leverage is gone and their economic leverage is fast eroding. They failed.
Demand destruction has been concentrated almost entirely in Europe and Asia. China and India are crippled. The Chinese will be faced with the choice of switching off their data centers, stalling "development" of the AI they stole from xAI and Anthropic, or forcing starving Chinese citizens to eat babies.
Europe, already deindustrializing thanks to the Ukraine war, has been dealt a death blow. They won't recover for decades, possibly generations. Denmark might end up selling Greenland to us to stave off a depression.
The war has forced countries reliant on Strait oil flows to accelerate their plan Bs in the same way that the 70s oil embargo forced the U.S. to begin oil extraction in Alaska. The UAE will complete the new Gulf of Oman pipeline, rendering the Strait obsolete, much like how the discovery of the Americas allowed Europe to circumvent the Middle East when trading with China, turning the region into an irrelevant backwater.
The country that benefited the most from the war was America. Iran has been severed from the global economy and even from BRICS. Buyers now have to go to America or her allies. Refineries in Texas and Louisiana are booming thanks to Venezuela realigning with the U.S. and sending its crude to our shores. China will have to do what we say if they want energy.
Energy prices in the U.S. are now so substantially lower than in Europe and Asia that offshoring and outsourcing are no longer financially prudent. Turns out that the way for manufacturing to compete with cheap labor countries like India is to make the cheap labor expensive. Jobs and investment are coming back to America, the only sure bet. With demand destruction creating an oil glut, Americans will be enjoying $2.50/gallon gas or lower by next year while the rest of the world starves.
The Iran war has even crippled Russia. A combination of demand destruction and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries has sparked off an energy crisis there. We might actually see the Mongols driven out of Donbass and total Ukrainian victory.
In one stroke, Trump cemented American dominance over the world. Iran, China, India, Europe, Russia, Africa...all crushed. He pressed the "fix everything" button and all it took was paying 50 cents more at the pump for a couple of months. I'd say that was more than worth it.
The American Empire rises.
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🚨President Putin’s Message to the German Government and the German People
This is how the coup de grâce is delivered – without weapons, verbally…
“We don’t want to attack you! Why would we? Those times are long gone! Anyone who is still in their right mind and can think clearly understands that.
First:
You already have national debt amounting to 2.5 trillion euros, and no serious economist has any idea how you ever plan to pay that back.
And now you want to take on another 1 trillion euros to arm yourselves against us.
Do you want the Russian people to foot that bill? Never!
Second: Your country is teeming with millions of migrants who cost you 50 billion euros a year. Should the Russian people be held accountable for that?
Third: A considerable portion of your population is so deranged that they believe they can influence the climate by cycling and eating insects. Perhaps this massive brain damage could be fixed, but that
would cost us something too.” a lot.
Fourth: – Your education system was once exemplary. Now, in many classrooms, hardly any teaching takes place anymore because almost no one speaks German.
Fifth: – Your infrastructure is crumbling, and you can’t keep up with the repairs.
Sixth: – Your railways were once the pride of the entire world. Now your trains run like they do in India.
Seventh: – We don’t need your famous engineers. During the sanctions, we learned that we can get by without them. But if we do need them after all, we’ll turn to China. There they’re not only cheaper but
also better.
Eighth: – You have neither raw materials nor energy sources. So why should we conquer your country? To solve problems we wouldn’t even have otherwise? Realistically speaking: Even if you called us,
surrendered, and raised white flags, we still wouldn’t come!
I haven't seen it. Just saw the one clip of him machine-gunning the cops from his safe room,and thought, "This is dumb."
That said, I'm gonna see it. And I'll probably dog it. Because sometimes fun is dumb.
We'll see.
Just watched CITIZEN VIGILANTE. This movie is complete trash and I won't be peer pressured by dumbshit influencers into praising it because "ZOMG IT'S ABOUT MASS IMMIGRATION!" *soyface*. Unironic example of where woke is more correct because this movie fails at almost every level.
The good (what little there is):
- Decent cinematography. Uwe Boll has improved in SOMETHING, at least. Nice wide angle shots, decent cuts (aside from the action scenes where it seems like they always switch angles a half-second before they should). Weird, inconsistent color grading; several of the scenes have this oversaturated green tint that make it look like a retarded version of THE MATRIX (example below).
