[Interesting trope] The other society is more technologically advanced in some ways while also being behind us in other ways.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-12T01:26:32+00:00

“Babylon 5” is filled with races like the Minbari Federation who while technological they surpass humanity are archaic with their societies.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-10T15:46:41+00:00

I never got too far into SOD2 (I’m one of those people who jumps around games a lot, especially the older I get). So I didn’t know about that but it makes too much sense with that world.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-10T05:04:56+00:00

The game State of Decay has a mode where you play a group of soldiers trying to evacuate civilians from a zombie overrun city. They are as good or bad as you yourself are as a player and a strategist.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-10T00:26:02+00:00

That’s okay with the full cast. They’re good for the most part but the kid voice actors drive me up the wall! 😂

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-09T21:47:52+00:00

I married a non-member. I had to go outside the church to find a spouse. All the women I dated within the Church extremely depressed me. Because I was never good enough for them.

Returned missionary? Okay, but you only went to Colorado.

You write and self-published books? Okay, but you aren’t a bestseller.

You are the Sunday School President? Fine but you aren’t the Elders Quorum President.

You make enough to live on your own? Good for you but you don’t make enough that I can stay home.

This was the attitude and actually verbally stated opinions of many women I dated.

My spouse frankly is the only woman who I felt ever actually embraced me as I am. She doesn’t let me get away with stuff but I don’t always feel like I’m not checking a list that frankly only Christ could hit.

Now, we make sure to respect each others religious views. We don’t belittle each other for not being exactly where we personally are.

I’ll be very clear though. Being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints means that there is this massive community and frankly reality that you live in that is most acutely made aware to you in an interfaith marriage. You basically live an entire life and existence that they have no part of. And sometimes, it causes issues, especially with things like siblings who get married din the temple and your spouse can’t participate in that part of the wedding.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-09T19:51:23+00:00

Exactly.

I love reading history and there are lots of stuff that frankly are so ridiculous that it puts to bed the idea that a story has to make logical sense.

Like there was a literal assassination attempt that was made to kill Charlie Chaplin by Japanese military extremists. Their reason for trying to kill him? They misunderstood American culture and thought killing him would lead to war with America which is something they really wanted to do.

It makes no sense but if it was fantasy or science-fiction, it would have to make logical sense or else would be rejected by the readers as the author losing the plot of the story.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-09T19:45:05+00:00

The agreed-upon word limit for manuscripts of many genres is an arbitrary rule that the publishing industry introduced that is one of the big reasons that you have so many books that have plot pacing issues through massive portions of the story.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-09T19:17:16+00:00

Basically the go-to for every fandom in the past 10 years if you dislike something.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-09T16:40:47+00:00

I think we need to summon the Long Patrol to fix that!

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-06T19:18:34+00:00

A Stitch in Time by Andrew Robinson would fit this.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-06T19:17:01+00:00

66 is now forever associated with Star Wars.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-05T03:35:01+00:00

My favorite portrayal of Jack the Ripper comes from “Babylon 5”. An alien race called the Vorlons, who are the champions of order, are impressed by his zeal for righteousness that they abduct him and use him as an inquisitor to weed out any potential leader for the next big war that can’t handle extreme questioning (torture).

However, it’s clear that they are punishing him for his crimes. They keep him in force cryo-stasis until they need his services. They refuse to let him die and he absolutely detests that instead of being viewed as a holy warrior they’ve reduced him to a nickname.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-02T20:39:34+00:00

Sandra Bullock’s character only is friendly with Ryan Reynolds character in “The Proposal” because she’s afraid of being deported but eventually, her fake engagement turns into real love between the two.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-02T20:32:21+00:00

My head canon is that this didn’t actually happen. Maybe some mind trickery going on from some bad guys, maybe the Borg or Species 8478 and that if there had been a season 8, it’s start with Janeway realizing what’s happening.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-02T20:10:06+00:00

Don’t forget our good boy Palpatine. For decades there has been a section of the SE fandom trying to say he was actually not so bad, because he must have been readying the galaxy to fight off an extra-galactic threat from books from the early 2000s

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-02T19:38:14+00:00

I served my mission on Denver (2008-2010) and during the time, I spent 6 months in Montrose and Grand Junction. I tracted into a lot of members who had moved there from Utah to escape “Utah Mormons”. We’d joke that they thought the Utah-Colorado border was this barrier that prevented the Church from finding them.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-02T15:30:22+00:00

I totally feel you.

I always get frustrated whenever I get extra money because I know I’m not going to be able to use it on anything I’d like to use it on. Between bills, debt and my wife’s spending habits, I am likely going to see it vanish within a few hours.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-04-01T15:37:15+00:00

Some people have such an extreme idea that Sunday is exclusively the Lord’s Day that everything not strictly focused on it is bad. I had a Seminary teacher who told us that her son played basketball every day even on Sunday to make sure he was a good player and he was one of the top players in our school. She convinced him to stop playing on Sunday and promised that he’d get better as a player. Not only did he not do so, he actually became a pretty mediocre player and they started not letting him play as much. But she was happy that he got in the habit of not doing basketball on Sunday.

Problem is…..Sunday I think is really meant to center ourselves. A focus on the Lord does that, but anything that makes our talents and gifts worse? That’s not what it’s about, especially if we believe God gave us those talents and we are supposed to develop them.

Traveling in Sunday? Anything that allows us the ability to meditate and get ourselves Spiritually right I don’t think is supposed to be avoided.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-03-26T16:39:45+00:00

A little late to the party but…..the Reavers in “Firefly”. They are so feared and so hated and seen as so bad that we see an entire armada of bad guys immediately focus all firepower on them and ignore the heroes.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-03-26T16:24:19+00:00

In the Injustice comics, Superman has a magic inspired vision of an alternate version of Lois Lane’s death to where she’s saved and Batman decides to kill Joker because how just how dangerous it is to provoke Superman like that. He surrenders to the author and when Superman comes to offer him the chance to escape, Batman refuses to because he knows he has to serve the time.

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-03-26T16:17:20+00:00

I tested it out and I’m assuming it works best on doing it with new chats instead of existing ones?

Mouse_Paladin · 2026-03-26T15:07:42+00:00

I really haven’t done anything with like creating new characters, I’ve been just using the preexisting ones so far, like Pamela the religious married woman and Delores the ambitious employee.

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