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Since it came up at this week's writers' chat, here's the start of a style guide for this project.

In no particular order:

• American spellings in multiple-writer stories
  
• Third-person viewpoint in multiple-writer stories
  

Released tomorrow, I've been playing through the Open Beta of this this last week and having a blast. You, and three friends (Or randomers from the internet) against a vast swarm of 'zombies', a little like Left 4 Dead but with fire, explosions, two-handed chainswords and fully-automatic rocket-prepelled grenade launches. 4 classes - from a Military Veteran, a Psyker, a Zealot preacher and a big friendly Ogryn - with some customiseability along the way.

Probably the best thing about it are the environments - from the ship you're based on, to the detailed realisations of the Hive City (of about 70-90 billion people constructed over 10-millenia plus as a layer cake of city upon city ) where your missions are based, it gives the 41st Millenium a depth of weight and feeling that's been missing. Take a moment to look around and realise how vast spaces are - and that that is a spaceship several kilometres long parked in the distance - or that you're still Technically Indoors, with a ceiling kilometres above. Or that you're having a full blown way in the cty's depths while far above, life carries on as normal....

The second best thing are the weapons - which range from the effective (The humble lasgun is no mere flashlight but makes mincemeat of anything unarmoured) to the outright brutal. Boltguns especially have an impact befiting the fluff - blasting hordes apart, or cutting people in half with a two-handed eviscerator chainsword.

There're the usual microtransactions for fancy outfits and the like, but I haven't had to dabble in them yet.

So far - I've been playing a Zealot Preacher with a crazy scottish accent. And 'Tiny' - the largest Ogryn possible in the game.

In a few free minutes between preparing to head to my mother-in-law's house, let me just wish forum members in the United States a Happy Thanksgiving!

This contains potential spoilers for One Piece Film: Red.
(Edit: Found a version, uploaded by Crunchyroll, of the Japanese version of the song with baked in subtitles so they all show up, unlike the one on Ado's channel. I put the CR version in the middle, after Ado's upload.)







I'm including the Amalee cover, as I consider it to be semi-official, as she was the English VA for Uta (the character singing the song in the movie, though the songs were not dubbed), and she is using the official sub lyrics in her cover. 

Note that some of the lyrics are in Elder Futhark.

English lyrics

ᚷᚨᚺ ᛉᚨᚾ ᛏᚨᚲ ᚷᚨᚺ ᛉᚨᚾ ᛏᚨᛏ ᛏᚨᛏ ᛒᚱᚨᚲ
Wand'ring heart, clouds above
Rain begins to fall down
My bitter tears flowing out, they never dry up
I let the words of a curse be my deliverance

ᛗᛁᛖ ᚾᛖᚷ ᛟᚾ ᚷᛁᛖᚲ ᚷᛁᛖᚲ
ᚾᚨᚺ ᛈᚺᚨᛋ ᛏᛖᛉᛉᛖ ᛚᚨᚺ
These ancients words like a hymn of reclamation
Not even death will escape them

How to center these troubled thoughts? I pray
Can the future bring calm to the sea? I beg

It's time for salvation to finally come
I feel this rage, and I'm feelin' it strong
This weeping and wailing has gone far too long
Nothing left but to yell! Yeah! Yeah!
I know you feel it, too, so keep on singin' this song
Even when they abuse us we'll keep singin' along
We'll start another Big Bang when we all sing as one
United, we're fightin', bring 'em down with our song of ruin

ᛗᛁᛖ ᚾᛖᚷ ᛟᚾ ᚷᛁᛖᚲ ᚷᛁᛖᚲ
ᚾᚨᚺ ᛈᚺᚨᛋ ᛏᛖᛉᛉᛖ ᛚᚨᚺ
We will rejoice when we get the freedom promised
The freedom so many die for

When there's nowhere to run we must, find hope
Left forgotten within the light, there it glows

Keep making this music 'til you breath your last
We dream but never lose sight of the past
Illuminate hope and forget all the rest
Nothing left but to yell! Yeah! Yeah!

It's time for salvation to finally come
I feel this rage, and I'm feelin' it strong
This weeping and wailing has gone far too long
Nothing left but to yell! Yeah! Yeah!
I know you feel it, too, so keep on singin' this song
Even when they abuse us we'll keep singin' along
We'll start another Big Bang when we all sing as one
United, we're fightin', bring 'em down with our song of ruin

ᚷᚨᚺ ᛉᚨᚾ ᛏᚨᚲ ᚷᚨᚺ ᛉᚨᚾ ᛏᚨᛏ ᛏᚨᛏ ᛒᚱᚨᚲ

I'm including the Amalee cover, as I consider it to be semi-official, as she was the English VA for Uta (the character singing the song in the movie, though the songs were not dubbed), and she is using the official sub lyrics in her cover.

