They aren't wrong. Toonami couldn't even carry Burn Loot Murder's Molotovs without spilling it on itself. All it would have taken would to have cut in a few seconds of footage of characters from show they either currently air as of that air date, or are historically associated with, that fit the narrative to have had the desired effect. But no, they didn't. This was cheap and lazy virtue-signalling, and even those Toonami sought to pander to aren't having it. Nor should they.
It should be no surprise that the same cohort that's crashing Crunchyroll is behind this state of affairs across North America's sad excuse of an animation industry, be it their own productions or translating foreign ones (i.e. the shitfest that is NA anime dubbing). Yes, we're talking Dangerhair Dykes and their Karen Queens, wielding Soiboi Squads to be their enforcers. It's one of the day jobs that the Antifa/BLM Commissars move into when they're reaching the end of being street-level effective.
It's not a surprise that this incarnation of Toonami has hit the wall already. They rely on the NA anime industry to get broadcasting licenses due to nigh-exclusively airing dubbed shows, and the NA scene has been a shitshow since the entire Vic Mignogna situation kicked off; once the Gamedropping started, it just got worse and now--for damn good reasons--more and more people are shitting on Crunchyroll and Funimation. You can add Toonami to that list, if you haven't already, and add Steve Blum (the VA for TOM) to the long list of NA voice actors you can't trust to not be unprofessional. (Also add Grey DeLisle.)
Here's the truth of the matter: Toonami is irrelevant.
The casuals prefer to use streams, legal or otherwise, if they don't buy physical media. (On that, come back tomorrow.) Toonami is a TV relic, and most anime viewers are also cord-cutters and as such don't give a shit about it. Old-timers like me, who are now grossly underserved, have also walked away from the returned programming block due to it no longer being fit for service. It was already going broke; in this respect, going woke is nothing more than providing narrative cover to save the careers of those in charge for when the block is canceled again- and this time, for good. (Look, when your tribute-successors do better jobs, its time to call it a day and close down.)
And that was before Animelog was announced. Now that we're on a count-down until we can get it free from the source legally, if I ran Toonami I'd be winding operations down and advising everyone to update their resumes.
So no, I don't weep for Toonami anymore than I wept for my grandmother when she died. We're looking at a patient well into advanced dementia, and for all intents and purposes...
"Wait are you saying pretty much all men carry some deep seated trauma from an incident when they showed emotional vulnerability and got severely punished for it?"
And women, by and large, neither care nor want to--and, in fact, are actively disgusted by it--which is why men don't talk about it. Those all-male gatherings were as much to band together to cope better as it was to do anything else, especially anything outdoors like camping trips.
And you wonder why some of us outright wept when playing Final Fantasy XV. We know. Those who've endured trauma on a mass scale tend to be more forgiving, and if you want to know what I mean see this week's post at "Empire Must Fall".
Friend of the Retreat Jon Mollison has a new release out now
THE HUM OF RUBBER TIRES ON HOT AND DANGEROUS ROADS
THE WHITE DOTTED LINE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
A YOUNG BOY'S FIGHT TO CHART A ROUTE TO MANHOOD
Take a ride through a different sort of apocalypse. A world on the verge of forging a better tomorrow, or repeating all the same old mistakes. And the fate of the world to come rests on the shoulders of a young boy as uncertain of his future as the world in which he fights to survive.
If you like Mad Max, this is your huckleberry. Buy it.
And Friend of the Retreat Jon del Arroz has one out also.
A deep conspiracy upends a civilization...
...which could cost the lives of billions.
The war rages on between Earth and Arysha, even after the death of a prominent Aryshan leader.
Sean Barrows is sent into Aryshan space a second time to gain details on their fleet movements and objectives, but he has a greater goal in mind: find the love of his life. But a major threat looms for everyone: a new fleet of Aryshan ships which can go unseen and launch deadly stealth attacks. Can two civilizations survive?
Fans of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Earthrise by Daniel Arenson will love The Stars Asunder!
JDL is a solid writer, and this Space Opera series has proven to delight its audience. If you're into that flavor of science fiction, know his name and follow him.
Last night terrorists flying the Burn Loot Murder flag mustered to do just that yet again in Kenosha, Wisconsin in response to a totally justified police killing of a career criminal.
During the course of the night, a local teenager who was on the scene to protect local property got attacked. He shot the three men who attacked him. Two of them are now dead. A third is wounded. These attackers were either wielding improvised weapons (i.e. a skateboard) or had weapons of their own (the survivor had a pistol), and they aimed to maim, cripple, or kill this local boy. You can see the critical moment below.
Between this and the Roof Americans guarding a local gas station, we can see that what I knew of Kenosha had born out. This is not a big city like Chicago, or even a smaller one like Minneapolis, with all the Big City politics therein. This is a smaller town, sandwiched between Milwaukee and Chicago on Lake Michigan, and acting as a bedroom community for the latter in particular. The sense of community long strangled and warped in big cities remains in these places, so I am not surprised to see locals not having it and spending their nights bearing arms to do what the police either cannot or will not.
And, not being cops, the armed locals are not inclined to play nice. The terrorists fucked around and found out. If BLM's legal arm and political wing think they can muscle in and use the law, they're going to be mistaken also, and that means we've got a social mood shift hitting.
I appreciate that, heretofore, the question of optics had been a sound reason to not go looking for trouble in the big cities where this mayhem's been going down for months since the death-by-overdose (and not by cop) of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It was unwise to leave one's own community to face the terrorists.
This is not that. This is those dwelling in that community coming out of their homes to defend what is theirs against outside aggression. The optics are not the same, however much the cohorts in the media want it to be, and the locals know it- something that is and will continue to be put forth due to a combination of independents on the ground and locals all taking to social media.
And those videos can be--and will be--subpoenaed by the courts when legal action comes. Twitter, et. al., may censor the postings but the uploads will remain and make it into the court records; their own lawyers in-house will say not to fuck with it due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Furthermore, you can bet that Trump's being kept in the loop about this. The Republican National Convention isn't over yet, and Trump can turn this to his advantage he will; Trump isn't a cuck, and he knows how to read a room. If he takes this up, that's the confirmation that the social mood shifted, but nonetheless the mood shifted last night and not in BLM/Antifa's favor. Why? This.
Rioter was just shot in the head tonight in #Kenosha
Rioters helping screamed “call the cops! call the police!”
