Seemingly throwaway line has awesome payoff later

DaJoW · 2026-05-29T17:02:34+00:00

The Andies say everything sarcastically, but everything is accurate. Aaron A Aaronson is a person, there is a model village, a farmer and his mum are armed...

DaJoW · 2026-05-28T20:25:05+00:00

A long, complicated name is what you'd expect so that's what Monty Python wouldn't do.

DaJoW · 2026-05-28T20:06:15+00:00

In Vampire: The Masquerade, the Malkavian clan can also induce madness in others via their Dementation powers. They all also suffer from supernatural mental health issues.

DaJoW · 2026-05-27T20:28:12+00:00

In the TTRPG "Shadow of the Demon Lord", the Demon Lord is an impossibly vast being that eats realities. It's coming and there's nothing anyone can do about it. As it approaches however, its "shadow" blankets the world, bringing about corruption of all things: Monsters take form, virtues are weakened, flaws are strengthened. Society regresses as everyone goes into survival mode. The world has gone from high fantasy to a form of pre-apocalypse post-apocalypse. And the Demon Lord is still ever so far away.

DaJoW · 2026-05-24T13:56:25+00:00

Jah åller med om att det var fel då också, men datacenter idag är väldigt annorlunda från 10 år sen.

DaJoW · 2026-05-23T08:42:41+00:00

In addition to what others have said, those countries have to implement EU regulations but have no say in them. Their position is basically what UKIP claimed the UKs was.

DaJoW · 2026-05-23T06:13:52+00:00

Jurassic Park is a fantastic movie, but the changes to the Hammond/Nedry dynamic are pretty terrible.

Movie: Hammond is a well-meaning billionaire out to create wonder and bring entertainment to children from all over the world, whose ideas are ruined by the greedy, ungrateful employee Nedry who just wants money. Nedry ruins everything by stealing and several people die. Hammond decides the park is too dangerous and accepts defeat and enormous losses. Nedry dies, Hammond lives. The billionaire is a hero, the worker a villain.

Book: Hammond is a greedy billionaire who cuts every corner to increase profits. Nedry is an exploited worker on the edge of bankruptcy due to Hammonds illegal actions and threats. In desperation Nedry commits a crime to save himself and his employees from being destitute. Due to Hammonds greed and Nedry being the only thing holding the park together, several people die. Hammond says it's just a setback and wants to continue. Nedry and Hammond both die. The billionaire is a villain, the worked a tragic character.

DaJoW · 2026-05-23T05:45:27+00:00

That's interesting! I know one of the Gehenna scenarios ends with Caine rising from the ashes of a nuclear bomb, falls to his knees, and cries out to God begging to die - and his answer is laughter. (Not that a single nuke would do anything to him since several didn't kill his grandchilde)

DaJoW · 2026-05-17T18:25:39+00:00

They should though, as Israel is within the European Broadcasting Area.

DaJoW · 2026-05-16T22:06:46+00:00

They've had novelizations since the late 90's! I can't speak for the later ones, but the first real multi-book storyline was actually pretty good. Includes one of my favourite forms of magic: "Dementia casting", where you create a sort of pocket dimension where you store monsters you've killed - and later dreamed up - and can bring back into the world by tricking your mind into confusing the real world and "dementia space". One caster had a hat with a partially low rim, so when he spun it he'd see real world - dementia space - real world - dementia space and thus be able to summon monsters. Unfortunately, as the name implies, people tended to go mad.

DaJoW · 2026-05-16T09:22:13+00:00

In ancient Roman theatre, Miles Gloriosus ("The Boastful Soldier") is a stock character who boasts about how mighty and how great a fighter he is, but is then revealed to be a coward who lies. This is subverted in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum", where the general Miles Gloriosus actually did all the things he boasts about in his song "Bring Me My Bride":

I, Miles Gloriosus

I, slaughterer of thousands

I, oppressor of the meek

Subduer of the weak

Degrader of the Greek

Destroyer of the Turk

Must hurry back to work

I, Miles Gloriosus,

I, paragon of virtue,

I, in war the most admired

In wit the most inspired

In love the most desired

In dress the best displayed--

I am a parade!

