“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
It is perhaps not a good sign for the turning of the year that the very last instalment of this most beloved series on the site is late by a day, but honestly it was unavoidable. I spent all of Friday – and I mean ALL of it, from 5am onward – travelling,...
Gentlemen, I am back on the road today, heading toward Mordor to practice my Orcish dialects. I spent Christmas last year alone, which actually wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be – there is a lot to be said for going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve,...
Yes, I know, this edition is late. What can I say – it was a STUPIDLY busy week. I was literally travelling across, down, and back up the country, and by the time I got to about 4pm on Friday, I just said, “sod it”, and passed out on the couch for a...
As I may have said a few times before, there are days which seem to take years to pass, and then there are years which seem to pass in days. This year, 2023, certainly seems like the latter. We are already just three weeks away from the end of the year, and we are...
It is officially the first day of winter, and frankly, I’m already DONE with the season. The ONLY good thing about winter, is Christmas – and, when I lived in Australia (where, as we always say around here, EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYES...
Doubtless my American friends are currently groaning their way out of the severe indigestion and food comas that inevitably follow a Thanksgiving feast. Having attended my share of such events during my time in the FUSA, I sympathise – though I never indulged to...
For those of you who have some historical awareness, you will know certain countries exist ONLY so that other, larger, more powerful countries can use them to sort out longstanding differences. Poland, for instance, is effectively a place for Russia and Germany to...
What a week, eh, lads? As usual, this is one of those where everything seems to happen all at once. World War III is well and truly underway, though it is so far a regional and localised series of conflicts in the broader context of a titanic clash between superpowers...
By some miracle, we appear to have made it to the end of another week, and the world is still more or less kind of sort of intact. Whether it stays that way, of course, is a rather different question. Yet, I think we have good reason for optimism at the moment. Hassan...
As I write this, we are seeing news streaming in about a possible major Israeli ground incursion into the Gaza Strip. This may – or may not – finally be the start of the great big ground offensive the Israelis have been threatening for two weeks now. They...
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