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TGW-1047

Chapter: Affair of Honor
Characters: capt mike, Queen Ann'gijn, Slinom, Taritha
Location: allyway, Ptero
└ Tags: just leave, stop talking

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  1. Bill Mullins
    January 20, 2023, 20:41 | # | Reply

    Question for other TGW followers: I’ve been watching the now ended NBC television series
    “Grimm” streaming. I used to watch it but then I got sick and missed a couple of seasons.
    The show is set in Portland, Oregon. My question is for anyone who lives in that general area.
    On the show it almost always rains in at least a couple of scenes. Does it really rain that
    much there? Like almost every evening?

    • me
      January 21, 2023, 01:25 | # | Reply

      I’ve never been to Oregon, but according to this:
      https://weatherspark.com/y/12756/Average-Weather-in-Oregon-Wisconsin-United-States-Year-Round

      There’s a like 1/3 chance of any kind of rain in June which is their “wettest” month.
      (Counted are days with at least 0.04″ of rain; that is 1 l/m²)

      • Sam
        January 21, 2023, 03:04 | # | Reply

        Well, not quite.

        That link is for the city of Oregon in the state of Wisconsin.
        Further north and a LONNGGG way’s east.

        • me
          January 21, 2023, 05:44 | # | Reply

          Oops sorry.

          Forgot that you guys tend to have some places sharing their names.

          • Scarsdale
            January 23, 2023, 00:58 | # | Reply

            Almost every city, town, or village in the US has a Main Street,
            I used to drive past a sign to work that read: Atlanta <- 5 miles.
            First time I seen that I just had to make the joke in my head,
            "How did I get all the way to Georgia?!?"

            • me
              January 23, 2023, 03:39 | # | Reply

              Ok. If we’re talking Streetnames or small villages …

              We do have our share of duplicates, too

              You can find names like “Berliner Platz” (= Place named after Berlin)
              or “Frankfurter Straße” (= Street that once upon a time went into the general direction
              of a large and well known City) almost in every other town.

              And some old descriptive names aren’t that original either (plenty of names roughly translate
              to something like “settlement on the hill” or “we found salt here” or “we used to cross the river here”,
              “village south of the fortress” or “new town”)

    • Sam
      January 21, 2023, 03:01 | # | Reply

      Well, I’ve never seen the show, but yes, it rains there. The Columbia River is the
      northern border of Portland, and it flows straight to the ocean, so ocean winds (and
      weather) pretty much flow straight up the river to Portland.

      There are basically 5 major(ish) towns/cities on I-5 between the California and
      Washington borders. With the exception of Salem, at each you can just about plan
      on double the rain of the next one south. Roseburg is double Medford/Ashland;
      Eugene is double Roseburg; Portland is double Eugene; and Salem is pretty much
      in between Eugene and Portland. I’ve never lived north of Eugene, but I’ve lived in
      all three areas for extended periods south of Salem for my entire life.

    • markm
      January 21, 2023, 14:44 | # | Reply

      I can’t say about Portland itself. My son lives on the Columbia Sound near Rainier, OR, and
      it’s usually either raining or threatening rain there. It makes Michigan look sunny and dry!
      But it’s about 50 miles closer to the ocean than Portland, and I don’t know how much of that
      reaches Portland.

      It’s worse right on the ocean. I spent one summer in Coos Bay, and it rained hard every day
      for at least half an hour. The rest of the day was usually fairly nice, so the trick was figuring out
      when it would rain and scheduling your clambake or whatever either before or after.

    • Wandering America with a lost Avatar
      January 22, 2023, 17:13 | # | Reply

      There are rain forests in the Northwest of the USA that includes Oregon and Washington State. They are Northern rain forests with northern species of plant and animal life. Right now I am happy to know they are there. I have never been there.

    • Jeff
      January 23, 2023, 09:39 | # | Reply

      I lived there as a child for a couple of years (well, Vancouver, Washington right across the river from Portland). and during the spring and fall it rains most of the time. A lot of the time it was more a constant drizzle.

