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  2. Posted

    6 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Speaking of balloons. Trump's triumphalistic parade just went down like a lead balloon. In fact, maybe a better word would be 'fiascolistic.' Sparse crowds, lack of enthusiasm, poorly disciplined marching -- not laying that one at the feet of the hapless soldiers, they weren't even trained for it -- though some of it might have been malicious compliance. I hope it was.

    A viral clip from the fiascorade:
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1R5q7hbv7qI

     

    2 hours ago, mlooney said:

    At some point, it had to be.  Someone, fairly higher up, decided to march in fatigues.

    Modern fatigues are many things, sharp parade ground uniforms is not one of them.  The UK Foot Guards would look bad on parade in fatigues, never mind an actual line unit.  Of course the out of step thing was, as near as I can tell, a full on “failure” of the NCO corp to give a flying fuck about it, and, as a group, didn't call cadence.  Or they were told to not call cadence.  And they didn't care enough to fight that weird order.

     

    One would hope that by this time the US military would have figured out that this 'man' (I use the term loosely) is not their friend. Pretty much the worst treatment of vets in my memory.

     

     

  8. Posted

    5 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Yah. “I must be sterile, therefore if she got pregnant then it was because she was cheating on me,” only to find out now, long after several such girlfriends have died of old age, that the children were his all along.

    https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-06-14 has Pandora confirming that there were multiple instances of Adrian impregnating a girlfriend and not realizing that he was the father.

    Huh. Yeah, that comic makes more sense in retrospect. I suppose we already had all the facts, but they seem to be put together better in retrospect.

     

    57 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Hmmmm.  This does leave the “I was in my actual 20s” statement by Adrian.  That tends to indicate that he was that big of a horn dog.  Either that or he stayed with all his other “encounters” for more than 9 months, or at least kept track of them, to know they weren't pregnant.

    That seems a bit harsh, unless you are saying nearly all male teens, and many of the young ladies are all horn dogs. 

     

     

     

  9. Posted

    4 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Senator Alex Padilla (D-California) was arrested at a protest today, supposedly even after identifying himself.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna212688

    I am worried that this may be a trial balloon for arresting other politicians who openly speak against the Administration.

    Furthermore, it is a blatant violation of Article I, Section 6, Paragraph 1 of the US Constitution to arrest/detain any member of Congress in such a way as to prevent their attending a vote of their respective House of Congress. If, hypothetically, several Democratic Party Senators were so detained, it would grant the Republican Party a filibuster-proof majority of the votes that remained.

    Wot? Trump is a Fascist with no respect for the law? No Kidding?

  10. Posted

    4 hours ago, ijuin said:

    That raises the question of whether any of his girlfriends had pregnancies which he blamed on her infidelity towards him, possibly contributing to their breakups and him becoming more jaded about such relationships.

    That is pathetically awful, and entirely plausible.

  12. Posted

    5 hours ago, mlooney said:

    I don't think immortals are any form of H. Sapiens.  Like I said, magic.  Lots of magic.

    Theory: A powerful wizard craves immortality (the not dying kind, not the magical being kind). He casts such a spell. When he dies, he dies normally, but due to magic, he persists as a new kind of magical being, he resets as an immortal. Rinse, lather, repeat over many wizards.

    A big hole in this is the statement, "All wizards are descendants of immortals". There's got to be a loop hole somewhere around here. <scrounge>

  15. Posted

    It is generally true that many hybrids tend toward sterility, however it is not a rule. Weirdly, it is often true within a species, if geographic separation builds distinct populations. There are species which are fertile with neighbors, but individuals from long distances may not be fertile together. 

    It seems logical that fairly close individuals within a species may be unable to breed for mechanical reasons - very large and very small dogs, for example, and even if they manage it, the offspring might not be viable; too big might kill the mother, too small might not register as an offspring. 

    Human populations seem to be able to interbreed with no problems, evidence that we are all close; but many of us carry other human DNA, such as Neanderthal, which says that some offspring were still fertile when they crossbred.

    It seems evident that the immortals are derived from humans; obviously in terms of plot development, but not necessarily true in the EGS universe. If not, they copied human form, perhaps to interact, perhaps convenient for interacting with each other. But Pandora had chaotic forms, and Voltaire had his dragon persona. Are there even rules for them?

  16. Posted

    1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

     

    So how long ago did Homo Sapiens an Immortals diverge into different species? 

    As they are still capable of interbreeding. It must still be a relatively recent event. 

     

    It is possible that they can't interbreed, that when it occurs, magic is involved to make it viable. But it seems more likely, given that Pandora carried a baby to full term and birthed him, that they are compatible. Which seems to imply that immortals are what humans become with sufficient access to magic. Beyond that . . . ? ? ?

    Even "Which came first?" isn't a given. It seems likely, from our understanding of evolution, that humans came first, but magic is a cognitive wild card. Can't really apply cause and effect here.

    Maybe they didn't diverge. Maybe something like magical fey beings noticed humans and began patterning and conforming to the human model.

    Maybe they arose from human imagination and use of magic without deriving biologically.

    Maybe more important in EGS is are they converging.

  20. Posted

    3 hours ago, mlooney said:

    I was right.  Cinder Tedd can talk and use words.  However, it looks like they have a bad case of forced speech, which isn't a good thing.  Let's see what happens after Prince Elliot calms them down a bit.

    Prince Elliot seems much calmer as well, and is also using words now.

  25. Posted

    36 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Garry England 1939-2025. 

    If you are or were an Oklahoman, this means something.  It's also possible he saved your life.

    Never heard of him; he was the real deal; wow, just wow. 

     

    59 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 – June 11, 2025)

    To me, this feels like another 'Day the music died'. They never regained their sixties popularity, but they had some of the best music. And he was a cornerstone.