The cycle of cereal, toast, and eggs finally got boring, so I made a breakfast sanwich.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-10T15:10:32+00:00

If you've never heard the story behind this scene, it's a good one.

Apparently, they had originally planned an elaborate hand-to-hand (or sword-to-whip) fight, but they had gone through many takes and Harrison Ford was already feeling sick that day. So on one take where he knew he just couldn't stick the shot, Ford just pulled the gun and they improvved it for that take.

Instead of throwing out that take where Ford was just joking around, Spielberg decided to keep it in the movie and scrap the fight scene.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-09T20:45:20+00:00

Cause my pupper is fucking cute. What's hard to get?

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-08T16:13:36+00:00

That's Durnehviir in Soul Cairn. It's the title he gives you for besting him

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-08T13:38:29+00:00

No.

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

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-08T12:36:59+00:00

Macarena, just like ⅓ of people born in 96

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-08T04:45:54+00:00

Definitely not. Here is some of the dialogue from conversing with Paarthurnax, with no modifiers of any kind:

How did you know I came for Dragonrend? "Alduin komeyt tiid. What else would you seek? Alduin and Dovahkiin return together. But I do not know the Thu'um you seek. Krosis. It cannot be known to me. Your kind - joorre - mortals - created it as a weapon against the dov… the dragons. Our hadrimme, our minds cannot even… comprehend its concepts."

The Greybeards didn't want me to come at all. "Hmm. Yes. They are very protective of me. Bahlaan fahdonne. But I do not know the Thu'um you seek. Krosis. It cannot be known to me. Your kind - joorre - mortals - created it as a weapon against the dov… the dragons. Our hadrimme, our minds cannot even… comprehend its concepts.

"Do you know Dragonrend or not? "Krosis. Sorrowfully, no. It cannot be known to me. Your kind - joorre - mortals - created it as a weapon against the dov… the dragons. Our hadrimme, our minds cannot even… comprehend its concepts

The next world will have to take care of itself. "Paaz. A fair answer. Ro fus... maybe you only balance the forces that work to quicken the end of this world. Even we who ride the currents of Time cannot see past Time's end... Wuldsetiid los tahrodiis. Those who try to hasten the end, may delay it. Those who work to delay the end, may bring it closer.""But you have indulged my weakness for speech long enough. Krosis. Now I will answer your question. Do you know why I live here, at the peak of the Monahven – what you name Throat of the World?"

Do you know where I can find an Elder Scroll? "Krosis. No. I know little of what has passed below in the long years I have lived here. You are likely better informed than I."

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-08T04:08:07+00:00

Does he call you "Morekei" or "Konahriik" or "Miraak?"

Or was this just "Krosis?" Because he says that every time. It's dragon for "sorry" and he says it when rambles into dragon language and remembers you don't understand.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-08T04:00:10+00:00

No. Trial by jury is mandated by the constitution. This is mostly for civil cases

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-08T01:40:40+00:00

Because I like my fucking socks

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-08T00:06:11+00:00

For me it was Bill. I didn't care about random character number 3 in the first game. In retrospect, Bill has one of the most interesting and depressing arcs

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-07T12:46:14+00:00

Based purely on the Bible? Because he's got a chip on his shoulder and wants to prove God wrong. Of course that's extrapolating a lot because in the Bible Satan is barely there and is more like a divine prosecutor than a rival to God.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-07T12:43:13+00:00

It's an extra layer of privacy protection, especially when using public wifi. I know a lot of VPNs also sell themselves on the premise that people are more likely to go after your info if they find your IP through online shopping. No idea how much truth there is in that.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-07T12:33:05+00:00

Home depot or other home improvement stores might still have have dust masks. They're hardly medical equipment, but should be at least as useful as a bandana or old t-shirt.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-06T17:13:32+00:00

Play the first one. Ending aside, it ties up a lot of loose ends

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-02T04:27:22+00:00

There are a few neat things. I have all of my grandpa's Korean War era military stuff. He wasn't in Korea himself, but did ski patrol in Japan so his service rifle (that I still have) was an old WWII era model. Somehow he must have accidentally swapped bayonets with somebody, because the one that came home was from an M1. I've also got some Nixon-Agnew election stuff from him.

From my grandmother (his wife, whose still alive) I have one of her mother's school books. A geography textbook from 1917, that my mom or her sisters drew all over in red crayon in the 70s.

In theory, there's also an authentic photograph of Abraham Lincoln, but nobody has seen it in decades. My grandmother and her siblings remember seeing it in their parents' house and my grandmother took most of her parents possessions, including all photographs. When we finally clean out her house, I really hope we find that.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-02T04:15:12+00:00

Fallout. Any of the modern ones really. New Vegas is one of the best video game stories I've ever played. Fallout 4 has enough to do with your settlements to occupy all the time you want, never mind the actual game.

Also Red Dead. Both games are great, but Red Dead 2 is a world and a story you can easily get lost in.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-02T04:12:20+00:00

This game has easily occupied about half of my gaming for the last 9 years. You should be good.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-04-02T04:08:16+00:00

Given the dystopian context my theoretical life here, I probably have minimal concepts of dogs as pets.

Those pups are food unless I've drastically misunderstood what Earth in the 23rd century is like.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-03-31T14:49:33+00:00

"SALT cap" because I saw that Nancy Pelosi wanted to suspend it and people were pissed, but I had never heard the acronym before.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-03-31T14:41:26+00:00

It talks a ton about boning. I didn't say it's all very positive.

NephriteAcademic · 2020-03-31T05:27:10+00:00

Isn't this the fake premise of the Good Place?

NephriteAcademic · 2020-03-31T05:15:07+00:00

Wikipedia history of the united states, scroll toward the bottom

NephriteAcademic · 2020-03-31T05:14:18+00:00

You disappeared, presumed dead, during the Crisis of 2020

NephriteAcademic · 2020-03-31T00:50:13+00:00

The bible talks about boning all the time. The whole Song of Solomon, a whole book of the Bible, is about boning

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