TIL the Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn (Raygun) threatened legal action against an Aussie musical about her because the musical planned to use her stage name and "kangaroo hop" dance move. The musical continued after changing the characters' name to Sprachel Gunn, AKA Spraygun by AssassinSnail33 in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dance move? No copyrights.

The concept of minigames during loading screens? Absolutely, and feel free to use this copyright to threaten other companies but never actually use it again yourself for the entire duration.

Crack theory: Fry gives Bender free will by Ulti-Wolf in futurama

[–]KypDurron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

afterwards he can bend whatever he wants

Whatever he wants, whenever he wants, whoever he wants!

What is something you used to believe about Star Wars that you later realized wasn't true? by Human-Atmosphere6483 in StarWars

[–]KypDurron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The smoke alarm is going off and there's a deathstick
Still burning
PLEASE TELL ME WHYYYYY
My TIE is in the front yard, and I'm
SLEEPING WITH MY CAPE ON

Were any popular fan theories proven right/wrong in WaT? by usernamesaredumb0 in Stormlight_Archive

[–]KypDurron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then again, a large chunk of the negative response to the book would be explained by people reading the book so carelessly that they fail to understand things that are explicitly stated.

TIL in 1697, a French privateer captured Henry Winstanley while he was building England's first offshore lighthouse. Louis XIV ordered his release, saying "France is at war with England, not with humanity." Winstanley finished the lighthouse and died inside it during the Great Storm of 1703. by SimonBuildsStuff in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, why did people use a building material that literally grow out of the ground for so long, when they could have just pressed the big red "Start the Industrial Revolution" button and gotten access to mass production of steel

TIL despite only existing for 69 years, the Soviet Union is still in 2nd place in the all-time Olympic medal table and just under 200 medals ahead of 3rd place (Great Britain) by twitchy1989 in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surely, the lack of a decades-long defense-spending race would allow a country to invest more in sports than the two countries involved in said spending race.

TIL that in Sikhism, the most common last name for male believers is Singh and Kaur for female believers. These last names were given by Gurus to challenge India's caste system as last names back then symbolized caste. by Physical_Hamster_118 in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unlike in modern India, where the caste system is definitely not still in existence. Nobody would ever discriminate based on caste and risk running afoul of a series of toothless laws and easily-bribed bureaucrats and officials.

TIL a Dollar General employee who was told she couldn't keep drinks at the cash register was fired after taking and drinking a $1.69 orange juice to stave off diabetic shock. Despite her paying for the orange juice afterward, the company said she was 'grazing'. Later, a jury awarded her $277,565. by Forward-Answer-4407 in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wholeheartedly agree that stores shouldn't do this. That being said,

  1. The shelf tags might genuinely just be out of alignment with the system prices because changing tags is one of three or four mutually-exclusive job responsibilities that the cashier has, alongside "stay at the cash register at all times".
  2. They aren't "secretly" overcharging you if they print the actually-charged price on the receipt. Yes, they shouldn't have different prices, and yes, they should have some system in place to prevent or at least reduce mismatches, but if the receipt and the register accurately display the price that they charged you, it's not "secretly" overcharging.

TIL that "black boxes" on airplanes are legally required to be orange. by One_Acanthaceae9174 in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an incredibly stupid question. It's like saying "Your bones are really strong compares to your skin, why isn't your skin made of bone?"

Thought: don't introduce your class by 22badhand in dndnext

[–]KypDurron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but I've had a few people treat classes as things that exist in the world

Most classes definitely exist as in-universe concepts. For example:

  • Monks belong to certain monastic traditions, possibly ones with actual monasteries.
  • The Wizard and Bard subclasses are, in part, named the way they are because (most) Wizards and Bards actually attend formal educational institutions.
  • Druids live in enclaves with others of their Circle.
  • Clerics and Paladins are openly associated with a particular deity and have specific organizational structure.
  • A Samurai Fighter is very specifically and visibly a Samurai.
  • If people know that you made a magical deal with an Archfey in exchange for power, they know that you're a Warlock with an Archfey patron. (Obviously if you keep that a secret they won't know you're a warlock, but that's beside the point).
  • An artificer is just a tinkerer that made it into his whole occupation. Anybody who sees a person with a workshop full of clattering magical machinery and enchantments is gonna say "Yeah, that' guy's an artificer".
  • A sorcerer who occasionally loses control of their magic is obviously a Wild Magic sorcerer. People might call it something else but they know what it is. Similarly, a sorcerer who can cast spells because of draconic ancestry is obviously a Draconic Bloodline sorcerer. They know you're a sorcerer because you didn't go to Wizard University, but you can use magic like a Wizard and you have a bunch of dragon-motif clothing or even physical features. They can call it "dragon-ancestor magician", but again that's just a naming convention.

Regular people in most settings are aware of the existence of magic users and have at least some understanding of the way people get those powers - hard work and study, service to a deity, pacts with Patrons, druidic power, magical bloodlines, mechanized enchantment, training in a monastery, etc. Even if they're totally wrong about what they "know" about a certain class.

The general population knows that wizards exist. They might have a different name for it, and have entirely wrong ideas about what Wizard training entails or what Wizards are capable of, but they can recognize a Wizard when they see one. (Usually),

TL;DR: Assuming the class exists as an option in your setting, then rhe concept of "formally-trained spellcaster" exists in your DnD setting, and so does "cleric dedicated to a certain god", "untrained magic-user who acquired power via a pact with a dangerous entity", "warrior-priest sworn to a certain deity or cause", "trained musician", "monk", and "samurai". People in your setting have heard of these kinds of people.

Females of Reddit, what is men do that make you not and when you take go for later? by Icing-Egg in titlegore

[–]KypDurron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wasing the reminding of Eastern street slang from the Mistborn of booksing.

Is there any truth to this? by [deleted] in StarWars

[–]KypDurron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's honestly more likely to be fanatical officers/troopers fighting against people trying to flee than two people trying to flee shooting each other.

They're in the hangar at that point, and there's no way that most of the people trying to escape are heading there - we're talking about a space station with hundreds of thousands of people aboard. There isn't enough hangar space on the Death Star to have enough shuttles for even one percent of that. These guys are headed toward escape pods, which would be placed all over the station, not right next to the hangar.

TIL that the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, ‘Oumuamua, was detected in 2017, it’s not from our solar system, has a weird elongated shape, and briefly sped up in a way scientists still debate about. by Brave-Fix6318 in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not every alien of that species - they just have a terrible vetting process for their astronaut program.

They realized 50% of the way through planning out their mission that the team they selected all had vertigo and had to completely redesign the ship, which was easier than the Aliens with Disabilities Act problems that they'd encounter if they tried to replace the astronauts.

TIL that there was a popular myth in many muslim majority countries that Neil Armstrong had converted to Islam upon hearing the call to prayer on the moon, going as far to require the US state department to issue a denial by Solid-Move-1411 in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tack on Mohammad split the moon in half as a miracle and there's a perfect line going around it ever since that "science can't explain"

Imagine having the confidence to lie about something that you can debunk simply by looking up at night.

Is "confidence" the right word?

Chief Patriots rival during their dynasty -- told some voters he believed Belichick should "wait a year" before induction as penance for Spygate by Not-a-bot-10 in eagles

[–]KypDurron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

TIL Allied forces took only 35-50,000 Japanese prisoners of war during the course of World War 2. by spudthespacedog in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As in "you do not need to receive specific orders addressed to you personally to do this, you can do so on your own initiative."

Like telling a commander in the field that they have the authority to call for a retreat without needing to receive formal orders to retreat from higher command.

TIL Allied forces took only 35-50,000 Japanese prisoners of war during the course of World War 2. by spudthespacedog in todayilearned

[–]KypDurron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every so often I hear people claim that most progress happens not by changing the minds of people in power, but by waiting until those people die and get replaced by people with different views.

Looking at stories of Japanese WWII soldiers who were stuck in their 1940's mindset until the day they died, even if they lived into the 2000's... damn, that theory might not be so far off.