I think its saying introverts are the ducks that never come out of their shells.

It also forces Russia into a defensive war where they have already committed all their forces for an Offensive war. This will force Russia to either give up parts of Russia, or withdraw troops from Ukraine to retake parts of Russia. And also I’ve seen reports that Ukraine is having to slow progress because of processing surrendering Russian soldiers.

I figure once Russia withdraws troops from Ukraine to reinforce itself, Ukraine will likely pull back and swoop in and take their territory back.

Then we’ll see where this goes, either Putin will withdraw and try to get peace, or he’ll act like a cornered animal, and will get more unpredictable and erratic. There is always the chance that Ukraine will refuse peace talks and just keep marching on Moscow too. Either way, by pushing into Russia they are changing the dynamic of the war drastically and can finally put Russia on the defensive without worrying about losing support from NATO allies.

Its “Walz”, no t, and yeah, Daily Show already made that association yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1geBpDjYb7c within the first minute of the clip.

yeah, I had heard of that, I’m hoping that since it was a while ago and most of them were the ones done by automated systems and not going through it comment by comment editing them, but I’ll keep at it, if I have to sneak one edit through a day or something.

Pretty much, when they removed search engines who wouldn’t pay them was the final straw and I went back to reddit (after not being there since the API debacle) 1 last time and replaced all my 26,000 karma worth of comments with “Comment removed in protest of Reddit blocking search engines.” Took me a while, but meh, if they want to hasten its enshitification, I don’t mind doing my part.

Event Horizon

Looking outside the ST universe, I’d say the perfect “breather” episode for a series would be Doctor Who (2005) S03E10 - Blink. 3 minutes of recording from the primary talent, and the entire rest of the episode is done by extras and every moment of it is engaging and extremely well done.

I’m guessing someone failed to include a font pack for icons with the release, so what we’re seeing is the unicode gibberish that would be styled and replaced with icons from the font pack if it existed, but since it doesn’t its getting rendered with a default font instead. It could also be something else entirely, but that’s my initial assumption.

I won both the daily and the weekly challenge today, I think I’m getting the handle of this variant better.

Daily Quordle 919
7️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
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⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟩🟨🟨
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

Weekly Quordle Challenge 58
8️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
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⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

A Mary Sue can still fail, they just usually succeed. The biggest issues with a Mary Sue aren’t their success, its the believability of their success. Is it reasonable for this person to be so skilled. If they have PHD level knowledge in 15 different fields, that’s a bit much. But they may have PHD level knowledge in 1 or 2 fields, and they may be able to get through like that without coming off as a Mary Sue, look at The Martian by Andy Weir (or the movie with Matt Damon) The premise of sending people with 2 PHDs in complementary fields to reduce the number of people needing to be sent makes logical sense, so him being an expert, and also being the right kind of expert, to survive makes sense. And the fact he isn’t an expert in everything else helped drive the narrative and provided the direction and the plot in a reasonable and believable way.

I think that’s what is important, not making your character flawless, or even introducing some flaws to a flawless character, because that still ends up coming off weird, but instead start with a flawed character and then remove flaws until you have just enough to make everything the character needs to survive believable. Another view of this, Die Hard, John McClaine wasn’t the typical Mary Sue, he wasn’t perfect and the audience feels like he’s constantly in danger and just a mixture of skill and luck gets him through it. A flawed character is more impactful to the reader. I am a flawed person, I relate better to flawed people.