English lyrics

We can choose the way of our future
Try a brand path, if I change the world, if I change the world…

Say goodbye to everyone who stands against us
No one has the power to stop a change that comes through music
No, you can’t stop magic

Close your eyes and you can see the future before you
Every note I sing is bringin’ you closer to your purpose
Once your there don’t let go

You wanna play a real game, unfurl the chain
Melody strung out like we’re walkin’ on a tight rope,
Don’t wanna cry, don’t wanna try, wanna forget
Just let me live inside a dreamland, Wanna be free!
And let a brand new era dawn, I know that we can
Create a New World!

We can choose the way of our future
Try a brand path, if I change the world, if I change the world
This boundless music brings transformation, messages in song reach even further
This dream will come true, “I believe in you”

Say goodbye to everything that’s weighing you down
Transcend beyond reality to colorful worlds of music
We need to keep on rising

Close your eyes and take my hand we’re runnin’ together
We don’t have to live like this, I know we can all do better
I sing for liberation

You wanna play a real game, unfurl the chain
Melody lighting up the path to new horizon
Don’t wanna try, don’t wanna cry, wanna forget
Just let me live inside a dreamland, wanna be free!
And let a brand new era dawn, I know that we can
Create a New World!

We can choose the way of our future
Try a brand path, if I change the world, if I change the world
This boundless music brings transformation, messages in song
Reach even further, reach even further. A New Genesis

A New Genesis

* Dad rolled off the bed yesterday, and we had a job getting him unstuck and back upright. No injuries there, but it made for a sleepless night.
* A thump and rattle inthe chimney heralded it acting as f almstor completely blocked, meaning jst one little electric heater to keep the chill off on the coldest night and day so far this year
* While sitting under an electric blanket at the computer, the video suudden[y cut out. All signs so far poit to the graphics card having died, but I don't have a good one to test with. Currently using a decade old, third hand Android tablet for internet access, which holds a charge for aroud ten minutes if taken off the usb cable
* Upon gettingbup to investigate the sudden lack of video, discovered the ablanket had put burns across my toes and ankle, which I did not notice happening and still only sense as an odd tingle even knowing they're there.
* dropped two sets of bandages trying to get the damn thing wrapped up to prevent abrading it and getting shoe scudge in the burns. Keeping burns sterile is really impoetant, so those bandages had to go in the trash.
* have an appointment tomrrow but it's only for getting blood drawn, at an office in the opposite direction from e clinic where they do emergency room stuff. I predict a long and annoyng day trying to get it looked at.
* GDMF onscreen keyboard is my nemesis, and I lack the patience to fix all these typos
* also, it'scold hanging my arms out of the (not electric) blankets

The forum i not a blog, yes, but I really just had to complain a bit. Aplogies for wasting yourtime.I'll likely regret postinh at all after getting some sleep, assuming wory about why I didn't notice and now growing pain in my foot lets me sleep aall.

FML

just

FML

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lyrics

scrapes on my hands
blood on my knees
I pick myself up
by my own beliefs
I carry my sins
no need to confess
won’t scream out for mercy
when it puts me through hell

I set it on fire
I lay it to rest
here’s to the hurt
so I wouldn’t forget
my heart can survive it
I’m stronger than this

they ain’t built a weapon
that could kill me yet

don’t need saving
to save myself
don’t need forgiveness
to bless my guilt
lost my faith
and found belief
in my redemption
I’m my own redemption

took back my life
through an ocean of tears
in a hole down so deep
suffocating from fear
running from purpose
while losing my grip
building the walls
that built me
brick by brick

so here’s to the dagger
the sword and the pain
if not for the dirt
the shovel
the grave
a shock to the system
that opened my eyes
and made me believe

I don’t need saving
to save myself
don’t need forgiveness
to bless my guilt
lost my faith
and found belief
in my redemption
I’m my own redemption

don’t need praying
to find my hope
don’t need heaven
to save my soul
fell from grace
just to believe
in my redemption
I’m my own redemption