- Decent acting, amazing when you consider the horrible screenplay. Armie Hammer gives the awful dialogue his all, which is the only thing that saves his performance from being a career ender.
The bad:
- Boll cannot write. At all. He makes George Lucas look like Paddy Chayefsky. Even calling the "dialogue" by that name is generous. It's monologuing. All of it. In every conversation Armie Hammer's character (don't remember his name) has, the person he's talking to assumes the role of the idiot in a Socratic dialogue. he lectures yoofs on why they shouldn't jump turnstiles, breaks away from fucking a hooker to complain about black mold on the walls (no really this happens), and at one point delivers an entire John Galt speech to a dude who's half-unconscious from a scopolamine injection. At the end of the movie, he calls the cop who's been hunting him and rants about "Islamic extremists" and the "woke left." Actually, this movie could be described as what might have happened had Ayn Rand read SIEGE. Boll has no theory of mind for libtards and Muslims and thus writes every antagonist character with zero nuance. Muslims are like, "Hehehe white bitches wear miniskirts, of COURSE they deserve rape!" This isn't good enough for a movie (particularly when Boll handles everything with the subtlety of the Tsar Bomba).
- Uwe Boll-isms that could have been removed if he was less of an arrogant halfwit convinced of his own genius. At the beginning of the movie, we're treated to a lovely panning shot of Zagreb before "EUROPE" appears in giant blocky letters, because Boll assumes the viewer is an idiot. There are multiple Croatian-language signs in the background. I KNOW this is Europe. Even if you've never been to Europe, you can tell by the signs that this is some Slavic country. Midway through, SWAT officers storm Armie Hammer's hideout and are confronted by a steel bunker with guns poking out. Do they take cover, throw a grenade, or perhaps drop a bomb on the building like the Philly PD did to MOVE? No, they try to SHOOT THROUGH THE STEEL and get gunned down like monsters in DOOM.
- There's no real plot. It's just Armie Hammer going around town killing nons, cops, and judges. There are what appear to be flash-forwards throughout the movie where Hammer is talking about his life as if he's in police custody, but the movie just ends with him metaphorically riding off into the sunset with no victory, no defeat, no consequences for his actions. There's no rising action, falling action, no climax; you know, the fundamentals of storytelling? There's no character arcs. Nothing substantially changes aside from people dying.
- Armie Hammer's character is an antisocial psychopath. There's no apparent motivation for him to be a vigilante, no tragedy in his past, no virtue or dysfunction driving his actions. He just appears to be a Patrick Bateman-like rich kid who kills people out of boredom when he's not collecting rent from his private equity landlord firm (which he inherited from his dad and doesn't know how to run). At one point, he deliberately causes an innocent person to crash their car by driving on the wrong side of the road just to prove that people are "sheep." He holds the family of a Muslim gang rapist hostage before executing them, but we're not shown the gang rape until midway through, so we have no emotional buildup to why this family deserves to die. If a character like this existed IRL, I'd be rooting for the cops to put one in his skull. I certainly wouldn't TRUST the little creep.
- Terrible special effects. I challenge you not to chuckle a little bit at the horrible compositing when the woman gets stabbed in the neck by a migrant at the beginning. It's been 20 years, Uwe. You should have figured this out by now.
CITIZEN VIGILANTE is pornography, and I'm not just referring to the sex scene. It exists solely for the gratification of right-wingers and has no other artistic merit. You watch it, you jerk off to migrants and libtards getting killed, you toss the Kleenex in the trashcan and move on with your day. It's no different than libtard fantasy movies like GOD BLESS AMERICA (a similar movie about killing Christians and Fox News hosts) or CUCK (a retarded and gross JOKER ripoff about how all "far-right" "incels" are murderous creeps). I don't like porn, and that includes the ideological variety.
Throw this movie in the garbage along with Uwe Boll's career (where it should have stayed).
That's cute. They can't.
In fact, they never closed it. Lloyd's of London did, and then WE kept it closed to get what we want.
