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Escuchamos hoy el recital que ofreció el pasado 4 de abril la cantaora Rocío Luna en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Un concierto que forma parte del ciclo Aienruta Flamenco que promueve la Aie y que presenta en directo a flamencos jóvenes en distintos ámbitos como el cante, la guitarra u otros instrumentos.Escuchar audio

No relatório mensal de abril, a Agência Internacional de Energia (AIE) prevê que o consumo de petróleo este ano se situe nos 103,54 milhões de barrisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

En Cultura Rápida repasamos las noticias del día: las nuevas categorías en los premios Óscar, España como país invitado en la Feria del Libro de Bogotá y la causa de santidad de Antoni Gaudí.Más o menos conocemos nuestras propias mentes. Pero ¿cómo de diferentes son a las de los grandes artistas?Mario de la Piedra Walter nos lo intenta explicar junto a su libro Mentes geniales. Cómo funciona el cerebro de los artistas editado por Debate.Carlos Igual nos cuenta los próximos conciertos del ciclo AIEnRuta de AIE. También hablamos con Santi Camuñas por el Rock Villa de Madrid y el intercambio con LIPA Liverpool.Meritxell Neddermann estará el 24 de abril en Casa das Crechas (Santiago) y el 25 en El Náutico (Pontevedra).Repion tocará el 25 de abril en El Veintiuno (Huesca) y el 26 en La Lata de Bombillas (Zaragoza).Space Space Surimi dará conciertos el 25 de abril en la Sala H (Ponferrada), el 26 en La Salvaje (Oviedo) y el 9 de mayo en Garaje Beat (Murcia).Y en Barra Libre, Aloma Rodríguez charla con Miguel Alcalá del bar Fonda Alcalá de Calaceite, el pueblo en el que vivió Donoso durante un lustro y que visitaron autores como Mario Vargas Llosa.Escuchar audio

Carlos Igual nos cuenta los próximos conciertos del ciclo AIEnRuta de AIE. También hablamos con Santi Camuñas por el Rock Villa de Madrid y el intercambio con LIPA Liverpool.Meritxell Neddermann estará el 24 de abril en Casa das Crechas (Santiago) y el 25 en El Náutico (Pontevedra). Repion tocará el 25 de abril en El Veintiuno (Huesca) y el 26 en La Lata de Bombillas (Zaragoza). Space Space Surimi dará conciertos el 25 de abril en la Sala H (Ponferrada), el 26 en La Salvaje (Oviedo) y el 9 de mayo en Garaje Beat (Murcia).Escuchar audio

L'essor de l'IA générative soulève de sérieuses préoccupations quant à leur appétit énergétique : selon l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE), une requête à ChatGPT consomme 10 fois plus d'électricité par rapport à une recherche Google. Pour répondre à ces défis environnementaux, l'IA frugale se présente comme une alternative écoresponsable. Pour parler de ce sujet au cœur du Sommet international pour l'action sur l'intelligence artificielle, organisé à Paris en février dernier, nous recevons Anna Médan, cheffe de projet normalisation à l'AFNOR, spécialiste des questions numériques. Elle revient sur l'empreinte environnementale de cette technologie (au-delà des émissions carbone), ainsi que le référentiel AFNOR proposant des méthodologies et bonnes pratiques pour mesurer et réduire l'impact des solutions d'IA. Pour en savoir plus :https://www.afnor.org/actualites/referentiel-pour-mesurer-et-reduire-impact-environnemental-de-ia/https://www.capgemini.com/fr-fr/perspectives/publications/sustainability-developper-ia-generative-durable/

C'est le nouveau casse-tête du marché du gaz : la Chine, première consommatrice d'hydrocarbures, achète moins de gaz sur le marché international et cherche à en produire de plus en plus sur son territoire. Un changement de stratégie qui n'est pas sans conséquence pour le secteur. Cette tendance se traduit par une réduction des importations de gaz par voie maritime. Sur les deux premiers mois de l'année, ces achats ont atteint leur plus bas niveau depuis sept ans et pour le Premier trimestre, on se dirige vers une baisse de 20 %. La tendance est si forte que plusieurs cabinets d'analyse ont baissé les prévisions d'achats de la Chine pour 2025.La première explication est que la demande a diminué, mais aussi que le pays s'approvisionne autrement : l'Empire du Milieu importe plus de gaz par pipeline de Russie et du Kazakhstan et la production locale chinoise est en hausse, + 6 % l'année dernière. Les géants chinois des hydrocarbures tels que Sinopec et Cnooc ont relevé leurs objectifs de production de gaz. Le gaz représente désormais 54 % de la production de Petrochina, selon l'agence Bloomberg. Les équilibres du marché en questionExxon Mobil, Shell ou TotalEnergies avaient tablé ces dernières années sur une croissance de la demande chinoise pendant des décennies. « En 2024 encore, la Chine représentait à elle seule plus d'un quart de la croissance de la demande mondiale de gaz », explique Greg Molnar, l'expert en gaz de l'Agence internationale de l'Énergie (AIE).Ces compagnies pétrolières internationales ont investi des milliards de dollars dans des projets de GNL aux États-Unis et au Qatar avec l'objectif d'augmenter la capacité de production de 50 % dans les cinq prochaines années. Le ralentissement des achats chinois sème dorénavant le doute sur le rôle que jouera la Chine dans les prochains mois dans la croissance du marché et sur l'état de la demande chinoise. D'autant que le pays a considérablement réduit aussi ses achats pour une livraison immédiate, mais privilégie désormais des contrats de GNL à long terme, indexés sur le pétrole, « ce qui met en évidence la relative conscience des prix des acheteurs chinois », relève l'expert de l'AIE. Les Européens peuvent-ils en profiter ?À court terme, cette situation pourrait faire l'affaire des Européens, qui sont en concurrence avec l'Empire du Milieu pour acheter du GNL. Moins de bateaux qui partent vers la Chine, c'est plus de volumes disponibles pour l'Europe, et peut-être à meilleur prix.Un atout de taille pour les acheteurs européens qui ont vidé leur stock ces derniers mois et vont devoir le reconstituer avant l'hiver prochain. Les importations de GNL en Europe occidentale ont d'ailleurs atteint leur plus haut niveau pour un mois de mars, jamais enregistré depuis 2017, selon les données de suivi des navires compilées par Bloomberg.Autre conséquence, la demande actuelle et la moindre croissance de la demande chinoise pousse « de nombreux acheteurs chinois à renforcer leurs capacités de négoce et à revendre leurs cargaisons de GNL à d'autres marchés, qui sont prêts à payer une prime dans les conditions de marché tendues actuelles », note Greg Molnar. À lire aussiLa Chine compte sur ses découvertes de gaz «sans précédent» dans la course aux technologies

L'émission 28 minutes du 26/03/2025 Pour l'historienne Sophie Bessis, "on raconte n'importe quoi sur les Juifs et les Arabes"Sophie Bessis, historienne spécialiste de l'Afrique subsaharienne et du Maghreb, est issue d'une famille de la bourgeoisie juive tunisienne. Dans “La civilisation judéo-chrétienne. Anatomie d'une imposture” (éditions Les liens qui libèrent), elle interroge cette notion. Elle considère que parler de “civilisation judéo-chrétienne” pour qualifier la civilisation occidentale est “une invention” historique. Selon elle, cela permet “d'exclure l'islam [du] triptyque monothéiste alors qu'il en est partie prenante” mais aussi aux Européens “d'occulter près de deux millénaires d'antisémitisme”. D'autre part, elle considère que cette notion a permis, “en particulier aux nationalistes arabes et aux islamistes, d'exclure le monde juif oriental de l'histoire de la région, alors qu'il en fait partie intégrante, et d'affirmer qu'il existe un complot judéo-chrétien contre les Arabes et les musulmans”. Aujourd'hui, elle estime que ce concept “sert les politiques de droite et d'extrême droite en Europe et en Occident”.Hausse mondiale des émissions de CO2 : dans la spirale infernale de la climatisation ? Dans son rapport annuel publié lundi 24 mars, l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE) révèle que les émissions mondiales de CO2 du secteur de l'énergie ont continué d'augmenter en 2024 : + 0,8 % sur un an. Si la hausse ralentit du fait de l'expansion des énergies bas carbone et des renouvelables, le rapport note qu'elle est causée à 80 % par l'utilisation croissante de la climatisation pour répondre aux fortes chaleurs. La planète semble alors être prise dans un cercle vicieux infernal. Freiner l'usage de la climatisation peut être tentant dans les pays occidentaux où des alternatives existent comme la végétalisation mais dans certains pays émergents, la climatisation est le seul remède immédiat à la chaleur. Comment briser ce cycle considérant que tous les pays du monde ne sont pas au même stade de leur transition énergétique ?Enfin, Xavier Mauduit nous raconte que les Américains voulaient déjà acheter le Groenland au 19e siècle, alors que le vice-président américain actuel J.D. Vance a annoncé qu'il allait s'y rendre avec son épouse à partir du 27 mars. Marie Bonnisseau nous présente la secte japonaise Moon, dont la dissolution juridique a été ordonnée hier à Tokyo. Elle était dans le collimateur de la justice depuis la révélation de ses liens avec l'assassinat de l'ancien Premier ministre Shinzo Abe en juillet 2022. 28 minutes est le magazine d'actualité d'ARTE, présenté par Élisabeth Quin du lundi au jeudi à 20h05. Renaud Dély est aux commandes de l'émission le vendredi et le samedi. Ce podcast est coproduit par KM et ARTE Radio. Enregistrement 26 mars 2025 Présentation Élisabeth Quin Production KM, ARTE Radio

L'émission 28 minutes du 26/03/2025 Hausse mondiale des émissions de CO2 : dans la spirale infernale de la climatisation ?Dans son rapport annuel, l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE) révèle que les émissions mondiales de CO2 du secteur de l'énergie ont continué d'augmenter en 2024 : + 0,8 % sur un an. Si la hausse ralentit du fait de l'expansion des énergies bas carbone et des renouvelables, le rapport note qu'elle est causée à 80 % par l'utilisation croissante de la climatisation.On en débat avec Yamina Saheb, ingénieure et docteure en énergétique et experte du GIEC, Emmanuelle Patte, architecte spécialisée dans les projets bioclimatiques, Martial Ze Belinga, économiste et sociologue. 28 minutes est le magazine d'actualité d'ARTE, présenté par Élisabeth Quin du lundi au jeudi à 20h05. Renaud Dély est aux commandes de l'émission le vendredi et le samedi. Ce podcast est coproduit par KM et ARTE Radio. Enregistrement 26 mars 2025 Présentation Élisabeth Quin Production KM, ARTE Radio

NESTA EDIÇÃO. Novas tarifas dos EUA contra petróleo da Venezuela devem impactar países asiáticos. PPSA tem novo presidente a partir de 1º de abril. Sulgás obtém vitória parcial na revisão tarifária de 2024. Demanda global por energia elétrica acelerou 2,2% em 2024, diz AIE. OMC debate tarifas da União Europeia sobre veículos elétricos chineses.

Hoy continúan las negociaciones para alcanzar un alto el fuego en Ucrania. Es el turno para las delegaciones de EEUU y Rusia. La mayor parte de las cinco horas de la reunión entre EEUU y Ucrania han estado centradas en un alto el fuego parcial sobre las instalaciones energéticas y las infraestructuras críticas.Las emisiones de CO2 de la energía crecen un 0,8 % en 2024 hasta un nuevo récord anual, según la AIE. Aunque la inversión privada en España ha aumentado un 1,7% en 2024 sigue por debajo de los niveles previos a la pandemia según un informe del Ivie y la Fundación BBVA.

Hoy continúan las negociaciones para alcanzar un alto el fuego en Ucrania. Es el turno para las delegaciones de EEUU y Rusia. La mayor parte de las cinco horas de la reunión entre EEUU y Ucrania han estado centradas en un alto el fuego parcial sobre las instalaciones energéticas y las infraestructuras críticas.Las emisiones de CO2 de la energía crecen un 0,8 % en 2024 hasta un nuevo récord anual, según la AIE. Aunque la inversión privada en España ha aumentado un 1,7% en 2024 sigue por debajo de los niveles previos a la pandemia según un informe del Ivie y la Fundación BBVA.

insta : laboite2chocolat ou la_boitedechocolatPour ce 26 eme on va se remettre sur le dos de Massimo et de Laura, t'façon on va pas les lâcher ceux la !Aie aie aie aie ! Que vous dire de ce film si ce n'est que c'est un chef d'oeuvre du nanar !Il est au nanar ce que la crème anglaise est au brownie, quelque chose d'additif, ce petit gout sucré qui te dit "oui, je suis un piège mais je suis délicieux"Je ne peux que vous conseiller de regarder ce film qui, honnêtement dépasse toutes les espérances.Ce film va vous surprendre en tout point, par son "twist" incroyablement gros mais que pourtant nous ne voyons pas venir, il vous surprendra également par le jeu de ses acteurs notamment Massimo qui... Pensez crème anglaise ! Mais il vous surprendra surtout par ses scènes, mention spéciale aux 20 premières minutes du film qui se disent "Tu sais quoi ? Fond de 5, on y va !"Si vous ne l'avez pas encore vu, honnêtement je vous envie du plus profond de mon âme .Pour parler de ce miracle cinématographique, on retrouve Thomas, Charlie, l'autre Thomas, Jennifer et Mia.N'hésitez pas d'ailleurs à nous LAISSER DES COMMENTAIRES ET AUSSI DES BONNES ETOILES (déjà parce qu'on est des gens cool), et puis aussi suggérez nous des films, on les fera avec plaisir.VOUS ETES DE PLUS EN PLUS NOMBREUX, SOYEZ DE MOINS EN MOINS TIMIDE voici notre mail pour toutes suggestions / propositions de films : laboitedechocolatmail@gmail.com Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Aie aie aie, nous savons que ce titre va attirer l'attention.Ne vous y trompez pas, nous avons eu beaucoup de belles connections pendant l'événement mais nous nous avons eu un contact particulier avec Bérangère.Tout d'abord, elle a accepté, en moins de 24h, de remplacer Louise Bourrat à moins de 15 jours de la collaboration qu'elle avait chez Héléna et au Portus 360. Elle était hyper contente de venir à Montréal, tellement que pour la première fois, elle a laissé son équipe toute seule plusieurs jours.Ensuite nous avons passé beaucoup de temps avec elle, nous avons visité quelques fermes urbaines dont Lufafarm, redfrogLab et Opercule, la Coop agricole et Locavore. Nous lui avons fait découvrir La cabane du Pied de Cochon où elle a pu manger un repas Gargantuesque. La vidéo qui montre sa réaction à la vue des desserts est d'ailleurs notre plus gros hit puisqu'elle a été vue plus de 1 million de fois sur Facebook et près de 550 000 fois sur Instagram.Bérangère est une personne entière, une cheffe et une entrepreneuse autodidacte. Le podcast en public est un franc succès, on a pu entendre beaucoup de rires pendant l'enregistrement en public. Beaucoup de sujets intéressants sont abordés : la violence et l'intimidation en cuisine, le Michelin, la communauté Écotable et bien d'autres.Ce podcast a été enregistré au Portus 360 de Helena Loureiro pendant Montréal en lumière.On est dans le jus, le podcast de la restauration au Québec.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Get ready for a new Heresy Vegas, now available in WoW Repentance has (almost) arrived We have a LOTRO 64 bit server update And, Corley is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio http://youtu.be/yCpEVGV78Bg Open Welcome to episode #434 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (hey guys, there are lemon bars and dark chocolate cookies in the guild kitchen- you know, light side and dark side!). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guest Corley who is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into SWTOR shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Destiny 2 - We are currently in Episode Heresy, Act 1. Act 2 launches this Tuesday with a new mode called Court of Blades. It takes inspiration from Destiny 1 Court of Oryx. It has an augment system similar to what WoW had in Torghast. 5 new weapons are tied to this activity. Guardian games also launches with Act 2. Guardian games has a boss rush mode as an activity. Bungie had a developer stream last week going over Act 2, and gave information on new things coming in Act 3 which launches only 3 weeks after Act 2. Act 3 has a mode coming that is basically what LFR is in Wow but for Destiny 2 dungeons called explorer mode. It seems pretty cool, basically a matchmade activity with a lot of markers and tips in game on how to complete the dungeon. No organized guild activities, there are a handful of us still playing and getting together to run Nightfalls and dungeons. WoW In WoW news, the Liberation of Undermine Raid arrived, with lots of crazy mechanics and a big Vegas vibe. First boss Vexie and the Geargrinders make quite an entrance! You have been warned. Raid Team Kiddie Aggro cleared Normal (Good night, Gallywix) as well as Vexie on Heroic. Alliance Raid team Hell Froze Over downed five bosses on Normal - up to Sprocket-monger Lockenstock. Their progression Team, So Let's Go Skating - picks up right about now with The One-Armed Bandit. Noob Raid defeated two bosses - Vexie and the Cauldron of Carnage (aka Mecha Kong vs Fire Breathing T-Rex) and the weekly World Boss. Great job, Noob Raiders! There is one wing (three bosses) available in LFR for those with gear level 606. On Tuesday, the raid will be available on Story Mode for solo players. You don't get loot but can complete a quest for a nice crafting upgrade item. Delves in Season 2 award a new customizable mount: Delver's Gob-Trotter, and Bran can now tank,

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Are you ready to patch? The next ToT tournament starts tomorrow Are Dilithum crystals the traditional gift for 15th anniversary? 64 is the new 32 Our friends Lars and Grebog are here to talk about WoW and STO and Live Service games All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/x1gUF5wLWl8 Open Welcome to episode #433 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Lars and Grebog! Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into our discussion shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Fez has a Valheim server. ARK servers are still running for anyone that wants to jump in. No Man Sky is having a little chatter. Dune Awakening - May 20th for Dune Awakening.There will be AIE in there and at least one non-officer has asked about AIE groups. Ashes of Creation - Beta is in progress. Bhock is playing and I'm sure there are some others. Still a ways out for official release. WoW Patch 11.1 releases this Tuesday Feb 25th, and Season 2 begins the following week on March 4th! Per usual, many class and system changes will come with the patch, and the season brings a new raid and mythic+ dungeon pool WoW Classic Quiet in Cataclysm Classic. The word is the pre-patch for Mists of Pandaria classic will drop before July 31 and full release before August 31. Still some action in the 20th anniversary classic. @redrum is nudging me to run dungeons with a group (Horde side). AIE guild exists on DreamScythe Horde side. I am also working on Hardcore solo self-found on the 20th anniversary Doomhowl server and publishing my progress via my YT channel. The raid team stopped playing cata classic last summer, it looks like there's still a handful of players logging in though The final cata raid Dragon Soul was released yesterday, and heroic was cleared in an hour by the world first team Season of Discovery is in Phase 7. We had folks in there in early phases but no recent participation. Brand new content like Karazhan Crypts (5-person) and upcoming Scarlet Enclave Raid. Apparently catch-up mechanics are good so perhaps some of us may jump back in to check it out. SWTOR Live stream next week, new content coming, cleared new Lair boss, won another planet. ESO Kraemer will be hosting the next ToT tournament which will run from 02/24 - 03/31. The prizes include houses from the crown store and piles of gold. Let Kraemer know if you'd like to join in the fun.

Volvemos una vez más con el coche eléctrico, según algunos el coche del futuro… pues no. Personalmente pienso que es más el coche del presente que el coche del futuro… y no, no me he vuelto loco, pero es que el coche eléctrico tiene muchos enemigos, técnicos, comerciales y ahora, además, geopolíticos. Para los que me consideráis un “petrolhead” siento deciros que os equivocáis de medio a medio. Como aficionado confieso que el sonido de un buen motor térmico y las sensaciones que ofrece me resultan muy placenteras… pero como periodistas, tengo que tener la mente más abierta y por eso digo que el coche eléctrico es más el coche del presente que el coche del futuro… ¿por qué? Muy sencillo: Porque como coche urbano, hoy por hoy, no tiene rival. Y no solo es el silencio, la falta de emisiones allí donde se usa y la comodidad de conducción, es que el tipo de uso urbano la va como anillo al dedo a un coche eléctrico. Os aseguro que por muchas razones, el futuro del automóvil no es el coche eléctrico… os pido vuestra opinión, pero antes os pido que escuchéis mis argumentos… ¡que son muchos! Aparte de los citados hay más motivos que hacen de los coches eléctricos ideales para ciudad. Primero: no necesitas gran autonomía, porque por ciudad es imposible hacer muchos kilómetros: Según “Mundotaxi” en Madrid recorren algo más de 200 km. Un dato clave.Segundo: No necesitas mucha potencia, pues la mayor parte de la potencia se emplea en vencer la resistencia al aire y si no pasas de 50 km/h, limite habitual en una ciudad, no vas a requerir muchos caballos. Aunque vayas a la ciudad desde las afueras, tampoco podrás correr mucho en las vías de circunvalación. Tercero: el tipo de uso. Porque en un coche térmico lo que gatas para poner el coche a 50 km/h no lo recuperas cuando paras en el siguiente semáforo. En un eléctrico, o en un híbrido, sí. Pero es que además el rendimiento energético de un motor, es decir, la parte de la energía que se emplea en mover el coche, se acerca al 90 por ciento y con un motor térmico no supera el 25 por ciento. Y cuarto: Suma de todo ello, un coche eléctrico urbano puede llevar baterías ligeras y pequeñas. Como consecuencia, puede ser un coche relativamente ligero, verdadero “Talón de Aquiles” de los eléctricos. No os descubro nada si os digo que vivimos en un Mundo global. Así que si eres de los que piensa que no te importa nada la victoria de “Tramp”, o “Trump” como decís muchos Hispanoamericanos… pues es que no te enteras. Soy un ecologista convencido y para mí el calentamiento global es un hecho… pero Europa no lo puede hacer frente por su cuenta. Os doy datos de la propia UE: La Unión Europea emite en su conjunto 3.222 millones de toneladas de C02… una barbaridad. Pero es que nos supera India, los USA casi la duplican y China emite… agarraos… 15.944 millones de toneladas de CO2, cerca de 5 veces más que nosotros. Europa debe liderar la protección al medio ambiente, pero liderarla no es ponerse una soga al cuello. La estrategia de la movilidad eléctrica perjudica a Europa y beneficia, justamente, al mayor emisor de C02… ¡tócate las narices! Por no decir otra cosa. Y “Tramp” o Trump ha decidido perforar… se podría traducir “pinchar”, más en los USA, aunque sea con el peligroso método del “Fracking” para bajar el precio del petróleo, lo que hará más competitivo a los modelos tradicionales de motor térmico y a los híbridos. Seguimos con la geopolítica y vamos a hablar de materias primas. Y con datos provenientes de una fuente fiable, la Agencia Internacional de la Energía o AIE, que nos cuenta que no hay materias primas para tanto coche eléctrico. El coche eléctrico es un consumidor brutal de recursos, como las famosas tierras raras. Según la AIE para conseguir el objetivo de emisiones fijado para 2050 tendríamos que tener la bonita cifra de 2.000 millones de coches eléctricos… sencillamente, hoy por hoy, las materias primas no paran de subir… lo que hará que los eléctricos, a medio plazo suban de precio y no bajen. He metido este asunto en geopolítica porque a lo mejor esto te abre los ojos sobre el repentino interés de Trump en Groenlandia. Hablemos ahora de motivos comerciales para que los coches eléctricos no sean el futuro. Hablemos de subvenciones. Noruega ya eliminó las ayudas a la compra de coches eléctricos, ahora lo harán previsiblemente los USA y otros muchos vendrán detrás. Sin ayudas, los coches eléctricos se venderán menos… en realidad menos aún. En España según los propios fabricantes, apenas llegan el 5 por ciento del total. Pero hay algo más grave: Según un estudio elaborado por la consultora McKinsey & Company uno de cada tres compradores de coche eléctricos lo cambiaría por uno híbrido o térmico en su próxima compra. Dato que contrasta con que alrededor de un 25 por ciento de usuarios de coches térmicos cambiaria su coche por un eléctrico… Y esto con ayudas… ¿Y sin ayudas? En realidad, dejo para el final la mejor noticia y es que los coches con la llamada “pila de combustible” son ya una realidad. Primero, os explico cómo son. La reacción del hidrogeno con el oxígeno tiene como resultado energía eléctrica y vapor de agua. Con esa electricidad mueves el motor y tienes una batería relativamente pequeña para el coche funcione como un hibrido, recuperando energía en las frenadas y retenciones y para guardar la energía que te pueda sobrar, como hace ahora mismo ya los híbridos de Renault cuando le sobre potencia a su motor térmico y carga las baterías. El resultado es que el coche solo emite vapor de agua, es decir, emisiones contaminantes cero. Como un eléctrico. Pero con una diferencia: Si utilizas el llamado “Hidrogeno Verde” que se consigue con energías renovables o se extrae directamente, el coche de hidrogeno no contamina nada. BMW, Hyundai y Toyota tienen muy adelantados estos trabajos y de hecho te puedes comprar mañana mismo un Toyota Mirai o un Hyundai Nexo movidos por hidrogeno. Así las cosas, el presente son los coches urbanos eléctricos y los híbridos, a ser posible enchufables, para todo uso. Alucino los consumos que en ciudad consigue mi pareja con un simple Renault Clio Híbrido, en torno a los 4 litros a los 100 km… Los grandes y caros coches eléctricos no son hoy por hoy una opción que seduzca. Y por mucho que avance la infraestructura y la técnica, el tema de la recarga no tiene fácil solución. El futuro está claro: Eléctricos en ciudad o cortos recorridos, combustible sintético para determinados modelos deportivos o clásicos, algún hibrido de gasolina o gas e hidrogeno para el resto.

