Earlier in the night I dreamt that I discovered a lost Star Wars spin-off movie from the 1970s about Wedge Antilles and another X wing pilot before the events of A New Hope. Andre the Giant was in it and apparently Wedge wore drag in his civilian outfit. I was so excited to watch it but then foolishly asked myself “this is too good to be true. Is this a dream?” And woke up
Anyway. Buckle in for the main course
TL,DR: a seemingly inane party full of dumb humor gives way to a plot about a coven of vampires vying with a time-travelling organization over the possession of a chicken holding the power of creative expression
small peak into the level of étoiles patience at circa 4 am for him after a full day with no pvp 💔 this is the second time he ran into foolish randomly (transcript + translation beneath the cut)
Roier: What?
Etoiles: No, no, no, sorry.
Foolish: [surprised yelp]
Quackity: [laughs] What the fuck?
Roier: Okay, Quackity, aquí te espero. I’m waiting for you.
Etoiles: Okay, okay. Okay okay.
Foolish: No, I was just kidding, I was just kidding—
Etoiles: Dude it’s two times, it’s two times! I— I don’t give a shit, I chase you dude.
[FR] Etoiles: Oh it’s enough, bro, it’s enough, it’s enough, after a while—
Roier: Are you trying to kill someone?
Etoiles: Yeah, I’m chasing Foolish.
[FR] Etoiles: After a while it’s enough, bro, it’s a fucking PVP event, it’s not in real life, after a while could we play—
Roier: Woah, woah, woah.
Quackity: [laughs]
Roier: I’m understanding everything man, holy shit, what the fuck, I don’t speak French—
Quackity: He said the opposite of j’aime la vie [I love life]. The exact opposite.
Etoiles: Oh he’s going— he’s goiiiiiiiiinnnng—
Quackity: He told Foolish what he was gonna die from but in French.
Etoiles: He’s going in his fucking spawn protec— [extended noise of pain]
100-200 held by various groups. Hamas claims for a 100, the Jihad claims for 30
Gaza
950 dead
5000 injured
190000 displaced (Amnesty)
1500 dead Hamas operatives (according to the IDF this is the body count that was found withing Israeli borders)
notes and unconfirmed numbers
several hundreds of tons of explosive have been dropped on Gaza- there is no official new number, but from my calculation, over 2000 targets were hit. There is nonstop bombing of Gaza.
Israeli authorities have publicly told Gazians to flee to Egypt for their safety. there are reports that Hamas is ordering citizens to stay around places that are known to be marked to be bombed. Egypt shown displeasure with the idea that they will have to take the fleeing Gazians in, and told Israel off for telling the Gazians to flee to Egypt. The Rafah Border Crossing is being opened and closed periodically due to Egypt and Israeli actions.
Gazians are struggling to get people out of the rubble- therefore numbers are probably bigger.
displaced Israelis- there is no official count.
still no official number of captured Hamas operatives.
Israeli counts (including kidnapped) include foreign citizens and Palestinians that are Israeli residence/citizens. unknown at the moment about foreign casualties inside of Gaza. there are foreign citizens in Gaza.
Israel shut both electricity and water to Gaza, Egypt is being talked with in order to arrange humanitarian aid.
Hamas reported that at least 4 prisoners were killed as a result of the bombing- I don’t have confirmation of more.
Hamas issued Monday night a warning that if Israel will not stop attacking they will start killing captives- no new information in the matter.
Lebanon situation is messy. The Jihad and Hezbollah on one side and the IDF on the other are attacking each other with gunfire and missile fire were exchanged. Unknown number of casualties- looking for more.
yesterday Hamas gave out a telegram warning to Ashkelon citizens to get out of the city before 17:00, at that time they started a barrage of rockets. the warning was not covered in Israeli media (at least that I could see).
there are still attempts to enter Israel by Hamas operatives, most are killed immediately.
for those using my count posts to follow the situation, sorry for not doing an evening recap yesterday, the fog of war was thick and I was struggling to verify stuff