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Frumple, if your croutons taste like Chex Mix then you've got some nasty damn croutons.

i like chex mix ;_;

Seriously though, the texture is largely radically different, but the seasonings involved seem to pretty similar, in regards to your "standard" (i.e. restaurant) crouton. Particularly the kinda' coin-ished shaped crunchy (crunchier than the rest of it, anyway) brown ones.

... but yeah, snacking on croutons is why I never buy the things. I'd just eat them, and never put them in other food. They never last very long once I notice they're in the residence I'm in, if I have full access to the food. _{Sometimes when I don't, too. The other people have to sleep eventually.}

Then let us hug, ghetto brother. I have joined the toastouton family.

... it's doing pretty decently.

I realize it's mostly exhaustion and hunger, but I have just amused myself entirely too much with the creation of ghetto croutons.

... which is to say I just chopped up a couple pieces of toast.

And I'm going to throw it into a horrible concoction of ramen drained of broth mixed with off-brand chefboyardee, cheese, and copious spices.

And ghetto croutons.

Yeah, you don't even want to know what kind of STIs a Maiar picks up after a few hundred years. It's amazing everything in a five mile radius of Gandalf doesn't spontaneously contract the orcish clap.

... of course, that's assuming they don't...

I'm thinking that Phyrexia Vs Mirrodin would probably be the GOTO for wouldbe film directors that get subcontracted to do the movie. I mean, the whole plot of that arc is very splashable to movie posters, it's a decent bit of lore by itself, and non-MTG fans will understand it as a kind of zombie apocalypse movie and I don't think any AAA movie maker will ever pass up the opportunity to try to wring more blood from that stone.

I'd probably dig just about anything involving Phyrexia, too. Steampunk/clockwork dimension-hopping borg with a side of body horror, sure, let's rock this junk. They're pretty neat. At least that's how I'm remembering the buggers, anyway.

Last doomed I ran was rocking pretty well with half-melee, actually. Gestures are decent enough, especially with some solid mindstars behind 'em, and most things died fast enough for my tastes.

I was planning on One Piece, mostly because it's got a lotta fun stuff I could add and also because I could get into some great DFHack stuff with that.

... nothing against attack on titan, but this sounds like it'd make for something a lot more interesting. One Piece gets into some pretty weird stuff, and the variety et al involved would likely make for a more engaging fortress mode.

Another possibility might be something like Jojo's Bizarre Adventures >_>

Amazingly, wikipedia's page on the subject seems pretty thorough and even handed, and addresses most of what's been brought up so far.

From what I saw looking into things up to finding that bloody page and checking sources thereafter, Gryph's right on a good number of military and police weapons coming from the states (and then nice chunks of them going missing afterwards), Shonus is right that many of the weapons that come into the place aren't auto et al when they cross the border (stuff gets converted afterwards, when it comes to that sort of firearm), and Steeled is right that most of that fancy shit isn't what crosses -- a good chunk of what's used overall, and what is accountable for cartel killings, is handguns and such, not things like AKs. It's still a pretty wide spread of stuff, though. It does seem like a good chunk (if not all) of the fancier US-originating stuff is leftovers from previous conflicts down south (and elsewhere, getting smuggled over), rather than coming across the border.

Actual numbers on what's coming in from the states (either US manufactured or imported and then trafficked) seem to be something no one's quite sure about, unfortunately, and range like freaking crazy. Anywhere from "mere" thousands per year (something like 1-2% of total traffic, apparently) to upwards 80-90% of overall volume (and that's disregarding anything stated by Calderón). Stuff that seems fairly reasonable's point at something in the 20+% range on the low end, though, which is less than I thought. Definitely still pretty damn significant volume, though.

... as a kind of arse covering, though, do note I never claimed that most cartel weapons came from the civilian market, just that at least a plurality likely came from American dealers-- which does seem to at the very least be in question. Significant minority would seem to be a more accurate statement, heh.

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Couple things I found kinda' interesting: PDF of a study attempting a statistical estimation of cross-country gun trafficking. Findings are interesting, but the methodology seems somewhat iffy. Don't really know statistics well enough to be able to fully parse what's being said, but there's some interesting stuff in it.

This thing is another PDF of a report done up by some senators. Lot of their suggestions and whatnot can be comfortably skipped over, but there's some interesting stuff in the end-notes and especially the appendix (primarily the response letter from the ATF).