París organiza este 10 de febrero una inédita cumbre sobre lo que pretende ser la tecnología del futuro, la Inteligencia Artificial. Si la fascinación es lo que domina entre los creadores de la IA, las empresas y los gobiernos, hay un lado mucho más crítico de esta tecnología revolucionara: el impacto ambiental del consumo energético exponencial de los mega centros de datos necesarios para su funcionamiento. "Entrenar un modelo de IA puede generar cientos de toneladas de CO2" dice a RFI un experto que llama al sentido común de los usuarios. Tan solo 4 días después de su llegada a la Casa Blanca, Donald Trump anunció la flexibilización de las leyes para la producción energética destinada a satisfacer la demanda de la Inteligencia Artificial (IA). "El gran problema -explicó Trump- es que necesitamos el doble de la energía que tenemos actualmente en los Estados Unidos para que la IA sea realmente competitiva frente a China y otros. Así que vamos a actuar rápido para construir plantas de generación eléctrica, y para que puedan alimentarla con todo tipo de energía y que puedan tener carbón como respaldo." En dos años, el sector de la IA y de las criptomonedas podría duplicar su consumo eléctrico, lo que equivaldría al consumo total de un país como Japón, según previsiones de la Agencia Internacional de la Energía (AIE) que pide detener esta curva ascendente.Y mientras los científicos del mundo urgen a los gobiernos a reducir sus emisiones de CO2 y a moderar su consumo energético para luchar contra el cambio climático, el mandatario republicano ha decidido autorizar el uso de carbón, uno de los peores combustibles en materia de huella ambiental. Eric Schmidt, presidente de Google, aboga por su parte por la construcción de nuevos reactores nucleares para alimentar la voracidad de los centros de datos.Por muy virtual que parezca, la AI funciona con microchips de metales críticos que componen centros de datos que necesitan combustible para funcionar.Sobre la huella ambiental de la IA comenzamos por preguntarle a ChatGPT si es consciente de su impacto ecológico. Y nos respondió: "Se estima que entrenar un modelo de IA avanzada puede generar decenas o incluso cientos de toneladas de CO2, dependiendo del tamaño del modelo y el tiempo de entrenamiento. Un estudio de 2019 estimó que entrenar un modelo de IA similar a GPT3, podría generar alrededor de 284 toneladas de emisiones de CO2, lo cual equivale a las emisiones anuales de 5 automóviles."Para una mirada más crítica conversamos con Alex Hernández, profesor en la Universidad de Montreal y en el Instituto de Inteligencia Artificial de Quebec y especialista en las emisiones de CO2. "Los esfuerzos que hacen las empresas, pero también los gobiernos y por supuesto, a nivel individual, para medir el consumo energético de las aplicaciones de IA son más pequeños de los que deberían ser en un contexto de emergencia climática."¿Ese sostenible el consumo energético de la IA a largo plazo?"Va a depender mucho de cuál sea la evolución en los próximos años de aplicaciones, como ChatGPT, cuando se usen para tareas que hasta hace poco se hacían fácilmente sin utilizar la IA. Simples búsquedas que antes hacíamos por Internet, pues hoy hay mucha gente que está empezando a hacerlas con los chat Bots. Ciertos estudios dicen que una pregunta consume diez veces más energía que una búsqueda en un buscador clásico, de tipo Google. Eso es alarmante."¿Pero por qué la IA necesita mucha energía eléctrica?"Es importante distinguir dos etapas en la vida de un modelo de IA. Primero está la etapa de entrenamiento, en la cual quienes desarrollan estas herramientas, las entrenan con datos para que funcionen de la manera que se espera. Esto consume mucha energía porque hay que hacer funcionar muchas computadoras, o una muy grande, durante mucho tiempo, mientras va adaptando el algoritmo interno. Para hacernos una idea, algunos modelos que desarrollan empresas como OpenIA, Google o Facebook, necesita un ordenador a toda máquina durante varios meses, ejecutando un montón de operaciones."¿Y la segunda etapa?"Es la que comienza desde que estas herramientas llegaron al gran público. Antes no nos preocupaba mucho el consumo energético pero ahora sí puesto que tenemos muchísimas personas en el mundo haciendo preguntas y hablando con estos modelos de conversación. Y cada vez que hacemos una pregunta a un modelo de lenguaje, lo que va a hacer es enviar la pregunta a un servidor que a lo mejor está en la otra punta del planeta y se va a ejecuta una serie de operaciones complejas en computadoras que generan un gasto considerable de energía. Estos servidores necesitan refrigeración permanente, mantenimiento y todo tipo de intervenciones.que requieren electricidad y ya sabemos que en la mayor parte del mundo, esa energía no es limpia, viene de combustibles fósiles y por tanto implica emisiones de efecto invernadero.¿Sabe qué cantidad de estos gases representa el funcionamiento de la IA, por ejemplo de ChatGPT?"No sabemos prácticamente nada porque hay mucho secretismo, pero voy a poner el ejemplo del predecesor del primer ChatGPT, que se llamaba GPT3 y consumía, solamente la fase de entrenamiento, el equivalente a 450 vuelos aéreos entre Londres y Nueva York. Entonces, es muy razonable pensar que con los modelos actuales el consumo de energía está aumentando de manera exponencial, lo cual no se puede sostener en el tiempo. Esperamos que las regulaciones que se están desarrollando en algunos países sirva para establecer guías y restricciones al desarrollo desmesurado que hemos visto en los últimos años."¿A qué usos debería limitarse la inteligencia artificial para el gran público?"En primer lugar, diría que no debemos culpar a a las personas individuales por estos problemas. Creo que la responsabilidad principal recae en las grandes empresas tecnológicas, que hacen campañas de marketing muy agresivas para que todo el mundo use estas herramientas. Y por supuesto, la gente ve una tecnología nueva y la quiere usar. Sería necesario detenerse un momento y reflexionar sobre si realmente necesitamos esta tecnología o sobre cómo la utilizamos. Si le planteamos a un modelo de lenguaje cualquier pregunta o búsqueda que podríamos hacer en Internet, pues sería como usar un avión para desplazarse a una distancia muy corta."Además de su alto impacto en materia climática, los centros de datos generan conflictos locales por la cantidad de agua que consumen para enfriar los sistemas. En un informe de 2023, investigadores de las universidades de Colorado y de Arlington, Texas, estimaron que hacer entre 20 y 50 preguntas a ChatGPT genera un consumo equivalente a una botella de agua de medio litro.En Uruguay, en 2023, mientras el país atravesaba su peor crisis hídrica, Google anunció la creación de un centro de datos que consumiría 7 millones de litros de agua diarios, lo que equivale al uso doméstico de 55.000 personas. Tras una movilización popular, Google optó finalmente por un sistema de refrigeración por aire. Pero conflictos similares ocurren actualmente en España, México y Estados Unidos. En este último país, un senador quiere exigir a los gigantes tecnológicos a revelar el impacto ambiental de la inteligencia artificial.

 Ne t'irrite pas contre les méchants, N'envie pas ceux qui font le mal. Car ils sont fauchés aussi vite que l'herbe, Et ils se flétrissent comme le gazon vert. Confie-toi en l'Éternel, et pratique le bien; Aie le pays pour demeure et la fidélité pour pâture. Fais de l'Éternel tes délices, Et il te donnera ce que ton cœur désire. Recommande ton sort à l'Éternel, Mets en lui ta confiance, et il agira. Il fera paraître ta justice comme la lumière, Et ton droit comme le soleil à son midi. Garde le silence devant l'Éternel, et espère en lui; Ne t'irrite pas contre celui qui réussit dans ses voies, Contre l'homme qui vient à bout de ses mauvais desseins. Laisse la colère, abandonne la fureur; Ne t'irrite pas, ce serait mal faire. Car les méchants seront retranchés, Et ceux qui espèrent en l'Éternel posséderont le pays. Encore un peu de temps, et le méchant n'est plus; Tu regardes le lieu où il était, et il a disparu. Les misérables possèdent le pays, Et ils jouissent abondamment de la paix. Le méchant forme des projets contre le juste, Et il grince des dents contre lui. Le Seigneur se rit du méchant, Car il voit que son jour arrive. Les méchants tirent le glaive, Ils bandent leur arc, Pour faire tomber le malheureux et l'indigent, Pour égorger ceux dont la voie est droite. Leur glaive entre dans leur propre cœur, Et leurs arcs se brisent. Mieux vaut le peu du juste Que l'abondance de beaucoup de méchants; Car les bras des méchants seront brisés, Mais l'Éternel soutient les justes. L'Éternel connaît les jours des hommes intègres, Et leur héritage dure à jamais. Ils ne sont pas confondus au temps du malheur, Et ils sont rassasiés aux jours de la famine. Mais les méchants périssent, Et les ennemis de l'Éternel, comme les plus beaux pâturages; Ils s'évanouissent, ils s'évanouissent en fumée. Le méchant emprunte, et il ne rend pas; Le juste est compatissant, et il donne. Car ceux que bénit l'Éternel possèdent le pays, Et ceux qu'il maudit sont retranchés. L'Éternel affermit les pas de l'homme, Et il prend plaisir à sa voie; S'il tombe, il n'est pas terrassé, Car l'Éternel lui prend la main. J'ai été jeune, j'ai vieilli; Et je n'ai point vu le juste abandonné, Ni sa postérité mendiant son pain. Toujours il est compatissant, et il prête; Et sa postérité est bénie. Détourne-toi du mal, fais le bien, Et possède à jamais ta demeure. Car l'Éternel aime la justice, Et il n'abandonne pas ses fidèles; Ils sont toujours sous sa garde, Mais la postérité des méchants est retranchée. Les justes posséderont le pays, Et ils y demeureront à jamais. La bouche du juste annonce la sagesse, Et sa langue proclame la justice. La loi de son Dieu est dans son cœur; Ses pas ne chancellent point. Le méchant épie le juste, Et il cherche à le faire mourir. L'Éternel ne le laisse pas entre ses mains, Et il ne le condamne pas quand il est en jugement.Espère en l'Éternel, garde sa voie, Et il t'élèvera pour que tu possèdes le pays; Tu verras les méchants retranchés. J'ai vu le méchant dans toute sa puissance; Il s'étendait comme un arbre verdoyant. Il a passé, et voici, il n'est plus; Je le cherche, et il ne se trouve plus. Observe celui qui est intègre, et regarde celui qui est droit; Car il y a une postérité pour l'homme de paix. Mais les rebelles sont tous anéantis, La postérité des méchants est retranchée. Le salut des justes vient de l'Éternel; Il est leur protecteur au temps de la détresse. L'Éternel les secourt et les délivre; Il les délivre des méchants et les sauve, Parce qu'ils cherchent en lui leur refuge.

Alberto Ottieri"Scuola per Librai"www.scuolalibraiuem.it42esimo Seminario della Scuola per LibraiUmberto e Elisabetta Mauri 28 - 31 gennaio 2025  Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia Interverranno: Porter Anderson, Javier Arrevola, Jesús Badenes, Alessandro Barbero, Anita Barrella, Michael Busch, Véronique Cardi, Alessandra Carra, Innocenzo Cipolletta, Renata Codello, James Daunt, Johnny de Falbe, Angela Di Biaso, Luca Domeniconi, Mirco Dordolo, Sonia Draga, Giovanni Franza, Stefano Mauri, Giuseppe Mazza, Laura Mulè, Alberto Ottieri, Luca Paleari, Simonetta Pillon, Tiberio Sarti, Edoardo Scioscia, Angelo Tantazzi, Chiara Valerio, Felicitas von Lovenberg.Verranno assegnati il diciannovesimo Premio per Librai Luciano e Silvana Mauri a Vittorio Graziani (Libreria Centofiori di Milano) e la sesta Borsa di lavoro Nick Perren a Chiara Condò (Il Pensiero Meridiano di Tropea).  Verranno inoltre presentati i dati AIE del mercato del libro italiano 2024.Anche quest'anno torna il Seminario di perfezionamento della Scuola per Librai organizzato dalla Fondazione Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri, giunto alla sua quarantaduesima edizione, nel tradizionale appuntamento in quattro giornate presso la storica Fondazione Giorgio Cini di Venezia.  L'annuale Seminario che coinvolge editori e librai italiani e internazionali, organizzato dalla Fondazione Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri con il contributo di Messaggerie Libri e Messaggerie Italiane, e in collaborazione con l'Associazione Italiana Editori, l'Associazione Librai Italiani e il Centro per il Libro e la Lettura, si svolgerà dal 28 al 31 gennaio 2025. I lavori del Seminario apriranno con la Prima giornata martedì 28 gennaio 2025 alle 15.30 con i saluti di benvenuto di Alberto Ottieri (Presidente della Fondazione Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri), Stefano Mauri (Vicepresidente della Fondazione Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri) e Renata Codello (Segretario Generale della Fondazione Cini). Seguiranno gli interventi in collegamento con Innocenzo Cipolletta (Associazione Italiana Editori) e Paolo Ambrosini (Associazione Librai Italiani). Subito dopo avverrà la presentazione delle giornate didattiche a cura di Alberto Ottieri, della Giornata conclusiva a cura di Stefano Mauri, e delle libraie e librai allievi a cura di Luca Domeniconi (Gruppo Feltrinelli). Alle 16.15, l'intervento di Angela Di Biaso (Emmelibri) e Simonetta Pillon (Informazioni Editoriali) Analisi del mercato delle librerie. Alle 17.00 Luca Domeniconi e Edoardo Scioscia (Gruppo Libraccio) introdurranno gli argomenti didattici del Seminario e presenteranno i gruppi di lavoro. Chiuderà la giornata la scrittrice Chiara Valerio, con l'intervento Il paradosso del moscone. C'è differenza tra lettore e libraio? Un suggerimento di Virginia Woolf. La Seconda giornata, mercoledì 29 gennaio, condotta da Luca Domeniconi, sarà dedicata a La gestione della libreria: dall'assortimento al rendiconto finanziario, passando dal servizio al cliente: alle ore 9.00 Tiberio Sarti (Ubik) tratterà il tema de L'identità della libreria; a seguire, alle ore 9.45, Mirco Dordolo (Gruppo Libraccio) parlerà de Il conto economico come strumento di gestione, cui seguirà alle 11.00 l'intervento di Giovanni Franza (Emmelibri) Il rendiconto finanziario a supporto della pianificazione dei fabbisogni della libreria. Alle ore 12.00 la lezione di Anita Barrella (Gruppo Feltrinelli) Il percorso tematico e la redditività dell'assortimento. Nel pomeriggio, alle 14.30, Laura Mulè (Ubik) parlerà del Rifornimento e gestione dell'assortimento, e subito dopo, alle 15.15, Anita Barrella tornerà sul tema dell'assortimento con la lezione La misurazione quantitativa dell'assortimento: la rotazione e il concetto di copertura. Alle 16.00 l'intervento di Giuseppe Mazza (Titamilano.com) Le vendite e il servizio al cliente. Chiuderà la giornata Luca Paleari (Emmelibri) con un intervento sulla Generative AI. La Terza giornata, giovedì 30 gennaio, sarà dedicata invece al lavoro di gruppo e condotta da Alberto Ottieri: al mattino a partire dalle ore 9.00 libraie e librai partecipanti applicheranno quanto appreso nel corso delle giornate precedenti e presenteranno i risultati del loro lavoro con Luca Domeniconi e Edoardo Scioscia. Nel pomeriggio, alle 14.30, verranno consegnati gli attestati di partecipazione, mentre la libraia Veronica Tati, cui l'anno scorso è stata assegnata la quinta Borsa di lavoro Nick Perren, racconterà della sua esperienza nella libreria Hodges Figgis di Dublino. Alle ore 15.00 seguirà la tavola rotonda Come le librerie stanno vincendo la partita (per ora) con Javier Arrevola (Casa del Libro), Michael Busch (Thalia), Alessandra Carra (Gruppo Feltrinelli) e James Daunt (Waterstones e Barnes & Noble). La moderazione sarà a cura di Porter Anderson (Publishing Perspectives). Chiuderà la giornata alle 17.15 Johnny de Falbe (John Sandoe Books) che racconterà i segreti di una delle principali e più amate librerie indipendenti inglesi. La Quarta giornata di venerdì 31 gennaio, a cura di Stefano Mauri e condotta da Giovanna Zucconi, avrà come tema Il libro tra eternità e cambiamento e si aprirà alle 9.30 quando Alberto Ottieri introdurrà e coordinerà gli Scenari economici di mercato; seguiranno gli interventi Proiezioni per il 2025: dove va la spesa delle famiglie italiane? di Angelo Tantazzi (Prometeia) e Il mercato del libro in Italia di Innocenzo Cipolletta (AIE – Associazione Italiana Editori). Alle 10.15 Stefano Mauri e Alberto Ottieri ricorderanno Luciano Mauri, fondatore della Scuola per Librai, nel ventennale della sua scomparsa. In seguito, verranno consegnati i due premi dell'anno: il diciannovesimo Premio per Librai Luciano e Silvana Mauri, assegnato al libraio Vittorio Graziani della Libreria Centofiori di Milano, e la sesta Borsa di lavoro Nick Perren alla libraia Chiara Condò della libreria Il Pensiero Meridiano di Tropea. Si terrà poi alle ore 11.00 la consueta tavola rotonda internazionale sul tema Costanti e variabili del mestiere di editore, coordinata da Stefano Mauri e moderata da Porter Anderson, cui parteciperanno Jesús Badenes (Grupo Planeta), Véronique Cardi (Editions JC Lattès), Sonia Draga (Sonia Draga Publishing House), Felicitas von Lovenberg (Piper Verlag). Alle 12.30 si terrà l'intervento conclusivo dello storico e autore Alessandro Barbero, a cui seguiranno i saluti di chiusura del Seminario di Stefano Mauri e Alberto Ottieri. Il Seminario di Perfezionamento della Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri è da sempre un importante momento di confronto sul mondo del libro, in cui si prendono in esame i diversi aspetti e le criticità proprie di un'attività affascinante e fondamentale per la diffusione della cultura come quella delle librerie: gestione, organizzazione, distribuzione, commercializzazione e promozione. Un laboratorio, dunque, in cui si vuole progettare, discutere, conoscere le dinamiche di un mondo complesso ma sempre vitale che ha al suo centro il libro.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Plundering storms in WoW while FFXIV is looking for maps Streaming MFN in STO celebrating the new year in GW2 and 64 bit servers in LOTRO All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/v-kXEmnJc-Y Open Welcome to episode 432 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And Mkallah is out being classy, I mean attending a training class. This week we are talking to ourselves about games systems, guild activities, and the community. Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into all that shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS In New World, we run group content on Sunday nights. We are working through the expeditions (dungeons) with an eye toward The Hive of Gorgons (raid). Find us on Hudsonland for a fresh start and the legacy server Valhalla. WoW In WoW news, the Battle Royale game Plunderstorm is back, with new pets, a new mount - the Plunderlord's Midnight Crocolisk, and transmog including the Swabbie's Shovel and Oar. You can also purchase Trader's Tender if you haven't maxed that out yet, or use it for next month. There's also a back appearance - Coward's Azure Target - available until Feb 4 for watching a WoW Twitch stream. The Turbulent Timeways timewalking event is ongoing and great for alts. This week the quest is for 5 Warlords of Draenor dungeons and next week we'll head to Legion. Coming soon (TM) Will be the Undermine(d) patch, where we visit the massive underground Goblin capital to learn Gallywix is helping Xal'atath with an important project (and it's not a mani-pedi). Among the features are a customizable, super fast car mount (flying is not available), a quest that awards a rental apartment - which looks like it has bank access, a new dungeon: Operation Floodgate, two new delves with an associated customizable mount: the Gobtrotter. Bran can also now tank, so we can tell him "Don't stand there!" for a change. And in the new Raid - Liberation of Undermine, we help the various goblin cartels unseat Chrome King Gallywix. Grats to Rogues on their very cool pirate themed Tier set. WoW Classic Classic Refresh has some AIE and Lars is in there, Classic Cata has tapered off SWTOR MFN goes well with a few other event nights a week. Running on two servers, pvp nights, etc. All sorcerer Ops night events are coming up too. New and returning players still. Wed ops team needs fill-ins ESO ESO MFN is back from winter break. We've been working on trials and helping each other with endeavors while hanging out and chatting. FFXIV

Room and Bored: Part 5 Dale's schedule filled up with women's requests.. Based on a post by Krosis, in 5 parts. Listen to the ►  Podcast at Steamy Stories. At college, Melanie reminded Dale of their date that weekend. He nodded, he was originally going to cancel, but now that Nancy and Dale had -- was 'broken up' the correct term? -- well, whatever it was, it was done, so he figured he'd take the pretty platinum blonde to the movie and try to get on with his life. Just before he left the campus, though, he got a picture message from an unknown number. Confused, he opened it to see a photo of him taking Nancy from behind in their kitchen. The pic was a bit grainy, obviously taken from outside the house, but both their faces could easily be identified. A text then arrived from the same number: *My place, 6pm -- Helena*   That morning, Helena woke at 8 AM sharp. She had no choice in the matter, her parents had drilled it into her for most of her life so that she wouldn't be late for school, and even now, when she was no longer attending any house of learning, her body still habitually woke her up at that time. "Ugh, " She got up, stretched her lithe body, and pulled on some sweatpants and a tight t-shirt over a bra and undies. As she headed toward her bedroom door, she glanced out her window and stopped short. Dale's house across the street had its front windows open, and, she squinted, was that, ? She rushed down the hallway to the second floor's front balcony and threw it open. Sure enough, that was Nancy bent over the kitchen counter, getting fucked by, "Dale?" Helena pulled out her phone and zoomed the camera in. Not good enough! She cast about, saw her Dad's bird watching binoculars, and grabbed them. She pressed her camera lens to one of the eye holes of the binos and lined up the shot. There! She snapped several pics before she saw Dale thrust deep and cry out as he filled the voluptuous housewife with his cum. Shaking, Helena went back inside to decide what to do about this revelation. Obviously if Nancy's husband saw these pics, then her marriage would be over, and Dale would probably get the shit kicked out of him. Helena didn't like the thought of that, but she didn't care about Nancy's marriage; she barely knew the woman. She got a text from her Mom: *Won't be home tonight, try not to fuck the whole neighborhood while we're out, slut* Helena's parents hadn't come home the previous night either. She was pretty certain that they were over at a swinger couple's house, and it seemed that they had hit it off. Her mother was always ribbing Helena about her high sex drive, but the young woman had actually been a virgin until she had tricked a blindfolded Dale into sex almost 2 weeks ago, and even that had been an accident. Thinking about Dale's long cock slipping inside her and filling her with his sizable load made her nipples hard. It had been a frequent masturbatory inspiration since. She needed more, and with these pics she knew she could get more, she just had to be bold, like her mother. 'Like mother, like daughter,' she heard her mother's voice in her head. "Yeah," she agreed. Dale finds himself at the beck and call of demanding women. Things were strained between Dale and Nancy after he got home from school, not only because she had broken off their burgeoning romance, but also due to his concern about Helena's text that contained picture evidence of him and his married landlady having sex. What did Helena want from him? he wondered. After dinner, he headed over to Helena's house at 6 PM, as ordered. The strawberry blonde answered the door, as usual, with a menacing grin on her pretty face. She was wearing a tight t-shirt and sweatpants today. "Right on time, slave." Dale stared at her. Slave? "Get in here." He stepped in and she closed and locked the door behind him. "Oh, now that you're here, I don't know what to make you do first." "What are your plans for that pic?" he asked her. "Nuttin'," she replied, "as long as you do what I say, obvs." "And if I don't do what you say?" She sighed. "It gets sent to Nancy's husband, and terrible things happen. You ready to stop talking now?" "Nancy's a good person, Helena; she doesn't deserve this." She stepped forward, the top of her head coming only as high as his chin. Dale hadn't realized how short she actually was. "She's a cheating whore, and her husband deserves to know, don't you think?" He bit his tongue and scowled, realizing that yelling wouldn't help the situation. She turned back away from him. "Okay, so the pics are saved to my cloud, and I even printed 'em out, in case you're good enough at computers to hack my account." Dale sighed, Helena had prepared well. "What do you want me to do?" She bounced, her B-cups bobbling about in her shirt. "Ooh, I was hoping I'd be inspired when you got here, but now, too many options, and I can't decide on any! Oh, I know, " She pulled out her phone and started typing. "I joined a View dit group for masters and slaves earlier today, so I'll ask them what I should have you do. Hmm, " Blip! Blip! Blip! Her eyes lit up and she laughed, "Ha, awesome! C'mon up to Mom's room." He followed her up the ornate staircase to Trish's bedroom. "Sit on the bed." She rummaged through her mother's wardrobes and grabbed some things. "Wait here, " She went into the adjoining bathroom and closed the door. A few minutes later, she came out, still wearing the t-shirt, but now she had garters with dark, thigh-high nylon stockings on instead of her sweatpants. She dropped her phone onto the side table, climbed onto the bed, and nibbled her lower lip, reminding Dale of her mother. Sitting at the head of the bed, she spread her legs and he could see that she also had some lacy black panties on. She extended one long, slim leg. "Suck on my toes." He blinked. She had been wearing Chucks when he came in, so her feet were probably sweaty. She frowned and reached for her phone. "How disappointing." Dale grabbed her dainty, stocking-covered foot and shoved the toes into his mouth, grimacing as he started to suck on them. "Mmm, " she sighed, smiled, and started typing again. A few minutes later, she said, "Dang, this person really likes nylons. Do you like my legs, Dale? You can stop sucking." He let go of her toes. Despite the degradation of the act, his cock was getting hard. "Yes, you have gorgeous legs, Helena." "Just like my Mom's?" He considered. "Hers are gorgeous too." She was watching him very closely now. "Which do you prefer?" He didn't know how he should answer. "Be honest, I won't get mad." "Your mom's are more toned; she works hard to keep in shape. You're naturally slim, so you don't need to work out. Sorry, I think toned is better than slim." "Hmm, I see, take out your cock." "Uh, " "Now!" Dale got off the bed, pulled down his jeans and underwear, and stood there. At Helena's direction, he sat back on the bed before her. Then she moved her feet down and took his cock between them. "Umm, " It was awkward, but she was determined. Soon, she was able to stroke up and down his rising erection between her stockinged feet, the nylon catching at the skin of his shaft as it rasped up and down. Dale had never felt anything like it before. "Why, are you doing this?" he gasped. "Because I want to. Why else?" She moved one foot so the arch of her foot pressed against his shaft and her toes grasped at the head of his cock while her other foot continued to stroke. He was having trouble controlling his breathing. "Fuck, I'm gonna, " "Yeah? So cool!" She moved her feet upon him faster until he grunted and shot his cum onto the bottom of her nylon-covered foot. She kept stroking him, but it soon became overwhelmingly sensitive and he backed off, looking embarrassed. She waved him away. "Okay, you can go, but make sure you're ready for when I call." He pulled on his clothes and went home. Helena pulled off the dripping stocking and sucked the foot of it into her mouth as she frigged her clit. Tasting Dale's sperm again, she quickly came, thrilling at the thought of what she did, and what she'd do to him next time.   Dale got a call from his parents as he walked through the front door. "Hey, Mom! Yeah, just got home from my job." He looked over and saw Nancy sitting on the couch, watching TV. He went into the kitchen to fix himself a snack. "Umm hmm, umm hmm, yeah, she's taking care of me." Nancy glanced over and saw Dale looking at her as he said that. She blushed but kept watching her show. "Yep, I'm making a new life here, Mom. Yeah, love you too, say hi to Dad!" New life, Nancy's hand caressed her midsection, thinking about the huge load of sperm Dale had pumped into her that very morning. She had been careless, allowing the young man to plunder her vulnerable insides with his no doubt potent sperm as her body entered its fertile time of the month. She could feel her pussy moistening at the memory, but she had broken it off with him for good this time. She had called her husband, and he would be coming home early at her insistence. She heard Dale head downstairs to his suite and sighed. He still had Trish across the street to satisfy his urges, so he'd survive just fine.   *Got a treat for you today! Cum over at 7pm* That had been from Trish the next day. Both the Milfy blonde and her daughter were ordering him around now. Helena opened the door for him, wearing only short-shorts and a sports bra today, with her strawberry blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail. Her skin shone, and he thought that she might have been exercising. "Her bedroom, come to mine after." She gave him a wink. "Trish?" He opened the master bedroom door to find the leggy blonde laying on her bed, completely naked, and she brought a friend! "Um, " "Close the door, Dale. This is Marietta, and she's been looking forward to making your acquaintance after I told her about all the fun we've been having." "Uh, hi." Dale couldn't believe how much this pretty, older Latina lady looked like a darker-skinned version of Nancy, with large tits, a curvy body, and dark, shoulder-length curls instead of Nancy's auburn tresses. She was likewise naked, her legs wide, with Trish's face between them. "I've been getting her ready for you," Trish said as she got up and strode over to him. Then she kissed him hard and he tasted the other woman's juices on her lips. "We want several loads from you tonight, Dale, so get undressed." She sat back down on the bed and waited. He quickly disrobed and climbed onto the bed, uncertain. Trish's treat for him was a threesome! "How do you want to do this?" Trish asked Marietta. The newcomer shrugged, uncertain, she seemed shy as well, covering her large tits as best she could with her arms. "Hmm, okay, Dale, lay down." He did, and Trish situated her pussy above his face while he felt Marietta climb astride his hips, the women facing each other. Dale speared his tongue between Trish's pussy lips. "Umm! Good boy, Dale, come on, Mari, get on that cock." Dale felt the other woman grasp his hard member, direct it to her pussy, and then start to press down upon it. "Fuck, he's big," she groaned. Dale felt a bit proud at that. He grabbed Trish's hips and pulled her down onto his tongue. "Uhh, you're getting better at that, Dale," Trish moaned as he also licked at her clit before dipping his tongue inside again. Marietta had gotten half of his cock inside her, and it seemed like she was struggling. "Let me, " Trish said, and she leaned forward. Dale couldn't see what she did, but the other woman groaned and slipped further down his cock as her pussy loosened up. After she pulled up a bit and pressed down again a few more times, he was all the way inside her. "Got it, all, " she moaned. Dale could feel her pussy trembling around his shaft. "You want that cum? You have to earn it, Mari, move that ass, " Trish ordered her friend. Dale felt Trish shift as she pushed Marietta back, causing the newcomer to arch her spine as she continued to ride him. This new angle caused the head of his cock to rub along her G-spot, and he heard her gasping as his member pleasured her insides. After a few minutes, Trish whispered to her friend, "Oh, he's gonna fill you up with that hot cum soon, I can tell. Won't that feel good, babe, all that sperm inside you?" Marietta whimpered, and Trish took one of the woman's prominent nipples into her mouth. Dale couldn't hear or see any of this, though. He felt Marietta's pussy grip him tighter, and he pushed two fingers into Trish's pussy as he continued to lick at her clit. He was indeed getting close, the two women overwhelming his senses. He felt Trish lean forward more, her fingers flicked at Marietta's clit on the down-strokes, but on the upstrokes she caressed the base of Dale's cock. That was it for him, he grunted into Trish's pussy as his balls gave up their cargo and shot his orgasm up his lengthy shaft and deep inside Marietta's sultry pussy. Upon feeling Dale's cock throb, followed by a wet, warm pressure deep inside her, Marietta came. "Oh! Ah! Aie!" "Yes!" Trish sat up and pulled her friend into a hot, tonguey kiss as her boytoy inseminated the woman. "Umm, " Finally, both of them rolled off of Dale and they all lay there, panting. After a few minutes, Trish engulfed his cock with her mouth and sucked all of his and Marietta's combined juices from it. Pretty soon, his member rose to near full size again. "Ah, youth, " Trish commented, and climbed astride him. She was able to take all of him inside her juicy pussy without issue, and began to slam herself down upon him, quickly approaching her own release. She glanced to the side, saw Marietta playing with her own clit as she watched Trish and Dale fucking, and came. "Oh-oh! Yes, " Trish played with her own nipples as pleasure washed over and through her. When Trish's orgasm was done, she dismounted. "Get over there and fuck Marietta again, stud." Marietta looked at Dale with wide eyes. "Trish, I'm not sure I can, oomph!" Dale had leapt upon the voluptuous woman and slipped his hard cock back inside her spermy pussy. He thrust into her quickly, wanting to achieve his second release of the night. If he blurred his eyes, he could almost believe that he was having sex with Nancy again. He felt Trish come up behind him and wrap her arms around his chest while pressing her pelvis to his ass. "Hm, like this, it's almost like I'm fucking her," she breathed into his ear. "This is so damn hot." Dale could only agree. "You've probably already impregnated her, but let's make doubly sure, hmm?" "What?" Dale slowed down but Trish moved one arm down around his hips so she could keep thrusting from behind, which pushed his hips forward. "Trish, " "I'm sorry for not letting you know beforehand, Dale, but I didn't know what you'd do if you knew. Marietta's a single professional, and she wants a baby, so I offered your, stud services, " She nibbled on his ear. "C'mon, you can't tell me that you aren't turned on by this." She continued to thrust from behind, but Dale wasn't fighting back, only letting his hips be pushed and pulled by her as his cock sluiced into the body of the fertile woman below him. He acknowledged that it was indeed hot, shooting his cum inside this voluptuous lady. Trish had been practically training his brain for this moment, urging him to play 'knock me up' every time they had sex. Had her method been purposeful, or a happy coincidence? He couldn't think on that very well, as he was approaching his second orgasm of the night. "Oh, please, " Marietta stared into his eyes, her need written plainly on her face as she pushed her rounded hips up at him. Finally, Dale let go, thrusting faster into the sexy woman until he felt another cum rising from his loins. "Uh, umm, Uh!" "Yes, " both women moaned as he thrust deeply inside Marietta and fired another load of baby juice deep inside her. "Umm!" Marietta moaned as she furiously played with her clit and came again. Dale felt her pussy suckling on his cock, urging more of his potent sperm to penetrate her fertile insides. He fell upon Marietta, his energy gone. Trish let go, and the Latina enveloped him with her arms and legs, brought his face to hers, and kissed him passionately. "Thank you, Dale. Oh, " He felt a small orgasmic aftershock squeeze his cock. When he recovered enough, he redressed. "I, uh, gotta go, " "Thank you, Dale," Trish said, "you'll get an extra-special treat next time for being such a good boy." "I, may not survive, " he moaned. He looked back at Marietta. "Err, nice to meet you, " he said lamely. She waved as he stumbled out of the master bedroom. He was going to head home and sleep forever, Helena's bedroom door opened and her finger beckoned. "Oh shit, " The extra-long conclusion. "Helena, " "Hist!" The slim strawberry blonde silenced Dale with a wave of her arm before ushering him into her bedroom and closing the door behind him. "I said you were mine after Mom was done with you." He sat on her bed. "I'm wasted. Those women, " He stopped. Helena dropped the robe she had been wearing, revealing the same garters and hose from the previous day, but now she was also wearing a dark, sheer bustier that propped up her B-cup tits and deepened her cleavage. ", whoa." The eighteen-year-old blushed for a moment as Dale stared at her outfit, but then took a breath. "So, get those pants off." He unfastened his jeans. "Sure, but nothing's gonna happen; I've been wrung dry." "We'll see about that. Also, whisper if you have to say anything." She gave a pointed look toward the air vent near the ceiling. "The walls have ears." He glanced at the vent and then sat back on her bed. As expected, his penis was limp and lifeless. Helena climbed onto the bed with him. "You don't like how I look?" She seemed offended. "You're gorgeous, totally sexy," Dale replied, "but holy shit those women got two loads out of me, back-to-back. I may not be able to cum again for days." "Lay back." He did so, sighing, and Helena moved her nylon-covered feet to his penis again. However, unlike last time, it just didn't respond to the manipulations of her dainty tootsies. She finally gave up. "Damnit," she swore under her breath, "Mom just can't let me enjoy myself." She moved up the bed and lay back on a pillow, huffing in frustration. Dale lay down beside her. "How do you mean?" "She keeps telling me how much I'm like her, a goddamn cumslut, useless for anything but sex, and now I can't even get that going because she drained you like a fucking vampire." "She said all that?" "Shush!" She waved her hand at the air vent. He moved closer so he could whisper. "So the ice princess and dominatrix acts are because of what your mom says? You don't have to listen to her. Did you blackmail me because you thought I wouldn't be interested in you otherwise?" She looked into his eyes as they lay there. "Well, yeah. When we met, I treated you like shit I found on the bottom of my shoe." He considered for a moment. "Tell me something you like, a hobby or pastime." She thought for a moment. "I like anime." "Me too! Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, " "Assassination Classroom?" "Yeah! See, we have something in common. And that's just one thing, I'm sure we have others, but you never bothered to find out." He peered out the window into the night. "Why were you looking at Nancy's house so early in the morning, when you caught us, doing that?" She looked embarrassed. "I always look out there when I wake up. Sometimes I see you heading to school." "You've been watching me?" She flushed. "Yeah, and when you're doing stuff with Mom, " "You've been spying, too." Dale marveled at this, both Nancy and Helena had spied on him doing sex stuff. How many other women were so, sex driven? he wondered. Helena nibbled her lower lip, thinking of the sexy sounds that had come through the air vent from her mother's room for the last hour. She began to rub her thighs together. "I don't get out much." Dale closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. "Jesus, you're a hot girl that likes anime and sex, you could honestly have any guy you wanted just by showing interest in them, and instead you blackmailed me." "Soo, you do want to go out with me?" He looked at her confused but hopeful look. "If you had asked yesterday, I'd have said yes, well, I guess not while I'm 'servicing' your mother, " "I wouldn't make you stop, that's hot, and I'm not jealous," she informed him, "but why yesterday?" "Because that was before you blackmailed me!" "Oh."   "Dale?" He started awake, confused. Where was he? Oh, right, on Helena's bed. She was still in the garters and bustier, so he figured that he'd only been out for a moment. He looked at his phone, it was 9 PM, so he'd been napping there for the last hour. "Were you just watching me sleep?" he asked her. "You looked like you needed to rest, so I went on my phone for a bit," she replied. "I was hoping a nap might help Mr. Pokey down there." He considered his penis, but it still seemed devoid of energy. "Hm, probably not." "What if I, ?" She took it in hand and started pulling at it. After a minute of that, she sighed and took it into her mouth. "Ahh, " he moaned. The warm, inverse pressure felt good, but his cock still remained lifeless. After another minute she gave up. "Damnit! This is so frustrating. How about, ?" She pulled down on her bustier so that her B-cup boobies popped out, each topped with a pink pencil eraser nipple. Dale felt a twinge down below, and licked his lips as he gazed at her luscious tits. "Yeah?" Helena looked hopeful. "Maybe, ?" She moved forward to press a nipple into his mouth, and Dale began to suckle on it. "Ooh, that feels, wow, " she moaned. She climbed astride him so that he would have better access to her tits, which then caused her panty-covered pussy to settle onto his mostly still-soft penis. "Hmm, ." she moaned in pleasure and frustration. "Are those my stockings and garters?" They froze and turned to the door. Trish was there in her shorty robe, her arms crossed and her eyes narrowed as she beheld her 18-year-old daughter rubbing herself on her 19-year-old boy-toy. "Mom! I, uh, " Helena scrambled off of Dale, but that only revealed his half-naked form. "Dale, go home and we'll talk later. Helena, my dear, we are going to have a discussion right now." He grabbed his pants and bounded past Trish and out of the room. Helena's bedroom door slammed behind him.   Friday after school, Dale just hung out in his basement suite. Nancy hadn't invited him up for dinner for the previous couple nights, and he was pretty sure that was no longer an option with her; they were now just landlady and renter, which was even less than what they had been when he moved in. *You up for that extra special treat?* Trish messaged him. Despite cumming twice in rapid succession the previous night with her and Marietta, Dale felt his cock perk up at that text. Still, he wasn't sure what he'd be walking into, after what happened between Trish and Helena. Instead of heading upstairs to leave, which could have caused him to run into Nancy, he instead left by his outside suite door. Trish opened the door for him, wearing her sheer shorty robe that showcased her glorious gams. "No Helena?" he asked, confused. "She's around," she said mysteriously. Dale paused for a moment, thinking. "Can I just quickly, ?" He headed toward the lower floor washroom. "Yeah, come on up to my bedroom when you're ready." When Dale walked into Trish's bedroom a few minutes later, he stopped short. Helena was tied, one extremity per post of Trish's four-poster bed, face down and naked, grunting and yelling into the ball gag that secured her mouth. Dale just stared. "I, uh, " Trish lightly slapped her daughter's ass, causing the girl to rage. "I was able to get out of her that she blackmailed you, though not what with. That was about it, though. Did you fuck her, Dale?" He just stood there, taking in the bizarre sight. "No, she just rubbed one out of me with her feet." Trish looked at her daughter, surprised and a little impressed. "Feet? Huh. Well, I've informed Little Miss Sunshine here that if she uses whatever she's been holding over you, she'll be on the street sucking whatever disease-ridden dicks she can find for cash. I won't support this kind of behavior under my roof." She slapped Helena's tight ass again, eliciting another grunt of outrage from the girl. Dale stayed standing in the bedroom doorway. "So what's going on here?" Trish came forward. "Your extra special treat! You're going to take her anal virginity." Helena screamed into the gag. "And how does Helena feel about that?" Trish harrumphed and crossed her arms. "I don't give a fuck. This girl needs to be taken down a peg, and you have the big peg to do it with." She reached for Dale's zipper. He stepped back, pulled out his phone, tapped the screen a few times, and put it away. "So that conversation where you were telling me that you wanted me to anally rape the daughter you forcibly tied to your bed has been uploaded to the cloud." Trish stepped back, shocked. "Dale, !" "Untie her, now." He had never seen Trish cowed before. She quickly did as commanded, freeing Helena, who then rushed over to hug Dale, tears streaming down her face. Trish sat on the bed. "Now what?" Dale gave Helena a squeeze. "Now we talk."   Dale had actually taken Psychology as his college minor (not that anyone ever asked). They sat on the bed and he let Helena rage at her mother about how she had put her down and called her a slut ever since her daughter had grown tits. After some pointed questioning, Dale was able to get out of Trish that she, herself, had been a sexually charged young woman, and had gotten pregnant the very first time she had sex, at 18. She had been stupid, but lucky in that Stephen had taken responsibility and married her. She had seen her daughter taking after herself and didn't want her making the same mistake. Along the way, though, things changed from protective to abusive, she admitted, but she didn't know how to change course. "Right here, this is where you change course," Dale told them. "Blackmail, anal rape? This is rock bottom, so there's nowhere to go but up, right?" "I'm sorry, baby, I love you," Trish sobbed, tears mucking up her mascara as she held out her hands to her daughter. Helena, still holding on to Dale's arm, tightened her grip. He turned to her, "If you think this is salvageable, at least take her hand." She did after a moment, and Trish gave her a hopeful smile. After some more discussion, Dale felt that they had done as much as they could for the day. He got Trish to promise that they'd seek out a family counselor. "I think it's pretty much a given that I won't be coming around again, as handyman or otherwise." Trish nodded. "I'm sorry, Dale, I betrayed your trust with Marietta and misjudged your character with Helena. I hope you'll forgive me." Without comment, he gave her a hug. Then he hugged Helena and went home.   "Hey, hey, Dale!" Dale stopped short as he habitually entered the house through the front door. Michael, Nancy's husband, home almost a week early, was in the kitchen grabbing a bag of chips. "You're back!" Dale stated, stunned. "Yep! Front, too," the older man winked at Dale. Dale sighed. For a guy who didn't have any kids, Michael sure loved dad jokes. "Well, welcome back. I gotta, " Dale pointed to the basement suite door and headed there. "Sure, sure, thanks for taking care of Nancy while I was away, champ." "You're welcome," Dale grumped, and headed down into his cave.   On Saturday, Melanie rolled up in her old Toyota Corolla to pick up Dale for their date. As he got into the passenger side, he noted that she was wearing a white knee-length skirt and a blue blouse under a long, furry coat. "I hope that's not real fur," he joked as she drove. "Definitely not!" Dale offered to pay for the movie, but Melanie refused. "I asked You out," she said indignantly. "Besides, how am I going to get you at my mercy in the back seat of my car if you don't owe me?" She gave him a silly grin to show that she was kidding. Dale frowned. If their genders had been reversed and he had said that, he'd probably have gotten a swift kick in the nards! He laughed uncomfortably. The movie was awesome, as were most Marvel movies. They shared a popcorn, and their hands touched frequently as they pulled the buttery snack from the bucket. When it was gone, they just continued to hold hands. "Wait until after the credits," he told her. "Well Duh!" she responded. After the post-credits scene, they reluctantly disengaged and headed back to her car. Instead of taking Dale home, though, Melanie pulled into an industrial area and parked in a darkened corner of a cul-de-sac. "Did you know that I've had a crush on you for a while?" she asked as she turned the car off. "Yeah? Oomph!" Melanie had unbuckled and rushed her face to his, catching him off guard. As the platinum blonde's tongue slipped into his mouth, though, his libido beast, unfulfilled for the last couple of nights, awoke, and he kissed her back passionately. After a while, first base moved to second, and Dale felt up Melanie's C-cups through her blouse. She redoubled her kissing and, emboldened, Dale suggested that they move into the back seat. "I dunno, oh, " she moaned as Dale found one of her nipples through her bra. "Um, okay." They removed their coats as they moved into the larger space of the back seat and made out some more. Dale was able to move his hands under Melanie's blouse to unsnap her bra, and soon he was palming her warm tits directly. They weren't as large as Nancy's, or even Trish's, but they were nice. "Hmm, " she moaned into his mouth. As they continued the make-out session, Melanie naturally lay back across the seats. Dale took advantage of the change of position by moving between her legs, and soon they were dry humping. As the teen couple thrust their covered loins together, her skirt slipped up further and further, and soon he was rubbing his jeans-covered crotch against her panty-covered pussy. Melanie was breathing heavily and thrusting her pelvis at him, her eyes closed as she was overwhelmed by the sensations. Dale reached down and unzipped his jeans, needing to be inside her. He took his turgid member in hand, used the head to move the gusset of her panties aside, "Dale." , and started to press it into her sex, "Dale! Stop!" , he could feel her wet pussy lips, opening to welcome him, Then he was on the floor of the car, his cheek stinging. "What the hell, Dale?" Melanie yelled. "I told you to stop!" His head was muzzy, both from his bubbling hormones and the slap. He replayed the last few seconds in his head. She Had told him to stop, and he had just been focused on getting his cock wet! He tucked his shrinking member back into his pants and sat back up on the seat, but opposite her. "I'm so sorry, Melanie, I thought you wanted me." Melanie had closed her legs and pulled her skirt back down, and was now looking at him with apprehension. "I did, I do, but, well, number one, you weren't listening, number two, I'm a virgin, and number three, you need to use a condom!" Dale blinked. With all the sex he'd had over the last few weeks, none of it had been with a condom, he hadn't even considered buying any for this date. Also, "You're a virgin?" Here he was, about to deflower Melanie in the back of an old Corolla. He felt like shit. She looked embarrassed. "Well, yeah, remember I was the fat girl with glasses in high school? Nobody asked me out, not even to prom. Then, after the weight loss and eye surgery, I moved here for college, and there you were, I mean, I've had offers from other guys recently, and even a girl, but I kept waiting for you to ask me out." His mind was racing, putting together the pieces that had contributed to his raging, one-track-mind libido over the last few weeks. He considered his date, looking so vulnerable. "Melanie, I wouldn't blame you if you just took me home, but will you listen to my story? It may explain things." She watched him for a while, thinking. Then she nodded. "But we're getting our coats back on, 'cause it's getting cold in here." Bundled back up, Dale told her everything about Nancy, Trish, and even Helena. He explained how Trish's seduction technique and frequent sexual demands, combined with his on-again, off-again 'relationship' with Nancy and Helena's master-slave blackmail must have warped his mind a bit, causing him to focus on the fucking instead of on making sure that Melanie was okay with what they were doing. He also apologized again. She looked at him, wide-eyed. "That was all true? You're not just making up stories, like in class?" He nodded. She pondered what he had said. "All right, I'll forgive you, but I'm going to need something from you, let's call it a trust exercise." Confused, he responded, "Okay, " She nibbled her lower lip. "That story was really fucking hot, and I need to cum. You said Trish taught you how to use your tongue, so, " She pulled down her panties and spread her legs for him, showing off her trimmed blonde muff. ", get in there, and if you make me feel good, I'll make you feel good after. No intercourse, though." Dale was likewise still horny from the making out, as well as from recounting his story. He dove between Melanie's legs and did his absolute best, giving her a screaming orgasm within a couple of minutes. Then she asked him to lay back, and she unfastened his jeans to pull his stiff cock out. "Holy shit! No wonder you've been getting laid so much! Oh!" She engulfed the head with her mouth and he moaned. She inexpertly licked and stroked him to orgasm. While he did warn her that he was going to cum, the sheer volume took her by surprise, and it spilled out as she choked trying to swallow it all, causing it to splatter back onto his crotch and drip down her chin. She licked it all up, marveling at how tasty it was.   Dale and Melanie took their relationship slowly, sticking with blowjobs and pussy eating when they got too wound up. He gave Nancy his notice and moved out the next month for campus housing that was closer to his new girlfriend. A few weeks later, Nancy and Michael rekindled their relationship after she informed him that she was finally pregnant. Michael figured that he had knocked his wife up just before he left for his extended work trip, and she didn't correct him, having started her last period a little after he left. The man stopped being depressed about his low sperm count and returned to his former attentive self, though he still orgasmed way too quickly for her liking.   "Mom?" Helena shuffled into her mother's bedroom. Trish put down her book. "Yes, Helena?" "I think I'm pregnant." Trish scrutinized her daughter and sighed. She had noticed the girl gaining some weight, most notably in her boobs, but hadn't said anything. "How many periods have you missed?" "A couple. I figured you can miss one sometimes, right? But then this month's didn't come either, and it's been another few weeks." Trish frowned. "Dale said you two didn't have sex. Did he lie?" "Umm, no, " The strawberry blonde looked very guilty. "But it's his?" Helena nodded. 'You conniving little bitch,' Trish thought but didn't say. They were working on their relationship with the help of a family therapist, as Dale had suggested. She considered her former boy-toy, now gone for weeks. He had succeeded in impregnating her friend Marietta, and now Helena as well. Trish also had a sneaking suspicion about Nancy also getting pregnant right after her husband left on an extended work trip. I'm the only woman he didn't knock up, she realized, feeling a little left out. "What're we gonna do, Mom?" Helena's pregnancy was already past the number of weeks their state allowed for abortion, so it seemed that Trish was going to be a Gilf in under a year! She sighed. Like mother, like daughter, she told herself again.   Eventually Dale and Melanie did have sex, though he made sure that it was in a properly romantic setting, and she wore garters and stockings, as he had requested. He wore a condom, as she had requested. He started a new game of Dragon Era for them to play together, this time as a female Elf Wizard. While Melanie's role playing choices weren't as interesting as Nancy's, she still occasionally surprised him. After Dale's English professor crushed his dreams and told him, quite frankly, that the young man's writing skills weren't sufficiently amazing to make a living at it, he switched majors to Psychology. He kept writing in his spare time, though, as he enjoyed it, you may have red some of his erotic stories online. By Krosis, for Literotica.  

