#ep053

[dailykasumi]

EP053 The Purr-fect Hero

[desperatepleasures]

kkm filler episodes will really be like "btw the sky is green"

[vorest-ag]

EP053 – Das neue Energieeffizienzgesetz – Überblick

Mit der neugefassten EU-Energieeffizienzrichtlinie (RL (EU) 2023/1791) wurde der erforderliche Beitrag der Energieeffizienz zu dem 2020 von den Mitgliedsstaaten beschlossenen EU-Klimaziel für 2030, eine Verminderung der Treibhausgasemissionen um mindestens 55 Prozent gegenüber 1990, in Gesetzesform gegossen. Die Energieeffizienzziele wurden deutlich angehoben. Damit die notwendigen Maßnahmen frühzeitig eingeleitet werden können, hat die Bundesregierung zeitgleich mit den Diskussionen über die neue Richtlinie einen Entwurf für ein als Umsetzung gedachtes nationales Energieeffizienzgesetz (EnEfG) vorgelegt, das am 17.11.2023 im Bundesgesetzblatt (BGBl I Nr. 309) veröffentlicht wurde. Hier den Podcast hören: https://podcast.vorest-ag.com/energieeffizienzgesetz/

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[musashi]

[unxpctedlybleach]

oh my god

I love that Kenpachi thinks using Yachiru, Ikkaku and Yumichika as mental help, kind of a “what would [name] do/say” and he just replies to them too

that’s. unbelievably cute. what the hell

[ravensslumber]

And so the morebounders are added to the Mighty Nein’s growing menagerie of critters and beasties

[guiltfreeicons]

115 "Motherbeast” Lusamine Icons from Pokemon Sun & Moon EP053.

free to use or edit credit is appreciated but not required provided by jerry mod. screencaps made by: jerry mod.

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[ncfan-1]

ncfan listens to The Magnus Archives: S2 EP053, ‘Crusader’

- This one was A Lot.

No spoilers, please!

- So, this is another of the Gertrude recordings, but Gertrude isn’t actually in most of it, since she’s recording the statement live from the statement giver. Walter Heller is… okay. Not great, but not everybody’s a natural storyteller and I wouldn’t be surprised if the man has PTSD, so I can understand the narrative not being as polished as the other episodes.

(It’s still rather jarring, considering how wonderful all the other voice actors have been.)

- It’s probably kind of horrible to say, but the WWII story part of the segment is pretty much just setting the stage, so I’m not really going to talk about it.

- The story doesn’t really pick up until Heller is on medical leave in Alexandria, stuck with nothing to do while he recovers from the injuries he picked up that took him out of the field. He takes to wandering the city, and accidentally winds up in a strange basement under the Serapeum. And in that basement, he finds a grate over a tunnel, leading down…

- What Heller finds in the tunnel under Alexandria is the most important thing of the statement itself: an Archive connected to the real-life Serapeum of Alexandria, a probable ancient counterpart to the Magnus Archives. Apparently, an archive can find itself a seat of power for a very specific supernatural entity, to the point that it honestly sounds as if the Library of Alexandria (and you’d think that this place would be a center of power for a knowledge-connected entity, if anywhere was) was only tangentially connected to the Archive the way the Magnus Institute’s library is connected to its Archive.

- In the Alexandrian Archive, he finds dozens of chambers filled with shelves full of papyrus scrolls (No telling what the accounts on the scrolls referred to. Possibly, it was information about the supernatural, as is the case with the Magnus Archive?). But that’s not all that’s down there…

- The dead: A long, long-dead Knight Hospitaller who looks like he died screaming, and looks for all the world to have scratched his own eyes out before he died.

- Given that Beholding (I’ve heard that word used often enough in reference to the Archive and observers; it was used by Gerard Keay and Jane Prentiss, in both cases after they became associated with the supernatural) seems to be all about the gathering of information and observation, it probably speaks to the fact that the Alexandrian Archive is/was a seat of its power that Heller could still see everything around him clearly, even after his flashlight died.

- The living(?): An entity, possibly once a man. A denizen of the Alexandrian Archive, possibly a guardian, but definitely of that place, a creature of Beholding. It wore the tattered remains of a robe, had long, spindly (bony?), and under the hood of its robe, Heller could see nothing of its face, for it was dominated by a single, lidless eye.

- And both in the Alexandrian Archive and the Magnus Archive, Heller experienced a horrible sensation of being watched, as a thousand piercing, judgmental eyes were holding him under a microscope.

- Gertrude confirms what I had already inferred from this episode and all the ones building up to it: the Magnus Archive is a locus/seat of power for an entity known as Beholding. It’s unclear as to what an archive has to do to become a locus/seat of power for Beholding, but I suspect it would have to have a strong association with the supernatural.

The Alexandrian Archive appears to have suffered a great fall during the time of Pope Theodosius I* of Alexandria. According to accounts, the Serapeum (under which the Archive was located) was attacked by a mob, but just who this mob was is less clear. Some accounts say they were Christians emboldened by Theodosius’s teachings, whereas another call them “those who sing the night”—likely connected to darkness, and possibly an ancient equivalent of the People’s Church of the Divine Host. It appears that all the Archive’s staff was killed—save one, perhaps—and the Archive laid forgotten until that Knight Hospitaller, and later Walter Heller, found it.

Well, that doesn’t bode well for the Magnus Archive at all. We’ve already seen one entity attack it, and I’ve gotten every impression that the powers present in this universe don’t get on particularly well, so another attack seems likely.

It makes sense that the people connected with darkness would attack the Alexandrian Archive. In many senses, darkness equals ignorance and secrets kept, whereas Beholding seems to want to know everything, especially secrets.

- And Gertrude thinks the Knight Hospitaller was part of the Alexandrian Crusade, which, as per real-life history, was a crusade more or less completely devoid of religious impetus, and was more just an excuse to plunder the city (Though honestly, when I read up about the Crusades, I’d gotten the impression that the religious motivation was for most of the rulers who participated little more than a fig leaf to hide the fact that the Crusades were a massive land grab). But given what we learned here, Gertrude (me, too) wonders if perhaps there were other motivations for this attack on Alexandria. Perhaps Peter I of Cyprus, who led the attack on Alexandria, was connected to another of the powers, maybe darkness, maybe something else.

- Gertrude seems split on whether the creature Heller encountered was a guardian entity, or if it was once an Archivist, as she was. I’m personally inclined to believe the latter, that that is what happens to an Archivist if they’re completely consumed by their work. Prolonged exposure to these entities seems to be profoundly corrupting, both morally and, now, physically. It also dovetails nicely with my theory about where vampires come from in this universe (Something Trevor Herbert speculated on in ‘Vampire Killer.’)

- This puts ‘Schwartzwald’ in a whole new light, now. The tomb von Closen found in the Schwartzwald could possibly have been another Archive, attacked and fallen as the Alexandrian Archive; the tomb had books in it, and there was eye imagery galore in that episode. It’s possible that when the children of the local area played Johann’s Steps, the thing they were being “seen” by was the counterpart to the creature Heller encountered. I don’t think it was the eyeless man von Closen encountered, though. Eyeless doesn’t make sense for something attached to Beholding, and I suspect that the priest and the men who went with him out to the tomb probably killed the creature that lurked in the tomb, and disposed of the body afterwards. I think the eyeless man was a once-a-man-creature connected to whatever entity was responsible for the destruction of the Schwartzwald Archive, instead. Hanging around, waiting to kill anyone who might bring that Archive back into the light of day, out of darkness and ignorance, and back into living knowledge.

- Jon seriously played off Michael’s attack as him accidentally stabbing himself with a bread knife? Holy shit, that is a flimsy lie. So flimsy that you can even hear the air-quotes in Martin’s voice when he says it. Poor Martin; I can imagine pretty clearly what that must actually look like to him.

- The Institute has a canteen?

- A word from Jon: apparently, roughly six months after the statement was given, there was an explosion in Alexandria near Pompey’s Pillar—right where the Alexandrian Archive would have been. Yeah, it definitely seems like Gertrude is running her own schemes off to the side.

* Pope Theodosius I is listed on Wikipedia has having died in CE 567. I think Gertrude may have meant Pope Theophilus, who would have been in power in CE 391, at the time of the Archive’s destruction, and is mentioned as having presided over a time of newfound dominance for early Christians, and a time of great upheaval between Christians and non-Christians. He’s also mentioned as having attacked a secret pagan temple in CE 391, which forced the worshippers to retreat to the Serapeum before Theophilus had that place destroyed as well, so yeah, I think this is the pope Gertrude meant.

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Top 47,858 Games of All Time

Episode 53: Adventure (2600), Hakaioh: King of Crusher, Hexen II

Join HG101 corporate counsel and special guests Derek and Grace from Stop Skeletons From Fighting as they punch sheep, punch desks, and slay duck dragons.

[dailykasumi]

EP053 The Purr-fect Hero

[earpeeler]

Growin Up Rock Podcast – Jacob Cade – Young Rock Rising – EP053

Growin Up Rock Podcast – Jacob Cade – Young Rock Rising – EP053

Jacob Cade represents the young rock rising in music today.

The young 19 year old up and coming singer / guitar player from Denver sits down with Growin’ Up Rock to share his experiences working with famed hard rock producer Michael Wagner, and co-writing songs from his upcoming EP release “Hunger” with Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger from Halestorm, Rachel Bolan from Skid Row, and Paul Taylor from W…

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Ep053 - Commercially Speaking

[musashi]

jessie trans

[unxpctedlybleach]

The three ways to become Captain, explained by Tousen: (because I never remembered there actually were three ways)

Pass the Captain’s Exam, presided over by three other captains, including the Head Captain himself

Receive the recommendation of six or more captains, and be acknowledged by at least three of the remaining seven captains

Defeat the previous captain in a one-on-one battle, which must be witnessed by two hundred or more squad members

[ravensslumber]

Beau and Fjord would survive the horror movie

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(經由 韓劇《我男人的秘密》第053集 The Secret of My Love EP053 Preview)

韓劇《我男人的秘密》第053集 The Secret of My Love EP053 Preview 主演：宋昶儀、姜世貞、金多炫、朴貞雅