  2. Paul
    January 20, 2023, 20:49 | # | Reply

    Get the people out of the basement and you kids stop fighting.
    Mama might just spank you both. Heh, heh.

    • StripeCoat
      January 23, 2023, 01:25 | # | Reply

      Mama (the queen) interferes and veto’s the fight, as most of us expected.
      Just not quite in the manner I expected.

  3. Scarsdale
    January 20, 2023, 20:57 | # | Reply

    I expected that, Babydoll is telling them to evacuate the area.
    everything is in motion so there’s little anyone can do to stop
    it. A good strategy, play nice to civilians and they won’t (hopefully)
    fight you.

    Yep, I figured this was all a ploy to let the queen pull something
    and give the hammerheads a taste of cat anger. Wasn’t what I
    was thinking but it works well. Not only Slimon now knows how
    easy it is to piss off a cat, but he also owes the Queen his life or
    continued health. I’d love to play “fly on the wall” in the very near
    future!

  4. Scarsdale
    January 20, 2023, 21:01 | # | Reply

    Wife update: She’s walking to the bathroom (with nurse’s
    help) but she’s afraid to lift her leg under it’s own power
    as yet. Doesn’t help it’s still swollen.

    • Paul
      January 20, 2023, 21:13 | # | Reply

      Excellent, that is good to hear.
      Physical exercise is the best healer.
      I retired from ortho trauma. The more she walks
      and short ones are the best. Ask the nurse
      if she can elevate her leg to help reduce swelling.
      Good luck

      • Scarsdale
        January 21, 2023, 05:49 | # | Reply

        They’ve been doing that plus compression socks.
        They didn’t put in a drain so it’s post op fluid build-
        up. When they took out my tumor I had 2, one
        in the “kidney sack”, and the other was body cavity.

    • Jan
      January 21, 2023, 02:17 | # | Reply

      If you have a bed with legs, just put a brick under the two in the ‘foot end’. Easy peasy 😉
      Good luck with her recovery.

      • Scarsdale
        January 21, 2023, 13:42 | # | Reply

        She has a full hospital-type bed, she’s in a full
        post-op rehab like I was last year after my
        surgery, I’m concerned only because they are
        under-staffed.

    • Bill Mullins
      January 21, 2023, 07:02 | # | Reply

      Good to hear. I didn’t tell you guys but my wife spent 4 days in hospital a couple of weeks
      back. Something’s wrong with her. She has lost a crap ton of weight like I have and also
      weighs less than in high school. She had been passing out and falling down unable to get
      up. I took her to the ER after her doctor measured her.BP at 77/48. The hospital basically
      pumped her full of potassium for 3 days. She had had low energy level and BP since last
      summer. The cardiologist put her on something to RAISE her blood pressure. Never
      knew they had stuff like that. Anyhow she’s still very frail but her systolic is now above 100
      with diastolic in the high 70s. She had a walker from when she had her knee replaced 10 years
      back and she uses it now.

      I have a liver biopsy coming up this coming Wednesday at the VA. Our daughter is having to drive
      me to the hospital for the procedure since my wife isn’t safe to drive. It’s a 40+ mile round trip to
      the VA. San Antonio is a BIG city. I feel bad my daughter is having to take me but the hospital
      insists I not drive for 24 hours after the procedure. They still have no clue what is wrong with me but
      at least I’ve stopped losing weight. Looks like I’m not the only sick old man around here. I still do not get
      hungry. I eat because I know I need to.

      • Scarsdale
        January 21, 2023, 13:26 | # | Reply

        The same thing happened to my wife about 9 years ago, she was
        a couple of points off from coma level. She has to take massive
        doses or it’ll happen again. She spent a week in the hospital it
        was that close… who knew?
        As far as VA goes, yeah I have to drive my father 1 1/2 hours to
        take him to his VA doctors, fortunately they are building a new one
        a bit closer, we’ll have to wait and see. Chemo did that too me as
        well, I can forget to eat since my wife’s been gone, she normally
        reminds me. I did gain 5 lbs so maybe it’s over?

