...Which is awfully rich coming from Trump, who is supposedly all for State's Rights.  I guess it only applies to the rights that the Republicans favor.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/t...s-n1055811

My old, old BlackBerry Bold is dying on me, and I have to replace it. But I've been using it because it has a physical keyboard - it seems that half the time touchscreens don't respond to my touch, so a keyboard's a necessity.

I've been lead to believe that BlackBerry got out of the hardware business a while back. Does anyone make a cellphone with a physical keyboard nowadays?

https://www.sciencealert.com/explosion-a...into-panic



This is how we get to live "The Stand" in real life.

The author of the article tries to reassure people that the explosion is unlikely to have released anything dangerous, but Russia's handling of Chernobyl and the recent explosion at a weapons testing facility that released some radioactive material is giving me some concern.

So my hard working desktop of many years has hit the end of its life-cycle. In particular, the motherboard appears to have failed. (No BIOS messages, CD drive will open and shut if I time the button pushes correctly, fans make 'whir' noises as they are supposed to)

If anyone can suggest a current model for purchase in western Canada, that would be great.
I don't mind paying a bit more for capacity, and it would be nice if there is enough capacity that starting up Planetary Annihilation doesn't make the fans sound like the case is preparing for take-off...

Séan McCann of Great Big Sea talks about the pop-folk lifestyle, going sober, and what going sober did to his life.

CBC opinion column by Anne T. Donahue: To move forward, country music should look back to the Dixie Chicks

It's starts out talking about how country music is aimed at straight white conservative males with so few exceptions that one can count them, then morphs into a request to broaden the fanbase.

But there's a difference between broadening the fanbase and splintering the fanbase...

Talking about Dragon Half got me to thinking about dragons in general.

And suddenly I realized there's some characters that would fit our setting like a glove.  Though we run the risk of explodicating a town.  :V

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.

EDIT:
OMFG, I just realized something.  Imagine Saitama the One Punch Man next to Kobayashi as something kinda nuts happens.  They'd both have that same "dead fish eyes" expression.

Inspired by this classic meme and the fact that Kobayashi has a tendency to make the same face when confronted by something that does not quite fit in the framework of what's "Normal".

Mostly I just wanted to have that thread title, but there's a new chapter of Benefits of Old Laws too
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11540013/107/...f-old-laws

As of today on the Justin server over on homecoming the dev's have put up a series of proposed tanker buffs and man I'm stooooked if they do get the ok. I'm tryin really hard to not get too excited but man looking at them and they look amazing if they do make it over to live. 

 Here is the link to the thread of proposed changes- https://forums.homecomingservers.com/top...k-updates/

Here she is, with a lot of less than optimal enhances but going for ridonkulous pie-in-the sky goodies

Villain Plan by Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer 2.6.0.1
https://github.com/ImaginaryDevelopment/...o-designer

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Tigritsa: Level 49 Mutation Stalker
Primary Power Set: Savage Melee
Secondary Power Set: Regeneration
Power Pool: Leaping

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Maiming Slash

• (A) Stalker's Guile - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (3) Stalker's Guile - Damage/Recharge
  
• (19) Stalker's Guile - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (31) Stalker's Guile - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (36) Stalker's Guile - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (36) Stalker's Guile - Recharge/Chance to Hide
  

• (A) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance
  
• (3) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (5) Shield Wall - Defense
  
• (34) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All)
  

• (A) Overwhelming Force - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (5) Overwhelming Force - Endurance/Recharge
  
• (21) Overwhelming Force - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (33) Overwhelming Force - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (36) Overwhelming Force - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (37) Overwhelming Force - Damage/Chance for Knockdown/Knockback to Knockdown
  

• (A) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
  
• (15) Numina's Convalesence - Heal
  
• (21) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance
  
• (34) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Recharge
  

• (A) Assassin's Mark - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (7) Assassin's Mark - Damage/RechargeTime
  
• (7) Assassin's Mark - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime
  
• (9) Assassin's Mark - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
  
• (9) Assassin's Mark - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
  
• (11) Assassin's Mark - RechargeTime/Rchg Build Up
  

• (A) Touch of Lady Grey - Defense Debuff
  
• (17) Touch of Lady Grey - Defense Debuff/Recharge
  
• (31) Touch of Lady Grey - Recharge/Endurance
  
• (31) Touch of Lady Grey - Defense Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
  
• (37) Touch of Lady Grey - Defense Debuff/Endurance
  
• (37) Touch of Lady Grey - Chance for Negative Damage
  

• (A) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
  
• (11) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
  

• (A) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP
  
• (13) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance
  
• (13) Preventive Medicine - Chance for +Absorb
  
• (15) Preventive Medicine - Heal
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Numina's Convalesence - Heal
  
• (17) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Recharge
  

• (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (19) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance
  
• (39) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (39) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
  
• (40) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge
  
• (43) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge
  

• (A) Reactive Defenses - Scaling Resist Damage
  

• (A) Numina's Convalesence - Heal
  
• (23) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Recharge
  
• (23) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance
  

• (A) Empty
  
• (25) Empty
  
• (25) Empty
  

• (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (27) Mako's Bite - Damage/Endurance
  
• (27) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (40) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (42) Mako's Bite - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
  

• (A) Preventive Medicine - Heal
  
• (29) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime
  
• (29) Preventive Medicine - Endurance/RechargeTime
  
• (40) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime/Endurance
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage
  
• (33) Armageddon - Damage
  
• (33) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge
  
• (34) Armageddon - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (43) Armageddon - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (43) Range IO
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  
• (39) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  
• (42) Empty
  
• (42) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty