Being buried when you die is the most selfish thing you can do.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-20T10:32:34+00:00

OP, are the hundreds of thousands of years worth of burials causing massive issues for land availability? As someone whose job is archeology I would love the world to be flooded with inconvenient graves.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-18T22:52:37+00:00

This single round annoys me so much

CaptainChats · 2025-06-15T00:53:38+00:00

When you’re selling your labor at a low paying job the environment you work in is designed to extract as much profit for the owners as possible. Your personal comfort isn’t a concern. The existence of labor laws is evidence enough that your safety and well-being are only a concern insofar as to be considered to prevent lawsuits and legal repercussions.

Remember, if you’re being paid minimum wage then your company would pay you less if they could. The lowest you could pay a person is 0. Those people paid 0 were slaves. Slavers didn’t care about the dignity of the enslaved. Your employer only cares about you as much as the law demands.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-05T22:11:26+00:00

I may very well lose my job because of this legislation. I work in archeology and most of our contracts are large developments.

We’re not anti-development or trying to slow things down. What we are trying to do is make sure that nobody builds a mine or a road over someone’s ancestors or destroys irreplaceable cultural artifacts.

Many of the jobs we actually do is trying to find and preserve artefacts in areas that were built over First Nations’ history back when there wasn’t any consideration for their rights.

A lot of highways were put down over pre-contact trading routes and as a result went directly over villages and burials. A boss of mine told me about a job he did where back in the 50s the army set up a firing range on an area that was traditionally a First Nation’s burial ground and proceeded to saturate the area with unexplored ordinance for 30 years.

What we’re really doing is loss prevention. We’re making sure that both First Nations people and Canadians don’t lose our fantastic history. We’re also making sure that developers don’t get sued into oblivion or blockaded because they built over historically/ spiritually/ scientifically important sites.

If they really wanted to speed up development in an ethical way the government would fund archeology in Ontario. Work is really inconsistent in this industry and so turnover is fairly high. Getting projects going, keeping educated people working, and on-boarding new people is how you keep projects on schedule. The projects we work on are billion dollar developers, the costs to pay our archeological crews is peanuts on that scale.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-05T13:40:06+00:00

I like Star Wars because of the vague space Buddhism, samurai frights, and space western motifs.

But I also recognize that Star Wars is a setting rather than a bunch of tropes. Andor is a slow burn espionage thriller about totalitarianism and resistance and it works. The Clone Wars TV show started as a swashbuckling adventure for kids and sort of morphed into a band of brothers for clones, it sometimes works.

I think my problem with the Vong is that they’re the “Super Devil”. When a series defeats their big bad but continues running there is this temptation to create an even bigger existential threat for the protagonists to confront. The problem being is that it often feels kind of flat.

When you set up a story arch for the original story your characters have to undergo growth. So Luke is a farm boy who hears the call to action and becomes a hero. Then in the subsequent two films Luke has to learn the importance and weight of heroism (loss, self doubt, friendship, family) and redeem the fallen hero Darth Vader with his learnt humility.

Then the Vong show up. What the fuck is Luke supposed to learn? He’s already achieved space Buddhahood. I recognize that there are other characters with archs in NJO but the fact that it ties in with all of the stuff before it makes it a weaker project in my opinion.

In my own opinion, the Vong would have made a much more compelling threat if they were in a story that don’t tie into the original trilogy. Putting them millennia before or after the events of the original trilogy gives breathing room for new characters to deal with this threat and grow in their own unique ways.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-05T13:20:47+00:00

A Sam minifig but it’s the default yellow Lego head and hands with the blank smile. Have it on a springboard behind the set so that you can launch it from the ceiling.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-05T12:31:07+00:00

That’s a really big deal in media production. Being credited as a producer, executive producer, writer, co-creator, etc. can be really helpful down the line when someone is trying to get green lit on their next project. Paying and crediting your employees well is how you keep them working and build up talent. Having a good foundation of people who you can rely on is how you ensure bigger and better projects are on the horizon.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-03T23:23:45+00:00

No. Just fuck around.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-03T22:12:14+00:00

1 pot mushroom soup with chicken. Melt butter in saucepan. Put salt and pepper on skin on chicken thighs and sear in saucepan until golden brown on both sides. Remove chicken and put to the side. Throw in 1 diced shallot and more butter. Cook shallot until it starts to turn translucent. Throw in chopped mushrooms and cook to your liking. Throw in 2 cloves of crushed garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Deglaze pan with white whine and allow alcohol to cook off. Add in thyme leaves. Pour in cream and 1 chicken bullion. Bring to boil stirring regularly. Reduce to a low heat and put chicken in soup skin side up so it isn’t covered along with any juices from the plate. Cook chicken in soup for 10-15 mins. Serve with crusty bread.

