America does something Americanly in America

“This is why Russia is bad”

My cat waits for me to shower after work

Lake Michigan 2

The new update finally pushed the reviews to Mostly Positive, the most important change being that international trade mostly takes care of itself from a player perspective. The game still has issues, the biggest one being that every time a country is at war for any reason, it brings its whole military and the militaries of its vassals to bear, turning every squabble over a colony into a great power conflict (though this can be kinda fun in itself)

Posts people make before they wash their hands

See this, Flavius, when the Picts see this overlarge pair of shoes, they will think we have a giant in our ranks and flee whence they came!

Where’s DS9? You’re not gonna understand Marx if you haven’t seen it

We can finally start making good posts

There’s probably a joke here about invasive species in someone’s oral microbiome

Yeah, my bad, I had beans last night

The only ones I’m missing now are Age of Napoleon and Bad Faith

Aren’t Citations Needed and RWN free anyway?

It can be pieced together from Elrond describing his ancestry in Fellowship and Legolas commenting that Aragorn is of the line of Luthien in Returb of the King

In Fellowship of the Ring, Galadriel (who learned from Melian) comments that she doesn’t understand what Sam means by “magic”. What the Elves and Maiar have over Men isn’t supernatural or divine, it’s sufficiently advanced technology. The Maiar have a more fundamental understanding of and connection to the world because they were present for and part of its creation, and the Elves (at least, the Ñoldor like Galadriel) were taught by them directly.

I think on point 1, Tolkien would argue that Melian was not any more divine than the first Elves or Men. Angels aren’t God, even if Men viewed them as such.

I don’t need it to be badass, I just need the wings to not be on top of its head

This is to fuck with his trial, right?

Imagine hooking up with the stocky guy in the next valley over and scientists use DNA to study that event a hundred thousand years later