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@ProfD and yet history teaches the nouveau rich usually act money drunk over financially wise. i argue history is the excuse

@Rodney campbell good point and telling how varied our tastes are

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@ProfD in defense of the bruce heirs ,if they decide to spend wildly, they will not be the first nouveau riche to lose heavy

@Cynique i play pinochle ,thank you for your bridge history @Troy card games never ebb in popularity,pokemon or yugioh are some modern loves,thank you for spades @Delano you are the first to mention a non card game primarily. yes the spinning wheel is a common tool for physical random generation,although easily manipulate-able, if made honest it has fee rivals,thank you for your comment @ProfD you mentioned board games primarily, chess then monopoly. much heavier on the side of strategy as the other primaries chosen are games where,if fair, the influence of the random is undeniable,whereas chess has all knowns from start to finish.

good multilog

@Rodney campbell gives his take what is yours?

@Rodney campbell yes she does want attention ,she is a body painter who has won competitions for her work

I hope all three can center their remaining lives on this moment's happiness but fly better than its form If you want me to caption an image , share it to me, by whatever means

Fellow Writers - @fiyahlitmag Carnival issue is open for submissions february 1st, good luck:)

How Merle Dandridge became the only The Last of Us game actor to reprise role in the series Creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin say the new scenes with Marlene and Ellie in the premiere will bring "a greater payoff" by the end of the show. Nick Romano By Nick Romano January 16, 2023 at 02:20 PM EST Warning: Mild spoilers from HBO's The Last of Us premiere are discussed in this article. Merle Dandridge holds a unique position within the cast of HBO's The Last of Us. The BAFTA Award winner is the only legacy actor from the original video games to play the same role in the live-action series adaptation, that of Marlene, the leader of the rebel group known as the Fireflies. Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, who originated the roles of Joel and Ellie, will appear as different characters, with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey taking over as the sci-fi drama's two leads. Jeffrey Pierce, who voiced Joel's brother Tommy in the games, will see Gabriel Luna take over the role he helped originate, but he'll be on hand playing a character newly created for the series. Most of this, obviously, had to do with practicality. "I think Merle Dandridge was probably a bit younger than Marlene was in 2013," series writer and executive producer Craig Mazin tells EW, noting the year the first game released. "Or at least Marlene had gone through the apocalypse. She was a little more weathered and [had] a little more grey in her hair." Dandridge, at 47, is neither weathered nor grey. "Don't ever stand next to her in a picture," warns Neil Druckmann, who created the games and now heads the show with Mazin. "It won't do you anything." "You look like dog s--- next to her, I guarantee you," Mazin agrees. "She's also eternally youthful. It's 10 years later [after the first game's debut] and she does have this wonderful gravitas. So it was really a question of, 'Hey, if we just wig her, I think we're there.' That was an easy one. It's obviously not anything we could contemplate with, say, Troy Baker." Baker, Mazin notes, is "so physically different from Joel," a character described as a hardened survivor who's marked by the traumatic death of his daughter, Sarah (Nico Parker). Twenty years after a fungal brain infection has spread across the globe, transforming victims into zombie-like monsters, Joel is living in a quarantine zone in Boston, where he's tasked with smuggling out a 14-year-old girl, Ellie, who's somehow immune to the virus. "Ashley Johnson is in her 30s and clearly not gonna play a 14-year-old girl, but it was important for us to find space for them [in the show] because they matter," Mazin says. "It's not just about fan service. It's a dramatic genetic connection between the game and the show. They needed to be there." Baker will appear later in The Last of Us as James, a minor character from the games that has been expanded on for the show. He's described as a senior member of a group of settlers who must fight to keep their community alive in the face of increasingly brutal odds. Johnson will play Anna, a pregnant woman, alone and on the run, who must give birth under the most terrifying of circumstances. Pierce will then appear as Perry, described only as a rebel in a quarantine zone. Dandridge is also getting an expanded role, as viewers have already seen in the premiere episode, which dropped on HBO and HBO Max Sunday. Scenes between her character and Ramsey's Ellie confirm that Marlene is somehow linked to the girl's origin story. Druckmann points to an artifact players can find towards the end of The Last of Us game: an audio recording that sheds more light on Marlene's relationship with Ellie. "It doesn't get into the same kind of details as we do in the show, but there is a recording that you could find at the end of the game all the way in the hospital that she spells out some of her relationship with Ellie's origin," he says. "I don't wanna say more to spoil it, but because we don't have to adhere to one perspective — in this part of the game, you're playing as Joel in the quarantine zone, so everything you're seeing is through his eyes — we said, how can we introduce Ellie earlier? That was an opportunity to start showing more of that relationship with Marlene, which then has a greater payoff later because we've established the relationship more explicitly here." PHOTO CREDIT: Merle Dandridge appears as Marleen, her character from 'The Last of Us' video games, in the HBO series. | CREDIT: HBO ARTICLE URL : https://ew.com/tv/the-last-of-us-merle-dandridge-marlene-ellie-origins/

I know this isn't a writing or drawing post but I think all of you who draw or are on deviantart need to know this one https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-filed-against-stability-ai-midjourney-and-deviantart-for-dmca-violations-right-of-publicity-violations-unlawful-competition-breach-of-tos-301721869.html

@ProfD All I want known for the record is I oppose completely the following from you

@Troy well said, I wish I would had been complete:) USA law it is illegal to manipulate others computers without their consent, but yes i know said tools exists. no need , more important things need your attention in the aalbc website than that, but conversating side others elsewhere as well as aalbc, proves people don't click read more:) video people:)

Tananarive Due has a new short story collection coming out, called The Wishing Pool, in the text prompt section and below in the comments section I will use the graphical results of a computer program to on text input to make a new cover, i offer all of you interested in artistic fun to join me. Details below https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2213&type=status TEXT PROMPT SECTION The following is the return for the text prompt THE WISHING POOL the images are below, your thoughts , ideas to change any image, which images you want to get rid of ? let's have fun The first looks awful, like a children's book, funny program The second has possibilities. It has a landscape the coloring creates a hazy effect suggesting magic ala wishing, we can work from that the third is a straight pool from a house, I know tananarive wasn't suggesting a nordic european home so that clearly will need work but it is something

@Pioneer1 To your first point, I don't think most black folk in the usa have conflict, most know what they want and stick to it, and I personally can accept it. To your second, I will just say nothing. It is not that I concur but no point in me commenting To your third, you or profd inferred more in my position than I suggested, the point wasn't to suggest a roadmap or blueprint or a strategy for Black folk in particular black militants in the usa to follow. The point was to display that a community can be enslaved or oppressed by another for a long time, longer than blacks have been oppressed in the usa or the european colonies that preceded it, and even though said time will create changes in the enslaved or oppressed community, it will not eradicate many in said community from wanting away from the enslaver or oppressor even if it has been thousands of years. The fact that the irish look like the english simply supports my point. if two people who look alike can have such a feud then clearly two people who don't shouldn't be a surprise. And, the english dominated ireland through various periods, initially england wasn't a global power when they took ireland so... the condition of the oppressor isn't the point. And lastly, in two thousand years the culture of the irish changed a lot, it is not about a culture but the reality of the want of many irish people which survived many cultural changes, financial changes, to still want what they want, which is my point to black militants in the usa. Pioneer you made the point that somehow the black community in the usa lacks smarts or wasn't on the ball but what I am trying to get you to comprehend is that isn't the truth. The question is this, when the usa was being founded do you think the overwhelming majority of free blacks, cause the enslaved blacks couldn't act on their wishes, were wrong for opposing the creation of the usa ?

@ProfD for the record I said the following I never said black militants should do exactly as the irish. I said the irish prove it can work, and i also said nothing is easy. I never said the irish is a blueprint for anyone else. And I never stated I feel Black people in the usa in overwhelming majority want the usa to be changed by force. I quote myself again Did you say the following as a reply to my comment or in general? Cause I didn't say either of those things.

@ProfD we will see @Pioneer1 I think many Black Americansin the usa, maybe most, are doing what you said now. I do concur with your first point That goal is what Frederick Douglass spearheaded alongside Sojourner Truth or Ida B Wells and followed by Web DUbois/Booker T Washington/The Tuskegee arimen/Rosa Parks/Martin/Fannie Lou Hamer/Shirley Chisholm/Fred Hampton/JEsse Jackson/Al Sharpton/Clarence Thomas/ The Obamas/Stacy Abrams and onward. Said people are not clones of each other, but all of them at the core of their purposes is about Black folk thriving or leading as part of the USA. I can even argue that the mythological crispus attics is the true progenitor of that movement that frederick douglass had a huge role in. Where I oppose is your second point The why is key. It is a historical fact that I went in detail in this very community before, the Black community in the USA historically is anti USA + anti White. IT is a simple truth. Over time from the early 1500s to 2023 the Black populace in the USA or the british colonies that preceded it went from a majority fighting to stop the usa from being born to a populace whose members have existed in every position of highest value in the government with billionaires or millionaires forming a one percent. But whether black folk are in support or opposition to the usa, I don't think either choice makes one smart or on the ball. IT is about desire Pioneer. As I said to a black militant once. The modern black community will never join your cause en majority. The black one percent are fiscally wealthy. The black modern immigrants freely came to be part of the USA. and the descended of enslaved who are fiscally wealthy or in the military or work in government or simply are pro usa , simply are. So the anti USA segment of the modern black community is a minority in the black minority. But the IRA prove it can work, nothing is easy but it can work. The IRA was only a few hundred people but their actions got 3/4 of ireland free from the english after two thousand years of all of ireland being dominated by the english. So Black militants, go for it. Most irish didn't plan or had a part in the bombings. But the bombings of the ira which are counted more than the bombings in vietnam, which is amazing, led to the english saying, we will make a deal. And comprehend the modern irish live as two people's. They lived as two peoples during the troubles. Many irish stooged <my term choice> for the english, it is that simple , against the IRA and their cause. What is northern ireland really? by your words Pioneer, the northern irish are the smart on the ball folk who stayed with the remnant of the english empire. But communities are complex. Sometimes you are on the losing side Pioneer. But whether losing or winning if you are true to yourself, you are not dumb. Stick with it, and your time will come and if it doesn't the people who carry on your message, will have a chance, and onward. as long as the community is alive, no matter the quantity or location, the goal isn't dead. That is why when my friends offline who are pro USA talk about various things. I tell them why don't they run for offices. Get in the government apparatus. They love the USA so I support their love, in the same way I support the Black militants who want to burn it down. I don't see either are smart or dumb. Black folk for me are free to have any position to the USA, any position. Our forebears earned us the right to that. TO answer your question Maybe one day their will be. The reason why the usa is in germany is cause germany , unfortunately for germany at some level, was the faultline for usa and russia when commonly called wolrd war two ended. Russia had east of germany, usa had west of germany. they both split germany, sequentially, both countries dropped military bases in germany. Empire's love to make other countries their chess board pieces. Same to Japan. China was communist, and the USA was unable to kill Mao , I know they tried, so the USA military had to stay there. But when Japan's people starting showing socialist leanings, the USA then gave japan money. and while china didn't need russian bases, china became a military partner with russia on simple grounds that the usa was a mlitaristic enemy of both. And the USA went on and add Taiwan, chang kia shek's running hole, and then the two koreas which no korean made. That is why? China and Russia is why. Those two are the only two governments that militaristically are honestly opposed to the usa. Most in the countries in the continent are still being militaristically manipulated by the likes of European countries so the USA has no threat. Ghana is part of the commonwealth of nations. Why have USA troops in ghana when ghana isn't free of an impotent england? Angola has new oil money but Angola like Equatorial Guinea are ruled by the oil families. But the oil families will not get rid of that silly constitution or government system. Angola is a kingdom, that acts like it isn't. Like many oil countries, they hurt themselves accepting the dysfunctional usa or uk elected goverment/parliamentary system. So why have USa troops in Angola when Angola isn't even honest with itself? and same to the others in africa.

@Pioneer1 yes, don't you ever post on your feed in aalbc? This is an aside but it is very interesting how many people never click read more:) I wish I knew a way to scan how many people went to a page and literally didn't click read more @Troy I know no tool exist to scan every connection to the website and see particular actions like that but maybe for status posts you need to allow the whole status to load ? @ProfD I do link all the articles original source in my post, I cite everything. But I focus on my post because sometimes links die. In my experience a number of great articles went away and I wish I would had just posted the whole thing thus, I do that in AALBC. I am not trying to be an archivist but I find the internet audience is lazier than meets the eye and when people refute a point, if you don't have the exact content available then it gets silly. So that is why I focus on my statuses. And I know most of you in the forums know about these issues or already have an opinion so I place the topic as a starter, and you can simply say what you want to say, you don't need to bother coming to my page if you don't want.

@Pioneer1 the person burned themselves alive. He was starving, he was hopeless. The problem is, Tunisia went from european imperial rule to modern kingship twice to elected officials and the common tunisian never changed with any of the governmental changes. The desperation has led some to burn themselves alive. Some people pioneer, they quit when they have had enough. He is trying to take himself out. The series of failed governments has led to a lose in hope.

@Pioneer1 I am glad that you had him in your life, even with the environment's difficulties or your age:) . I am human, I try to be honest or truthful as much as possible, especially when communicating, but I fail alot of times. The USA has a slavemaster culture that wants you to think , live, breath as your told. I have no money or power to make grand changes to any community. The most I can do , for now:), is speak against how the slavemaster wants us slaves to speak. Someone told me offline once, modern immigrant children have parents who work so often they are just not in the house so the t.v/internet/cable .... media raises the kids, and thus their broken or nonexistent or dysfunctional relationship to the country their parents came from. All things will get better @ProfD well done. It's nippy from the block.

@Pioneer1 or @ProfD yes but the us military as all militaries will fail one day. My point isn't that the usa isn't powerful or that other countries do not have its same power, but that the usa military is on an inevitable path of failure and with so many countries relying on the usa military, its failure will lead to massive issues. Its not about doom and gloom. When the roman empire imploded it survived but the damage was extensive to its western section and eventually it went on a path of slow erosion. so I am not suggesting the world will blow up or the usa will not be in existence, but the chaos to most in humanity will occur because the basis of too many governments internally or externally is one thing that isn't guaranteed

@Pioneer1 yes, the usa manages and controls the global financial system , in an even greater way than the british empire that did so beforehand. But what you guys are missing is the globe, the entirety of humanity. The USA is free in its system to cheat, others are not, but all of this is based on an uncertain factor