      • me
        January 23, 2023, 03:51 | # | Reply

        If you’re both suffering from similar symptoms, maybe it’s
        exposure to some kind of poison or germs?

    • Wandering America witha lost Avatar
      January 22, 2023, 17:29 | # | Reply

      All improvement is wonderful. For all of you.
      I have visited my oldest sister for weeks at a time several times over the past two years.
      She is up 8 pounds now and now keeps things that she can also snack on whenever she thinks about it.
      She also is walking from one mile to three miles a day now, all at the command of her dog overlord.
      No, dog buddy. Cats are overlords.
      The best to everyone.

      Babydoll and the Queen are acting wisely. Unnecessary killing creates enemies and is long remembered.
      I believe in avoiding killing, if possible.

      • Scarsdale
        January 23, 2023, 00:46 | # | Reply

        I feel the same except kill the killers, that way their
        followers will have a “Hey… wait a minute!” moment.

  5. President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
    January 21, 2023, 06:24 | # | Reply

    “Clear the CSA presidential mansion”.
    What next?
    Walk in and retrieve the Catian pilot’s head?
    Or raze the mansion to the ground as a funeral pyre?

    • me
      January 21, 2023, 11:20 | # | Reply

      Why not get the head and then raze the place?

    • me
      January 21, 2023, 11:22 | # | Reply

      Also, they seem to be very confident, that they’re in control
      of the situation and/or that the Captain would care more about
      his men then the president’s life …

      • Scarsdale
        January 21, 2023, 13:37 | # | Reply

        I get the feeling he’s more dumb-founded than anything,
        he wasn’t expecting a pilot to be able to fly and hover
        between buildings like that with that much ordinance.
        Much less give him the option to save his men. This is
        clearly a action to make the CSA think veeeerrrry carefully
        before pulling anything like that again!

        • Petercat
          January 21, 2023, 14:06 | # | Reply

          Hovering between buildings like that in an air-lifted craft is extremely difficult.
          But then, Jeyta is pretty much unflappable. No pun intended.

          • Scarsdale
            January 21, 2023, 23:52 | # | Reply

            A young person with very steady hands can do amazing things with any
            joy-stick controlled device. The things kids do with those “racing drones”
            just freaks me out…
            I never noticed when I was young how fast and steady my hands were
            until a judge demanded to know how I did that in a coin-op tournament…
            Broke the all time high score in the area I guess… He thought I cheated…
            Hell, I still don’t know how I did that on Sinistar other than practice,
            practice, practice…
            Broke the joystick off in my hand the last time I played it, seems plywood
            and plastic on a worn console wasn’t that strong…

            • me
              January 23, 2023, 01:28 | # | Reply

              Humans are “inhumanely good” at some hand-eye-stuff.

              Like baseball. If you want to correctly pitch a fast ball the time slot
              for releasing the ball is something like 3ms.

              The “muscles: release it now!” signal needs more like 10ms to travel
              from your brain to your arm.

    • Scarsdale
      January 21, 2023, 13:30 | # | Reply

      They could raze the rooms from outside and enter
      the building after, then make a parking lot. The
      dragonflys are that steady they could use the windows
      to hit and clear most of the rooms with the assets they
      have, then land troops.

      • President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
        January 21, 2023, 23:15 | # | Reply

        “They paved paradise, put up a parking lot…”
        Thanks, Joni.

