Me? Just livin’ large boy, livin’ so large.

(For legal reasons, this is a joke.)

Attaching a bayonet doesn’t make shots impossible, but it can affect point of impact. The anecdotal answer in Garand shooting communities seems to vary anywhere between a 1 to 8 inch vertical shift at 100 yards, and an opening up of group sizes.

The vertical shift can be compensated for if you know what to expect on a given rifle (I’m going to assume a lot of little variables adding up between different rifles to account for different anecdotal differences), since pretty much everyone reports that a given rifle with a given bayonet is going to have a predictable shift.

The change mechanically is barrel flex and harmonics (which for years I have not will continue not to pretend to understand beyond the pop-sci tier articles I read).

There was almost certainly value in training to shoot with the bayonet attached, since attaching a bayonet was a plausible combat reality. Just because a bayonet might have degraded accuracy to suboptimal levels didn’t turn the Garand into a non-functional firearm.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The blue blood is a great choice.

Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth, R’lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow Sign, L’mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum…

This picture has been posted at least 3 years ago online, so even without an original source, I’m going to lean on the side that it’s not AI. Every wacky piece of art isn’t an AI trick.

The design is very human.

Bloodborne.

I love the aesthetic and the setting, but the gameplay just doesn’t click with me. It’s clearly very well polished and designed, but I have never been good at third person melee games and soulsborne stuff cranks the required precision up too much for me. Instead I’ve just listened to dozens of hours of Bloodborne lore to get the experience.

Don’t be paranoid. It’s okay to let your guard down. Everything will be fine. Just fine.

I look away. Tears in my eyes.

Sir, I’m afraid. I’m afraid that it will…be a while.

Added credit to title.

It will see you later.

Road Warrior was all a retelling by the feral child many years later.

The discontinuity is good, although the major close ties between the movies mean that I hope we never see another movie where the Citadel plays a major role. For as much discontinuity as there was, there was also so much close connection that I don’t want more material to flesh it out, especially if it starts getting out of George Miller’s hands because I don’t trust other writers not to make things more literally and cinematic universe style.

For the folk tale aspect, the ending of Furisoa heavily leans into it with a sort of chose your own adventure ending, and the “true” ending being so absolutely insane that it has to be a folk tale.

I do wish the beginning of Furisoa had played up unreliability of the details regarding the green place, only because what we saw on screen was a bit preposterous if taken totally literally, and would have gone down easier with some vasoline on the storytelling lens.

If you are being ghosted for months, it is time for a new approach.