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JD Vance to Israel:
“You’re a country of 9 million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”
Helicopter rides for all. ESPECIALLY for the cops and judges. For the politicians, burning at the stake.
they'll arrest you if you call someone a fag or post a meme, but they say "nothing to see here"
i never want to see a leftist or feminist mention "safety" or "diversity" again.
it isnt enough the rapists are put down, but the judges, the cops, the media personalities, and the politicians who all knew.
this is quite frankly the most horrific thing to happen in the last 100 years.
Michael Kingswood retweeted
It’s amazing to watch the foreign policy establishment gear up to attack President Trump’s peace deal before they’ve even see it.
Here’s the dirty little secret. These people generally fall into one of two categories:
1. Those who want America to lose.
2. Those who want America to get sucked into another forever war in the Middle East.
President Trump doesn’t want either one of those things and neither do I.
"Prime Minister Netanyahu was kept in the dark about the details of the MoU."
Why should Bibi be cut in on negotiations between the USA and Iran? It doesn't concern him. He can make his own deal; he's a big boy.
This is beyond absurd.
Apparently, even Prime Minister Netanyahu was kept in the dark about the details of the MoU.
At this point, it is fair to say that in his rush to make a deal with the Islamic Republic, President Trump has not only betrayed the Iranian people, but has also turned his back on Israel — America’s most important ally in the Middle East.
Once again, we warn the free world: no agreement with the terrorists of the Islamic Republic will ever last. They use negotiations for one purpose only — to buy time and survive.
The sheer stupidity of believing that a death cult can be appeased will come at a terrible cost. History has taught this lesson many times, yet some never learn.
And when this deal inevitably collapses, as every deal with these terrorists eventually does, the bloodshed and chaos that follow will be on the hands of those who chose to rescue this regime instead of defeat it.
History will remember this not as peace, but as one of the greatest acts of appeasement and strategic stupidity of our time.
@POTUS
@SecRubio
@LindseyGrahamSC @marklevinshow
"They should go to prison."
No.
Prison keeps them in the country. That is undesirable.
Instead, give them, and all the police and other authorities who supported them or looked the other way, a one-way helicopter ride out of the country.
Problem solved.
The UK rape gang inquiry report just dropped and it should make your blood boil:
1. At least 250,000 young White girls were groomed, raped, trafficked, and tortured.
2. Perpetrators followed consistent tactics of befriending vulnerable girls as young as 11 with gifts, drugs, and alcohol before subjecting them to group rapes, violence, blackmail, pregnancies, forced conversions, and trafficking.
3. UK institutions—including police, social services, schools, NHS, and politicians—catastrophically failed victims through denial, ignored reports, criminalization of victims, destruction of evidence, and prioritization of political correctness and fears of “racism” accusations over child protection.
4. 87–95% of convicted perpetrators in group-based child sexual exploitation cases were Muslim. It was predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs. They operated across 149 local authority districts. Groups from Somali,
Iranian, Syrian, Turkish, and other Muslim origins were also involved.
5. The Muslim perpetrators operated under an honour- and
shame-based clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially White working class girls, as property available for sexual use. Girls were told that they’re “White trash” who deserved punishment.
People need to go to prison for this.
I don't get how people feel free to opine about the final outcome of all this before there is a final outcome.
I mean, I get it. Clicks and short-term profit. But when the final resolution comes about and it's nothing like these people say it's going to be (which is certain because none of them are in any position to know what's really going on and being negotiated behind the scenes, and what the goals really are past the public kayfabe) they're going to look like retards.
The predicament Trump is in, and has been since he started the Iran War with Netanyahu, illustrates why it was so stupid and destructive to start this war in the first place. From the start, there were only two real options:
1) Take seriously all the stated war aims and try to fulfill them, which would require a protracted, self-destructive, devastating, years-long war of the kind Trump spent a decade vowing to avoid, or,
2) End the war quickly and prematurely, and then have to scurry around to find some way to claim that the US "won", which would -- at a minimum -- force Trump to credibly claim he got more than Obama's JCPOA gave, thus justifying all the massive bloodshed, instability and cost from the war.
If reports are correct (and it's a big "if"), Trump is choosing option (2). But his case that he actually won anything consequential beyond what the Obama Deal provided is close to laughable, while the losses to the US (and wins for Iran) are self-evident.