I set it on fire
I lay it to rest
my heart can survive it
I’m stronger than this
they ain’t built a weapon
that could kill me yet

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Lyrics

WE ARE HUMAN
WE ARE VIOLENT
WE LEARN OUR LESSONS
THEN DEFY THEM
WE ARE HEARTLESS
AND I’MMORAL
WE CARRY HATRED
LIKE A BIBLE

AND THERE’S A HOLE IN MY LIFE
THERE’S A BLACKNESS INSIDE
THAT’S EATING ME ALIVE
LEAVING ME TO DECIDE
DO I LIVE
WITH THIS PAIN
AS THE RAIN STARTS TO FALL FROM MY EYES
ASKING MY SELF WHY

I SEE
TERRIBLE THINGS
I SEE A
SICKNESS IN A WORLD ON ITS KNEES
IT WILL TAKE WHAT YOU LOVE LIKE A THIEF

BUT IN MY DREAMS
I BELIEVE
WERE NOT THESE TERRIBLE THINGS

WE ARE NOTHING WITHOUT FAILURE
BUT WE HAVE CHOSEN ILL BEHAVIOR
WITH EVERY SCAR HAVE WE LEARNED
NOT TO HEAL
BUT TO HURT
WE’VE BECOME SOMETHING ELSE
EVEN I CANNOT TELL JUST WHY

I SEE
TERRIBLE THINGS
I SEE
A SICKNESS IN A WORLD ON ITS KNEES
AND IT WILL TAKE WHAT YOU LOVE LIKE A THIEF

BUT IN MY DREAMS I BELIEVE
WE’RE NOT THESE
TERRIBLE THINGS
AH
AH
AH

IF I FALL
IF I RUN
THAT’S WHEN I
WILL BECOME
TERRIBLE THINGS

I SEE
TERRIBLE THINGS
I SEE
A SICKNESS IN A WORLD ON ITS KNEES
IT WILL TAKE WHAT YOU LOVE LIKE A THIEF

BUT IN MY DREAMS I BELIEVE
WE’RE NOT THESE
TERRIBLE THINGS

LOOK AT ME
AND YOU’LL SEE
WE’RE NOT THESE
TERRIBLE THINGS
AH
AH
AH
TERRIBLE THINGS
AH
AH
AH

Since the Muskinator freed the bird - let that sink in - meme doge lol - things have descended into an ever steepening spiral of madness. Like that overconfident VFR aviator blundering into thick IMC Elon is sitting there sweating and nervous with the tach in the red, the altimeter unwinding and nothing but the inevitable coming to meet him.

This saga of course began with 50% of twitter's employees discovering they were fired when they logged in in the morning. Apparently, these layoffs were determined completely at random - or by some arcane an foolish metric as it quickly became obvious that some of those people were the people who actually knew how shit worked. They knew where the load-bearing macintosh was.

--But not if they worked from home. It's assumed they've resigned (A real problem for Irish Employees because nobody can afford to live in Dublin anymore.)

Then, the Blue Mark.
Lockheed Martini announcing it would no longer ship weapons to Isreal and Saudi Arabia. It's stock collapsed
Eli Lily announced Insulin was no free for all.  It's stock collapsed.
Chiquita fgloated about overthrowing Brazing (With the *real* chiquita account claiming they haven't done that since 1954)
Dark Brandon didn't announcing the outlawing of Russia and the Launching of the missiles - but I suppose that's only because that account didn't go viral.
Donald Trump admitting defeat
An Elon Musk Impersonator joking about how you could tell a Parodied Senator's account from the Parody. (No wait, that was really Elon. Strong and stable genius). Needless to say, said Senator was properly pissed off, and claims to be working on multiple investigations into Musk and his companies....

I mean.

Imagine if Boeing's CEO took a 737-Max up for a spin? And then decided to see if it could do a barrel roll. While flipping switches to see if it could still fly with 'unnecessary systems' switch off. All while flipping the FAA the bird and sucking on a spliff?
Same energy.
Probably the same result.

Crash and burn
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And now, The Emerald Dotard has broken twitters 2FA while spiting an engineer he just fired publicly because some twit on Twatter say 'You let your people talk back to you like that'.

He switched off the services that send text messages while you try to log in, locking people out. He's muntzing the microservices his site runs on. And muntzing the employees while he's at it.


The Register has a nice summary, with probably better paraphrasing and less profanity


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This whole thing is like watching an episode of Air Crash Investigations, from inside the fucking plane.


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