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That is probably one of the more bizarre-yet-medically-harmless side effects I've ever heard of.

Planner needs a boot up his or her ass. I keep getting load assignments that are physically impossible to be on time for, and when I point this out I instead get assignments late in the day that eat my available work hours down to the bone.

At this point I'm not at all certain that I'll even be able to eat dinner tonight.

We need better birthday memes.

Whatcha talking about, we already have the best one.

Speaking of which, DEPLOY THE IMAGE!

(would do it myself, but mobile posting + sleepiness = blah)

Quote from: Sirus on August 24, 2016, 06:33:18 pm

Wow, you don't see many time-traveling slaves on the Internet.

Where is that from?

Being an American Adult sure is fun

You get to spend 24/7 at your job until you finally fucking die.

Spores, actually.

I'm up for it at the moment, but it's about a month away and I'm not sure if there are any family plans already scheduled.

Would really like to go, though...and if you're worried about SanFran traffic I could probably handle the driving bits. I've dealt with those roads before.

I'll finalize the starter and play the next section the next time I'm home. Could be tomorrow night, might not be until Friday or Saturday, so get your votes and name suggestions in while you have the chance.

This is less a question about Aurora and more a question about Steve.

Is he like...really conservative? I'm going through the Starfire novel series (based on the tabletop game that is the basis of Aurora, in case ya didn't know) and I've noticed something. The Liberal-Progressive (LibProg) members of the government are, to a man, almost cartoonishly inept and self-serving while the noble conservative military are unambiguous heroes of reason. The LibProgs will go from decrying the very existence of the Navy in one chapter to demanding that the Navy commit genocide a few chapters later (and then go straight back to demanding "full investigations" and censures when the Navy suffers the slightest setbacks). They prefer not to teach history and refuse to learn from it. It's the LibProgs who are in bed with the mega-corporations and petition to get their pet (and utterly useless) officers in high-ranking positions. Cowards and hypocrites all.

I know that the first few books are co-written by David Weber, but I'm not convinced that the ridiculous caricatures mentioned above are his influence. Weber may specialize in military sci-fi, and he may have his faults (I can think of at least one regular here who despises his works), but his villains tend to be ultra-conservatives while more progressive mindsets are - if not idealized - at least seen as voices of reason. Thus, I'm wondering if the portrayal of liberals in the Starfire series are down to Steve's own viewpoints.