América Latina & Caribe

another Rimworld story

A lost tribe establishes itself in a valley
Their Chiftainess is a woman named Eagle
Eagle has high social and combat skills
Seems to ace everything she sets her mind to
Her sister is also in the tribe, Nano
Nano has very few skills
is poorly motivated, likes to stay in her room,
doesn't get on well with the rest of the tribe
gets an infected mad hare bite on her right leg
loses the fight with the infection, is forced to amputate
semi-conscious on the floor while her sister leads the tribe through a tough first winter
food is low, raiders are raiding, wood is scarce
but Eagle cannot be beat in personal combat
She saves the tribe, saves refugees, and saves a wealthy knight
Knight gifts her high tech armor for helping him
tribe pulls through their first year, Nano gets a peg leg at the start of spring
eventually, she even gets a bedroll

Nano can't move too well, Eagle assigns her a new work schedule
Keep the longhouse clean, refill the lanterns, train the animals
Eagle also promotes her sister to "tribe stylist" in an attempt to improve her mood
Nano grumbles a lot, but doesn't slack off
Food poisoning stops happening as the kitchens are cleaner than ever
Nano trains the tribe's dogs to haul and rescue
She also gets really, really good at Ur. She never liked hoopstone much anyway
Things stabilize for a year, despite constantly-low food stocks
Eagle establishes relations with neighboring clans and builds monuments to please them
No, she doesn't tell others to do it, she does it herself because she is the best and fastest builder by far
Shamblers appear and attack the tribe, only to be instantly smote by her prowess with the bow
Eagle makes her own greatbow, and it is the finest weapon the tribe has ever seen
She then goes on to make four more and equip everyone with them

Monsoon season year two, Eagle and Nano both get malaria
For Nano, this is just one more bad day in a life full of bad days
For Eagle, it's the first time she's ever faced an opponent she can't defeat
Nano rises after her own fever breaks, and goes to her sister's room
The best and most desperate efforts of the tribe's doctor have failed
Eagle is mere hours from death
her mind is gone, only her body remains.
There is only one thing left to do
Gently, Nano takes her sister's armor and weapons off of her
She leaves the room with them, placing them in storage
She is the last one to see Eagle alive

After Eagle is buried, Nano stands by her grave for much longer than the rest
The mood in camp is somber. Everyone is moving slowly.
After the difficulties of last winter, expectations are low for the future
Nano walks to the tribe's ritual spot, beneath a monument her sister built
She calls the rest of the tribe to her
When they arrive, they notice something unexpected
Nano speaks of life and death and loss
It's a eulogy for her sister
But also a declaration
She is wearing her sister's armor
Carrying the tribe's ceremonial jade knife
No-one objects. Perhaps none of them want the job.
Or perhaps they all assume that Nano won't have it for long.

The Camino de Santiago is 800 km. The Long March was 10,000 km. I'm gunna whip this fact out next time someone tells me about how much a slog their traipse through Spain was

Trying to start a war with China while dismantling all soft power is an interesting strategy to say the least

….SY ABLEMAN?

im starting a political group and need to make a website. Whats a reliable service with gui tools for a non-coder like myself?

good news for slop hogs https://cosmicbook.news/karl-urban-returning-dredd-series-amazon-the-boys

A migraine ruined most of my day. I had such plans for games or music and stuff. Could obviously be worse, especially since it was a small one, but even so.

just hitting me that Umineko can quite reasonably be called a dialectic w/rt materialism. kino ryukishi I stand in awe

It just dawned on me than Minthara is tall for a Drow.

Feeling down all over again. Staff being stretched thin again meaning 6 days a week at around 50 or so hours for the next 3-4 weeks, maybe more. Makes me feel worse about how no one really wanted to hang out when I took a few days off a couple weeks ago. Now I'm back to barely having any time to even do things by myself, in particular going to the gym. Shit's depressing.

Finally got both legend styles in Yakuza 0 don't know how worth they are, I'm putting off playing kiwami 2 more than anything. Prob just gonna do all of majima's substories today and amon fight and call it quits for 0, a good stopping point is the amon fights in these games.

I like the Europa War posting on twitter. Much better collectively-spawned bit than Goncharev.

do they put something in the water on SNL sets or what, like stage acting exists its very bizarre that these people break so fucking much. respected actors too!

really getting tired of almost falling asleep and minutes later when I turn in my bed, I start to actually shake and I curl up, my blood starts pulsing fast and my breathing goes faster. it's frustrating since it tends to happen when trying to falling asleep, and then that happens and it fully wakes me back up.

I feel compelled to create a copypasta discussing the varied levels of consent, animal agriculture, and sentience within the Pokemon universe. The discussion pops up way too often not to in this group.

And yeah, Team Plasma is as messy and full of factions as early PETA. Some in Plasma will steal your dog, they will make it fight for them. If I could afford the sequel, I'd see if N finally kicks those weirdos out.

Anyone else watching wrestlemania tonight?

Starting to feel the 6 days in a row that I went to the gym. Although its not as bad as I thought it would be. And now that we're having staffing issues at work again its probably the last time over the next few weeks that I'll be able to workout more than 3 days in a row

thoughts on Tempest Rising so far:

why tf do game devs make the design choice not to base camera panning around WASD? I'm controlling shit with my mouse, I can't pan the screen while selecting and doing shit, SO my choice is to have my left hand in this weird ass position on the arrow keys? what IS that

they really should have just gone whole hog on the command and conquer camp, just ham this shit up, like, they fucked up wasting time and money on CG characters for cut scenes and shit. Why? they should have just hired like, a local community college acting class, given them some ridiculous lines and costumes, and just play it up. People don't reference Tim Curry escaping TO SPACE decades because it was Good Acting, but I promise nobody is gonna be meming on these nerds

anyway I lost during the first mission so I might have more thoughts later

The free epub of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions has some of the worst formatting imaginable

It just be my ereader but goddamn

And this is the backstory of the guantanamo bay prison camp? Wow.

it is april 21 and stalin saved the world from fascism