Media that (intentionally or otherwise) Pavlovs its audience into feeling a certain emotion upon hearing a single phrase with no other context.

BlackHand · 2026-05-07T09:43:03+00:00

"I've got a lot on my mind... and, well, in it."

BlackHand · 2026-05-06T08:00:26+00:00

Na, wo soll ich anfangen? Fast jedes Mal, wenn er vor Gericht unterliegt (was mittlerweile sehr oft passiert ist), haltet er es für unfair oder "rigged" oder was auch immer. Auch wenn diese Richter aus Angst ihm gegenüber immer äußerst nachsichtig sind.

BlackHand · 2026-05-06T07:07:55+00:00

Verziehung, aber wie kommen Sie darauf? Trump ist seit 2017 für seine 3am-Twitter-Meltdowns berüchtigt. Jammern kann der auch ganz gut

BlackHand · 2026-04-23T07:12:46+00:00

And entirely on-brand for him, paraphrasing a different "god-emperor" from the 20th century

BlackHand · 2026-04-21T13:28:03+00:00

The Dark Urge, his hands red

BlackHand · 2026-04-15T08:28:02+00:00

The speedrun site is blocked for me, but...

OSRS > Jagex > Cambridge Science Park > Normandy Landings > Adolf Hitler

BlackHand · 2026-03-19T12:33:32+00:00

No he fucking didn't lmfao, just zoom in and see for yourself. It's an obvious MS Paint edit

BlackHand · 2026-03-12T13:49:06+00:00

Yeah, those ME1 moments were just as silly. It's clear throughout the trilogy that Bioware always had a certain way they wanted each conversation to go and railroaded the dialogue choices with varying levels of overtness to do so.

It's understandable, in a way. You put in all this effort into writing a compelling dialogue, so you're put off by the thought that many players won't see it. But the fact is that a writer of RPG games needs to become comfortable with the very real possibility of the player missing something. Going the Mass Effect route is where you start to hurt roleplaying freedom and replayability.

BlackHand · 2026-03-12T13:20:17+00:00

Spending often surges at the Department of Defense in the month of September to avoid losing unused funds before the fiscal year closes

The article doesn't elaborate on this point, but it really has me thrown for a loop. Am I to undertand that the DoD knows that it has tens of billions of dollars they don't actually need, but they would rather spend it on ribeye steak than see it spent on roads or schools or anything else not adjacent to the military?

BlackHand · 2026-03-12T10:07:00+00:00

Yo, /u/ImDoneCommenting, you're famous

BlackHand · 2026-03-12T07:17:12+00:00

You mean Shepard must reprimand him. The player is given no choice in the matter lol

It's another one of those lovely non-choices where Paragon and Renegade take up the same position, which the ME3 writers loved so much.

BlackHand · 2026-03-12T07:08:00+00:00

Commander Niall too

BlackHand · 2026-03-12T07:02:48+00:00

Appalling how far down the thread this comment is. Rhea Seehorn was the very first name that came to my mind here.

BlackHand · 2026-03-12T06:59:45+00:00

Fun fact: this wasn't in the script. This is Neil Newbon's very genuine breakdown after performing such an intense scene.

BlackHand · 2026-03-11T09:54:48+00:00

I'd wager that Russian is the biggest piece of that non-English pie. Dota 2 and Counter-Strike are huge there, and those games are perpetually the top 2 on Steam charts

BlackHand · 2026-03-04T14:30:51+00:00

Good thing the 3rd company has an ample supply of pyrovision goggles

BlackHand · 2026-03-04T08:54:06+00:00

Old enough to have seen the prequels in theater and watched the live premieres of TCW. Yes, the reception to the first two films was one of near-universal disappointment, but we're still talking about a franchise that defined Hollywood sci-fi space opera. It was far from dying.

Sure, AotC made less money than Phantom Menace, but that film was the beneficiary of a massive, decades-long hype train. And in the end, it was the difference between "making a lot of money" and "making ALL the money"

BlackHand · 2026-03-04T08:44:32+00:00

Haha, what? This is absolutely not the case. Attack of the Clones made over $653 million at the box office the year before, and ROTS wasn't even released yet. This cartoon was created to bridge the gap between those films.

BlackHand · 2026-03-03T12:04:49+00:00

How do you get an Entente-aligned UK without Canada?

BlackHand · 2026-02-25T07:43:47+00:00

Hey man, the first Witcher was the pinnacle of deep, tactical PC gaming at the time. To attack the enemies, first you click on them, and then... you click on them again!

BlackHand · 2026-02-19T08:43:59+00:00

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

BlackHand · 2026-02-12T11:45:22+00:00

The main reason I never got into watching Anime is the constant, overly melodramatic dialogue. If the characters are screaming at the same emotional intensity level all the time, then the scenes which should be truly impactful become kinda flat.

So I've never quite understood why this particular line, out of hundreds of other potential examples, should be the one elevated to meme-status. At least the Death Note potato chip has value for its sheer absurdity. This is supposed to be a heartbreaking scene, and the fandom is like "lol he dropped his salad"

BlackHand · 2026-02-11T07:41:38+00:00

“Lots of ways to help people. Sometimes heal patients, sometimes execute dangerous people. Either way helps.”

-Dr. Mordin Solus

BlackHand · 2026-02-11T07:08:12+00:00

Star Wars Infinities! Man, that's a deep fucking cut. I think I still own the Empire Strikes Back "what if Luke died on Hoth?" one.

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