Ruminations on a Cold Day (I am okay, do not worry)
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Save your voice, sir. Hello Tex, it is always a joy to hear from you. Nothing really new on my end this week, joy of the day to you and the team, and Northwind Forever.
Bolo Unit BRL of the Line
2025-02-25 23:35:46 +0000 UTCHey Tex, Youtube has been recommending me some lectures by Sarah Paine of the Naval War College. Do you have any knowledge of (or opinion) on her work?
Big Nick Rethemeyer
2025-02-25 02:37:17 +0000 UTCHey mate. This doesn't have anything to do with the Patreon post, but sPAIN episode 9? That right there showcases why you have such an overwhelmingly loyal fanbase, I feel. Just wanted you to know it was seen, and there was an overwhelming sense of '*this* is why. All of it, this is why I can feel good at having followed along for so long'. Proud of you, man. You don't get told that enough.
Kai Harper
2025-02-24 23:15:42 +0000 UTC[Save voice, or not, you know yourself best] Good day, Mr. Tex. One day I hope everyone in the comments has the "save voice" request and we get 20 minutes of you humming while reading comments to yourself and nothing else. --- Jokes aside, thank you for suggesting the Traveler wiki as a starting point to get into the Traveler universe (this was a question you graciously answered a few weeks ago). The lore is wide and deep. Looking forward to the Traveler documentary. Best to you and your team. Have a great week!
Steve Constant, 'Splash Mountain'
2025-02-24 18:54:00 +0000 UTCSave voice if you wish, but I want to know, do you have any tips for an aspiring spessman? I've played a few rounds on bpl14 and a couple of the other stations as a janitor, but aside from keeping things spic and span im not really sure where to proceed from there.
FlammablePig
2025-02-24 16:01:06 +0000 UTCDealing with a somewhat similar situation - been supplementing with stews and soups whenever possible to deal with a cold/flu. Also trying to get switched over to a different job after a layoff my company did, so that's fun. Hope everything is going reasonably well for both you and the team!
Zetam
2025-02-24 03:12:33 +0000 UTCHiya Tex, please save voice. I think that desire to get away from 'civilization', or maybe even just the oppressive noise of it, is very recognizable to a lot of people. Growing up in one of the most densely populated areas of Europe (in and around The Hague), I feel it got increasingly worse in the 80s and 90s, and while it seems like cities here are working to curb the worst of it, the population density means there's really still no escaping people and traffic. So we trudge on, and take solace in that at least it's not *entirely* a Cyberpunk dystopia.. .. yet. On a different note, I got frustrated enough with UA:D's base game and tried the Dreadnought Improvement Project. Have you looked into it yet? It seems quite promising, with ships being noticeably more difficult to design, forcing you to make choices more so than before. I can do without that Barbette II upgrade.. ... right? Also, Picric Acid I now has a +70% ammo detonation chance, which sounds like it will be hilarious. Fire ships were a thing, yes? sPAIN has been fantastic to watch, though I'm a couple of episodes behind right now. I'll try and catch up soon. Just wanted to check in and let you guys know I still think what you're making is great, and it's a nice respite from an increasingly worrying outside world. You guys take care.
Erdanya
2025-02-24 00:14:30 +0000 UTCHello Tex. Save your voice as you see fit as always. I remember you on a couple occasions saying if your life seems in a rut, something you can do is change up just one small thing. Next week I will be at my job for 10 years and I leave my house 30 minutes a week to pick up food so think that may be a rut. I got back my rifle from my brother, nothing fancy a Savage 110e 7mm Mag. It’s old but in good shape. So I looked up some things and will be joining a range that has fair bi monthly membership and a good firing range. Found a nice basic scope I’ll be picking up soon and spent yesterday finding satisfaction and even some relaxation cleaning the bolt and barrel and getting bolt nice smooth again. My hope is to pick up instead of the 10mm but a good used 9mm Glock as you were right much more reasonable and try and get out twice a month there. I have trouble being social with strangers but since I’m doing something specific thought maybe this could help. Though I’d love to own a Thompson as it was the gun everyone wanted in games I played growing up or they looked amazing in the WW2 movies of my youth or gangster movies, I still have a goal once I’m more debt free of a Colt Python 357, fired one in my 20’s and just never forgot how much fun it was and I like the weight of it. Just wanted to thank you for the advice and hope you and all of legion staff safe and healthy! And one last call back to Ed 209 movie ideas, Ed 209 on the Roof!
Ravoner
2025-02-23 13:12:26 +0000 UTCI'm going to try that now. Thanks
Nerd_Power
2025-02-22 01:57:04 +0000 UTCHey Mr. Tex, no question, just a comment, maybe a morale boost. Had a moment a lot like your hunger for relaxation this week. Mood Kindred. I also work in certain industries in another country that’s become pretty relevant to yours of late. We share a border, I’ll leave it at that. I used to do what I do out of a youthful idea of “Queen and Country.” I’m getting too old and too broken and too tired to think that way anymore. These days, I do what I do, I make what I make, to support the parts of my life I care about. Longtime watcher. Recent supporter. I like what you do. I’m happy to finally be in a position contribute because it goes to good, and it’s reciprocal, as your work does me good too. Also, as a whiskEy guy, thanks for the Applejack intro a while back. Stuffs great on a cold northern day.
Crunch Actual
2025-02-22 00:42:06 +0000 UTCHey Tex, random idea. What about a radio play that is wedged into the Knife Fight City Cinematic Universe. To add to the fun it could be the 3rd prequel to the 7th sequel with absolutely no other context given than this is an interlude. Knife Fight City will return this summer 1993. Just thinking of people stumbling upon it and then trying to find the archive of the rest of the KFCCU. Thank you to you and the team. Keep being awesome and take my dollar.
Captain_Chemtrail
2025-02-20 20:00:37 +0000 UTCGoing to write this down...
Kasperl Stormcrow
2025-02-20 10:21:55 +0000 UTC[Save Voice as Necessary] As disgusting as it may sound in concept, I highly recommend the Neti Pot for treating sinus congestion. It literally pushes out loose drainage with the fluid and can help moisturize the sinus cavity. It was a major relief for me when I went through rotating sinus infections before I got my wisdom teeth removed; the roots of the things had compressed my sinus cavity by nearly 1 mil.
Kasperl Stormcrow
2025-02-20 10:21:05 +0000 UTCNo voice, use brain, much good... Idaho has a fair amount of open and empty with just enough civilization to be comfortable. Just saying... Also question: If you had to set up a hunchback for the Solaris 7 arena what would you go with? I am a fan of the Gause and medium pulse laser combo myself.
ManUnmade
2025-02-20 10:13:29 +0000 UTCHey Tex, voice reminder, hope you're feeling better by the time you read this. Update on my BT campaign, players are still on Twycross, they had their first taste of piloting Clan mechs as I ran a scenario based on an episode of the cartoon, where they steal some Elemental suits, but got one better as they got a Thor, Fenris and an Uller to break out and ran into a slightly angry Nicolai Malthus. The Fenris got torn up, but the rest of the team ganged up on Nicky and with some reinforcements arriving in the nick of time they got the Elementals and two mechs out. They also figured that giving them up was a smart move. They are about to run into Kristen Redmond in an altered version of the Desperate Measures scenario from the Twycross scenario book. If they win a proper trial of possession the supply trucks get out and they can move to the finale.
Nonkel Bob
2025-02-20 07:28:55 +0000 UTCHope ya Recover Tex, The Weather has decided to be, funky, this week.
Grimos
2025-02-20 04:44:06 +0000 UTCGood evening mister Tex! Save voice! Writing this shortly after finishing session 1 of the Magistratum Mundanus Ran a Grox in a China shop encounter, they stormed in, and beat the Grox to death with night sticks. Almost no porcelain was saved. The feral worlder got hurt pretty bad while trying to grab it by the horns. Ran the underhill bank heist, I rolled three critical failures in a row for the ratlings outside the bank, the feral worlder lept off the taurox and gave a rattling The People’s Elbow. Three more ratlings as barricaded suspects in the bank. The hiver rat-catcher cut the power, and delta squad closed with the foe and beat them to death with sticks except for one who got his mind torn to pulp by our psyker. They didn’t even touch the quadbore or heavy repeater, they barely used the revolver(2 shots were fired total by the PCs) it was nightsticks and riot shields. I cannot wait for session 2.
Costco Hotdog with Relish
2025-02-20 04:42:05 +0000 UTCMy t-shirt that says 'I am not bleeding' is raising a lot of questions
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-02-20 03:24:17 +0000 UTCThat Kalamazoo toughness coming through Tex. Lansing or Annarbor?
Iain Hutchinson
2025-02-20 02:23:33 +0000 UTCyeah it's going around, I got it from roomie. Like you said in sPAIN, the hot and the cold and the hot and the cold and the hot and the cold You don't want to stop. We know. You just want better *terms and conditions*. Which is healthy.
Jay McIntyre
2025-02-20 01:21:22 +0000 UTCHmm, chicken soup... Hmmm... (Save voice if desired, spread recipe around as you like) One toob of biscuits One family-pack of bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs salt, pepper. Just eyeball it. Open the Toob, roll out each individual biscuit as flat as possible then cut with a pizza-cutter (or a knife, I won't judge) to get pieces an inch wide or less and 3-4 inches long. You don't have to be exact, that's part of the fun. Layer the biscuit-bits between paper-towels and store on the counter if it's cold out or in the fridge if it's not. Inspect and clean the chicken-thighs, just rinse them with cold water and pull-out and either discard or save any of the really big globs of fat you find. (You can do things with chicken fat, but we won't do them here.) You'll need a slow-cooker, pressure-cooker, or big pot. If your stove isn't seriously reliable with keeping temperature go with the slow-cooker/pressure-cooker option, if you don't have one tell grandma or one of your great-aunts that you don't and that'll usually sort that out right quick. If the slow-cooker/pressure-cooker has a saute function just turn it on and turn it up and put the chicken skin-side down in the bottom in a single layer, you may have to work in batches. If using a pot just heat the pot and again work in batches, or use a pan if using a cooker without the saute function. Cook 'til about halfway done then evacuate and de-glaze with water, I shouldn't have to tell you what de-glazing means. Put all the chicken in the preferred cooking-vessel and add water until it's maybe two inches above the chicken but not so high that it's more than three inches to the top. Bring it to a boil, skim the scum, turn the heat down and season generously with salt before simmering for about 4-6 hours (A pressure cooker will do all this for you in half the time, remember to add the salt before you seal the lid). Once that's done let it cool before covering the cooking vessel and setting it in the garage if it's cold out (Fridge if it's not) and come back tomorrow. Tomorrow. Pull the pot of stock and the stowed flattened biscuit-bits and set 'em on the counter. Pull the chicken out of the pot (strain it into another vessel if that's easier, just remember to put the stock back in the pot) and while waiting for the biscuit-bits to get to room temperature start picking apart the chicken, remove all the bones, skin, and gristle (If you know how to make chicken cracklin's, go for it) then break-up the remaining meat into shreds. ("To shreds you say?") Bring the stock up to a simmer and check the seasoning, add more salt if needed. Start putting in the biscuits and stir occasionally making sure to try to keep the biscuits circulating and seperated as the soup simmers. Biscuit-strips should look like fat, squishy noodles when they're done. Get yourself a good-sized soup-bowl, add a handfull of the shredded chicken-meat, pour over with the soop and toob-biscuits. Sprinkle some fresh pepper on top as desired. There ya go, Rural penicillin, Chic'n and dumplin's.
Molly McAllister
2025-02-20 01:10:26 +0000 UTCDear Tex if you can have any world war one tank what would it be? Mine would be the Tsar Tank only because it looks like it came out of a steampunk novel.
russell marsh
2025-02-20 01:04:21 +0000 UTCRest up Tex same thing happens to me in summer here going from aircon to heat and back again
Geoffrey Heathcote
2025-02-20 00:47:35 +0000 UTCIt snowed in van zandt co today. I'm taking a dayquil shot with you. Salute.
Wulf202
2025-02-20 00:30:32 +0000 UTCNo questions here just ramblings. Be well tex! Long live the Muffinbeard! (Maybe we could talk Howard Hughes into recovering it 🤪) I’m very intrigued by what you hinted at in regard to UAD. Currently doing a Germanic play through where I plan to unleash fleets of submarines by 1914 and go completely unrestricted just to see what happens. All focused research has been in submarines since the start. It’s made fleet battles… interesting 🤪 Anyhoo…. Hope you’re feeling better when you read this!
Akaelik
2025-02-20 00:22:48 +0000 UTC[save voice] Just going to drop this here - a few weeks ago I read a 46.7 degrees CELCIUS in my back yard. I live in suburbia in one of Australia's capital cities. It's not just the drop bears that try to kill you down here.
Adrian
2025-02-20 00:18:44 +0000 UTCHope you feel better Tex. I know how horrible a bad case of sinus pressure can be. I just started being a patrom because I've got a few extra bucks I can spare to fund some quality shit posts. I hope you get well soon. One last thing, thank you for being my introduction into the battletech universe.
john Gavin
2025-02-19 23:55:31 +0000 UTC
