Recent content by Walpurgisnacht

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Absolutely dizzying.

It's a 90s-forever list, I felt I should lean into that in the online experience a bit. (Is it more sustainable than the hope-the-one-advertiser-and-500-VCs-never-question-where-the-money-pit-leads model we ended up with? Maybe. Does it also keep the Internet, and the counterculture on it, very...

This was my submission for last month's list challenge! This month's challenge is themed around Mistakes, and there's still a week and a bit to get an entry in! The Square Meatball Premiers of the Union of Sovereign States: 1991-2022: Mikhail Gorbachev (Union of Socialist Democrats) def 1991...

Chaos Is A Lavr Commander-in-Chief of the Russian State: 1917-1919: Lavr G. Kornilov (Military Dictatorship) 1919-1942: Lavr G. Kornilov (Union of Russian Salvation) 1942-1953: Alexei A. von Lampe (Union of Russian Salvation) 1953-1956: Nikolai V. Lvov (Union of Russian Salvation) There have...

As much as the mind recoils, that was pretty close to the original Lee/Kirby pitch, wasn't it? The core appeal of the team was that they were superheroes with a bickering-family setup and defined personalities, a formula that got copied by most notably the X-Men (who added the soap operatic...

They could theoretically be the same death, if whoever was running the !Manhattan Project was very cavalier about the President's mental health.

“As per the most recent round of negotiations, Ukraine will give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for inheriting the former Soviet Union’s qualification for the knock-out stage of the World Cup…”

Top 5 Funniest Presidential Deaths: 5. 4. 3. John Connally 2. Harry Truman 1. Strom Thurmond Dishonorable Mention (Unfunny Death): Marion Zioncheck

Credit to @Indicus for sharing this one on Discord:

You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find something for this With all votes counted, our winner has been constructed as @Steve Brinson with his list The Commanding Heights! Comiserations to the losers, who will now be made to build a gigantic statue of him in North Dakota. Go get your...

Leaders of the UK (post-American occupation) 1950 - 1951: Field Marshal Peter Kemp 1951 - 1955: Kim Philby 1955 - 1958: Jack Jones 1958 - 1964: William Warbey 1964 - 1975: Rab Butler 1975 - 1979: Robert Carr 1979 - 1979: Janet Young, Baroness Young 1979 - 1979: Henry Plumb 1979 - 1981: John...

April Fools! I moved the start of the contest to the next day! (This is absolutely 100% the real reason and I did not forget.) The rules are simple; I give a prompt, and you have until 9:00pm on the last day of the month (or whenever I remember to post the announcement on that day) to post a...

There’s a lot going on here, but I think the highlight might throwing Dr Robotnik into the sea of characters-that-are-the-same here. That hedgehog really deserves his ego. “Rule of thumb, Horus: you can’t kill the messiah.”

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