Notices by Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)
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Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 00:15:41 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @sickburnbro I wonder if anyone has explained to Nick the existence of a certain group known as 'the Taliban', their methodology, and what they did to collaborators once they inevitably won -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 00:14:13 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @KarlDahl @sickburnbro Amazing that post WuFlu people are still even doubting that bioengineered weapons get loose -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 03:35:06 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @sickburnbro @KarlDahl Davos crowd is signaling that fat orange man needs to be reinstalled. This is a signal to the less perceptive that they can have a seat at the table or they can be on the table. -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 01:43:44 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @TornadoOfTerror Owari da -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:20:30 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @Jean_Philippe_Micheaux @ChairmanO15 @DW2 -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:10:19 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @ChairmanO15 @DW2 No, it was never good. It's pulp trash based on an unfinished nihilistic, 'grimdark' pseudo-fantasy series written by an obese neckbeard (George RR Martin) who deliberately styled himself as the anti-Tolkien and basically wrote 'The War of the Roses, with dragons and zombies'
All heroic characters die demeaning deaths because LOL FUCK YOUR EXPECTATIONS I AM SO CLEVER, endless scatology and rape and torture porn, pointless meandering, plots that go nowhere, rape, fantasy characters that are written by an author who clearly despises magic, rape (did I mention that Martin really has a rape fetish?)
The HBO series should have been called 'Titties and Dragons' until all the actresses capitalized on their newfound popularity and had 'no-nudity' clauses written into their contracts. Because Martin is decent at writing clever dialogue the show limped along until they ran out of book material and had to start coming up with new ideas. It then crashed and burned, to the screaming of millions of bugmen across the world.
If you want good, bleak low fantasy just read Glen Cook's 'The Black Company' series -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 00:03:43 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @Largo @BattleDwarfGimli For 'visual learners', a good way to start is with Greg Aldrete's lecture series 'The Rise of Rome'. He's an engaging speaker that has clearly studies Roman oratory techniques himself, and he extensively covers the development, decline and fall of the Roman Republic in a masterful and layman-accessible way. You can find the episodes free online or at your local library, each one is around half an hour long
Would recommend -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:58:52 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @DW2 That's a brilliant quip, will be saving :brain_galaxy: -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:51:57 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @DW2 I personally enjoy how no one wants to admit to having ever watched it now -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:41:59 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @CrustyB @MeanwhileInOhio For a good read look up the biography of John Snow (no, not the Game of Goons character, the English doctor)
There's an annual medical lecture named in his honor ('The Pumphandle Lecture') -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:33:55 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @MeanwhileInOhio Sanitation is more of a civic engineering marvel (and civic engineers have saved far more lives than all the doctors in history)
Sterilization falls under germ theory, which was the soil that antibiotics grew in -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:30:52 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @DW2 Paging @RealRaul , time for you to assume your place among the Great Men of history -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:24:25 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @deprecated_ii @sickburnbro Four greatest medical advances in human history so far:
>Antibiotics
>Safe, reliable general endotracheal anesthesia (makes complex surgery possible)
>Typed and crossmatched blood transfusions (critical for trauma and OB/GYN)
>The entire field of radiology (including interventions such as cardiac and cerebrovascular angiography)
All of which were developed on a timeframe of less than two centuries -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 08:18:21 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: I'll just torture the NAFO crew on gab instead. Their seethe has reached thermonuclear levels lately.
I'm starting to believe that they really think my truename is Trevor Labonte. :idiaminlol:
RT: https://poa.st/objects/32f1e7e5-18e0-461c-9835-8d84ceca7cff -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 06:01:48 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @Shlomo @epictittus Hardcore pro-Russian ethnonats like Rolo Slavskiy have been hating on Shoigu for years. If the Ukies are now more scared of his replacement maybe they had a point. -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 00:56:41 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: Anyway now that we've reached our 2024 yearly quota of e-drama and seethe I would like to remind everyone:
>poast costs money to run and has monthly expenses
>the donation bar still has not reached even half of what is needed to meet monthly expenses
>this instance has 4 thousand active daily users and is the largest instance on RW fediverse
Please donate. Take care of those that provide you with a home -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 23:38:48 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @DEERBLOOD @MisterLister @Waldbrand COULD IT BE?! -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 23:38:46 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @DEERBLOOD @MisterLister @Waldbrand Dread and I have joked about this over the years we have known each other. It's called having a sense of humor and not taking yourself seriously. In reality he's quite fit and independently wealthy. Try getting to that point, you will seethe a lot less. -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 23:38:45 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @Mister_Sunshine @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @DEERBLOOD @MisterLister @Waldbrand No, the real question is why you all are so enraged about someone bloqqing you that you sperg when his name is mentioned. Calm down. -
Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 23:38:44 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: @Aly @Mister_Sunshine @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @DEERBLOOD @MisterLister @Waldbrand They're very sensitive lads