TheDrink [he/him]

alright I’m listening to them for the first time right now and they’re pretty dope

I do appreciate some wire. solder it to a pcb, run some current through it, boom you’re an electronics engineer.

Trump: “If I see you peeling the bandage off slowly, I’m gonna rip it off real fast!”

Shout out to Magic Missile. All these fancy chromatic orb and burning hands users running around don’t understand the utility of a guaranteed hit and damage.

Jon Snow’s twin sister being Meera Reed. Pretty much only a theory because they’re the same age and both have black hair, and cuz Howland is so mysterious I guess.

Come to think of it ASOIAF has a lot of “secret Targaryen” theories and they all suck. It’s fine if there’s one, it’s fine if their extended family has a lot of bloodlines connected to it, but there are not a zillion potential azor ahais running around just waiting to be discovered.

I don’t remember the specifics, but that much is plausible - George himself said that ANH was only 40% in line with what he originally had in mind.

it clearly reused ideas that George Lucas had

My favorite example of this specifically is that an early treatment of ANH had a scene with Luke and co racing in Beggar’s Canyon, which was cut early in production and never filmed. But George really likes racing and he got to make the scene he always wanted to be there in TPM.

The original Beggar’s Canyon scene survives in the BBC Radio Play version of Star Wars!

karma

I wish Karma were real. If it were anyone who was positioned to become as rich and powerful as any one of the Waltons would be smote to ash long before they reach that point.

on the one hand, stealing from wal mart

On the other hand, wanting a 65" TV

so ehhh esh i gess

more like forty years too late

Lots of people will tell you that the whole prequel trilogy was preplanned despite all of the evidence in the films and the making of docs that they were made up on the spot and the scripts never even got a second draft.

The traditional conception is that ghosts aren’t really sentient creatures, but a phenomenon that souls can get stuck in instead of going to the afterlife. There’s symbolism there - a ghost is an echo of a person, much like memories of them or the effects they had on the world. There’s also a bit of Christian moralizing - a “good” person doesn’t stick around because they are eager to join God in heaven, while a “bad” person clings to their earthly life and possessions even if they are only capably of doing so in a greatly diminished state.

The modern conception of a ghost where it’s a fully realized person who can just kinda go through walls is an anthropomorphized and secular version of the ghosts that were invented by the Victorians.

Yes, Australian censorship is done through refusing classification, which makes the material illegal to import or sell. But frankly its been a joke for as long as the internet has existed.

This is actually an old internet half-truth. The Australian ratings board’s rules refuses classification to porn where the actress “appears” underage, regardless of her actual age, which could potentially possibly lead to porn from small-breasted actresses being refused - but AFAIK that’s never actually happened.

tfw you’re not talented enough to get poached by a Chinese firm

Replaying Baldur’s Gate 3, this game is so good but the surprise/ambush mechanics are super wack and janky to use. Unironically it would hugely benefit from a patch to update it to the 2024 surprise rules where instead of getting a full free turn, you just get advantage on your initiative roll. it also needs some tweaking on how getting in and out of combat functions - I should not be trying to click my abilities faster than the NPC takes their turn like I’m in a real time game!

The only thing I know about The Boys is that, as it went on, the writers didn’t like chuds latching onto Homelander in a “Tyler Durden” kind of way, so the longer the series goes the more overt and explicit the politics get until I think Season 4 where they finally reached the point at which chuds realized they were the ones being made fun of.

My dog’s happy about the situation at least. I had a full bag of dog food in my car cuz she was out, but obviously I didn’t haul that with me when I hitchiked home yesterday. So until that food makes it home she’s living high on the super expensive super premium food I’ve got instead.

Finally got a tow for my car, bad news is the mechanic won’t be in until after I’ve already missed class on Monday. Hopefully I can schedule a rideshare for then, cuz I aint getting any luck today and I gotta be there in person to do a presentation.

Israel’s invasion of Lebanon started on Oct 1, I’d say that counts. It contributed to the overall sense that people had that the Democrats were asleep at the wheel and the world was getting worse under them.

Japan and South Korea are on another level of monopolization and consolidation. Sony has been making these moves for a while and seems set to position itself as the corporate overlord for nearly all of Japan.