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The damage is theoretically going to come from the gas given off by burning the vinyl chloride. I know some animals have died, but mostly birds who are very vulnerable to airborne toxins. Byproducts are supposed to be Hydrogen Chloride gas, which turns to acid when it contacts water like the fluid in the lungs or eyes, and phosgene, which was used as a weapon in WW1 because it's toxic and heavier than air so it pools in depressions which made it great for filling up trenches.

No idea what quantities of either gas are going to be like, small amounts of either are mostly harmless, not pleasant or safe but mild exposure won't cause severe health problems, but I wouldn't want to be in an area of low ground downwind of the burn.

Train company is going to face one doozy of a lawsuit regardless of anyone getting sick though.

He's asking if we're siding with NATO because NATO is the dominant power, and therefore dominant viewpoint from a certain perspective, of the world, and would switch sides if we percieved the other to be stronger, specifically in the hypothetical event of China eclipsing the Western powers.

It's not a sensible question to be honest, because I imagine most of us haven't picked a side based on strength anyway, but rather ideals that are more commonly protected by Western powers than others.

I think a piece of a model has pinged behind the fish tank and terrariums when I was cutting it from it's sprue. It's about 3mm wide and my carpet is grey, so I may never find it even if I pull the terrariums forward. 

Luckily it's not a vital piece, but it does go on the shoulder of the model so it's going to be obvious it isn't there.

I can't really imagine a spy balloon can do much that a satellite can't these days, and China isn't exactly scarce on the resources needed to send spy satelites into orbit. Seems like empty posturing more than anything, possibly for internal purposes. I could easily see some espionage branch that needs to justify it's budget doing a largely useless excercise to keep it's spending up.

After many months of being hit or miss with painting, I've wound up with enough motivation to actually finish up my Knight Abominant. Or nearly finish him up anyway, there's a few birds I need to find for his shoulders and he still needs transfers applied, but he does have arms now, which is a big improvement on the previous few months.

Next up I really need to knuckle down and finish Be'lakor, he's been waiting on being finished for a very long while.

It's widespread enough to have entered into several American comedy shows. Doesn't mean it's something pan-American or anything, but it means there's enough relevancy for it to hold traction as a joke.

If I were to hazard a guess it's probably something from Christian parents who don't want their kids to masturbate, like the hairy palms or going blind stuff.

Been unable to sleep and found myself ruminating on one of the endings.

The defeat of Radahn letting the stars move implies on some level that all stars are beings akin to Astel, as one immediately falls to earth and exposes the path to the hidden city, which is evidently not an uncommon occurence for the underground cities. Meteors are implied to all be Fallingstar Beasts, which in turn become creatures like Astel. The association between the beasts/Astel and gravity magic, and Radahn's own mastery of gravity magic is a thematic connection.

I could posit that the very stars are perhaps hives of some sort, if not individual creatures. Cosmic nests from which the larval beasts rain down on the world as the Void seeks to consume creation. Perhaps it is by eating worlds that these creatures become new stars.


A comparison could be made to Lovecraft's work, which was a clear inspiration for parts of Elden Ring. The Outer Gods correspond to... well the Outer Gods, physical and mortal beings of extreme power, the FSBs, Malfomed Stars* and Astel would correspond to the various aliens like the Mi-Go, hostile and strange and with an unclear relation to the Outer Gods.

I see no clear counterpart to the Great Old Ones.


*The hanging upside down immature Astel like creatures.