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Happy 2025 from the AIE podcast! Let the regular MFN schedule resume! Get ready for Warzone Wednesday! Christmas eve looked a bit chaotic And, we are talking amongst ourselves All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/YfznTlELh1I Open Welcome to episode #431 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (Hey folks, there is Pain au Chocolat in the guild kitchen). This week we are getting back in the saddle after our holiday break, so we are talking amongst ourselves. Ok, we'll be digging into what we've been doing shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS From Fez: New, hosted Valheim server, is up. Fresh start, fresh seed. Server info is pinned in Nomads. From Bhock: Still on Ashes of Creation, Alpha 2 Phase 2, testing node progression and soon crafting Phase 3 starting mid May, so we're still on schedule From Stask: After a holiday hiatus, the New World crew continues working through expeditions (dungeons) on Sunday nights at 9ish central. We can be found on the fresh start server Hudsonland. WoW Dankinia is leading the Noob Raid after a short winter break. Thank you again Celindre for stepping in and leading the group to its first full clear in my absence. Since Dankinia's return, we've cleared it 2 more times and the Floor Tank counter for the year is already at 6. WoW Classic There are a handful of folks still playing on the fresh servers, last time I checked there is nobody at 60 yet. SWTOR Snowball cannons have been put away and keybinds have been reset to blasters and lightsabers. Mostly. Also, Warzone Wednesdays have returned for the new pvp season. Dynamic encounters are providing a quick-hit way to work toward achievements and Conquest targets. 2025 has started! ESO ESO MFN is back from winter break. We've been working on trials and helping each other with endeavors while hanging out and chatting. https://youtu.be/n1_PQsv03Rk?si=Wb4efaD27oftURA- STO A new year and the game's anniversary is coming. The event typically is at the end of this month or very beginning of February. They just released a new Sol System map with the updated ESD exterior as it was shown in Season 3 of Picard. Unfortunately with the patch that brought in the new art, there have been several bugs. From loadouts dropping, traits unloading, and even for some people equipment being unequipped. They are aware of the issues and hopefully have this all resolved soon(tm). FFXIV

Momma Carson.Based on a post by FinalStand, in 13 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels. Since a quick 'cool down' in the pool seemed like a Great idea at that instant, I sidled down the sofa and retrieved swimming trunks from my book bag. Though not Speedos, Brandy still approved. This also allowed me to 'clean up' with my underwear then stow it away in the plastic bag the trunks had come in.‘Okay,' she rang out once we were back in shirts and shorts. Mamma Carson came into view and all the blood which had been struggling back up to my brain raced to my enraged cock. Brandy's Mom was wearing a light grey sports bra, with nipples poking out invitingly, matching boy shorts, with clearly evident camel toe, and; ah; petite workout moccasins? That's what they looked like anyway. She completed the ensemble with a baby blue hair bow holding most of her hair back and a matching linen towel over her right shoulder.Undoubtedly; I was drooling.‘Mamma!' Brandy exclaimed in faux-surprise over 'Mamma's' attire.‘I just wanted to work out in the home gym and to know if you wanted to join me; like old times,' Mrs. Carson asked all innocent-like. What Brandy said was a bit less innocent and way more indicative of Brandy's trust in me (or so I thought).‘Mamma, dressed that way; I'm afraid Vlad might rape you. I'm pretty sure his brother Mikhail will; if he sees you walking around dressed like that,' Brandy chortled. Jodi May Memphis Carson wasn't a believer so I turned to the woman whose opinion truly mattered.‘Can I? Can I? Can I?' I pleaded as I fell to my knees before Brandy. ‘Please, please, please! Can I have her?'‘What!' squawked Brandy even as her eyes shone with feverish glee.‘What?' gawked Jodi May, not wanting to comprehend the scene before her; and her powerlessness in it.‘She's, my, Mother,' Brandy put both fists on her hips and began scolding me.‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,' I rapidly nodded like a maddened Fool.‘What she said,' Mamma Carson affirmed.‘Don't you care that she's my Mamma?' Brandy's tone became teasing.‘I think it is extra-special that she's your mother,' I kept up the head-bobbing.‘But I'm; ah; older enough to be her Mother,' the older Carson protested.‘Yes,' I turned to Jodi May, ‘you are what I have to look forward to if we get married, Jodi May.' Then I added a bit of my newfound cunning by saying, ‘You are almost as good as the real Brandy to my way of thinking.'I turned back to My Girl because I wasn't sure how good my Poker Face was, or how good Jodi May was at reading the hearts of young men. In reality, I didn't want a Brandy substitute and would wait for the real Brandy to become available as opposed to 'settling'.That wasn't what both women had heard though. For Brandy, it was a cruelly landed barb; on the Mother who had slept with her previous beau; as if Darius hadn't bothered to both tell Brandy and demand she never reveal she knew; because he was that kind of twisted piece of work, poisoning Daughter against her Mother.Out of sight of Mamma, I crossed the first and fore fingers of my hands to create the '#' sign followed by a '1' as I mouthed 'girl'. She winked with her hooded, left eye to show she'd caught on to my game.‘Prince, don't get pouty,' Brandy stroked my cheek. ‘It is just that Darius used to tucker her out and you are easily twice the lover he ever was to me. I don't want you screwing her unconscious like you did me our first time either,' she added on, ‘on her first day back.'‘Brandy; what?' Jodi May mentally backpedaled. ‘Who told you such stuff?'‘Darius told me, Mamma. He even showed me a video of you, him and Rashaan in a three-way,' she undercut any further attempts at denial. ‘It's okay. I believed Darius' lies too and made even worse mistakes; like believing he cared about me as opposed to his real purpose; which was to hurt Daddy.'‘Baby, you can't; I mean; it was one mistake,' she evaded.‘He showed me two tapes,' Brandy looked saddened to catch her maternal champion in a lie.‘Brandy; I; ‘‘Mamma, I'm free of him now,' Brandy let a single tear track her cheek. ‘Vlad saved me.'I took this as my clue to rise up, stop playing the Clown and return to being her masculine Guardian and Protector. I wrapped Brandy up in both arms as she wrapped my waist up in hers. Soft kisses landed on the top of her head.‘Hey, Princess?'‘Yes Prince?'‘How about you go upstairs and get dressed for a gym workout and I'll stay down here with your mother and; ‘ I led off.‘Yes; and; ,' Brandy wiggled while she looked straight up into my gaze.‘I'll spank her until you return. Seems totally fair and unbiased to me.'‘Spanking my ass is not enough for you?' she sniffle-giggled.‘Wait? What? I get to spank both your asses?!?!?'‘No,' she protested. ‘You get to spank Mamma, but only until I get back.'‘Brandy!' Mom exclaimed.‘Mamma, I'll change real fast, I promise,' Brandy shot me another wink then sprinted off before there could be any other verbal roadblocks.More, as in more of Jodi MayA few seconds later;‘Young man, I am not going to let you spank me,' Jodi May announced.‘If you don't, can you imagine how much more disappointed in you Brandy will be when she gets back? Sleeping with Darius was a stupid thing to do, but you both know how charismatic he could be. Lying to her about what you did was dumber and overly cruel to a young woman who deserves the truth desperately,' I glared her way.‘That doesn't equate to me degrading myself before you,' she frowned.‘Oh, come on,' I attempted to placate the mother. ‘Just lay across my lap. I'll give one good smack when I hear her coming down the stairs and she'll be mollified.'Maybe I had a good Poker Face after all, or perhaps mine was yet another lie Jodi May wanted/choose to believe.‘Well, don't get slap happy,' she wagged a finger at me as she came around the sofa. She certainly walked slowly enough to hard-sell her reluctance.I languidly sat down, then beckoned her forward with my forefinger. Her eyes rolled heavenward at my theater even as she complied; by crawling across my lap. I held off my 'gulp' until she wasn't looking at me.Step 1: I held my palms upraised and clasped together in supplication and prayer while whispering, ‘Таксиарх Архангел Михаил, за то, что я собираюсь получить, я смиренно благодарен.' ‘Taksiarkh Arkhangel Mikhail, za to, chto ya sobirayus' poluchit', ya smirenno blagodaren.'‘Are you saying Grace over my Behind?' she looked over her shoulder at me, somewhat caught between cross and bemused.‘Your whole body, Ma'am. Your whole body and it is only fitting and proper that I do so. Anything less would be sacrilegious in the extreme,' I smiled. Jodi May smirked. She shouldn't have been so confident.Step 2 saw me putting my left forearm casually over her shoulder blades. Now she was tensing up and becoming physically uneasy, but too late for that.Step 3 and I began massaging her buttocks.‘Hey! What are you doing?' she hissed. Her attempts to rise were countered by me applying pressure with my forearm. My right hand rose and came down with a resounding 'Smack!' ‘Ow! What the; ‘‘It should be obvious,' I humored her. ‘I lied. You've been bad. Worse, you've been bad to Brandy in my presence and I'm not going to tolerate that, not for one second. Clear enough?'‘Let go,' she struggled valiantly. ‘I said; Ow! Ugh,' she sniffled as a second blow was followed by a third in rapid succession.‘Next time it will be three and the number keeps going on up, got it?' I stated. She hesitated so my right hand rose.‘Yes,' she yielded cautiously.‘Okay. Here are the new Ground Rules. Brandy is the Lady of this House, not you. You ran off while she stayed. Play nice and my family will work overtime to not make things even worse between you and your husband when he returns. Cross any of us, or Brandy, and you have no clue how bad it will get,' I began.‘And if I say 'no' are you going to continue to beat me?' she challenged. Down came three hard blows on her luscious posterior which vibrated deliciously with each impact.‘Ow, ow, Ow!' she teared up. ‘Stop! Please stop!' It would have been more convincing if I hadn't spotted her hands sneaking back. I foresaw ten sets of claw marks in my near future if I wasn't careful.Down came four painful blows with the accompanying highly vocal protests.‘Hands over your head,' I demanded in a harsh, unforgiving tone. ‘Five, four, three; ‘I could see her contemplate trying to scarify me then think better of it. My pain tolerance was an unknowns while she was approaching hers. Up her hands went.‘Good girl,' I leaned forward and cooed into her hair from close above. ‘Cross your wrists and keep them that way.' Again, compliance with an undertone of a mare getting ready to bolt. ‘Raise your legs up on the sofa and cross your ankles. Keep them that way.' At this point she realized she was stuck. There was going to be no quick getaway for her.‘Who is the Lady of the House?' I inquired softly.‘Brandy.'‘Not very convincing, but that will have to do for the moment,' I first caused her to coil from the expected painful spanking, then relax when she realized she'd gained a respite. ‘I know you don't believe me for no reason which truly makes sense to me, but you don't. I'm okay with your current misconceptions about me.'I moved my hand under the elastic of her shorts.‘Hey,' she tried to raise her head up, stilling me with her gaze alone. My hand worked down to the crack of her ass then alternating along the sides instead of continuing 'deeper'. Once more, this was just a false hiatus as, with a few quick twists of my right wrist, I began working her shorts down until I had exposed her bare buttocks to me.Since the verbal and non-verbal roadblocks weren't working, she went for the straight physical denial by clamping her thighs shut. Thighs are stronger than arms, but you'd have had to have been a premier female bodybuilder to keep my questing fingers from between them and stop my progress at this late date; and Jodi May's figure was way too opulent for that's sport's discipline.‘While keeping your ankles crossed, move your knees apart,' I ordered. Finally she launched her all-out rebellion. I could have out-wrestled her three years ago and won without my current hellish advantages. I had Jodi May off the sofa and pinned, face-first, on the floor in ten seconds flat. Five blows to her scrumptious rear rained down. This time the resulting tears were very real.‘Okay; okay,' she sobbed.I made a production of getting off of her, resuming my seat then having her crawl back across my lap. This time she was utterly defeated and scared. Six blows were her 'reward'. The 'reward' was the playfulness of those feather-light touches of those faux-slaps to her abused flesh. ‘Ah, ah, ah; oh; ‘‘Raise up your tush.'Her ‘Why?' was quickly followed by my frown and then her instant compliance. Kisses replaced the palm of my hand as I blew gently and placed faint signs of affection on her posterior. My hand was busy going between her cheeks until my fingertips contacted moist labia-meat.‘Ah; should you? Brandy; back soon?' Jodi May whimpered.‘Who is the Lady of the House?'‘; Brandy?'‘Yes and it is up to Brandy to call me off. I know how long it takes for her to get dressed when she has sex on her mind, so I'm already aware she can intervene whenever she wishes to. This is Brandy's game, Jodi May, not yours, not mine.'I worked two fingers up to the first digit into her labia, feeling she was becoming quite wet. My thumb was tapping her sphincter as well. Jodi May was beginning to really get into it, adding a little push back to my play, when Brandy announced her presence.‘Hey guys. Whatchya doing?'I held Jodi May firm so all my mature victim could do was stay on all fours while I methodically finger fucked her from behind.‘Quick; let me up,' Jodi May urged me quietly, yet without much conviction.‘No.'‘Mamma; Vlad?' Brandy glided down the stairs and fully into view. I had been prepared for more of a fight from Mrs. Carson than she'd put up, which was for damn sure. Jodi May gracefully slid off the sofa, dragging a throw pillow with her and then buried her face in it, more a feeble effort at hiding than any real attempt to break our coupling.I couldn't have been more baffled though I felt compelled to follow to keep my position via-a-via her body.'She's been lonely,' Brandy mouthed to me followed by, ‘Vlad, that's my Mother!''Huh?' from me.'Don't stop', then ‘get off of her right now, Mister!' Fortunately, I figured out which sets of lips to obey; Brandy's silent ones and Jodi May's lower, gooey ones. Her upper ones were beginning to make subdued little moaning noises.‘Oh Mamma, is my Prince being mean to you?' my Lady knelt by her mother's head.‘He spanked me badly,' the older lady mumbled into the pillow.‘Vlad, make it up to her,' Brandy turned to me. Her insistent tone was undermined by her wink.‘I like where I am,' I defied her then mouthed, 'what do I do?'‘None of that backtalk, Mister,' she waggled a finger at me. ‘Get those magic lips to work this instant,' the finger pointed toward her mother's hindquarters.‘And if I don't?' I scoffed. Then, 'I love you.'‘Then that cock of yours is blocked from ALL the ladies this weekend; Oh Vlad who is living Vicariously,' she shot me a sly smile. 'I love you too.'‘Ouch!' I emoted as I recoiled. ‘Princess; that's harsh,' followed by a double eyebrow pump and 'anything for you.'‘Brandy; I (sniff) don't; want (sniffle); him to; oh; ah; oh, stop that Vlad,' Jodi May protested.While Mamma Carson had been voicing her dissent, I had been shuffling down the length of the sofa. Quickly enough I maneuvered myself into a position where I could begin planting kisses on her abused heinie, all the while keeping my fingers gracefully playing in her cunny and across her anal frontiers. I began adding little flicks of my tongue as I'd had something similar done to me once, during my first time with a professional. That one could arouse with just her lips, teeth and tongue in ways I'd never imagined.‘Oh; he shouldn't be doing that,' Jodi May murmured. ‘Make him stop.'During this appeal, I was petting her along her spine until she got the hint I wanted her to bow her back to give me better access to her girly bits.‘No, Mamma. Vlad has to learn his lesson. He can't take you, or any woman; but especially not us Carson women; for granted,' Brandy insisted.'You sure; about this?' I checked.'I want Mamma to stay home, Prince,' she smiled somewhat tearfully. I sensed she'd had words with Mikhail and Taliyah before returning. My youngest triplet must have been deadly insistent about the power of 'my love', which healed her heart, being able to rejuvenate her mother of whatever emotional maledictions had aided her departure from this household, things I was still largely unaware of.Twenty seconds of oral succulence later; 'I don't have a condom'.Brandy had coaxed her mother to turn her head sideways on the pillow, facing Brandy's lap though Jodi May's eyes were closed. Brandy, for her part, was in navy blue butt shorts and a blue sports bra (I figured from Brandy's desire to color coordinate) and a white, sleeve-less t-shirt with blue stripes down the sides.'She's on birth control.''This may get more than a bit weird. (Are you) sure about this?''Come back to me, Vlad.''Always, Princess.'A stellar smile followed my promise to her, then it was 'back to work' (though I hardly thought of my sexual activities in such a manner.)Honestly, Jodi May had a way more developed sense of what she liked and how to get me to go where she wanted to me to go than any other Arkansas woman I'd been with to date. She wasn't all that bashful, or clumsy about it, either. There was a magical grace to her responses which later left me amazed how she led me to her first orgasm without me realizing she was definitely leading our carnal cavorting.Hmm; my mind was recovering; in that I could create more wordy prose while simultaneously working my neck (I was on my stomach behind her by this time, propped up on my elbows), nose, mouth, fingers and tongue. I was still the composer, creating the movement for the orchestra to play, but she was the body of music, filling the auditorium of our love-making with a tantalizing harmonic melody. I couldn't tear myself away.For her part, Jodi May made sure to rub her vaginal fluids over my face from eyebrow ridge to the stubble beneath my chin (hey! I'd hurried to get over here). All I could taste and smell was her womanly aroma; a richer, raw maple syrupy smell combined with scallops; which I quickly came to adore.I got a mouth and two cheeks full when she orgasmed and she got to howl into her pillow while Brandy, now the maestro of this little performance, appeared surprised by her ever-growing, new-found power over the people who had such an emotional impact on her life. Brandy was In Charge!I was lapping away like some overly friendly Saint Bernard the juices which had escaped my gullet as Jodi May coasted down from her post-coitus euphoria. Then Mother began crying to daughter and daughter to Mother.‘I'm so sorry, Baby Boo,' Mamma addressed her offspring. ‘I tore everything apart.'‘You did, Mamma,' Brandy petted her hair, ‘but if you hadn't run off with Mr. Jenks, Senior Deputy Samsonov wouldn't have applied for his job, gotten it and the Samsonov's wouldn't have stayed. I would have been under Darius' thumb; as would have the whole school. You hurt me and Daddy plenty, yet; in the Greater Scheme of Things; it worked out better for me and Daddy with the new friends we've made.'‘That's a beautiful way of looking at my screw-up,' Jodi May's eyes opened in more ways than one way. Brandy was acting in a more self-possessed manner at this moment than she ever had before. Jodi had left a girl subjugated by a villain and come back to a women partnered with a man whom she loved and who loved her. Our strong bond powered everything else.‘You still hurt Daddy and for that you must atone, Mamma,' Brady frowned slightly.‘Atone; ah; like punish me?' Mamma didn't seem all that distressed.‘Yes. We can go back to your present room and cut up all your racy dresses, or you can promise to never leave the house without me, or Pa; or you could let Vlad be so terribly mean to you that you never forget who really cares for you,' Brandy laid out the choices. My girl had it going on!‘Terribly mean,' Jodi May flashed me a famished look, ‘like what he is doing to me right now?'‘Oh yes; just like this plus much, much worse,' Brandy feigned innocence.‘How much worse?' Mrs. Carson hid her smile well.‘Stay right there and find out,' I joined in. I finished rolling her from leaning to one side to over on her back with my kisses falling down on her still micro-trembling thighs.‘One thing though, Mamma,' Brandy grew steely.‘Yes.'‘Daddy doesn't want you around us no more.'‘Let me deal with; ‘‘No,' Brandy put her foot (knee) down. ‘You broke Daddy's heart for the last time with your cheating ways. Hell, I became a cheater too, and I think you are somewhat to blame for that as well; me going behind his back to keep dating Darius.'‘Honey Child, those are adult things,' Mamma tried to both mollify her baby while seduce me with a host of non-verbal clues.‘No, Mamma. Not anymore. I'm 18 now and I think I know what is going on. Daddy won't take you back and back into his bed, never. If you promise me and him you will behave; ‘‘I'm your Mother,' Jodi May grew frosty up top while keeping steamy and inviting below.‘And I am your Daughter and I'm telling you if you try to romance Dad, you can't win. You will cheat again and he'll detonate in a big way. Then he will take you to Divorce Court and destroy us as a family. I don't want that.'Brandy Crystal Carson.Jodi May wasn't overly groomed in the pelvic region, but it wasn't too much to deal with either. It was natural and womanly, very fitting for the untamed, sumptuous tableau of maverick charms she presented to me.‘I'll behave, Brandy Crystal Carson,' Mamma shifted around so could place one hand over her heart. ‘I swear. This time things will be different.'‘Yes. Yes, they will. Mamma, in this instant, you can stop having sex with Vlad and have sex with no other until Daddy decides to take you back to his bed, you can keep whoring around until Daddy gets so ashamed by it, he tosses you out for good, or; ‘‘Or; ?' Jodi May was somewhat less than the authoritative persona she wanted and needed to put forth to be the master/mistress the situation at this point.‘Or, we let you have sex with Vlad; and his two, identical brothers, Mikhail and Alexander, but only them.'I struggled mighty hard to not let the 'Hey now! Don't we (my Brothers and I) get a vote in this?' push the current wolfish cravings for more Jodi May off my face and to alter my demeanor from covetous carnivore to caring boyfriend. I already knew Mikhail's vote would be a 'Hell yeah!', but Alexander? Me? I found myself gradually going serpentine up my current partner's body.‘Vladimir; Vlad, you can't be okay with this?' Jodi May's eyes riveted me. Only the truth would do so I went for the most effective bit of truth.‘Brandy Crystal Carson is my Lady on my arm and my Whore in my bedroom, Jodi May. She has entered the tiny group of people whose opinions I give a damn about, and the only one of the four who isn't blood-related. That is how much I value your daughter's council, advice and personal direction when I need it.'‘So you are just going to let her tell you who you can and can't sleep with; for real; ‘‘Abso-fucking-lutely, Mrs. Carson. That is because it isn't about the fucking; it is about the happiness. I'm happiest when my world collapses down to just Brandy and me.'‘I'm happiest when she smiles at me when I've done a good thing. I'm happiest when she is so hoarse from screaming out her orgasms she can't enunciate clearly, or even move, after one of our ferocious rounds of love-making. In essence: Brandy = my happiness; so yes, I give everything she recommends to me great weight.'‘In this case,' I ran my tongue up between her gently sagging mounds of mountainous breast tissue, ‘she is telling me what will make her happy; having sex with a 'loyal' you; and; not having sex with a disloyal you; makes her happy.' I paused for several seconds to glomb onto her right nipple and playfully suckle upon it. Her legs, already open, allowed her heels to start working over the sides of my calves and the back of my knees.‘I could wake up in the morning and have sex with your daughter, Mrs. Carson. We could chase one another around, frolic and have sex all over whichever domicile we found ourselves in; and if I did it for a hundred years, I would never get bored with Brandy, or want to anything except make her joyous inside and out,' I finished up.Jodi May had three options to believe in:~ I could still be a standard milksop White Boy despite the preponderance of evidence to the contrary,~ The entire political-racial-sexual landscape had turned topsy-turvy in her short (6 month) absence,~ Or I was actually a Big Black Cock Monster in disguise (the third one was Mikhail's spin on things, I swear).I had another issue, rug burn and my desire to avoid it for both of us.‘A Prize like you shouldn't be nailed to Kingdom Come on the floor like some common floozy,' I declared. ‘Here,' I slipped on hand under Jodi May's tailbone, lifting her up and pressing her into me. ‘Wrap your arms around my neck,' I commanded 'my prize'.‘Umm,' she gasped as her body clove to mine. ‘You certainly are; ah; strong.'‘I 'pry free' ladies who Society mistakenly believes have become 'Black-owned' on a regular basis, I wrestle said 'Black' rascals down until they cry out 'I'm an Uncle Tom' and I show those women the powerful lineage of Valhalla hasn't gone from this world quite yet; though not necessarily in that order,' I bullshitted some stuff together.‘Vlad; that's gosh-darn racist; except the last part. That didn't make too much sense, but; I think I liked it,' Mamma Carson salivated over every turn of the phrase. Me being 'racist' definitely wasn't a deal-breaker for her and the Valhalla nonsense glossed over my ancestors confused relationship with those Scandinavians who came a vikinging to the East over a millennia ago.I hefted her up abruptly, spun on one knee and deposited her on her rump on the edge of the sofa cushions.‘Aie!' she squealed in surprise. Off-guard, she posed no resistance as I made my final approach. I aimed my cockhead at her glistening vulva with my left hand while pushing her left leg away while keeping the knee locked. ‘What?'‘How do you want it?' I growled. ‘Hard and brutal, or slow and gentle?'‘How about I show you how I like it?' she purred. It was hard to argue with her kind of counter-proposal. Her right-hand's fingernails trailed down my shoulders, upper arm and the over to my waist to guide me into her designated pace of her penetration.I'll give her this much, until the tenth cycle she held it together better than her daughter. Afterwards, the newness of her vaginal walls undulating around my veined shaft caused her breath to catch and her hands to grab my ass, drawing me in ever deeper.‘Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, Yip!' she went off after I accidently pushed passed her cervix.I was certain, just like Brandy with Darius, Mr. Jenks had most likely gone before where I was going now. The 'new' was her cervix massaging my glans and the area right behind the head like a mini-handjob (for me) /pleasurable vibrator-to-the-uterus' entrance (for her). I didn't look like the biggest, or thickest piece of Man-Meat she'd ever encountered so;‘IN-tense, isn't it, Mamma?' Brandy appeared on the sofa beside us. I was still kneeling on the floor, I had mother's legs spread in a wide 'V' and was beginning to pick up our tempo as the interrogation began.‘Hush, Baby (gasp), Mamma is; oh Lord,' she mumbled, ‘I'm; oh; my; Vlad; slow down.'Innocent trust required me to slow down. My nascent woman-sense told me to do the opposite. I slowly pulled back; then hungrily drove home deep. Jodi May grunted as her eyes, once shuttered, sprang wide open. I followed that up with small, rapid repetitions interspersed with gyrating the sensation inward, my pubic bone on her clitoral region. My partner's legs flexed even wider, her head flew back, bow keeping her hair from going wild and her eyes squeezed shut.To add to the stimulation, I latched on to her right breast, suckling the whole areola and nipple into my mouth. Brandy took the left nipple between two fingers and began pinching it and rolling it between them.‘Gurr; ‘ my first thought was 'when did the Carson's get a cat?'‘Gurr; ‘; 'Holy Shit! How did a puma get in here?'And the resulting caterwauling Yowl was the scariest, female Big Cat noise I'd ever heard; and that was Jodi May Memphis Carson having a no-holds-bared Orgasm as her body flushed ruddy, sweat perspired all over, her back painfully bowed and of course, she screamed out to High Heavens like no human I'd ever heard.I lost it. I was shooting off semen deep into her uterus as her cervix was once more grappling with my glans. I had no care in that instant where, or what I was doing. I was a spectator being taken along for the ride though I wasn't hemmed-in in any physical way.‘Holy Shit, Bro!' Mikhail laughed loudly. ‘Delivering from Downtown!' I think he was referencing a long 3-point shot in basketball, but I was too sonically concussed to be sure.‘Take notes,' Taliyah repeated her refrain.Those two had come downstairs after Brandy and, it appeared, had been quietly watching us as events unfolded.‘Brandy, is everything okay?' sounded off Noémie Lucie from the far side hallway, the one which led to the stairs down to the lower level which included the space the other cheerleaders had been sleeping. Oh boy. Explaining this was going to be a peach.Who is here to chaperone whom?(11:30 poolside at the Carson Home.)It made perfect sense Sheriff 'Big Bob' Carson wouldn't trust his home solely to his 'somewhat independent-minded' daughter when she was having thirteen friends over for a Saturday Night party. While Taliyah could show up whenever she wanted since she and Brandy were lifelong Besties, the whole crowd showing up on Friday night was completely unofficial; so he'd asked an adult, or two, to chaperone tonight.No, he hadn't handed that heavy responsibility over to us equally hormonal, 18 year old triplets; as we were considered one of the hazards which needed to be chaperoned against. Nope; if we'd been able to roll all our lives back one whole day and night, we would have seen the Sheriff having dinner with someone who fit the bill of 'perfect chaperone' (a single, adult female with a strong will, of pure moral fiber and a history of legalized violence; Big Bob was fully aware of our current extracurricular circumstances) with the sole exception she wasn't a friend, or even very much of an acquaintance; so he was asking a great deal of them.Thankfully, 'business' was keeping this person in our sleepy burgh of Kingston anyway and this would give her a perfect opportunity to interrogate some of the possible 'third parties' involved with the crime which had befallen poor Darius Pope and his busted-up buddies.Yep, Brandy's Papa had asked the AHP CID (Arkansas Highway Patrol Criminal Investigation Division) Sergeant Louisa Petrakis to 'babysit' his 18 year old daughter and her friends to make sure their partying remained PG-13. That, not some desire to twist up the criminal investigation into the Darius Pope matter, had been the reason he'd 'wined and dined' her Thursday night.She'd only agreed After she'd realized what a corrupt bunch of actors the Kingston PD was and gotten the implication the Sheriff couldn't even trust the majority of his own Deputies. To her this must have smelled like some political civil war a 'brewing; which was an unspoken menace her department was also supposed to combat.When political infighting oozed out into open law enforcement corruption cases, it hurt the State of Arkansas economically by making their home ground look less attractive to external investment and the ever-important tourist dollar. Part of a weekend with access to Big Bob's and the Mayor's daughters suddenly became very attractive to this half-Creole (US Coast Guard Officer on her mother's side) / half-Greek (her father was a Merchant Marine Captain); originally from Louisiana; law officer .She'd come to Arkansas for UA (University of Arkansas) Sociology and Criminal Justice program and stayed to pursue a career in state law enforcement plus a LLM (Master of Law) from her alma mater on the road to joining the Department of Homeland Security working cases involving international law. Yep; ambitious beyond the norm.She chose an electric blue one piece; which was nothing but string from behind; very cheeky and what she claimed was the only suit in her size available on such short notice. I thought my brothers and I should pay homage to the Swimsuit Goddesses, if that was the true, because Sgt. Louisa was truly luscious.Of course, 14 to 1 odds was asking a lot of anyone so Big Bob had wrangled (rather easily) a supporting chaperone, my Mother (‘ah shit' was Mikhail's heartfelt and instantaneous reaction upon seeing her). She wasn't the primary chaperone because, as Big Bob told Ms. Louisa; ‘she's 100% loyal, brave and true, but 100% bat-shit crazy too.' Perfectly succinct and it rhymed.Mom; ugh; wore a red and white skimpy one-piece with a 'required' blue-with-one-white-star-over-each-breast bikini top. Very; umm; patriotic? Mom had a tight, lean-muscled physique. I had no doubt she was the most deceptively lethal human being present; in both age groups; and that included the people who knew she was crazy.Because the AHP Sergeant wasn't part of the Kingston/Davis County shit-storm, Mom felt safe secretly inviting two other women to this shindig. The first came so they could be seen publically feuding (by the cheerleaders) while they actually spent time building up a rapport. Mom was being asked to put aside a truckload of hate she'd been clutching to her bosom for over twenty years toward Dominique Fox Malik's husband, father and brother.For Dominique, she'd been raised on hating the Fonteneau in general and Gayle for 'lying' about the rape Mom had gone through (at the hands of 7 Black young men when she was fifteen) and Theo, her twin, for putting her brother in a coma he was still in all these years later. They'd hated one another by association longer than I'd been alive and now were trying to put their bile 'high on the back shelf' for their children's sake.Sure, Mom was tossing money and political clout Dominique's way, but the offer would never had been made and absolutely never accepted if Taliyah and Mikhail hadn't been so deeply and truly

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... We have a mini WoW Raid wrap up! Q-ing through a winter wonderland Happy Life Day, Captain Moria makes it LEGENDARY And, it is our final show of the year! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/P-NzuWSQw-c Open Welcome to episode #430 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah - (Holiday baking coming soon to the guild kitchen). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). For the last show of the year, we have some fun giveaways and LOTS of news. Ok, It is the end of the year and we have a TON of news to go over! AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Please check each game for any special holiday schedule! Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS In New World, our jovial band of adventurers continues to explore Aeternum and progress through the expeditions (dungeons) with many laughs and even more slaying. WoW Raid Teams Kiddie Aggro and So Let's Go Skating (aka Slugs) have defeated all bosses in Heroic Nerub-Ar Palace, and Kiddie Aggro did an Achievement run this week for Glory of the Nerub-Ar Raider, which awards Reins of the Shadowed Swarmite. During the photo op in Dornegal, Guild Highly Illogical joined in the fun. Official Noob Raid is on break until Jan 4, 2025 but Celindre will be running Noob Raid After Dark (still family friendly) in the Noob Raid time slot while Kini is away. WoW Classic The guild is created on the Horde side on DreamScythe. Going well, Lars will try to login here to check numbers Big burst to start and perhaps quiet now as expected. WoW Classic Fresh Anniversary Edition: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr6A3z7BDJTLBqR7l5OHRp7hjmCqMLx1c WoW Classic Hardcore 20th Anniversary Edition: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr6A3z7BDJTJGY61wTpjQdbdXyT_598Xq SWTOR We are locked in battle this week for the planet of Taris in Total Galactic War. So far we have the lead by a margin that keeps fluctuating, so no predictions yet. Guildies, both grouped and solo are contributing this week to our total point score by questing, crafting, dungeons, raids, and pvp. Everything counts. Through passion we gain strength; through strength, power; through power, victory. And through victory we get to have our guild name announced on the planet of Taris every time anyone goes there. Next week, the annual Life Day event starts and on Tuesday night we will be celebrating our efforts in TGW as well throwing a healthy number of snowballs. ESO ESO MFN is on winter break until Jan 3rd 2025, but feel free to group up for holiday events in Kini's absence. FFXIV 7.1 has arrived! With it, new story content, pvp rebalance,

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... We promise we are not Podfading! We wish you a happy Galactic seasons Go see Kraemer for all of your crafting needs! We have a guild wars two update!!! And, we are our own guests! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/3pH5I_D7d9w Open Welcome to episode 429 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week, we are joined by US!!! Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into what we have been doing shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Ashes of Creation - Alpha 2 is on and running, with a few members. We now have a fresh start company (Covenant) in New World on Hudsonland. We are enjoying all the improvements they've made lately. We are also on the legacy server Valhalla. WoW Noob Raid is 7/8 in normal Nerubn-ar Palace. Not bad at all for a bunch of Noobs lead by a professional floor tank. WoW Classic Fresh start servers are coming up in Classic SWTOR The guild is still doing MFN on Tuesday nights at 9pm EST. We are helping everyone get their Galactic Season objectives done. Still have a couple months to finish everything up. The Public Test Server (PTS) is up with content from the next patch 7.6 on it. One of the things being tested are dynamic events, which are like world quests in other games. A new single boss operation is being tested also. Lords of Light has taken it down, but there are some different mechanics that are not working correctly right now. Should be fun when it's in the live game. There are rewards for doing 100 dynamic events and a title for defeating the operation boss. Keep an eye out for groups getting together on the PTS if you want to finish those rewards up. We have four operations (raid) teams that are running different things. Check in the SWTOR channel in discord for when spots are open and subs are needed. There are a couple teams that have some regular spots open. Join up if you want to see some different content in Star Wars: The Old Republic. FFXIV New patch is out, more MSQ, more Alliance Raid, and you can combine level 1 outfits in the glamour dresser so they only take up one slot instead of many. Also, update your adventure plates! ESO We've been attempting some new-to-us trials, with varying degrees of success. Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to. GW2 Extra Life event running until the 19th. Take your toon into Lion's Arch.

« Plus de la moitié de l'électricité sera d'origine bas carbone avant la fin de la décennie. » Dans son dernier rapport paru mercredi 16 octobre, l'Agence internationale de l'énergie persiste et signe. En désaccord complet avec ces prédictions, les multinationales du pétrole continuent, elles, d'investir lourdement dans les hydrocarbures. Entre Fatih Birol, le directeur exécutif de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE) et l'internationale du pétrole, le courant ne passe plus. Il y a certes consensus sur l'explosion des besoins en énergie, liés au développement des pays du Sud, mais aussi à l'appétit insatiable de l'intelligence artificielle et de ses milliers de datacenters ou encore à la climatisation croissante des espaces publics et privés qui répond au réchauffement climatique autant qu'elle y contribue.Mais l'agence basée à Paris fait le pari que les énergies renouvelables, d'un côté l'éolien et le solaire en tête, et l'énergie nucléaire de l'autre, fourniront malgré tout la moitié de l'électricité de la planète d'ici à 2030. Sur ce point, les pétroliers sont en complet désaccord. « Il faut abandonner de toute urgence le fantasme d'une disparition progressive du pétrole et du gaz », s'est agacé Amin Nasser, le puissant patron de la compagnie nationale saoudienne de pétrole Aramco à la tribune d'un forum de l'industrie à Houston. « À la place, il faut investir dans ces ressources en prenant en compte l'évolution réaliste de la demande. » L'Arabie saoudite et les pays producteurs de pétrole en général considèrent que la consommation de pétrole va continuer d'augmenter tous les ans, « au moins jusqu'en 2045 ».Une analyse partagée par les principales compagnies privées : ces dernières années, BP et Shell sont revenues tour à tour sur leurs objectifs de réduction de la production de pétrole et de gaz. Le géant français Total prévoit lui carrément d'augmenter sa production de pétrole de 3 % tous les ans jusqu'en 2030. Devant une commission d'enquête du Sénat français, en avril dernier, son PDG ne s'est pas privé de dire tout le mal qu'il pensait des prédictions de l'AIE : « Le scénario ‘net zéro' de l'AIE [qui prévoit la neutralité carbone en 2050, NDLR] est un scénario théorique », a insisté Patrick Pouyané devant les sénateurs. « L'AIE dit que [compte tenu du déclin naturel des champs] il suffit qu'on arrête d'investir dans le pétrole. Le problème, c'est que la même AIE nous explique chaque semaine que la demande de pétrole de l'année suivante augmente. » Visiblement agacé, le patron de Total tape du poing sur la table et s'en prend directement au patron de l'Agence : « Ce n'est pas à moi qu'il faut poser la question, c'est à monsieur Fatih Birol. Parce que je veux bien qu'on ait un nouveau pape et une nouvelle bible, mais ce n'est pas la réalité de ce que nous vivons aujourd'hui. »« La transition vers les énergies propres est irréversible »Le « nouveau pape » en question n'a pourtant rien d'un zadiste en sarouel. L'économiste turc est un ancien du sérail, ce qui explique peut-être le sentiment de trahison ressenti par les industriels. Avant de prendre la tête de l'AIE en 2015, il a fait carrière au sein de l'Organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole (Opec). S'il est vrai qu'il a pris conscience de l'urgence climatique, l'AIE, créée après le premier choc pétrolier de 1973 pour faciliter la sécurité des approvisionnements énergétiques, reste avant tout un instrument prédictif dont les rapports font toujours foi. Avant la COP28, Fatih Birol avait lancé un appel aux pétroliers parlant de « moment de vérité » : « Nous verrons si vous êtes les partenaires de la lutte contre le changement climatique, oui ou non. »Mais il assure que ses prévisions sur le pic de pétrole n'ont rien de politique, citant notamment le ralentissement de la demande chinoise, l'électrification à marche forcée du parc automobile et la domination du renouvelable dans les investissements énergétiques de la planète au point de représenter désormais les deux tiers de sommes engagées. « Les chiffres ont toujours raison », a dit Fatih Birol en septembre devant un groupe de réflexion new-yorkais. « La transition vers les énergies propres est irréversible. Je vois certains célébrer chaque obstacle qui se dresse sur la route, mais le chemin à prendre ne fait aucun doute. »

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... NOOB is back, baby! The Galactic season has been extended The Entire galaxy is on red alert! FFXIV is at a crossroads And, we are talking amongst ourselves All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/J0sb-7jQ1Ns Open Welcome to episode #428 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (hey folks, there will be pan au chocolate in the guild kitchen). This week we have a host show! Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into what we've been up to in and out of the game shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS There are at least 2 dungeons and dragon ongoing campaigns currently one being run be Dproberts on some sundays and the other by Kraemer29 on saturdays we next meet on october 26th for both scheduling we both have to deal with the epic IRL monster Diablo IV - Vessel of Hatred launches on October 7th at 4 pm PDT with a new class, the Spiritborn, a reduction in base top level to 50, growing to 60 with the expansion, along with a multitude of new difficulty levels, and story. WoW Noob Raid resumed last week and since cross-faction LFR isn't a thing, decided to make an attempt at Normal difficulty. They managed the first boss, but still needed a lot of practice for the second one. Next week is time walking so they will be making another attempt at getting rare mounts with a full clear of Ulduar. WoW Classic With the launch of Season of Discovery Phase 5 on Thursday, September 26 at 22:00 CEST, Blackwing Lair will become available. Blackwing Lair is tuned and intended for ~20 players but the instance is capped at a maximum of 40 players. Blackwing Lair is on a 7-day raid reset timer. Zul'Gurub is tuned and intended for ~10 players, but the instance is capped at a maximum of 20 players. Zul'Gurub is on a twice-weekly raid reset timer. New Raid: The Crystal Vale Prince Thunderaan the Windseeker has broken free from his prison with the release of Phase 5 and will be available to all players as a newly reimagined raid encounter. Thunderaan is tuned and intended for ~20 players but the instance is capped at a maximum of 40 players. The Crystal Vale is on a twice-weekly reset timer. Old Raid: The Molten Core Available with weekly resets starting on September 24th, The Molten Core will become available to raid with an instance capped at a maximum of 40 players. It will remain tuned for 20 players. SWTOR We continue to work through Galactic Season 7, which has been extended 6 weeks.

Barbie Lynn's GeneticsIn 30 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the podcast at Explicit Novels.  “Nymphomania, while enticing to consider, is still utter madness when experienced.”"Why Mr. Zane, my Barbie Lynn has told us so many wonderful things about you," she sounded so sugary that the honeyed words flowed off her tongue in a manner that was barely coherent. Also, her eyes flickered to the shower where I'd nailed Barbie Lynn repeatedly for forty minutes not all that long ago. Next to me Thomas grunted something that sounded like 'hello'."I'm sure she's exaggerated to my betterment," I pulled that banter out of my tush, my brain was suffering catastrophic blood loss."I can't wait to live in this dorm next year," Laramie came across with a nearly a molasses like drawl as well. "Zane, will you let me use this room next year?""Dude! This is your room?" Jefferson perked up. "Mom, I have to come here next year!""Um, yes Laramie, I'm going to hold this room open to every girl, and perhaps guy, in the dorm. I don't need much space," I said, "so keep out of the way of housekeeping and we are good. Also, you are immune from Handmaiden's Duty while here.""Oh, I was thinking about the game stations, satellite dishes and cable hook-ups," Jefferson added. Jefferson Davis, that name rang a bell."Come on now Honey, a man can't go to a women's," Savannah let that sentence die unfinished. For me, it was keep the lone male status quo; or to get a good night's sleep'."Mrs. Masters, I offer a thin hope for your son; if your daughter could line up some upstanding seniors and juniors, he might slip in under the Zane Exception to the enrollment policy," I told her."You'd do that for Jeff?" Savannah took off her sunglasses and bit one of its arms."Ma'am, I'd wrestle an alligator blindfolded for your daughter. I would certainly put in a good word for her brother," I smiled. I had no idea how tough alligators could be but I knew about crocodiles and those were some mean mothers in their own right. Still, faced with alligator wrestling or no anal-sex with Barbie Lynn, I was getting a belt, handbag and new shoes, damn it.The odds of getting Jeff in were long, Victoria barely suffered Heaven being around, and it would take an act of the Southern Baptist Convention to bring in a male to replace me when I was gone."It would give your Father another option for Jefferson if you could do this Barbie Lynn," Savannah politely replied."That would be great," the kid rejoiced. Yes, he was a fully functioning teenage male."Zane can move mountains when he sets his mind to it," Barbie Lynn winked at me. Thomas saw it but was caught off-guard."Let me show you my bedroom," Barbie offered her kin. They turned and the women sashayed away while Jeff had an almost run-in with Raven and 'company'. Each woman shot a look over their shoulder and smiled at me at some point along their journey which boded trouble."I apologize, Zane," Thomas mumbled. "I thought, deep down, you were weak for submitting to your lusts. Now, I don't, I don't think that anymore.""Don't sweat it," I smiled. "It is only another day for me ending in y.""And don't you be forgetting about me, and how tough it has been resisting Zane," Vivian warned the man she was hoping to marry."A wife should obey her husband," he started, "and a husband should know when to shut up."Lunch and what comes afterI dropped Ms. Reveal's lunch off with just enough sassiness to make her smile and believe that our bad episode was behind us. She sent me to the Vice Chancellor's office a minute later, and while Doctor Victoria Scarlett was conversing over the phone, I felt comfortable to set her meal up in front of her and mine across her desk.Victoria only had this canned ice tea in her mini-frig so I swiped two and set one before her and opened mine. I wasn't exactly sure what it was, it was pretending to be Southern Ice Tea and I pretended to like it. The best thing I could say about it was it was cold. This was our fourth "working" lunch where she would insidiously fill my head with her philosophy and I'd causally remind her that women ran this government, not me; I was a figurehead."What are you doing for New Year's Eve?" she inquired as she daintily cleaned off some crouton crumbs on her cheek. Her look was very intense. I wasn't getting 'quite' sexual signs from her but something, somehow this was personal. That could only mean one thing."I'm spending it with Ms. Rio Talen but no set location has been chosen," I replied."Oh," she paused then, "There is a Science Fiction convention in Seattle that runs from December 29th to through the 1st. My friends and I are attending and Hical asked about you.""Deal but we have to fit Rio in," I agreed."I can send some Universe, TV and movie series and well as costuming information for her to look over," Victoria agreed tentatively."No need, she's a Klingon, a small craft captain whose Father betrayed the Empire and whose survival is a stain on her honor," I told her. "With that barely constrained fury, she's a natural. You teach her how to use that bat-a-rang and,""Batleth," Victoria interjected."Wicked-curved-bladey thing," I continued, "and you'll see. Oh, I'll need an Orion Slave Girl outfit and some green body paint for Mercy and all of her stuff by October 30th, cost is not an object.""I'll call my outfitter when you leave and I must say you are taking this rather well," Doctor Scarlet noted."Why? I had a blast in your office that time," I admitted. "As long as I'm not crawling in, screaming fur-balls, I'm okay. I'll be a human Starfleet Doctor Xeno-biologist who has done surgery on multiple species. A "Doctors Without Borders" kind of guy. I'll get Cordelia to build me an actual tricorder, trust me."We ate, she asked for my sizes, I gave her Rio's and Mercy's sizes; at the Con we were all 'Next Gen' except Mercy who would be Old School for Halloween. She offered me a chance to be a Borg but since they all looked to be in desperate need of a sun tan, I declined. All in all, it barely took twenty minutes."You did a very good job as Mediator this morning," the Vice Chancellor added as I made to leave."It is not so rough," I grinned. "WWKSD?""Wha, oh," she smiled warmly. "What would King Solomon do, clever.""Hell, the Bible has a whole book called Judges. This shit ain't so hard," I laughed as I breezed out the door. Ms. Reveal was waiting, as was Heaven.Heaven had to exert some will to not kiss me on the spot. Christina had lectured us on P D A, public displays of affection, during Homecoming. The more people who knew about us, the more the outcry and the stronger Chancellor's radical decision to keep Heaven on as part as the student body, would be challenged. As it was, our hands would casually brush one another until we got inside my dorm where I chased Heaven up the stairs, pinching her ass every time I caught up.After entering my code, I gauged Heaven's mood deciding we needed some quiet time; there would be too much traffic over most of the floor, and Heaven being too vocal, to get away with sex; and cuddling would be fine anyway. I caught sight of Rio with one of my Marksmanship team mates, Genesis."Hey Zane," Genesis stood up. She was a weird one, going from borderline contempt to grudging respect over the last two weeks. If I didn't know the impossibilities, I'd think she had a boyfriend. "Hope wants everyone at the Amory for an equipment check at seven. We leave at 8:15."Heaven held my hand tightly."Boudoir occopodo," Rio snickered as Genesis made her exit.Heaven's grip nearly crushed my hand, ouch."Babe," I whispered to Heaven, "let me check this out."I disentangled myself and went for the wall of screens that separated my bedroom area from the rest of the floor."Get some popcorn and get ready to sit a spell," Rio joked to Heaven who grumbled. I went around to see who, or whom, were using my room.Inside was not what I expected. Savannah Belafonte Masters had taken off her top (which was peach) and was rummaging with growing frustration through Barbie Lynn's bra drawer. I saw some grape juice splashed on her beige skirt. She saw me, pulled up her shirt to cover her bra-covered assets while looking a bit fearful and upset."What are you doing in here?" she asked softly."It is my bedroom," I replied. "What are you doing in my bedroom?""But, but Barbie Lynn's stuff is in here," she gasped."That would because it is her room too, we sleep together," I answered. That slowed her up for a second. "Can I help you with something?""I, I, I spilled juice on my shirt," she began."And your skirt," I pointed out.""Oh no," she choked back a sob. "What am I going to do? I'm a mess and none of Barbie Lynn's bras, shirts, or skirts are going to fit me." I mused over that for a second."I've stashed some bra extensions around here somewhere and that should allow for the difference is sizes between you and Barbie," I said. "Now give me your skirt and I'll find a replacement." She hesitated so I added. "I'm not going to molest one of my best friends' mom, Savannah. Give me your skirt and I'll take care of everything." This time she did it, though I had to turn my back.I padded back out to Rio and Heaven who had just returned with the popcorn."Rio, Heaven, I need you to break into Chancellor Bazz' residence and steal a skirt like this," I offered up Savannah's."Hell yeah," Rio exulted. "Time for a little Breaking  Entry.""Oh, what the fuck," Heaven shrugged. "Count me in." She gave me a quick kiss and the two miscreants headed out on their nefarious mission. I went back to the bedroom and stumbled into Savannah, now with her bra off, eyeing two of Barbie Lynn's double barreled slingshots. Our eyes locked."Right," I spun away. "Bra extensions.""Zane, do you think I'm attractive?" Barbie Lynn's Mom asked.When women say that, they can mean three things;·         the truth,·         the lure, or·         the lie.Some women want to know if you find them attractive. Others want you to find them attractive for nefarious means. Lastly, a few woman want to be reminded that they are beautiful. Savannah was the latter."If you are asking me if you are as good looking as Barbie Lynn, Mrs. Masters, I'll have to say no but that's because you are a lady who is fully a woman and Barbie Lynn is still leaving some of the girl behind. There is no comparison. You are both hot," I affirmed."I don't know," she sighed. "It is with my husband, then seeing you and Barbie Lynn, in the shower,”What's wrong with you and your husband, if I may intrude?" I asked."He had an accident at work, one of his factories, and he hasn't been the same," she sniffed."Do you love him?" I questioned. "Honestly.""Yes, yes I do," she sighed. "But he's just not there.""Do me a favor; come over and sit next to me and I promise to be as well behaved as a Montana Miner (hey, it is where my family comes from)," I said as I sat at the foot of the bed. Savannah very, very reluctantly came over and sat at my bed, but I said nothing."Yes?" she broke down and inquired finally."I want you to laugh," I related to her softly. "Laugh, laugh like you do with small kids.""But, I'm not sure," she began then I poked her in the ribs. "What?" So I tickled her under her arms. Savannah covered her breasts by mistake so I got some finger in and began making her giggle and squirm."Stop it," she gasped for breath, so I rolled onto my side and tickled her other underarm until she finally flailed in surrender."See Savannah, I'm not the bad guy," I grinned. "I'm not seducing you because I think you love Barbie Lynn's Dad and you simple need to worry a little bit less, and love yourself a little bit more.""How do I do that?" she panted."I want you to try on some of Barbie Lynn's new clothes and see what you like, and what your husband might like," I suggested. "I'm not asking you to dress like a teenager; but not every day is Sunday school either." Oh God, I was talking clothes therapy to someone's Mother."But," she stammered."There is a screen right over there," I pointed out, "that you can change behind and the armoire over here has a mirror.""But I'll be parading around here, in my bra and panties," she worried."Well, that's a bonus for me," I shrugged, "but a lady with a body like yours should be wearing bikini's with less material. Look at it that way.""Well, don't ogle, alright?""Sure," I lied. What was I going to say? 'I'll pluck out my eyes?'After several tentative steps walking to the dresser and looking over her shoulder at me with real worry that I might find her either too attractive or not attractive enough, I gave up. I covered my eyes because they gravitated toward her backside like a plant seeking the sun. A minute later she finally spoke up.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... October is already going to hell! Or, at least Sanctuary WoW is getting ready for a huge milestone! Happy Star Trek day to all that celebrate! Taking a casual stroll through LOTRO And, in honor of Star Trek day we have Corley here to talk to us about AIE in StarWars The Old Republic All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/plNPWkzzoVg Open Welcome to episode #427 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Corley who is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into SWTOR shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) (starting up again either the 21st or 28th) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Diablo 4's first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, launches October 8. We'll journey to the jungles of Nahantu to track down Mephisto, with access to a new Spiritborn class and Mercenaries to fight alongside us. The expansion will also introduce the Dark Citadel (a four player raid), and the Kurast Undercity (a time attack dungeon). Season 6 also starts on October 8, with a revamped leveling experience, D4's take on runewords, new endgame activities, and a group finder. Post in the #diablo channel in Discord if you want to join the clan to chat and group with fellow AIE members. See you in Sanctuary! No Man Sky just launched a new update - Aquarius - Fishing! WoW In Wow Retail, players were able to unlock Earthen as an Allied Race following a campaign update this week. The cinematics are glorious! In a coming patch, Drak'thyr will be playable as six additional classes: Hunter, Warlock, Mage, Warrior, Rogue and Priest, with shadow priests getting some cool visuals for their wings. The first Raid of War Within - Nerub-ar Palace - opens September 10 and Queen Ansurak has much to answer for. Blizzard also announced plans for WoW's 20th Anniversary, an event so massive that it's going to run through November and December. Features include a revamped Blackrock Depths raid/dungeon, Timewalking for Deadmines, Dire Maul (both sides), and Stratholme (also both sides). There will also be timey-wimey stuff with Chromie at the Caverns of Time, PvP fun in Alterac Valley, and special Warcraft 3 flavored items at the Trading Post. Among notable loot, there will be a new mount: Coldflame Tempest - a blue version of Ashes of Al'ar, baby Doom Lord battle pets, and an updated Appearance for the Iconic Tier 2 armor sets.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... We say farewell to a good friend So, play any games recently? Congradudolences are in order for Corley The RISING is imminent And, we have an interview with Dr Gameology! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/69D8qJllCsU Open Welcome to episode #426 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guest Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann) who is here to talk to us about his new book, The Gamer's Journey. Welcome! Just a note before we get too far into the show. As you may or may not know, AIE lost one of our greats on August 16th. Our dear friend, guildmate, fellow member of FERT, creator of Overly Dramatic news, and podcast co-host, James “Acuzod” Jefferies lost his battle with cancer. He was loved by so many and made all of us who knew him just a little better. He is survived by his amazing wife Jodi, their kids, Jennifer, Kimberly, and Sami, and grandson Nathan. Zod will be remembered for his humor and his kindness, and his voice will live in this podcast, as it is his voice you hear on all of the bumpers! Oh, and if you see Acuzod online, it is his grandson, Nathan, playing on his Papa's account. Ok, we'll be digging into this week's news shortly, but first, let's talk to our esteemed guest, Dr Gamelolgy, himself! GAME NEWS Mkallah- We had you back on the show in episode 389 and you talked about your psych research as it relates to gaming and the gaming persona podcast. Now, it's all come together in your new book, The Gamer's Journey- tell us about the journey and how you got there. Mewkow- Did you find gaming an escape while working on the book, or did it evolve into being in research mode? Tetsemi- What was your biggest surprise while working on The Gamer's Journey? Mkallah (if needed)- And, the big one, where can everyone find your book? Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) - https://drgameology.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrGameology The Gamer's Journey is a book that explores all the stages of the Hero's Journey, but using only video games. The sources of knowledge across the book include mythology, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and many others. Almost 200 games were used in the analysis over the 19 chapters. Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-gamers-journey-daniel-kaufman-phd/1145608008;jsessionid=72D67ABDB12601FCBA38CEB1CA541A19.prodny_store01-atgap15?ean=9781955406239 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gamers-Journey-Daniel-Kaufman-PhD/dp/1955406235 AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old M...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Congrats on 60 character deaths, Kini! Don't forget to check the guild bank for your gifts! Red Alert, I repeat, Red Alert! Set your feet on the road to adventure in Middle Earth And, we have Gustytail here to talk to us about AIE in WoW! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/NGSDCMFU7Kw Open Welcome to episode #425 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (Hey guys, there are cinnamon rolls in the guild kitchen, and soon there will be lemon cupcakes, and maybe… let's just say the Guild Kitchen is a mess). This week we are joined by special guests Gustytail who is here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft! Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into WoW shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ WoW If you still need the achievement for clearing all three of the current awakened Raids to get the mount, come join Noob Raid and we can help you out. Noob Raid cleared Normal Aberrus on Saturday and Dankinia's floor-tank tally is at 60 deaths(this year)! Hooray for Kini! There are 8 days left to speed level fresh alts to 70 with Pandaria Remix. Thanks to those who have been doing Guild carry runs (including Nagratz during Summer of Love). New event Radiant Echoes in Dalaran helps level current alts and get gear, transmog, pets and a mount (two really, because you get one for each faction). And the new expansion War Within arrives Aug 26. Early access starts Aug 22. Let's all celebrate the return of everyone's favorite cursed Legion Weapon, Xal'atath the Harbinger of the Void! WoW Classic Cataclysm continues to cataclysm, with a few folks still enjoying working their way through the content. SWTOR We conquered Section X last week on Star Forge and Balmorra on Shae Vizla. Prizes are available for everyone in the guild bank gift tabs. Now we are recovering on the beaches of Rishi. For the Empire! ESO For SoL Kramer ran an ESO themed one-shot D&D campaign which from all accounts was a lot of fun. Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to. FFXIV Just a reminder that Map nights are on Saturday's at 9:30 Eastern and right now are requiring that you be level 100 and have flying unlocked in all the Dawntrail zones. Patch 7.0.8 should be coming out sometime this month or early next month, but nothing yet on what it entails,

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... We have your Summer of Love schedule Summer is patch season Hot times, summer in Nar Shadaa Happy 4th Anniversary to our friends over at Fleet Action Report We are talking amongst ourselves- which means Dawntrail chat! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/SjETWH9c5jI Open Welcome to episode #424 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (when is fig season again? I need to have chocolate fig cakes in the guild kitchen!). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week, we are talking amongst ourselves! Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into what we have been up to shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ AIE Summer of Love - Events WoW Retail: Sat 7/27 at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific - WoW Trivia with Gustytail (Discord, Noob Raid Prime channel) Sun 7/28 at 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific "What's the Buzz?" D&D with Mementh Info and sign up in AIE Discord dnd-with-mementh Mon 7/29 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific - "Help! Help! I'm locked out of my Mage Tower!" D&D with Duskmire - info and sign up in AIE Discord dnd-with-Duskmire *Please sign up early so the DM's can answer any questions and better prepare. Wed 7/31 at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific - Remix Race: We'll be speed leveling Pandaria-Remix alts to 70 Thurs 8/1 at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific - Lore night with Anirra. We gather in various locations to tell a story about our character or something in WoW. The previous event was a lot of fun! Fri 8/2 at 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific - Remembrance Day - Meet at the Shrine of the Fallen outside Crossroads to remember friends and family, then parade to Orgrimmar for fireworks & BBQ NOMADS WoW There's a big content patch coming (Warbands, Skyriding (aka Dragonriding for other flying mounts), new quests. The War Within™ Pre-Expansion Content Update Goes Live July 23 - WoW WoW Classic Life is very quiet on the Cataclysm classic front. Many of us have been playing in Pandaria Remix, and the Stale Puft Raid team will be a retail raid team in the War Within. TWW (Tdub) looks to be amazing! So we will remain in the Classic worlds but with a very reduced presence. The lights will remain on, but there probably won't be very many people on line. If anyone needs to reach us for anything, please reach out in the ?wow-classic channel and ping an @officer . We remain happy to help out as we can, but the cadence will be very slow paced. We may come back, but nobody knows. It's summer in a galaxy far, far away,

PSLM 27 :7 Éternel! écoute ma voix, je t'invoque: Aie pitié de moi et exauce-moi! 8 Mon coeur dit de ta part: Cherchez ma face! Je cherche ta face, ô Éternel! 9 Ne me cache point ta face, Ne repousse pas avec colère ton serviteur! Tu es mon secours, ne me laisse pas, ne m'abandonne pas, Dieu de mon salut! 10 Car mon père et ma mère m'abandonnent, Mais l'Éternel me recueillera. 11 Éternel! enseigne-moi ta voie, Conduis-moi dans le sentier de la droiture, A cause de mes ennemis. 12 Ne me livre pas au bon plaisir de mes adversaires, Car il s'élève contre moi de faux témoins Et des gens qui ne respirent que la violence. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/haitianhelpinghands/support

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Destiny 2- the Light and the Dark Shhhhhh, no spoilers So much to do in SWTOR before June 25 (less than) Two weeks before early access in FFXIV And, we have the Floor Tank, Dankinia, here to talk to us about AIE in ESO! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/O-xAhuox5Bg Open Welcome to episode #423 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Dankinia who is here to talk to us about AIE in ESO Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into ESO shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Destiny 2 - New expansion launched, new activities, new weapons. It is the conclusion of what Bungie is calling the light and dark saga where we fight the big bad from the last 10 years. They did some new really neat stuff like a 12 player activity that unlocked when the new raid had been completed by a team. Overall it has been getting very positive reviews. WoW oob Raid cleared up to final boss Sarkareth in Aberrus on Saturday night and in coming weeks will be working on getting people the Awakened Raid achievement. Defeating all bosses in Vault of the Incarnates, Aberrus and Amirdrassil on Normal difficulty awards the Voyaging Wilderling Mount. Planning has begun for AIE's Summer of Love event, which will run July 27 (26?) through August 2nd (Remembrance Day). In WoW, we'll have a Lore Night and a WoW Trivia night, as well as pet and toy giveaways. The next expansion, The War Within has a launch date of Aug 26 - with early access Aug 22 for people who pre-purchased the Epic Edition. Beta access has opened and there are spoilers out there. Please respect others by not discussing big revelations in Guild chat or Discord (unless it's hidden). Meanwhile players are busy finishing up achievements and leveling alts - many of them in Pandaria Remix. It's a wicked good time! We'll also have a new playable dwarf race, The Earthen, in War Within. It seems only fair that they should be unlocked on Day One for Earthen Ring server, right? Here is a picture of Gusty on the Voyaging Wilderling Mount WoW Classic Our Stale-Puft Marshmallow raid team has had one raid night so far, in which we came 10% away from full clearing normal Blackwing Descent 10m, off to a strong start! The only Cata news of note is Blizzard recently changed valor to be a rolling seasonal cap, like how conquest points already worked,

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... MoP Remixed is getting us ready for a War Within You have less than a month to sign up for the Tales of Tribute Tournament 6! Skip, Skip, Skip to Dawntrail STO heard you wanted more Borg Buckle Up, Folks, we have Max and Sema here to talk AIE in SWTOR! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/Rv_iM27N8B4 Open Welcome to episode #422 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (Hey, folks, there is a summer strawberry cake in the Guild Kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Sema & Max who are here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into SWTOR shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 - 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 - 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO - 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR - 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) - 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) - 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO - 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO - 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) - 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) - 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Starfield, Lars has a continuing series, highlighting his playthrough, via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@larsgagnergaming No Man's Sky just launched a new expedition V Rising server has an AIE crew continuing to hunt ARK is live and between expansions Fallout 76 has a spike in interest and will have a big update/expansion later in June Diablo season 4 is progressing and looks fun Stask is continuing to dabble in New World WoW In WoW retail, the Mists of Pandaria - Remix event is off to a roaring start and many Guildies already have multiple level 70's. It's a great way to level alts for The War Within (with Beta starting June 5) and there's a ton of transmog, mounts, toys and pets to collect. Chen Stormstout's Hat and Keg? Theramore tabard? Yes Please! Saturday's Noob Mythics became a Remix run instead, and Raid Team Kiddie Aggro did Siege of Orgrimmar last week. Alliance Team Hell Froze Over may Remix Raid this week. Noob Raid cleared all but final boss Fyrakk in Awakened Amirdrassil on Saturday. Thanks as always to Dankinia our fearless floor tank! Also, Darkmoon Faire is up and the June Trading post arrived with a heartbreakingly cute assortment of summer gear including the Pearlescent Goblin Wave Shredder (a flying surfboard), Water Blaster BL (gun) a murloc floaty belt, lots of swimwear and a rainbow beach chair. More tendies needed! WoW Classic Sema has an update!!! Cataclysm launched, with little issue, it's been a pretty calm release. The guild has been busy doing content, and dungeons, and leveling professions. It's fun to see these zones again, and the dungeons as well. Several of us on the raid team have never raided these raids when it was current, so we are looking forward to it!

Noticias Económicas y Financieras Más de 6 millones de migrantes han cruzado a Estados Unidos ilegalmente bajo la administración Biden, que ahora está preparando una orden ejecutiva para detener el flujo en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. La acción, que probablemente se dará a conocer hoy en la Casa Blanca, se basará en una autoridad del Código de Estados Unidos conocida como Sección 212(f). Cerraría temporalmente la frontera a los solicitantes de asilo cuando el umbral diario de cruces supere los 2.500, pero la reabriría cuando el número caiga por debajo de 1.500, poniendo en la mira a los operadores de centros de detención que cotizan en bolsa como CoreCivic $CXW y GEO Group $GEO. El lunes, la Bolsa de Nueva York fue testigo de un fallo técnico que provocó suspensiones de operaciones en alrededor de una docena de empresas, como las acciones Clase A de Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A, que se mostraron con una caída del 99%. El problema parecía estar relacionado con una nueva versión de software, pero sigue a otro fallo reciente que provocó que los sitios web financieros detuvieran las actualizaciones de los principales índices durante más de una hora. Hablando de volatilidad, E*Trade $MS está considerando expulsar de su plataforma al comerciante de acciones meme Keith Gill debido a las crecientes preocupaciones sobre la manipulación de acciones después de sus recientes compras de GameStop $GME. Los planes para triplicar la capacidad mundial de energía renovable en esta década no están en línea con los objetivos acordados en la cumbre COP28, según la Agencia Internacional de Energía. "Incluso si todos los países implementaran plenamente sus ambiciones actuales, el mundo se quedaría un 30% por debajo", escribió la AIE en su último informe. El objetivo de 2030 es un factor clave en el objetivo de lograr emisiones netas cero para mediados de siglo y limitar el calentamiento global a 1.5 °C. Se produce cuando los delegados se reúnen en Alemania para conversaciones sobre el clima esta semana, que influirán en las principales decisiones que se tomarán en la cumbre COP29 en noviembre. Los índices de referencia de la India cayeron durante la noche a su mayor caída en cuatro años, ya que las votaciones en las elecciones más importantes del mundo indicaron que una alianza liderada por el partido gobernante BJP podría no obtener una mayoría amplia como lo predijeron las encuestas a pie de urna. El índice Nifty $NIFTY y la BSE $SENSEX cayeron más del 8% cada uno durante la sesión, marcando las mayores caídas irradiarías desde el inicio de la pandemia en marzo de 2020. La caída revirtió las ganancias récord observadas el lunes, cuando un deslizamiento de tierra Se esperaba ampliamente la victoria del BJP, liderado por el primer ministro Narendra Modi. $SPOT Spotify está aumentando los precios para los suscriptores premium. $AMD AMD presenta nuevos procesadores a medida que la carrera por la IA se intensifica. Skydance anunciará la adquisición de Paramount $PARA.

Dr. Catherine Richmond-Cullen, AIE of NEPA & President of neuroLEARN, LLC, Joanne Arduino, Artistic Director of Ballet Theatre of Scranton, & Frank Blasi, Executive Director of Broadway Theatre League of NEPA, speaking about The Lyceum School for Visual and Performing Arts. Summer 2024 runs from July 8 through July 19, Mondays through Fridays, 9 am to 2 pm. For more information: www.broadwaynepa.com/ and for scholarship information: www.aienepa.org/

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Grats to the NOOBS! Zombies in SPACE Dawntrail is on the horizon Big congrats to our friends on Fleet Action Report! And, Looci is here to talk about WoW Classic! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/_SxxArmSrk0 Open Welcome to episode #421 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (Hey folks, con is next week- grab me some tea while you are in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Looci who is here to talk to us about AIE in WoW Classic Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into WoW shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS We have a few people on a private V Rising server now that the game has gone to a 1.0 release. It's a fun, Vampire themed crafting survival action combat game. Diablo Season 4: Loot Reborn is now live and is seemingly doing very well and players are really liking the updates. We have Diablo regulars in there checking it out and I'm sure they can offer help and guidance to anyone looking to jump back in. Other Nomads stuff is happening this week in Fallout 76, ARK, and Starfield as well. WoW Noob Raid successfully cleared Timewalking Ulduar, and congrats to two players for obtaining the rare mounts Invincible and Mimiron's Head. Aside from Noob Raid, the excitement is all about Remix: Mists of Pandaria, a limited time, speed leveling event that launched Thursday for Retail WoW. Quite a few players have reached level 70 already and are working on more toons while gathering numerous transmog items, mounts and pets. Many alts! Handle it! The characters can join current guilds but won't be on live servers until the new expansion, The War Within. AIE opened our second Alliance guild, Amicitia, to make room for the new alts. A few people had trouble pronouncing the guild name, so it's now known as Amy. Welcome Amy! WoW Classic See Game Notes SWTOR This past week was Rakghoul week and if that means nothing to you, just picture swtor's version of zombies. There is no cure, we just have to kill them. A lot. Including a giant one with no eyes that we managed to dispatch on Tuesday during MFN. The double xp event is over, but it's still a good time to level as it's basically pretty quick in this game. For tips, join us in discord. There is a lot of chatter about the best/most-fun way to do things. Friday fun happened on Shae Vizla server this week where we knocked out some Uprisings and Heroic weeklies. Next week,

L'économie de guerre russe prive de main-d'œuvre une industrie pétrolière cruciale à l'économie du pays. L'armée et les fabricants d'armes sont en concurrence avec le secteur des hydrocarbures pour attirer les hommes en âge de travailler, alors que de nombreux hommes ont quitté le pays, pour se rendre sur le front ou partir à l'étranger. Depuis le début du conflit en Ukraine, 150 000 soldats russes sont morts sur le front, selon le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Stéphane Séjourné, interrogé dans l'édition européenne du journal russe indépendant Novaïa Gazeta le 3 mai. De son côté, le ministère britannique de la Défense parle de plus de 450 000 soldats russes tués ou blessés depuis le début de l'offensive russe en février 2022. Un drame qui ne touche pas que les familles ; le départ des soldats au front prive la Russie d'une main d'œuvre précieuse.À lire aussiRussie: le manque de travailleurs étrangers dans la logistique entraîne des pénuriesLe secteur pétrolier et gazier manque cette année d'environ 40 000 employés qualifiés ou non, selon les estimations de Kasatkin Consulting, un cabinet basé à Moscou. En tout, le nombre de travailleurs nécessaires pour faire tourner le secteur a plus que triplé en sept ans, selon les analyses de Bloomberg. Or, les hydrocarbures représentent 27 % du PIB russe et 57 % des exportations du pays. Un enjeu d'autant plus important, que l'industrie pétrolière et gazière contribue grandement à combler le besoin de liquidités de la Russie pour poursuivre son offensive en Ukraine.Malgré les sanctions internationales, les revenus du secteur devraient encore augmenter cette année (l'an dernier, ils étaient de 88 milliards d'euros) et l'industrie des hydrocarbures reste l'un des employeurs qui offrent les meilleurs salaires en Russie. Au moins des deux tiers supérieurs à la moyenne nationale depuis 2017, selon les calculs de Bloomberg basés sur les données du Service fédéral des statistiques.Mais, rien n'y fait, ces salaires élevés ne semblent pas compenser ceux offerts par l'armée russe Prime d'engagement pour les soldats russesEn plus d'une augmentation générale de son salaire de plus de 10 % depuis octobre dernier, un soldat russe sous contrat se voit en effet offrir un bonus pouvant atteindre 1 million de roubles, soit plus de 10 000 euros, auquel il faut ajouter une prime d'adhésion forfaitaire de 195 000 roubles soit près de 2000 euros… ce qui n'est pas négligeable pour une partie de la population qui vit sous le seuil de pauvreté.Il y a aussi de nombreux débouchés et des postes bien payés chez les fabricants militaires. La demande de chars, de véhicules blindés et d'armes a grimpé en flèche depuis le début de l'invasion russe et les usines d'armement recrutent à tour de bras. L'année dernière, l'entreprise nationale de défense russe Rostec a augmenté les salaires de 17,2 % en moyenne. Et la Russie a abaissé l'âge légal pour travailler à 14 ans.Des repas chauds trois fois par jour De leur côté, les sociétés pétrolières et gazières russes rivalisent d'imagination pour attirer des employés avec des salaires élevés, mais aussi des avantages en nature. Un travailleur de terrain effectuant des missions mensuelles quelque part en Sibérie ou dans l'Arctique peut s'attendre à « des repas chauds trois fois par jour » et à des contrôles médicaux réguliers couverts par l'employeur, selon les offres d'emploi sur hh.ru. Mais le flux de main d'œuvre venant de l'étranger s'est, lui aussi, tarit : en 2023, l'afflux net officiel de migrants étrangers dans le pays s'est élevé à près de 110 000 personnes, à peine un quart du niveau de 2021. Autre phénomène, depuis le début du conflit en Ukraine, des centaines de milliers de Russes ont quitté le pays, ce qui amène le président Poutine à déclarer que le pays va faire face à « un déficit de cadres et de qualifications » dans les prochaines années.Maintenir une production rentablePour autant, le secteur pétrolier et gazier a jusqu'à présent très bien résisté, malgré les sanctions internationales, grâce à un report quasi total des exportations vers d'autres pays comme la Chine et l'Inde, donnant à Moscou les liquidités nécessaires pour continuer à mener son offensive. Selon l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE), l'embargo imposé par l'Union européenne n'a eu aucun impact sur le volume des exportations russes d'hydrocarbures. Mais la pénurie de main d'œuvre soulève la question de savoir si l'industrie pétrolière et gazière Russe pourra maintenir ses performances à long terme. « L'accès restreint aux services pétroliers de haute technologie occidentaux crée un risque pour le maintien et l'augmentation d'une production et d'un raffinage rentables du pétrole et du gaz », selon Sofia Mangileva, analyste chez Yakov & Partners à Moscou et citée par Bloomberg. Car il ne s'agit plus seulement de faire fonctionner les équipements, mais aussi de développer la technologie de production nécessaire pour rester compétitif.À lire aussiComment expliquer l'étonnante résilience de l'économie russe?

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... For some reason, Fallout is really popular right now! The Dark Heart cometh Cata is in pre-launch… again! So much new in SWTOR And, we are talking to ourselves All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/W9rJJr886XQ Open Welcome to episode #420 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah- and, since it's 420, there are plenty of munchies in the guild kitchen! To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). We are chatting with ourselves this week!! Ok, we'll be digging into what we've been doing in and out of game shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Just a reminder, we'll be starting announcements for Summer of Love in the next few weeks, so keep an eye out on the AIE Discord for all the announcements and events. If anyone would like to host their own event or help with events, feel free to tag @officer in the AIE Discord with your ideas. Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Fallout 76 has been popping. The Alien Invasion event last week and this week has a few of us engaged there. The show was great and what sparked interest. WoW Confront Xal'atath When Dark Heart Arrives on May 7 Mark your calendars for the release of the next content update for Dragonflight—Dark Heart— on May 7! Dive into the final chapter of Dragonflight as it sets the stage for the upcoming expansion—The War Within™, sojourn into new questlines, Heritage Armor sets for Draenei and Trolls, six new hair colors for Kul Tiran Humans, access to all Dragonflight quests regardless of Renown for maximum-level characters, and more. https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24090236/confront-xalatath-when-dark-heart-arrives-on-may-7 WoW Classic Cataclysm classic pre-patch is live, and Deathwing is claiming lives randomly in the zones around his lair. Not a smooth pre-patch at all, Blizzard outdoing itself this time. This are getting more stable, even with goblins and worgens running around. May 20th will be Cataclysm launch, with only 15 months until the following expansion. SWTOR This week we had a livestream about Game Update 7.5, "Desperate Defiance", which is due this spring, possibly even this month. We will be getting a new pvp season, a new game system called Ventures, and a new Spring Event. The game continues to get art updates--this time for the planet Hutta. The Public Test Server is up now and players are able to test the new Ventures. The Dantooine Spring Abundance Festival looks like a co...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Patch here, patch there, patch everywhere All our SWTOR guild does is win! Congrats are in order for Alea Iacta Est Classis We promise, we are NOT podfading So, we our own guests this evening All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/yQSATFwJ5Jw Open Welcome to episode #419 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (hey folks, there are lemon bars in the guild kitchen, please eat them, I am trying to reduce my sweet tooth). Sorry about the long time between shows, but we needed to do a shift so we can be back on track! We will get into game news in just a few, but before that, what has everyone been up to? Let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - Destiny 2! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Destiny 2 - Into the light event has started, it's a free to play for everyone Horde mode with reprised weapons. Also 2 older exotic weapon quests have been revised and re-released. Whisper of the worm sniper rifle and Outbreak Perfected Pulse. Fun night has moved to Sunday officially. WoW Guild Event on Monday where Raid Team Kiddie Aggro helped about a dozen guildies kill Heroic Fyrakk, final boss of Amirdrassil for the Ahead of the Curve Achievement. Players also got a short quest to unlock a Fyrakk appearance for their Dragonriding mount. With the new patch on Tuesday, the three Dragonflight raids will take turns becoming Awakened, rotating weekly. Awakened raids will be harder, drop improved gear and a token, Antique Bullion, that can be used to buy weapons and other items as well as a Jigglesworth Sr mount. Completing all three raids awards the Voyaging Wilderling Mount and Awakened Hero achievement. The eight Dragonflight dungeons have been revamped to Mythic level. In a helpful change for many players, the timer is being removed for level 0 to 10 mythics. Players will be able to design their own personal tabards, thanks to a new quest that starts in Valdrakken. For housekeeping, use up those catalyst charges on gear before they reset on Tuesday and spend any flightstones. One good option is to buy rep tokens from the various factions, which are account bound. Unspent flightstones will turn into gold. If you are interested in the War Within Beta sign-ups, it's here - https://thewarwithin.blizzard.com/en-us/ WoW Classic Cataclysm pre-patch drops on 30 April, with Cataclysm starting on 20 May. We are all hoping that the PTR is not indicative of the state of the game,

Nous sommes en 1784, année de la publication d'un ouvrage qui sera intitulé en français « Qu'est-ce que les Lumières ? ». Il est signé Emmanuel Kant. Le philosophe allemand y écrit : "Les Lumières, c'est la sortie de l'homme hors de l'état de tutelle dont il est lui-même responsable. L'état de tutelle est l'incapacité de se servir de son entendement sans la conduite d'un autre [...] Sapere Aude ! Aie le courage de te servir de ton propre entendement ! Voilà la devise des Lumières." Quatre ans plus tard, dans la « Critique de la raison pratique » du même Kant, on peut lire : "Agis de telle sorte que la maxime de ta volonté puisse être érigée en loi morale universelle." Près de cent cinquante ans plus tard, deux autres philosophes allemands, Theodor Adorno et Max Horkheimer, notent dans leur ouvrage « Dialectique de la raison » : « Ce qui est en cause, ce n'est pas la conservation du passé, mais la réalisation des espoirs du passé (…) La critique à laquelle sont soumises les Lumières tend à préparer un concept positif de ces Lumières qui puisse les libérer des rets dans lesquels les tient la domination aveugle. » Alors comment défendre les Lumières aujourd'hui ? Leur idéal d'émancipation a-t-il encore un sens ? Quelles sont les Lumières du vingt-et-unième siècle ? Invitée: Corine Pelluchon, philosophe, professeure à l'Université Gustave-Eiffel. Autrice de « Les Lumières à l'âge du vivant » Editions du Seuil. Sujets traités : Emmanuel Kant, lumières, Philosophe, morale, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Merci pour votre écoute Un Jour dans l'Histoire, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 13h15 à 14h30 sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes d'Un Jour dans l'Histoire sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/5936 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Luís Guimarãis é doutorado em Fusão Nuclear pelo Instituto Superior Técnico, onde foi investigador durante vários anos. Actualmente é sénior data Scientist numa empresa de telecomunicações e professor convidado na NOVA SBE. É ainda colunista na CNN e co-fundador do polo português da WePlanet, uma organização ambientalista que defende soluções baseadas na Ciência para as alterações climáticas e a biodiversidade, e que se destaca pela defesa do nuclear. -> Ouve o Teorias da Conspiração aqui _______________ Índice: (4:48) A enorme dimensão do desafio da Transição Energética | Electricidade vs energia | Vaclav Smil e as quatro indústrias essenciais do Mundo moderno. | Our World in Data | Processo de Haber-Bosch | Associação WePlanet |  (18:29) Como se resolve a Transição Climática? Conter o Aquecimento Global em 1.5º já é impossível? | TED talk: Are we the last generation — or the first sustainable one? | Compromisso da COP28 sobre o nuclear | Energia hídrica | Energia geotérmica  (27:41) Energia Nuclear (de fissão) | Que países estão a construir reactores? | Livro: The Population Bomb, de Paul R. Ehrlich | Acidente de Three Mile Island | Argumentos contra: riscos, custo, demora a construir | Plano Messmer | Complexo de Cassandra | Reactores modulares. | Previsões da AIE (1:13:03) Como lidar com os resíduos nucleares? Vídeos Youtube (um, dois) | Reactor com 2 mil milhões de anos | Terrapower (1:22:22) Problemas / desafios das renováveis: intermitência, baterias, matérias-primas | Potencial do nuclear: curto prazo vs longo prazo (1:34:32) Vamos ter nuclear de fusão? Livros recomendados: Vaclav Smil (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) _______________ No último episódio, com o João Pedro Gouveia prometi-vos que ia publicar vários episódios sobre temas relacionados com ambiente e transição climática. Vão ser uns 4 ou 5 no total, cobrindo diferentes aspectos, desde o desafio da transição energética aos nossos hábitos individuais. Vou lançá-los ao longo dos próximos meses, intercalando com outros temas (para não vos cansar!). No episódio de hoje, vamos abordar um tema que me tinha deixado a pensar no episódio anterior: energia nuclear. Especificamente: qual é o papel do nuclear (de fissão) na transição energética?  Quem não esteja familiarizado com o debate sobre o nuclear ficaria surpreendido com a polarização e tribalismo das opiniões (que faz lembrar algumas discussões políticas mais fracturantes!). De um lado, há quem diga “nuclear nunca”, ou no máximo muito pouco, seja porque é perigoso ou porque é mais caro (pelo custo de construir um reactor) do que as renováveis -- e é nestas que está a solução. Do outro lado, estão os defensores do nuclear, que argumentam que é, na verdade, a fonte de energia segura de todas e a fonte de energia limpa (i.e. que não produz CO2) mais testada e mais fiável -- pelo deve ter um papel igual ou até superior às renováveis na transição energética.  O convidado deste episódio, Luís Guimarãis, está assumidamente neste último campo.  Pessoalmente, devo dizer -- e os ouvintes mais antigos sabem disso -- que sempre tive uma visão benévola em relação ao nuclear, e sempre me pareceu precipitado descartar um soldado com este potencial numa luta contra o tempo e em várias frentes como é a transição climática. No entanto, ao longo da nossa conversa procurei, como de costume, também desafiar as opiniões do convidado; até porque eu próprio, na investigação que fiz, fui percebendo que persistem ainda muitas incógnitas, quer sobre o nuclear quer sobre as renováveis. Começámos por falar da enorme dimensão do desafio da Transição Climática que temos pela frente; falámos de vários tipos de energia, da fóssil às renováveis, passando pela hídrica e a geotérmica; e, claro, o grosso da nossa conversa foi dedicada ao papel que o nuclear deve ter na transição energética. Falámos da História do nuclear, das principais vantagens e também dos argumentos contra mais comuns, desde os riscos, o custo e o tempo que demora em construir um reactor ao desafio de lidar com os resíduos. No final, visto que o Luís trabalhou nessa área, perguntei-lhe também sobre o potencial do nuclear de fusão, a alternativa risco zero e ainda mais poderosa ao nuclear de fissão que parece há décadas adiada, mas que tem tido alguns progressos promissores nos últimos anos. ______________ Obrigado aos mecenas do podcast: Francisco Hermenegildo, Ricardo Evangelista, Henrique Pais João Baltazar, Salvador Cunha, Abilio Silva, Tiago Leite, Carlos Martins, Galaró family, Corto Lemos, Miguel Marques, Nuno Costa, Nuno e Ana, João Ribeiro, Helder Miranda, Pedro Lima Ferreira, Cesar Carpinteiro, Luis Fernambuco, Fernando Nunes, Manuel Canelas, Tiago Gonçalves, Carlos Pires, João Domingues, Hélio Bragança da Silva, Sandra Ferreira , Paulo Encarnação , BFDC, António Mexia Santos, Luís Guido, Bruno Heleno Tomás Costa, João Saro, Daniel Correia, Rita Mateus, António Padilha, Tiago Queiroz, Carmen Camacho, João Nelas, Francisco Fonseca, Rafael Santos, Andreia Esteves, Ana Teresa Mota, ARUNE BHURALAL, Mário Lourenço, RB, Maria Pimentel, Luis, Geoffrey Marcelino, Alberto Alcalde, António Rocha Pinto, Ruben de Bragança, João Vieira dos Santos, David Teixeira Alves, Armindo Martins , Carlos Nobre, Bernardo Vidal Pimentel, António Oliveira, Paulo Barros, Nuno Brites, Lígia Violas, Tiago Sequeira, Zé da Radio, João Morais, André Gamito, Diogo Costa, Pedro Ribeiro, Bernardo Cortez Vasco Sá Pinto, David , Tiago Pires, Mafalda Pratas, Joana Margarida Alves Martins, Luis Marques, João Raimundo, Francisco Arantes, Mariana Barosa, Nuno Gonçalves, Pedro Rebelo, Miguel Palhas, Ricardo Duarte, Duarte , Tomás Félix, Vasco Lima, Francisco Vasconcelos, Telmo , José Oliveira Pratas, Jose Pedroso, João Diogo Silva, Joao Diogo, José Proença, João Crispim, João Pinho , Afonso Martins, Robertt Valente, João Barbosa, Renato Mendes, Maria Francisca Couto, Antonio Albuquerque, Ana Sousa Amorim, Francisco Santos, Lara Luís, Manuel Martins, Macaco Quitado, Paulo Ferreira, Diogo Rombo, Francisco Manuel Reis, Bruno Lamas, Daniel Almeida, Patrícia Esquível , Diogo Silva, Luis Gomes, Cesar Correia, Cristiano Tavares, Pedro Gaspar, Gil Batista Marinho, Maria Oliveira, João Pereira, Rui Vilao, João Ferreira, Wedge, José Losa, Hélder Moreira, André Abrantes, Henrique Vieira, João Farinha, Manuel Botelho da Silva, João Diamantino, Ana Rita Laureano, Pedro L, Nuno Malvar, Joel, Rui Antunes7, Tomás Saraiva, Cloé Leal de Magalhães, Joao Barbosa, paulo matos, Fábio Monteiro, Tiago Stock, Beatriz Bagulho, Pedro Bravo, Antonio Loureiro, Hugo Ramos, Inês Inocêncio, Telmo Gomes, Sérgio Nunes, Tiago Pedroso, Teresa Pimentel, Rita Noronha, miguel farracho, José Fangueiro, Zé, Margarida Correia-Neves, Bruno Pinto Vitorino, João Lopes, Joana Pereirinha, Gonçalo Baptista, Dario Rodrigues, tati lima, Pedro On The Road, Catarina Fonseca, JC Pacheco, Sofia Ferreira, Inês Ribeiro, Miguel Jacinto, Tiago Agostinho, Margarida Costa Almeida, Helena Pinheiro, Rui Martins, Fábio Videira Santos, Tomás Lucena, João Freitas, Ricardo Sousa, RJ, Francisco Seabra Guimarães, Carlos Branco, David Palhota, Carlos Castro, Alexandre Alves, Cláudia Gomes Batista, Ana Leal, Ricardo Trindade, Luís Machado, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, Diego Goulart, Filipa Portela, Paulo Rafael, Paloma Nunes, Marta Mendonca, Teresa Painho, Duarte Cameirão, Rodrigo Silva, José Alberto Gomes, Joao Gama, Cristina Loureiro, Tiago Gama, Tiago Rodrigues, Miguel Duarte, Ana Cantanhede, Artur Castro Freire, Rui Passos Rocha, Pedro Costa Antunes, Sofia Almeida, Ricardo Andrade Guimarães, Daniel Pais, Miguel Bastos, Luís Santos _______________ Esta conversa foi editada por: Hugo Oliveira  

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... We promise, we are NOT podfading! Are you a world builder? 10.2.6 is THIS WEEK! We are in a new galactic season! And, we are talking to ourselves All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/HeJ7cyHDjpI Open Welcome to episode #418 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left isTetsemi (enter catch phrase here) And, we are Mewless this evening, but we figured we would get a show out so no one thought we were Podfading! We sure missed you all and there is a ton of news to catch up on! Ok, so let's get into the news AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn NOMADS The BitCraft Alpha is going live on April 4th. It's a multiplayer, open world, survival/exploration type game. No invites have gone out but they have a signup going on (that's a little over-gamefied in my view, but ok). We'll very likely have some AIE people in there checking it out. Besides the other ongoing fun stuff (Rust, Palworld, ARK, etc.) there will be some single-player RPG games coming out next week that people may want to chat about. Horizon: Forbidden West is finally hitting PC (Steam) and Dragon's Dogma 2 is looking interesting. Mkallah- TTRPG News If you are a world builder, Chaosium is running a Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge with their open gaming license (d100). And let's be honest, if you're going to try and label the system as BRP (Basic Roleplaying), we're going to add Universal and System to it and call it (BURPS). Also it's being released under the ORC (Open RPG Creative) license. https://www.chaosium.com/blogthe-basic-roleplaying-design-challenge/ Daggerheart is doing a public playtest beginning March 12. https://darringtonpress.com/daggerheart/ https://app.demiplane.com/ Has Daggerheart Character creation This system looks really interesting and is much more character focused and story driven. WoW The 10.2.6 Content Update Arrives March 19 Mark your calendar for March 19 when the 10.2.6 content update goes live with a bold, new, limited-time event. You won't want to miss out on the fun. It's important to note that Dragonflight season 4 will go live several weeks after the release of the 10.2.6 content update. For heroes working toward the Amirdrassil Feats of Strength, you'll need to obtain Ahead of the Curve: Fyrakk the Blazing before Season 4 begins, and the achievement is no longer available to earn. Gustytail's favorite Holiday, the Trial of Style returns as well and there will be Guild runs. WoW Classic Cataclysm beta is out,

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Ark and Enshrouded, and Nightingale, oh my! It's a holiday bonanza in WoW It's the final week of Tales of Tribute and we have the scoreboard here LOTRO is giving us Legendary Love for Valentine's Day And, we have Marcus here to talk about Destiny 2! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/eLFk0fYfnf8 Open Welcome to episode #416 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (hey folks, there are blueberry croissant puff, cinnamon rolls, and WAFFLES in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Marcus who is here to talk to us about AIE in Destiny 2 Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into DESTINY 2 shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Tuesday- Destiny 2 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com E 232 enter the marcusverse Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS ARK: Sounds like the group in ARK is looking to attempt the final dungeon of the Island map, called the Tek Cave and Overseer. It may be happening while the podcast is going on even! Enshrouded: A handful of guildies are playing Enshrouded and while it's not really multi-player, but rather a co-op style game, feel free to ask in Nomads for others that may want to play along. If it does trend toward larger group open world features in the future AIE will likely start up a shared server for it. Many are looking forward to early access of Nightingale coming in a few weeks. It might end up being another small group survival game we all try out. There will be no private servers at this point for early access but keep an eye out in the Nomads channel for ways to play together! WoW Noob Raid completed Timewalking Firelands - barely - with an all out final pull. Congrats and thanks to everyone who joined in the fun. One month in, Noob Mythics had a decline in interest, although people are asking in guild chat if anyone wants a mythic plus run. Let's do more of this! So Let's Go Skating got AOTC last Sunday! There's a holiday bonanza this week. The Darkmoon Faire is up (grab those rep and xp buffs) as well as the Lunar Festival... and Love is in the Air begins Monday. All have things to do to complete the Trading Post. Gustyail is already rocking the Love Witch's Attire ... as a boy Tauren... because what's better than men in tights? (see image) This month's items are especially hard to choose between. The Fur-endship Fox mount was a must for Gusty. (What do you folks like best?)   WoW Classic

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Gotta kill them all? That can't be right? Checks notes- yeah, it's right Seeds of Renewal breathes new life into the world we love Follow the Gold brick road… Happy Anniversary to STO! And, we have Gusty here to talk about AIE in World of Warcraft All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/0N0sSV69um8 Open Welcome to episode #415 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (hey folks, there is a mocha java cake in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Gustytail who is here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft. Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into WoW Retail shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS ARK continues to be a fun place for the team there with a group boss kill of the Dragon planned for tonight. We are looking forward to the next DLC remaster coming in the next couple months. Rust is spun back up as well and a group in there is trying out the new features including more automation and even the ability to tie notifications of in-game activities to your phone. Palworld launch this week and is pretty hot at the moment. The pitch is "ARK survival but with Pokemon instead of dinos... and the Pokemon can have guns" There may be a private group server being spun up for this depending on interest. WoW See Game Notes We have successfully killed the Lich King! There are a few raid members who still need that kill, so we shall continue to kill him until everyone has the title. Waiting for further word on when we are looking at a Cata release. Season of Discovery gets the next band to 40 starting on Feb 8th, I believe. WoW Classic We have successfully killed the Lich King! There are a few raid members who still need that kill, so we shall continue to kill him until everyone has the title. Waiting for further word on when we are looking at a Cata release. Season of Discovery gets the next band to 40 starting on Feb 8th, I believe. SWTOR The SUP operations team is looking for a permanent member. Any role will work. SUP is on the Imperial side and meets on Wednesday nights from 9-11PM Eastern. No previous experience required! Join us for MFN on Tuesday nights. We tend to focus on Conquest/Galactic Seasons/Story Mode Operations. You can usually be any character level and always any level of experience. Just make sure you have your personal ship! FFXIV

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Seeds of Renewal is almost upon us! RED ALERT< RED ALERT… through January 18th! We have news from FFXIV FF So many games, so many updates! And, we are getting back into the swing of things after our break All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/tcSyvsdoPDk Open Welcome to episode #414 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week, we are catching up to see what we've been up to over the break, what games we have been playing, and the like. Welcome! Before we get into what we have been up to, let's go over this week's news! AIE News Community We have your Mandatory Fun Nights schedule for 2024! Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS On the small server front, there's groups running right now in ARK and Rust. Rust has a fresh map this week and Corley and Kuda have just started building. On ARK, we've just wrapped up the winter event and a few of the group have started in on end bosses. We'll be continuing there for a while and are looking forward to the next holiday and soon, the next expanded map for Ascended. WoW WoW Retail, Patch 10.2.5 Seeds of Renewal is coming January 16 with lots of changes. Night Elves are building their new capital, Bel-Ameth in the World Tree Amirdrassil and Alliance and Horde players can visit, although Horde will have a buff warning that they're being watched... especially fire mages. There are new Night Elf tabards, cloaks and weapons there as well as new Night Elf children NPC's. Worgen leader Genn Graymane is also taking his people back to their former capital, Gilneas. Dragonriding is coming to every zone in WoW where flying is possible -- but at 80% Dragonflight speed... because 100% would be ridiculous, right? There will be new Dragon Racing events with new transmog and achievements to earn. Darkspear Trolls are getting 5 new hair colors and Dranei will have a new skin tone available, and Warlocks will have new customizations for their Demonic Tyrant and Darkglare demons. New Follower dungeons will allow players to practice roles and abilities without resorting to LFD. NPC's will make up the rest of the party. Holidays Love Is In The Air, the Lunar Festival and Noblegarden have new content including battle pets, transmog, and a dragonriding appearance. Be warned there are some very, very pink items coming to the Trading Post in February. And there's a new weekly event, Azeroth Archives that will have solo and group content to earn a v...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Welcome to our last show… of the year We have a WoW raid wrap up! The winter event and Yuletide starts this week! Happy Life Day, Captain And, we have Stask here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/UDddPXh-7ng Open Welcome to episode #413 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (Hey folks, there are lemon bars, seven layer bars, a gingerbread cake, and tons of marshmallows in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guest Stask who are here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into SWTOR shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. The schedule may be change for the holidays, check each game's discord channels for details Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com/category/listen/sepc/ Working Class Nerds (Marcus, Nick, and Atrax) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS The ARK Ascended server that Nazrai is running. The details are pinned in the Nomads channel and anyone can feel free to ask there or ask Nazrai or me for details. We have a handful of people in daily in a private PvE server and lots of building, taming, and other progress continues. Diablo 4 Season 2 is still ongoing though another challenge is coming on 5 Dec for those who have completed the season journey. The endgame, pinnacle dungeon: Abattoir of Zir. https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/24030418/rain-blood-in-abattoir-of-zir Stay up to date with changes in Diablo 4 through dev campfire chats and the patch notes: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/24031818/catch-up-on-the-latest-campfire-chat https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23964909/diablo-iv-patch-notes Reach out in the #diablo discord channel for clanmates to adventure with. WoW Noob Raid is on break for the holidays, however during the break Celindre and a few other people plan on grouping up on Saturday nights for mythics or LFR. Noob Raid will resume on January 6th and the plan is to visit Amirdrassil. Kiddie Aggro Raid Team defeated 6 bosses in Heroic Amirdrassil and sights are set on Smolderon and beyond next week. The team recently added several new members, including Gustytail. House of Gamon (who will save us) cleared 8 of 9 bosses on Normal. Watch out Fyrakk (fur-akk), they're coming for you. The team is looking for more to join them on Tuesday & Thursday nights from 9:30 to 11pm server. On Alliance side, Hell Froze Over cleared Normal and their progression team, So Let's Go Skating,

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Warcraft is a Rumbling Diablo season two is a raging SWTOR MandoFunNight is flying casual FFXIV is falling for Fall Guys And, we have Looci and Gusty here with ALL your World of Warcraft news! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/qeH4MDOyvv8 Open Welcome to episode #412 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (hey folks, there are dark chocolate brownies and strawberry almond tea cakes in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Looci and Gusty who are here to talk to us about AIE in Warcraft Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into Warcraft shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Jeff aka Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Warcraft Rumble has a guild, AIE Alliance. It looks like there is a cap of 15 members, so we're working on solutions going forward. Hopefully we won't have to replicate the WoW Horde guild structure, but we might! There's a group trying out ARK Survival Ascended, the newly released remastered version of the game. Nazrai is hosting the server and details are in the Nomads channel. We have some shared resources and plenty of experts that can help too! Diablo IV Season 2 is all the rage. The Season of Blood has been live since Oct 17th, and several patches since have brought some significant changes to the game. Many in the clan have commented on how this feels much more like it should have been at launch and are enjoying the changes. Beginning with this season you will have the option to skip the campaign after completing the prologue allowing you to start the season right away. The new season brings with it the usual trappings: a new questline, enemies, endgame bosses to fight, and a battle pass. Some things going on now you don't want to miss: Twitch Drops: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/24014294/season-of-blood-twitch-drops-earn-the-orichalcum-collection The game is now also available on Steam for those who have not purchased it yet and prefer such things: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/24009153/diablo-iv-coming-to-steam-on-october-17 The clan Alea Iacta Est in Diablo IV has reached capacity, mostly from the launch rush. Room can be made for active players who wish to participate in Season 2. If you are inactive and do not foresee yourself returning this season, you may drop the clan to make room for those joining us this season. You may always be readded later when you wish to return.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... mmmmmmm, Ice Cream Citadel SWTOR is filled with nice, shiny things… really Halloween looks to be Endlessly exciting Jobs, get your new jobs here! And, we have Maellung here to talk to us about AIE in LotRO All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/aXmuto1YhzU Open Welcome to episode #411 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Maellung who is here to talk to us about AIE in LotRO Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into LotRO shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com/category/listen/sepc/ Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS A couple people have popped back into New World to check out the expansion and it's looking pretty good. We don't expect that much attention there but the company still exists if anyone needs it. Diablo 4 Season 2 has started and is also looking pretty good. Some quality of life updates, like faster leveling, coupled with the season story and vampire abilities seem to be well received. I bet there's a crew in the Diablo channel that would group up for fun times if anyone is interested. ARK is likely going to release their remaster of the base game in the next week. We may have a group making an expedition into ARK and will post announcements if that's going to happen. WoW Noob Raid is still working on getting a full clear of Aberrus for Kini since it seems like whenever she is there, Noob Raid doesn't quite make it past all the bosses. Speaking of raids, with patch 10.2 launching on November 7th, Blizzard has announced the raid schedule. And good news everyone, all difficulties, including LFR launch together, and LFR wings unlock every week, instead of every 2 weeks. Gather your allies and join the Dream Wardens as they stand against the machinations of Fyrakk and his allies, the Druids of the Flame—for fame, for glory, for the World Tree—and for the rewards. You'll face nine new bosses and engage in a Dragonriding encounter, leading to the ultimate showdown at the top of Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope. Week of November 14—Raid Finder Wing 1: Incarnates Wake (Gnarlroot – Igira the Cruel – Smolderon), Normal, Heroic, Mythic Week of November 21— Raid Finder Wing 2: Molten Incursion (Volcoross – Larodar, Keeper of the Flame) Week of November 28— Raid Finder Wing 3: The Viridian Weave (Council of Dreams – Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle)