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He doesn't just hold out for an entire year, he makes a deal that means his worst concern is shared custody of his body. Most mages can't even do that.

Calivan says, "It was supposed to take a week, at most!" Thedas has five day weeks (we think).

There are three records that we are able to access (one note just says it goes on for pages and pages.) Prisoner 36 succumbed after 9 days. Prisoner 20 succumbed after 18 days.

The longest we have a record of anyone else holding out is 100 days, and after that time they were taken over by a demon of passivity.

He and Spite aren't just working together. He's already learned how to move in order to take advantage of Spite's wings. That takes practice, collaboration, and patience.

He's mentally and physically strong enough to hold a demon back while Spite is furiously trying to stab someone at point blank range.

Unfortunately for Mr Prime Minister Piss, this name change came back to haunt him after he was denied a passport a few years later due to the name. This led to this quite incredible entry into Australia's case law that is still frequently cited today:

Unfortunately for Pisso, the court ruled that the government was right to deny him a passport, on the grounds that the phrase "Prime Minister" might be considered by some to be offensive.

And this quote from Time magazine:

So we looked it up and yes, it was indeed the 'Dane' recording studio owner who attempted to stage a fascist uprising in Melbourne (of all places) in the 90s.

This was the last update we could find on him in the news, sounds like he's doing well for himself:

GetUp Australia issue media statement on the National Press Club stunt:

I still have a blaze left this month and want to have some fun with it. Now that Elden Ring is a household name, let's travel back to 2015 and look at one of Fromsoft's weirder offerings! Bloodborne has earned a bit of a reputation for its bosses, and all of the ones listed below are literally actually in the game... except one. Which is it?

If you're familiar with Bloodborne, please choose the last option and share this to your friends who don't have your insight!

Also, while I've got the Bloodborne fans here, check out the hunter's mark tattoo I got a few years ago!

Thank you everyone for playing, and especially people who put their guesses in the tags!

The correct answer was... the vampire queen who literally cannot die and must be smashed into a pulp instead!

Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods is in the game, but an NPC, not a boss fight! At the end of another character's arc, she is splattered to pieces offscreen, though you can help her reform later.

Below the cut is evidence of all the ACTUAL bosses, in all their insanity.

'fragging' is the colloquialism for troops attacking their superiors in the vietnam war (not just officers, but just as often NCOs or even just peers they disliked). it was called that because it would typically be done with fragmentation grenade, but not usually during a battle or anything. that wasn't exactly very reliable, plus it didn't exactly leave you with an isolated target

rather, it was the use of fragmentation grenades *on base*; your classic fragging consisted of rolling a fragmentation grenade under the door into the latrines at night after your target went in. this was enabled by the fact that firebases (the typical field base used by americans in the vietnam war) would have crates of fragmentation grenades easily accessible, as the response to hearing something rattle against the barbed wire at night was to simply throw a grenade at it and wait until morning to see if you got anything rather than risk being lured out. so it was a very good anonymous tool for assassinations.

the scale and fear of fragging had an enormous cultural effect on the united states. in the military, it contributed to degrading morale and a variety of programs to counter it, including the first-ever anonymous tip phone line for soldiers to complain about officers. the realization that soldiers would simply kill their superiors if pushed seriously degraded effectiveness in a war where the primary tactic was to go out into the bush and deliberately pick fights. its a huge part of why the US military switched to a volunteer model.

when stories of fragging made it home, it was an immense culture shock for midcentury america, and cemented itself into the news and media. through the 70s and 80s, there was a *lot* of US media about the Vietnam War. the stuff in the 70s was largely extremely critical and extremely cynical, largely made by people who opposed the war, but in the reagan era you saw an uptick in war action movies which... while not typically set in the Vietnam War, were largely concerned with refighting and 'winning' it in the narrative, creating big, stupid action movies like the rambo sequels

this sort of dumbass action movies, along with heavy metal and the satanic panic, heavily influence early first person shooter games. Kevin Cloud, one of the artists on the original Doom, used 'frag' as a term to distinguish killing players from killing Doom's monsters. Doom was built as a single player game first, a cooperative game second, and a multiplayer versus game third, so the language of 'you fragged X' was ported from the cooperative game (where it was used to indicate you'd killed a friendly, idiot) into the multiplayer deathmatch.

from there, it made it to Quake and Unreal, the big arena shooters of the late 90s, and remained the term pretty much until all First Person Shooters were subsumed into the increasingly military-propaganda-y Call of Duty games post Modern Warfare. i have no proof of this, but i suspect it was a term that CoD wanted nothing to do with as they became increasingly reliant on connections to the military-industrial complex, so the term was carefully kept out of marketing and slowly killed it among gamers.

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“hey kid, hope your doing well. The sun is still shining in Toussaint so Dandelion bought me a sunhat on his last visit. Yen hates it. We’re testing a new fermentation procedure so I send you a bottle of wine. If it doesn’t taste good you can just throw it at a wyvern. Also the duchess invited us to another banquet :((. Anyway have fun on the path, kiss some women, your mom and I love you bye”

Someone linked me this beautiful poster, and I'm just really impressed.

My contribution: