More or less. Here’s the vid :
If Trump’s Big Bad Bill goes through, people are going to be out for blood. The cuts to Medicaid alone are going to literally kill people (much like the USAID cuts already have overseas) and party politics aren’t going to mean jack shit if you kill Grandma.
Time for death panels!
Obviously, I’d rather it didn’t come to that. Something like the French Revolution, while colorful and exciting, would not be the ideal solution.
The best outcome now can only come if that Bloated Bastard Bill is resoundingly defeated because the Republican herd finally wises up and realizes their constituents are going to burn them at the stake if that thing goes through and decides that now is when they have to, as a group, stand up to Trump and push back.
They have to do it as a group, or at least a bloc, because clearly none of them have the courage to do it on their own.
So much for the party of “mavericks”.
My next video might just be a really nasty polemic aimed at “libertarians”.
If enough Repubs wise up and gang together to, along with the democrats, kill this fucking thing with fire, those Repubs will go down in history as heroes and suddenly the entire Internet (apart from Trump loyalists) will love them.
And as I have noted before, it wouldn’t take a lot of them. The Republican majorities in the House and Senate are not that big. A small gang of defectors is all it would take.
How about it, Republicans? Are you ready to answer your nation’s call and be the hero America needs, or would you rather stay a coward because you’re happy being scared of a weakling like Dumb Donnie?
This WILL be on the test.
Finally decided on a game to try, It’s Atlyss. The furry action RPG that was all the rage last year and that has glowing reviews from both critics and gamers.
So far, I am very unimpressed.
I made my little character (a cute lil demon sort of thing) and entered the game and got the initial “go to these places” quest and then immediately got a “go kill X number of monster Y” quest and I hate that kind of thing.
Talk about uninspiring. I wanted a quest and all I got was a quota. It’s hard to feel like I am battling the forces of evil when the quests don’t even have a plot. Strike one.
And there’s basically no tutorial. A couple of screens to tell you what the controls are, and that’s it. No instructions on how to get to the quest areas, it just plonks you down so you can “explore”.
But I hate learning things by trial and error. My generally nervous and high strung temperament doesn’t allow it. I need to know the basics BEFORE I go looking for adventure and excitement. Strike two.
So I dunno if it will last. I may end up returning it. I’ve played it for around 40 minutes so it has around 79 minutes to impress me before I send it back.
Honestly, it’s only the glowing reviews that keep me from returning it right away. I am willing to consider that maybe there is something I don’t “get” about it yet, something that makes it more than a low rent generic MMO, and I just haven’t gotten far enough in the game to experience the magic of it all yet.
But I am not hopeful. Games like what I’ve seen so far are insanely popular with a LOT of people and so this might just not be the game for me.
If so, well, there’s tons of other possible choices in the Steam Summer Sale.
I will keep you posted.
More after the break.
What the fudge?
So, I had a blood sugar meltdown at Denny’s.
Even though I’ve eaten perfectly normally today. And I have not expended any more effort than usual. So why this happened is a total mystery to me.
I was feeling a slight flutter as I moved from the car to our usual spot in Denny’s, but I didn’t think much of it. Those little vibrations are pretty common for me.
But once I was seated things started sliding downhill pretty fast. Before long, I was feeling nauseous and had a headache that felt like someone had driven a nail into the middle of my forehead and I was sweating and I had this ominous empty feeling all around my core.
And I know what that means. It ain’t good.
Luckily, this was a meltdown, not a crash. A crash is what happens if I don’t heed the warning of a meltdown and get some damned food into me fast.
However, being in a very compromised state, I did not have the presence of mind to ask for help. Logically, I should have said, “I need carbs RIGHT NOW.”
Instead, I just say there in “keeping it together” mode until my food arrived, contributing less than usual to the conversational flow but still more or less present.
It’s worse than futile to berate myself over poor decisions made while in such a state. I did the best I could. And I made it through okay.
Just to be sure, I wanted to get something sugary on the way home but I was having trouble thinking of what I would ask Joe or Julian to get me from 7-11 because like… what would be something sweet but not like… fatally so?
But then Julian suggested a vanilla cone from McD’s, and that was perfect! Ice cream is one of the safer indulgences for me because the dairy keeps the sugar from being absorbed too fast and a nice plain vanilla soft serve cone is good because there’s nothing there EXCEPT ice cream.
The same could not be said for any ice cream treat from 7-11.
And it’s cheap. $2.30. And it really hit the spot.
I am still hungry, however. So I might just make myself a snack at around midnight even though I don’t usually do that on Sundays.
Eating has remarkably high stakes when you’re diabetic.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.