Disappointed and kind of pissed; yes – you can play Nightreign solo but it is a real pain in the butt; it is frustrating and way more aggravating than a “game” should be. Elden Ring was completely playable solo and that’s how I play – solo. I play for fun, for personal challenge, as an escape from reality but primarily for FUN. Nightreign, for me, is not fun. Yes, I’ll keep playing but probably not with any regularity and I sure, as hell, am not going to recommend it.
I play on the PS5 system, graphics are good, the mechanics are fairly easy but the options for solo play leave much to be desired. You need to embark on expeditions, there’s no wandering around, discovering areas first, as far as I can tell. You absolutely have to embark on the assigned expeditions. There are some days where I just want to wander around a game’s layout but that’s not possible with this game. I am not loving the “expeditions”. Frustrating, even aggravating. Not the escape I had hoped, it is, so far, just a headache in the making. I’m finding it difficult to get invested in the story.
It could be that I’m simply not used to the style Bandai has created for the game. I’ll keep playing, maybe I am missing something.
The game is great for folks that enjoy the team play experience but for solo players, for me? So far, it sucks.
Middle East: I heard some Trumpian dickhead blather that they would have “boots on the ground” and Hegseth, the incompetent and rumoured drunk/molester, dribble something about “assets in the Middle East”. Personally, I think he watched the Bourne movies once too often.
I am a late stage Boomer; WWII had been over for almost 15 years, the Korean conflict had ended over 5 years previous to my birth but, in 1965, Johnson started to send soldiers to a country, over 13 800 kms (apox. 8500 miles for U.S. folk). No direct threat to the U.S. but took the lives of 58 200 of American youth. This was the conflict, in which, Trump was ordered to serve but as is the family legacy, the Trump tail was tucked between the legs and suddenly, there were “bone spurs”.
I remember Vietnam, first war to be broadcast into our living/family rooms. Over the next decade, I met a few of the resisters, who had fled to Canada. They weren’t deserters, they were resisters. Refusing to fight a war that did not threaten their country, in any way, shape or form.
There is no draft per se, anymore; there is, however the mandatory Selective Service mandate (I wonder if Barron registered…) So the middle, working, and impoverished classes are still in danger of being called up and sent to the Middle East to fight in yet another military action with no impact on America. To fight in yet another “created” action.
Created, once again, by Netanyahu. Big surprise. (🙄).
Here’s the timeline;
Friday, June 13, 2025 — Israel launches blistering attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear and military structure, deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the country to assault key facilities and kill top generals and scientists.
Saturday, June 14, 2025 — Israel expands its airstrikes to include targets in Iran’s energy industry as Iranian missile and drone attacks continue on Israel.
Sunday, June 15, 2025 — Israel unleashes airstrikes across Iran for a third day and threatens even greater force as some Iranian missiles evade Israeli air defenses to strike buildings in the heart of the country. Planned talks on Iran’s nuclear program in Oman between the United States and Tehran, which could provide an off-ramp, are called off.
Lots of breast beating about nuclear capabilities of Iran…yes, I would be concerned about a country as volatile as Iran having nuclear capabilities but I am equally as concerned by Israel, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Russia (frankly, with Dementia Don in charge, I am concerned about the U.S. as well) possessing nuclear weapons.
Be prepared, young Americans, to head north. I have a couple of spare rooms. Sadly, I am not being facetious.
Yeah, I still have a “blankie”. I put it on my side of the bed, every night. It is, in excess, of 60 years old and belonged to my grandmother. Why? Well, my grandmother was an amazing, loving and hysterically funny Newfoundland woman. She always had cherry Chiclets in her pocket for me, hugs and kisses were never ending. It was an absolute unconditional love. Lost her when I was 15. Still feel that loss.
Husband is a truckdriver, he does stay within our province but has to leave at 2:00 am, for his run, the blanket is my security. It is my continued connection to my Nanny Mary.
I have to confess, I have been anti-American government since the early 1970’s. As a Canadian and having a Dad who was a news junkie, I was exposed to American media and propaganda from an early age. I watched the Vietnam war, watched the riots, watched the National Guard shoot down innocent students, protesting a criminal war, Stonewall. The list goes one.
None of this is to say, Canada didn’t have its own share of civil unrest. FLQ and the Oka crisis come to mind.
I saw and actually made friends with young folks fleeing the draft. Leaving their homes, their families, their friends, in protest over risking their lives, in a foreign land that posed, absolutely, no threat to the U.S. Instead, it was a ruse to improve corporate profits.
The U.S. realized, during WWII, the Korean conflict, Vietnam that war was a great way to enrich that 1%. Easy money. Easy blood money, because you best believe few of the offspring of that 1% fought. Case in point: president Bon Spur.
I was so happy to see Barack Obama win in 2009. I truly thought that there was hope for the U.S. Then he was re-elected and I thought, for sure, this meant the U.S. was heading toward a successful future…I was sorely disappointed.
I knew, early on, that I did not want Canada to mirror the U.S. I wanted Canada to be better, to welcome diversity and inclusion. We have our own culture Nazis – most in Alberta and my own province of Québec. Behaving as if their own ancestors simply popped out of Canadian soil…Spoiler Alert! They didn’t.
I don’t buy “American” and rarely, ever did. Not a difficult thing, as most goods, thanks to American corporate greed, once again (cheap labour and materials), are not made in the U.S.
I don’t vacation in the States. For the past 30 years – since ’95, when we did vacation, it was here, in Canada or Cuba.
The U.S. is bound to implode, not due to diversity or inclusion. Not due to immigration but due to corporations that run that nation. People go bankrupt for the want of healthcare. Rights of workers to a balanced life. The overt racism. And again, the move of manufacturing from the U.S. to foreign lands where workers were cheap and would have no protection from exploitation, augured the demise of their economy. They are dependent on foreign lands yet, Dementia Donald felt it necessary to further tax the American people, through tariffs. Either he has no understanding of how they work or he is relying on the ignorance of his base supporters to further the nonsense that tariffs are paid by trading partners to the U.S. THAT. IS. NOT. HOW TARIFFS WORK!!The buyer pays the tariffs, not the importer, the costs are, then, passed down to the consumer.
Canada has long needed to move away from American dependence. We can import our own goods from the nations manufacturing those goods, instead of the American-Middleman economy.
As for national defense? Defense against whom? The only enemies to our sovereignty currently, is Putin and his sock puppet, Diaper Don. We will build our military, we will maintain and foster our alliance with Europe, with Asia.
They are not the global leaders they claim to be. It is propaganda. They are a nation in debt, a nation that has lost its identity and worse, the respect of the world. By the way? This song came out in 1970….
I wish I had more time for this blog but I have to go out into “public”….A Public free of Taco, the orange dementia-diapered dictator.
Please, folks in L.A., stay safe! This calling in of the National Guard without the state or city’s request is unlawful and against the constitution. People in my age bracket and older, remember Kent State. It only takes one idiot to start and ordinary citizens, protesting the pseudo-Nazi regime, will die.
Amurica? Meet your new anti-terror chief; 22 year old, (Yes, you read that right…22) Thomas Fulgate.
To his credit, he did mow his neighbours’ lawns as an “entrepreneur” but don’t listen to me, thankfully, Sarah Rumpf, an Associate Editor @ Mediaite.com wrote an excellent piece with receipts. Those receipts have “mysteriously” disappeared from LinkedIn. 🤣🤣 (I have them saved..)
Take a look, she’s a terrific journalist and the article is truly a good one.
Keep in mind, he has been picked to replace US Army veteran Bill Braniff. Braniff resigned last March after the Trump admin. cut over 20% of his staff. Braniff holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy and a Masters from Johns Hopkins but Fulgate did mow lawns and bag groceries, I guess that proves he is all Sigma. 🤣
Don’t get me wrong, this is not ageism. I have worked with Gen Z’s and quite a few of them have new, innovative ways to streamline processes, they often bring bubble and optimism but…we were not responsible for the safety and security of millions of men, women and children.
Be afraid United States, be very afraid. Dementia Don is now, the least of your worries.
Why that asinine question still being asked is more of the point of Pride Month than “Why is it necessary!?”
It is necessary because that dumbass question is still being asked, usually with the addition of “Why isn’t there a straight month?!” There are….the other 11 months out of the year.
Couldn’t find anything about people being murdered for the sole reason of being straight.
I see videos of “religious” 🤢 leaders claiming homosexuality is an abomination yet are perfectly okay with a woman being beaten, raped and otherwise subjugated by their husbands. Presumably these “leaders” are straight, when they aren’t being busted for pedophilia and child molestation.
🌈 Actually, homosexuality is illegal in quite a few countries, the penalty in some, is death.
I’m a late “Boomer” and homosexuality was not discussed in my home. It just wasn’t discussed, negative or positively. So I grew up never hearing the usual slurs. I am NOT saying my parents didn’t hold negative beliefs regarding homosexuality, it just wasn’t discussed, for that matter sexuality as a whole was not discussed. I had gay teachers in high school, I knew they were gay, my friends knew they were gay but it wasn’t an issue. It was a nothing-burger.
I learned more about the community, as an outsider, through a couple of nightclubs we would frequent. It was my first introduction to the trans world as well. The only emotion I can remember was intense jealousy of their mastery of make-up. I still have that jealousy….I mean…MY GOD…the talent is mind-blowing.
To this day, and I’ve had 24400+ days, not understanding what possible difference it makes to anyone. I don’t understand how we can allow our children to suffer and die because they are gay, transgender or bisexual. Personally, all I ever wanted for my own children is that they grew up and were happy in their skins.
The question was asked, a few times, how would YOU feel if one of your kids were gay/transgender…always kind of left me with my mouth open (metaphorically). How would I feel? Possibly the most inane question I have ever been asked…
🌈 I would feel afraid for them because of the ignoramuses they may meet, like the person posing the question.
🌈 I would love them.
So damn…YES, celebrate Pride Month. Stand against religious idiocy and prejudice. Support the community because members of that community, your family, friends, co-workers, neighbours are still being beaten, ostracized, punished and murdered for who they love.
I did not write this but it so deserves to be shared. Enough! Everyone, men and women deserve to be happy in their own skin.
Recently, in a large city in France, a poster featuring a young, thin, and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym.
It read: “This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?”
A middle-aged woman, whose physical characteristics did not match those of the woman pictured on the poster, responded publicly to the question posed by the gym. She had a whale of a lot to say:
“To Whom It May Concern,
Whales are always surrounded by friends: dolphins, sea lions, and curious humans. They have an active s_e_x life, get pregnant, and have adorable baby whales. They enjoy stuffing themselves with shrimp, playing and swimming in the sea, and visiting wonderful places like Patagonia, the Bering Sea, and the coral reefs of Polynesia.
Whales are wonderful singers and have even recorded CDs. They are incredible creatures and virtually have no predators other than humans.
They are loved, protected, and admired by almost everyone in the world. Mermaids don’t exist.
If they did exist, they would be lining up outside the offices of psychoanalysts due to their identity crisis. Fish or human would prove quite a quandary for even the most skilled of therapists.
They don’t have a s_e_x life because they kill men who get close to them—not to mention, how could they have s_e_x? Just look at them… where is IT?
Therefore, they don’t have kids either. Not to mention, who wants to get close to a girl who smells like a fish store?
P.S. We are in an age when the media attempts to convince us that only skinny people are beautiful. I prefer to enjoy ice cream with my kids, a good dinner with a man who makes me shiver, and good chocolate with my friends.
With time, we gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room, it distributes out to the rest of our bodies. So we aren’t heavy, we are enormously cultured, educated, and happy.
Do you remember the scene in Lethal Weapon, with Arjen Rudd, the Minister of Foreign Affairs?
That’s exactly how Dumpy Diaper Don, the Felon is going to sully our border. Diplomatic immunity granted under a diplomatic passport. Now there’s some irony for you, a criminal being allowed to cross our borders. Sound like a familiar refrain? Something about rapists and criminals…the worst a country had, crossing borders? Where have I heard that before?
Will Dumpy Diaper Don have the stones or the stupidity to show up, where he is, DEFINITELY, not welcomed? I don’t know, I’m thinking a sudden new signature stamp or shortage of Depends may well be his excuse. Phony bullies don’t do well when faced with true courage.
Stay home, you P.O.S. We don’t want you in our country and I’m pretty sure, at least 6 of the G7 leaders would rather you butt out while the adults are talking. (I subtracted England as I believe Starmer is a reincarnation of Chamberlain.)
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