Start game, check neighbours, find Atilla, check policies, spot Honor, reset.

Also, since the Huns take city names from other in-game cities, Mendes means Egypt is also in play! Talk about Mr. Obnoxious #1 and Mr. Obnoxious #2.

moralism Moralists don’t bother with “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”; the moralist simply says, “you can’t beat them.” Contend with the horrors of capital with radical acceptance. It is what it is. Capital is what we have to work with; of what pragmatic use is conscience? There are two genocides on offer, one larger, one smaller. Worry not about injustice, worry not about grief, about pain: one or the other is going to happen, which is closer to your goal? Think in terms of sums on a ledger. No right, no wrong, just motion towards or away from… whatever it is you’re trying to do. It’s a kind of seductive joylessness. A relief from moral crisis by leaving morals out of it. Centrists don’t care what’s good, they care what’s feasible, which means, if you make good things feasible, you can get results working with moralists. The crushing irony of the only movement that can accomplish anything good in this world being the one that does not concern itself with goodness. But to work with moralists, you must speak their language. You will have to make arguments in favor of “small genocide,” you will have to put yourself in conflict with people who oppose “small genocide,” and you will have to accept that there are arguments - made by your compatriots - that the shelling of Revachol, from a certain point of view, was… productive. After all, the Moralists are the ones who did it. The war crime that stabilizes a region is not, to them, a “necessary evil”; if it was necessary, it was no evil at all. Why shed tears for what needed to happen?

from a script about Disco Elysium I was working on

This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

Comic. Thought Process While Reading A Big Number: 54,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000,0000,054,000"000,00c2ef46 [comments progress along the line, approximately every 3 digits] (1) 54! Great! I know that number. Solid start. (2) Oh, a comma and some zeros. Cool. Must be at least 54 thousand. (3) A second comma! I wonder if we’re talking population or money. (4) Yikes! If this is money, it’s a *lot* of money. (5) Why am I reading this? Whatever this number is, I’m not going to be able to visualize it. (6) All right, either someone made a unit conversion error or this is one of those incomprehensible astronomy numbers. (7) [4 zeroes between commas instead of 3]] Oh no. Is this a misplaced comma or an extra zero? I guess we’ll see if the next group has two zeros or three. If it’s two, we can at least hope the digits are right. (8) [4 zeroes between commas] Oh *no*. (9) [repeat of the digits 54] What is happening. (10) [a quotation mark in place of comma] Someone messed up real bad. (11) [final digits are c2ef46, cut off] Someone messed up real bad and I hope it wasn’t me.

Reading a Big Number

xkcd.com/3102/

after months and months and months, im finally back in the art business babey!! so happy i can finally work on my comic again, here's my THIRD redrawing of the front cover!!

#webcomic #webtoon #originalart

When Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge - Truthdig The decline and fall of a superpower, one piece of collapsed infrastructure at a time.

'...most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”'

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

It's pride give me one million dollars

as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip

The most important picture I've ever taken of my yard.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

manifesting Legends ZA mega incineroar

The other website is pretty much done

I would simply debate the One Ring and win the argument with my superior rhetorical skills, thus cleansing it of the dark lord Sauron's magic, and so then in place of a dark lord there would be a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn, treacherous as the sea, stronger than the founda

Multiple renditions of a red-haired maid character, named Lillie. The middle one has the character wink to the viewer while performing a curtsey. The top left one is a side profile, with her hands put together. The top right one has the character wearing glasses whose lenses got fogged up due to carrying tea. The bottom left one has the character take a bite from a frikandelbroodje, a sausage-like snack from the Netherlands. The bottom right one has the character smile with an open mouth, both eyes are closed and the character is holding up v/peace signs with both hands.

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[ #art #oc #newgrounds ]

Under a star-filled sky, Ori at the base of a tree with golden leaves

comms!!

YouTube video by Innuendo Studios The Alt-Right Playbook: The South Bank of the Rubicon

what are the steps you would only take if push came to shove?

and what constitutes a "shove"?

and how many shoves have you already gone through without noticing?

the final Alt-Right Playbook is now live.

it's called The South Bank of the Rubicon.

youtu.be/0YFdwfNh5vs

just watched sesame street with my son. i don’t know. it’s not like i’m too good for it, it’s just that i know most of this stuff already. like, i work in journalism. i know 23 letters of the alphabet and i’m confident i’ll learn the rest over the course of my work. i don’t need a tv show for that

Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036

The ruins of Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia. Photo credit: Uwe Schwarzbach

A thread-of-threads on my research into the ruined places of the world, the abandoned ruins of modernity, interesting historical knowledge I've come across, and strange parts of history I find fascinating.

An illustration of a cat licking itself in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

A cat pawprint left in the ink of a medieval manuscript.

The best historical artefacts are the accidental ones that freeze a moment in time forever.

I thought I’d try to find all the times pets have ruined their owner's day and recorded that instant for all of history.

Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company The 200 year-old company may soon go public on the back of AI-powered education products.

Excuse me while I run in circles screaming in horror.

🐎🐎 EPISODE 19 IS OUT NOW 🐎🐎

With readings in Mongolian, Arabic & Chinese, and with the sounds of Mongolian folk music, find out how the world's largest land empire rose and fell, and left the world we know behind.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5OJE...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqS...

Terrible Game Idea: IKEA roguelike. Traverse a maze of furniture, collect random trinkets with unpronounceable names, try to find the exit.

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

lmfao

A jolteon loafing on the sofa, and charging the device like a Switch

Charging