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Bolt Action Battle Report
It must have been more than six months since the last time we had a Bolt Action battle! For this reason we decided to play with small armies of 500 points in order to recall the rules.
We are somewhere in the eastern front. The Soviets try to free a Russian village from the Germans. The Soviet army consists of seven units while the German of five.
The Red Army seven units
NCO and sailors
Submachine guns squad
Officer and sniper teams
NKVD squad
The Commissar's team and the Inexperienced squad
The German officer
SS squad and MMG team
The second SS squad
and the sniper team.
Below you can see some moments of the battle. The battle was balanced but at the end the Soviets managed to win due to their numbers and the bad luck with the dice of the "German" player. Too many 1s and 2s!
Close quarter fighting
I am happy because as I told you, we finally managed to play after so many months. And not only this. This time we played with the entire armies consisted of painted miniatures. No grey or black soldiers!
Next time I will publish a post about the Russian church.
That's all for today! Stay tuned for more!
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Soviet Artillery, Richtis Gorge and Napoleon's House at Ierapetra
This is my first post of 2023 and I will start with my two Soviet artillery pieces. First, the 45mm anti-tank gun model 1937. It had the nickname sorokapyatka (copoкaпяткa), which means the "little forty-five". Mikhail Loginov was the designer of this light quick-firing anti-tank gun. Below you can see the gun with its commander and two crew members.
45mm Anti-Tank Gun
Next is the famous ZIS-3, the 76mm divisional field gun M1942. ЗиС-3 stands for "Zavod imeni Stalina" meaning factory named after Stalin. More than 100.000 guns were produced the period 1941-1945. It was in service in Croatian Army till 1990! Below you can see the gun, its commander and two crew members.
ZIS-3 76mm Divisional Gun
Recently, my wife and I visited the Richtis gorge in Lasithi prefecture of Crete. The length of the route is roughly 3 km. The highlight of the gorge is its beautiful waterfall with a height more than 20m and the pond where someone can have a dive.
The waterfall and its pond
"You shall not pass!"
In May of 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte departed from Toulon to conduct his three-years campaign in Egypt and Syria. During his trip to Alexandria it is believed that he stopped in the city of Ierapetra in Lasithi, where he spend a night in this house.
My wife is not so tall just the door is lower than normal!
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T-34/85 Soviet Medium Tank and Tank Riders
Roughly 29.430 Soviet tanks T-34/85 were produced during WW2 because the Red Army needed a medium tank to face the German Tigers and not only.
When Soviet firing tests against a captured Tiger I in April '43 showed that the T-34's 76mm gun could not penetrate it, a Soviet 85mm anti-aircraft gun, the M1939, was found capable of doing the job. The gun could penetrate the Tiger I's upper hull armour at 1 km. It was still not enough to match the Tiger, which could destroy the T-34 from a distance of 1.5 to 2 km but it was an improvement.
Production of the T-34/85 began in January '44 at Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard No. 112 and became the standard medium tank of the Red Army. Its production run until the end of the war.
The Factory 112
The T-34/85 had better armour and mobility than the Panzer IV and StuG III. While it could not match the armour or weapons of the Panther and Tiger tanks, its improved firepower made it much more effective than earlier Soviet models, and overall it was more cost-effective than the heaviest German tanks.
Tанковый десант is a military tactic, where infantry soldiers ride into an attack on tanks, then dismount to fight on foot in the final phase of the assault. This tactic was used by the Red Army during WW2.
Tank desant troops were infantry trained in the tactic in order to offer small-arms support in suppression of enemy anti-tank weapons or enemy infantry using anti-tank grenades. Riding on tanks during actual combat is very dangerous. Tank riders are very vulnerable to machine gun and high explosive fire, and the high silhouette of most tanks would draw enemy fire.
The number of infantry assigned to a tank depended on the class of the tank; the usual numbers were: Heavy tank, 10-12 soldiers, Medium tank, 8-10 soldiers and Light tank, 5-6 soldiers.
The above two tank riders with helmets are plastic miniatures of the Soviet Infantry box of Warlord Games, while the third is a metal passenger figure of the Soviet Universal Carrier of the same brand.
The metal figure didn't have the right foot in order to fit in the Universal Carrier so I gave it one from a sprue of plastic Soviet infantry.
Victory Day parade, 9th of May
Red Square, Moscow
Meanwhile we visited a very nice restaurant at Goulediana of Rethymno region in Crete, where we tasted the delicious "gamopilafo" (rice boiled in lamp and chicken broth) among other traditional dishes of the Cretan Cuisine.
Salad and fried cheese
Beef stifado
Beef in tomato sauce and gamopilafo
Very Merry Christmas to all!
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Facebook Is Changing Its Name And Here's The Details
Posted by gsgcomputers On November 8, 2021
Recently one of the biggest companies on the web got a name change when the Facebook CEO announced that the company would henceforth be known as 'Meta.'
Here's what you need to know:
First and foremost nothing at all will change about the company's iconic social media platform. It will still be known as Facebook.
What is changing however is the fact that the name change seeks to expand the width of the corporate umbrella to cover a broader range of initiative as the company seeks to build the 'Metaverse.'
What exactly is the Metaverse?
It's a fair question. The name first appeared in a dystopian science fiction novel several decades ago and has since wormed its way into the public consciousness. In a nutshell it is what the internet could be. An all-encompassing platform that merges the real world with the digital. A place where everyone goes to work, play, and shop. They do not do this by navigating through a series of disconnected websites using a cumbersome keyboard as an interface. They do it by creating avatars and navigating through a rich and detailed virtual world where everything is possible.
Instead of getting into your car and rushing off to work you put on your VR headset and move your avatar to your digital office.
When the work day is done you transport yourself to one of the sprawling virtual shopping complexes and virtually stroll through the aisles. There you can add products to your inventory which places an order for them in the real world to have them shipped to your home.
If you want to play a game you move your avatar over to one of the genre specific gaming portals where you can dive into a fantasy realm, sci-fi realm, or whatever your preferences happen to be.
Needless to say we're a very long way from turning that ambitious vision into a reality. The name change is a clear indicator that big companies are throwing a lot of money at the idea. What comes of it remains to be seen.
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This 3 bedroom, 2 full baths, 1 half bath home, located on Winterberry Lane was just sold on Wednesday, April 17th for $344,900.
With 1,712 square feet of total floorspace, this home comes in at $201.46 per square foot. That's 16.60% higher than the neighborhood average. There are also 2.00 garage spaces available for parking.
Originally built in 2006, this 2-story home sits on a 3,920 square foot lot.
Listing provided courtesy of Oscar Tortola at Keller Williams Realty.
Back on the market as of April 18th at 8:25am, this home was originally listed on April 17th in 2019. The property is being listed at a price of $409,000 , the same as its original list price. This 4 bedroom, 3 full baths residence is located on Blossoms Drive, a prime area in .
With a total size of 2,309 square feet, this beautiful home comes in at $177.13 per square foot. That's 2.52% higher than the neighborhood average. There are also 2.00 garage spaces available for parking.
Originally built in 2006, this 2-story home sits on a 5,227 square foot lot.
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This 4 bedroom, 2 full baths, 1 half bath home, located on Mistflower Court was recently sold on Tuesday, April 16th for $335,000.
With 2,116 square feet of total floorspace, this home comes in at $158.32 per square foot. That's 8.62% lower than the neighborhood average. There are also 2.00 garage spaces available for parking.
Originally built in 2006, this 2-story home sits on a 3,485 square foot lot.
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This 2 bedroom, 2 full baths, 1 half bath home, located on Canyon Hills Road was recently sold on Tuesday, April 16th for $285,000.
With 1,565 square feet of total floorspace, this home is priced at $182.11 per square foot. That's 5.11% higher than the neighborhood average. There are also 2.00 garage spaces available for parking.
Originally built in 2007, this 2-story home sits on a 540 square foot lot.
Listing provided courtesy of Judith Evergin at Diamond Real Estate Group Inc.
This 4 bedroom, 2 full baths, 1 half bath home, located on Clear Water Drive was just sold on Tuesday, April 16th for $399,900.
With 2,726 square feet of total floorspace, this home is priced at $146.70 per square foot. That's 15.33% lower than the neighborhood average. There are also 2.00 garage spaces available for parking.
Originally built in 2004, this 2-story home sits on a 6,970 square foot lot.
Listing provided courtesy of Ashley Parkins at Coldwell Banker Assoc.brks-Cl.
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A ruck occurs when the ball carrier is tackled and players from each side make contact over the ball which is on the ground (it differs from a maul where the ball stays in the hands of the ball carrier).
The ruck videos and drills below contain clear coaching advice and tips explaining the correct technique for how to enter the ruck through the gate, make powerful and safe contact and how to powerfully drive and clear the ruck.
The laws of the game state a player can only join a ruck from behind the back foot of the last player and the player has to bind properly using the whole arm. This passage of play ends when the ball leaves the ruck.


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Gotta a little something special we want some feedback on.
Here's a sample of what the Steins;Gate Drama CD releases will be like. It's Part 01 of Gamma.
MrDrSr made the video entirely from scratch (title screen and divergence meter included). We've given him a bunch of feedback already, and this is what we've come to as representative of the final release, so I figured I'd ask you guys what you think of it. We have FLAC versions of the Drama CDs, so I'm debating about whether to release them as FLAC or AAC. This sample uses FLAC. Let me know what you think on that as well.
NOTE: This is not the release, but a sample representative of what we will be releasing. Take it for what it is.
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WOW! You guys are awesome!!
Thanks. MrDrSr really is doing a great job.
inb4 complaints about file size.
I liked the VN style very much, great idea.
I prefer FLAC over AAC, not because I believe I can hear the difference, but because lossless formats are future proof. I'm more than willing to spend a few extra bytes on that.
Well, AAC doesn't really lose much, and it's pretty standard for our releases. That said, might as well use the FLAC for lossless.
I don't usually comment on your releases ever, but this was DAMN impressive. I cannot WAIT till the final product!
Glad to see you enjoyed it. We've made a few more tweaks to it since those versions, so look forward to the final product.
This was really good, excited for the full version and rest of them.
Without the slowly appearing text and just the fade? I'd like to hear your reason.
Most people seem to be leaning towards the second one that mimics the VN more.
So is this set prior to the movie or is it just an alternate scenario? By the way, thanks for the preview. I'll be looking forward to the final release. I'm fine with either version, though the second version with the vn-esque subs was pretty sweet.
The scenario is one in which Okabe's attempt to undo Ruka's mail goes horribly wrong.
The date released on 20 Apri, "Why Not?Subs" will be released in english sub approximately when that date?
… That's the date it's in theaters, not released on BD.
When the BD is released. There's no date.
Yeah about that, posted this in the PV 2 topic but apparently no one read it so lets try again here.
I also prefer the second version.
Again, great job, looking forward for more!
Yes they were. That's where I got all the sprites and backgrounds from.
I prefer the second version but I think it would look even better with an outline, and even though the quality difference from AAC to FLAC is barely noticeable I prefer FLAC, might as well go Lossless for archiving purposes.
Keep the FLAC since it doesn't take that much space anyway.
But we're going for a VN style and all the art is from the VN.
I'm very impressed, great job! I prefer the second version and FLAC.
That was really good, I have to say the second one felt more appropriate with the VN feel… as for audio it doesn't really matter to me, but might as well go with FLAC since space really isn't an issue for me. Looking forward to the release!
That was really impressive. If I didn't download it from here, I would've guessed it was an official release of some kind. I don't have a preference for either test; I didn't even notice what the difference was between them. Just here give props to the deserving parties. (^^)=d I'll be waiting eagerly for the full version. Thanks for the great work!
late response but oh well. Second one for me too (the non instant text). Couldn't tell audio difference.
Thanks for the feedback. Both of the samples have FLAC audio tracks, btw.
I realize this is a really late post, but I figured I'd add to this anyways. These samples were REALLY amazing! I personally prefer the second one, how the text slowly appears. A possible idea, I think it'd look nice to have the text appear a little more slowly, and end slightly before they finish speaking. Just my preference. Anyways, appreciate the hard work you all are putting in to this!
Some people read much faster than that. This way everyone can read it at their own pace.
Absolutely great! Only found out about it now. I'm really thankful to see you guys going the extra mile, making the drama CD even better then it originally was.
For my preferences, I mostly agree with everyone else: 2nd version with FLAC audio.
Both are FLAC. And it does seem like the majority of people want the slowly appearing text.
WhyNot subs, may I know when are you guys gonna sub the others? Is there like a timeline for it or something?
We are working on Alpha, Beta, and Gamma.
I meant sub the other drama CDs. Especially the comptiq ones.
I love you guys so much for doing this. So much effort put into subbing a drama CD.
I personally like the fade better since I like being able to read the text all at once without waiting for the animation. That and the fade animation just looks more aesthetically pleasing to me.
Please do the rest of this drama cd and the other steins;gate drama cds.
No. We only ever planned to do this one part of one drama cd.
Whoa this is amazing will all of them be translated?
I'm watching you with interest.
anyway I only watched the 1st vid, Damn internet too slow!! Err.. put it aside I like the structure you or "all" of you used, the background,the character and the title page. I'm greatly impressed on the idea having a design on the subtitles. For me, I read faster than the text appears so the first vid is a thumbs-up but I don't know the other people's perspective(if they read slower than me). About the FLAC or AAC? I really don't know about that (I'll research more about that).
PS: I'll comment another one when I finish the second part..


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Sherwood College in Nainital Uttranchal India is one of the oldest and the finest educational boarding schools in India. Some of the eminent Old Sherwoodians are Late Major Som Nath Sharma, Field Marshall SHFJ (Sam) Manekshaw, Lt Gen Sir Martin Garrod, VN Sharma, Maj Gen Badhwar, Air Vice Marshall Michael McMahon, Lt Gen GS Rawat, Major General Stanley Burrett, Lt Gen SN "Tindi" Sharma, Brig SPS Shrikent, Capt Pratap Singh, Thakor G Patel, Jim Corbett, AN Kidwai, Justice Ravi Dhawan, Padam Shree Virendra Dayal, Salman Haider, FC Badhwar, Inderjit Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Kabir Bedi, Marcus Murch, Dalip Tahil, Sir Kul Rattan Chadha, George MacFarlaine, Raymond Whiteside, Andrew Garrod, Gyanendra Pandey, Ravi Dayal, Kaleem Omar, Vivek Mushran, Ram Kapoor. Ist World War R Holmes (MC), IInd World War - T Butcher (DFC), P Brumby (DPM), R Baker (DPC), R Grimshaw (BEM), E Pattersoa (MC), J Whitmarsha-Knight (MC). Sherwood College has 4 houses - Friar Tuck, Little John, Robin Hood, Allen a Dale.
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EMINENT SHERWOODIANS
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GENERAL V.N. SHARMA
Recipient of the Old Sherwoodians' Millennium Award for Outstanding Achievement conferred during the Reunion on 14.10.2000.
General V.N. Sharma belongs to a distinguished military family whose members have served in the Armed Forces for two generations and produced three Generals. He is the younger brother of the late Major Som Nath Sharma, PVC, who was awarded Independent India's first posthumous Param Vir Chakra on 3rd. November 1947 for the Battle of Badgam in Kashmir.
General Sharma was educated at Sherwood College, Nainital, and Prince of Wales' RIMC, Dehradun, finishing from Sherwood. He joined the fifth Regular Course at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, and was the first recipient of the Rajputana Rifies Gold Medal for tactics and leadership. He was commissioned on 4th June 1950 into the 16 Light Cavalry and was on the rolls of this regiment for 16 years.
During his 38 years of distinguished service, he has held important commands, staff and instructional appointments. As a Major he saw action during 1965 Indo-Pak War in the Lahore sector. As a Lt. Col., he commanded the 66 armoured regiment and was later appointed an instructor at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. He was Col. General Staff Operations of an Armoured Division on the Western Front during the 1971 Indo Pak War.
On promotion to the rank of Brigadier, he commanded a mountain brigade in an insurgency affected area and was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva - Medal in 1971 for distinguished service, Later he commanded an armoured brigade in the Rajasthan desert and was appointed Brigadier, General Staff, of a Strike Corps in the Western Sector.
In 1980 he was promoted to Major - General and commanded a mountain division in the eastern sector. He then served as Deputy- Director, General Military Operations at the Army Headquarters. He was promoted Lt. General and took over command of a reserve Corps in the Western Sector in 1984 and was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal for rendering distinguished service of the most exceptional order in March 1986. He was later appointed Commandant of the prestigious College of Combat at Mhow.
He is a graduate of the Defence Service Staff College, Wellington, and the National Defence College, New Delhi. He has had vast experience in serving in all border regions with their varied terrain and types of operations, including the deserts, mountains, high altitude and counter-insurgency areas; he is considered an authority in both mobile operations and mountain warfare.
General Sharma took over as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, on 1st June 1987. He is the Col of 66 Armoured Regiment and 87 Armoured Regiment. He was appointed Honorary Army ADC to the President on 25th July 1987.
He took over as the Chief of the Army Staff on 1st May 1988.
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All Fabulous
Princess Kate and Prince William 'won't be distracted' by Meghan Markle and Harry's 'shadow' on US tour, insiders claim
Katie Davis
Published: 10:42, 27 Nov 2022
Updated: 18:12, 27 Nov 2022
PRINCE William and Princess Kate "won't be distracted" by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry while in the US, insiders claim.
The couple are set to travel to the States for a series of engagements just days before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex attend a glitzy award bash.
Prince William and Princess Kate are set to visit the US for three daysCredit: Splash
An insider says they 'wont be distracted' by Prince Harry and Meghan MarkleCredit: The Mega Agency
It is the first time royals have headed over to the States since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview.
Wills and Kate will jet to the US on November 30 - their first official visit abroad since they became the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The couple will spend three days in Boston, Massachusetts, to attend the second Earthshot Prize Awards.
By coincidence, Harry and Meghan will also be hosted on the East Coast within days.
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They will attend a lavish ceremony in New York to accept the Ripple of Hope award, which they are being given for taking a stance against "structural racism" in the Royal Family.
But a foreign office source has insisted Wills and Kate won't be "distracted" by the California-based couple, reports the Telegraph.
They said the Prince and Princess of Wales's trip had not been planned with Harry and Meghan mind.
The insider told the outlet: "The Palace team are highly cognizant of Meghan and Harry, but equally, they're not scared of their shadows on this.
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"William is the future King. Harry has taken his path, she's doing her podcast, they've got their issues, but the palace isn't going to run scared of that, so kudos to them."
Wills and Kate will spend three days in Boston, Massachusetts, to attend the second Earthshot Prize Awards.
Kate will also take a solo trip to visit the Centre on the Developing Child at Harvard University, which works with her Centre for Early Childhood.
The first Earthshot Prize was held in London last year but while a success, did not make waves abroad and the team believe America is their best chance of "projecting it internationally".
The source added: "Our number focus next week is the Earthshot Prize and we won't be distracted by other things."
Meghan and Harry are being handed their award after being praised as "heroic" for challenging the Firm's "power structure".
It comes after Meghan accused an unnamed royal of raising "concerns" about the "skin colour" of her and Harry's children in her Oprah chat.
She declined to reveal the identity of the racist royal as it would be too "damaging" for them.
The ceremony - where tables are being sold for up to $1million (830k) - will take place on December 6, just days after Kate and Wills leave the US on December 2.
Meghan and Harry will be honoured by John F Kennedy's niece, Kerry Kennedy, at the annual bash, which is organised by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights foundation.
Kate and Wills will also rub shoulders with a member of the Kennedy family, as the Prince of Wales teams up with the former president's grandson, Jack Schlossberg.
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But the warring brothers are not expected to see each other while Kate and Wills visit the US, where Harry and Meghan moved in 2020 after stepping down as senior royals.
It comes amid an ongoing rift between the once-close siblings following a number of scathing attacks by the Sussexes on The Firm.
The couples will be attending events on the East Coast within days of each otherCredit: Getty
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If you are one of those who cherish massage treatments, there's nothing better than the green bamboo massage therapy. Bamboo massage is an innovative way to provide Swedish or deep tissue massage using a combination of long and short heated bamboo canes to roll.
What may seem like a new technique, bamboo massage, has ancient roots and perhaps deeper associations than simply bodywork. Today, bamboo massage is touted as Bamboo-Fusion, Tian di Bamboo Massage, or simply promoted at high-end spas as the latest in exotic treatments or for massage therapists as a new tool, but bamboo can be seen as much more than a new trend or accessory. Considered to be the miracle plant, bamboo has earned its reputation from its versatility and it symbolize eternal youth, strength, prosperity, fertility and peace.
In addition to its sustainability, bamboo is also recognized for its suppleness and resilience. Bamboo massage helps blood circulation, sensory nerve perception, and lymphatic drainage and provides a deep sense of relaxation and well-being. Bamboo massage is good for neck, shoulder and upper back pain and stiffness. It also has the benefit of improving your quality of sleep and has the potential to cure depression and encourages the body's natural healing abilities.
An added benefit for the practitioner is that using the bamboo sticks helps to reduce stress and strain on hands and fingers while still allowing for deeply penetrating manoeuvres. Apart from relieving you of stress and tension, bamboo massage is also known to improve the texture of your skin. Bamboo leaf contains 2% to 5% flavine and phenolic compound that have the power to remove active oxy-free-radicals, stopping sub-nitrification and abating blood fat. Many of the top end spas have started offering Bamboo massage and skin care therapies.


They follow nature's primal drive.
and hop about with impunity.
each is now civilization's child.
all birds must sense the alarms.
scary because all species are linked.
while we humans search for eternal spring.
to see the far horizons.
and imagine human dramas in the valleys.
but my eyes are dimmed.
is a totality of me.
The eagle circled over land and sea.
while the eagle circled free.
as far as we can see.
listening to the arriving birds sing.
but so far there are no minnows.
so I'll move on for a place to rest.
that's where I will dispel my winter gloom.
We walked the desert in our land.
but defunct computers and pieces of bone.
Can all our creations be saved from becoming dust?
Can there be resurrection from the scrapyards of rust?
there will be magic here for the human race.
on a path to somewhere distant.
in the serenity of the mute forest.
It is the best of times.
It is the worst of times.
Mankind is the great creator.
Mankind is the great destroyer.
And we're losing our way.
the digital torrent flows all day.
We walk the desert in our land.
beckoning us for its cooling shade.
What life has settled there?
I hear no sounds from here.
and certainly nothing to fear.
"I am the spirit of Chief Seattle.
fears our dice are nearly cast.
and surely we will take care of her.
and we will need some magic.
they are the renewed tribes and nations.
and their imaginations will foster useful creations.
Can all our knowledge be saved from becoming dust?
Can there be a common mind of the digital cosmos?
There will be magic here for the whole human race.
observed by creatures lurking in the shade.
The humans will be talking to everyone.
The humans and robots and creatures will be as one.
still delight and make us curious?
Can truth be far behind?
Oh fox! Far from the fray!
What are you doing on our deck today?
nose in his tail and snugly reposing.
Doesn't he have instinctive fear?
with all our mice to crunch.
but off to his foxhole he loped.
Larry Kilham is a Sloan School of Management graduate from MIT, received three patents, and has founded two high-tech companies. He comes from a family with strong interests in nature and explores how high-tech humankind can thrive symbiotically with nature. His poetry is a promising approach and has been well-received.


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Republican candidate switches to lieutenant governor's race
LITTLE ROCK — State Rep. Debra Hobbs, R-Rogers, said Wednesday she is no longer running for governor and is now a candidate for lieutenant governor.
During a news conference at the state Capitol, Hobbs told a small group of reporters her goals of improving economic prosperity, government accountability and college and career readiness among students could be better served as lieutenant governor.
"The office of lieutenant governor has frequently been cited as a 'do nothing' position," she said. "The person elected to the office can, however, make it into a meaningful job by following the example of Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller, who used the position to advocate for economic development, education, and literacy."
Rockefeller, 57, served as lieutenant governor from 1996 to 2006 when he died from a blood disorder.
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Vampire Bites Suck
"Not quite the two discreet puncture marks of legend, are they?"
— Wilhelmina Murray, speaking of her scars received from her encounter with a certain foreigner
Vampires need blood to survive. Some can survive on the blood of lesser creatures — rats, cats, dogs, etc. But their beverage of preference and choice is almost always human blood.
Humans who have encountered a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire may count themselves lucky, as the Kiss of the Vampire is at worst, a tolerable experience, and at best, as good as or Better Than Sex.
The vampires who aren't quite so humane or human-friendly don't much care for whether their prey enjoys it. They likely won't survive the experience to care, as these vampires don't bother with table manners, let alone leaving two dainty, easily covered puncture wounds. They go for the jugular, and if the rest of the neck goes with it, c'est la mort.
The Gory Discretion Shot is seldom used with a violently hungry vampire, so the viewer is treated to seeing the High-Pressure Blood fountaining everywhere, and the police or intrepid meddling kids are treated to the messy aftermath. Where this can get really torturous is if the vampire is into Hemo Eroticism, because then they'll draw out the feeding process.
See Our Vampires Are Different, and Kiss of the Vampire for the flipside of this trope.
Vampire Knight skirts the line between this and Kiss of the Vampire, especially with Yuuki and Zero. Almost all cases of vampire bites in the show lean towards this trope, though.
Alucard of Hellsing tends to not bother with subtlety ever. Unless maybe it'll make the Mind Screw even worse. He's been told that "It's not good to play with your food," but evidently it didn't take (also, he ate the person who said that). He won't sink two delicate fangs into your neck; he'll open his huge toothy maw, latch onto your throat, lifting you off the ground, savage flesh and sinew like a dog, and devour your broken body. Probably after he's done crushing you in battle, and almost definitely while laughing. He can also absorb blood that's anywhere nearby - in the manga, he calls rivers of spilt blood to him through the streets of a war-scarred London; and in the anime, he revives himself using the blood spilt in the tower of London. Feeding or not, he'll make a mess of you because it's fun.
He's definitely not alone in this; vampires in Hellsing bite with mouths crammed full of fangs (even if they're Seras) and habitually tear out people's throats. All of them are brutal, Alucard is simply exceptionally brutal.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is horrific when it comes to this; its vampires feed through their hands. In the first series, one feeds using his hair. It comes across like the vines from The Ruins.
To clarify: the vampires sink their hands into your flesh, grasp a handy vein or artery, and start absorbing your blood. It's possible they can do this without leaving a scratch on you, but don't count on it. And the Pillar Men are even worse.
Happened once to the titular Dark Magical Girl in the Vampire Princess Miyu OAV. The first human she bit after her powers came to the surface, one of her classmates at school, died. In a subversion, Miyu didn't brutalize the poor girl, only biting her and sucking off almost all of her blood off-screen (we only see her passed out on the ground), and we learn about her also off-screen death a bit later. Not to mention it's a sort-of Justified Trope: it was the second time ever Miyu had drank someone's blood (the first one was when she met Larva) and had no real idea of how to do it; she told Larva in tears that one moment she was distracted and thinking the girl was kinda cute, and at the other she found herself sucking her blood off...
Gantz has this trope in spades, to the point where we see a metal tub being filled with blood after a vampire cut a few women's heads off. They don't care how they get the blood - they just want it.
Played for laughs in Mahou Sensei Negima!. Negi pays Evangeline for his lessons by allowing her to drink his blood. She insists on it, and he responds with the same reluctance and squirming as a kid getting a shot at the hospital.
The first installment of the Batman vs Dracula series, Red Rain has Dracula and his minions slashing the throats of their victims with their fangs after they're done to cover up the supernatural element of their attack and disguise the killing as a standard murder.
Mina Murray from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen wears a red scarf to hide the scars from her attack by Dracula. Alan Moore decided that vampires would feed like vampire bats; i.e. grind the skin into hamburger with nasty serrated teeth, and lap up what comes out. So, Mina's scars are not the "pair of discreet puncture wounds" of legend, but massive and disfiguring. The film goes with the traditional bite look, the way the book had it.
Vampires in Preacher rip out the side of their victim's neck. The perils of not having fangs...
The vampires in the guro comic Elizabeth Bathory by "Raulo" are extremely violent, often partly eating their victims after drinking the blood or even mutilating each other just for fun and letting their Healing Factor take care of the aftermath.
The traditional bitemarks are lampshaded in Joann Sfar's Vampire Loves: protagonist Ferdinand bites his sleeping victims with one fang, so that they think it's a mosquito bite.
Vampire attacks in Crimson are anything but pretty, usually involving maiming and tearing the victims apart with the claws and fangs. Even the nicest vampires like Joe are prone to feeding this way.
Played for dark laughs in a Jhonen Vasquez story: A young Vampire Vannabe, Eric, desperately wants to be a vampire for real and gets his wish— only to end up with a case of Looks Like Orlok turned Up to Eleven, with an enormous bald head and fangs that resemble walrus tusks. He feeds by plunging one of these tusks straight into the top of the skull of his victim, not unlike puncturing a juice can with an old-style can opener. It probably kills the victim outright and horrifies Eric too, especially since he was imagining something more pleasant (oddly enough, the bite that turns him is a classic Kiss of the Vampire).
In Revenge Of The Energy Vampire, being attacked and drained by Nos-4-A2 is depicted as being very unpleasant and painful. He even uses it as a method of torture.
In The Lost Boys, David's crew descends on Make-Out Point to tear the roofs off cars and tear open the skulls of their victims.
The Film of the Book for Salem's Lot had messy, unpleasant vampires.
In Innocent Blood, the vampire rips the victim's throat out like an animal, which is kind of a subversion because otherwise she's a cute, sexy Friendly Neighborhood Vampire.
In 30 Days of Night, the vampires are violent predators. And they don't even bother to wipe their mouths after feeding. Possibly justified, as their pillaging of the town was their equivalent of an all you can eat buffet. The comic book has the vampires being similarly gory... but in private.
The vampires in the Blade Trilogy movies are all savage and vicious, and usually rip their victims' throats open.
From Dusk Till Dawn is full of the vampires who bite hard and messy.
The vampires in Daybreakers are particularly violent, especially when starved. At one point a swarm of them rip a man's head off just to spill more claret.
I Am Legend has creatures purported to be violent and messy, but we never really get a good look at their feeding habits.
John Carpenter's Vampires features vampires who don't suck blood so much as tear a hole in your carotid and lap at the fountain.
While most of the vampire attacks in The Fearless Vampire Killers are on the jugular, the innkeeper Shagal after trying to save his daughter from Count von Krolock, is found with vampire bites all over his body, and hardly any blood left.
In Near Dark the vampires, like Cassidy in Preacher, usually tear the neck open - Severen is shown to be the vampire equivalent of a messy eater - but it's not the only way to feed. Diamondback also cuts a woman's throat and drains the blood into a beer glass, proving that the vampires aren't fussy about how they get blood, as long as they get it.
In the Dracula-display segment of Waxwork, the vampires not only drink the fiance's blood, they butcher his leg while he's still alive, then share the raw meat with his bride as "steak tartare".
The female vampires in Count Yorga are like this, biting their victims anywhere to drain their blood, leaving bite marks all over the body. Oddly though the title character, Yorga, when feeding on his female victims is nowhere near as messy, just leaving pinpricks on their necks.
The 2008 Lucy Liu vehicle Rise: Blood Hunter features vampires who don't have fangs, so they wear tiny blades around their necks just to tear huge gushing holes in the necks of their victims.
In Let the Right One In Eli has to snap the necks of her victims, drop them out of windows or otherwise end their suffering. Up until then they're still struggling around and twitching in agony. The process is so distressing to all concerned that she prefers to have her "Dad" drain her victims for her. Indeed, the one victim that is bitten but not killed, ends up starting to turn into a vampire themself before they decide to commit suicide by sunlight (which drives their friend to seek vengeance against the little monster that attacked them).
In Nosferatu, Orlok's bite isn't too bad (twin puncture wounds), but Orlok's bites also spread the plague.
Played with in George Romero's Martin (1977), where the "vampire" is a demented young man. He doesn't bite his victims— just slashes their arms open with razor blades.
The segment "Midnight Mess" from the 1973 Vault of Horror. What sucks more than a vampire bite? Being hung by your ankles and having a beer tap jammed into your jugular!
House of Dark Shadows (1970), the first movie spin-off of Dark Shadows, has vampire bites that show a full set of bloody teeth marks, not just two discreet punctures. Makeup artist Dick Smith created the prostheses by biting into a piece of raw steak, then enlarging and deepening the holes made by his canine teeth before making the casting.
The Night Flier: Discussed Trope by Richard Dees. The vampire doesn't leave tiny bite marks, but punctures the necks of his victims with his giant fangs. If he even leaves them in one piece, that is.
In Dracula Untold, they're presented as extremely gruesome, with the vampire in question having their own faces drained of blood during and immediately after the feeding.
In Life Blood, vampire feeding consists of literally biting a chunk out of the victim's neck and then sucking the blood out of the wound.
In Brian Lumley's Necroscope series, the vampires are all savage and vicious, even to each other. More to the point, due to the fact that they can reshape their bodies, their feeding habits range from using oversized jaws to tear open human torsos, to forming tentacular siphons and draining their victims dry. And it gets worse when the vampire in question has the power of Necrmouthful
Vampires in the Laura Caxton series have a mouthful of shark-like teeth sharp enough to bite through kevlar like it was butter. They use them for that, too.
Nancy A. Collins' Sonja Blue series is full of vampires who are uncaring of the state in which they leave their victims.
Feeding vampires in Twilight rip their victims to bloody shreds first. Plus the excruciating pain if they don't kill you as the venom spreads.
Vampires in Kim Harrison's The Hollows series leave scars on the necks of their victims. The bites may scar but the bite itself is euphoric due to highly addictive vampire venom that causes pleasure center reaction, so the victim craves being bitten again, even months after the bite. Worse, other vampires can re-trigger the bite scar. See Kiss of the Vampire.
Poppy Z. Brite's vampires in Lost Souls will also rip and tear a victim to shreds, and then devour them, marrow and all. Yummy.
In the Night World series, when vampires suck blood out of an unwilling and non-tranced victim, it is described as painful. One character compares it to your soul being sucked out of you. Willing, now...
The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series mostly employs the Kiss of the Vampire, but not all vampires bother; the title character has some nasty scar tissue where a vampire gnawed on her.
The Dresden Files is all over the place on this one. The White Court doesn't leave any marks on their prey, but feed on the lifeforce of their prey by inducing a specific emotion. The Red Court use elaborate disguises to get close to their prey, then use their narcotic saliva to render the prey insensible while they go at it like vampire bats. The Black Court sucks in the conventional sense (Dracula was actually written as a guide to dealing with the Black Court), but resemble rotting corpses, so how they come by their prey is another question entirely. The Jade Court has been alluded to, but haven't appeared yet; the character that mentions them says they're from Asia but otherwise very secretive, and it's probably a safe bet that the Chinese "hopping ghost" is at least marginally related.
Vadim Panov's Secret City:
Masan, Secret City's blood-drinking inhabitants and the source of vampire myths, drink blood to live and to fuel their magic, which also renders them independent from the settings regular magic power sources. The bite isn't poisonous and doesn't carry The Virus, but is unpleasant and messy.
Anna, the morph mage instinctively counters a Masan's psychic attack by growing hollow thorns on her body, then embracing and draining the Masan.
Depending on the vampire in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, it can be either this or Kiss of the Vampire. Lestat tends to go for the latter, even though most of his victims are criminals. The novel Queen of the Damned has several vampires engage in a feeding frenzy in a mountain temple, where a group of mortals are so enthralled that they want their throats to be torn out. When a man offers himself to her, Pandora, who was originally disgusted with this, rips his head off in order to quickly suck in all the blood.
In Charles Stross' Laundry novel The Rhesus Chart, vampires are created via a form of Demonic Possession whereby an extra-dimensional parasitic intelligence possesses a subject, usually a ritual magician, granting powers in exchange for victims. Feeding on blood creates a link between the vampire's parasite and the victim, and the victim dies of something resembling mad cow disease within weeks, courtesy of the parasite snacking on their brain. If they don't feed the parasite, the parasite consumes the vampire.
In the third book of the ''President's Vampire series, when Nathaniel Cade, desperately needing blood to save himself, attacks an Intrepid Reporter trying to dig up dirt on President Curtis, the description makes a vampire bite seem more like an attack by a big cat than a traditional depiction.
''That was the last thing she thought before Cade ripped out her throat. The writers who described a vampire's bite as two neat puncture wounds in the neck were either being polite or or had never really looked their own teeth. A vampire, when he bites, hyperextends his canines, the third tooth on each side from the centre. They are necessary for any carnivore, designed by evolution for the express purpose of rending flesh. Canines are used for only one thing, even by humans. Canines tear. Megan Roark's head was attached to her body only by her broken neck and some gristle.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer has this, sort of. The vampire only needs to make you bleed to feed, so it's not as messy as most examples, however they don't leave the two neat puncture wounds common to Kiss of the Vampire. They leave behind an oval scar, as they bite with all their teeth. Note that this is all they have to do to feed. Most vampires are sadistic bastards and do much worse. Offscreen, but still.
The vampires in Supernatural rip their victims' throat out while feeding, and are almost always reported as animal attacks.
The vampiric Lotte Lipp on The League of Gentlemen leaves huge, gruesome puncture marks.
In The Vampire Diaries a full set of tooth marks is left on the victim, and when people are bitten there's the occasional sound like flesh being chewed. Though they can use their compulsion to make people ignore the pain, or at least forget about it afterward.
In a Doing In the Wizard variant, the villain of an early CSI episode was a porphyriac convinced she needed to consume human hemoglobin to suppress her illness. Being fangless, she trained her guard dog to maul her intended prey, then removed their livers and spleens (rich in blood) and left each body looking like an animal-attack victim.
Deadliest Warrior used a freakin' alligator as the basis for a vampire's bite in "Vampires vs. Zombies". When the resulting pressure reading was placed into a pneumatic jaw, the "vampire fangs" bit through a "zombie skull", and reached the center of the brain. By comparison, very few non-gunpowder weapons tested on the show have been able to penetrate that deeply into the skull. The bite ultimately counted for less than 5 percent of the vampire's kills; based on the data, the vampires simply chose to strike the zombies down instead of biting them.
The X-Files episode "Bad Blood" featured a Vampire Vannabe who wore fake fangs to bite people. At one point, he attacks a coroner without them:
Skinner: The coroner's throat's been bitten.
Mulder: The coroner's dead?
Skinner: No, his throat was bitten. Sort of... gnawed on.
In the Masters of Horror special "The V Word", the head vampire has no fangs to bite a victim's throat... so he tears out a hunk of flesh and laps up the blood. In another scene, a vampire slashes a man's throat with a piece of glass so his hungry friend can feed.
A Discovery of Witches: Matthew only appears to feed on animals, along with the rest of his family. An exception is when he attacks Gillian.
In Vampire: The Masquerade, most vampires bring intense pleasure to those they feed on; this is referred to as "The Kiss". There are exceptions, however:
The Giovanni clan, on the other hand, have a bite that not only does more damage than your regular bite, it really freaking hurts. Fortunately, the Giovanni are a well-connected clan of few moral compunctions, so there's always a steady stream of not-quite-willing food... Or corpses, who are in no position to feel anything. Given that the clan is renowned for their necromantic abilities and zombies have no need of blood anyway, the latter is basically killing two birds with one stone for them.
A vampire with the four-point Flaw of 'Grip of the Damned' gives the victims of his feeding absolutely no pleasure whatsoever — only terror and pain. The vampire is forced to grapple with their struggling victim for as long as he wishes to take their blood, which tends to pose a problem for those with a high Humanity.
In addition, there is the Nagaraja bloodline, whose members need to eat the flesh (major organs, mainly) as well as the blood of their victims, and a Flaw called 'Conspicuous Consumption' — a delusion that causes the same effect to other vampires. Needless to say, "The Kiss" is not an option to these vampires unless they want to put down their victim painlessly by blood drain first.
The Kuei-jin or Cathayan, Asian vampires in Kindred of the East, lack fangs in their default form, so they need to draw blood using a blade or some other artificial means, or spend a point of Mana to manually grow fangs. (This assumes they're not enlightened enough to subsist on a victim's breath or simply draw upon the ambient energy of the universe, but are sufficiently enlightened that they no longer need to consume the flesh of their prey.)
The Lamia bloodline in Vampire: the Dark Ages, an offshoot of the Cappadocians, would harm whoever they fed from, namely through a hideous plague. When Augustus Giovanni wiped out their parent clan, he also personally handled the destruction of the Lamia - it's believed that the Giovanni fall under this trope as either a curse from the Lamia bloodline or as an unintended result from the diablerie of the bloodline.
In Vampire: The Requiem:
The Noctuku, a Nosferatu bloodline that has the irresistible urge to devour the flesh of their prey. Of course, they can't digest it, which makes their dinners rather... unpleasant. For bonus points, they actually revel in this, and prefer hunting other vampires to anything else.
Then there's the Qedeshah, another bloodline: not only does their bite hurt, but any attempts to Embrace men end in screaming, painful agony.
The Norvegi bloodline, whose inherited flaw is that they lack fangs. That means that they have to use something sharp, and it hurts precisely as much as some bastard slitting your wrist with a knife then latching onto it and trying to suck your blood out does. Which is to say, a lot. On the other hand, their special power, Bloodworking, does mean that they can turn their hands into organic bone-knives which drain your blood when you're stabbed. Still hurts like hell, though.
While they still experience the pleasurable intoxication that most vampire bites cause, victims of the Eupraxus bloodline have a problem when it comes to being fed from - the vampire cannot lick the wound to close it. This often leads to the unfortunate situation of a human haemorrhaging to death while still moaning pleasurably, at least until the intoxication wears off. And because their bitemarks don't heal, being embraced by one of these vampires leads to an eternity of wearing scarves or roll neck jumpers just to cover the holes in your throat.
Dungeons & Dragons vampires don't generally feed like this — why let good blood spill all over? — but Van Richten's Guide to Vampires briefly mentions how long a vampire can offset starvation by tearing up a fresh corpse to get at its blood. Just in case it overestimates the PCs' hardiness and scores a TPK, leaving nobody who's still breathing left for dinner.
The Monster Manuscript was a booklet giving D&D stats and painting instructions from some Grenadier miniatures from the early '80s. One of the listed monsters is a "velanmorg", an elven vampire that messily plays out this trope, ripping victims' throats out and greedily guzzling the fountaining blood. Their claws hold the struggling prey securely as it bleeds out.
Rifts Vampires have a "Killing Bite" that's powerful enough to penetrate armor. Wild Vampires don't bite any other way.
Vampires in the GURPS: Black Ops setting are fairly simple. In daytime, they sleep. At night, they hunt until they find a normal human, then tear it in half to eat the internal organs and slurp up the blood. Then they start hunting again, until sunrise. Then they sleep.
In Tsukihime, assuming the vampire doesn't just eat you, the bite is actually pretty mild. Unfortunately, the vampire will also put a little of its own blood back into you, which is horribly painful and makes you feel "as though you have mud in your veins".
In Fate/stay night, Rider requires blood as a source of mana to maintain her physical form. She doesn't tend to care much about what happens to the victim after being bitten and will drain them completely if she feels like it, as seen in at least one bad end and also referenced to at the beginning of Heavens Feel. Because she's not actually a vampire, she has no fangs, and has to bite with a human set of teeth, which is as fun for the victim as it sounds. Oddly enough, she's actually a good guy when she gets a chance to make her own decisions, though she does still enjoy drinking blood.
Rayne's full body, arm-and-thigh-locking embrace appears to stun her victims with pleasure in BloodRayne. But if the Kiss is ever broken, Mooks can go right back to attacking without a lingering pause.
Kain has shown a preference for hoisting victims into the air with one hand and then gruesomely chowing down on their jugular— with crunching noises— when he isn't telekinetically vacuuming their blood from afar.
In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the feeding bites of your standard-issue vampires are apparently painless. The feeding bite, however, of the eight-foot-tall half-bat Volkihar Vampire Lord? Not so much. However, you can still feed the nice way when you are not wearing the Game Face.
The difference is particularly visible by how you can become a Volkihar Vampire Lord in-game. If you are aligned with the vampire-hunting Dawnguard, you get the gift from Serana, who bites you in human form and does her best to make it as painless as possible (in fact, the scene borders on Ship Tease). If you chose to join the Volkihar Clan, on the other hand? You get the gift from Lord Harkon, who bites you in his One-Winged Angel form. This cause you to fall unconscious, and when you wake up, he casually informs you that you were lucky to survive the transformation.
In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Dracula's feeding methods are pretty cringe-worthy. He'll either bite down hard on a person's jugular before ripping him/her apart in a spray of bloody mist, slit the throat open before chowing down, drain victims until they become withered husks, or rip their hearts out and pop them like grapes to drink the blood. Gabriel feeding off Marie is somewhere between this and Kiss of the Vampire; he tries not to hurt her, and it's completely consensual (if anything she's happier with the idea than he is), but it's still messy.
Touhou's Remilia Scarlet was given the nickname "the Scarlet Devil" due to her extremely messy feeding habits - she requires very little blood, but she spills far more of it than she needs. Often, her clothes end up soaking more blood than she actually drank herself.
The Sims 4 Vampires game pack: Any Sim who offers their wrist for a vampire to drink from will eventually grimace, yell in pain and shove the vampire off. Victims of nonconsensual biting are too stunned to react. Regardless of whether the biting was consensual or not, the drained sim will get an uncomfortable moodlet.
Dwarf Fortress: While the bites themselves are discreet enough to not wake people up or gain much suspicion, the amounts of blood drained in an instant are definitely not pretty. Most creatures will die when bitten by another of equal species and size, and those that survive will be faint for several days and need a lot of rest.
Charby the Vampirate has depicted vampire bites as extremely brutal and violent with increasing attention to making them the most grisly and disturbing element in a comic which has a fairly high amount of gore and violence in it.
In The Order of the Stick, due to its art style humanoids have no visible neck. As a result Malack tries turning Belkar by biting straight into his head. And as a lizardfolk vampire his teeth cover a lot more than the human sort.
James Franzen's Oh Oh Oh Sexy Vampire Web Animation plays with this trope, where the main character quickly passes out from blood loss immediately after her bite, but later wakes up dizzy, but ultimately unharmed.
Dreamscape: Vampire Lord does not SUCK blood, he laps!
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy makes a nod to vampire bats in the episode "Fear And Loathing In Endsville", as Grim learns that Dracula don't suck... blood. He scrapes and licks.
"Naw, see that's a myth. Dracula scrap with his fangs and lick up the blood."
Due to the Media Watchdogs, Spider-Man: The Animated Series couldn't have its adaptation of Morbius the Living Vampire (a biochemist transformed into a vampire-like being through a failed experiment — in this case, being bitten by a vampire bat that drank some of Spider-Man's blood Morbius was irradiating to examine how it was created) drink blood by biting necks, the way the comic version did. So, to get around this, they gave him a set of five sucking, rasping lamprey-like mouth/orifices in each hand. These usually were depicted as leaving bloody holes wherever Morbius had touched a victim to feed — and he tended to feed by clasping both hands onto a human's face. He also drained plasma, not blood. The writers must be fans of the above JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
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