Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on March 29, 2025, 05:22:25 PM

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on March 29, 2025, 02:41:32 PMhttps://youtube.com/shorts/fe0wPLlvGAo?si=cDGv1ElyoZWx6Vp3

Needs more "ping" when you're out of BBs (or would it make more sense when you're out of CO2?)

It takes two C02 cartridges, and they run out in seconds when you fire on full-auto. (Growing up, I had the "Red Ryder" gun of "A Christmas Story" fame. Even after my dad bought me my first real rifle when I was 13 (a Remington 572), I'd still usually plink more with the BB gun. Well, ammo was cheaper, and you can't really fire a real rifle in your backyard, at least where I lived.) This fully automatic BB gun is like a childhood dream come true.
I've thought about American "gun culture", but it's something you don't notice if you've grown up in it. Growing up, I thought everyone had a gun cabinet in the house. It was as normal as having a tv. Luckily, my parents took pains to educate me early on not to mess around with guns until I'd been properly trained on using them. My Dad started me out on shooting when I was pretty young. Him buying me a rifle at 13 was like a rite of passage, he finally saw that I knew how to safely use guns, and bought me my own. Eventually I met people who didn't own guns, and who thought me getting my own rifle at 13 was irresponsible parenting. I dunno. Maybe it's a southern thing. Anyhow, I've never shot anybody (yet).

I recently purchased a couple of firearms, and jokingly asked a couple of Talossans if we should start a "Talossan Rifle Association". (Well, why not?) (The responses weren't positive.)  I'm not really a gun guy, but I bought a cheap 9mm pistol just to have fun with. (And for home defense. I doubt I'll ever need to use it (people would have to be desperate to think I had anything worth doing a home invasion robbery over), but you never know.) But I also bought this,
https://youtube.com/shorts/fe0wPLlvGAo?si=cDGv1ElyoZWx6Vp3
which I will gladly use in efforts to defend Talossa. (I can actually shoot this thing where I live without having the cops called on me, and boy, is it fun. A fully automatic BB gun?! I'm kind of glad they didn't have these things when I was a kid, our youthful BB gun wars could have really ended disastrously.)
Given the current situation going on, I may have to use these items against the fascists in Ohio first. (Believe me, I'd love to unload my BB gun on our local Congressman. Shoot both of his eyes out.)

Quote from: GV on March 15, 2025, 05:45:30 PMIt must be understood Ben Madison never, ever meant for "the Berber Project" to be taken seriously.  It was always a tongue-in-cheek mythos and more of an experiment on Ben's part.

With Ben's wordsmithing, historical knowledge, and propoganda-bent, "The Berber Project" became a masterpiece in historical revisionism so convincing in at least one scholarly work, it has actually been cited as a legitimate source!

Ben pointed out that incident years ago, but I cannot remember where it is.

I apparently read that same "scholarly work", because I remember seeing the Berber Project cited in it. I can't remember what it was in either.

That was an enjoyable video. I would like to have participated, but I had two of my granddaughters visiting that day, and I doubt they would have left me alone long enough to join in. (Well, they might have, but I doubt I would've been able to hear you guys over them chattering in the background.)
The King mentioning his SF trilogy made me wonder if the TalossaWiki Culture section should contain entries on things created by Talossans that may not necessarily be related to Talossa...like the King's books, Miestra's Vostok Lake albums, etc. I mean, these things are the products of Talossans... doesn't that make them Talossan?

Okay, it's getting late, I had a hard day at work today, I'm sleepy, brain isn't working so well (does it ever?), so explain me the extra symbol on the flag and the why perhaps one day. (Give me a break, I'm getting old.)
(Wow, I'm really tired. This post was in reference to the second Belacosta flag.)

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on March 02, 2025, 05:08:07 PM

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on March 02, 2025, 05:02:05 PMBEBOP was "The Benitian Esoteric Brotherhood of Peculiarists", and was just a joke. It is described in our Cjovani lexicon as: "a short lived Talossan secret society that espoused a bizarre peculiarist philosophy that was explained through jazz terminology. Extant records of the society indicate that it consisted of three grades, like the three Masonic Degrees, the highest grade being Exalted Parker."

I got the feeling, though only a feeling due to all the dead image embeds, that BEBOP influenced the aesthetics of the NPW. Would I be close to the mark there?

The other way around, I think.

At one time I had everything from the Moonfruit site copied and saved in a Google Docs file on my phone, so I'd be able to refer to our laws and whatnot without having to get on the website. I've gone thru several phones since then, and I guess I lost it somehow.
BEBOP was "The Benitian Esoteric Brotherhood of Peculiarists", and was just a joke. It is described in our Cjovani lexicon as: "a short lived Talossan secret society that espoused a bizarre peculiarist philosophy that was explained through jazz terminology. Extant records of the society indicate that it consisted of three grades, like the three Masonic Degrees, the highest grade being Exalted Parker."
The Noble Order of the Corncob is still in existence. It was also created as a joke, parodying the Order of Kentucky Colonels, and based on the CoA of one of ESB's fake Witt personalities, Benedict Stamford. So far, Vitxalmour Conductour and I are the only "Kernals" in the organization, but if any other Belacostans express an interest in it, I can make up some rules and guidelines for admission.

Quote from: King Txec on February 28, 2025, 06:28:46 AMAzul,

As I'm thinking about the start of Berber Heritage month tomorrow, I'm wondering if texts like those written by former King Ben such as "The Berber Project" still exist somewhere. There are other topics I'd like to explore so I hope our Archivist, @GV, will have some insight.

-Txec R

"The Berber Project" is in the Culture Section of the TalossaWiki:Library

PER on all

I saw that you (King) had responded to the announcement of the death of the founder of Pibocip. Before he quit Talossa, Eiric B. and myself had begun to introduce ourselves and Talossa to Pibocip, in hopes of establishing some kind of diplomatic relationship. (Pibocip is in Youngstown, Ohio, just a few miles away from us.) We had discussed meeting with the Pibocip representatives for dinner somewhere. Anyhow, I remember someone telling me that we couldn't initiate relationships with other micronations without some kind of official approval, like there were official protocols in place or something, so we abandoned the idea. Well, actually, I think Eiric and I planned to still meet them in an unofficial capacity, but then he quit Talossa, and I sure as hell wasn't going to go by myself to dinner with complete strangers. Anyhow, we were going to try.

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https://youtu.be/HA0xG8ThyE4?si=kR0UPmpa8co7lQQL
And by Django, I mean this, not the Tarantino film. (It's funny, watching the trailers to some of these films...they're worse than the actual movie is. Usually they pick the best parts of the film to put into the trailer.) (Franco Nero, who played Django in the original film, also appeared in the Tarantino film.)