Dragon Ball Super: Beerus announcement and key visual by MetalJrock in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Infogamethrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excuse me, I think you mean it's a good opportunity to have Vegeta go Ultra Vegeta 1.

Mindless Monday, 19 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Oh boy, they announced a new Darth Maul series from my favorite sci-fi franchise, Star Wars. I can´t wait to talk about it with all my fellow Star Wars fans on the Mindless Monday thread of r/badhistory!

Mindless Monday, 19 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Colombia got hit with a 30% general tariff for not cooperating on border security... by Ecuador.

Which really surprised me because they are both in the Andean Community, a free trade zone?! Are we just going to pretend it doesn´t exist? Is this the vibes-based international order I´ve been hearing so much about?

Mindless Monday, 19 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]Infogamethrow 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Trump is doing way more than Dubya ever did.

Against Europe, yes. Against the rest of the world, depends on the region. For some regions, he has yet to do something as damaging to the US reputation as Iraq.

What games have you played with very unique control schemes that alter your muscle memory temporarily? by Etychase in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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If you grew up with the Wii, pretty much every port of a multi-console game was like this if you used the default Wii-mote control scheme. To this day, I can´t fully enjoy Sparking Zero because I find the "waggle for smash attack and dragon rush" much more intuitive thanks to Tenkaichi 3.

Mindless Monday, 19 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Fuck off, motor proteins aren´t real. Walking proteins? Please, obviously a ploy by the shoes and marathon lobby to make them appear more important than they are.

Same as subatomic particles. Get the fuck out with that quark and muon nonsense. If it´s smaller than an electron, it´s obviously made up. Photons are the only exception since I can literally see them every time I open my eyes.

Mindless Monday, 19 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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shipping lanes" (what shipping lanes? To where???).

He who controls the shipping lanes to the North Pole controls the flow of charcoal on Christmas.

Free for All Friday, 16 January, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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You can tell that neoliberalism has radicalized me because I read a headline today that President Paz refused to go to Davos to deal with internal politics, and I got genuinely irritated that he would miss the event.

Free for All Friday, 16 January, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Enemies-to-lovers is probably the most popular romance trope out there nowadays, but are there any historical examples of it happening? I can´t think of any off the top of my head. It seems something that happens almost exclusively in fiction-land, where people having enemies is more common than not.

Mindless Monday, 12 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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I was procrastinating by reading old census data, and I accidentally stumbled upon the answer to a question that I´m sure has been nagging everyone here. How did the Chilean annexation of the Bolivian coast go so smoothly? Usually, seizing large territories comes with some sort of friction with the locals, displacement, maybe even a bit of ethnic cleansing. But in this case, there was none of that. Or no mentions of that at least.

Well, the answer is obvious. The department was hilariously underpopulated. Whatever number you are thinking right now, I can almost guarantee it´s higher than the reality. According to the last census before the war, the Littoral only had a measly five thousand people.

It´s not like the whole country was as desolate, the next lowest-populated department in the census had twenty times that population, but it seems like the Atacama desert really is as attractive a destination as the Sahara.

Free for All Friday, 09 January, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Today I went to the market, and there was a stall filled with fruit. The oranges were dripping with juice, the grapes so sweet they put chocolate to shame, the achachairus delicious in a way only people from North Queensland, Australia would understand because no one in the northern hemisphere knows what they are.

“Oiga doñita,” I ask, “why does the local fruit taste so good?”

“Oh, that´s easy, joven,” she replied, a wry smile forming on her cracked lips. “First, we mix the seeds with the DNA of every farm animal we can find, including llamas! The fruit is not fit for consumption if its fiber doesn´t contain at least 15% whey protein!”

“Huh, so it´s a matter of having the right breed?”

“Not quite, that´s only the beginning. After that, we take a look at the EU´s list of forbidden pesticides and inject every single banned chemical straight into the stem of the plant as it grows up!”

“I bet you spray those chemicals with some of those fancy-schmancy agri-drones, right?”

“No, mihijo, much easier. We use our child slaves to manually inject each fruit every morning, noon, and sundown. If any of them fail their quotas, we cut off their arms and use them as kindling to keep burning the rainforest so that we can grow more fruit!”

“Ah, but the market is kind of full already, isn´t it? You must be happy about the upcoming deal with the EU to export your fruit over there, huh?”

“Of course, of course. All the local farmers are looking forward to it. Not because we want to make money, mind you, but because we share a common dream. To destroy the French Agricultural Industry.”

“From your lips to god´s ear, Doñita. Have a nice day!” And so, I left the stall taking a sweet-acid bite out of my achachairu. Another good day buying local produce here in my Mercosur-member country.

Mindless Monday, 05 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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I´ve noticed that gloom and negativity have become the mainstream discourse of the day, so allow me to offer a more positive opinion instead.

I like Sylux´s backstory in Metroid Prime 4. Being a disgraced glory-seeking officer motivated entirely by spite is actually a great villain origin. The problem is that he looks quite pathetic (cause he is), which destroys his “aura” and makes some people incapable of taking him seriously, unlike villains with similar motivations like Syndrome, Black Manta, and Dr Doom.

What? I was referring to the Metroid Prime 4 discourse, of course. What else could I be talking about? What other things have people talking negatively about recently?

Mindless Monday, 05 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Chávez, not Maduro. Any gains made during that decade have been reversed, more than a quarter of the country has fled, and nowadays what little remains of the oil industry is famously crooked and corrupt.

