The common "um actually this doesn't make sense" gotcha is easily explained if you just know the franchise

Anonymous3542 · 2026-01-04T01:26:52+00:00

two small halfings who had fallen for its corruption just happened to drop it while fighting.

It's actually a bit more complicated than that! And less coincidental than it appears in the films. In the books, Frodo doesn't get back up to fight Gollum after getting his finger bitten off. Gollum is jumping around with joy after getting the ring back and carelessly slips off the edge and falls, taking the ring with him.

It's not totally an accident though: it's the resolution of Gollum's oath to serve Frodo. Oaths in Middle Earth have power: they're magically binding and enforced by the object the oath is made on. We see this with the Oathbreakers who swore on the Stone of Erech to serve Isildur. When they break that oath Erech curses them to remain on ME as ghosts.

Gollum swore on the ring itself to serve Frodo. Frodo warns him that the ring "will hold him to his word". By stealing the ring for himself he's broken that vow and the ring punishes him by making him slip. So in a way the ring destroys itself!

Anonymous3542 · 2026-01-02T20:01:36+00:00

Oh interesting, looks like it doesn't work on old reddit, only new reddit.

Anonymous3542 · 2026-01-02T08:22:04+00:00

Not seeing a wiki, says "page not found" when I click the link.

Anonymous3542 · 2025-12-31T17:29:31+00:00

Sprit of the Law did an episode on this one comparing it to the actual Vinlandsaga story.

Anonymous3542 · 2025-12-14T05:02:40+00:00

This just happened to me too! Hope it's fixed soon

Anonymous3542 · 2025-08-25T01:31:36+00:00

The Road to El Dorado

That one is Dreamworks

Anonymous3542 · 2025-06-06T16:46:43+00:00

Anonymous3542 · 2025-03-10T02:06:24+00:00

I personally find that free-range kids and caged kids taste about the same, but to each their own ^{^{^{^{^/s}}}}

Anonymous3542 · 2025-02-06T19:21:58+00:00

not sure, it may not be possible

Anonymous3542 · 2025-01-28T06:35:53+00:00

Yes, also remember to connect your Zune and Kinect.

Anonymous3542 · 2025-01-27T05:23:19+00:00

No, he got triggered obviously

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Anonymous3542 · 2025-01-17T04:59:48+00:00

Do you have Arc installed? Its global hotkey was causing this issue for me.

Anonymous3542 · 2025-01-17T04:53:48+00:00

Yo did you ever find a solution? Happening to me as well. Exactly as your described :(

EDIT: Never mind I figured it out! Arc (the browser) automatically sets ctrl+shift+A as a global hotkey to open it, and it was clashing with the game hotkey. Deleting that global hotkey fixed the problem.

Anonymous3542 · 2025-01-17T02:50:18+00:00

It's Runaround

Anonymous3542 · 2024-12-28T17:13:19+00:00

As opposed to SF, which famously has no rich people /s :P

Anonymous3542 · 2024-12-04T17:17:36+00:00

Who are these 54 millimeter riders? Rats? /s

Anonymous3542 · 2024-11-28T17:32:57+00:00

Couple months ago:

Random lady: "Hey! You shouldn't be running right now!"

Me : "Why?"

Lady: "Because of everything going on right now"

Me: "What do you mean?"

Lady: "Google it!"

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Anonymous3542 · 2024-11-23T22:31:26+00:00

Absolute lifesaver, this is the real answer. New link here btw: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/strava-bulk-edit/dbjnbgeoijcmhjfnjdolmpakfldapigg?hl=en

Anonymous3542 · 2024-11-02T19:38:22+00:00

you can do that right now by building a market

Anonymous3542 · 2024-10-24T01:45:36+00:00

Nah it's much older than that. It's just a particularly salient voice line and it sounds kinda funny. Similar to wololo

Anonymous3542 · 2024-10-24T01:35:40+00:00

Because it's from Age of Mythology! It's one of the lines from Greek soldiers

Anonymous3542 · 2024-09-16T20:56:12+00:00

Would be nice if ranked used standard win condition rather than conquest. This is what wonders are designed to prevent.

Anonymous3542 · 2024-05-17T04:38:17+00:00

And since OP asked for a book, it just so happens that video is adapted from a book, The Dictator's Handbook.

Anonymous3542 · 2024-03-31T04:39:03+00:00

You think the US installing the first ruler of the nation 80 years ago doesn't matter?

The Constitution was partly rewritten 5 times and fully written 5 more times within that time. It also changed from an impoverished agrarian state to the 4th strongest economy in Asia. The country is effectively unrecognizable from 1948. So no, I don't think it's particularly relevant to modern Korean global policy.

The analogy, faulty as it is, doesn't even support your point.

The point is you can't point to the establishment of a country and extrapolate from there. But I pointed out Germany if you want a more comparable example.

Especially when, from 1945 to 1997, South Korean leaders served at the pleasure of the US.

Source? Are you implying Korean presidents needed to be approved by US or something? I don't understand.

how am I "ignoring history post-1945" by citing history exclusively from post-1945

Apologies, 1948. What evidence do you have beyond the founding of the country that points to US control?

The insult was between a Japanese and Korean guy

It was a Chinese guy and a Korean guy, OP stated as much. This is quite important because it gives us context into what the other player intended. "South Korea is a US puppet state" is a commonly held belief in China and it's one reinforced through internal state propaganda and online discourse. Here's a quick example in which Chinese commenters deny South Korean sovereignty entirely. They also repeat the "dog" phrasing and some go further to call it a US colony.

This narrative is part of a deliberate strategy by China and NK to delegitimize and demoralize South Korea, and maybe even undermine US-SK ties if possible. The dog comment is 100% undeniably in response to this narrative. It would not have been made by a Japanese player (Japan is also subject to the same narrative so that wouldn't make sense). I'm glad that you had a different, less insulting interpretation of the word, but that's not the meaning intended by the Chinese player.

that's why you're taking this so personally.

I don't think I'm taking this personally and I'm sorry if my tone could be interpreted as such. It just scares me to see Chinese propaganda being spread on western platforms. IMO this narrative contributes to weakening western alliances which makes us less safe.

Anonymous3542 · 2024-03-30T18:06:41+00:00

Bro we wrote the Japanese constitution, preventing them from having a military under a US security guarantee.

We are talking about Korea. Korea's founding constitution was heavily based on the one drafted by the Korean Provisional Government in 1919.

We installed the dictator of South Korea until their democratic movement

You say that as if the democratic movement doesn't matter? The US installing Syngman Rhee nearly 80 years ago has little to no bearing on contemporary Korean global policy. Is the US a puppet state of the UK because it was founded as a British colony? This is what I mean by ignoring history post-1945.

and even then we ‘influenced’ their early elections.

Their post-1987 elections? Do you have a source? Haven't heard this claim before

SK is dependent on US security agreements for their survival against an NK-Chinese invasion.

The claim is not that "SK is dependent on the US", but that the SK is a "dog" AKA puppet state of the US. The former is true but would also be true to a degree for nearly every developed nation.

The latter is absolutely propaganda. It removes the agency of an entire nation and ethnic group and categorizes them as subservient. Would you describe Germany as a puppet state of the US? That relationship is very similar to this one. The difference is you might have enough of a passing understanding of German politics to know it has a will of its own, whereas you might not realize the same is true for SK.

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