I was just pointing out the way on a limb theoretical to cover all my bases. The Presidential pardon could in theory be used on a mass scale (and it has been in the past) but in realistic terms, no it won't happen. That said, inside the realm of some sort of reality weed will still be a factor on 4473 until the law either removes the question about illegal drugs, or weed is made federally legal. That's not something controlled solely by the executive branch.
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Simon Fenvan. Human, male, fighter. Fighting through the Curse of Strahd setting to look for his missing brother.
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I finally got back out, and now should be able to play more regularly for a while. I played in the woods, and the field had a pretty good sized crowd on Saturday.
I felt that I personally did well, and am particularly pleased with getting more use out of the pistol. I got a number of kills with it, including a few times where I dropped my MP5 entirely to run in for pistol kills to finish off enemies in 1-life team death matches.
The pictured loadout is a CYMA MP5SD, which I've had for a few years now. Overall a good airsoft gun, although I have been looking at some replacement solutions for its spongy trigger. There is a pretty cheap Monstrum 3x Prism on top, with an off bran ACOG kill flash taped to the front as a lens protector. The Surefire light was quickly ziptied on the night before as I had originally planned to go to a CQB arena rather than the woods field. I think I'll just leave it in place though, it is surprisingly snug on the gun.
The pistol is a CO2 Umarex Glock. No moving slide and only a 15 BB magazine. Still useful for niche situations. The holster is new (to me) and I am happy to finally have a crisp thumbs map to replace the large and bulky USGI universal holster. Bad on me for not noticing until Saturday that the drop panel was missing a buckle, forcing me to tape up the top strap out of the way. This lead to the holster being a little wobbly on my leg. I will likely replace that with a USGI leg extender I already own.
DYE i5 mask, which has always worked great. It is painted the same as the MP5, and also is obscured under a sniper veil which I have attached to the top brim; the veil can be pushed back and under the mask's backstrap to get it out of the way, or it can be draped over the mask and tucked into the collar if I am really feeling like I want to kill the glint and shape of the lens.
USGI FLC with a pair of cheap triple mag shingles for the mags. The mag shingles are sized for AR mags but I've found that I like them for MP5 mags better than purpose made pouches. This also gives easy versatility if I get an airsoft AR.
Camo-wise I hadn't updated out of the summer time bias towards green. I still had great success creeping up on it around the enemy team, but I also feel more comfortable when I've updated colors for the season. There is another hat with more fall time browns I will switch to, and all of the painted camo will soon go to browns and tans to match the winter time woods.
I cut off at 1999 because that's when The Phantom Menace came out. I still enjoy what that following era of the EU became, but TPM completely transformed the shape of the Star Wars EU. While the pre- and post- TPM EU is still officially the same continuity, the texture was so changed that you can easily treat them as two different visions of Star Wars.
I'm incredibly curious if the pulled A-Life 2.0 code is still in the game somewhere. If modders implement it and get it populating in a sufficiently large radius it will really cement this game as a mainstay for a long time.
Star Wars, specifically the universe created by the EU from 1991 to 1999. It was a wide open wild west of ideas. The details of the clone wars hadn't been established, Anakin Skywalker as the chosen one didn't exist, and there was just such a massive variety of content.
He seems like he follows whatever gives him the best position. Projecting moderation to the west is a no-brainer, but he also has to contend with projecting the correct stance to the groups inside Syria and that is likely going to be a much less moderate one.
There is also the outside factors of Russia, Iran, and the US. There are a lot of considerations for all of them and I won't even pretend to predict how they will all act and react, but I do want acknowledge they can and likely will all drastically affect Syria.
I see your meaning, and this kind of confusion is exactly why Section 31 is so tricky to put in a story. It's a secret handshake club, which may well go to the highest levels, but it doesn't have official paperwork. There are likely varying levels of being in the know. Certainly many high ranking members of Starfleet know of S31, but opinions may vary in a sliding scale from "actively partaking in it" to "knowing it exists but choosing to look the other way" to "hearing it exists but assuming it's mostly overblown rumors".
Nobody is going to FOIA request the Section 31 files from Starfleet some day. That's the difference between it and "CIA but in Space" that modern writing treats it as.
Backing by high individuals is a still a conspiratorial entity.
What I don't like about the trailer is the implication Section 31 has official Starfleet oversight to reel it in from being too crazy. The whole idea is that it is a rogue entity with no oversight.
Likely the HTS, which is the main rebel group that lead the new offensive and which has already absorbed or eliminated many other groups in Syria.
They are a Sunni Islamist group, but they also are against Al-Queda. But only opposed to them since 2020. But HTS is still considered a terrorist organization by the US, UK, and Canada. But Timber Sycamore shows historically that the US may publicly designate a group as terrorists in Syria while style still supporting them privately. HTS is strongly opposed to Russia and has spilled a lot of blood to prove it.
So, in short, is this a good or bad event: I dunno.
For what it's worth, 'In The Pale Moonlight' ("I can live with it.") wasn't Section 31. That was pure Sisko. At that moment his methods and attitude aligned with what Section 31 would have done, but he was independent.
Nothing will ever top the Modern Warfare 2 Infamy trailer.
Imagine it is 2009 and you have no idea what the future of COD looks like, no clue what is going to happen in MW2, and you see this trailer.