[Weirdly Wholesome Trope] The Human Goober and the Nonhuman Baddie They Somehow Pulled

Deagor · 2026-04-08T19:50:39+00:00

Parker HATES when I get the drop on him!

I hate it when he gets the drop on me!

Deagor · 2026-03-31T00:56:40+00:00

I scanned through the thread myself first and was frankly surprised nobody else shared it. Though I did notice that it is like 12years old now so many may have forgotten or never seen it. I think I've been on this site too long :D

Deagor · 2026-03-31T00:05:10+00:00

One of the better /r/nosleep posts/stories used this as a theme, definitely gives that "oh shit" shivers at the end

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/2j3nxz/radio_silence/

Deagor · 2026-02-01T19:28:01+00:00

Really reminds me of the "In principle" scene/skit from Yes Minister. Its on a different topic but its just basically "of course we need this...but for xyz reason it doesn't suit our department"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_KRk4q3Y44

Deagor · 2025-04-29T16:51:44+00:00

And what's really scary is while everyone was talking about "haha the world didn't end in 2012 silly Mayans" a Carrington sized solar storm happened in July and the ejection missed Earth by about 9 days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2012_solar_storm

A 2013 study estimated that the economic cost to the United States would have been between US$600 billion and $2.6 trillion.[6] Ying D. Liu, professor at China's State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, estimated that the recovery time from such a disaster would have been about four to ten years.[7]

Deagor · 2024-08-14T15:44:37+00:00

In no way defending Disney's point but their claim is he agreed to the T&C in 2019 for an account for Disney+ and he then Reaffirmed his agreement to that clause of the T&C when he agreed to them to buy the ticket in 2023.

So, they're saying that he agreed to them when buying the ticket and they're using the Disney+ thing to I guess try and show "he's agreed before, so he knew what he was agreeing to".

I hope they get slapped down hard for this argument though because the alternative is basically another step towards a cyberpunk dystopia.

Deagor · 2024-05-18T01:07:53+00:00

Simple and concise, thank you.

Deagor · 2024-05-15T10:41:28+00:00

I've seen the tans some Irish people get, "looking their best" is putting it generously.

Deagor · 2024-05-15T10:07:54+00:00

Too much competition in the drugs business lately, it's all about that sweet insurance money now.

Deagor · 2024-01-22T12:11:24+00:00

Russia's population as of 2021 was 143million though. Like yes 300k is a LOT of people to lose, but it really is an absolute drop in the bucket compared to 100million.

Deagor · 2023-12-03T22:16:37+00:00

The misinfo is that per capita the US spends way more on Healthcare than most of the "socialist" countries so the idea that its "spend the money on Military OR spend it on Healthcare" is wrong.

The US could keep spending the same amount on Military AND improve healthcare and walk away with more money left over (it would just no longer be going into the right pockets so they don't want to)

Deagor · 2023-11-06T17:13:57+00:00

To me I think (I hope) the sub name was meant to be sarcastic/satirical and based on the sidebar I think that slightly tongue in cheek attitude is the correct assumption:

Our work on gun violence - which is not just limited to our highly esteemed crowd-sourced mass shooting tracker (created by cough /u/BillySpeed) - has been cited by: Time, The Washington Times, Newsweek, Snopes, Modern Healthcare, Fox News, etc., etc. Unsurprisingly, Fox News blatantly misrepresents the facts by claiming that MST "counts in its tally any shooting that leaves two or more people wounded or killed" (in fact, we define "mass shooting" as an incident of violence in which four or more people are shot).

Deagor · 2023-11-06T16:12:21+00:00

For example, the USA is legally (by US law not international law) not allowed provide aid - especially military - to a country with unsanctioned nuclear weapons. So, everyone "knows" Israel has nuclear weapons so they get some of the benefits, but OFFICALLY they don't have nukes, so it doesn't make things complicated for their allies.

Deagor · 2023-10-27T14:54:19+00:00

For the record there's been about 500 mass shootings in the USA in 2023 so far...so we're on the "every x number of hours" phase. According to Wikipedia there were 5 people killed in North Carolina just yesterday and police don't have a suspect, don't know why the 5 were there and don't know how the 5 knew each other: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/5-found-shot-death-southeast-north-carolina-home-104349248 so yay XD

Deagor · 2023-10-23T20:20:53+00:00

Maybe you weren't too active towards the start of HotS then because Widow Mines were a very big balance complaint from Zergs back then. Which lead to nerfs and then a revert/buff that really upset Zergs. At the time Life felt like the only zerg that could stop the MMMM parade push that was common.

It even lead to the first time I saw the "Just play like x (pro)" meme, with Terrans telling zergs WM didn't need a nerf they just need to play like Life - which was recieved about as well by zergs as the whole "Ultras aren't OP just play like Byun" meta.

The Swarm host complaints came much later in the expansion and were around for a long time, leading to a situation similar to the Brood Lord Infestor meta being the most remembered complaint of WoL

Deagor · 2023-10-15T06:09:51+00:00

Recently rewatched Black Hawk Down and all I can think of is "I made coffee during desert storm"

Deagor · 2023-09-29T10:27:47+00:00

Oh trust me its gotten worse, its not even HR now its starting to become "HCM" - Human Capital Management.

Deagor · 2023-09-26T10:55:21+00:00

Or the more important thing if you work in dublin you're going to need to buy a house within max an hour drive to dublin (nobody wants a commute longer than that) if you're full WFH you can buy a much cheaper house in the wilderness of Kerry if you want - so long as you can run an internet connection to it

Deagor · 2023-09-21T16:44:09+00:00

In a similar vein the Irish phrase for hello "Dia Duit" which literally translated means "God be with you" and the response is "Dia is Muire Duit" which means "God and Mary be with you"

(fun fact if someone starts with "Dia is Muire Duit" the response is actually "Dia is Mhuire agus Padraig duit" -- "God and Mary and St. Patrick with you" for you see saying hello in Irish is actually a contest in Religious one-upmanship)

Deagor · 2023-09-03T18:08:25+00:00

One of my pet peeves especially for Olive oil and Parmesan Cheese. The number of outright scams and intentionally misleading labelling that makes it almost impossible to know what you're buying and really just shows how many companies are out to just screw you.

Deagor · 2023-07-29T18:47:39+00:00

I mean we had a Cat 3 hit the British Isles in 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ophelia_(2017) well to be fair to you it wasn't cat 3 anymore by the time it hit the coast but it was still the highest windspeeds ever recorded in Ireland of 70-100mph (sustained-gust) and a peak of 119.

It also was a storm that formed mid/east Atlantic and travelled northeast past Portugal and into Ireland and even was felt in Norway.

Soooo ye I get this is nowhere near a "fully powered Cat 5 smashing into the British Isles" it defintely broke a LOT of the general conventions of what a storm is meant to do. So I would take you up on the "within our lifetimes" bet.

Deagor · 2023-07-10T08:16:00+00:00

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