  6. notStanley
    January 21, 2023, 14:32 | # | Reply

    >children … stop … talking
    >
    >will be by my voice and hand

    Lady Teritha, you did a nice setup for Queen Anngijn to take back control :}

    • Scarsdale
      January 22, 2023, 00:00 | # | Reply

      She did ask the Queen how she could help with the situation.
      I’m sure once Slimon leaves they will burst out in laughter
      just like the captain and T’ghata did 🙂

  7. Bill Mullins
    January 22, 2023, 10:02 | # | Reply

    Note to PC: How are things going with the new computer and graphics cards? Here’s an interesting
    piece on possible substitutes for thermal paste for cooling CPUs and GPUs. I would never have even considered
    any of them.
    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-cooler-tested-with-ketchup-potatoes-and-cheese-as-thermal-paste

    • Petercat
      January 22, 2023, 11:36 | # | Reply

      Yeaaaahhh… I live in the South, ants and cockroaches are already a problem.
      No need to bait my electronics.

    • Petercat
      January 22, 2023, 13:38 | # | Reply

      The new computer is in the shop getting it’s motherboard replaced.
      It wouldn’t power up. I went with a newer version and a 11th generation
      i7K processor. Old processor and motherboard were returned for refund.

      ASROCK Z590 Taichi Socket LGA1200
      Intel® Core™ i7-11700K
      Two MSI RTX 3060 video cards.
      Two Western Digital NVME M.2 2TB cards (One for OS and one for 3D art.)
      Two Western Digital Gold 10 TB hard drives (RAID 1)
      64 GB Crucial DDR4 3200 RAM.
      ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280 CPU water cooler 4 fan push-pull.
      Windows 10 (yuck) PRO.

      I figured might as well spend money I don’t have to build the
      best computer I can as it will probably be the last one I ever need.
      Only reason that I went with WIN 10 (yuck) is that the two 3060
      cards won’t work with WIN 7. Ain’t progress wonderful?
      If I’d known I’d have to build another computer, I’d have just ordered
      another water cooled 1080ti and kept using my old computer. I’ll
      keep it hooked up to do vote incentives and such.

      The way I work is to render one panel in Studio while writing the
      dialogue for the previous panel in Paint.net (it’s free).
      I just wanted faster rendering to keep the workflow smooth.
      Spent waaaay too much… Thank you, Patreon supporters, you have
      lessened the pain!
      My Patreon, if anyone else wants to help: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=20043190

      • Scarsdale
        January 23, 2023, 00:28 | # | Reply

        and here I was feeling pretty good about the 8700k intel
        and a 1080ti graphics… granted I bought it 3 years ago.
        I have yet to get it to lag so I’m good. I got it mainly for
        gaming but it’s turning out to be great at CAD compiling.
        (please don’t ask what size my 3D file folder is…)

        • Petercat
          January 23, 2023, 02:30 | # | Reply

          This computer is strictly for 3D rendering, so processor and memory speed
          don’t have much effect. It’s all in the video cards.
          The M.2 drives are so that I can load/build scenes faster. The two 3060s render
          fast enough to suit my workflow, I don’t need anything faster.
          Although the 3090ti has twice as much RAM (24gig) which would let me
          render larger, more complex scenes… for almost $1000 more than the two
          3060s. Nah. Maybe next year…

      • me
        January 23, 2023, 04:11 | # | Reply

        Personally, in my experience Windows 10 is quite OK – at least it’s
        better than other OS by Microsoft I had been exposed to.

        Even Windows 11 isn’t THAT bad.

        There’s two things I personally don’t like about newer Windows
        versions, but you get these with Android and Apple, too:

        + They want you to register your OS with the vendor.
        + They expect you to be more or less constantly be connected to the internet.

        (Come to think of it, both of that is becoming the standard for almost
        anything from kitchen appliances and TV sets to light bulbs …)

  8. Scarsdale
    January 22, 2023, 10:49 | # | Reply

    I had an interesting revelation, about a long and stern
    speech by both the the P’tera ambassador and Catain
    to the council prier to the vote for war.

