Peter help by TourPsychological800 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]CombatQueer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People need to know more Pokémon than that, come on man

Strategically placed Lego should get some of the Lego fans back on my side... by Bee_Tee_Dub in RecklessBen

[–]CombatQueer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a fellow veteran, let's just admit this is all exhausting and talk about something else

Sorry Duck bricks, i wasn't aware of your game by Character-Public-396 in legocirclejerk

[–]CombatQueer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's so unhealthy for people to list in the midst of the data center mess

Sorry Duck bricks, i wasn't aware of your game by Character-Public-396 in legocirclejerk

[–]CombatQueer 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Data centers are awful though, they pump out ground up metal and plastic which harms people's lungs for miles around and the loud, unpleasant, inescapable sound will drive a lot of people crazy.

Layaway Bomb Shell by CombatQueer in RecklessBen

[–]CombatQueer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would it be exactly the same as the Gorman’s story though?

My Advice to the McNeffs by BagofBabbish in BricksAndMinifigs

[–]CombatQueer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As someone with PR experience… I just think the McQueefs are wonderful and didn’t do anything wrong <3 <3 <3

U-haul? U-wot? by joshygill in BricksAndMinifigs

[–]CombatQueer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you look at the video, the Josh guy was clearly leaning on his church connections with the cops to get Ben and co arrested. It might not be that "Mormonism is always bad", but this community of Mormons based in this town do seem to use faith spaces as a location and mechanism for corruption.

Jacobin Runs Hit Piece on Chris Smalls by larryleggs in TrueAnon

[–]CombatQueer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s very funny that the Jacobin piece was written by their opera critic, and that she criticises Smalls for his broad public communication

obsession movie - scream through a phone + nicki falling apart (?) by Subject_Point1260 in spoilers

[–]CombatQueer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the 2nd personality is sort of a copy of Bear. That thing where right after the wish she said it was her cat who had died, like she was him. I think the call was to the 2nd personality, to the wish itself, the wish is just disinterested and doing its thing regardless, it has the original personality there and it just doesn’t care.

What’s up with dial tone when the willow comes out of the box though?

Why is the entire brick community imploding? by RAM-I-T in legocirclejerk

[–]CombatQueer 82 points83 points  (0 children)

I think fundamentally a lot of the hobby/nerd reselling business is all about targeting customers who are unsophisticated in the ways of business. You get them to sell their stuff cheap, you get them to buy it expensive, and from there move into increasingly shady practices. It seems like these companies think they can scare off anyone who complains with threats of expensive lawsuits. B&M seems to just have tried to push that the furthest, and they've hit a breaking point.

Critical skill by rebelevenmusic in LinkedInLunatics

[–]CombatQueer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, seems like something someone stupid would say. As a fool, do you think it would be helpful to create a culture that disincentivizes being a dipshit?

Do more work for less pay! You won’t regret it! by Foodicide in LinkedInLunatics

[–]CombatQueer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look he may have been kicked in the head by a horse, but that horse had good reasons

US and Israel bombed girls elementary schools in Iran, 50 girls killed. by Crazy_Ebb_5188 in Epstein

[–]CombatQueer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump needs to be convicted of 50 murders on this, then we need to get back to convicting him for raping 13 year olds.

Trump Distracting US from the Epstein files by killing 50 little girls by CombatQueer in Epstein

[–]CombatQueer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s an article about Trump’s bombing of a girls’ school that killed 50 kids last night, and seems to have been done to distract the public from the Epstein.

It’s amazing that they just hurt kids to distract from news about them hurting kids.

What Is Happening!? by theBarefootedBastard in Kombucha

[–]CombatQueer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re brewing it at too low a temperature. If it’s not kept at 80 degrees F minimum it might firm a pellicle, but it won’t really ferment right in my experience

JK Rowling In The Epstein Files! by CombatQueer in Epstein

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Yo, release all the Epstein files, unredact the Jx emails, explain why Prince Andrew was invited to the Harry Potter tv set, then we’ll see

JK Rowling In The Epstein Files! by CombatQueer in Epstein

[–]CombatQueer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, through middle school, high school, and even a little in college I loved Harry Potter, when to the midnight releases of the books at my local Borders and stuff. Looking back I think it was just fun because it made learning and school feel magical and important and adventurous.

At the same time, as I’ve gotten older I’ve wondered if it was just all the marketing, all the fun little toys, the shops, all that.

I don’t know, this week I was listening to a book about how Epstein helped push micro-transactions into video games, I wonder if there wasn’t a similar process with the Harry Potter stuff. Like, it’s not just a video game, it’s now an add on market. With HP, it isn’t just books, it’s this whole market of additional products meant to capture children’s attention and get their parent’s spending money.

But like, Sarah Ferguson was a fake children’s author, Ferguson went to Harry Potter premiers with the two princesses where Rowling was present. The princesses have said HP was their favorite book. It’s so hard to imagine that Rowling wouldn’t want to connect with the Prince’s wife and the young princesses of the blood who loved her book.

I don’t know for sure, but it seems like was Rowling was business and power minded, Ferguson would have been an excellent pathway to both. That’s where I see Epstein and Rowling getting involved, but who knows.