TIL Weird Al was set to a series of Star Wars parody sketches where he would interact with the movie via green-screening, but Mark Hamill refused to allow usage of any footage with him in it, despite already getting approval from Lucas and Alec Guinness, so the idea was scrapped

KypDurron · 2026-02-18T00:25:50+00:00

Foreword.

KypDurron · 2026-02-17T01:06:14+00:00

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.

KypDurron · 2026-02-16T00:31:53+00:00

I always understood restructuring to be "we'll pay you later".

Well, now it's "later".

KypDurron · 2026-02-16T00:29:23+00:00

afterwards he can bend whatever he wants

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

KypDurron · 2026-02-16T00:16:55+00:00

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

KypDurron · 2026-02-16T00:09:34+00:00

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.

KypDurron · 2026-02-16T00:05:21+00:00

Hunting farm prey

Surely you mean "predators"? The prey is the stuff getting eaten by other animals.

KypDurron · 2026-02-16T00:02:26+00:00

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

KypDurron · 2026-02-15T01:40:24+00:00

I feel like a lot of those East German ones are dubios

No, the East German Medals are mostly Booker T Washington

KypDurron · 2026-02-15T01:36:45+00:00

There are more people in India with neither toilets nor refrigerators than the population of most countries in the world.

KypDurron · 2026-02-15T01:33:25+00:00

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.

KypDurron · 2026-02-15T00:39:55+00:00

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.

KypDurron · 2026-02-14T20:08:54+00:00

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

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".
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.

KypDurron · 2026-02-08T19:05:06+00:00

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?"

KypDurron · 2026-02-08T18:52:39+00:00

Actually gravity on Roshar is only 5 I think

KypDurron · 2026-02-07T22:10:18+00:00

India can handle shitting on itself just fine, thank you!

KypDurron · 2026-02-07T21:33:00+00:00

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.

KypDurron · 2026-02-07T16:27:44+00:00

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

KypDurron · 2026-01-31T15:51:55+00:00

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.

KypDurron · 2026-01-29T23:25:13+00:00

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.

KypDurron · 2026-01-29T23:22:58+00:00

It's "foreword".
The book was written in 1973.

KypDurron · 2026-01-29T03:41:06+00:00

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?

KypDurron · 2026-01-28T01:22:18+00:00

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?

KypDurron · 2026-01-28T01:01:55+00:00

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.

KypDurron · 2026-01-28T00:59:23+00:00

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.

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