“It’s a Japanese balloon! Shoot it down!”

“No, it’s Venus.”

“It’s a Roman god, shoot her down!”

My first experience of true betrayal by a video game.

Didn’t they have a problem like that before, but with bots? Like, some obscure artists who suddenly started getting massive listening hours by setting up a bot network to just keep repeating?

When I was younger, yeah. Nowadays? Go do your shit, we’ll find time to spend together.

Plus, it’s nice when you can get up and do something for them, like getting coffee made or something.

Around the 15-17 Celsius mark.

I don’t have a bag on hand to list out the ingredients, but it’s a type of cake generally made in a loaf or Bundt that has a dense, creamier texture.

It can be used to make excellent dessert breads, like a sweeter banana bread. Absolutely amazing topped with chopped walnuts. The only real change to using it as a bread base is either open oven finishing or steam finishing to get some extra crust around the top.

That’s some good looking banana bread.

Creme cake mix also makes for an excellent banana bread.

Yeah, give me the option to teleport things, or even just myself, I am doing the most mundane shit with it. Decide I don’t want to walk up the steps? Teleport. Forgot something and don’t want to turn to grab it? Teleport.

What long-forgotten archive did you pull this from‽

I don’t think I’ve seen this image this crisp since it was new.

Alright, time to burn down all of Finland. Just reduce everything to ash. In fact, nuke the ash after we’re done. Maybe add some salt after that. Nothing can live there anymore.

We’ll just be extra careful this time, can’t have a second Australia situation.

Mostly, yeah. He’s practically getting to live his dream these days, after going through a pretty long rough patch.

I’m still untangling things, in my own way, but I can also recognize the strides I’ve been able to make with it. It’s taken many a long year to get to the point where even talking about it didn’t leave me shaking in anger or fear, and I consider that a major improvement. Shaking off the last shadows from the monster.

We had a long driveway. I quickly learned how to position myself to be able to see out the window and prepare before being seen.

That was also around the same time I learned how to quickly make a bug-out bag, a bit of cryptography(My dad and I had a code language, just in case), and just how far I can be pushed before physical response is my only response.

There isn’t enough therapy in the world.

An unfrosted Double Dutch, at that.

That is an offense in itself. You’re making it that large, toss on the fudge or Dutch chocolate icing with it.

“No, boss, you don’t understand! He climbed up and ripped me out of the cab! I know he’s still doing the job right now, but he’s heading right for the orphanage!”

“No, on second thought, let’s not go to Mordor. It is a silly place.”

Worth it, though.

It’ll really tie the room together.

I’ve reached the point that I adopt the same attitude back. Like, genuinely told myself “No, fuck these thoughts, we ain’t having this shit tonight”, into just kinda almost meditating myself to sleep.

Probably not a healthy coping mechanism, but it works?

Who currently holds naval supremacy? If Mamdani can make the landing, taking the Staten VPs in a rush shouldn’t be very hard. Even easier if he’s kept his planes relatively decent, CAS can really soften the defenders.

Staten has no resources, almost no factories, and the focus tree is generic. They have no hope of holding the territory.

I kinda hate that I love it. Wouldn’t work just anywhere, but a dive bar kinda setup? It just adds more character.

If someone goes to another team after this, would they be considered half-chub?