It kinda looks like Hot Fuzz? It’s been a while to remember.

The premise is that a computer must never make a management decision. Making a program capable of management decisons already failed. The deployment and use of that program to that end is already built upon that failure.

Got muh bag-o-rats and muh Great Cleave, time to start whirlin’…

The man understood what language and names are used for, to say the least.

I would just casually read the rule books for fun. I had binders of Palladium NPCs with mapped towns and cities.

No campaign ever got off the ground, but it did develop my love of worldbuilding.

Palladium was foundational to everything in RIFTS and it was clear the overlap was just supposed to be implied knowledge, especially from the later rulebooks.

I did my week’s work yesterday afternoon. Today is now coffee.

keep telling yourself anarchists hate stalin because of his virtues and not because of his other characteristics.

To be clear, those weren’t the folks I was referring to in my comment. But:

if I may ask you a question - if marxism and anarchism are fundamentally enemies, as stalin himself argued, why would any anarchist support the modern day ML penchant for rehabilitating stalin’s reputation?

Absolutely welcome to ask, and I’ll give it a shot nonetheless.

I would ask the anarchist (and the modern day ML too) if they agree with this part of Stalin’s theory.

I don’t, and would venture to say a modern day ML may also disagree with Stalin in this but even also have a penchant for his rehabilitation, for other reasons.

More tangentally I think anarchism and marxism are not fundamentally enemies, (so, in disagreement with Stalin here), and would suggest they primarily diverge on the role a state plays in mediating conflicts of private and public interests.

But if I were to try and find common ground with the bit from Stalin you’re citing, just for argument’s sake, it would be that this divergence is a fundamental relationship between the two, but I’d still maintain the differences are not incompatible or irreconcileable.

But again, for the record, I was being more snarky about people who pivot from talking about how Hitler could’ve won to how Stalin could’ve lost.

There was an episode I remember where they explored Mexican cuisine and a contestant said ‘Gacky-molo’ for ‘Guacamole’ and that has stuck with me since.

Regardless I don’t think they’re lamenting Germany’s defeat.

I wonder how much is just a definitional conversion of ‘through friends’ to ‘online’ because friends are now online as well.

I suspect for some folks Stalin is bad because anyone else would have let the USSR capitulate to the wehrmacht invasion.

Or like the Memorial to Victims of Communism in Canada that was mostly Nazis and collaborators on it.

It’s a hell of a high note.

Only a week? Lucky!

Shoebody Bop

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Agh they just need to pick a fuckin’ name and get on with it.

So you hate the world then, I see.

Hot butter rum.