She’s more of a wee little princess who loves to be carried everywhere.

Bo is a solid lump at 15 pounds.

Two elderly rescue cats, Buttons and Bo.

She (Buttons) is a very needy lapdog of a cat who loves to be carried basically everywhere around the house. Insists on sleeping under blankets while on my bed, usually on her side with her head on a pillow. She also LOVES grooming me, especially my beard. She comes when called, though is mostly deaf. She’s freaked out when I take a bath, coming up to the edge and howling… probably remembering the time she jumped on the edge and very gracefully fell in.

Her brother is downright weird. He’s shaped like a pug (15 pounds, very broad chest, walks almost bow legged due to said breadth). He LOVES to be held like a fat, hairy toddler… ‘sitting’ on his hind legs with his back up against me. He also prefers being under blankets at night, but completely covered. He likes to be carried, but not as much, and due to his length it’s a bit challenging to make him comfortable while doing so.

Both always want attention, love having their bellies scratched and immediately warm up to strangers.

To shreds you say?

Not my game of choice, but as an elderly gamer, this works for me.

I think you mean the bleginning

Worsening in Israel. Not the two faced AIPAC fueled support they have now, but fully empowered to destabilize the entire region and genocide with even more glee. Ghastly butchery on display, not as an attempt to shame the administration, but to boast.

Complete withdrawal of Ukranian aid. Naked support for Russian incursion wherever they see fit.

Pulling out of NATO as well as any other meaningful international consortiums.

Worsening relations with ally nations

No clue here. But if even 10% of his domestic threats are enacted, bad times.

EDIT: my rambling screed ignored the question, sorrey.

They will be the ‘enemy within’. And treated like leftists have been for a long time here. All without the street cred to back it up.

The two hwat?

You magnificent bastard.

I wonder whatever happened to Unidan…

You still have Zoidberg… YOU ALL HAVE ZOIDBERG!

Ah, but the rhythm will get you. Tonight.

Sadly I wasn’t wondering. Just watching the country implode very quickly, only for an equally horrifying explosion coming all too soon.

There will be mass violence if Trump wins or loses. Far more manageable if the latter, but democrats are masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Bright blue until I was at least in my teens. Faded to grey by the time I was in my 30s.

Don’t beat yourself up. Seriously.

I was able to break free early partly due to how absurd the hypocrisy became. My mother was going to hell, not because she’s a cold narcissist, but a Jew and a ‘practitioner’ of new age bullshit. And my father saw nothing at all wrong with this type of belief.

Not to mention he was pretty racist (though in a ‘subtle’ way), while helping raise my adopted Korean sister.

I was lucky that he and my mother were such atrociously bad examples of how to deal with others, that I vowed to never be like them.

That was my thought too. Princess Leia is a complete badass and my first time seeing a woman in that such a depiction on any screen.

More like “we can’t hear you over all these AIPAC donations constantly rolling in”.

She’s not stupid, but prone to magical thinking. Which in our current environment of mass disinfo is just as damaging as being genuinely stupid sadly.

My granddaughter is in the same camp. Fully vaccinated for everything else you’d expect, but completely bought into the repackaged HPV vaccine hysteria that got grafted onto the Covid vaccines. So she’s had it 5 times, including one that she describes as ‘that time I almost died’.

Also, she’s a teacher. At a religious school that obviously doesn’t require that particular vaccine.

What the ever loving fuck is wrong with people.

I’ve had every recommended booster, got it from my dentist in July 2023 and spent a solid week in bed with what rivaled the worst flu I’d ever had. Actual flu, not “it’s just the flu, bro” bullshit.

This was followed by a month of a wet racking cough and very congested lungs. I have no idea how much the vaccines and boosters reduced the severity of lessened any long covid, but I got my booster last year (months later) and will be doing so again very soon this year.

Why the hell would anyone want this virus?

So many amazing ideas in Arcanum. Time to finally check out the various modernization patches and mods and give it a spin.

My first CRPG was also from a pawnshop! Though it was the original Wizardry in 1982 ;)

There is no war in Ba Sing SE after all…