It sounds as if the Wagner situation might have been defused? Anyhow, I liked this story because the modern world is very complicated and this was one of those timeless sorts of things that everyone understands, you could explain it to an ancient Chinese or Roman military advisor and they’d be like “oh yeah that happens a lot, you guys gotta be more careful”
So my ability to land my falls safe, on large muscles and into a roll, paratrooper-style, has apparently successfully adapted to the raised-arch foot distribution of forces, I just missed a curb and was surprised that I was able to recover falling face-first onto blacktop so well.
Batman villains r so funny like any other supervillain has weaknesses like specific metals or fire or stuff. And Batman villains weaknesses are just like. He really needs a therapist. Like really bad.
One of the Arkham games had side quests vs. Firebug, and I had been appreciating how many of Batman’s villains turned on some trait present in Bruce himself, so this guy read as totally breaking that pattern – flying around in a bright costume setting fire to things isn’t really a Batman parallel.
But if you understand his rogues’ gallery as themed around mental illness – pyromania
Honestly the way I predict the future mostly works by letting go of my consciousness to a degree I’ve grown better at maintaining function in the face of, and (without the sleep-mediated difficulty in writing new memories) dreaming possible futures and then after-the-fact evaluating them, in a way that honestly hearing about AI generation reminds me of, that’s kinda where my “#androids dreaming of electric sheep” tag was coming from
I mean the thing is that was exactly what Paul did for the fourth fifth of Dune
