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Cake day: December 23rd, 2025

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  • “Thanks for saving the lives of everyone in town on your journey to save literally the entire dimension of tamriel from dragon anti-christ, as a favor to you I will allow you to buy a vacant home for the price of 3 of the most powerful artifacts known to merkind, or the proceeds of killing a small army of bandits.”

    ~Man Speaking Before a Quick Save







  • Sadly that’s a little overoptimistic. Iran’s current form, and Syria’s before it, was the result of Western versus Easter Bloc proxy war. All of Iran’s military capability comes from Russia and China, and until the 3 or 4 participating world powers drop off the end of the earth it’s probably not going to be over anytime soon. Libya might actually be the exception because they played both sides for a while and Gaddafi maximized personal gains that way for a while.

    Actually, with China’s involvements in Africa I’m expecting the violence and destruction we see in the middle east to only expand further south.

    And the USA and EU are no saints in this, either, I admit we’ve been far too tolerant of pieces of shit like Netanyahu, Erdogan, etc. Hell, if things were going better we might be supporting another dictator regime with the Shah Faction of Iran, as fucked up as that is.

    May democracy and prosperity find the regions before I take my final breaths.