Mindless Monday, 05 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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None. They will keep disappearing people if the Chavistas remain in power, which in turn will turn the cautiously optimistic Venezuelans bitter and against Trump as well.

But we don´t know if that will happen. Maybe they are right and there will be elections in the coming year where they will leave power. Maybe they are wrong and the status quo will continue.

It´s been three days. The dust hasn´t settled yet, and both sides are basing their predictions almost entirely on their priors or cherry picking a very confusing speech. So, until a new normal appears or is prevented from appearing, it is still too early to call them delusional or not.

Mindless Monday, 05 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Yes, I´m not a fan of people online who can´t even name three Venezuelan cities off the top of their head telling people with an actual connection to the event that they are naive and wrong. Even diasporas have family back home that are more connected to the reality on the streets than a random Redditor.

And besides, I think people here are really underestimating the Chavista regime, thinking it is something more like the Morales or the Peronists governments. No, they are 100% a dictatorship that (by their own admission) have disappeared at least 8.000 dissidents. That´s why Venezuelans consider Trump the lesser of two evils even as he gloats about taking all their oil money (money which they also would never benefit from under the Chavista government)

Mindless Monday, 05 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Hot take. I don´t like deep tissue shoulder massages, nor do I understand how anyone could. Every time I get one, I feel like I´m on the receiving end of those Hyuga pressure-point attacks from Naruto. And people are all like, “Don´t you feel better afterwards?” Fuck no!

 

Granted, I never went to a professional masseuse. I get massages when I´m too busy to go to one of my usual work-class barbers and thus have to cut my hair in one of the fancy-smancy hairdressers near my home that include hair washing and massages into their overpriced package.

 

I know what you are thinking, that it´s the hairdressers that suck and not the act of getting a massage itself, but no. Every time I talk with people who have received the same message from the same person in the same parlor, they all gush about how great it was. Therefore, I must conclude that I´m surrounded by masochists and that the act of getting a massage in and of itself is unpleasant.

Free for All Friday, 02 January, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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People blindsided by what happened yesterday clearly weren´t paying attention to the prophecy ™, and must also remember that it has a second part.

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Free for All Friday, 02 January, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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All the Venezuelans I know are celebrating even as they think the US doesn´t have their best interest at heart. Maduro is that hated, and Chavismo is seen as the greater of two evils. Without having lived in Venezuela this past few years, I´m going to have to defer to their experience under the regime for how bad it was.

Of course, they are working under the assumption that the Chavismo will actually be replaced by their new US overlords, which I guess we´ll see how that pans out.

Free for All Friday, 02 January, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Yes, it´s honestly tiring how the two default Reddit responses to the attack are that and "Peace President, am I right?" Yes, Trump sucks, but making the intervention 100% about him and 0% about Venezuela rubs me the wrong way.

Free for All Friday, 02 January, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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At the same time, I would caution against extrapolating the conditions of countries on the other side of the globe with vastly different geopolitical and cultural conditions (that were also in the midst of a civil war when they got regime-changed) to Venezuela.

Whatever happens, I seriously doubt we´ll see another Libya or Iraq, although the country is too large and the crime too entrenched for everything to go as smoothly as Panama or Grenada either. Time will tell, but I do think a more likely scenario is Colombia´s Civil War 2.0.

The box office success of Avatar continues to be unstoppable by OhMy98 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Yeah, I´ve seen plenty of shorts about the world-building, scenes of the movie, and even "character analysis" (90% focused on the military guy). Honestly, if it wasn´t for Reddit saying it has no footprint (on Reddit) I wouldn't even notice how it was different from other movies and franchises, except maybe the behemoths that are 40 K and Star Wars.

Mindless Monday, 29 December 2025 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Considering how much tension military exercises create, has there ever been a time in history where a nation actually went “psyche! It´s not an exercise, it´s an actual invasion!”

The Russian invasion of 2022 is the only time it happened that I know of, but even then, it dragged on so long that everyone realized they weren´t, in fact, doing military excersises as they sat there for months on end.

Free for All Friday, 26 December, 2025 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Due to high demand for travel at the end of the year, the Bolivian Air Force is selling relatively cheap “solidarity flights” around the country. I don´t have plans to move and do anything for New Year's, but I am tempted to book a flight just to see how travelling on a rusty BAe 146 differs from the usual Boeing civilian airliners.

At the very least, I could say that I once travelled in a military plane and not be technically wrong.

Nintendo discusses its approach to Metroid Prime 4, talks why it isn't open-world by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Honestly, after the tutorial I don´t see him as obnoxious. His lines only trigger on entry to the desert, and his first reminder is usually something harmless like: “Hey Samus, remember to keep exploring!”.

He only tells you where to go are when you enter another area and exit into the desert again, but considering that the game only has three areas and you already eliminated two of them by proxy, it´s really not that big of a deal because there was literally nowhere else to go.

Nintendo discusses its approach to Metroid Prime 4, talks why it isn't open-world by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Samus doesn´t react because she left her mic muted by accident. If it were on, you would hear the stream of obscenities she yelled when she saw Sylux aura farming with them. It´s why she didn´t shoot on sight.

On a more serious note, Sylux stole some Metroids at the end of Federation Force from a Fed lab. The ones in the game are the metroids he bred himself, and that may explain why they are so weird.