1) No, there was no post on Monday. My digital camera, being older than iPhones, kicked the bucket (and yes, this is also an incidental explanation for why the pictures are sometimes awful in resolution). As such, I'm not able to photograph my minis, and this kind of defeats the whole purpose of Model Mondays, at least for the time being.
2) Yes, this post is going up ridiculously late on Wednesday. Aside from my camera dying, this has also been a...how can I put this? A trying week. I apologize to my 10 regular readers. Hopefully it won't happen again (it will definitely happen again).
There. That's out of the way. I feel better now.
So let's get on with this week's Rundown, shall we?
At the top of the list of stories, it should come as a surprise to absolutely no one that Rob Ford finally shrugged off the last tiny shreds of his human skin, revealing that - yes, indeed - he is, in fact, the shambling, homophobic, repugnant shoggoth we all thought he was.
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All shoggoths are homophobes, though not all homophobes are shoggoths.
Yes, in a move meant to galvanize the worst parts of what can only charitably be called humanity, his worship decided now was the time to beat the war drum against that most feared demographic of civilization: Teh Gayz (that's LGBT peoples, if you're not a tool). Responding to the appearance of a Pride Flag on City Hall's courtesy pole, Rob Ford - in defiance of logic, common sense, and basic decency - put on a cheap imitation of Ronald Reagan and demanded that we tear down this flag. His reasoning fabricated bullshit for this action was that the only flag flying at city hall should be the Canadian Maple Leaf. As numerous sources were quick to point out, aside from him lacking the authority to make such a request, there are in fact no less than 3 Canadian flags on poles at city hall at all times. Not satisfied with this explanation, Ford proceeded to tape a Canadian flag to the window of his office in a show of protest. Because he had to find a fresh, new way to defile our country's status and Justin Bieber had already cornered the market on meeting the Prime Minister in overalls.
Sadly, a gradual slide into knuckle-dragging regression seems to be the name of the game this week, as even the enlightened field of science fiction writers fell prey to the whimsy of the blitheringly backward and stupid. I speak of a petition that circulated amongst the vaunted members of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the content of which centred on holding back the awesome threat of a *shock, horror* RESPECT FOR WOMEN.
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If you support feminism, you're dooming pudding. Think about that.
Now, it doesn't take a lot of critical analysis to quickly shred Mr. David Truesdale's arguments to the ill-conceived mess of poorly disguised misogyny that they are, but the real icing on this shit cake? HE'S NOT EVEN A MEMBER OF THE SFWA. Let's reiterate: Mr. Truesdale put a petition to a private organization, imploring them to not change their private rules on their private publication. An organization he has no part in. And we're supposed to feel that he's having his first amendment rights violated.
Let me apologize now to everyone for the pain you now feel. I never thought it would come to this either.
Yes I did. I did the moment I saw the Candy Crush Saga story from the week before. I knew. I KNEW it would come to this.
Yes I did. I did the moment I saw the Candy Crush Saga story from the week before. I knew. I KNEW it would come to this.
By this, I mean, well...this.
Look, I get it. Big businesses will always murder small ones. That's something I've just come to accept as my wretched existence as a filthy, filthy capitalist.
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This Valentine's Day, remember your one true love.
But seriously though, this is becoming so laughably, cartoonishly evil, that I'm beginning to suspect that King, the makers of the aforementioned Dessert Smash Epic, are either a real-life Pinky and the Brain tribute gone wrong, or they're some kind of mischievous breed of gnome, trying to teach humanity the value of friendship. By giving us someone we can all agree to hate.
Still, before we go thinking that it's all bad news, I think everyone should know that at least one awesome thing happened this week: someone made a mod in Civilization 5 that lets you play as the country in Papers, Please.
What? You gotta take what they give you.
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