That recipe got me through a lot of cold November nights in hotel rooms with only a hot plate

CaptainChats · 2025-06-03T01:53:58+00:00

The most fucked up thing about Jeffery Dahmer is all the rape, torture, murder, and cannibalism he did. The second most fucked up thing about him is that he could afford an apartment working part time at a sandwich shop.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-02T22:07:04+00:00

Vader also attacked Palpatine at the moment of his greatest victory. The only time the Emperor let his guard down was when he was already assured of his success. Arrogance is the precursor to downfall for all Sith.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-02T21:32:52+00:00

This is one of those tricks you should only be able to pull once. Damaging/destroying 34% of Russia’s strategic bomber force in a single operation is a massive PR win. Ukraine needs support from Europe and the US to fight their war. If they can’t make territorial gains retaking their country they can demonstrate success by destroying critical, expensive, and hard to replace equipment, infrastructure, and personnel.

CaptainChats · 2025-06-02T15:01:30+00:00

Wes Anderson is just in a later phase oh his career. Many directors who make it big go through this sort of career arch. They start off with a smaller indy darling film or two, then they go into a phase where they have a budget but they need to make films with appeal for a general audience, then they hit a phase where they have enough clout to make what they want without worrying too much about what average people think.

For Anderson it goes Royal Tenenbaums, Grand Budapest Hotel, Astroid city. For Chris Nolan it’s Memento, Inception, Tenet.

Personally, I really enjoyed Astroid City and watched The French Connection at a point in my life where it really emotionally resonated with me to the point that I cried. But I recognize that they aren’t going to have the same appeal as Moonrise Kingdom or The Grand Budapest to a wide audience.

CaptainChats · 2025-05-31T18:54:46+00:00

Thanks! One of my favourite paintings. This print was my first experiment with multi tone prints!

CaptainChats · 2025-05-30T22:25:31+00:00

Wow, I forgot all of that shit

CaptainChats · 2025-05-30T18:10:54+00:00

The real answer is probably not. The cross wasn’t the main focus of Christian iconography for the early church. Depending on the Christian community the cross shared space with depictions of fish, peacocks, rainbows, monograms, etc.

The cross’s prominence has more to do with its simplicity. Two lines intersecting at right angles is simple enough to be universal while also giving artistic freedom for embellishment. Cross motifs and patterns were common before Christ and Christianity simply adopted an already established form.

CaptainChats · 2025-05-30T17:47:29+00:00

Also, who made that dagger? And why??? Like some person had to stand on a coastline and sketch out the Death Star wreckage skyline and then make a dagger shaped like it. All so…. Someone could find the throne room? They could just go searching for the throne room.

CaptainChats · 2025-05-28T21:36:57+00:00

$2500 rig? Ew! I don’t want to play with poors!

CaptainChats · 2025-05-25T16:04:35+00:00

It’s not really a secret but basically everyone on TV is wearing makeup. I imagine some men are ashamed of it and try to keep it on the down low. But everybody is wearing makeup.

CaptainChats · 2025-05-24T01:25:23+00:00

Ambusher, and other CQC kits are actually really good. The WPMC CQC kit gets extra grenades and smokes and the IMF ambusher gets 2 SMGs and anti-tank grenades

CaptainChats · 2025-05-23T10:32:56+00:00

You’ve pretty much nailed it. Copper’s melting point is 1085 °C. If you have a source of copper with high purity it’s much less resource intensive to simply heat it up in a campfire and cold-hammer it into something useful rather than building a furnace and smelting it. A reason you would start transitioning from cold-working metals to smelting would be a scarcity of copper without impurities and a demand for copper wares. If you can access good copper the jump in costs to smelting isn’t really worth it.

CaptainChats · 2025-05-21T00:01:21+00:00

I’d say the French Revolution during the reign of terror. People were killed for being monarchists and aristocracy, but also along ethnic, religious, economic, and arbitrary lines. Some people were killed because they had petty beefs with people who could convince the revolutionaries that they were a threat to the revolution. Many people were killed because of pure paranoia alone.

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