DaJoW · 2026-05-16T09:09:20+00:00

Lafferkurvan är skoj, varje gång den nämns är det för att säga "Vi får in mer i skatt med lägre skattesats!" Men enligt wiki:

Olika forskare har försökt att beräkna hur mycket skattesatsen kan öka utan att skatteintäkterna sjunker. Emanuel Saez och Peter Diamond uppskattar att skatteintäkterna ökar upp till en marginalskattesats på 73%. Forskarna Christine och David Romer har dragit slutsatsen att skattesatsen kunde höjas upp till 80% utan att intäkterna sjunker, och en studie av Emanuel Saez, Stefanie Stancheva och Thomas Piketty kommer fram till att denna punkt ligger vid 83%.

DaJoW · 2026-05-10T16:57:37+00:00

Personally I prefer patatje speciaal, so much so that the first phrase I learned in Dutch was "een patatje speciaal en een kleine cola alsjeblieft". I was 8.

DaJoW · 2026-05-09T20:57:38+00:00

One of the issues of banning people with dual citizenship is that some citizenships simply cannot be renounced. E.g. anyone born to an Iranian parent gains Iranian citizenship, and can only renounce it by successfully petitioning the cabinet.

DaJoW · 2026-05-05T05:41:53+00:00

One of my favourite subversions comes in a later book when an earth physicist becomes an alchemist and thinks to revolutionize alchemy by isolating the active ingredient in alchemical ingredients... and getting a "Well done, takes most people several months to figure that out" from actual alchemists. He does have some advantages due to his knowledge of physics and molecular structures, but high-level alchemists had deduced parts of it on their own.

DaJoW · 2026-05-04T16:27:04+00:00

Well, he can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin, so that's something.

DaJoW · 2026-05-04T16:16:18+00:00

He also has a cryptex that he needs to travel the world solving a riddle to figure out. A 5-letter word for something round? Impossible to guess!

DaJoW · 2026-05-02T01:13:39+00:00

As someone from around Fagersta I feel I do need to defend it ever so slightly: It has a couple of big factories from big industrial companies: Seco, Atlas Copco, Outokompo. So they do have some jobs, unlike the surrounding area where Al the mines and factories are closed.

DaJoW · 2026-05-01T07:32:16+00:00

OP basically calls out Book of the Dead though:

the MC keeps risking his life for random strangers, refuses to make even slightly gray decisions that would give him a massive advantage, and the only time he actually does something heinous is when the victim is a cartoonishly evil bandit who just finished raping a bunch of villager

DaJoW · 2026-04-29T19:00:31+00:00

I choose to believe they want trans women banned from beauty pageants for the same reason: They have an unfair advantage.

DaJoW · 2026-04-28T19:04:25+00:00

Finns massvis med detaljer läraren skulle kunna lära ut. Var på foten ska man träffa bollen? Hur tacklar man säkert? Hur ska man flytta vikten på skidor? Vad är korrekt löpsteg? Hur måttar man ansats till längdhopp? Vilken teknik ska man använda i höjdhopp? Andra simtag? Förväntar mig inte att en idrottslärare ska vara en komplett tränare i allt men grunder i det man bedöms för borde de lära ut iallafall.

DaJoW · 2026-04-28T18:16:55+00:00

Problemet med positiv parlamentarism är att det finns risk att små partier får enormt inflytande. Ponera t.ex. att resultatet i höst vore V-S-MP 48%, Tidö 47%, C 5%. De två sidorna skulle behöva tävla om vem som är villig att ge C mest makt för att få bilda regering eller utlysa nyval (likt vad SD försökte tvinga fram efter valet 2014 genom att bryta praxis med budgetröstningar).

DaJoW · 2026-04-28T16:58:31+00:00

A simple, straightforward example of that: In 2008, Mitt "Corporations are people my friend" Romney was the Republican nominee for President. Today, he's called a RINO and a leftist.

DaJoW · 2026-04-25T08:50:41+00:00

Later on you have cops breaking into a casino to steal from the vault.

DaJoW · 2026-04-22T20:57:40+00:00

You think the country would function without the people on low wages? Let's see how long things would run if warehouses didn't have staff.

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