I went to a friend's house for a party and they were all watching a furry dance competition it was bizarre but mostly it was boring by dint of being a dance competition.
I went to a friend's house for a party and they were all watching a furry dance competition it was bizarre but mostly it was boring by dint of being a dance competition.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Sit around in a blaze orange safety vest just to make my dad ask why I'm wearing it: Y/N?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Dad doesn't actually seem to be around right now anyway, which is strange
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Observation: the cameras on iPhones don't seem to be able to pick up infrared light the way most digital cameras can.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
> implying a single paycheck for a part-time job will be 500 bucks
^^That wasn't my intended implication; it'll be around... 250-300 dollars but I DO plan on saving it, yannow.
^My worry is that the computer will come pre-bloated; like, my biggest issue with my other computer is that it's a clunky-ass thing from like four years ago that was used by three different people with conflicting interests and as such the downloads piled on and on until it was barely functional. And I have NO idea how to take care of a computer.
Although resetting is always an option. Hrm. That should've been obvious.
Yeah, you're right. I wonder what I could do to find computers that used to be in the avenue of 1000 bucks, but I worry that a hard reset would also take away the stuff that made them useful and valuable in the first place.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
A "hard reset" here would basically just mean wiping the hard disk and reinstalling Windows, no? Pretty straightforward, if a bit tedious...but if you got a new computer, you'd end up having to install a bunch of stuff anyway.
It's one of those AARs where the ahistory is mostly to justify in-game events, but he simply does it so well. And it's really not that implausible, in that he doesn't have a vastly divergent foreign policy of conquering Canada/Mexico/the world as you see in most AARs (no matter how written). Some of the stuff I liked:
* The American Party actually captures the presidency for two terms. The U.S.-Mexican War analogue happens under the Know-Nothings' administration.
* Instead of expanding the hell out of the U.S., it basically just has OTL U.S., plus 54'-40'; apparently the game does that a lot and has the Brits back down.
* There's a Free City of Austin, leading to two Texan states- north, and south. The Southern one (which contained Austin) is free, the northern one, slave.
* A group of "Young Hegelians" settle in Florida, ending up founding its biggest city and later capital.
* The U.S. is involved in the United States of Central America pre-Civil War, and after. Indeed, during the middle of the intervention, the Civil War occurs, and U.S. expeditionary forces in the USCA are divided in half. How cool is that?
* The U.S. goes to war with Sardinia-Piedmont at one point because of the latter's involvement in Mexico.
* Reconstruction is vastly different (Lincoln wasn't ever president, and the Texases did not secede with the South, for one thing). The Klan are dissolved, and at one point one of the post-Klan supremacist associations fights the Knights of Columbus in Richmond because a black Catholic is killed.
* Currently it's the analogue of the U.S.-Spanish War. The French are involved. But it's not Ameriwank, because Baltimore just got burned down.
* Other than all that, and the very different party politics system, it's pretty much just a few heartbeats away from OTL. Which makes it all the more cool.
* Also, the research is impressive, the elections and maps well-made, the writing is top-notch- what's not to like? And Sardinia.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
How I do it:
Download the driver installers for your hardware to an external drive. (You want to do this first because you'll kick yourself if you end up with no wireless driver later on.)
Pop in the Windows disc and boot from it.
Install Windows. The installer should let you format the hard disk, erasing all the old data.
Boot it up. Install your hardware drivers, then connect to the internet and download the essentials (web browsers, antivirus, etc.)
And...that's about it.
The first step, actually, would be "back up anything you want to keep", but (a) you should be doing that regularly anyway and (b) we're talking about a newly acquired computer, so it's not like you'd have anything yet...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
"Wizards represent all that the true 'Muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!"
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Yeah but like. You can't be an outcast now if nobody knows you exist. You can't be outcast from something if nobody knows you exist. There's nothing to be cast out from.
They built their own "lunar theme park" with blackjack and hookers, and they've been doing okay.
England shipped off their convicts to a continent somewhere, and the descendants of those folks are what we call "Australians." You can't call those people criminals.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Like I'm all for magical people being a subversive, dangerous element in the world they inhabit just because they exist, and I've seen those done well.
But you can't be a misfit when you have a powerful establishment to fit in with.
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the motto
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well that's not something I expected to see.
cool beanz
It's quite gripping if you like American history and can forgive the spelling mistakes.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
maybe it'd be better that way. I never did like to hurt anyone.
maybe I'll feel better when I wake up
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead