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June 20, 2024 - A protester takes on the role of mobile eyewash station to deal with police tear gas during a demonstration against proposed tax reforms in Nairobi, Kenya. [video]
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PSA: Sieges Are Awesome
so I just watched ANOTHER TV show where the characters could have simply barricaded themselves inside a VERY cosy and defensible fortress instead of heading outside to get killed/maimed/captured by the baddies
I call this Television Abhors a Siege and it is EVERYWHERE and I hate it
I HATE IT
yes, I know the writers look at each other and say, well, if our characters retreat to their stronghold then how will we fulfill our Swords Go Clang quotient for this episode?
this is only because the writers lack both imagination and education
you see, I've been reading medieval military history in exhaustive detail now for 8 years and SIEGES ARE AWESOME, both tactically and dramatically!
tactically, sieges make sense, because there is no way to thwart an enemy and buy time like HIDING SAFELY BEHIND A STONE WALL. the only time you would not do this is when a) you have a realistic chance of pulling off a surprise attack (the TV characters are never smart enough to do this) AND b) there is no realistic hope of circumstances altering to favour you in the near future (the TV characters never consider this either).
also historically speaking, whenever people looked at each other and said "this siege has no realistic hope of success" they did not march out to throw themselves on the enemy's swords: they negotiated and usually with great success (the TV characters never consider this either). but let's say you're in one of the VAST MAJORITY of situations where a siege DOES make sense and only the most unhinged mental gymnastics would justify leaving your fortifications to fight (see: the majority of TV shows and movies that deal with this scenario)? does this mean that your characters must sit inside their walls twiddling their thumbs?
pfft don't be silly
sieges are totally dramatic!
it's not about LEAVING your fortifications to fight, it's about USING your fortifications to fight.
your baddies could try everything to get in and there might be fighting over a gate, a breach, or a tunnel/mine?
your characters might sally out under cover of night to destroy the enemy or their weapons?
one of your characters might escape the fortress in a desperate journey to find help?
your characters might turn out to have a traitor or saboteur in the group?
there might be injured people who need urgent attention, or supply shortages?
a FRICKING METEOR might fall out of the sky onto the heads of your enemies, sending them running and allowing you the opportunity to regain the initiative? (and if you think this couldn't possibly have happened, something very close to this literally happened at Antioch in 1098 during the First Crusade)
anyway this is just to say that I am begging you all to reconsider the dramatic potential of the noble siege. for one thing, it makes the characters look like total imbeciles if you ignore it. and for another, sieges are AWESOME. eta: I learned all this doing the study for WATCHERS OF OUTREMER, my historical fantasy epic of the medieval crusader states! Book 4, A CONSPIRACY OF PROPHETS, puts my own magical spin on the 1098 siege of Antioch ;)
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Okay, I did promise to show y'all. I know it's not the best but with what I had I think I did alright.
#so I'm lowkey obsessed with how it turned out so I apologise in advanced for the spams of this fit you'll receive.#awkward#call of duty#me#hi#please tell me you like it 🥺#call of duty cosplay#tactical gear#mine#girls in uniform#any suggestions and tips to make it look better are definitely accepted#mask kink#gamers of tumblr#personal
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Re-reading Twice Dead King, the character I was most struck by on a second viewing was Mentep. Now there’s a tragic figure. Simultaneously a mentor, an ally, an antagonist, someone so terribly understandable who I want to smack upside the head for being a lying liar who lies.
Ultimately, Mentep is a penitent. He has committed terrible acts (that we only get scant details of) and he wants to redeem himself. Thanks to his tampering with his own memories, he doesn't fully know what he is repenting for, which puts him in a bind. However, he knows that he played a role in creating the flayer curse/longing sickness, so he goes to a planet where a high concentration of them have gathered and works on his cure. He's respected, he's able to do his work with only occasional interruptions from the local angsty youth. Things are good-ish (until the armada shows up.)
Mentep and Oltyx have a weird relationship. Despite being his normal asshole-teenager self, Oltyx does respect Mentep more than most. Trusts Mentep enough to let the guy perform experimental brain surgery on him. Twice. And Mentep is able to be much more candid with Oltyx in return. He's one of the few consistently calling Oltyx out for his bullshit. On the surface, it is a standard mentor relationship, but what got me on a second reading is that there is hardly a single conversation Mentep has with Oltyx where he isn’t lying to and/or manipulating him.