A lot of us figured the street actors were just that, LARPing as revolutionaries, and now we've got solid confirmation of how unserious--despite being dangerous--they are. This is where we get to the question of violence, and how until now these terrorists had an advantage.
The reason for why they got away with so much is because, for them, violence is theater with desirable side-effects. It's exactly this principle in practice.
The rioting and so forth is intimidation. It is there to demoralize, terrify, and hobble the enemy. It is not there to exterminate the enemy. The violence put forth to stop this last night, while done in immediate self-defense, nonetheless is done to kill the enemy; corpses can't commit crimes. This is why when I say that the Wokies get violence wrong, I get people telling me I'm wrong; they mistake intimidation for extermination, failing to comprehend that terror regimes have to continue to terrorize to maintain effectiveness over time and as such become an ever-increasing cost that ends up bankrupting your regime. Corpse piles need only be heaped once; that enemy is now extinct and you are now free to make of his territory (etc.) as you will without regard for continued maintenance of control over a hostile populace.
This is why Wokies, like the other commies, have a very consistent playbook that involves disarming the populace and weaponizing state and media power against them. It's also why they mistake mass violence--typical street theater--for actual guerilla operations, which can be done solo; the current cohort, both street and office levels, are so used to playing the media game that they cannot conceive of opposition for whom none of that works.
We're going to, and soon, because this is locals defending their own turf and not idealistic out-of-towers trying to be the hero.
Why?
Death Ground.
When the common American sees that there is nowhere to run, no escape, that these terrorists will come to wherever he goes and keep at this shit then whatever reluctance he's got melts. That's what's happening now. First there was the intimidation of the Minneapolis Police union chief at his home in small town Minnesota. Now we have rioting and looting in small town Wisconsin.
Say that with me, "small town".
That's one step removed from "rural family farm" and every last American--even the cosmopolitan bicoastal shitbags who unironically insult those farmers by using "flyover country" as a slur--knows it. That's Death Ground in the American mind.
And that conjures this scenario.
Folks won't say so, but their behavior betrays their knowledge. They know it does.
Once it's smeared into their faces that BLM/Antifa is a clear and present danger to themselves, their families, and their property they will--and have in the past--had given no fucks about slaughtering such predatory threats when the government either cannot or will not do the job of ridding such threats. Last night was a reminder that this is true, and you can expect the media to feel this when they try to play BLM/Antifa as victims, as will the government actors when they try to wield state power. I've already put it out there that anyone on a jury in a case where Antifa/BLM attacked the defendant should flat-out nullify the charges and vote Not Guilty. I will do so if called. KTF.
It ain't over, but the time between just taking it on the chin and fighting back has.
I've seen the God-Emperor work long enough to entertain the possibility that he gamed this out and figured he had a means to make his enemies do an Own Goal like this, so he went for it as part of his bigger Xanatos Gambit. Why not? It's one more way for him to win, yet grants him something he can let go in favor of a more desirable outcome.
I've said that the G-E is magician, and this is more evidence of it. Strong negotiation acumen, if combined with comprehension of Face Culture, makes learning the Magician's Art a lot easier; all of them depend strongly on the principle that Perception trumps (heh) Reality. (Which, when I think about it, corresponds with something else I've noticed, but that's for another post.)
So what happened here? The TLDR is that the G-E has so persistently addled their collective amygdalas that they can't keep things straight, so as Trump sees things shake loose he deflects attention away from what he wants and gets them focused on what is ultimately inconsequential to him. This is one of those things he wants ignored; can't import more enemy actors if the entire immigration system is shut down. If they do get to acting on it, then he's got leverage he can use to negotiate what he wants- and that includes stalling long enough for the shutdown to occur.
Wictor says it daily: Read Your Sun Tzu. That's key to comprehending Trump, and somehow his enemies are absolutely incapable of doing this. That's why he's winning, and we win with him.
P.S.: You can check the progress of the Wall here.
As a companion piece to my Big Think at Empire today, I'll talk about the nice conversation I had with one of my pals on Twitter about Woke power flexing. It started here.
As I keep saying, their problem is less with the content and more that the "wrong people" like it. https://t.co/TfyT6pNhI2
The first big takeaway is by Beige: "This is why I get annoyed at the "get woke, go broke" meme. The enemy neither want nor need our money. The enemy are the ones who make Money Printer Go Brr and direct its output wherever they see fit. The point is to make sure we have nothing we want to buy. If we're seen as enjoying a thing, that thing must be taken over and changed until we find it disgusting. The fact that nobody else wants it means nothing. We've been humiliated and that matters more to them than any money we have."
This is all about humiliation and demoralization of a targeted people.
I'm on record as saying that our enemy running (ruining) our popular culture will try to poz Japan if they can, but if that's not working they'll go to containment. Beige reminded me that in addition to wielding anti-piracy and copyright against dissidents, the financial attacks we've seen against Dick Masterson and Red Ice Creations (as well as Gab) can also be used against others. No, not individuals, but importers and VPNs; "stop importing this or we cut off your access" is not impossible to do. They've already done this to firearms-related businesses.
As for the poz, friend of the Retreat Rawle Nyanzi is on record saying that they can do it. I do not dispute this; I think the question is if it's going fast enough for them to accept staying that course over containment, and I don't think it is or we would not see them start censoring and restricting Japanese media. Yes, so far it's (a) the edgelord stuff and (b) mostly in Australia, but those are test cases where they're hammering out how to get it done across the West prior to rolling it out.
As for how? Two primary vectors: pozzing Japanese university students in Western schools, and inserting pozzed foreigners into Japan. Both involve networking them into positions to either gatekeep or poz Japanese media on the Japanese side, gaslighting our friends in Japan into compliance.
This is why we need to make and maintain cross-Pacific ties. Our Japanese friends do see that we've got this Death Cult here, and they're not happy with it; the reactions to Uzaki-chan (of the series where she's the star) demonstrate this, as well as the good reaction to George Alexopoulous's cartoons showing SJW operations in tabletop RPGs, so it's not without hope.
Bad as things are, let us not forget that these cultists are but men and men can be dealt with.
Which leads to one other Beige Shiba observation:
Yes, "wokeness" is just a Christian heresy that got out of hand because it's able to pretend it's a secular phenomenon and thus work around a lot of pre established mechanisms we have for containing heresies.
The following thread, posted last night, is the most accurate diagnosis of Star Trek as a franchise that I've seen. Reposted with edits for clarity. Original Twitter thread is here.
So, the proper way to view Trek is that Star Trek, more than many other shows, is meant to be a mirror through which Liberalism views itself. It is the Liberal ideal projected out into a future where they have achieved all their ideals and built their perfect society.
So TOS is a Space Adventure story, where a heroic man (and his companions) travel through an unknown and sometimes hostile galaxy, fighting villains and having adventures as they impose the Liberal Ideal on the galaxy at large. This is Heroic Liberalism.
TNG is a story about the Post-Liberal Society, where the Liberal hero is a thinking man, a diplomat and (unwilling) warrior who has to come to terms with living alongside other civilizations.
Other civilizations, which are unwilling to see the wisdom of accepting the Liberal Ideal and dismantling their prior civilizations. They obviously do this from ignorance.
That's the basis of all of TNG's ethical dilemnas, especially those that deal with Klingons/Romulans/Cardassians.
DS9 comes in here too, because DS9 is the story of what that Liberal Utopia does when the other civilizations won't just accept that Liberalism is obviously the best and try to fight against it.
DS9 also the best show because it doesn't shy away from depicting the Federation as just another Empire, like any other, that wants to expand its territory and assimilate its neighbors
This speech is one of the best in the show for this very reason:
So, given these priors and that these shows were wildly celebrated, why is modern Trek (STD, PIC, and Lower Decks) such hot garbage, when they have such excellent source material? Because Modern Liberalism is bankrupt.
With the fall of the Soviet Union and the "End of History", Liberalism achieved all of its stated principles and proved it could outcompete anybody.
Did this herald an age of transcendence and wisdom where men shed the human condition and became Enlightened Beings beyond the ken of their ancestors? Well...
So, this necessarily causes an identity crisis. The result of that identity crisis is not to think about it, and to lose yourself in the unprecedented prosperity of the age to avoid answering the question.
Which is why Discovery is all about people behaving in absurdly modern fashion to their problems, Picard is all about how much they hate Modernity (even though they made it, because they were promised that Liberalism would solve all the problems and still nobody's happy).
And Lower Decks is ultimately a Nihilistic Fantasy about adults behaving like dumb children and laughing at fart/sex jokes because making jokes about anything else is too problematic. The humor is repetitive, though it will probably draw a laugh or two if you watched it.
Cause regardless of what we think and do, we're still trapped in Liberal World. And Liberal World is a Utopian vision that lived long enough to outlast its Utopia.
Enterprise is the early stages of Liberal navel-gazing, post-Victory, and trying to reckon with the reality of the world they see.
Their first thought wasn't "well, we did it, but the world is still fucked, let's just be hedonists", they first had to do "Well, we did it, but the world isn't quite right...did we miss a step?"
SO they look back and, through their own retrospective, they see their victory as an inevitable chain of events which led to an inevitable conclusion, like a Scientific reaction (their only mode of viewing events bigger than themselves)
This is why Enterprise isn't an origin story of the First Starship Enterprise, but a story centered around how Non-Liberal Aliens From the Future want to destroy/thwart the Enterprise because, if they do that, the Federation will never happen.
You quickly see that, if the Enterprise does what it's fated to do (according to Future History), that the Federation will come about as an inevitable result. No free will, no possible alternate path, it has to happen this exact way.
The show even ends with the Finale being a simulation on the TNG Enterprise, where Riker is watching the final journey of Enterprise-A, and ends with him and Troi sitting down to watch Archer's big speech, remarking "This is where the Federation was Born."
(This line of thinking eventually makes you tear down statues or begin doubting the importance of any one figure, because you see history as an inevitable response by the masses of men to large unseen forces that just happen because reasons)
Voyager is, like always, a bit of an odd duck in this context, because the question it asks removes one of the key elements of the other shows. It's less holding up a mirror than it is asking a more focused hypothetical: "What would a bunch of Liberals do away from Liberal Land?"
So you have Liberal Utopia ship Voyager so far away from home that they'll practically never see anything or anyone they knew ever again, surrounded by cultures they've never heard of and threats which they'd never have heard of from the furthest-flung alien visitor...what do?
And, well, judging by the show itself, it's "muddle our way through 7 seasons, let Janeway violate every Liberal precept in the name of survival one episode, then let her chastise anyone who even thinks of doing the same in like, the next fucking episode"
That show also can't manage to produce any good characters, because by the time it came out Liberalism had become bored with the ideas that would give you an Oddyseus-like Hero (The perfect model for a ship captain on a trip far from home)
And that paints the lie of Liberalism: Without the force of the State behind it, it has no real meaning. It gets abandoned when its inconvenient and used to bash someone over the head when it works.
(Now, this can be said of any governing philosophy to some extent, but I mean only that Liberalism is especially divorced from the Natural World and observable reality.)
Like, you wash up someone who's a Monarchist or a Fascist on a deserted island, he most likely has a skill or two that will help him survive, because he learned them at some point in his life cause he realized he's part of nature and wants to see what that's all about.
His worldview doesn't divorce him from Reality, so his curiosity if nothing else makes him learn more about it and what might be required to survive in it. Modern Liberalism is all about creating an artificial world to avoid thinking about Reality, cause Reality suuuuucks.
TLDR: Trek mirrors Liberalism's rise and fall, exposing it as a pernicious cult that only worked because the State backs it and doesn't when the State cannot or does not.
This is how the Death Cult--and make no mistake, Liberalism is a Death Cult--worked and works here and now, today, and it is telling that only the parodies truly capture the spirit that Trek aimed for but rarely achieved (and when it did, it did so by betraying the Cult), while the most poignant Trek stories are the criticism of what it champions. (See the video above for a good example.)
My fellow cultural dissidents who are working to topple this Death Cult from its cultural high ground need to read this analysis and consider it carefully. That is the dream we're sold, and what becomes of it when it reaches hegemony. Because it cannot continue without consuming others, it inevitably turns to consume itself; the rapid descent via decadence and degeneracy into open Satanism is the beast consuming itself to continue as it cannot find new lands to migrate to and corrupt/assimilate/despoil to feed itself.
Nevermind for a moment the way Hollywood works. That's for another post. Consider this in terms of what we can, currently, combat and that's storytelling- narrative.
Make no mistake. Roddenberry was an idealist and he put his ideals into both Trek series he ran, front and center in many cases, and through his work sold generations on the false promises of a secular Liberal hegemony. He put in the work--and it wasn't easy--to get his vision on television and movie screens, and through that work he inspired masses to take those ideals into their lives and implement them. Some went into STEM fields, some into academia, while others just did it on the job and voted that way over time. The seed that lead to SJWs and Corporate Cancer may not have started here, but it sure did stopover here and take on fuel.
The way that we cut this cancer out is to attack its narrative premises. Take a good look again at that video; now imagine crafting a narrative that attacks the premises of Liberalism and building an entertaining story around that narrative. That's exactly what our enemies did to us, since popular literature arose in the West, as they used this very thing to spread their cancer. The culture sets the frame. The frame sets the politics. Narrative Warfare is all about the Frame Game.
And like it or not, the Frame Game is what winning the culture war is about. This is why optics are important; they are about Frame, and Frame is about Narrative.
The people currently running Trek into the ground, those that are not merely incompetent, are driving their false front into the arms of their true master via this very manipulation. When Doomcock cries about how Lower Decks is all about Mocky Spock getting away Mary Sue style with shitting all over the norms not only of Starfleet and the Federation, but of any functional organization of any sort, he's crying about the Narrative pushed that supports the Death Cultists pushing the corporate cancer we see at corporations like Goodyear and the normalization of pedophilia at Netflix as well as not blinking an eye at Antifa infiltration of primary schools across the country.
Attack the frame by attacking the narrative. That's within our power. We--and we alone--must be the ones telling the world our stories about ourselves. We have failed to do so, in large part because we didn't even recognize that this is what happened until now. Now our enemies--who seek our obliteration--tell those stories, so they tell us stories where who and what we are is always wrong even if it defies logic and reason and doesn't hold up to reality. (Again, e.g. Lower Decks) The consequences, if not challenged, will be lemmings lead over the edge to the maw of an ever-hungry Enemy to devour us whole.
We already have some sense of what needs to be done: relentlessly promote and cross-promote allies and friends, drive a hungry audience to what we offer, and satisfy their unfulfilled desires for something other than the Death Cult poison. It's time to ramp things up.
FlyingDog has announced they've released approximately 3,500 songs from anime soundtracks on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music Unlimited, with a few never released before (Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, Megazone 23, The Five Star Stories) pic.twitter.com/IJf4BVdF0F
Arch talks Yuri Bezemov and the new Call of Duty ad for the next Black Ops title: Cold War.
The man and the interview should be seen in full. Here you go.
This interview happened in 1984. Conducted by G. Edward Griffin (the man who'd literally popularize the history of the U.S. Federal Reserve), this interview has turned out to be prophetic; Future Proves Past.
I share Arch's astonishment at this being used. That this video, put out nearly over 35 years ago, has found its way back to the popular consciousness at all--and as part of a marketing campaign for a very bland videogame franchise--is a Big Deal. Someone pulled a fast one, and the only way they're going to keep their job is to point at the tidal wave of sales and go "I did this", and even then that's not a guarantee.
The AAA videogame scene is very much plugged into the same Narrative Warfare network as film, television, news media, music, and pop literature. The same SJW Death Cultists do work there as they do elsewhere. Given the larger context going on, this is not a sign of the Death Cult's power. It's a sign of distress on that cult's part; they're being shown for what they are. They've decided that they have to go all-in on accelerationism now, hoping that they can finish the job before they're taken out.
The Bezemov interview lays plain what the plan has been all along. This is an inter-generational plan by design; only a fresh-faced junior officer will live long enough to see the entire process play out from start to finish, and he was in exactly that position when he defected to the West. Someone made the call to put that info before an audience that cannot fail to notice it; that's no accident- this is entirely intentional.
Folks, I put to you that control of the narrative has decisively shifted out of the Death Cult's hands and this is a big signal--a big flex--of that narrative control. "We can expose your secrets now, and there is nothing you can do to stop us."
Can you imagine saying this about a published ttrpg writer who wrote an adventure for @RTalsorianGames' The Witcher ttrpg and who is currently writing an adventure for @redscargaming's official Hellboy ttrpg? lmao biiiiiiiig incel vibes#ttrpg#dndpic.twitter.com/V39a3r82ky
— the dislocating GM🦓 combat wheelchair creator (@mustangsart) August 20, 2020
Ok Im gonna say it. You're grifting a protection racket here.
If WOTC doesn't give you money, you pull a hit job on them right?
Yes, it is a protection racket. Yes, this will follow non-compliance. Given how small the tabletop RPG world is, even some nobody like this--if he's in with ResetEra, RPGNet, etc. or noticed by someone who is--can pull a successful racket of this sort. It's the same scam Sarkesian runs on videogames, using feminism instead of ableism, just on a smaller scope and scale.
"Hire me or I will use the power of the media to defame you and interfere with your business", stated or implied, is the threat. It doesn't have to get on TV or the radio, or be printed in a magazine. It need only get to where the hit will do damage, and today that's social media sites as well as hobby forums (e.g. RPG Net), especially for a small scene like tabletop gaming.
And it counts if it gives cover to another's move to do the same; the end matters.
And therefore this is a crime, but it's the follow-through on the threat that makes it so. Nonetheless, I'd archivethis and wait. If the hit materializes, drop a dime to the Feds (as this inevitably involves crossing state lines or other boundaries that allow the Feds to get involved); they like easy collars as much as any other law-enforcement agency. Include the archive links. While they laugh at the racket being pointed out today, they won't be laughing when they get arrested for it down the road. Federal prison is not a nice place for people like them.
Something like this is commonly taught in the parishes of Galactic Christendom regarding the Cataclysm.
The Tower of Babel was not the only attempt to bring all Mankind under the rule of one whom would rule them all, and holding them in thrall attempt to challenge God. However, every attempt that threatened to succeed would be confounded and the hubris punished, some more than others. The most severe to date was the attempt that ended the Old World and brought down the Cataclysm.
Those who long ago betrayed their Father in Heaven and threw in with the Architect of the Tower persisted. Over generations they would lie and scheme their way through all the nations of Man and seize control of every kingdom. In each corner of the world, they seized control over sites of power. In those sites blasphemous rites would continue, and as the power of Man ascended with his mastery of the arts and sciences, so did the potency of this network of blackhearts.
They would create influence networks from the vain, the ambitious, the greedy, and those given over to lusts unnatural. They would arrange for these vices to be slaked in return for these petty pawns renouncing God and writing their names in the black books kept by the servants of the Enemy. The cultists would use, abuse, and discard these pawns time and again over the generations and the complexity of these influence networks soon attained a critical mass as a result.
The cultists selected twelve of the greatest cities in the world. They used their network of pawns to arrange for weapons of great power to be concealed therein. They used the mastery of time to coordinate the detonation of those weapons at a time of great sorcerous import, conducting a mass human sacrifice of billions with the aim of bringing their great master back into this world whole and restored.
But God will not be mocked. He saw this coming. He turned their evil against them, and against those others so corrupt that they would not turn away from their evil.
The ritual scoured them from the face of the earth, as it scoured all that was unclean in His sight, a deluge of fire to match that of water.
And of those who were not burned, they faced their own dead returned to claim them as now they were the minions of Legion. It was a time of scouring, but not without mercy. Those that learned humility would be saved, while those that persisted in their pride would be consumed, and all the evils that the Enemy's thralls concealed was revealed, and now revealed could be destroyed- and in time, one by one, they were.
This is the myth told of the Cataclysm, leading up to the emergence of Ken (and his Sons) as well as the return of the Church from the City of God under Pope Simon I, the Miner's Son, albeit abridged- consider it the Sunday School Summary.
Is this myth literally true? Yes. A global network of Satanists created a front network of Globalists. They arranged for nukes to go off in the top twelve most populated cities in the world, timed a human sacrifice ritual to coincide with their synchronized detonation, and it all went wrong due to divine intervention. A powerful demon broke through instead of Satan and started the zombie apocalypse, and those who endured long enough to put him down were those humble enough to accept help from a zombie-eating mutant freak (Ken) and the Catholic Church (Simon).
There were others calling themselves saviors, and all of them turned out to be evil Dark Lords: sorcerers, Nephilim, etc. They would be fought after Legion went down, and they would be fought again and again as the Church lead a faithful and resurgent remnant in one Crusade after the next- first to reclaim Earth, and then pushing outward from there. About a thousand years later, Mankind dominates the galaxy. Deus Vult.
You will NOT hear this addressed in most media outlets, mainstream OR alternative.
Hey this was filed in Feb. of 2019. That was an entire year and 7 months ago. pic.twitter.com/5W77qeTtdQ
— Who's Gonna Be Lucky Indicted #2? - Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) August 17, 2020
If you want to know what this is, it's a patent for a blockchain-based Voter ID system. It's been in Provisional status until recently, and granted Full status now.
Read the thread. Big deal going down and the God-Emperor once more proves that he's well ahead of the game. This is the tech that defeat permanently Dem election theft, and if Trump is involved--and he is--then you can guess that this will be ready to roll out soon if not immediately upon announcement (i.e. for this election cycle) and Trump can order its immediate deployment by Executive Order.
Yes, he can do that. The Dems will claim otherwise, but it's a plenary power of the Executive so they get to pound sand. If he does go via EO, he will time it such that they won't be able to stop him.
Which is why, by the way, the current media flack over the Post Office is just a misdirection. This is the real shit going down.
And once it's in place here in the United States, guess what Trump will be willing to share world-wide? You're looking at it. No more election theft ANYWHERE that this system is implemented. Watch the Eurofags squeal like stuck pigs as the realization dawns on them, as they're first on the block to get chopped. (Martin, Mark: tell your allies to rally around this.)
And if you want a good reason to explain why this tech is necessary, and got developed in secret, Millie Weaver's documentary explains what the enemy's been up to and how it all works. She got targeted for a reason.
The reason is the same: because it hurts Biden's chances to win.
Share this with your Boomers. Meme the hell out of it. This may be 101 to you, but it's new to them and seeing folks that they accept as credible confess that their job is to bullshit and bamboozle them--the populace--into believing what they want believed as true.
This is seriously sloppy work on the enemy's part. This is no show of dominance. This is desperation. They are LOSING, and what we're seeing here are the tells that the stress is seriously screwing them over- the violence and the coverup of same is their attempt to offload that stress back on to us.
A storm blew through and knocked me offline late Friday night. So I missed all that went down yesterday. Hooboy. First, some video links.
Well, and then there's this.
And it's already resulted in Kissanime being shut down. Grab your stuff and DL it while you can folks, because regardless of how this shakes out it's going to be a mess and you'll be better off just having your favorite stuff on a local drive. If you have the option of getting physical copies, do so. (Also, reconsider learning Japanese and just getting it raw from the source.)
I'll get back to this as it begins to shake out.
Also, we're one step closer to these faggots getting shot.
Protesters gather outside home of Minneapolis Police Federation President Bob Kroll https://t.co/2iPWZAMS6O
Hugo isn't a suburb. Hugo is a small town. Minnesotans who had heretofore dismissed these terrorists as a city problem just got a wakeup call, and it wasn't a nice one.
If Governor Walz things this won't help his enemies win (re-)election this year and in 2022 (when his term comes up), he's fucking retarded.
And while the locals on that street may have been too bewildered to reduce those terrorists to corpse piles, that's no longer guaranteed elsewhere. Count the days. Sooner or later, they get SHOT.
And those fuckwits are going to find out the hard way that .243 Remington is a lot more lethal than 5.56mm.
During the time/date stamp of this post, I actually had no electrical power and was knocked offline.
The night before, a massive thunderstorm that spawned tornadoes blew through my neighborhood. Everyone got hit with power loss. Aside from cleaning up the branches shorn off the trees--anyone need firewood?--there wasn't much to do that I could do. I need power to write, to communicate, and do anything else of consequence other than read and manage my body mechanics--medicine, food, sleep, etc.--and so was very bored.
Being alone with one's thoughts is not necessarily a good thing, but it kept me entertained. I drempt up the story of a warrior governor who would go on to turn his story into an anime series, married the lead actress/singer cast, and do 80s action one-liners that also doubled as weeb-tastic anime references.
God help me, I may write that one and sell it as an action-comedy that blends the absurdities of Metal Wolf Chaos and Metal Gear Rising: Revengence.
Yesterday, around 3:30pm, our family dog went to sleep for the last time. My mother, sister, and I were there at the end as he first went to sleep and then breathed his last. Doby was a good dog. He had a great run, far longer than we expected, and he will be missed. It is my hope that he now keeps my father company, and doesn't bother the other veterans buried at Fort Snelling.
Late last night the campaign closed. The final total is $1355. That falls short of the Stretch Goal, but remains a success nonetheless. I will mail digital copies of Reavers later today. I will post a post-mortem in the near future here at the blog.
I am grateful to all of you for your support. Those of who who opted for an Illustration or Build-a-Mech will be contacted in new few weeks.
Just over 15 hours (as of this post) remains in the campaign. These are the Premium Perk remaining:
Character Illustration: Five slots remain
Build-a-Mech: Two slots remain
Build-a-Starship: Five slots remain
Design the Back Cover
Be In A Book: Three slots remain
Die in A Book: Two slots remain
And you can still throw in for digital or physical copies as well, all of which you can find here.
We're $280 shy of our Stretch Goal to upgrade all the physical copy backers with free catchup copies of Reavers, so if you've been holding out this is going to be your last chance. Once it's over, that's it.
As I post this, Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate.
Stick a fork in this election. It's done. The Trumpslide is now inevitable. Creepy Joe picked Heels Up Harris The Super (Slut-)Cop. This confirms that Harris' career has hit its end; she's never getting any further than this, because Biden's not going to win due to the God-Emperor already shutting down every avenue the Dems would use to cheat their way to a win.
Trumpslide 2020, folks. It's going to be epic. Just remember to vote.
Arch delivers the new on the next Vampire videogame.
In case you forgot or missed it, this is the sequel to Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and is based on the tabletop RPG of the same name. Paradox Interactive, the company behind this game, also owns the TRPG, and being SJWs they're putting in all the Death Cult cant that Current Year demands regardless of audience expectation (or tolerance), and on cue said audience told them to fuck off with that bullshit.
Being a wholly converged company, it cannot competently execute its purported excuse for being anymore. This means that the announcement of delaying release until 2021 can be reasonably taken as recognition that they fucked up, they're using Corona-chan as a face-saving excuse, and they hope to have a more favorable release next year when this (in theory) all blows over.
Hah, no.
2020 is not an aberrant year. 2020 is a paradigm-shifting year. Most of the world will admit this once the second Trumpslide hits this November, by which time it will be far too late to change its cascading effects going forward. The raging insanity of SJWs over the first term of the God-Emperor's reign will only increase, making it even harder for SJWs like Paradox to keep their shit together long enough to put out a half-assed playable demo and charge you $60 or more for it. The poz in the game's narrative and mechanics will only get worse, as will the tone-deaf skreetching at you to "pay up, piggie, or you're wacist" or something that passes for a marketing campaign.
Don't expect this to be worth the time if it's ever released. The tabletop game certainly isn't.
That's why I say this might as well be cancellation. There is no way a studio run by and dominated by mentally ill Death Cultists can not go full-tilt Bozo after November, despite being over in northern Europe, and thus make it too difficult to meet their new delayed deadline. They might as well pack it in now and check into the loony bin before all the beds are taken.
Because if they persist, we're going to--at best--get some stuff that makes the original Anne Rice fanfic that was VTM's 1st edition look like timeless literature. We're talking Fake Trek, Mouse Wars, etc. levels of suck and blow- we're talking 2016 Fembusters levels of bad. They've already fired the original fanbase, so this looks like a shitshow all right.
Read the replies. The tut-tutting and failed shame attacks really do reveal who the heretics are. Note the language of the troll. It focuses on what is good, beautiful, and true. The Death Cult can't have that, like sunlight and holiness to a vampire, and recoils instinctively hissing all the while. They can't touch the argument, so they try to get the wielder instead. He laughs every shot at him off, and needles them harder in response. It's brilliant.
Take notes, friends. This is how you get folks to out themselves as witches and make them willfully immolate their moral authority and credibility before others, a necessary precondition to winning a Narrative Warfare campaign against them, since they rely on stolen moral authority to take and hold power.
More mask slipping. This time it's teachers and what schooling is actually about.
Since the original tweets are now hidden, here are the tweets he’s referencing. Scary stuff if teachers are worrying other adults might hear what they are “teaching.” https://t.co/Tg3ZsMZVdJpic.twitter.com/ttEU9oKQ01
This is why the Death Cult doesn't care about their anti-natalism. They know they have the means to steal your kids and poz them into their replacements instead of yours. Don't believe me? Go look at the useful idiots rioting under the Antifa flag. Their narratives routinely include Cultist stories of being "saved" from "racist bigot" families and using their lives to decolonize/queer the "whiteness" they came from.
It's also one of the big reasons driving their impetus to conquer and destroy. They fully expect to seize the people they conquer and coerce them into compliance, psychologically breaking them and them remaking them into zealots for the Death Cult. (This is what university, in particular, is meant to do now. It's why those fresh-faced graduating seniors from high school turn into self-hating undergraduates in record time of arriving at university.)
And that rapid radicalization ain't coming out of nowhere. They want your kids NOW, as early as pre-school, and because you buy into the status aspiration that dual-income li ving is meant to (but doesn't) provide, you let them. Tell the wife to stay home and do her job. Learn to live like your (great-)grandparents, let her school the kids until they're old enough for a proper apprenticeship, then learn on the job from there.
Once you've made that step, you'll be ready for further moves away from what the Death Cult wants and back to what Civilization requires.
Campaign Update: Final stretch, folks. About 65 hours to go before closing. Get that Stretch Goal. Build-a-Mech slots remain, Character Illustration slots, remain, Build-a-Starship, Be/Die in a Book, and Back Cover too. Hit up the page here and get in while you can.
The Supreme Dark Lord noticed something in the Establishment today. Specifically, this:
The Covid-19 pandemic has only helped the movement expand: Hundreds of thousands of people with nothing else to do have been exposed to the fringe fulminations. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a London think tank, says that from March through June, QAnon-related posts surged on Facebook and Twitter. While its believers were far from the only ones trying to discredit the use of masks or cast doubt on vaccines, they were among the largest groups.
Twitter took action on July 21, announcing measures targeting “so-called ‘QAnon’ activity” across its platform. “We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm,” the company tweeted as it detailed the crackdown. Twitter is suspending accounts for breaking existing rules and will no longer highlight as “trending” or recommend content and accounts associated with QAnon. It will also try to stop the movement from being played up in search. Users will no longer be able to share URLs associated with it.
Twitter’s plan has parallels with an earlier crackdown by Reddit in 2018 after its forums became QAnon hotbeds. The most prominent subreddits associated with the movement came down, and new ones even hinting they had something to do with it could not be created. Reddit’s move is considered to be among the more significant blows against QAnon.
But the tactics so effective on Reddit in 2018 may not work for Twitter. The QAnon movement is now a very different beast from the one that used to populate now-deleted subreddits such as r/TheGreatAwakening.
To which the SDL said: "It's really rather remarkable that the most reliably dishonest group of people in the West have the nerve to try to silence millions of people on the purported basis of passing on misinformation. But then, they seem to regard hubris as a virtue. If they were actually members of Western civilization, or even understood anything at all about Western philosophy, they would know that Nemesis always makes an appearance, sooner or later."
It's simpler than that. It's literally this.
They are saying as a display of power that they--and they alone--get to decide what is true and what is not. Conveniently, those they deem false are not part of their group, their tribe. (Literally, in many cases.) It's literally nothing more than signalling who is a Friend and who is an Enemy, and Enemies are Free and Fair Game prey upon as you or your Friends see fit.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it. A lot of other things about Narrative Warfare fall into place because now a bridge between Normieville and Wooland is established that gets the point across. In short, this is a flex first and foremost, and a means of discerning whom and how to punish second. This isn't about maintaining MSM credibity; this is about signalling in-group identification first, discerning out-group threats second, and intimidating outsiders third. The credibility claim is cover, nothing more.
One of the anime influences on Star Knight is The Five Star Stories, which cannot be had in North America. So you're forced to resort to online sources to either watch the OVA (which only covers the very start of the story) or read the manga (which is a right-proper epic). Don't expect anything but a very expensive premium release to ever come out either; this isn't a popular property, in large part because it's not a shounen or shoujo property. This is a seinan property, and properties aimed primarily at adults (of either sex) don't have nearly the commercial appeal of those aimed at youths in late childhood or early adolescence even if they are often evergreen in their relevance.
It shouldn't be hard to see the influences. While the music is not a big deal here--this ain't Macross--the classical and mythological influence is very strong, albeit understated, and even the trappings of a non-monarchical government is just that: trappings. The real governance structure is monarchy, with all that goes along with it, and at most there are some republican (but not democratic) alternatives, and warfare centers around the use of giant robots and the warrior class that use them. Male-female relations are of primal importance, both in peace and in war, and as such those bonds must be respected and nurtured- and defiling or neglecting them leads to tragedy every single time.
The author has a psuedo-prequel (Gothicmade) with the same features, which I will check out at my convenience.
If I could get the OVA on disc w/ subtitles, or the entire manga in print in English, I'd be a happy man. Great Romantic storytelling going on here, and Galactic Christendom is very much a Romantic tradition example. I'm glad that you folks have picked up on that and also like it. Less than a week remains on the campaign for "Hounds of Nimrod", and just a few hundred more means we hit that Stretch Goal. Come to think of it, I should see if I can get an original music video made down the road. Who wouldn't want this sort of thing made for their media creations?
Friend of the Retreat Rawle Nyanzi addresses the prevalence of outrage-focused stuff online at his blog.
The internet is a tough place to get attention, and many people have tried a variety of approaches. However, in all my years of watching YouTube and reading blog content, I’ve noticed that three types of content get consistent engagement: outrage content, expert content, and brand-focused content.
In short, there is a great deal to be made from complaining about the problem and sweet fuck-all from solving it until you're ready to roll out an alternative. The former is outrage-based content, and Rawle notes that this is so dominant because it's easy and therefore speedy. You get that dopamine hit and maybe slip in an ad for something as a way of amygdala assuaging. The expert content takes a lot more time and work to make, but is evergreen; expert videos tend to reliably get hits many years after the fact, and if those are monetized that means consistent ad revenue.
Where they meet is at the brand.
If you want to know why the focus is on Big Brand, it's because Big Brands often play off the same psychology that enables Technical Monopolies. These effects stack. Spacedock is a good example: focused ONLY on Big Brands and ONLY on Big Media (only film/TV with a side of videogames), with a dominance on Expert content with a side of outrage. Eckhart's Ladder is another example, with an even tighter brand focus with a slightly loser media focus.
This is why FanTube spends so much time complaining about what they cannot solve. It gets them--and especially their audience--that dopamine high, makes them feel like they did something useful (and sometimes, like when Doomcock does a rumor video, it is) and relieves the mental pressure enough to function in their daily lives. Meanwhile, people making actual solutions have to fight for attention because they are not Big Brands, so they're only successful in breaking through if they have sufficient seeming to one to activate that same psychology; you have to roll out meeting that expectation, one way or another, and in practice that means languishing for a while--a long while--before that happens. (There's your explanation for "15 years to an overnight success".)
Now things start to fall into place. This is why Con Inc. is where and what it is; even if there were no active collusion with the Death Cult, there would still be tacit collusion merely due to this psychology playing out, and the result is the same. We even see this with alt-media that we otherwise respect, one way or another, because they too have to play this game to get and retain an audience large enough to derive some or all of one's income.
And that makes it harder for folks offering alternatives to break through. The underground is real.
Which means that reassessing what it's going to take to fork and replacing the pozzed Big Brands is in order. For now, Brian Niemeier's right on neo-patronage via crowdfunding being the way for a lot of us to go until we've got enough to make the next step as folks like Jon del Arroz have. That's why I've done it, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Campaign Update:We're at 111% of goal, so just 39% to the Stretch Goal of upgrading all paperback backers to automatically include a paperback copy of Reavers. A third Build-a-Mech Perk got claimed, so only two slots remain. Build-a-Starship, Character Illustrations, Be/Die In A Book, and the Back Cover remain available. If you're wanting to put a mech design into the canon and soon, better get on that as just a week remains now. The link to the campaign is here.
The folks at #20Booksto50K put a new video up on their channel today, a four-way conversion on Indie Publishing.
This is a lot of shop talk, and the folks involved are true publishing companies instead of indie actors, but nonetheless this is a good use of your time. It's not just a simple dichotomy of OldPub and NewPub. There's a lot of smaller publishers that work in that space between those two ends, and while I doubt they're going to fare much better than OldPub in the long term so long as Amazon maintains its position, for those unwilling or unable to do the one-man-band game there is an option. You just need to put in the effort to find these publishers, get to know them, and see which ones--if any--work for you.
Notice the lack of soybois and cat ladies. You'll get a fair shake here. Not so with OldPub.
Campaign Update: We're at 101%. Stretch Goal is at 150% ($1500). One week to go. Get that Stretch Goal--get that paperback catchup upgrade--or do Build-a-Mech, Build-a-Starship, Character Illustration, Design the Back Cover, and more here.
Warhammer's own David Attenbourough has good news.
Arch is to be commended here. Regardless of long-term effectiveness, he has single-handed lead a counter-attack that bloodied the SJWs' nose yet again. He's already been a boogeyman for the cohort in the Warhammer fandom for a while, so seeing him lead an email campaign that gets Games Workshop to walk back--even a little bit--their push is a win that will catapult him to Supervillain status and let him live in their heads rent-free for years.
And yes, Arch gets all the usual smearing and so on. ("Far right", LOL. He's as right-leaning as Sargon.) Like I said, he lives rent-free.
Let's been realistic here. The SJWs in Warhammer aren't going to go away quietly. We all know the Three Laws of SJWs by now, so we can expect them to double-down. We should plan for that, and plan to exploit that now-known psychological rigidity. Arch isn't saying "Go home" to his supporters. He's saying "Let them fuck themselves over" because that's what's going to happen, so it's time let the SJWs piss off the normies and fuck up their own optics. Then we can resume with the optics advantage and move from there to seize the moral high ground.
Arch may not say so in such blunt terms, but he's smart enough and savvy enough to grok that this is the situation. He has the position and credibility to pivot to a hardcore Scorched Earth campaign if it goes that badly, but--as it often the case with Pop Cult related issues--he's reluctant to close the wallet due to nostalgia and brand loyalty. (And yes, GW goes hard on Muh Officialdom to establish and reinforce the Cult of GW; it's why you rarely hear 40K channels talk about using so much as Age of Sigmar figures in 40K, nevermind not-GW minis- it's that hard a prohibition.)
Is it enough to get what he wants? No. But he isn't such a pushover. Once it's clear he needs to do this again, and harder, he'll not be hard to convince to do so. Like all the other gamers, and those that just want to grill, etc., he too will walk the path that many have before him as the Death Cult pushes him down it. We all know how this ends, but it starts with just showing up to say "No." That's what he did here, and that's why he got this win.
Proferred excuses remain proferred, but they're bullshit nontheless. It's clear as a cloudless sky at noon what the real deal is. They mean to fake this pandemic until after the several states conduct their choosing of Electors to the Electoral College on November 3rd, hoping (vainly) that this will destroy the God-Emperor. That they don't comprehend so much as how American civics works says a lot about why anything they run is dysfunctional even when they don't mean it to be.
(Note: "Election Day" is not one election, but 50 simultaneous ones--one for each state--and what is chosen is a slate of Electors and not the President directly. As each state is allowed to determine how their Electors must vote in the Electoral College, this is not a trivial matter. The Electoral College meets in December and actually elects the President at that time; this is why what matters is Electoral College votes and not the popular vote. Terms of Office for the President start and end the January following the Electoral College's election of President. Most Americans are not taught this in school.)
Not that reality is a strong point for them. Their attempt at wargaming the election is laughable at best. If they took their delusions, turned them into novels and marketed them as satire they could make big money and just go retire someplace friendly to them. But no, and I'm sure why they're so freaked out has to do with the Epstein revelations; they're all that down in the dirt, and all that awaits them is a noose.
The true shame of it is that they're taking what is a legitimate health concern--Wu Flu is still a flu, folks; don't let a lack of mass death blind you to economic and social disruption--and incompetently weaponizing it out of pants-shitting terror of permanently losing control over the Republic, followed by all their Satanic child rape and torture being exposed.
Once you see the Narrative tells, you can't unsee them. This is absolute terror. They are terrified of Trump. So are his enemies abroad. Nevermind the naysayers and blackpillers; they are to be ignored as ankle-biting bullshitters and bedwetters, fit only for the heel of your shoe. Vote for the God-Emperor if you're American, or support his allies wherever you may be, and we'll get out from under this death cult together.
Reminder: We're in Stretch Goal territory now. $1500 means Paperback Catchup is GO. Build-a-Mech and now Build-a-Starship are available as Perks. More here.
Late last night, we hit our goal. We are now into Stretch Goal territory, and a new Perk is unlocked.
Stretch Goal: At $1500, I will upgrade all paperback backers to include a paperback copy of Reavers automatically. Yes, this includes Signed Copy backers.
New Perk: Build-a-Starship, limited to five slots, is for those who folks prefer starships over mecha and take their inspiration from anime like Space Battleship Yamato, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, or Captain Harlock, as well as Western examples such as Battlestar Galactica, Blake's 7, and Star Wars. Otherwise just like Build-a-Mech, meaning collaborative design for a new item that enters Star Knight canon.
Hidden Perk Announcement: If we hit the first Stretch Goal, I'll unveil a new Hidden Perk that is also for you design-hounds. Not a machine or tool this time, but something else that a place like Galactic Christendom should have plenty of, and I've been vague about so far.
In addition, I mentioned months ago that once I had enough art I'd be open to establishing a merchandise storefront. Every time one of you chooses a Build-a-Mech, Build-a-Starship, Character Illustration, or other art-specific Perk that gets me closer to a critical threshold I'd need to launch that, and it's very close now. Consider reaching that point a soft Stretch Goal. As this is now a sure thing to happen, tell everyone that's wary of this happening that they're good to get on board now that the goal's been hit.
I'm appearing on Geek Gab today to talk about "Hounds of Nimrod", Star Knight generally, and whatever Daddy Warpig rants about. See you all in the chat, and you can back the campaign here.
UPDATE! We are funded! The last $300 came from a well-heeled backer flat-out donating to the project. That means it's Stretch Goal time. At $1500, every backer that chose a paperback copy AUTOMATICALLY gets a paperback copy of "Reavers" included.
New Perk: Build-a-Starship. Just like Build-a-Mech, and also limited to five slots, but aimed more at the lovers of Yamato, Galactica, Harlock, and the other great starships of Space Opera. ArtAnon must be thrilled that this is now on the table.