    Going into great detail about the mound of evidence
    of the use and abuse of the weaker races, amounting
    to nothing more than “legal” slavery. The Core worlds
    and the northren humans have done nothing but line
    their pockets and pat themselves on the back while
    whole planets are on the brink of starvation. The Wolf
    Empire seen this and took steps first to free the
    Catains from slavery, then processed to build a fair
    trade Empire that no one else could do. To continue
    to fight them you all are risking interstellar war just
    to continue you’re reign of the trade while they have
    done no harm to anyone, only to those that tried to
    harm them.
    This ends now or commit to a war with all the worlds
    you had subjected to your evil.
    The human’s have learned the lesson, what will it take
    for you to learn yours.

    And so on I could write the entire speech but PC does
    a far better job, I’m more of a steel chair/ b-ball bat type
    😉

    • Petercat
      January 22, 2023, 13:41 | # | Reply

      Actually, I lean on Jochi for writing formal speech.
      Taritha will use carrot and stick. Coming up.
      Big carrot and a stick the size of an anime sword.

      • Scarsdale
        January 23, 2023, 00:35 | # | Reply

        I got that which is why I didn’t try that hard. Just a spitball idea.
        I figure something like that might happen after the first real battle.
        Kinda like “Aww you lost… here’s why” thing. That last bit had me
        thinking of Cloud, jamming a carrot on the tip of his sword, saying
        “heerre, kitty kitty…” as he pointed it at the council XD.

  9. Jan
    January 23, 2023, 02:50 | # | Reply

    PC, something ‘ate’ my remark to Scarsdale about how to easily adjust his wife’s bed for relief.
    A ‘heard-of’ problem?
    Concerning missing comments, my excuse is that my son’s house-renovation-project (located
    app. 110 km away), is getting closer to how they want it, courtesy me and her father, so not much
    time to comment. But I take the time to read it, f’sure 🙂

  10. Jan
    January 23, 2023, 02:57 | # | Reply

    Do you have some kind of delay between posting a comment or is it moderated.
    I found the comment mentioned in my former post. If moderated, just disregard this
    and the complaining post.
    Have a nice day, all of you.
    Jan.

  11. me
    January 23, 2023, 04:12 | # | Reply

    Dear SPAM-Filter,

    why don’t you like me?

    yours
    me

    • Petercat
      January 23, 2023, 11:51 | # | Reply

      I was getting a lot of spam comments about Google and Android for a while,
      so I added those words to the block list. Then many legitimate comments started
      to go into the trash. Fixed, now.
      I hate Windows 10, mostly because of the interface, but also because it locks out
      a percentage of video RAM for it’s exclusive use. Video RAM is precious for 3D
      rendering, I have 12 gig but using WIN10, I can only use maybe 10. And since
      my art computers are air-gapped, the phone-home feature is annoying.
      Win7 was perfect, it just worked without problems.
      But you can install WIN10 without a Microsoft account, dunno about Win11.
      My internet computer uses LINUX, but even the newer versions want to
      collect information and send it home. You can’t escape the Borg nowadays.

      • me
        January 23, 2023, 17:29 | # | Reply

        You can still avoid installing Win11 without MS account,
        by using a few tricks, but it keeps badgering you every few
        days to “complete the installation”.

        I think newer versions of Win10 do something like that,
        too. (You can just dismiss/postpone this dialog, and there’s
        probably a way to disable it – somewhere).

        The “enterprise” or whatever-it-is-called version of Win11
        is a bit less annoying; it accepts your computer being part
        of your companies AD domain instead of trying to hook
        you up with an Azure account.

        (My own experiences with newer Windows systems are
        quite limited; I only use it for tax declaration and other rare
        things)

        You can tell Debian to opt out of the telemetry program on install,
        and at least OpenSUSE is still borg-free, too.

        (Unless you count updates of course, but you should be able to
        configure your system to use mirrors for that …)

      • me
        January 24, 2023, 00:01 | # | Reply

        About Windows eating away part of your GPU memory.

        W10 is (slightly) more efficient then 7 in general.

        BUT there’s the new interface which all it’s effects and
        gimmicks. I think you can tune it down somewhere.

        Maybe that might give you back some of the VRAM?

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