It starts early with Yenekh. Mentep knows Yenekh has been suffering from the curse, he hasn’t told Oltyx, and when he finally has to tell him, he conveniently does so right before distracting everyone with the “oh btw, we’re all gonna die to a giant human armada” news. This is done with the best of intentions. Mentep wants to protect Yenekh (and Oltyx, in his way), so he delivers the news this way to get the bad news out of the way and then both of them on the same side. But it is the start of a pattern.
Which we get again when Mentep fails to mention a that Antikef is a flayer den ruled by a “We have Illuminor Szeras at home” Vizier, and boy does that end badly for Oltyx (see the last 60% of Ruin). Naturally, Mentep has a good explanation:
But it is another lie, one that costs Oltyx dearly (put a pin in this, I am coming back to it.)
There's some little fibs and ommissions along the way as they go to Carnotite, but it all builds up to The Big Lie. The one that sends Oltyx spiraling and gets Mentep killed. Because you know what really helps with paranoia? Finding out your mentor and your best friend have been hiding a secret blood pit in your basement! Again, it makes sense why Mentep is lying about this! He has every reason to believe Oltyx would have rejected the flayed ones he and Yenekh were sheltering (he in fact does exactly this), and Mentep's entire goal is to cure the curse to atone for his role in its creation. However...
I think Oltyx is correct to call Mentep out here (Oltyx is wrong about most things, but not this). Somewhere a long the way he became a means to an end for Mentep. Mentep was focused on The Curse and not the person in front of him who was cursed. He used Oltyx's friendship with Yenekh, his need to save his kingdom, his trust, his fears, all in service of admirable goals, but he was using Oltyx. Is it any wonder this is where it ended?
The lies were Mentep's undoing from the start. Remember the lie about Antikef? The one that led to all the events of Ruin? Yes, Oltyx and Djoseras did talk and avoid a civil war, but Oltyx also went through hell. He saw his home turned into an abbattoir, his father reduced to barely more than an animal. Oltyx was literally vivisected and almost consumed by his own dysphoria. And then committed regicide after leaving his brother behind to die. Antikef is where Oltyx truly learned that compassion was weakness and saw how horrific the flayer curse could become. So how was he ever going to accept the flayed ones as Mentep wanted him to? Oltyx experienced the comically perfect combination of traumas to ensure that would never happen, thanks in part to Mentep's manipulations.
I cannot stress enough that Mentep's individual lies all made sense at the time. May have even been the best option, at the time. But the consequences piled up, and even as he is dying he still refuses to give Oltyx even a scrap of the truth. That is the core of his tragedy for me. Well, that and this:
He bases all of his manipulations on his understanding of people's psyche's, which are usually accurate, but it also traps them. It gives them no room to grow or surprise him or for outside factors to come in and intervene. Contrast this with Zultanekh, who is upfront to a fault. He gives Oltyx advice and resources, but what Oltyx does with those things is up to him. Even when he is screwing up royally, he's allowed to make those mistakes. Mentep causes ones of Oltyx's darkest hours (the secret blood pit), while Zultanekh lifts him out of another (the Blood Angel's attack). In the end, Zultanekh is the one who sees Oltyx's true growth and witnesses the birth of his kingdom. A birth that comes not from curing the curse but embracing it.
There was never a sickness to be fixed, which means Mentep never would have achieved his redemption because he was focused on the wrong things. Which does make his death and rebirth as Xott a bit of a reflection of Oltyx. He was too burdened in his first life, but in his second he (or at least a version of him) was able to witness the people he hurt reaching a place of peace.
#warhammer 40k#necrons#twice dead king#oltyx#mentep#shit this one got long#I have a lot of thoughts about the sad robots okay#pro tip: maybe constantly lying to the paranoid teenager with anger issues isn't gonna end well for anybody#side note I do wonder if Mentep's habit of manipulation came from his time on Carnotite#That place got scary man#learning how to work people may have become a survival tactic that he just internalized#poor yenekh stuck in the middle#my boy did not deserve that#zultanekh repeatedly proving that he is best
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ghost praised soap for every bottle he grabbed but when he tried to return the favour at the prison it was all, “keep it tactical, sergeant,” man really can’t handle praise
#it kinda hurts#ghost made sure to praise soap for every move he made along with his tips#he never shut him down or made him seem like a burden#but when their situation was reversed he told him to shut up and keep it tactical#when he was doing his job#what was expected of him#he rejected it#like he wasnt worthy of it#only when he actively showed off did he accept soaps praise#when he went beyond just following orders#how long has it been since he was genuinely praised that he rejects it so harshly but hands it out so easily#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#soapghost#ghostsoap#cod mw2#call of duty#cod soap#cod ghost#we’re a team. ghost team
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ok now can you guys see why i was confused to come back to watching WWE after 15 years away and found out that this guy was at the top of the food chain
#he didn't have to do all that#cody rhodes#dashing cody rhodes#what an incredible tactic to generate heat for his heel persona#can't deny that the rhodes brothers know how to convert the public's hatred of femininity into money in their pockets#can't imagine what kind of chants dashing cody rhodes got#this is from a series of grooming tips he did on smackdown in 2010 they're all on youtube
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#princess peach#peach#princess zelda#zelda#legend of zelda#super mario bros#smb#loz#tips and tactics#zelda guide#mario box art#tloz#the legend of zelda
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#marketing#marketing techniques#marketing tips#marketing tools#marketing tactics#daniel hentschel#dan hentschel#life hacks
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please enjoy this dogshit i put together five minutes after waking up from a nap
#he’s so babygirl in the tactical gear#but without it??? ew don’t talk to me#keep your shitty frosted tips away from me and my family#the mask stays on in bed#sorry i couldn’t be fucked to make the background transparent#nolan simply doesn’t deserve that kind of effort :/#fortnite#nolan chance
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2 of my best friends didn’t get this and got me wondering how many other people didn’t get it and just didn’t tell me lol
#lol what#joke#funny#haha#joke of the day#lol#animal#jokes#bad jokes#dad jokes#dumb jokes#ha ha#sheep#wool#velcro#fence#get it?#counting sheep#in your sleep#sheep furry#ha#brought to you by#amazon alexa#sleep#tips and tricks#tactics#tips#old school#tricks#amazon
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my dad is insisting on going up into the attic to fuck around with attaching a board to the roof (stupid plan, not the correct way to fix a slight dip in the roof, should just call roofers) and there's a bunch of loose insulation up there, 50 years old or so, that could have asbestos in it. and he has simply decided that this doesn't matter (in his usual manner of first saying 'no there isn't' without knowing, and then when challenged moving onto the next excuse, then the next, until just breaking down in angry insistence that it's fine just because), and is absolutely insisting on doing it anyway. and I am at a bit of a loss of what do to besides like set up a couple of air purifiers near the attic trap door and hope for the best.
#like my grandma literally died of mesothelioma (cancer caused exclusively by asbestos exposure) a few years ago#but like sure fucking expose me to asbestos it's whatever why would that possibly matter#in his delusional fantasy world if he doesn't want something to be true then it isn't#therefore the insulation isn't asbestos and if it is it's fine because he 'won't stir it up'#and if he does it's fine because we'll all be fine just because and I'm being a crazy hysterical hypochondriac#if he was ten years older I could just tip him onto his back and he'd be stuck like a turtle#but alas he's still slightly too sturdy for such tactics#I am pretty fucking stressed about this in actuality#it's so stupid too because 1) it won't even fix the roof problem#2) he absolutely has more than enough money to hire roofers#3) he is 70 years old and is not in great shape and shouldn't be crawling around in an attic anyway#4) there could be fucking asbestos#me posting
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🎮 The countdown to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is on! Are you ready for epic gameplay on October 25? 🚀
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Saying “hello” in a way that feels like a handshake before a fistfight but we are both trying our best manipulation tactics on each other
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“Trope” x3
For every “Trope” I get, I will post a TV trope for my muse.
Antares // Acid Attack
His usual measure when up against fully mechanical foes that do not need to be retrieved in a fixable state. Usually administered through the stinger using a specific injector tip that wont corrode easy.
Chirptune // Feathered Fiend
Chirptune can be this, if one were to become her enemy. Because she can also communicate with actual birds, she can also call forth small groups of these too.
Yellow Three // Fragile Speedster
Relatively that is. Compared to the other members of the mechanical squadron, Yellow Three is the least durable but also the fastest. He's still harder to damage than the average human though (still made of metal, after all).
#[ out of circuits ]#[ data : yellow three ]#[ data : chirptune ]#[ data : antares ]#(( i actually HAVE thought abt acid attacks in more detail than this tbh#if using acids#to really get that shit into his target he has to manually punch a hole with one of his claw gauntlet things first#because the injector tip would have to be made of pvc (or other similar material used for handling acids in labs)#he cant use a metal tip for acids because then itll corrode the tip and the fumes bro THE FUMES#plus acid metal reactions can be volatile#so its v much a hit and run tactic#i havent thought of what concentration he typically uses tho.#its probs hcl btw maybe sometimes nitric
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