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[grumbler]

Rob alwys has interesting videos, but I thought that this one would be of interest to wargamers.

[Syt]

A look back at Pirates! on C64, Pirates! Gold on Sega Genesis and Pirates! Live the Life on Windows:

I spent so much time with Pirates! on C64 - the first time I encountered an open world sandbox game. And with its lack of in game references I became very well acquainted with the locations of ports in 17th century Caribbean using my dad's atlas.

(And I could tell what ship I was encountering, based on the sound of the 1541-II disk drive when loading the graphic. )

[The Brain]

Pirates! was the shit. Great manual too.

[Syt]

John Wick in Red Dead Redemption 2:

And Saul Goodman in RDR2:

[Admiral Yi]

I got a chuckle.  Futbol mom in leggings looks good too.

BTW do Yuros have the soccer mom concept?

[Norgy]

BTW do Yuros have the soccer mom concept?

More of a "sports parents" concept, because most children are at some point in organised sports and need to be driven to practice, competitions and matches. And sometimes fights break out. Not on the pitches but among parents. 

The "dad coach" is more common here in Norway. Usually it is urban professionals who try to push their sons or daughters to fulfill their own failed ambitions in sports.

[Josquius]

Football dads are definitely a thing.
The dad who really pushes their kid to get into football no matter the kid's actual interest level, shows up to all their games and will act like its an incredibly serious professional match, abusing the officials, opposition players, etc....

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/apr/24/one-father-threatened-to-stab-the-referee-why-does-kids-football-bring-out-the-worst-in-parents

[Savonarola]

This past weekend my wife and I went to the Vero Beach Museum of Art where they had three sets of Pablo Picasso's Linocuts, which are like woodcuts or lithographs but done in linoleum rather than wood or stone.  They had this video from Harvard University explaining the technique in depth:

Where the woman in the video replicates making a Picasso linocut.

(Also we listened to The Modern Lovers on the way to the exhibition for motivation.)