GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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There was that one time he used diplomacy to... diplomatically reveal that he'd brought a bunch of trigger-happy Klingons to a confrontation with the Romulans. Picard loves diplomacy, but I would not want to face off against him in a shooting war.

Let's all take a look at how well it worked out when America provided support for the Mujahideen in their war against Russia, but then withdrew that support when it was no longer convenient for us.

I love the idea that a product was created to prevent prisoners from smuggling heroin, but then someone said "You know, I bet that would sell great at Sharper Image."

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

—Mitch Ratcliffe

I definitely assume that Palmetto Cheese is just ground-up palmetto bugs.

"I declare myself President for life!"

"So you're saying there's exactly one very particular way for us to make you not be President anymore...?"

"Uh..."

So much delicious potential...

It's almost as if he's a crazy person who is responding to childhood trauma in an arrested development kind of way, punching the bad guys who hurt him as a child, forever, rather than dealing with his trauma in a healthy coherent way, almost as if that's a core aspect of the character without which he wouldn't even be the character he is anymore.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

--Jean-Paul Sartre

Don't get me started on Horizon: Forbidden West. It was a beautiful game. It also had every gameplay problem the first one did, and added several more to boot. The last half of the game was fucking tedious, and I basically finished it out of spite.

You know how people remember how the fecklessness of the Weimar Republic is what allowed Nazism to take over? They'll be remembered like that. And by "they," I kind of collectively mean nearly all of us.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/146338364322

Or if you want to spend a little more for the real deal...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/335806880222

Richard the Treacherous

the proportions are just weird.

I agree with you, but that's also an accurate description of Elon Musk.

Named official envoy to... Romania, so that he can go back and pick right up where he left off, except now he'll have diplomatic immunity.

We're in the era of Sinisterization

I was waiting for it to transition to throwing raw eggs and gasping.

The point of the LAN party was not to be playing games on your computer, the point was to be playing games with your friends, in person. No matter how good your connection, no matter how good your battlestation and headset, it will never compare to the sheer joy of hunching down over your computer while it's set up on a coffee table, a mass of messily-coiled cables around your ankles, a janky mouse-balled mouse in your hand, as you have the ability to turn and call your best friends slurs and share cold pizza, secure in the knowledge that you're going to go to sleep on a scratchy couch, wake up around noon tomorrow, and start the whole process all over again.

It's not the tech, it's the meatspace community that made it special.

I swear I saw a chart where a DM could roll to choose from a list of heartbreaking things to find in a dead NPC"s pockets. Stuff like the letter from OP, a small stuffed animal, a certificate showing that the NPC was a noteworthy donor to the local orphanage, that sort of thing. Baldur's Gate 3 is absolutely riddled with these things.

Middle... out...